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Run-DMC Medley by Naughty By Nature

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Naughty By Nature perform Trustees Award honoree Run-DMC‘s hits ”Beats to the Rhyme” and “Walk This Way.”

GRAMMY Salute To Music Legends™ will air Friday, October 14 at 9/8c on PBS.(Check local listings.)

TRANSCRIPT

-They got a lot of 'em, man. They got a lot of 'em.

Hey, yo, Run.

♪ Beats to the rhyme, beats to the rhyme ♪ ♪ Beat, beat, beat, beat, rhyme, rhyme ♪ ♪ Beats to the rhyme -Beats, what, what, what?

-Let's go, Jay.

-All right, I got it.

♪ Beats to the rhyme, beats to the rhyme ♪ ♪ Beat, beat, beat, beat ♪ B-b-b-beats to the rhyme ♪ Just say... ♪ Kicking it on the Grammy's, and it's time to get paid ♪ -♪ Here we go, that's what's funky ♪ -♪ Yo, D that's me, the King, the MC ♪ ♪ Rhyme gets mine on the T-O-P ♪ Can another MC ever mess with me? ♪ ♪ Hell no ♪ It's like the A, the B, to the C, ♪ ♪ It's easy as 1, 2, 3 ♪ He's Jam Master Jay, I'm DMC, so hit it Run ♪ ♪ It's time for we to cease -♪ So what?

-♪ So rhymes speak your peace -Why?

-♪ 'Cause you can't touch Jam Master Jay ♪ ♪ 'Cause he's number 1, 2, 3, 4, hit it ♪ [ Cheers and applause ] -Put your hands in the air, y'all ♪ Come on, come on, come on Somebody say 'Oh!'

-Oh!

Say, 'Oh, oh!'

-Oh, oh!

-Say 'Run!'

-Run!

-Now scream!

-Whoo!

-♪ A backseat lover that's always undercover ♪ ♪ And I talk till my daddy say ♪ Said 'You ain't seen nothing, till you're down on a muffin' ♪ ♪ And there's sure to be a change in ways ♪ ♪ Now, there's a cheerleader was a real young bleeder ♪ ♪ As far as I can reminisce ♪ And the best thing lovin' was her sister and her cousin ♪ ♪ And it started with a little kiss, like this ♪ -Come on.

Here we go, y'all.

What y'all know about this two-step, y'all?

Hey!

♪ See-saw swinging with the boys in the school ♪ ♪ Put your hands up! Come on! ♪ ♪ Hey diddle-diddle with the kitty in the middle ♪ ♪ Be swinging like you just don't care ♪ ♪ So I took a big chance at the high school dance ♪ ♪ With a lady who was ready to play ♪ ♪ It wasn't me she was foolin' ♪ 'Cause she knew what was she was doin' ♪ ♪ Taught me how to walk this way ♪ ♪ She told me to -Walk this way!

-Come on, y'all!

♪ Talk this way -Walk this way!

-Louder, louder!

♪ She told me to... -Walk this way!

-Come on, come on!

-♪ Talk this way -Come on, come on!

-Walk this way!

-♪ Talk this way ♪ Just give me a kiss [ Record scratching ] [ Cheers and applause ] -Like this.

-Rah!

[ Cheers and applause ]

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