[Run]
  As I proceed indeed to take the lead with speed
  All the suckers'll back off and fall
  But this is the hype I like and the type of mic
  You wanna fight? Just gimme a call
  I'm going to breeze..
    [D.M.C.]
  .. past the other MC's
  And D's rhymes'll flow like water
  The wind, the rain, the hurricane, it's all the same
  With rhymes in order
    [Run]
  And yo my name is Run, and yeah I'm all that
  Slap back the KING of the daddy mack's
  But that ain't the news I choose to tell
  I gotta use the cruise that bruises well
  For the grime you slime, you try to diss mine
  I put your head to bed, cause it's bedtime
  I knock out your teeth beneath your gums
  Now you're mumblin - you bum!
  (Turn out the lights Run!) Picture punks playin me close
  when I'm hard as hell, and that's all labelled SUCKERS
  Waitin for the King of Swing to bring
  "Beats to the Rhyme," and yeah I'm runnin things
  Now that's the name of the phrase,
  so don't be amazed at the ways my rhyme displays
  You gotta make the best of what you got to get to the top
  in hip-hop, you gotta diggy diggy don't STOP!
    [musical interlude]
    [D.M.C.]
  The ?? artist, hittin hardest, smartest
  Professor, compressor, impressor to the lesser
  low-life ?? of the mic
  I come CORRECT! (You surely right)
  The atmosphere is clear when I appear
  Here to wax and tax an MC for mere pennies
  And if any, wanna get with D
  I crash and bash and smash his ass for free
  Black man! Originating creating a beat
  I educate and straight from off the streets
  HARD, like a man was born to be
  It just just happened in rap I was born to be
  KING, yeah me the king of the rock
  So let's rock the spot and diggy don't STOP!
    [musical interlude]
    [DMC] Funky lyrics that you hear
  [both] AS WE RELEASE THE MASTERPIECE THE MUSIC WILL CEASE
  [Run] and I'll put up the peace sign
    [D.M.C.]
  And I roll with soul and reach my goal, the story is told
  D's bold, and suckers'll fold
    [Run]
  And I'm Run my son the fun has just begun
  and some are slum, and make em sell til
  crumbles crumb they hum, those fools will come
  And none have never done Run, Jay!
    [D.M.C.]
  D.M.C. the king is me and I be
  the voice of black community
  So be the unity inside of me, and we
  will all agree about this - don't STOP!
    [music to fade]