Knuckleheads spreadin' gossip all over Every time I drive by just standin' around Hundred-bottles in your pocket, forty-dog in your Don't you know you're just a worker and your is my man? L.L. this, L.L. that, as I walk in the place I wanna take my gun and you in your muthafuckin' face You're me too close with the schemin' and games I the beef and the bullshit is the price of fame
Movies, records, goin' on Twenty-thousand people hip-hoppin' on the parties body-rockin', and everything's chill Get to New York, and the suckers act ill See, I fought with the devil, made a to God I experience in goin' all the way to the top It's harder harder hard all the suckers are barred You to try to talk down now your ego is scarred
See the problem is you want what man has His car, his wife, or his But that's weak, you do work on your own 'Cuz when you're rich you got friends but when you're poor you're So get your own on your own, it'll strengthen your Stop off your 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 college
Or write a and ride 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 you're 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 lead you away from drugs and petty crime Lead you away wack beats and rhyme Lead you to that ticket So you can in my show and watch the stars shine Get busy, not dizzy, wanna the young The last man who didn't listen up gettin' hung
Not that I killed him, it's just he wanna trust The words of a master why you must Take to the speech, it's gonna reach your ear Don't try to say you can't hear the words are clear Throwin' flurries, punks scurry and I the rest You better hurry up and rock a rhyme and give it 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 cryin' while you're dyin' we ain't givin' a fuck L.L. Cool J is on the Tellin' all you ducks "Leave me the hell alone" 'Cuz I'm rated X, to snap necks up and down, no special effects I'm the professor, the teacher, the dean If Russia bombed the U.S., they'd be scared to touch
'Cuz that's where I live, and this is I give top-notch crews into fugitives They run, they frightened, they from King Titan Like a sniper he's shootin' or a viper when he's bitin' Here I am, the truth and I'm spreadin' the word to my fellow youth It goes and jam-to-jam I got hip-hop, rock, and love song All you MC's in the state of New York Gettin' a for a show but you still wanna squawk
Can't get a decent contract, beats ain't workin' Dogged-out plus you're manager's jerkin' mic sounds weak, remember that skeezer I'm badder than Napoleon, or Caesar I'm a hitman, but I'm not for hire, fly girl's desire, the man you Not only on the stage, I in the park And I'm a killer in the daytime, and after dark So don't never mess with the king of the sound L.L. Cool J, the baddest