Knuckleheads gossip all over town Every time I drive by just standin' around in your pocket, forty-dog in your hand Don't you know just 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 you in your muthafuckin' face You're playin' me too close with the schemin' and I guess the beef and the bullshit is the of fame
Movies, records, goin' on Twenty-thousand people on the floor Whole 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 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 work on own 'Cuz when you're rich you got friends but when poor you're alone So get your own on your own, it'll strengthen your Stop livin' off your parents like three years old of walkin' like you're limp and talkin' yang about me Why don't you take your monkey-ass and get a college
Or write a rhyme and ride a and try to live carefree 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, every day is a And every day you're 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 knuckleheads until they I'm the leader of the show, so up to me to lead I'ma lead you away from drugs and crime Lead you away from wack and rhyme you to that ticket line So you can come in my show and watch the shine Get busy, not dizzy, wanna teach the The man who didn't listen ended up gettin' hung
Not I killed him, it's just he didn't wanna trust The words of a master that's why you Take heed to the speech, it's gonna reach ear Don't try to say you can't 'cause the words are clear flurries, punks scurry and I bury the rest You better hurry up and rock a and give it your best 'Cuz the night we gonna see the big fight Twelve-gauge on the stage in case it don't go
E-Love a tank, he's strong like a truck If you're while you're dyin' we ain't givin' a fuck L.L. Cool J is on the Tellin' all you punk "Leave me the hell alone" 'Cuz I'm X, born to snap necks Straight up and down, no effects I'm the professor, the teacher, the hip-hop If Russia bombed the U.S., they'd be scared to touch
'Cuz that's where I live, and this is what I Turnin' top-notch crews into They run, frightened, they hide from King Titan a sniper when he's shootin' or a viper when he's bitin' Here I am, tellin' the truth and I'm spreadin' the word to my youth It goes man-to-man and I got hip-hop, rock, and love fans All you petty MC's in the state of New Gettin' a for a show but you still wanna squawk
get a decent contract, your beats ain't workin' Dogged-out Pumas plus you're manager's Your mic weak, remember that skeezer I'm than Napoleon, Hitler 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 rock in the And I'm a killer in the daytime, and after dark So don't ever mess with the king of the sound L.L. J, the baddest around