[00:00:01] 808 Man - KMD [00:00:06] Boring same ol' Sunday type shit [00:00:09] Man kinda boring [00:00:13] Hey you kid Yeah you [00:00:16] Ahh what are you listenin to in that there Walkman huh [00:00:18] The new Gas Face rewrote'd by K M D [00:00:20] It's kind of funky with a lot of bass [00:00:22] Yeah but I bet you wonder [00:00:23] Where they got the bass from huh [00:00:25] Don't care [00:00:28] Well let me you this story [00:00:29] Go on now [00:00:30] Let him tell you this story [00:00:31] Friday I believe it was a payday [00:00:34] Onyx Subroc and myself goes out of subway [00:00:36] To catch the X train [00:00:37] The drums roll Brooklyn [00:00:38] Plan was a night of intense hookin [00:00:40] We enter the club [00:00:41] Where we hooked 'til we drop [00:00:43] When stopped to exit [00:00:44] I spoke of this prop [00:00:45] Talked about her bouncing guns [00:00:46] The word buns was on the tip of my fun swing [00:00:49] Approached this big fat seven foot [00:00:53] Said the hood [00:00:54] Sub and I geesed [00:00:55] Onyx sped up the block [00:00:56] And it was fast [00:00:57] I looked back and Fats was headlockin him [00:00:59] I was clockin [00:00:59] About two blocks per minute [00:01:01] And then I thought [00:01:02] That voice there's somethin definitely familiar in it [00:01:04] Not long did I cram [00:01:06] From the lows [00:01:06] I knows it was the 808 Man [00:01:08] Thump thump THUMP [00:01:15] They heard the Eight-oh-eight [00:01:17] Clockin crazy mileage like a 60-deck of math [00:01:19] Ducked into an alley like on Kickdrum Ave [00:01:22] Stopped and told Sub [00:01:23] But Sub was stumped [00:01:24] I said do you recall the bass that thumped [00:01:26] In the Jeeps of the streets [00:01:27] As the pedestrian bops [00:01:29] Heard with vocals where any hip-hop beat drops [00:01:31] Y'know the bass fool [00:01:34] But Sub wasn't passin it [00:01:36] To escape harassment [00:01:37] I booked like a crook [00:01:38] Out of sight all my mics was took [00:01:40] Conscience eatin me [00:01:41] My boy's hooked in Hook [00:01:43] Off the 808 Man [00:01:44] So I peeps to look [00:01:45] No immediate danger did I see myself in [00:01:47] Watchin 'round the block thinkin [00:01:48] Ehh who's missin him [00:01:49] Onyx was headlocked and Subroc was half nelson'd [00:01:51] Think I was wrappin up [00:01:53] Man listen [00:02:03] Man you guys must have been really scared [00:02:06] Was I You think I wasn't [00:02:08] Man I was petri-scared stiff [00:02:10] What were you thinkin about [00:02:12] I was thinkin about my cousin Enus [00:02:13] If he asked me once [00:02:14] He asked me a dozen times to go bowlin with him [00:02:16] But still I wasn't runnin from the Bass [00:02:18] Man as he walked up [00:02:19] Then from the back of my thoughts I forked up [00:02:21] The teachings of Mr Hood [00:02:23] And I began to recall when suddenly it dawned on me [00:02:26] Lesson one if a sucker tries to come [00:02:28] Let him come [00:02:29] By then the hood was up on me [00:02:31] Lesson two was to recite the words you can't do me none [00:02:33] Even though you might be bluffin [00:02:35] It's nothin [00:02:35] Follow procedure and sure 'nough [00:02:36] No doubt [00:02:37] Left that seven foot fat hood whupped out [00:02:40] Lesson three said a keeper of a hood is his brotherhood [00:02:42] As we helped him up he said Damn [00:02:44] You sure pack a punch [00:02:45] I had a hunch you was a hood [00:02:47] Well if you ever need bass [00:02:48] Hook up with the 808 Man [00:02:55] Say word [00:02:58] Man tried to get me to throw hands [00:02:59] I had to go HU HUH [00:03:01] Yeah check it out yo [00:03:02] Yo that's a tight headlock true indeed [00:03:04] Yeah the half nelson got me in a neck brace [00:03:06] Yeah but kid you know where they got the bass from now [00:03:11] Yeah yeah word [00:03:12] But I'll tell you what [00:03:13] I'll give you this exclusive K M D album tape [00:03:16] Unreleased [00:03:20] I'll let my boy Lil' Rock hear it