Can you it Nothin' can ya For this is the of catchin' the vpors And since I got time, I'm gonna do Is tell ya how to it throughout my crew 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 to this girl name fran The of female with fly gucci wear With big trunk jewelry and in her hair When swan tried to it, she always fessed Talkin' "Baby, please, you work for ups" he wasn't no type of big drug dealer My man tj swan appeal to her But now he gold and wears fly valley boots Rough leather fashions and tough silk Now she stop frontin' an' wants to And be comin' to all the Every single To get his beeper number, she'd be please for the day to get skeezed She caught the (4x) I got another partner calm and plain He goes by the of the big daddy kane A mellow type of fellow laid back in the days, he was nothin' like that I remember when he used to every day What grown-ups would tell him he would obey He wore his pants down and his sneakers untied And a rasta-type tilted to the side Around his neighborhood, people him bad And he was the worst thing his mom's ever had They that he will grow up to be nothin' but a hoodlum Or either injail or someone shoot him But now grown up, to their surprise Big daddy got a hit record worldwide Now the same people that didn't like him as a be sayin' Can I a dollar, ooh, you're a star now They the vapors (4x) Now I got a by the name of von lee Better known to y'all as cool v He cuts scratch, transform with ...(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 von still tried on and on and on 'til the break of dawn To put this in effect But look right past him and be like "next" Now for the of '88 v is makin' dollars so my cousin's like straight He walks the same record shop as before And the be like, "von, welcome to my store" him a job but naw, he don't want it Damn it feels goo to see up on it I remember when at first they wasn't Now guess what they caught my cousin The They caught the (4x) Last subject of the story is biz mark I had to work for mine to put your in park When I was a teenager, I wanted to be 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 treated me a wet food stamp gettin' rejected, I was very depressed Sat and wrote some def doo-doo rhymes at my When I used to to parties they'd make me pay I'd to beg to get on the mike and rap that day I was never into girls, I was just into my They acted like I to keep it Instead of to use it But now things without belief "yo, biz, do you remember me from nober street, We used to be down in the days" It all the time and never ceases to amaze They caught the (4x)