Good Old Clyde Lyrics
[Verse 1]
MC Frontalot stole a beat today (Help! Thief!)
And you can take another look or you can look the other way
But to ignore this crime (is a crime in itself!)
I'm unarmed but a shelf of JB LP's is a wealth
To any rapper worth a salt-lick
Me what you get once you dry out the baltic
(Who's there? What's that?) what, you didn't you hear
'bout the beat that you already got all up in your ear?
(All up in your ear)
[Hook]
(Who's there?) My man Clyde Stubblefield
(What's that?) The sound of the funky drummer
(Who's there?) My man Clyde Stubblefield
(What's that?) The sound of the funky drummer
(Oh, golly!)
[Verse 2]
The MC Frontalot'll take a well known beat and loop it;
I'll front like I wrote it, as if you were stupid
Don't look at me crooked, I be hard to blame
When I claim that I ain't ever even heard the same
The same what? The same beat? The same drama!
(I recall) Chuckie D getting irritated at Madonna
While we're already in trouble we'll
Wring another single out of old Clyde Stubblefield
MC Frontalot stole a beat today (Help! Thief!)
And you can take another look or you can look the other way
But to ignore this crime (is a crime in itself!)
I'm unarmed but a shelf of JB LP's is a wealth
To any rapper worth a salt-lick
Me what you get once you dry out the baltic
(Who's there? What's that?) what, you didn't you hear
'bout the beat that you already got all up in your ear?
(All up in your ear)
[Hook]
(Who's there?) My man Clyde Stubblefield
(What's that?) The sound of the funky drummer
(Who's there?) My man Clyde Stubblefield
(What's that?) The sound of the funky drummer
(Oh, golly!)
[Verse 2]
The MC Frontalot'll take a well known beat and loop it;
I'll front like I wrote it, as if you were stupid
Don't look at me crooked, I be hard to blame
When I claim that I ain't ever even heard the same
The same what? The same beat? The same drama!
(I recall) Chuckie D getting irritated at Madonna
While we're already in trouble we'll
Wring another single out of old Clyde Stubblefield
[Hook]
(There you are, you naughty thing!)
[Verse 3]
Radio suckers never seem to play me
I think because I used to be a man other than me
(How could that be?) When the lyrics are furious
Well, you hurry just to find a beat. I meet curious
MC's: Yo, where'd you get the drum from?
I pummel'em on the advice of LL's mum
(Let me ride) Throw the beat in the trunk, I let the rubber peel
Stretch tracks on the grave of Clyde Stubblefield
[Hook]
(There you are, you naughty thing!)
(There you are, you naughty thing!)
[Verse 3]
Radio suckers never seem to play me
I think because I used to be a man other than me
(How could that be?) When the lyrics are furious
Well, you hurry just to find a beat. I meet curious
MC's: Yo, where'd you get the drum from?
I pummel'em on the advice of LL's mum
(Let me ride) Throw the beat in the trunk, I let the rubber peel
Stretch tracks on the grave of Clyde Stubblefield
[Hook]
(There you are, you naughty thing!)
About
Genius Annotation
“Good Old Clyde” is a tongue-in-cheek ode to the allegedly most-sampled recording EVER, the drum break on James Brown’s “Funky Drummer” and its player, drummer Clyde Stubblefield from the perspective of an MC who, having lyrics he needed to spit, grabbed the most convenient beat available and is now playing like he doesn’t know what you’re talking about when you say you’ve heard the beat (again, the most popular sample ever) before.
It was released online as part of the Nerdcore Hiphop compilation of songs released online from 1999 to 2005 by MC Frontalot. It is available for free download on his website.
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