Knuckleheads gossip all over town Every time I by you're just standin' around 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, soon as I in the place I wanna take my gun and shoot you in your face You're playin' me too close the schemin' and games I the beef and the bullshit is the price of fame
Movies, records, on tour Twenty-thousand people on the floor Whole body-rockin', and everything's chill Get back to New York, and the 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 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 when you're rich you got friends but when you're poor you're alone So get your own on your own, it'll strengthen soul Stop livin' off parents like you're 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 and ride a bike and try to live carefree Hope my message reaches you before seventy-three A old man, when ask you what you did with your life say "I hated L.L. and I carried a big knife" Every day is a chase, every day is a And every day you're being by my bass Too juice to be a deuce, I had to be a ace It's the fire's in my eyes and the gun's in my face
I'm stompin' stupid knuckleheads until 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 ticket line So you can come in my show and watch the stars Get busy, not dizzy, wanna teach the The last man who didn't listen up gettin' hung
Not that I him, it's just he didn't wanna trust The of a master that's why you must Take heed to the speech, gonna reach your ear Don't try to say you can't hear 'cause the are clear flurries, punks scurry and I bury the rest You better up and rock a rhyme and give it your best 'Cuz tonight's the night we see the big fight Twelve-gauge on the stage in case it go right
drives a tank, he's strong like a truck If you're cryin' while you're we ain't givin' a fuck L.L. J is on the microphone Tellin' all you punk "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 dean If Russia bombed the U.S., they'd be scared to Queens
'Cuz that's I live, and this is what I give top-notch crews into fugitives They run, they frightened, they 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 man-to-man and jam-to-jam I got hip-hop, rock, and love fans All you petty in the state of New York Gettin' a thousand for a show but you wanna squawk
Can't get a contract, your beats ain't workin' Dogged-out Pumas you're manager's jerkin' Your mic sounds weak, remember that I'm than Napoleon, Hitler 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 worse dark So never ever mess with the king of the sound L.L. Cool J, the baddest