Kurtis Blow - Christmas Rappin'

[00:00.09] 'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through- [00:02.85] Hold it now, wait, hold it, that's played out [00:05.73] Hit it! [00:11.52] Don't you give me all that jive [00:13.38] About things you wrote before I was alive [00:15.97] 'Cause this ain't 1823, ain't even 1970 [00:20.04] Now I'm the guy named Kurtis Blow and Christmas is one thing I know [00:24.36] So every year just about this time, I celebrate it with a rhyme [00:33.05] Gonna shake it, gonna bake it, gonna make it good [00:35.24] Gonna rock shock rock it through your neighborhood [00:37.50] Gonna ring it, gonna sing it 'til it's understood [00:39.67] My rappin' 'bout to happen, like the knee you was slappin' [00:41.81] Or the toe you been tappin' on a hunk of wood [00:46.07] 'Bout a red suited dude, with a friendly attitude [00:48.33] And a sleigh full of goodies for the people on the block [00:50.38] Got a long white beard, maybe looks kind of weird [00:52.51] And if you ever see him he can give you quite a shock [00:58.94] Now people, let me tell ya about last year [01:01.02] When the dude came flying over here [01:03.41] Well the hawk was out, the snow's on the ground [01:05.86] Folks stayed in to party down [01:08.06] The beat was thumping on the box [01:10.05] And I was dancing in my socks [01:12.11] And the drummer played at a solid pace [01:16.27] And a taste of the bass was in my face [01:22.72] And the guitar player laid down a heavy layer [01:25.09] Of the funky junky rhythm of the disco beat [01:31.43] And the guy with the 88 started to participate [01:33.92] And I could sure appreciate a sound so sweet [01:40.27] We were all in the mood so we had a little food [01:42.39] And a joke, and a smoke, and a little bit of wine [01:44.60] When I thought I heard a hoof on top of the roof [01:46.61] Could it be or was it me? I was feeling super fine [01:48.92] So I went to the attic where I thought heard the static [01:51.12] On a chance that the prance was somebody breaking in [01:53.10] But the noise on the top was a reindeer clop [01:55.29] Just a trick St. Nick, and I let the sucker in [02:06.06] He was roly, he was poly and I said, "Holy moly" [02:08.46] You got a lot of whiskers on your chinny, chin, chin [02:10.65] He allowed, he was proud of the hairy little crowd [02:12.61] On the point of his jaw where the skin should've been [02:14.97] Get's cool for a fool throwin' out here for you [02:17.01] For a day on a sleigh where the cold winds blow [02:19.22] So the beard may be weird but I never have a chill [02:21.24] 'Cause it's warm in the storm when it's ten below [02:27.75] I said, "You're right it's cold tonight [02:29.71] Can you stop for a drop before you go?" [02:32.05] He said, "Why not if the music's hot? [02:34.28] And I'll chance a dance beneath the mistletoe" [02:36.44] So he went downstairs and forgot his cares [02:38.66] And he rocked the spot and danced like a pro [02:40.95] And every young girl tried to rock his world [02:42.89] But he boogie oogie oogied 'til he had to go [02:49.32] And before he went this fine old gent [02:51.46] Finding gifts, went to sift through his big red bags [02:53.67] In the top for the bottom he reached in and got toys [02:55.96] For the boys, and for the girls glad rags [03:02.16] And the grownups got some presents too [03:04.40] A new TV and a stereo [03:06.57] A new Seville 'bout as blue as the sky [03:08.83] The best that money couldn't buy [03:10.70] 'Cause money could never ever buy the feelin' [03:13.17] The one that comes from not concealin' [03:15.35] The way you feel about your friends [03:17.42] And this is how the story ends [03:23.90] The dude in red's back at the pole [03:26.05] Up north where everything is cold [03:28.31] But if he were right here tonight [03:30.27] He'd say, "Merry Christmas and to all a good night" [03:37.31]