Can you it can save ya For this is the seaon of catchin' the And I got time, what I'm gonna do Is tell ya how to spread it throughout my Wel you all know tj swan who on my records the music, "nobody beats the biz" Well, it in the days before this began He usually tried to talk to this name fran The type of female with fly wear big trunk jewelry and extensions in her hair When swan tried to kick it, she always Talkin' about "Baby, please, you for ups" Since he no type of big drug dealer My man tj swan appeal to her But now he gold and wears fly valley boots leather fashions and tough silk suits Now she frontin' an' wants to speak And be to all the shows Every weekend To get his beeper number, she'd be please for the day to get skeezed She the vapors (4x) I got another partner that's and plain He goes by the of the big daddy kane A mellow type of fellow laid back Back in the days, he was nothin' like I remember when he used to fight day What grown-ups would tell him he never obey He wore his hangin' down and his sneakers untied And a rasta-type kango tilted to the Around his neighborhood, treated him bad And said he was the thing his mom's ever had They said that he grow up to be nothin' but a hoodlum Or injail or someone would shoot him But now he's grown up, to surprise Big daddy got a hit record sellin' Now the same people that didn't him as a child be sayin' Can I borrow a dollar, ooh, a star now They caught the (4x) Now I got a by the name of von lee Better known to y'all as cutmaster v He cuts scratch, transform finesse ...(cuts and scratches)...and all that Well I remember when he started to rock And tried to get his job in a shop He was in it to win it but the boss Said, "sorry mr. lee, but no help wanted" Now my cousin von tried on and on and on 'til the break of dawn To put this j-o-b in But they'd look past him and be like "next" Now for the of '88 v is makin' dollars so my cousin's like straight He into the same record shop as before And the be like, "von, welcome to my store" Offerin' him a job but naw, he want it Damn it goo to see people up on it I remember when at first they wasn't Now guess what they from my cousin The They caught the (4x) Last of the story is about biz mark I had to work for mine to put body in park I was a teenager, I wanted to be down With a lot of m.c.-deejayin' in town So in on nobel street, I say "can I be down, champ" They said no and me like a wet food stamp gettin' rejected, I was very depressed Sat and wrote some def doo-doo at my rest When I used to come to parties make me pay I'd to beg to get on the mike and rap that day I was never girls, I was just into my music They acted like I to keep it of tryin' to use it But now things switched without "yo, biz, do you me from nober street, chief? We to be down back in the days" It happens all the time and ceases to amaze They the vapors (4x)