[Flav] Yo Chuck where you at G??
  I think he went upstairs y'know
  [DJ] A very furious mixture of noise
  What Public Enemy producer Hank Shocklee calls
  music's worst nightmare
    "Hey he's a good kid"
    [Chuck D] Air Hoodlum (repeat 2X)
  [Tony D] Check check check the elevation (repeat 4X)
    "A player that can leap with the best of them"
    Verse One:
    Risin up in the 'Velt Strong Island New York
  The hood in case you did not know my base
  There was a ballplayer who had all the skills
  wit the pill to pay the piper, plus all the bills
  Mick his first name, Mack the awesome game
  Practiced in the heat, in the rain or in pain
  Mick so quick, at six foot six
  Down to be picked by anyone but the Celtics
  Oh what a handle could score from the floor
  with people bangin on him, or even hangin on him
  But what he did best, above all the rest was...
    "A player that can leap, with the best of them"
  "As a high school standout..."
  "The skywalker himself!"
  "I felt, he could do, to make this an effective basketball team"
    Verse Two:
    Grades nine and ten, Mickey Mack was all that
  but in class his ass sat way in the back
  How I know, cause I know, I used to flow wit the bro
  He didn't mind I used to read him his own headline
  Cause he could not read em his school wouldn't need em
  if the lines wouldn'ta went like this
  Mickey Mack jumped over the candlestick
  His stack was his stats but his D was still wack
  Grades eleven and twelve he found the wrong clientele and all
  During class, he would dribble in the hall
  But never got in trouble in school, but the trouble was
  it was cool if your brain was just another bubble
  As long as he could score fiddy-two
  get thirty-three rebounds, fuckin around
  Temas lost to him he went right through em
  Division, county, state, that's three count em
  championships for a small town bro
  That's bound to go pro
    "He gets free, turn on the jumper, good!"
  "Streak of lightning when he breaks loose..."
  "We all felt in our hearts we could win this ballgame"
  "They just required me to have the game that I did
  I'm just... that's all I that's all I that's all I can say"
  "That's all I can say"
  "He hauled down fifteeen rebounds, and kept the ball away from everybody"
  "Then he had a triple double!"
  "A-a-a sensational player..."
    Verse Three:
    SAT's didn't matter cause he was all that
  You know the pat on the back
  He was always in the news you gotta know what it means
  it means revenue, and I'm tellin you
  I saw cars and G's come to our school please
  approach Hell with the principal, where's the coach
  Went to college four years wit a scholarship...
  ...and won the championship
  But when it came to his life he didn't care...
  ...cause he took it to the air
    "Cross and a hook, he scores, he's fouled!"
  "From the far corner, breaks West and here's the jumper, good!!"
  "There's the jumper, it's not gonna go, rebound batted back..."
    [Chuck D] Air
    Verse Four:
    The fall began when Mickey Mack fell
  Hell ripped his kneee drafted last by personnel
  Oh how he loved the game, it was fantastic
  until he was cut, and couldn't stick
  Times got tighter and tighter
  he had an attitude was rude, so he turned into a fighter
  School wouldn't give him the job that he needed
  Assistant to the assistant coach, they didn't need it
  Then he resorted to a stick up kid
  Ski-mask and gat, but this game he wasn't good at
  And the drugs on the side
  police ambushed his ride *gunfire* another homicide
  He was over, ghost y'know
  Hometown hero, but now a zero
  To those hypocrites who ripped him blind
  for his skills without the will to develop his mind
  Forever in the news the community views him
  only as Air Hoodlum
      "I don't understand it, the kid coulda been another Jordan!"