Jackson Priest wrote: Young MC's Stone Cold Rhymin', .
PoP and I have a good Karaoke story about "I come off" from this album, which almost unbelievably is 16 years old (1989).
It was late one saturday evening in newcastle, we were very emotional but nowhere near tired. It was too early to go to a club and we walked past Dean's Diner on Dean Street, which was a burger/karaoke restaurant. For humanitarian reasons, PoP does not do Karaoke but I persuaded him to go in for one song.
Being a saturday night in the party capital of the north-east, there was a long Karaoke queue. The DJ was not too keen on a queue jumper, particularly an emotional scottish queue jumper, so he was not in a mood to co-operate. We had to come up with something either good or unusual. We had been listening to SCR for ages and I was pretty sure I could rap a couple, maybe 3 songs, verbatim. "I come off" and "Bust-a- Move" were on the DJ's list
I picked the former and the DJ said noone had even attempted it before. Not only did he let us queue jump but he said if we could put in a faultless performance we could get a free drink Performance was duly delivered, to his amazement, drinks were quaffed and stage was exited. Happy daze.
Young MC - I Come Off Lyrics
Hey, hey, ya, ya, you got it going on,
aah na-na, na-na
Now I wrote this record for when I perform,
from the nights inside a university dorm,
I put pen to paper with a paper and pen,
for the times I'm rockin' the mic in front of women and men,
I get raw like Eddie, rough like Freddy,
Kreuger with a luger turnin' men into spaghetti,
I'm like Fats Domino, up on Blueberry Hill,
'cause my rhymes are funky fresh not run of the mill,
And like a king has palaces I give an analyis,
You can't talk because you suffer from paralysis,
of the mouth, of the lip, of the tounge, comin' to you
complements of a
brother named Young,
Now you can't talk because I'm leaving you speechless,
so be quiet and let an educater teach this,
It's due to my producer, so he's in a rage. And Mike you control
the vinyl
I'll control the stage 'cause I come of,
Chorus
Four score and seven years ago
there were a whole bunch of rappers who were in the know
Four score and seven years later
I dig a hole in those rappers like the moon with a crater
Because they battle me they're really taking a risk,
Cause you're an eight track tape and I'm a compact disc,
And like Tyson drops boxers in rapid succesion,
I'm droppin' MCs in the rappin' proffesion
I'm comin' off, just like the clothes on a hooker,
and I can fly like Jimmy Superfly Snooka,
Like a shuttle goes up into outer space, people's hands go up
when I enter
the place,
I don't mean to brag or boast just to tell ya I'm great, but I
can rock the
microphone like Dorothy Hammil can skate,
Yeah, I can say a funky rhyme like Greg Luganis can dive, Don't
have to be
Saturday night for Young MC to get live 'cause I come off,
Chorus
Yo I come off, My name is Young MC and baby I come off
Yo the brother's comin' off, Bust this, Here we go
Now one behold, Young MC struck gold,
form the rhymes that I've been sayin' to the young and the old,
From the battles I've been havin' with the smart and the dumb,
From the records I've been makin' with the mic and the drum,
You know the other rappers wanna play a game with me,
they run and hide when they hear the name of Young MC,
Like a kid playing tag, that's how it's got to be
so when I start I say Oli Oli Oxenfree,
Yo, you can never write a rhyme as strong as this one,
So pay attention 'cause you don't wanna miss one, of my healthy
rhymes
nobody's are healthier, New York, New Jersy, LA or Philidelphia,
City to city, and town to town, place to place
country to country, cause I get around
Even if you were in prison you'da heard me play
cause the warden had me rock and I'm on the PA,
So when you get out come and see my show
and if you start static back in you go
'Cause comin' off is the title and the theme of the jam,
and when the rhymes are finally finished people say God damn
cause I come off
Chorus
I come off. Yo baby, I come off. Here we go...
