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.
This is serious business
Y'all ready to get hyped or what?
Well right about now the D.O.c. And (the Doctor)
Is housing the set center stage
Pumping it just like this
A little something for the breathren with intellect you truly understand
It's like a message from the one who's getting candid
Making a mark on the strength with rhyming like nothing
When you're pumping something that's bumping
Did it, 'cause it's like I had to make one
Better than the last one, 'cause a mistake none
But something new was needed in the mix to
Make it as lethal, so lethal that I would think you
Couldn't be made to invade certain areas
No other jurisdiction, but that was fiction
As you progress, and you're enlightened
And the better you're writing by never biting you're exciting
To the crowd, club, congregation, or gathering
Homies in the street they'll be thinking you're O.G.
Smooth, wordy example of how I'm living
I'm getting my prime, pumping records that'll blow your mind
(Mind blowin')
(The D.O.C. is) Dope
I would've been down with rock but I'd be broke
By the punk, I'm opening up my trunk
To reveal debt, living it up my life is like a story
Yelling it, 'cause nobody else is telling it
Checking it, always getting paid 'cause the rap is sort of like a twist
Between what you needed and what I mean
What I mean by twist, now you gotta listen
Never a song executive 'cause I'm a part of what you've been missing
So in total, this is one of many styles of an artist
Hard it may be, but not my hardest
Just a portion, cup of salt water in the ocean
Rocking it was the notion, it seems I needed a potion
So I asked the Dr. D-r-e could he comply
Looking at me with a grin, he shrugged his head and said, "Why"
"Would you ask me a question, knowing you knew the answer?"
All the time I make the records you can hear it and blow their mind
(Mind blowin')
(The D.O.C. is) looking for a dope beat to lay in something melodic
After thirty seconds Dre looked up and said, "I got it"
Like the dope sound rolling with the dope beat made me rock a dope rhyme
Which was simple 'cause I'm
Equivalent to the greatest, nobody know before
'Cause I just decided to make myself apparent once more
To deliver to you in order, let's call it a system
A brother tried to play me like a kid so I dismissed him
And now I'm ruthless by keeping the crowd grooving
It gets so rowdy that you swear your chair's moving
But it wouldn't, it couldn't, it's more a feeling you encounter
When you're rocking to the music of the D.O.c. And
Dre is on the cut so be wary of all moving
But whatever you do, take the time
To enhance the record by making moves like smooth
And I'll keep pumping lyrics type of music that'll blow your mind
Y'all ready to get hyped or what?
Well right about now the D.O.c. And (the Doctor)
Is housing the set center stage
Pumping it just like this
A little something for the breathren with intellect you truly understand
It's like a message from the one who's getting candid
Making a mark on the strength with rhyming like nothing
When you're pumping something that's bumping
Did it, 'cause it's like I had to make one
Better than the last one, 'cause a mistake none
But something new was needed in the mix to
Make it as lethal, so lethal that I would think you
Couldn't be made to invade certain areas
No other jurisdiction, but that was fiction
As you progress, and you're enlightened
And the better you're writing by never biting you're exciting
To the crowd, club, congregation, or gathering
Homies in the street they'll be thinking you're O.G.
Smooth, wordy example of how I'm living
I'm getting my prime, pumping records that'll blow your mind
(Mind blowin')
(The D.O.C. is) Dope
I would've been down with rock but I'd be broke
By the punk, I'm opening up my trunk
To reveal debt, living it up my life is like a story
Yelling it, 'cause nobody else is telling it
Checking it, always getting paid 'cause the rap is sort of like a twist
Between what you needed and what I mean
What I mean by twist, now you gotta listen
Never a song executive 'cause I'm a part of what you've been missing
So in total, this is one of many styles of an artist
Hard it may be, but not my hardest
Just a portion, cup of salt water in the ocean
Rocking it was the notion, it seems I needed a potion
So I asked the Dr. D-r-e could he comply
Looking at me with a grin, he shrugged his head and said, "Why"
"Would you ask me a question, knowing you knew the answer?"
All the time I make the records you can hear it and blow their mind
(Mind blowin')
(The D.O.C. is) looking for a dope beat to lay in something melodic
After thirty seconds Dre looked up and said, "I got it"
Like the dope sound rolling with the dope beat made me rock a dope rhyme
Which was simple 'cause I'm
Equivalent to the greatest, nobody know before
'Cause I just decided to make myself apparent once more
To deliver to you in order, let's call it a system
A brother tried to play me like a kid so I dismissed him
And now I'm ruthless by keeping the crowd grooving
It gets so rowdy that you swear your chair's moving
But it wouldn't, it couldn't, it's more a feeling you encounter
When you're rocking to the music of the D.O.c. And
Dre is on the cut so be wary of all moving
But whatever you do, take the time
To enhance the record by making moves like smooth
And I'll keep pumping lyrics type of music that'll blow your mind
Lyrics submitted by Latinoheat
Mind Blowin' Lyrics as written by Tracy Lynn Curry
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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