MC Lyte - Cha Cha Cha (Official Video)

MC Lyte - Cha Cha Cha (Official Video) from the album 'Eyes On This' (1989)
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Lyrics:
[Kick this one here for me and my DJ]
You can cha-cha-cha to this Mardis Gras
I'm the dopest female that you've heard thus far
And I do get better, the voice gets wetter
Nobody gets hurt (as long as you let her)
Do my thing with an '89 swing
The dopeness I write, I guarantee delight
To the hip-hop maniac, the Uptown brainiac
In full effect, MC Lyte is back
And better than before as if that was possible
My competition, you'll find them in the hospital
Visiting time, I think it's on a Sunday
But notice they only get one day to shine
The rest of the week is mine
And I'll blind you with the science that the others have yet to find
So come along and I'll lead you the right way
Just clap your hands to the words I say, come on...
[Kick this one here for me and my DJ]
I've got the power to spread out and devour
At the same time I'll eat you up with a rhyme
But I'll let you slide cuz you accidently hopped on the wrong side
Now come on, that's suicide
Hypothetically speaking
Ok, let's say you didn't know what you were doing
You're new in town, and you're looking around
For another name to ruin, and it's me that you're pursuing?
Well well well, I'll be damned
I might as well tell you who I am
I am the capital L-Y-T-E
And it's shocking I'm the one you're mocking
Oh yes, I've been watching you watching me
And like the fat on your back it's plain to see
That you're a wannabe, but you can't be what you're not
So you better start living with what you got
[Kick this one here for me and my DJ]
Yeah, DJ K-Rock when you hear a scratch
Now it's time to kick a rhyme out the batch
And you're the receiver eager as a beaver
Time to convert the non-believer
That I'm a roadrunner leaving you in the dust
I can adjust to the times and at times I might just get quicker
Than the ticker of your pacemaker
More tender than a roni but harder than a jawbreaker
So don't ever second guess me
And if you're wondering who could the best be
Think a second and recollect the worst whipping you ever had yet
And I'll bet that I did it
My fingerprints are still on you
How many times I gotta warn you
About the light? It'll blind your sight
But the rhythm will still guide you through the night
[Kick this tip...
Kick this one here for me and my DJ]
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[@talvajeffery1077]

The BEST female rapper in 80's & 90's Who's still listening in March 2024 😜😁💖

[@Blah678]

Song just popped up in my head I am here with you! This shit just slaps. That bass line hard AF! This is just hip hop as hell!

[@junekeed7553]

Right here

[@alphaomega8373]

Love her style, more than any other female rapper.

[@jmc5910]

it brings back alot of memories in high school

[@cactusjack2264]

Definitely between her and Queen Latifah 💯

[@girlmeetsreality4644]

"....I'm the dopest female that you've heard thus far." She's wasn't lying 🔥

[@victorialake9474]

MC Lyte has more bars in this song than some rapper have had in their whole rap careers. She is amazing.

[@taetae8137]

Bars was longer ...now it's just a chorus

[@Hborn]

Ture

[@younggee7966]

True!!!

[@yahsdaughter481]

@@taetae8137 Don't forget the mumbling...

[@CassundraHolifield]

​@@yahsdaughter481YET YOU WHITE MFS STAY POLE JOCKING OUR CULTURE AND MUSIC!!

[@Vendetta333-v1y]

She is the GOAT❤who is watching this in 2024?😊

[@louisstephens7852]

THIS GUY!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@zulutimeproductions3143]

The same people that were riding with her in 89.. and she is the goat. Period.

[@SeekmyfacechildrenYasharahla]

You mean he(Eazy E)

[@joshuabarnes8585]

Top 5 favorite Hip Hop Jam of all time.

[@ms.t3039]

Me! My favorite female rapper. Her and Kim. Lyte could tell a story

[@wysefavor]

I am 52 years now, that was my jam way back in Lagos, Nigeria!!!

[@cassandraclark5499]

Her voice is impeccable on top of dope lyrics and she’s classy

[@devin837]

My favorite female rap voice.....and she is def a top five female lyricist as well.

[@cassandraclark5499]

@@devin837 show ya right

[@zimriel]

you didn't want to incite her not to be classy. her dis tracks are legendary

[@missmom715]

Can we get a moment for the DJ with those remarkable cuts!

[@samuellowe5766]

The beat and flow is unstoppable

[@clarkbryant8222]

2025 and this still goes HARD,especially on a “Booming system”

[@adontaygroom5024]

This my favorite lyte joint 🔥🔥🔥

[@chloeratchford4854]

Back when rap was so raw, pure and delivered by a TRUE HIP HOP LEGEND, MC Lyte 🌟

[@deidragreer2691]

That's right

[@relatablerealness973]

2025 here and loving it! ❤❤❤❤ lyte as a rock! 🤩

[@mahagony74red53]

Yaasss starting my day with the goat 🐐🐐

[@Refazhe]

Literally everything about this rap, is impeccably perfect/ The beat, her rhymes, her sick flows, everything she does with her voice. Dope af. GTA4 brought me here :D

[@michellestewart4110]

Real rap. Not a naked person in sight and its Dope 30 years later.

[@Justusingytlol]

Who cares...

[@Justusingytlol]

@@AjIsDblock220 no one was replying to you delectable...

[@kashiala9574]

💯😎

[@joshdaboss2365]

@@Justusingytlol stfu little girl

[@Justusingytlol]

@@joshdaboss2365 I was about to defend myself but… you’re a social reject. I don’t argue with those. Bye❤️

[@farfalla011]

"More tender than a roni, but harder than a jawbreaker." WHOOAAA 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽

[@KHEM-MECCA]

And Still the best female rapper, back then and as of now.... MC Lyte G.O.A.T

[@steadyc9277]

O F A L L T I M E

[@jldub23]

i agree

[@kingofblack3214]

MC is one of the greatest male or female!

[@llortitel23]

my answer to this is: Lauryn Hill

[@missayawk]

Latifah.

[@ΑργύρηςΛινάρδος]

Im here from GTA 4 radio. Damn. I heard some of MC Lyte's songs and i loved each and every one. This one here a little bit more

[@Im_a_Romanian]

Me too

[@oneluv72]

Hip-hop 1989 was at it's finest!!

[@deidragreer2691]

That's right C/O 89!😊

[@oneluv72]

@@deidragreer2691 💯

[@robholla87]

I used by tapes I miss the old days then cds came out !

[@tallsmile28]

A classic track from a legend!

[@arthurwilliams6628]

Alexander HOT classic!!!🔥🔥🔥 from a legend!!!

[@tyronetyler2450]

"More tender than a Roni, but harder than a jawbreaker"🔥🔥🔥

[@TeeRock70]

Word🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽

[@shottashabazz6721]

Just flowing effortlessly. M.C. Lyte is a gifted MC.

[@kenokorleone512]

She has murdered everything that she has ever rhymed on ❤️❤️❤️🔥🔥🔥

[@torianmcneill3794]

She could destroy these so called rappers today she could blow Nicki Minaj out of the water in 30 seconds

[@jaywu_chakra9919]

One of the original dope female MC's.

[@jessiesmith5577]

It's 2024, Who's still bumping this

[@Yadancer76]

All the way from 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🫶

[@bobbiwarford335]

Me

[@malikburchett]

Lyte's my Queen MC

[@zoritastanley9180]

I absolutely am and often!!

[@bcampbell12095]

I've been trying for the last hour looking up "classic female rapper in skate game" cus i swear I knew this from tony hawk underground(just realized it was gta 4). Glad I finally found it, this woman deserves some props still

[@greenfiend5552]

In 89 Lyte was ahead of her time with this one. Timeless classic... Remember, she killed her verse on Self Destruction as well.

[@midwestmarauder4821]

L.L. wrote that verse for her.

[@gregorynetus8361]

best female mcs ever.word up son

[@tonyscarfo1763]

Gregory Netus im freench ,you talk true !

[@gregorynetus8361]

+Tony Scarfo word up.me too.I'm French

[@gregorynetus8361]

+Brian Kerogoi nah.she's nice.but mc lytes the best

[@chrismarshall2215]

Cha Cha Cha and Paper Thin are my 2 fav MC Lyte songs of all time💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾 she is definitely a LEGEND... I miss the hop hop of the 80s and Early 90s watching Yo MTVs and Rap City... Thank God for youtube where we can revisit the music of generation...

[@bryanreyes7382]

MC Lyte is and always will be the greatest of all time.

[@gwilson4907]

Still my favorite female rapper

[@keishajames3956]

yes she is

[@bryanreyes7382]

@@keishajames3956 amen

[@bryanreyes7382]

@@gwilson4907 same here

[@5thwardmogul]

So right

[@lemondishonor7736]

This came out during my best year of school. So many care free memories. I miss my boombox.

[@allenblake2521]

Moumental Brother it will never be the sammmmmme!

[@SteveAyanami]

Eeeeefffff deeee eeemmm geeeeeeeee is coming. 😈

[@lemondishonor7736]

@@SteveAyanami lmao !

[@gracie99999]

I can still find them..where I’m at the get them big arse ones ansnattach to bike and ride wit it..then from one turn to two and multiplies to a whole clan of folks ridin

[@DJSuPreme7]

1989 The Number Another Summer It Really Was The Sound Of the Funky Drummer!!!No Words to express what was happening in 89" Big Daddy Kane, Queen Latifah, LYTE etc!

[@williambillington4484]

ANYBODY still listening to this masterpiece is a god-damn LEGEND 🙏🙏💓

[@vikaghostwave]

She definitely deserves hall of fame. She important and critical to the evolution of hip hop.

[@d..........9777]

I still be jamming this song....1989!

[@houzhead6588]

D.O.P.E.....D.O.P.E. I miss this era right here...music, safe parties..nothing too serious...for the most part❤

[@rickeygeetv6197]

That guitar groove is still very hypnotizing after all of these years. And she is still as fine as she was back in the late 80s.

[@TekiaRolle]

She gets her flowers from me a legend for sure

[@williamchappell9858]

Her verse in the song Self Destruction was definitely on point one of the best verses in the whole song

[@PaulEvans-vc8ot]

LL wrote it though

[@carmeneats4979]

Definitely my favorite part

[@1might1]

She didn't even get paid for her involvement in the self-destruction song LL Cool J wrote her part so he got the 2% royalty that everybody else in the song received.

[@jasonito23]

In an interview they did with MC Lyte about her verse in Self Destruction, they talked about this song. MC Lyte never liked this song and didn´t want to do it. She said that his song ¨just isn´t MC Lyte.¨ I was surprised because this is one of her best songs...but I notice that she likes to tell stories and this is not a story.

[@audacitytheconduit7285]

​@@1might1i just saw an old interview with LL and Dr. Ruth (weird i know) and he said he didn't get any money from the song.

[@daveenaclark9798]

She lit 🔥 light2022💋🦚🖖🏻🦋☀️🪐🎆🎙🎬

[@raymuniz113]

Dopest lyrics ever.

[@hondacivic.japanese8265]

30 years later she still. One point.

[@faraohfreddy7772]

1989. I love how she had the fools dancing but she plays it cool just getting her stroll on. I miss scratchin’ break beats

[@ClassicTV4U]

Perfect lyrical flow and clean "disses" in a neat little three-minute package.

[@AP-er9tn]

More tender than a Roni but harder than jawbreaker !! that line is soo 80's and I love it !!!!

[@earthsgard]

The sound of it, still quality...

[@therealcoachross]

BESt Female MC #Everrrrrrr!! Hands down!! #Salute!

[@misska7535]

Still.a banger in 2023. Always loved MC Lyte. 🔥🔥🔥💯👍👏💕💕

[@Milty2001]

The amount of effort put into this freestyle is off the charts much respect to mc lyte

[@blahzay_]

It’s not a freestyle

[@willierobinson2241]

She is hip-hop 😁 u go beautiful light ✨️ woman

[@lsamoa]

It's not a freestyle and for her it's effortless because she's the best of the best

[@RobDarkhalf]

King of Chill wrote the Lyrics for this.

[@johntyree3861]

Mc Lyte the 🐐

[@paulcalixte2223]

That second verse is just jaw-droppingly good

[@damonmilline9227]

THE GODDESS OF RAP!!!!!!!

[@craigsmith6416]

Lyte, Queen Latifah, The Brat and Monie Love.. just classy and talented rappers!

[@poniboishelluv8982]

@Craig Smith Don't forget YoYo Yessarrrrrr!Myyyyy Bahhhh!

[@craigsmith6416]

@@poniboishelluv8982 Right!!!

[@frederickanthony1965]

Don't forget about mom's Mia

[@tovorismoore7596]

One of the dopest rappers ever MC Lyte

[@DefSquadFan]

Amazing how much influence the slow and calm Rakim flow had so much influence.

[@kamargee9680]

Still dope in 2025. Lyte was my favor female rapper. No one could touch her!

[@JelaniWood]

Here in 2025 and this hits even harder now than it did back then if you want to believe it.

[@CNVRSKDAJW]

*MC Lyte* ... and that's why she's *Forever* My QUEEN

[@Miraclechildofgod]

MC Lyte needs to be in the conversation about rap pioneers because she is one!! She needs her flowers 🌸 💐

[@dsloyalty7775]

Mc lyte is still the best Female MC🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@lamardavisqueful]

MC Lyte ! If you did not know! Now you know! Bars all day! 80s through 2024!

[@marcuslane3]

REAL RAP!!!!!!!!🎉❤

[@jasonhawessr5180]

Was the best of times, 80's

[@shantiarobinson7369]

This the hardest female track

[@henryzamora2958]

One off the BEST female off all time Legacy 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 MC LYTE

[@kevinfoxx6396]

This is one of the best songs in hip hop history

[@andreacash5695]

Know this whole song!!! This is forever my jam

[@imnengineer]

LOVE the background bass line. I’d sample it in a Hip Hop mix! MC Lyte, just AWESOME!!!!!

[@GMoneyXL1969]

Love MC Lyte because she didn't have to "show her assets" in order to make a dope song. Much respect.

[@anthonyarcanumsanctumregnu9551]

I love her cause she's the best female Emcee of all time!

[@GMoneyXL1969]

@@anthonyarcanumsanctumregnu9551 I can't argue with that. Two of my favorite songs from her are Cha Cha Cha and Stop, Look, Listen. Smooth rhythm music with her rap style mesh perfectly together.

[@40lopezz]

@@anthonyarcanumsanctumregnu9551 agree but it was some dope females in the 80’s and 90’s you had queen Latifah salt n pepa missy Elliot lauryn hill etc now these females today talking about the same shit I called it strip club rap lol

[@seantriplesevyn8152]

Yup that’s why she’s still strong mentally and not a dope fiend like foxy and Kim.

[@kevinharris1462]

G.m. lol she was pretty small. In all honesty she didn't have much to show. But she was bad a_ _.

[@sarahsimpkins1311]

I remember being 9 years old watching this on Yo MTV Raps Back in 89😊

[@wali2500]

2025 and it still goes hard 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@BlackBeardDelight187]

This track is cooler than my life

[@lakeshasteele937]

MC Lyte is the best female rapper of all time and so underestimated and underrated!!!😀😀😌🎤🎧🎙🎶🎵🎼🎵🎵🎵🎶🎶🎶

[@kellybendry1617]

34 years still dope cha cha cha damn

[@TjDavis-h6s]

Get like THE Best of the Best 👌 😊

[@bexsy34]

Lytes lyrics don't age, they mature like a fine wine. Love Lyte

[@Amari19_]

Goddess MC

[@deidragreer2691]

35 years later and that beat still goes hard today!😊

[@williamchappell9858]

MC Lyte a female rap pioneer laid the foundation for today's female rappers all props to Ms Lyte

[@carlrice1774]

I wish she was the foundation for today's women artists. Unfortunately that "honor" goes to Lil Kim.

[@DonaldHHout-ok2fy]

Iam A Huge MC Lyte Fan Forever.

[@thejuelz08]

2021 and this is still DOPE ………CLASSIC……

[@yehudahlioness8544]

lol,....2023 and STILL the best!

[@Vauxery]

2024 💀

[@coreyhendricks9490]

Dope single and my favorite MC Lyte album 👍

[@cutflower36]

She Bad!

[@robmjj]

That beat during the chorus is crazy!

[@venussteele2648]

She went in on this omggg 💯

[@Creolegumbo]

“More tender than a roni but hawrder than a jawrbreaker “ Never gets old. #2 Spot of Cappacino!!! #LYTE

[@lettiebeethezadok]

Kick this one here for me and my dj! I Love the 80S yoooooo

[@gracie99999]

I keep going back to 80s,90s, alittle 2000s 20010 and even as close as 2017/18 but really going to 70s,69s and further back is where it’s at!

[@glennknight7462]

I grew up listening to Ms. MC Lyte she has always been the original!

[@beverlygraham9510]

2021 I still get chills when I hear this song

[@mylusciouslife41]

The dopeness I write, I guarantee to delight…WORD!!!

[@lsamoa]

One of the best hip hop tracks of all times

[@candacecrittenden9455]

Lyte!!! ❤️🥰

[@johnlewis195]

Only song I can recite from 30 years ago to this day...Never gets old

[@deidragreer2691]

@@johnlewis195 same here lol

[@I_Am__Who__I_Am]

First rap album I ever bought, and still know every word of the lyrics,😂😂love it

[@Cynical2012]

Deserves 20,000,000 views

[@Ediblemonster]

I'm 35 and still listening 🎧 she was the shit

[@romanl309]

Wow! respect 2 her :) Really love it :) I'm here because of soundtrack from GTA 4 :)

[@justanadams9430]

She's been my Hip-hop Bae since I was a little pup. She definitely deserves to be inducted into The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame

[@coreyc3093]

The GOLDEN AGE of Hip-Hop, ladies and gentlemen! Wish I could go back!

[@charlesjohnson536]

'AND I DO GET BETTER .. DA VOICE GETS WETTER .. NOBODY GETS HURT .. AS LONG AS U LET HER' .. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 .. #REALHIPHOP #HIPHOPLEGENDSONLY

[@ikeepitreal4535]

Hands down the best rapper ever. Nothing today even is a close second.