Knuckleheads gossip all over town Every I drive by you're just standin' around Hundred-bottles in your pocket, forty-dog in hand Don't you know you're a worker and your boss is my man? L.L. this, L.L. that, soon as I in the place I wanna take my gun and shoot you in your face You're playin' me too with the schemin' and games I guess the beef and the is the price of fame
Movies, records, goin' on people hip-hoppin' on the floor Whole parties body-rockin', and everything's Get to New York, and the suckers act ill See, I fought with the devil, a promise to God I experience in goin' all the way to the top It's harder than hard all the suckers are barred You used to try to talk now your ego is scarred
See the problem is you what another man has His car, his wife, or his But that's weak, you do work on your own 'Cuz when rich you got friends but when you're poor you're alone So get your own on own, it'll strengthen your soul Stop livin' off parents like you're three years old Instead of like you're limp and talkin' yang about me Why don't you take your monkey-ass and get a degree?
Or write a rhyme and ride a bike and try to live my message reaches you before you're seventy-three A old man, when people ask you you did with your life You'll say "I L.L. and I carried a big knife" Every day is a chase, day is a race And every day you're being overpowered by my Too much 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 knuckleheads until they I'm the leader of the show, so up to me to lead lead you away from drugs and petty crime Lead you away from beats and rhyme Lead you to that ticket So you can come in my show and watch the shine Get busy, not dizzy, wanna teach the The last man who listen ended up gettin' hung
Not that I killed him, it's just he didn't wanna The words of a master why you must Take heed to the speech, it's gonna 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 and give it your best tonight's the night we gonna see the big fight Twelve-gauge on the stage in case it go right
E-Love a tank, he's strong like a truck If you're cryin' while you're we ain't givin' a fuck L.L. Cool J is on the Tellin' all you punk ducks "Leave me the alone" 'Cuz I'm X, born to snap necks Straight up and down, no special I'm the professor, the teacher, the hip-hop If Russia the U.S., they'd be scared to touch Queens
'Cuz that's where I live, and is what I give Turnin' top-notch crews fugitives They run, they frightened, they hide from King Like a sniper he's shootin' or a viper when he's bitin' Here I am, tellin' the and I'm spreadin' the word to my fellow youth It goes and jam-to-jam I got hip-hop, rock, and love fans All you petty MC's in the state of New a thousand for a show but you still wanna squawk
Can't get a decent contract, your beats workin' Dogged-out Pumas plus you're jerkin' Your mic sounds weak, 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 with the king of the L.L. Cool J, the baddest