Here we go, we gonna send this one out to the old school
All these mother***kers in the Bronx and Brooklyn
And Staten Island, Queens, and all the mother***kers
That laid it down, the foundation, ya know what I'm sayin'?
Nuttin' but love for the old school that's who we gonna
Do this one for, ya feel me?

What more could I say? I wouldn't be here today
If the old school didn't pave the way
What more could I say? I wouldn't be here today
If the old school didn't pave the way

What more could I say? I wouldn't be here today
If the old school didn't pave the way
Nothin' like the old school, ain't nuttin' like the old school
What more could I say? I wouldn't be here today
If the old school didn't pave the way

I remember Mr. Magic, Flash, Grandmaster Caz
LL raisin' hell but that didn't last
Eric B. and Rakim was, the **** to me
I flip to see a Doug E. Fresh show with Ricky D

And Red Alert was puttin' in work with Chuck Chill
Had my homies on the hill gettin' ill, when **** was real
Went out to steal, remember Raw with Daddy Kane
When De La Soul was puttin' Potholes in the game

I can't explain how it was, Whodini had me puffin'
On that Buddha gettin' buzzed 'cause there I was
Them block parties in the projects, and on my block
You diggi don't stop, sippin' on that private stock

Through my speaker Queen Latifah and MC Lyte
Listen to Treach, KRS to get me through the night
With T La Rock and Mantronix, to Stetsasonic
Remember 'Push It' was the bomb ****
Nuttin' like the old school

What more could I say? I wouldn't be here today
If the old school didn't pave the way
He, he, heh, it ain't nuttin' like the old school
What more could I say? I wouldn't be here today
If the old school didn't pave the way
Ain't nuttin' like the old school

What more could I say? I wouldn't be here today
If the old school didn't pave the way
Yeah, he, heh, it ain't nuttin' like the old school
What more could I say? I wouldn't be here today
If the old school didn't pave the way
Nuttin' like the old school

What more could I say? I wouldn't be here today
If the old school didn't pave the way
Ain't nuttin' like the old school
What more could I say? I wouldn't be here today
If the old school didn't pave the way

He, he, he, I had, Shell Toes and BVD's
A killer crease inside my Lee's when I hit the streets
I'm playin' Skelly, ring to leavey or catch a kiss
Before the homies in my hood learned to smack a *****

I remember way back, the weak weed they had
Too many seeds in the trey bag
I'm on the train headin' uptown, freestylin'
With some wild kids from Buck town, profilin'

'Cause the hoochies was starin', thinkin'
'Why them *****z swearin'?', I'm wonderin'
If that's her hair, I remember Stick ball
Pump the hoochies on the wall

Or takin' leaks on the steps, stinkin' up the hall
Through my childhood, wild as a juvenile
A young ***** tryin' to stay away from Riker's Isle
Me and my homies breakin' nights, tryin' to keep it true
Out on the roof sippin' 90 proof, ain't nuttin' like the old school

What more could I say? I wouldn't be here today
If the old school didn't pave the way
He, he, he, yeah, that's right, it ain't nuttin' like the old school
What more could I say? I wouldn't be here today
If the old school didn't pave the way
Ain't nuttin' like the old school

What more could I say? I wouldn't be here today
If the old school didn't pave the way
Nuttin' like the old school
What more could I say? I wouldn't be here today
If the old school didn't pave the way
Nuttin' like the old school

What more could I say? I wouldn't be here today
If the old school didn't pave the way
Ain't nuttin' like the old school
What more could I say? I wouldn't be here today
If the old school didn't pave the way

Ha, ha, ha, remember poppin' and lockin' to Kurtis Blow
The name belts and Scott LaRock the Super Hoe back
In Latin Quarters, when Slick Rick was spittin' La Di Da Di
Gamin' the hoochies at the neighborhood block parties

I remember breakdancin' to Melle Mel
Jekyll and Hyde, LL when he Rocks the Bells
Forget the TV, about to hit the streets and do graffiti
Be careful don't let the transit cops see me
It ain't nuttin' like the old school

It ain't nuttin' like the old school
Ha, ha, hah, it ain't nuttin' like the old school
Hey, he, he, aha, on the real though
Ain't nuttin' like the old school

Remember seein' Brooklyn go crazy up in the mother***kin' party?
Member how ***kers used to go, 'Is Brooklyn In The House?
And mother***kers would lose they goddamn mind
That's the old school to me that's what I'm sayin'
(Super, *****)

I remember goin' places that mother***kers was scared to say
They was from anywhere but Brooklyn, that **** was the bomb
Back in the mother***kin' old school *****
Remember Skelly *****? Knockin' *****z out the box, poppin' boxes?

Member Stick ball? Member *****z to run that **** like that?
Member the block members screamin' up
At your mom from the window?
(LL Cool J is hard as Hell)
The ice cream truck, member all the mother

Member the Italian Icey's yo? Yo remember the Italian Icey's
The Spanish *****z comin' down with the coconut Icey's and ****?
I came through the door, said it before that was the ****