Knuckleheads spreadin' gossip all over Every time I drive by you're just standin' Hundred-bottles in your pocket, forty-dog in hand Don't you know you're just a worker and 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 close with the schemin' and I guess the beef and the bullshit is the price of
Movies, records, on tour people hip-hoppin' on the floor Whole parties body-rockin', and everything's Get back to New York, and the act ill See, I fought with the devil, a promise to God I have in goin' all the way to the top It's harder harder hard all the suckers are barred You used to try to talk down now 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 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 parents like you're three years old Instead of walkin' like limp and talkin' yang about me Why don't you take monkey-ass and get a college degree?
Or a rhyme and ride a bike and try to live carefree my message reaches you before you're seventy-three A old man, when people ask you what you did with your say "I hated L.L. and I carried a big knife" Every day is a chase, day is a race And every day you're being 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 gun's in my
I'm stompin' stupid knuckleheads they bleed I'm the leader of the show, so up to me to lead I'ma lead you away from and petty crime Lead you away from wack beats and you to that ticket line So you can in my show and watch the stars shine Get busy, not dizzy, teach the young The last man who didn't ended up gettin' hung
Not that I killed him, it's he didn't wanna trust The words of a that's 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, scurry and I bury the rest You better hurry up and rock a rhyme and it your best 'Cuz tonight's the we gonna see the big fight Twelve-gauge on the in case it don't go right
E-Love drives a tank, he's strong like a If cryin' while you're dyin' 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 rated X, born to snap Straight up and down, no effects I'm the professor, the teacher, the dean If Russia the U.S., they'd be scared to touch Queens
'Cuz that's where I live, and this is what I Turnin' crews into fugitives They run, they frightened, they hide from Titan Like a sniper when he's shootin' or a viper when he's Here I am, tellin' the truth and I'm 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 of New York Gettin' a thousand for a show but you still squawk
Can't get a decent contract, your beats workin' Dogged-out Pumas plus manager's jerkin' Your mic sounds weak, that skeezer I'm badder 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 after dark So don't never ever mess the king of the sound L.L. Cool J, the baddest