Can you it Nothin' can ya For this is the seaon of catchin' the And I got time, what 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 Back in the days before began He usually tried to talk to this girl name The type of female with fly wear With big trunk jewelry and in her hair swan tried to kick it, she always fessed Talkin' about "Baby, please, you for ups" Since he wasn't no type of big drug My man tj swan appeal to her But now he trucks gold and wears fly valley Rough leather fashions and silk suits Now she stop frontin' an' to speak And be to all the shows Every single To get his beeper number, she'd be please Dyin' for the day to get She caught the (4x) I got another that's calm and plain He by the name of the big daddy kane A mellow type of fellow that's laid Back in the days, he was nothin' like I when he used to fight every day What grown-ups would him he would never obey He wore his pants down and his sneakers untied And a rasta-type kango tilted to the his neighborhood, people treated him bad And said he was the worst thing his mom's had They said that he will grow up to be nothin' but a Or either injail or would shoot him But now grown up, to their surprise Big daddy got a hit record sellin' Now the same people that like him as a child be sayin' Can I borrow a dollar, ooh, a star now They caught the (4x) Now I got a cousin by the of von lee Better to y'all as cutmaster cool v He cuts scratch, transform with ...(cuts and scratches)...and all mess Well I remember when he first to rock And to get his job in a record shop He was in it to win it but the boss Said, "sorry mr. lee, but there's no wanted" Now my cousin von still on and on and on 'til the like break of To put this in effect But look right past him and be like "next" Now for the of '88 Cool v is dollars so my cousin's like straight He walks into the same record shop as And the boss'll be like, "von, to my store" Offerin' him a job but naw, he want it it feels goo to see people up on it 'cause I remember at first 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 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 After rejected, I was very depressed Sat and some def doo-doo rhymes 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 into girls, I was just into my music They like I wanted to keep it Instead of to use it But now things switched without "yo, biz, do you me from nober street, chief? We used to be back in the days" It happens all the time and ceases to amaze They the vapors (4x)