The song lyrics were written by the band Van Halen, as they were asked to write a song for the 1979 movie "Over the Edge" starring Matt Dillon. The movie (and the lyrics, although more obliquely) are about bored, rebellious youth with nothing better to do than get into trouble. If you see the movie, these lyrics will make more sense. It's a great movie if you grew up in the 70s/80s you'll definitely remember some of these characters from your own life. Fun fact, after writing the song, Van Halen decided not to let the movie use it.
Uh-huh, huh, uh-huh
Ahh-haa, ahh-haa, see
When why'all heard that, all I'm doin' is laughin' at all why'all (niggas)
That's been frontin on my mans and them man
These (niggaz) started this (shit) man
When it comes to the shows that I rock and the flows that I drop
Y'all know Run killed the mic
Can't forget about the O's that I got, and the Rolls in the spot
Y'all know I'm still here right?
How you gonna take a old song, been around so long
So So Def, but made it tight
Then went from a DJ to an MC
To the are-E-V like overnight
Everybody lookin, players get shook when
Rev. Run walk up in the spot
Even all the crooks that been livin outta Brooklyn
Just can't help but point a lot
Everywhere I go now, people say "Oh wow!"
Cause they know how I get it
It don't matter if it's Notown, all the way to yo' town
You can't slow down my hit
Can't slow it down man, think about this
From 1983, to 2000, it's two-thousand and one
And these (niggaz) still on the run?
Why'all (niggaz) just crazy, why'all out here tryin' to front, like
They ain't the reason, you went and bought a pair of shelltoe
The (fuck) is wrong witch'all?
People want to hurt Rev. Run, say cause I got dough
That I must be a type of fraud
But you know the thing that's funny, if God made money
Then how we'd tip the Lord?
Went and got J.D., made me crazy
Play me up in the club
Got a brand new Mercedes, for my lady
But seem me I'm on dubs
In a Bentley (?) that come out the garage
On the side of a grand prestigious home
Y'all ask if I'm blessed by God, player what you thought?
What Rev. you seen on chrome?
Gotta make these dollars, comin out of Hollis
Got my collar on too
I got the rhyme and the beat and the vibe from the street
And now the rest is on you
The rest is on me man
Let me let y'all know somethin
The first rap group to get on MTV, hard and heavey ya heard me?
And then, they gon' turn around, and resurrect Aerosmith like
Y'knahmean bring them back, knahmsayin?
If it wasn't for these cats man
Y'all wouldn't know nothin about no LL Cool J
Or Beastie Boys y'knahmean? And this comin from me
I'm lookin' at it man
Since I been 13 years old man I've been watchin these cats man
I ain't no ho, but I know, ya heard me, why'knahmsayin?
So stop all that frontin', stop all your frontin', ya heard me? Yeah
Forget the hits that I made or the gig that I played
If you had love back in the day
Just raised in my kicks and it changed what I spit
And return it to Run why'all love today
I pick the mic back up, came right back up
To the top where I'm 'posed to be
And when the track light up, y'all can back right up
Y'all players too close to me
You know what I used to like?
The way my man used to come on stage and grab the mic
And just throw the damn stand across the stage man
Then he used to tell his man like, "Yo D
Come right here in the middle of the stage, grab yo' (shit)
And say what you gotta say" - and you know what D used to say?
He used to say
"Party people! Your dreams have now been fulfilled
Get out your seats, and let's get ill
That's right why'all, we're not just rough, we more than tough
And when it comes to (shit) like this, ha, we got enough!"
Y'knahmean? You know who the (fuck) I am
You know my name, you know my game
It's So So Def, Run-D.M.C.
Ahh-haa, ahh-haa, see
When why'all heard that, all I'm doin' is laughin' at all why'all (niggas)
That's been frontin on my mans and them man
These (niggaz) started this (shit) man
When it comes to the shows that I rock and the flows that I drop
Y'all know Run killed the mic
Can't forget about the O's that I got, and the Rolls in the spot
Y'all know I'm still here right?
How you gonna take a old song, been around so long
So So Def, but made it tight
Then went from a DJ to an MC
To the are-E-V like overnight
Everybody lookin, players get shook when
Rev. Run walk up in the spot
Even all the crooks that been livin outta Brooklyn
Just can't help but point a lot
Everywhere I go now, people say "Oh wow!"
Cause they know how I get it
It don't matter if it's Notown, all the way to yo' town
You can't slow down my hit
Can't slow it down man, think about this
From 1983, to 2000, it's two-thousand and one
And these (niggaz) still on the run?
Why'all (niggaz) just crazy, why'all out here tryin' to front, like
They ain't the reason, you went and bought a pair of shelltoe
The (fuck) is wrong witch'all?
People want to hurt Rev. Run, say cause I got dough
That I must be a type of fraud
But you know the thing that's funny, if God made money
Then how we'd tip the Lord?
Went and got J.D., made me crazy
Play me up in the club
Got a brand new Mercedes, for my lady
But seem me I'm on dubs
In a Bentley (?) that come out the garage
On the side of a grand prestigious home
Y'all ask if I'm blessed by God, player what you thought?
What Rev. you seen on chrome?
Gotta make these dollars, comin out of Hollis
Got my collar on too
I got the rhyme and the beat and the vibe from the street
And now the rest is on you
The rest is on me man
Let me let y'all know somethin
The first rap group to get on MTV, hard and heavey ya heard me?
And then, they gon' turn around, and resurrect Aerosmith like
Y'knahmean bring them back, knahmsayin?
If it wasn't for these cats man
Y'all wouldn't know nothin about no LL Cool J
Or Beastie Boys y'knahmean? And this comin from me
I'm lookin' at it man
Since I been 13 years old man I've been watchin these cats man
I ain't no ho, but I know, ya heard me, why'knahmsayin?
So stop all that frontin', stop all your frontin', ya heard me? Yeah
Forget the hits that I made or the gig that I played
If you had love back in the day
Just raised in my kicks and it changed what I spit
And return it to Run why'all love today
I pick the mic back up, came right back up
To the top where I'm 'posed to be
And when the track light up, y'all can back right up
Y'all players too close to me
You know what I used to like?
The way my man used to come on stage and grab the mic
And just throw the damn stand across the stage man
Then he used to tell his man like, "Yo D
Come right here in the middle of the stage, grab yo' (shit)
And say what you gotta say" - and you know what D used to say?
He used to say
"Party people! Your dreams have now been fulfilled
Get out your seats, and let's get ill
That's right why'all, we're not just rough, we more than tough
And when it comes to (shit) like this, ha, we got enough!"
Y'knahmean? You know who the (fuck) I am
You know my name, you know my game
It's So So Def, Run-D.M.C.
Lyrics submitted by ButNeverOutgunned
It's Over Lyrics as written by Christopher Davis Carmine Coppola
Lyrics © Wixen Music Publishing, JELLYBEAN MUSIC GROUP, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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