- Big Daddy Kane, “Ain’t No Half-Steppin’,” Long Live the Kane, 1988
But I’ve never been in, say, one this great.
I hate to say, about the other shopping centers that’s left,
But the Albee Square Mall is the doo-doo-def!”
–Biz Markie, “Albee Square Mall,” Goin’ Off, 1988
Brooklyn’s Albee Square Mall, at the intersection of Fulton Street and DeKalb Avenue, was razed in 2007 to clear way for the City Point retail space and upscale living community, opening in Spring 2012.
Cameo afro, Virgo, domino, I go Rambo,
Gigolo, Romeo, Friday night spend money on a ho…tel,
To get a good night’s sleep, I’m keeping in step.
Now do I come off? Yep.
- Big Daddy Kane, “Just Rhymin’ with Biz,” Long Live the Kane, 1988
Mad and stuff because they don’t have cash.
- Erick Sermon, “Strictly Business,” from EPMD’s Strictly Business, 1988
- KRS-One, “My Philosophy,” from Boogie Down Productions’ By All Means Necessary, 1988
Peace is a dream, reality is a knife.
- Ice-T, “Colors,” from Colors Soundtrack, 1988
I took time off, while other rappers got jerked.
- Erick Sermon, “So Watcha Sayin’,” from EPMD’s Strictly Business, 1988
I opened and read it…it said they were suckers.
- Chuck D., “Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos,” from Public Enemy’s It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, 1988
Cause I put out more lights in a fight than ConEdison.
- Kool G. Rap, “The Symphony,” from Marley Marl’s In Control Vol. 1, 1988
Any problem I got, I just put my fist in.
- Ice-T, “Colors,” from Colors soundtrack, 1988
To drinkin’ straight out the eight bottle…
Do I look like a muthafuckin’ role model?!
- Ice Cube, “Gangsta Gangsta,” from N.W.A.’s Straight Outta Compton, 1988
‘Cause I’m louder than a bomb.
- Chuck D., “Louder Than a Bomb,” from Public Enemy’s It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, 1988
Hey kid, walk straight…master your high.
- Slick Rick, “Hey Young World,” The Great Adventures of Slick Rick, 1988
So what you on, hobbs, dope or dog food?
- Big Daddy Kane, “Ain’t No Half-Steppin,” Long Live the Kane, 1988
We’re rollin’ Rainier, and the jealous wanna get some.
Every time we do the sucka MC’s wanna battle,
I’m the man they love to hate, the J.R. Ewing of Seattle…
- Sir Mix-a-Lot, “My Posse’s on Broadway,” SWASS, 1988
