(original by dr. aka kool keith; remixed by leeroy thornhill)
(intro) Yeah, to all my fans, for people who know What I've going through to make my own, yeah...
Now it's time to hurt your feelings as I upset music fans Hey yo my man, look at my hands, they look human, You think I'm a monster, ill clown, I'm not a specimen Don't look at me when I come around And y'all been trying to me out for years Trying to reduplicate me, but can't, so they hate me While white rub the heads of black music with a japanese assistant What does a kid know about the rap game, it's a shame As I see 'em bet There's a of creative rappers tryin' to be me I'm starting to feel like hendrix When they cover the story who rock Magazines put over my interviews They don't want to see me on channel 7 Tellin the truth of the group Which they always have secret in with eyes Watchin me record my album, sending producers with tracks And dats, messin' up my format Can you imagine doing something would need more to function With an alternative kid from the record label watchin your back about mariah carey's honky Makin' an average group buck like a barrel full of monkeys While I out to do the shopping, boy You're makin' a quick phone my sound is too new and different I need to be a regular like dru hill, a little ill Hey we want you to be ill!
Yeah, me alone! Hey keith, we you to be ill!
Of course I'm hard to work with, cos hard to work with I don't be the insane clown posse and collaborate I'm tryin' to innovate and quick at a fast rate Why you mad? cos I'm You can't do the When I sit and watch you act big your budget on your video I'm in one of my 3 luxury apartments raisin bran cereal While you front, 'lo I'll take my rhyme down to world's fargo How long's it take? 900 and clear, talkin' with a clerk I don't need a this year care of my paperwork Take the united out to vegas While the average group is doing a promo concert Ignoring your calls from broke labels Who try to put out underground Try to get me to rap on a wacky-ass with one g How dare you try to me? I got 40 grand for 3 minutes to write a song with crews don't get, but you got the nerve to call me welcome to the business Stand as a witness, work on your stomach, use fitness I ain't playin' all african stuff, all look the same
I need a joe neckbone puttin' his artwork on my cd Enjoyin' apple jacks and honeycomb, with me sittin' on the No, I'm the regular picture by the hotel saint bonaventure Besides I do wear a cold blue And eat at resturants... yeah!
Yeah, me alone! Hey keith, we you to be ill!
Why you I should wear a motorcycle helmet? Why you wear it? Put on wings like a parrot Let's this contract Why are you hypin' up a normal female with fat cellulite that sound wack Most of goin' out like uncle toms, like louis armstrongs Wearin' a tattoo and born on stage tracy chapman I canceled a big tour I was prepared You're on the roll with your damn money and ya're all Why y'all walkin, look hard like your manager got your All over your card And plus, video treatment sucks The effect The lens to the camera costs 100 bucks Look at the trying to tell me what to do I've done before 14 degrees freezing cold poppa large with a cage over my head, that's dead Don't get your too messed up I'm wearing a yankee hat and a I'm not up How you gonna tell me what to I don't need mascara and a that for a big rock group like pantera Experience, next plateau, mercury, pitch, emi, capitol, dreamworks got robbed, put my lyrics away and stuffed Too many people with hands in my fantasies of me being superman, you actin' stupid man I'm prince You might see me once every 5 at the record company While most of you live at the label beggin for rent and car notes to be paid Under the table routine dances for advances Oooh... been involved...
Yeah, me alone! Hey keith, we you to be ill!