BEASTIE BOYS: "HELLO NASTY"






1) Super Disco Breakin'
50 cups of coffee and you know it's on
I move the crowd to the break of break of dawn
Can't rock the house without the party people
Cause when we're getting down we are all equal
There's no better or worse between you and me
But I rock the mike so viciously
Like pins and needles and words that sting
At a blink of an eye I will do my thing
Like a needle in a cartridge when the records spins
Like digging down deep in the record bins
Everybody getting down make no mistake
Nothing sounds quite like an 808
Money makin' Money money makin'
Manhattan super disco disco breakin'

Sometimes I like to brag sometimes I'm soft spoken
When I'm in Holland I eat the pannenkoeken
I got the spice you bring the sauce
You can kiss my ass you funky boss
Now that you've got what you want, you want more
I'll be qwith the hammer and the nail at your door
With these funky beats I be going head huntin'
Shouts to my peeps let me know if you feel something
I can give you all you need
A little beat for the rhythm and some words to read
Let me tell you now that's my favorite shit
And when I got a new rhyme I just say it
So Money makin' Money money makin'
Manhattan super disco disco breakin'


2) The Move
What's up? Hello
It's times like this when I just can't stop
Can't wind your body without the body rock
Got schemes schematics blue prints on the file
You gotta have dreams to make it all worhwhile
So as I take my time and realign
I wonder what it is I hope to find
I don't mean to brag I don't mean to boast
But I'm intercontinental when I eat french toast
Adrock with the new Addition Edition
Getting on down for the year 2000
A slight distraction can get you paid
And when it comes to that type shit I paved the way
BBoys to the early morn
BGirls be rocking on and on
BGirls to the break of dawn
BBoys be rocking on and on

Dogs love me cause I'm crazy sniffable
I bet you never knew I got the ill peripheral
In your phone I'm cloned I'm on your headphones
I love it when your spazz out all alone
Cause I'm that foot that broke the key
I'm unlockable so don't check me
Got weight on my shoulders and things on my mind
The sky is falling and I'm falling behind
So I synthesize sounds as I patch my brain
Insane mind games move quickly like flames
So now I wonder how sometimes you never know
Who be rocking y'all in stereo in stereo in stereo in stereo

Ladies and gentlemen
No time like the present to work shit out
That's what I'm going on and on and on about
Not fakin' just making beats in the dungeon
Keep that shit funky cause the odor is pungent
No shame in my game just par for the path
I try to hone my craft because at hands the task
But I find I'm not playing with a full deck
I'm up to my neck like Toulouse Lautrec
All I wanna know is when is checkout time
So I could be in heaven with the rhythm rock rhyme
And when I'm with my man Shadi rock at the gates
We'll be rocking rhythm over disco breaks
BBoys to the early morn
BGirls be rocking on and on
BGirls to the break of dawn
BBoys be rocking on and on


3) Remote Control
Boom the world mash up
Things go hectic quick
From the satellite dish to your joystick
It's the night of the living cable box
Wires coming up from around the block
Remote control to change the station
But that won't change your situation
Have you seen what I mean
I'm the little gnome that's in your dreams
So I say this rhyme built by design
To take you beyond space and time
Said who is the man making diamonds out of coal
The man pushing buttons on remote control

Until your back's up against the wall
You never know yourself that much at all
So you've got to share your love with a friend
That's all that you've got left in the end
Living in this city of pure confusion
People mislead by their own illusion
All this action, no satisfaction
We're all linked together like a chain reaction
Play or fold, love is bold
What is the future that will unfold?
Some like it hot, others like it cold
But we all want to hold the remote control

Things get hectic quick
All of the sudden I'm in the thick
Too much drama all around
Distractions booming in sensuround
Like a rainy day's Earth won't sit still
Sliding on down a hill
Sometimes life seems to stall
So never be ungrateful y'all
So I got a little something for your pay per view
Like Don King I've got the crazy hairdo
We've got cameras on Mars on space patrol
Controlled on Earth by remote control


4) Song for the Man
What makes you feel
And why you gotta be
Like you got the right
To look her up and down
What makes this world
So sick and evil
I know you don't know

What makes you feel
Like you got miracle whip appeal
Who made you the judge and jury
Ain't you never heard of privacy

What makes this world
So sick and evil
You figure it out


5) Just a Test
Like a flag at half mast as frames click fast
Not a thing will last as past is past
Like stacks of thoughts that got played and worn
Used over and over till they were tired and torn
Like a broken clock that can't tell time
Like a thick ass book that's filled with wack rhymes
Like a scorching blaze that burned the sand
Like a band that planned and planned and planned
And flew down like a raven in the dark of night
And snatched up the worm helpless to fight
And brought it back to the nest singing microphone check
One two one two this is just a test

Like sand in one hand you can't hold for long
Like scheming on a plan that goes all wrong
Like fudge and caramel they're not the same
And it's a shame all you talk is game
You act like a diamond waiting to be set in a gold ring
As if, I bet as time goes by in this give and take
As long as I learn I will make mistakes
What do I want? What do I need?
Why do I want it? What's in it for me?
It's the imagery of technology
Is what you get is what you see
Don't worry your mind
When you give it your best
One two one two this is just a test


6) Body Movin'
C'mon ready one
You will do this four times with the left, four with the right
then eight times with both, then repeat

Body movin', body movin'
A1 sound, sound so soothing
Body movin', body movin'

We be getting down and you know we're crush grooving
Let me get some action from the back section
We need body rocking not perfection
Let your back bone flip but don't slip a disc
Let your spine unwind just don't take a risc
I wanna do the freak till the break of dawn
Tell me party people is that so wrong
The ship is docking, inter-locking
And up-rocking, electro-shocking
We're getting down computer action
Do the robotic satisfaction
All of y'all get off the wall
Have a ball and get involved with
Body movin', body movin' with the
A1 sound sound so soothing
Stand erect, arms down
Swing left arm big same with the right
Flame on I'm gone
I'm so sweet like a nice bonbon
Came out rapping when I was born
Mom said rock it till the break of dawn
Pulling bodies in motion cause I got the notion
Like Ray Cormier with the coconut lotion
The sound of the music driving you insane
You can't explain to people this type of mind frame
Like a bottle of Chateauneuf Du Pape
I'm fine like wine when I start to rap
We need body rocking not perfection
Let me get some action from the back section
Body movin', body movin'
A1 sound sound so soothing
Body movin', body movin'
We be getting down and you know we're crush grooving

Left arm ready and one and again, stand erect
Mike D with the master plan
Ooh my my and thank you ma'am
And when I grab the mike you scream ooh god damn
The creme de la creme is who I am
MCA where have you been
Packed like sardines in the tin
So kick off your shoes and put on your swim fins
Come when it comes to quarries I'm known to swim
Adrock light up the place
And if you pull my card you pull the ace
And if you ask me turn up the bass
And if you play defender I could be your hyper space
Body movin'
You will do eight hops on the left, eight on the right
Four left four right, two left two right
then one each left, right, left, right
start and land on the balls of the feet, left foot, ready
it's one two three four five


7) Intergalactic
Intergalactic Planetary Planetary Intergalactic
Another Dimension
Well now don't you tell me to smile
You stick around I'll make it worth your while
Got numbers beyond what you can dial
Maybe it's because I'm so versatile
Style profile I said it always brings me back when I hear ooh Child
From the Hudson River out to the Nile
I run the marathon just up until the very last mile
If you battle me I will revile
People always say my style is wild
You've got gall you've got guile
To step to me I'm a rapophile
If you want to battle your in denial
Coming from Uranus to check my style
Go ahead put my rhymes on trial
Cast you off into exile
Intergalactic Planetary Planetary Intergalactic

Jazz and Awol that's our team
Step inside the party disrupt the whole scene
When it comes to beats well I'm a fiend
I like my sugar with coffee and cream
Got to keep it going keep it going full steam
Too sweet to be sour too nice to be mean
On the tough guy style I'm not too keen
To try to change the world I will plot and scheme
Mario C likes to keep it clean
Gonna shine like a sun beam
Keep on rapping cause that's my dream
Got an A from Moe Dee for sticking to themes
When it comes to envy y'all is green
Jealous of the rhyme and the rhyme routine
Another dimension new galaxy
Intergalactic planetary
Intergalactic Planetary Planetary Intergalactic

From the family tree of old school hip hop
Kick off your shoes and relax your socks
The rhymes will spread just like a pox
Cause the music is live like an electric shock
I am known to do the Wop
Also known for the Flintstone Flop
Tammy D getting biz on the crop
Beastie Boys known to let the beat mmm drop
When I wrote graffiti my name was Slop
If my rap's soup my beats is stock
Step from the tables as I start to chop
I'm a lumber jack DJ Adrock
If you try to knock me you'll get mocked
I'll stir fry you in my wok
Your knees'll start shaking and your fingers pop
Like a pinch on the neck of Mr. Spock
Intergalactic Planetary Planetary Intergalactic
Another dimension do it


8) Sneakin' Out the Hospital
(instr.)


9) Putting Shame in Your Game
Beatsie Beatsie Boys getting live on the spot
Putting all kind of shame in the game you got
We keep the party moving to the broad day light
g.e.t.l.i.v.e. alright
Transhypnotic robotic can't stop it
No limits to this style you know you can't lock it
First you mock it, rock it and then you stock it
But I've got the styles that are always in the pocket
Like a bird floating down on a New York breeze
Every thought in the mind is a planted seed
So watch the mind or the thoughts will stack
Before you know it they're boomeranging on back
I'm the king of boggle there is none higher
I get 11 points off the word quagmire
Fools can't see me and that's how it is
And that's how I like it cause that's my biz
Beatsie Beatsie Boys getting live on the spot
Putting all kind of shame in the game you got
We keep the party moving to the broad day light
g.e.t.l.i.v.e. alright

Time's an illusion as the moments race by
Too fast to really grasp though me may try
Deny, till we die, ooh my my
These thoughts that mislead and then multiply
Second by second and minute by minute
It's like lotto you gotta be in it to win it
Shaking mind breaking on their own demise
Lies tax to the max and they'll be feeling those vibes
So tell me what you need that you have got
Fiending on power will make your blood clot
It starts with the greed and then goes all wrong
That's why we can't all just get along
We're all connected like a Lego set
One equaling one together like a croquette
Whether we have or have not yet met
It ain't no thing and it ain't no sweat
Beatsie Beatsie Boys getting live on the spot
Putting all kind of shame in the game you got
We keep the party moving to the broad day light
g.e.t.l.i.v.e. alright

Non stop hip-hop
You're caught in a panic and it's rattled your brain
The selfish ways just can't maintain
But these are the breaks when you try and come fake
Don't come with the rhymes that you just half-baked
I'm the Benihana chef on the SP 12
I chop the fuck out the beats left on the shelf
You be like hello nasty where you been
It's time you brought the grimy beats out the dungeon
I jumped outside the house with my Walkman on
I get so hyped when I hear this song
It's gonna keep me happy like all day long
So go and talk shit cause it just makes strong
Don't grease my palm with your filthy cash
Multinationals spreading like a rash
I might stick around or I might be a fad
But I won't sell my songs for no TV ad
Beatsie Beatsie Boys getting live on the spot
Putting all kind of shame in the game you got
We keep the party moving to the broad day light
g.e.t.l.i.v.e. alright

Our sound is the nicest, it's the sweetest sound
Can't get enough of that funk
Junior


10) Flowin' Prose
I'm flowing prose to cons and cons to pros
I'm scheming rhyme against reason like it was flow against know
But beyond the concepts and emotions that rise
To the interconnectedness that underlies
The lies upon lies have lost their meaning
The plies upon plies of consciousness that is being
Over and over I fall I learned to walk from a crawl
It's not sad it's just the way and the purpose of it all
Now every word that you heard that I said that you felt
Was put in place in the space as they were shuffled and dealt
I steal feels from reels but I pay my respects
Paying compliments and disses and deciphering affects
Word are water as I court her, as she is pristine
Words and mics fall to dust and all that's left is the feelings
I give in and I win I try to never complain
Intentions venture to center and then they set the stage
But I'll remain sane making gain without pain
Staining trains with names and driving lanes to the refrain
And keep it positive as painstaking as it is
I'll never turn back cause that's the way I've got to live

So like a cloud carries rain I'm gonna carry my rhyme
Coming like thunder with lightning timing
No hesitation in gestation of thoughts and plans
Ferment time like wine no plays or scams
Like the islands dot the oceans in the endless seas
Ideas coming to me in answer to my pleas
Woke up this morning right out of a dream
Reached for my pen and pad because my mind was on a rhyme scheme
What can I do with these bones and flesh?
With these animated thoughts in a world repressed?
I'm going down like the rhythms on the winds of change
I'm keeping calm under pressure like a deep sea range
I'm flowin' prose to cons and cons to pros
I'm like Toucan Sam when I follow my nose
I'm giving shouts to Ghandi, Gravy and King
His Holiness and all enlightened beings
I'll be the one who screams it on the microphone
I'll be the one who brings it inside your home
But the words ain't mine I just pass 'em along
For Betty Williams and her friends I sing this song
And more ink from my pen and more tears from my eyes
And more crimes are committed as I say these lines
Youth enough, we put down the gun


11) And Me
Once again I'm all wrapped up in me
My best friend's my own worst enemy
Electricity and gravity

Oh my god now take a look at me
My life line's run by AT&T
They got their wires all up in me
Is push and pull the way it's got to be
Once again I'm all wrapped up in me
My best friend's my own worst enemy
Electricity and gravity

Once again I'm all wrapped up in me and me

You know I wish that there was some way that I could be outside playing basketball in the rain and not get wet
Now, wouldn't that be great, hmm?


12) Three MC's and One DJ
Hey yo, Adam what's up?
This is Mix Master Mike calling from Sacramento.
I've been wanting to hook up with you, maybe on some tracks.
I've got some shit right here, if you could.
My turntable's through a wahwah pedal.
It's called the tweak scratch.

Cause nobody can do it like Mix Master Mike can.
Come on now I've got the D double O, D double O style
Here we go again because it's been awhile
Do me a favor don't touch that dial
I rock from Manhattan to the Miracle Mile
My name's Mike D and I'm the ladies choice
I want to get next to you like Rose Royce
Y'all gather around to hear my golden voice
Cause when it's time to rhyme you know I get noice
Cruisin' like a fan boat on the glade
He'll tweak ass your ass across the cross fade
So watch your back when he takes the stage
Or he'll send you off on a naked rampage
3 MC's and one DJ
We be getting down with no delay
Mix Master Mike whatcha got to say

Sweet and sour like a tangerine
Fresh like a box of Krispy Kremes
Kenny Roger's Gambler is my gambling theme
Mix Master Mike with the scratch routine
Always updated and in the know
You know we break it down going toe to toe
The bass is booming from down below
And Norton is chilling with Mario
Well my name is Adrock I'm a scorpio
Don't ask me cause I just don't know
I'm known to map I'm known to glow
But don't get mad cause I got to go
Three MC's and one DJ
We be getting down with no delay
Mix Master Mike whatcha got to say

Mix Master cut faster

All top secret and classified
I grab a hold of a mic and let the words glide
It's all hypnotic and sanctified
I never wanna let a bad day slip by
We be getting stupid in your area
Causing all kinds of hysteria
My beats is sick like malaria
But don't worry I'll take care of ya
Me and Adam Adam and Mario C
In the studio it's the place to be
To all beings everywhere be happy and free
With Mix Master Mike we're making history
Three MC's and one DJ
We be getting down with no delay
Mix Master Mike whatcha got to say

You came off with that one Joe oh my goodness


13) Can't, Won't, Don't Stop
Dear Alex and Marilyn
They're Lowey and Thurston howellin
The grasshopper unit is prowellin
And Rufus is back home growellin
For all of y'all that be dozin
On Hornblower's lederhosen
Like Walt Disney he'll be frozen
And then the Swiss Hall of Fame he goes in
Cause when he's out in space carousin
Pick up my mic and start joustin
His name plate medallion
Says never trust a Hal 9000
Can't, won't, don't stop rocking to the rhythm 'cause I get down

Check the horizontal hold and check the tint
Are these three fools back at it again
Inspector Clouseau and Derek Flint
Nothing but sparks ignitin'
Check two one two mic testin
This one goes out to Dechen
Rise fallen fighters take your stance again
Don't think too much about the color of skin
Order in vegetarian sharks fin
Try to keep my life non violent
Rewind the tape and punch me in
Like Chuck D with the were you never been I'm in
Can't, won't, don't stop rocking to the rhythm 'cause I get down

I'm a long way from where I've been but I gotta keep movin'
Ooh my my I'm really not feeling it
Ooh my my something's really wrong

The p.a. sound is deafening
Bitin' MC's I'm oustinin'
With spinach in your teeth you're grinnin
So on your way out please take a mint
Got the studio to throw a craze in
The basslines Yauch just lays in
This song is the grass you're grazin'
Add a little flange and phase in
Don't get mad cause I'm beguilin
I'm off the frock so don't bother dialin'
They're gonna put me in the b.i.n.
And if I die notify the next of kin
It's like that y'all
Can't, won't, don't stop I'm hypnotized by you


14) Song For Junior
(instr.)


15) I don't Know
What's pleasing to the eye
In the delusion of my sight
Is not what I find when I reach into the light
I have lost my mind
I'm walking through time
Deluded as the next guy
Pretending and hoping to find
That distant peace of mind
I don't know
Who does know
There is no
Where to go
It's not so simple as I try to wish
But then again what is?
There is no other worthy quest
So on I go


16) The Negotiation Limerick File
Bet you're wondering what's going on
Bet you think I almost lost my mind
My dj got the cuts and the beats are on
We're coming with the limericks and we're coming strong
And the rhythm's on time to every word and rhyme
When it comes to keep it real I keep it really wrong
At the risk of sounding crass I would like to mention
That I am well aware of your wack intentions
To usurp my prose you so and so
It's my primary bone of contention
I tell you everybody I've had it
With all these people with static
I'll go insane if it don't rain
Sucker MC's are problematic
I love it when you hit those switches
A curve ball's what my pitch is
So here we here we come
Like dum ditty dum I keep all five boroughs in stitches
You're right man
The sound sound's sweeter through the echolex
It'll spin you around and throw you in a hex
Until you feel no pain inside your brain
All your worries are soothed by the sound effects
Read it in the Post and the Daily News
Listen everybody let's show improve
Don't let me begin about heroin
Living six feet deep just ain't the move
We're giving you soul power
I like it sweet and sour
When it comes to rhymes and beat design
I'm at the control tower
Tell me what makes you so afraid
Of all those people you say you hate
Just give it one time for your mind
And let's try to negotiate
Bet you're wondering what's been going on
Bet you think I almost lost my mind


17) Electrify
Words coming forth like water from the tap
Clap tracks line the spaces places papers people stack
Back track through the minutes when the thoughts went insane
I pulled the picture off the cover and blew out the mind games
People say this is the playlist of the void non-bound
But I can say this is the plainness of the peace I've found
It's not the sorrow or the pity that we hope to dismantle
It's the cast of past dice lignting both ends of the candles
Scandelescent in the means I have dreamed on the schemes
Reunited in the times of such picturesque scenes
Can I get a witness to testify
Open your eyes realize electrify

So I plan and scam and write it off on my taxes
It's times like these I'll just go with the decisions of the masses
And to the crowds who've come before with their profit massing ways
To the greed that fucked it up and brought it down to today
With pain I stand sane and remain holding strong
Whilst all around me those who clowned me are now drowing by the throngs
It's illogical the actions that are typically displayed
A set back ain't all that much problem to invade
So I will glow like a lantern on a new moon night
I'll fight violence with these hands that weren't built to fight
But like a furnace burning coal my goals are bound to burn in flames
Whether achieved or dismantled by the agendas displayed
Can I get a witness to testify?
Open your eyes realize electrify


18) Picture This
Something on the windowsill
Caught her eyes and held her still
The cars passed by outside
Nowhere left to hide
Picture this now crystal clear
Nothing left to hold her here
And creeping up meanwhile
Traces of a smile
Eyes open wide to see if I could fly


19) Unite
Going off the hook like Latrell Spreewell
I've got the ill technique so you know me fe well
We be kicking bass all up in your face
And when it comes to beats well I'm the rhythm ace
Now if you check my puls it beats skull snaps
I keep all my rhymes in my Le Sportsac
So what if I'm a ham and cheese on rye
I got to do my thing and that's no lie
Well ice is cold and fire is hot
When it comes to competition we've got them locked
U.N.I.T.E. A little shout to Ian and little Zoe
One can wonder why but can't deny
If we could work it out it would be so fly
We'll never know unless we try
So tell me party people what's your zodiac sign
Breakdancers of the world unite
BBoys of the world unite
I went inside the deli and my man's like what
I write the songs that make the whole world suck
I need to break it down every chance I get
So "Ssshhh we keep it raw on the set"
Automation circulation
This is for the people all around the nations
I got books with hooks and it looks like rain
Would someone on the nicks please drive the lane
Now rhymes are montaquilla on a track by us
I've got to keep my mind clear so I don't bust
If you got bad breath then maybe try scope
And if you wash your ass you best use soap
People of the world you realize
We got to get together and harmonize
I feel I'm coming down with the bugaloo flu
Explain to me really what doctors must do
Ravers of the world unite
We're the scientists of sound
We're mathematically puttin' it down
When ligthning strikes best grab a ground
Got to get up to get down
I've got the terminator style with a touch of the tweak
Technique 1200's I'm known to freak
I don't like to fight, I don't carry a piece
I wear permanent press so I'm always creased
Mike D with the rump shakin action
Do it like this for the intergalaction
I practice asana daily so I'm very flexible
I'm a scorpio so you know I'm very sexual
Shouts to Rach and my brother Matthew
In money makin' it's how we do
I be smokin roaches in the vestibule
In the next millenium I'll still be old school Ron
HIGH ROLLER BIG BALLER
I call 'em crullers but you know they're called CRAWLERS
We keep it movin to the broad daylight
BGirls of the world unite alright
Keep it on and on


20) Dedication


21) Dr. Lee, PhD


22) Instant Death
And what do you do when
Your man kills himself and
How do I make friends now
And where is my Mom
I need to show her that
She taught me
And please let me
Die an instant death


Last modified on July, 13th 1998. Send corrections to Moe



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