Knuckleheads spreadin' gossip all town Every I drive by you're just standin' around Hundred-bottles in your pocket, forty-dog in your 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 You're playin' me too close with the schemin' and I the beef and the bullshit is the price of fame
Movies, records, goin' on Twenty-thousand hip-hoppin' on the floor Whole parties body-rockin', and everything's Get back to New York, and the act ill See, I fought the devil, made 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 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 do work on your own 'Cuz when rich you got friends but when you're poor you're alone So get own on your own, it'll strengthen your soul Stop livin' off your like you're three years old Instead of walkin' you're limp and talkin' yang about me Why you take your monkey-ass and get a college degree?
Or write a rhyme and a bike and try to live carefree Hope my message 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 every day being overpowered by my bass Too much to be a deuce, I had to be a ace It's like the in my eyes and the gun's in my face
I'm stompin' knuckleheads until they bleed I'm the of the show, so it's up to me to lead I'ma lead you away drugs and petty crime Lead you from wack beats and rhyme you to that ticket line So you can come in my and watch the stars shine Get busy, not dizzy, wanna teach the The last man who didn't ended up gettin' hung
Not that I killed him, it's just he didn't wanna 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 can't hear 'cause the words are flurries, punks scurry and I bury the rest You better hurry up and rock a rhyme and give it best '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 like a truck If you're while you're dyin' we ain't givin' a fuck L.L. J is on the microphone all you punk ducks "Leave me the hell alone" 'Cuz I'm rated X, born to necks up and down, no special effects I'm the professor, the teacher, the hip-hop If Russia bombed the U.S., they'd be to touch Queens
'Cuz that's where I live, and is what I give Turnin' top-notch crews fugitives They run, frightened, they hide from King Titan Like a sniper when he's shootin' or a viper he's bitin' Here I am, the truth and I'm spreadin' the word to my fellow youth It man-to-man and jam-to-jam I got hip-hop, rock, and song fans All you petty MC's in the of New York Gettin' a thousand for a show but you still wanna
Can't get a contract, your beats ain't workin' Dogged-out Pumas plus you're manager's Your mic 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 in the park And I'm a killer in the daytime, and after dark So don't never ever mess with the king of the L.L. J, the baddest around