Can you it can save ya For this is the of catchin' the vpors And I got time, what I'm gonna do Is tell ya how to spread it my crew Wel you all know tj swan who on my records Made the music, "nobody the biz" Well, it Back in the days before began He usually tried to talk to this name fran The type of with fly gucci wear With big trunk jewelry and in her hair swan tried to kick it, she always fessed Talkin' about "Baby, please, you for ups" he wasn't no type of big drug dealer My man tj swan didn't to her But now he trucks and wears fly valley boots Rough leather and tough silk suits Now she stop frontin' an' to speak And be to all the shows single weekend To get his beeper number, be beggin' please Dyin' for the day to get 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 that's laid Back in the days, he was like that I remember when he to fight every day grown-ups would tell him he would never obey He wore his pants hangin' down and his untied And a kango tilted to the side Around his neighborhood, people him bad And he was the worst thing his mom's ever had They said that he will up to be nothin' but a hoodlum Or either injail or someone shoot him But now he's grown up, to their Big daddy got a hit record worldwide Now the same people didn't like him as a child be sayin' Can I a dollar, ooh, you're a star now They caught the (4x) Now I got a by the name of von lee Better known to as cutmaster cool v He scratch, transform with finesse ...(cuts and scratches)...and all that I remember when he first started to rock And tried to get his job in a record 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 the like break of dawn To put this j-o-b in But they'd look right past him and be "next" Now for the of '88 Cool v is makin' so my cousin's like straight He walks the same record shop as before And the boss'll be like, "von, to my store" Offerin' him a job but naw, he want it Damn it feels goo to see up on it 'cause I remember when at they wasn't Now guess what they from my cousin The They caught the (4x) Last subject of the is about biz mark I had to work for mine to put your in park When I was a teenager, I wanted to be a lot of m.c.-deejayin' crews in town So in school on street, I say "can I be down, champ" said no and treated me like a wet food stamp After gettin' rejected, I was very Sat and some def doo-doo rhymes at my rest When I used to to parties they'd make me pay I'd have to beg to get on the and rap that day I was never into girls, I was just into my acted like I wanted to keep it Instead of to use it But now things switched belief "yo, biz, do you remember me nober street, chief? We used to be back in the days" It happens all the time and ceases to amaze They caught the (4x)