Day One

[Diamond D] 

Now its the mad magician with the ill deposition 

No repetition holdin down Bronx tradition 

My composition simply squash the competition 

Step up and get beat into submission 

Cause this musician with the street intuition 

7-35 fuel-injected transmission 

My opposition will have to recognize my steez 

Exotic trees leave a trail of scuffed up knees 

So please you couldn't touch this cat with a stick 

Quick to inflict tricks blaze up in the flick 

Son I'm sick and you could put that on my mama 

Exclamation point, quotation, comma 

Lay up on the beaches when I'm down in the Bahamas 

The skills go back to the days of wonderama 

So pass the scama, son its time to get this money 

So we can relax and recline where its sunny 


[Big L] 

I went from standin on the corner sellin cocaine 

To rippin show I was sane hoes yellin my name 

To be precise rippin mics is the light of my life 

You frontin like you trife but never pulled a heist in your life 

The price of my ice is sky high, I'm a fly guy 

Its every thugs dream I really love cream, its in my blood stream 

You mad cause I got more chicks than you, more bricks than you 

More nines and extra clips than you 

Where I live it ain't a nice town 

You can't walk around with ice down 

Some clown probably gettin stuck right now 

Peace to D-I-T-C, Show and AG, Fat J-O-E 

Diamond D, Lord Finesse, and me 

I'm from the East Coast, this is how we roll in New York 

A bunch of rowdy niggas holdin the fort 

Jackin creeps, packin heat, these Harlem streets is for keeps 

Much love to all my peeps who got a couple of sheets 


Chorus: Yo, most these rap cats don't know 

Where it started, wher it came from 

We been rappin this shit since Day One 

Diggin In The Crates originators 

Why niggas playa haters 

Knowin damn well you can't fade us 


[A.G. (Andre the Giant)] 

You better take me out quick 

Cause I'm accurate when I bust mine 

And make it count like Jordan at crunch time 

Just in case I play Fishburn and double up on nines 

You can never make it rain or stop my sunshine 

So I keep eyes on these chumps the whole time 

Take note of your technique like we sceme on dimes 

Disregard your crew, fuck your heart 

Put a slug in me, it'll be marriage 

'Til death do us part 

Until then master this art and kill them 

With the pen thats dramatic, automatics I commit sins 

Hold my head, but when I've had it I test chins 

If that ain't real then feel the stainless steel 

Bang'em and hang'em like they did our relatives 

Thought he was the best on the mic that ever lived, negative 

Wu-diggity if you with me then say word 

Lets get twisted like bottlecaps [and] create like Spielberg 


[Lord Finesse] 

Check the referral, man my whole squad's thorough 

We worldwide niggas is nice in one burrough 

We all gleam, plus we feind for more cream 

You got some nice players they just on the wrong team 

Nahmean...as the world turns 

Avoid concern we'll set you straight like a perm 

Rap apostle lyrical type picasso kinda hostile 

Nothing less than colossal, you dig me like fossils 

Be the cat with the groovy soul 

Lotta rappers out here acting with no movie roles 

You know the deal I represent skills 

And niggas with bank reels that live to make a mil 

On the real thats my motto 

To hard to follow 

When dinasour perform goin out like bravado 

Hard to hit like lotto underworld role model 

D.I.T.C. we be them cats to tomorrow 


Chorus 


[O.C.] 

Holdin it down for D.I.T.C niggas stink like feces 

Goin against raw dogs ya lost 

The way I simulate rhyme and rhythimatic timin 

On beat off beat drunk flow here we go 

Assignments handed out each individual stand out 

Carryin his own clout 

Phenomenal motions of rap I pose a threat 

Foes I put em on a block like a hole in a pin 

Lyrical genocide on the witty side 

Niggas give me respect due like the pope in a synagogue 

Who waitin my odds O.C. far from a fraud 

You waste my time nigga so I bagged your broad 

Blow your mind ditto with no conscience 

I decide the law motherfucker I'm Congress 

This concludes my repetoire what I be on 

MC's make way for mine or get peed on 

Fuck that