Now I'ma say this once again open up your mind
Shot heard around the world came from our fresh rhymes
The contribution to showbiz, mixed with entertainment
Resurrected rhymes, not the same old same
Now if you like what we came with
And you feel you can sang wit it
Peep the verbal language and the way we arranged it
Now entertainment to make the people applaud
I'm not trying to say my style is better than yours
I'm from the graduating class of one-nine-eight-eight
L.A. Unified School M A H
A gangbanger from the streets taught me how to break
In South Central L.A., ay yo, can you relate?
I'm Chali 2na
The one who puff the buddha keep the Snapple in the cooler
Used to go to junior high with Son Doola
Old skoola - a permanent, element, in ya tournament
Tellin it prevalent never delicate when we burnin it
Now from L.A. to the U.K. we attempt to rock a party
The rhyme and the music you don't hear that no more hardly
I can say it's partly, all our faults smarty
J5'll bring you more than the shakin of a body
Ay yo a child is born but no state of mind
But when I first heard it, put words to rhymes
I went from hypercars, to powder blue All-Stars
To hangin on monkey bars catchin spiders in jelly jars
[Chorus: repeat 2X]
So uh, let's take it back to the concrete streets
Original beats with real live MC's
Playground tactics, no rabbit-in-a-hat tricks
Just that classic, rappin from Jurassic
I bring the noise plus the funk, entertainin like a dunk
From a snotty-nosed prima donna millionaire punk
But uh, I heard a hunch, that somebody might munch
Cause J5 go together just like parties and spiked punch
Your crew's captain crunch, and I'm the seven seas
Bombin on MC's, crushin crews with ease
Brother please you know my steez is 100 degrees
With no era bring it live like the Trio of Terror
Trio of Terror no mascara, at last your brass surpass pleasure
We the last treasure set to entice the cash bearer
Mask wearers who bite my reflection like glass mirrors
Be trash pickers who need to consider the past clearer
Now what you thought was old and out of date
We brought it back alive and changed the shape
We put it on wax for those who think that
The 5 we energize has been extinct
[Chorus]
We takin it back like battles in hallways and bathrooms
And battles in the back of the classroom
And in the bungalows game of death with flows
Lunchtime rhymes you had to prove and show
Never the school type, couldn't pronounce the words right
The class jester, I was flunkin every semester
The summer hit, had it burnin in '86
Class cuttin and runnin wit all the neighborhood derelicts
Within the concrete jungle [huh!] we remain humble
Akil and Akir, bounce, flip and tumble
Uh, we never fumble, break down or stumble
Hot mumbo jumbo, just bring it when we rumble
We push it like the Daytona
Fresh rhymes we blaze on yas
Strictly from California old skool public diplomas
We spittin from every corner we flippin it when we wanna
Beneath the concrete be street word on ya
[Chorus]
Jurassic 5 Lyrics Index
Jurassic 5 - Concrete and Clay (04:15)
Classic track from J5 off of their album Quality Control. All in chorus kills it and the verses are
all ill as you will ever hear from one of the best hip hop groups of the last 20 years.
It's only on the European release...it's track 14.... it replaces the song 'improvise', u can get a copy off amazon.
Author: iudwmtdu - 5 months ago
2
@kirboxx
I think they got the title mixed up - this isn't "Concrete and Clay" at all...
Author: zombeatle01 - 1 month, 1 week ago
3
there is another version of this song (the original) call "concrete schoolyard".
probably the one you heard.
Author: Lars911 - 10 months, 2 weeks ago
4
chali 2na is quite possibly one of my top ten favorite MC's. one thing ive always LOVED about J5 is that they ARE MC's they do their job making the dj look good a lot. yeah they rap and stufff but at the same time they give their djs recognition and do their thing to make the dj look better. especially live. they keep turntablism alive..too bad they're done.
Author: thefumexxl - 6 months ago
5
its on quality control retard, like the second last track or something
Author: 709709709 - 2 months ago
6
420!
Author: papajo666 - 4 months, 3 weeks ago
7
I first heard it in a skateboard video. Mike Vallely was rippin the bank to ledge at some airport back in the day.
Author: kzooteague - 8 months, 3 weeks ago
8
its a completely different song....
Author: kirboxx - 7 months, 3 weeks ago
9
concrete schoolyard has pretty different verses tho
similar in some parts but the rhymes and shit are all different
both mad tracks from a mad group
Author: CraZhore - 10 months, 2 weeks ago
10
Fuck this track is dope. Thanks for the upload. But I'm wondering because the description says this track is off of Quality Control, but I own the album along with all the other J5 albums but I can't seem to find this track on any of them? Anybody know where I can get it?