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Showtime

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Jan. 1, 19881 viewer

Showtime Lyrics

(Showtime!)

[Intro: (Daddy-O)]
Show for show from stage to state
We turn over a brand new page
Loud and clear for you to hear
So have no fear
The new and (?)
Boogy on like you want to
This is the baddest band that you can find
And party people in the place
It's showtime

[Cut]
Ladies and gentlemen
Let's start the show
Ladies and gentlemen
Let's start the show
Ladies and gentlemen
Let's start the show
Ladies and gentlemen
Let's start the show

[Verse 1: Delite]
Tonight is the night we're gonna flex our traits
And grab a pice of the soul, soul serenade
We're into the businessof keeping your interest
Tonight you will witness on just how we do this
True to form when the spotlights on
(?) there not to ever lock horns
So keep in step because the jam is def
We gonna bring the roof down as if its our last breath
The newest age of [?]
To make you smile, hey that's our motto
So join the square, of the debonaire
Its clear, the buck stops here and it's showtime
[Cut]
Ladies and gentlemen
Let's start the show
Ladies and gentlemen
Let's start the show

[Verse 2: Daddy-O]
Bust it
When we was in Philly, the jam was packed
And we was on the bill with five other acts
But when the lights went down and we started to rhyme
The joint got live and read showtime
And when Wise came out to kick a beat with his mouth
And when Paul got (?) you can look in the house
And see them drenched in a frenzy, out of their mind
We got loose, we started to unwind

[Verse 3: Frukwan]
Just then got busy like only Stet can
Sabotaging your house, building up your demand
Exploiting the Stet and the sound that's high potent
And everybody in Stat reaches to voted to be
One of many who could counter-react
Stat adapt to a funky attack
Bust the act, that's right and exact, get back
Its an actual fact, it's showtime
[Cut]
Ladies and gentlemen
Let's start the show
Ladies and gentlemen
Let's start the show
Ladies and gentlemen
Let's start the show
Ladies and gentlemen
Let's start the show

[Verse 4: Daddy-O]
Now come along children as we teach you
About a sound you're bound to take heed to
To a land where bands run free
Rhymes grow on trees, Stet is the epitome
Stages we call home, mics we call tools
Fans we call fam, gooks we call fools
Competition is game, at the same time lame
(What you talking about D?) Let me explain
Don't need a silly suit, big dummies get big heads
We choose to get a big stage instead
We entertain with the rhyme, ain't about no crime
Here to warm your soul and that's the bottom line
It's showtime

[Cut]
Let's start the show
Let's start the shot
Let's start the show
[Verse 5: Delite]
We're like a beast uncaged, on the rampage
Proving a point that we're the kings of the stage
So pass the finger-licking Kentucky Chicken
Makes me feel ready to keep you heels kicking
No flim-flam, funky is my fam
Man understand we're not a flash in the pan
So don't try to fight it, you've been united
By the Hip-Hop band that keeps you ignited
War on life with the gangsta lean
All about good times and a good strong theme
From Brooklyn boy hitting hard with the sound
Like Tyson we ain't playing around, it's showtime

[Cut]
Ladies and gentlemen
Let's start the show
Ladies and gentlemen
Let's start the show
Ladies and gentlemen
Let's start the show
Ladies and gentlemen
Let's start the show
Let's start the show
Let's start the show
Let's start the show

[Verse 6: Frukwan]
We're up to par, Stet superstars
The six man band, that's who we are
We're picture perfect, you know its worth it
Stet rehearsed it, here's how we nurture
Combinating, we integrated
So stimulated, not infatuated
Cold [?]
And living proof that we can tear a whole jam and rock to the roof
(?) arrangement and death entertainment
(?)
The goal we achieve to rock
Bum rush the spot, it's showtime

[Cut]
Ladies and gentlemen
Let's start the show
Ladies and gentlemen
Let's start the show

[Outro: Daddy-O]
So now you've seen what the critics mean
You have born witness that we can do this
You've taped to the base of the band in first place
And all the suckers are blue in the face
So from the rhyme orator MC Delight
The multiple supreme, the masterful Quan
Wise the human mix machine
The devastating beat creator
The grand wizard DJ Prince Paul
And the ebony chief emcee Daddy-O
We say to our fans, we love you
And to our foes
(Fuck you)

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