Monday, October 14, 2019

Rocket Fuel by DJ Shadow

Ladies and gentlemen
Ladies and gentlemen
Are you ready?
Are you ready?
Get ready, y'all
Get ready
Ready, set
Steady, bet
Get ready
Ready, set
Steady, bet
Get ready

This be the green light, go
Tires burn the pavement
People wanna know where Mase, Pos, and Dave went
Still here, still in your ear
With a style so hot, you'll see where all the sun rays went
Legs, arms, and head all being moved in a frenzy
The blends we all the right cred
Meaning credentials
Best of both worlds
When we rocking over pearls in the instrumental

Are you ready? (Ready) Set? (Set)
Jump to the rhythm as hard as you can go
Keep it steady (Steady), to the letter, right? (Bet)
Turn it up, we giving a show
But can you rock it like rocket fuel?
What you talking 'bout? Space or out your mind?
But can you rock it like rocket, fool?
That's a close encounter of what kind?

I'm a disc jockey
What's a disc jockey?

When it was time to get it lit we got it hot like fever
Sick with the talk, pass to your receiver
All about running the spot
And you know we got breath control so no need to take a breather
Cardio kingpins
Subjugate the dubplate
And you know we can't wait to bring spins
Aced all quizzes, A-plussed the final
Vocals we align, we move it all simul-
-taneously over joints we rock
We earned thirty years, so you can say that we got
Three turns, live off the board, unlike you and your chessmen
We install doubt in you and your yes-men
And if the game have veins, we'll insert the needle, upheaval the ground
'Cause the adrenaline we blend with the sound
Is our thing, relieving the kings of all crowns

Are you ready? (Ready) Set? (Set)
Jump to the rhythm as hard as you can go
Keep it steady (Steady), to the letter, right? (Bet)
Turn it up, we giving a show
But can you rock it like rocket fuel?
What you talking 'bout? Space or out your mind?
But can you rock it like rocket, fool?
That's a close encounter of what kind?

Ready, set
Steady, bet
Then jump to the rhythm as hard as you can go
Turn it up, y'all, peep the flow

Are you ready? (Ready) Set? (Set)
Jump to the rhythm as hard as you can go
Keep it steady (Steady), to the letter, right? (Bet)
Turn it up, we giving a show
But can you rock it like rocket fuel?
What you talking 'bout? Space or out your mind?
But can you rock it like rocket, fool?
That's a close encounter of what kind?

Ready, set
Steady, bet

But can you rock it like rocket fuel?





2 comments:

Aaron said...

Jim trudell used to say that electronic music isn’t real music. That makes no sense to me. I used to own a song by dj shadow. It was not as good as I wanted it to be but I did listen to it a lot. I like the name. Dj shadow. Sounds mysterious. But jimmy t had one thing right. This kind of music does lack something. As fun as it is it doesn’t really ever stir the kind of emotion that rock can deliver. But whatevs

Dan Tschirhart said...

DJ Shadow is a cool name

I envision a DJ superhero or a DJ ninja

Ooh, a DJ ninja superhero

So he could kick your ass and simultaneously play the soundtrack to said ass kicking

Now that's talent, you can't teach that

It was cool to hear De La Soul again

They've got some great tunes

KTCL would play 2 hours of techno on Sunday nights and I never understood why

And why would you pair those two together? Why not just make it techno Monday mornings?

I'm not a huge fan of electronic music myself, 'Funkytown' is about as far as I usually go

But if you have a key-tar, all bets are off - you're always cool if you have a key- tar