LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT ALONE

Come on Yes yes yes Freak freak y'all Now put them hands in the air And just clap your hands Freak freak y'all and you don't stop Nothing but a culture Since the days of Adidas and hip hop posters Now I own with the most just to boast or brag a bit about it Cause I can't live without it Seen them on the scenes when I was like ten As much as I lightened a young black man From back spins to back yards rap harder People that liked ours Now we black stars For Got they say we much be crazy How do you say it, Common, Alicia and Daisy People say that we borrowed Follow the steps of Africa's rapping The ghettos making us express love Yo we bring the light We doin' it tonight Alicia Keys and Mos Def bring it right We come down to pound And rock who I am You gotta love it or leave it alone You gotta love it or leave it alone You gotta love it or leave it alone You gotta love it or leave it alone You gotta love it or leave it alone You gotta love it or leave it alone… Peepin' out what ya say it like this A fresh little story be sure you don't miss It's the truth for ya, true feature I could go on for days About a queen named Alicia Walking down the block with brotha Common Sense ... So what the heck so I saw this fresh girl That you always saw Before and in my hearts she'll be adored And ... It's Aquarius love and highly secure To my heart and ...getting my life One and two minutes Yo my man Common Sense just stopped and said Yo stop frontin' and use your head Yo stop frontin' and use your head I said yo stop frontin' and use your head You gotta love it or leave it alone You gotta love it or leave it alone You gotta love it or leave it alone You gotta love it or leave it alone You gotta love it or leave it alone You gotta love it or leave it alone… Right about now, I'm gonna thank every body for coming out And rocking with me tonight I want to give a big up to my man Mos Def, My man Common Sense My man Crucial My man Ils.... The whole MBK fam the whole Crucial Keys fam and MTV And everybody out there say yeah yeah Said everybody out there say yeah I need you all to give it up for Pago on percussions For Paul John on drums ... Sarah, Jermaine and Denise on backgrounds Speed on the bass oh Artie on the guitar Chaps on the horns, yeah yeah yeah And the string quartet ...and the crew You gotta love it or leave it alone You gotta love it or leave it alone You gotta love it or leave it alone You gotta love it or leave it alone You gotta love it or leave it alone You gotta love it or leave it alone… Come on come on, what's that Jamrock Let's go We are Oh oh oh I wanna bring Damian Marley to the spot Up in the streets, they call it murder! Welcome to Jamrock, camp where di thugs dem camp at Two pound a weed inna van back It inna your hand bag, your knapsack, it inna your back pack Di smell a give yuh girlfriend contact Some boy nah notice, dem only come around like tourist On di beach wid a few club sodas Bedtime stories, and pose like dem name Chuck Norris And don't know di real hardcore Some nose a nuh back too, di thugs dem weh do weh dem got to And won't tink twice to shot yuh Don't make dem spot yuh, unless yuh carry guns alot A bare tuff tings come at yuh When Trenchtown man stop laugh and block off traffic Then dem wheel and pop off and dem start clap it Wid di pin file dung and it a beat drop it Police come inna jeep and dem can stop it Some say dem a playbwoy a playbwoy rabbit Some say a get dropped like a bad habit So nuh bodda pose tuff if you don't have it Rastafari stands alone Welcome to Jamrock, New York Oh oh oh… Welcome to Jamrock Up in the streets, they call it murder Jamaica, Jamaica, yeah Jamaica, Jamaica, yeah Jamaica, Jamaica, yeah Jamaica, Jamaica, yeah Chi town Chi town In weekend style Chi town Chi town In weekend style Chi town Chi town… New York New York New York New York New York New York… Welcome to Jamrock Welcome to Jamrock Welcome to Jamrock Up in the streets, they call it murder! Yeah Damian Marley, ladies and gentlemen, Common Sense, Mos Def We love you and we thank you for rocking with us Much love to the people Brooklyn!