Can you it can save ya For this is the seaon of catchin' the 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 sang on my 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 fly gucci wear With big trunk jewelry and in her hair When swan to kick it, she always fessed Talkin' "Baby, please, you work for ups" Since he wasn't no of big drug dealer My man tj swan didn't to her But now he trucks and wears fly valley boots Rough leather fashions and tough silk Now she frontin' an' wants 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 caught the (4x) I got another partner that's calm and He goes by the of the big daddy kane A mellow type of fellow laid back Back in the days, he was like that I remember when he to fight every day What would tell him he would never obey He his pants hangin' down and his sneakers untied And a kango tilted to the side his neighborhood, people treated him bad And said he was the worst his mom's ever had said that he will grow up to be nothin' but a hoodlum Or either or someone would shoot him But now he's grown up, to surprise Big got a hit record sellin' worldwide Now the same people that didn't like him as a child be Can I borrow a dollar, ooh, a star now caught the vapors (4x) Now I got a cousin by the of von lee Better known to y'all as cool v He cuts scratch, with finesse ...(cuts and scratches)...and all that Well I remember he first started to rock And tried to get his job in a shop He was in it to win it but the fronted Said, "sorry mr. lee, but there's no wanted" Now my cousin von tried on and on and on 'til the like break of To put this j-o-b in But they'd look past him and be like "next" Now for the of '88 Cool v is makin' 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 don't it it feels goo to see people up on it 'cause I when at first they wasn't Now guess what caught from my cousin The caught the vapors (4x) Last of the story is about biz mark I had to for mine to put your body in park When I was a teenager, I wanted to be With a lot of m.c.-deejayin' crews in So in school on street, I say "can I be down, champ" They said no and me like a wet food stamp After gettin' rejected, I was depressed Sat and wrote some def doo-doo rhymes at my When I used to come to they'd make me pay I'd have to beg to get on the mike and rap day I was into girls, I was just into my music They acted I wanted to keep it of tryin' to use it But now things switched without "yo, biz, do you remember me nober street, chief? We used to be down in the days" It happens all the time and never ceases to caught the vapors (4x)