The lyrics to ‘Birthday Party’ by Grandmaster Flash. They crept into my head from my laptop, and I had to rewind to check I hadn’t heard wrong. I hadn’t. This really is a low point of rap:
Overtime, overtime, rock your mind
Melle Mell and I’m here to say, I was born on the 15th day of May
And I’m mister Ness and I love myself, and my date of birth is November the 12th
I wanna tell you that my name is Raheem, my date of birth is February 13th
I’m Kid Creole and I’m on the scene, I was born on February 19th
I’m Cowboy and you must remember, I was born on the 20th of September
And Grandmaster Flash is here to stay ’cause he was born on new years day
Now we got something else that we want you to say
Just shout out your birthday
But to play this game, and to rock this rhyme
Shout the date and the month out one of a kind
Say 2 4 6 8 everybody shout out your birthday
Say what’s that date?
Say what’s that date?
Now to keep these piggies movin’ right along, shout out the month that you were born
I say “What’s that month?”
I say “what’s that month?”
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