Can you it can save ya For this is the seaon of catchin' the And since I got time, I'm gonna do Is ya how to spread 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 this began He usually tried to talk to this name fran The type of female with fly gucci With big trunk and extensions in her hair swan tried to kick it, she always fessed Talkin' about "Baby, please, you for ups" Since he wasn't no of big drug dealer My man tj swan appeal to her But now he trucks gold and fly valley boots Rough leather fashions and tough 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 for the day to get skeezed She the vapors (4x) I got another that's calm and plain He goes by the name of the big kane A type of fellow that's laid back Back in the days, he was nothin' like I remember when he to fight every day What grown-ups tell him he would never obey He wore his hangin' down and his sneakers untied And a kango tilted to the side Around his neighborhood, treated him bad And he was the worst thing his mom's ever had said 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 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 They the vapors (4x) Now I got a cousin by the of von lee Better known to y'all as cool v He scratch, transform with finesse ...(cuts and scratches)...and all mess Well I remember when he 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 there's no wanted" Now my cousin von still on and on and on 'til the like of dawn To put this j-o-b in But they'd look right him and be like "next" Now for the of '88 Cool v is makin' dollars so my cousin's like He walks into the same 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 remember when at first wasn't Now guess they caught from my cousin The They the vapors (4x) Last subject of the is about biz mark I had to work for mine to put your in park I was a teenager, I wanted to be down With a lot of m.c.-deejayin' crews in 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 depressed Sat and some def doo-doo rhymes at my rest I used to come 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 into my music They acted like I to keep it of tryin' to use it But now switched without belief "yo, biz, do you remember me nober street, chief? We used to be back in the days" It all the time and never ceases to amaze They caught the (4x)