[** **] "What it take" "to be a great" "MC"
If you ask me, it's much more than Master of Because a lot of Cornballs realize it also means Mad Creativity In day and age of mediocrity There's two types of rappers that you'll and hear But I prefer the ones with the of the year Than the gimmick with the and the right puppeteer Now you can be the rock ?? Shakespear you're still 10 away from having a career You up the plate to earn respect from your peers And end up on for the remainder of your years I suppose this means greatness takes blood, sweat, and It takes an industry that doesn't breed fear Or pumping all this mindless up in your ears And ?? in the of what you get to hear You got to recognize it's a determined A righteous young mind is a devil's fear But when you wanna the people peace and satisfaction Everybody's mama a piece of the action So now I fall victim to supply and conceptions, born illegitimate Destined to be the greatest story missed Which means its meant to be for hearing this
2x] When it's all said and done it be heard and seen 'Til this game forces us to change teams While the for the loot spreads out like gangrene So the haves chase their tails the nots chase their dreams As the years chase the days, past the futures, meet Like your firstborn, waiting for pop's date Postpone, meanwhile, I means To revise and renew what was heard and seen
It's been stated I rhyme like God and I ?? like a poet One hand ?? the other like Lady Flip styles like Karolyi Warm hearted, cold I like opposite left I left opposites what they left off My rights right-wing as left to right beside me Left my hand man 'cause he left what's right And I reserve the right to write 'til I'm I free styles with my pen, That ya'll if you freestyled all day long Literally, this literature designed for one Stays on the Emcee's emcee, that I be the emcee 'Cause I am saying what I am Except when my mind's My eyes even when my eyes' drinking I's a socializer, but more so those wiser Ask yourself why's a music so it's self contained And not self I myself this 'til I make myself complain Shall my stay maintained, wrapped in cellophane 'Til they're by human consumers? no, so I rap wherever I go And let it up in your brain like a tumor
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Aiiyo, ya think ya really know me There's to me than ya mind got room for And much much more a clever verse or two all you know about me, you ain't even knowing that You think I give a whether or not my record sells? You're damn right but you see that ain't the way I'm keeping If one people said it does that make it true You my music by whether or not my pocket's fat? Well, you When the cash cow you're It ain't yours but the job well, don't it? And if you're lucky you can even get to a drop We'll see who's happy when you're old but not grown You see me? Now, yeah, see me later too you up when the vantage point change, don't it? I what's hip, but you determine if it's hop or pop You're just a man without a voice, the microphone I know the between written rhymes and freestyles You see, for me, it's like sex or making love And you should by now I'm married to the pad and pen But I'm to cheat on her every now and then Will children know the hip hop history? Will the songs you be shrouded in mystery? Don't to me with your stats and your date smarts You know neighborhood by street signs or landmarks? I'm not talking 'bout the first record ever I'm talking 'bout the first one that made you The first records that I played never me And I can still play 'em today 'cause they stay You know time I'm only speaking on the timeless It makes sense now and then, yeah, now and 'Cause now making picture perfect sense and then making picture perfect sense like it did now