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My Rap old school pick today: Gary Byrd & the G.B. Experience feat. Stevie Wonder - "The Crown" Radio DJ Gary Byrd (who also wrote lyrics to Village Ghetto Land and Black Man) collaborated with Stevie again in 1983. Stevie provided the music and did a vocal cameo performance.
Man this is from waaaaay back.... so music and rap is as old school as you can get ...one of my all time fave rap tracks.. and up til today this most likely IS my most played 12 inch of 'em all... and... of course there was the instrumental version on the backside ...so ya know... back then.. in my closet... when I sure no one could be listening... thank god no tapes exist here! ...still could give you ALL the lyrics by heart though Gary Byrd & the G.B. Experience feat. Stevie Wonder - "The Crown" Uh, people of the world wherever you be Welcome to Cosmic University Where life is the journey and love is the trip And the study of them will make you hip I’m professor of the rap and when I speak I guarantee that my lines will not be weak They say a mind is a terrible thing to waste That’s why I’m here and on the case Rapping up every mind with a special degree In socio-psycholo G.B.E The Gary Byrd Experience is my course When you take my class you will feel the force ‘Cause I know the roots that the rap is from When I speak to you I am not dumb Hear my rap and begin to dance And I promise you this, you will advance You may have seen the Raiders of the Lost Ark But you still left the theater in the dark So clap your hands to the beat as the Wondersound And the G.B.E. shine on the crown You wear the crown I wear the crown So proud to say That we all wear the crown The crown I said once upon a time in Alkebu With the kings and queens who look like you It was a land of sun with a golden shine A place that once was yours and mine Home of a many great dynasty Who created the science and astronomy When the Romans came to study man And the Greeks found out about the plan In case you wonder what else they did The Alkebulans created the pyramids And before Napoleon couldn’t even blink In Alkebu there stood a giant sphinx Some say they came from outer space But they are a part of the human race If you know the place where they can be found And you may be the one who can wear the crown You wear the crown I wear the crown So proud to say That we all wear the crown The crown I wear the crown You wear the crown So proud to say That we all wear the crown Get down I wear the crown You wear the crown So proud to say That we all wear the crown Get down I do recall so very well when I was just a little boy I used to hurry home from school, I used to always feel so blue Because there was no mention in the books, we read about my heritage So therefore any information that I got was education Bums, hobos at depot stations, I would listen with much patience Or to relatives who told the tales that they were told to pass ahead Ah, but then one day from someone old, I heard a story never told Of all the kingdoms of my people, and in how we fought for freedom All about the many things we have unto the world contributed You wear the crown [We wear the crown] We wear the crown It’s not Star Wars, it’s not Superman It’s not the story of the Ku-Klux-Klan The crown will appear in the G.B.E., but it’s never seen on your TV It’s in black and white in your gold mind A picture so old it defies time Alex Haley drew it in his book It’s what Kunta kept in his other foot Ghana Songhay and old Mali They are the roots of your own family tree Kingdoms so vast and knowledge wise They remove cataracts from human eyes And yet today some refuse to see And live in fear of their discovery Now in fourteen hundred and ninety-two Columbus sailed to ocean, true But years before in Alkeu A ship set sail with a chocolate crew 2000 years before Colombo came The Olmecs paid tribute to their fame Stone heads with faces eight feet high That the Hulk could not lift to his thigh But the facts historians avoid First to arrive was the Africoid It may shock the House and Shockley, too And if you’re not prepared, it may shock you While some had doubts that the world was round In America guess who wore the crown You wear the crown I wear the crown So proud to say That we all wear the crown The crown I wear the crown You wear the crown So proud to say That we all wear the crown Get down You wear the crown I wear the crown Vanglorious... this is protected by the red, the black, and the green. With a key... sissy! | |
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I love Gary Byrd!!! I listen to him on WBLS-FM on Sundays, and also when he had his talk show on WLIB. The G.B. Experience is the bomb!!! He follows another renown legend, Mr. Hal Jackson, who has been a radio personality for 60 or 65 years!!!!. I saw him in person 3 years ago, and he looked between 55-60!!!! I happened to have met and known the late great Frankie Crocker, Eddie O'Jay, Chuck Leonard (who passed away last week), Vaughn Harper, etc. and others who are still around. The new DJ's cannot even touch the power, personality, elegance, and grace these radio personalities possessed. Mr. Hal Jackson, Gary Byrd and Vaughn Harper are the last of the great radio personalities who were just as famous as the recording artists they played!!!! Lennytunia | |
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lennytunia said: I love Gary Byrd!!! I listen to him on WBLS-FM on Sundays, and also when he had his talk show on WLIB. The G.B. Experience is the bomb!!! He follows another renown legend, Mr. Hal Jackson, who has been a radio personality for 60 or 65 years!!!!. I saw him in person 3 years ago, and he looked between 55-60!!!! I happened to have met and known the late great Frankie Crocker, Eddie O'Jay, Chuck Leonard (who passed away last week), Vaughn Harper, etc. and others who are still around. The new DJ's cannot even touch the power, personality, elegance, and grace these radio personalities possessed. Mr. Hal Jackson, Gary Byrd and Vaughn Harper are the last of the great radio personalities who were just as famous as the recording artists they played!!!!
Is it still Imhotep Gary Byrd? Hey, I didn't know Chuck Leonard passed? And let's not forget Jerry Bledsoe and Vy Higginson. And remember when Frankie Crocker signed off? He'd play King Pleasure's "Moody's Mood for Love." Wow!" Thanks for taking me back. | |
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I was only listening to this yesterday.
If you don't have it, you should! http://homepage.ntlworld....ecrown.zip | |
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