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Hey yo I, feel kind of melancholy people think they know me I keep a wrap about me I'm driving daddy's Audi I pay the toll fighting for my own 'Cause the bourgeoisie type of mental like a flat comb
But I be baitin' the rebel base to distort the EQ The devil's wishin' they could me back to Mogadishu I've been wild since I was a juvenile Afro-centric profile, back when righteous rap was your
Now kids are whylin' so I ask the bad Boogie bandit, what's the damage, gimme the estimate Pray me when's the revolution will begin? I on my TV, I check out Farrakhan on CNN see
I'm like the phantom flyin' like the bird do And things you never plus I come from the suburbs Word to God, I you're acting kind of hard And you got your skin scarred when they was shootin' on the
(You got the vocab) I got the (Underground got the vocab) You know we got the (All my got the vocab) Yeah, we got the Aiyyo Praz, the mic and show you got the gift of gab
cast off from here to Mexico You see my four-five-six my Celo And when I rest my head is on a Be-ba-dee-be, be-dee-be,
You see the I manifest is very tho-rough And if you don't believe me ask Freres Jacques, Freres Jacques A dorme A dorme vous?
Watch out now I choose to speak I'm forming the cipher fly to the Five Percenter is born, to all beginners Cast the stone, if you feel you ain't a sinner, ah
Say, our Father, who art in the foolish rapper for he not know how Fugee be steppin' Correct and, stopped and kept in, respect to the DJ, that be selectin', the of record ah
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Check it out, we go in Eighty-three, no one wanted to be nappy I turn on my TV, it's a for free the gimmick it's nonsense, it's no sense or value
A rapper, disaster, nobody ever me that "Roxanne, you got to work for money no more!" and Back in the I used to listen to Kool G Rap Way back when before became gats and
Run-DMC to ask Mary was she buggin'? I loved P.E., kept me conscious of what I was sayin' Afrika Bambaata, Poor Teacher Got within myself so it made me a Five
Say La-di-da-di, we like to but My jam was BDP, with My Say Grandmaster Flash, MC Mel Then LL J came with Rock the Bells
See I'm the one for the crew, a Jew is a Jew Like Apollo got the moon, like the men who got the Like the Fu got the Manchu, Chaka got the got the Honolulu
I got the rap lieu, so skippedy-de-bop-bop you don't You do the rock-rock from hip-hop be-bop be-bop to bee-bee
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