[Verse One: Billions greeting, roaming since Genesis Coming out the crevices Infested, walls filled with Bugs in the drawer, for food Coming out there's no light! They're small, but they make humans You'll do a spastic if you spot one crawling on your epidermis If you squeamish, you're provided, When you sleep you keep your mouth closed, cause yo might crawl up inside it Uninvited, from out the Earth's Bugs are the only species that'll survive a nuclear war And as you snore, they like to run your door Then explore, you notice when they're on your upside down floor Schemin', he food and calls his boys in, but some ain't smart to evade the exterminator's poison So the pest it back to his nest contacting with another insect it begins to infect the A lot die, but only a small fraction - we can't catch 'em 'cause there's always new hatchin'
[Chorus COCKROACHES! and scratched by the DJ* (3X)
[Verse Two: Cockroaches, many perceive as But if you're from the projects, them niggas are the people! They sleep with you, eat with you, to beats with you Thousands lounging in your form armies that reproduce They conceive their crew, roaches got there own generals, colonels, lieutenant, tenants Your crib becomes a big motel, for all sorts of bugs Poor homes for that afford carpet get a free cockroach rug! From out the cupboards, into crisis I got baby inside my food cartons camouflaged as spices by accident, I ate 'em with my rice kid Cause, when you're you don't think twice kid Yo there ain't a person on Earth never ate an insect, Cause food warehouse in the US they infest I used to give funeral pyres - wrap 'em up in toilet paper alive and light em on fire! So watch out, they'll to get you with militias, throwin' poop up in your sink, swimming up to your dishes
Two] *Cut and by the DJ* (2X)