Remember you're never too bold (Jimmy is wearing a hat!)
Do me a favour, wear your hat
So Jimmy will have the opportunity to come back Boogie Down Productions – Jimmy
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We'll take the wackest song and make it better
Remember to let us into your skin, 'cause then you'll begin
To master rhymin', rhymin', rhymin' Boogie Down Productions – Criminal Minded
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For the intro KRS flips the melody and some of the lyrics from “Hey Jude”, written by Paul McCartney and performed by the Beatles.
This is the first of several KRS homages to McCartney songs. Also see his interpolations of “Let ‘Em In” (on “Jimmy”) and “Ebony and Ivory” (on “100 Guns”)
I rip it hardcore, like porno-flick bitches
I roll with groups of ghetto bastards with biscuits
Check it, my method on the microphone's banging
Wu-Tang slang'll leave the microphone hanging
Bust this, I'm kicking like Segall, Out for Justice
The roughness, yes the rudeness, ruckus
Redrum I verbally assault with the tongue
Murder one, my style shot your knot like a stun-gun
I'm hectic, I wreck it with the quickness
Set it on the microphone, and competition get blown
By this nasty ass nigga with my nigga, the RZA
Charged like a bull and got pull like a trigger
So bad, stabbing up the pad with the vocab, crab
I scream on your ass like your dad, bring it on
[Hook: RZA]
Bring da motherfuckin ruckus
Bring da motherfuckin ruckus
Bring da mother, bring da motherfuckin ruckus
Bring da motherfuckin ruckus
[Verse 4: GZA]
Yo, I'm more rugged than slaveman boots
New recruits, I'm fucking up MC troops
I break loops, and trample shit, while I stomp
A mudhole in that ass, cause I'm straight out the swamp
Creeping up on site, now it's Fright Night
My Wu-Tang slang is mad fucking dangerous
And more deadly than the stroke of an axe
Chopping through your back
Giving bystanders heart-attacks
Niggas try to flip, tell me who is him
I blow up his fuckin prism
Make it a vicious act of terrorism
You wanna bring it, so fuck it
Come on and bring the ruckus
And I provoke niggas to kick buckets
I'm wetting CREAM I ain't wetting fame
Who selling gain I'm giving out a deadly game
It's not the Russian it's the Wu-Tang crushin
Roulette, slip up and get fucked like Suzette
Bring da fuckin ruckus Wu-Tang Clan – Bring Da Ruckus (Demo Version)
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DOOM and Danger pay homage to the show that started it all, Space Ghost Coast To Coast, a surreal talk-show parody that brought to the creation of [adult swim].
The song name itself is a play on words, “space hos” referring to “space host” which is what space ghost is, with his intergalactic talk show, and “space hoes” which are the cartoon ladies doom references in his verses.
“Space Ho’s” features a sample from the Keith Mansfield Orchestra’s 1969 song “Morning Broadway”. Mansfield’s orchestra is also sampled in another track on this album; “Funky Fanfare” is used by Danger Mouse for the beat in “Old School Rules”.
A Madlib remix of this track appeared on the Occult Hymn EP.
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Nice play on “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”, a short story by Washington Irving.
The main antagonist of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is the headless horseman. Meth says “niggas is sleepy hollow” because the Wu be choppin' heads, boy.
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