Knuckleheads spreadin' gossip all over Every time I drive by you're just standin' in your pocket, forty-dog in your hand Don't you know you're just a worker and your boss is my L.L. this, L.L. that, as I walk in the place I wanna my gun and shoot you in your muthafuckin' face playin' me too close with the schemin' and games I guess the beef and the bullshit is the price of
Movies, records, on tour Twenty-thousand hip-hoppin' on the floor Whole parties body-rockin', and everything's Get to New York, and the suckers act ill See, I with the devil, made a promise to God I have in goin' all the way to the top harder harder than hard all the suckers are barred You used to try to talk down now ego is scarred
See the problem is you want another man has His car, his wife, or his But that's weak, you gotta do on your own 'Cuz when you're rich you got but when you're poor you're alone So get your own on your own, it'll your soul Stop off your parents like you're three years old of walkin' like you're limp and talkin' yang about me Why don't you take your and get a college degree?
Or write a rhyme and ride a and try to live carefree Hope my reaches you before you're seventy-three A old man, people ask you what you did with your life You'll say "I L.L. and I carried a big knife" Every day is a chase, every day is a And day you're being overpowered by my bass Too juice to be a deuce, I had to be a ace It's like the fire's in my eyes and the in my face
I'm stompin' stupid until they bleed I'm the leader of the show, so it's up to me to lead you away from drugs and petty crime Lead you from wack beats and rhyme you to that ticket line So you can come in my show and watch the shine Get busy, not dizzy, teach the young The last man who didn't listen up gettin' hung
Not that I killed him, just he didn't wanna trust The words of a that's why you must heed to the speech, it's gonna reach your ear Don't try to say you hear 'cause the words are clear Throwin' flurries, punks scurry and I bury the You better hurry up and rock a rhyme and give it your 'Cuz the night we gonna see the big fight Twelve-gauge on the stage in case it don't go
E-Love drives a tank, he's strong like a If you're cryin' while dyin' we ain't givin' a fuck L.L. J is on the microphone Tellin' all you ducks "Leave me the hell alone" 'Cuz I'm rated X, to snap necks Straight up and down, no effects I'm the professor, the teacher, the hip-hop If Russia bombed the U.S., be scared to touch Queens
'Cuz that's where I live, and this is I give Turnin' top-notch crews fugitives They run, they frightened, they hide from King Like a sniper when shootin' or a viper when he's bitin' Here I am, tellin' the truth and I'm spreadin' the word to my fellow It man-to-man and jam-to-jam I got hip-hop, rock, and love song All you MC's in the state of New York Gettin' a thousand for a show but you wanna squawk
Can't get a decent contract, beats ain't workin' Dogged-out Pumas plus you're manager's mic sounds weak, remember that skeezer I'm badder than Napoleon, or Caesar I'm a hitman, but I'm not for hire, fly desire, the man you admire Not only on the stage, I rock in the And I'm a in the daytime, and worse after dark So don't never ever mess the king of the sound L.L. Cool J, the around