RUN DMC - Down With The King (Official Video)

♪ Reporters watch, producers jocks ♪ ♪ They want to be down with the

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, the king ♪ ♪ The king, the king, king ♪ ♪ The king, the king ♪ ♪ The king, the king, the king ♪ ♪ The king, the king, the king ♪ ♪ The king, the king ♪ ♪ Producers die, they want to be down ♪ ♪ They want to be down with the king ♪ ♪ Down with the king for years, about ten of them ♪ ♪ Recruiting fools Mackin' microphone and make men of them ♪ ♪ Tears and fears for my companions, they tear ♪ ♪ You think it is, it is, if not, it ain't ♪ ♪ Race for the border, my daughter ♪ ♪ 'Cause the rhythms that you're playing ♪ ♪ Jeeps playing beats in the streets ♪ ♪ And it's time to hang out ♪ ♪ Gather together or rather form a circle loudly ♪ ♪ Because brothers or others could never shake a crowd ♪ ♪ Is it because is he escaping with his mouth? ♪ ♪ Or was he really clearly trying to play a ♪ ♪ No, shut up, the king with a crown ♪ ♪ Because all you want to be is Diggy Down? ♪ ♪ Down with the king, come on, come on ♪ ♪ Down with the king, the king ♪ ♪ Down with the king, the king ♪ ♪ Down with the king ♪ ♪ Uh, come on ♪ ♪ Down with the king, the king ♪ ♪ Down with the king, the king ♪ ♪ Down with the king, the king ♪ ♪ Down with the king, the king ♪ ♪ Two years ago, a friend of mine ♪ ♪ asked me to say some MC rhymes ♪ ♪ So I said this rhyme I'm about to say ♪ ♪ The rhyme was mecca, and it went this way ♪ ♪ I remember a mecca mic check on the windmill skill ♪ ♪ Mac distracts, wearing Godfather hats ♪ ♪ It's okay to take advantage better ♪ ♪ Tell them, harder than leather ♪ ♪ Swing another Rodney King thing and I'll ruin ♪ ♪ But like white, I got no respect ♪ ♪ The money stays awake, 'cause the others are fake ♪ ♪ From Hollis to the Beacon, now your dumb ass is dripping ♪ ♪ C.L. and run D.M.C. so hurry up ♪ ♪ Big weight before Hammer got to touch it ♪ ♪ Remember the faces in all kinds of places ♪ ♪ Look mom, no laces ♪ ♪ And me, down with the king ♪ ♪ Do you want to be, down with the king ♪ ♪ You want to be, down the king ♪ ♪ You want to be, down the king, the king ♪ ♪ Down the king, the king ♪ ♪ Down the king ♪ ♪ The king, down the ♪ ♪ You want to be ♪ ♪ You want to be ♪ ♪ You want to be ♪ ♪ Check it out ♪ ♪ I'm taking the tours, I'm tearing up the earth ♪ ♪ I keep it hard 'cause it's dumb man ♪ ♪ These are the hardest, toughest words I've ever written ♪ ♪ They ain't for a bitch like a slow song, check it out ♪ ♪ Sucka MCs could never swing with D ♪ ♪ Because of all the things I bring with me ♪ ♪ Only GOD could be a king to me ♪ ♪ And if GOD is in me, then the king I will be ♪ ♪ The microphone is marked when they deliver it to me ♪ ♪ I was planted on this planet and I plan to be an MC ♪ ♪ The MC demons only seem to agree ♪ ♪ That I rock everyone and society ♪ ♪ Scandalous on stages with a verse melody ♪ ♪ I give praise from these pages to the universe ♪ ♪ My voice is raw, my lyrics are law ♪ ♪ I keep it hard like you never saw ♪ ♪ You want to be, down with the king ♪ ♪ You want to be, down with the king ♪ ♪ You know you want be, down with the king ♪ ♪ You want to be, I want to want to be ♪ ♪ You know I want I want to be ♪ ♪ The king, down with the king ♪ ♪ Down with the king, the king ♪ ♪ Down with the king, the king ♪ ♪ I am the man what do you see, in the place to be ♪ ♪ I went to John Jay University ♪ ♪ And from kindergarten I acquired the knowledge ♪ ♪ And after the twelfth grade I went straight to the university ♪ ♪ Down with the kings on the microphone, a swinger complete ♪ ♪ The P to the R, not an R&B singer ♪ ♪ The R of the U-N-D-MC and ♪ ♪ The flying humans, tonight I have the key and ♪ ♪ Flowing with the funk track, here for soul brother black ♪ ♪ Take the bass, better yet leave some space ♪ ♪ Then let me put on my big black twinkie ♪ ♪ Early in the morning ♪ ♪ I had skins yawning ♪ ♪ Mecca, you want Mecca, I ♪ ♪ I'll make a funky beat so we can explode, check it out ♪ ♪ Pete Rock is the hit, he put you in a headlock ♪ ♪ And now everyone who flocks out ♪ ♪ It's just that I'm down with the kings ♪ ♪ Down with the king, down with the king ♪ ♪ Down the king, the king ♪ ♪ Down with the king, the king ♪ ♪ Down with the king, the king ♪ ♪ Down with the king, the king ♪