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Body Slam Lyrics by Afrika Bambaataa

Mackin’

1988

[Verse 1 - RMR]
Ey yo
Check out the form, get with it and don't forget it
Body Slam is a dance and Nu-Sounds will hit it
On the head with the pound of the kick drum slamming
You're hungry for the beat like a country in famine
There is no ?? style, just a concept
Popped and flipped then bumped so when in step
Swing your body right to left, controversial
(You know what I'm saying) No rehearsal
[Verse 2 - Chaz Rich]
Now we're coming through the door like a see-saw
Battling just to get on the dance floor
Sweat on your brow, speakers blaring
The DJ's daring you to stop
Move it to the crew with the funk so smooth
Jazzing all your dreams of a star
Two of us carrying you blind by a motion
A wax potion, love mixed emotion
Hit it
[Chorus - Afrika Bambaataa]
What we gonna do right now?
(Body Slam) Go on girl
What you gonna do right now?
(Body Slam)
What you gonna do right now?
(Body Slam) Do it, do it, do it
What you gonna do right now?
(Body Slam)
[Verse 3 - RMR]
The groove is kinda dope so dance and don't sleep
Bend up and twist your body to the funky high beat
Cos it's hitting kinda hard like we're ?tossed in an asylum?
Keeps your feet happy and your face steadily smiling
Out of control, can't hold so come on now
No step to follow just flow with the crowd
Obligation is the fact and not needed in the program
The slam is a dance by the Sounds and the band
Get on the floor and form a ball circumference
DJ if you please, p-p-p-pump this
[Chorus - Afrika Bambaataa]
What we gonna do right now?
(Body Slam) Ah to the left to the right
What you gonna do right now?
(Body Slam) Woo, get funky
What you gonna do right now?
(Body Slam) Ah yeah and you know why
I'm gonna teach you how to Body Slam
[Verse 4 - Chaz Rich]
To create an attitude that's rhymatically stupid
You're drawn to the floor by a beat like Cupid
Engulfed in a trance to the freestyle
Dance
Yo, music's thumping, booty's are bumping
This crew is live and the party's jumping
The skeeze is on, yo, push on, push up
I'm the brother making you move your butt
In and out, back and forth
You wanna step off, yo but you can't break north
[Chorus - Afrika Bambaataa]
What we gonna do right now?
(Body Slam) Shake, shake, shake, pop rock and roll
What you gonna do right now?
(Body Slam) Ah, you got to Body Slam y'all
What we gonna do right now?
(Body Slam) Get it, get it, get it, funk it up y'all
What we gonna do right now?
Body, Body Slam, get down
[Verse 5 - Chaz Rich]
The rhyme orator half move fading by the cut
Illustrating syncopated brothers going nuts
Take a little dose from the host with the most
Work up a sweat, Body Slam then coast
[Verse 6 - RMR]
Body slamming, jamming, that's what we're doing
But you're dripping wet so you just keep moving
Now jump, back spin, *High five and flip*
Do whatever you like just let it rip
Vertebraes are shivering when the voicebox is flipping it
And when it's time to get loose, the bucket, the kick it
[Bridge - Afrika Bambaataa]
Shake your body (shake, shake)
Body, body (shake, shake)
Shake your body (shake, shake)
Now slam it on down
Shake your body (shake, shake)
Body, body (shake, shake)
We're gonna teach you how to Body Slam
Hit me
[Chorus - Afrika Banbaataa]
What we gonna do right now?
(Body Slam) Woo, Nu-Sounds gonna Body Slam
What you gonna do right now?
(Body Slam) All the ladies sexy sexy sexy
What we gonna do right now?
(Body Slam) Hooo wee
What you gonna do right now?
Yeee-ooww
Credits

Afrika Bambaataa

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"Body Slam" appears on "Mackin’" in 1988.

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