How Many Mics
(2X)
How Many Mic's Do We Rip
on the Daily
Say me say Many Moni, Say me say manymanymany
I get mad
frustrated when I rhyme
Thinking of all the kids who try to do this
For
all the wrong reasons
Seasons change, mad things rearrange
But it all
stays the same like the love Doctor Strange
I'm tame like the rapper,
Get red like a snapper when they do that
Got your whole block
saying"TRUE DAT"
If only they knew that,
It was you who was irregular,
Sold your soul for some secular
Muzak that's wack,
Plus you use that
loop over and over
Claiming that you got a new style
Your attempts are
futile, Ooo chile
Your puerile,
Brain waves are sterile
You can't
create, you just wait to take, my tape's
Laced with malice
Hands get
calloused
From grippin' microphones from here to Dallas
Go ask Alice if
you don't believe me,
I get Inner Visions like Stevie
See me, ascend
from the chalice like the weed be
Indeed be like Khalil Muhammad
MC's
make me vomit
I get controversial
Freak your style with no rehearsal
Ooo, contraire mon frere
Don't you even go there
Me without a mic is
like a beat without a snare
I dare to tear into your ego,
We go, way
back like some ganja and pelequo
Or Coleco-Vision
My mind makes
incisions in your anatomy
And I'll back this with Deuteronomy
Or
Leviticus, God made this word
You can't get with this
Sweet like
licorice,
Dangerous like syphillis, yeah.
(4X)
How Many
Mic's Do We Rip on the Daily
Say me say Many Moni, Say me say manymanymany
I used to be underrated
Now I take iron, makes my s*** constipated
I'm more concentrated.
So on my day off,
With David Sonnenberg I
play golf
Run through Crown Heights screaming out Mazel Tov
Problem with
no man
Before black, I'm first human
Appetite to write like Frederick
Douglass with a slave hand
Street pressure word to poppa, I ain't goin'
under
One day I'll have a label and make deals with Tommy Motolla
Momma
always told me "You're one in a million"
Always watch your back, never
tangle with Haitian Sicilians
Now I got a record deal, "How does it feel?"
I'm never gonna survive unless I get crazy like Seal.
Cause the whole
world's out of order
So at night the fiend's dance on Grease with John
Travolta
One got slaughtered as he coughed blood from his mouth
The
other tried to duck and caught a left with my Guiness Stout
Brother brother
can't you get this through your head
It's a set up by the fed's they're
scoping us with their Infra-reds.
(3X)
How Many Mic's Do We
Rip on the Daily
Say Me Say Many Moni Say me say manymanymany
Too
many MC's not enough Mic's
Exit your show like I exit the turnpike
Dice
and dynamite like Dolomite
Double deuce delight, I don't Dick Van Dyke
Startlight to starbrite the freaks come out at night
Like my man Wyclef
(I wear my sunglasses at night)
And my panache will mosh your entourage
Squash your squad and hide your body under my garage.
And when the cops
come lookin'
I'll be bookin' to Brooklyn
Leave the trails broken
flippin' tokens to Hoboken
A clean getaway like Alec Baldwin
Drivin' in
my fast car playin' Tracy Chapman
How Many Mic's Do We Rip on the Daily
Say me say Many Moni, Say me say manymanymany
Ready or Not
Ready Or Not, Here I Come, You Can't
Hide
Gonna Find You and Take it Slowly
Ready Or Not, Here I Come, You
Can't Hide
Gonna Find You and Make you want me.
Now that I escape,
sleepwalker awake
Those who could relate know the world ain't cake
Jail
bars ain't golden gates
Those who fake, they break,
When they meet their
400 pound mate
If I could rule the world
Everyone would have a gun in
the ghetto of course
When giddyupin' on their horse
I Kick a rhyme
drinkin' moonshine
I pour a sip on the concrete, for the deceased
But no
don't weep, Wyclef's in a state of sleep
Thinkin' 'bout the robbery that I
did last week.
Money in the bag, banker looked like a drag
I want to
play with pelicans from here to Baghdad
Gun blast, think fast, I think I'm
hit
My girl pinched my hips to see if I still exist.
I think not, I'll
send a letter to my friends,
A born again hooligan only to be king again.
I play my enemies like a game of chess, where I rest,
No stress
If you don't smoke sess, lest.
I must confess, my destiny's manifest
In some Goretex and sweats I make treks like I'm homeless
Rap orgies
with Porgy and Bess,
Capture your bounty like Elliot Ness, YES
Bless you
if you represent the Fu
But I'll hex you with some witch's brew if you're
Doo Doo
Voo Doo,
I can do what you do, easy, BELIEVE ME
Frontin'
niggas give me hee-bee-gee-bees
So while you're imitating Al Capone
I'll
be Nina Simone
And defacating on your microphone.
Ready Or Not, Here
I Come, You Can't Hide
Gonna Find You and Take it Slowly
You can't
run away
From these styles I got, oh baby, hey baby
Cause I got a lot,
oh yeah
And anywhere you go
My whole crew's gonna know
You can't
hide from the block, oh no.
Ready or not, refugees takin' over
The
Buffalo soldier, dread-lock rhasta
On the twelfth hour, fly by in my bomber
Crews run for cover, now they're under pushin' up flowers
Superfly true
lies, do or die,
Toss me high - only puff la,
With my crew from lock
high
I refugee from Guantanamo Bay
Dance around the border like I'm
Cassius Clay
(3X)
Ready Or Not, Here I Come, You Can't Hide
Gonna
Find You and Take it Slowly
Ready Or Not, Here I Come, You Can't Hide
Gonna Find You and Take it Slowly
Ready Or Not, Here I Come, You Can't
Hide
Gonna Find You and Make You Want Me
Zealots
Another MC lose his life tonight, lord
I
beg that you pray to Jesus Christ, why
O lord, father don't let him bury me,
whoa
I haunt MC's like Mephistophales
Bringin swords and Damacles
Secret service keep a close watch as if my name was Kennedy
Abstract
raps simple with a street format
Gaze into the sky and measure planets by
parallax.
Check out the retrograde motion, kill the notion
Of biting and
recycling and calling it your own creation.
I Feel like Rockwell,
"Somebody's watching me"
I got no privacy whether on land or at sea.
And
for you biting zealots, your raps are cacophonic
Hypocrite, critic, but deep
inside you wish you had the pop hit.
It hurts don't it, the refugees come to
your turf and take over the earth.
See my rhymes are the type of fly
rhymes
That can only get down with my crew
And if you try to take lines
or bite rhymes
We'll show you how the refugees do.
Behold, as my
odes, manifold on your rhymes
Two MC's can't occupy the same space at the
same time.
It's against the laws of Physics.
So weep as your sweet
dreams break up like Eurythmics
Rap rejects my tape deck, ejects projectile
Whether jew or gentile
I rank top percentile,
Many styles,
More
powerful than gamma rays
My grammar pays,
Like Carlos Sanatana plays
Black Magic Woman
So while you fuming, I'm consuming
Mango juice
under Polaris,
You're just embarrassed
Cause it's your "Last Tango in
Paris"
And even after all my logic and my theory,
I add a muthaf**ker so
you ignint niggas hear me.
And you remember take notes,
As I sow my rap
otas
And for you biting zealots, here's a quote.
Another MC lose his
life tonight, lord
I beg that you pray to Jesus Christ, why
O lord,
father don't let him bury me, whoa
You can try but you can't divide the
tribe
These cats can't rap, Mr. Author I feel no Vibe
The magazine says
the girl should have gone solo,
The guys should stop rapping, vanish like
Menudo.
Took it to the heart, but every actor plays his part
As long as
someone was listening, I knew it was a start,
For me to get a chance, grab
my pen and revamp
Do a cameo while everybody do the dance.
Quick now,
cause you runnin' out of lucka
Playin' Mr. Big, I'm gonna get you sucka.
While you munchin at your luncheon, I'll be planning your assassination
Then hit you like the Dutchmen
I compress sound sets with my rap DBX
Then drop vocals on my 456 AMPEX
Bring terror to the shop of horror,
As she cries "Mi amor"
The phantom dies in the opera
And to the
youngin's who carry gadgets
And kill 6 days a week then on a sabbath.
Violence ain't necessary, unless you provoke me
Then get buried like the
great Mussolini
And for you bitin' Zealots
Your rap styles are relics
No matter who you damage
You're still a false prophet.
Another
MC lose his life tonight, lord
I beg that you pray to Jesus Christ, why
O lord, father don't let him bury me, whoa
The Beast
Warn the town the beast is loose,
Word
'em up y'all
C'mon
Conflicts with night sticks
Illegal sales
districts,
Hand-picked lunatics, keep poli-TRICK-cians rich
Heretics
push narcotics amidst its risks and frisks,
Cool cliques throw bricks but
seldom hit targets
Private-DIC sell hits, like porno-flicks do chicks.
The 666 cut W.I.C. like Newt Gingrich SUCKS D***
Meanwhile the
government brings Star Wars from glocks to glockers
C.O.P. has an APB out on
Chewbacca
Mista Mayor, can I say something in yo honor
Yesterday in
Central Park they got the Jogger
Okay, okay.
Let's get the confusion
straight in ghetto Gotham
The man behind the mask you thought was Batman is
Bill Clinton.
Who soon retire, the roof is on fire
Connie Chung brung
the bomb as it comes from Oklahoma
Things are getting serious, Kuumbaya,
On a mountain satan offered me, Manhattan help me Jah Jah
You can't
search me without probable cause
Or that proper ammunition they call
reasonable suspicion
Listen I bring friction to your whole jurisdiction
You planted seeds in my seat when I wasn't lookin.
Now you ask me for my
license/registration
"WHAT THE F**K" is my name
"WHAT THE F**K" is my
occupation
Well I'm an MC, I'm down with the Fugees
Mother Mary caught a
flashback like Rodney now the cops got Lolly.
The subconscious
psychology that you use against me,
If I lose control will send me to the
penetentiary
Such as Alcatraz, or shot up like al Hajj Malik Shabazz
High class get bypassed while my ass gets harrassed.
And the fuzz treat
bruh's like they manhood never was,
And if you too powerful, you get bugged
like Peter Tosh and Marley was.
And my word does nothing against the feds,
So my eyes stay red as I chase crazy bald heads, WORD UP.
Warn the
town the beast is loose, Ah - ah, Ah - ah
Word 'em up y'all
The
chase is on I feel like the bad guy
Fifth gear 125 like New Jersey drive
Looked in my rear view mirror
Police was getting closer
Heard a roar
in the sky,
Looked up and saw the Blue Thunder.
My inner conscious says
throw your handkerchief and surrender,
BUT TO WHO???
The star spangled
banner ooh.
Say can't you see cops more crooked than we
By the dawn's
early night robbin' niggas for kis.
Easy low key crooked military
Pay
taxes out my ass but they still harrass me.
The streets of corruption
got me bustin and cussin' in the concrete jungle
Thoughts being dribbled
like that tall kid Mutumbo
Handled by Hannibal
Soon I'm gonna be a
fugitive like Dr. Kimble.
Hey yo should I slow down?
Nah kid go
faster,
Just cause they got a badge, they could still be impostors.
Probable cause, got flaws like dirty draws
Meet me at the corner store
so we can start the street wars.
Warn the town the beast is loose, Ah -
ah, Ah - ah,
Word 'em up y'all
Fu-Gee-La
We used to be number 10
Now we're
permanent one,
In the battle lost my finger, Mic became my arm
Pistol
nozzle hits your nasal, blood becomes lukewarm
Tell the woman be easy Naah
squeeze the Charmin
Test Wyclef, see death flesh get scorned.
Beat you so
bad make you feel like you ain't wanna be born
And tell your friends stay the
hell out of my lawn.
Chicken George became Dead George stealin' chickens from
my farm.
Damn, Another dead pigeon
If your mafiosos then I'm bringin' on
Haitian Sicilians
Nobody's shootin', my body's made of hand grenade
Girl
bled to death while she was tongue-kissing a razor blade.
That sounds sick
maybe one eday I'll write a horror
Blackula comes to the ghetto, jacks an
ACURA
Stevie Wonder sees Crack Babies Be-Coming Enemies of their own
families.
What's going on?
Armageddon come you know we soon done
Gun by
my side just in case I gotta rump
A boy on the side of Babylon, trying to
front like he's down with Mount Zion.
Oooh La La La, It's the way that we
rock when we're doing our thang
Oooh La La La, It's the natural LA that the
Refugees Bring
Oooh La La La La La La Lalala La Laaah, Sweeeeet
Thing
Yeah in saloons we drink Boone's and battle goons till high
noon,
Bust rap toons on flat spoons, take no shorts like poon poon's.
See
hoochies pop coochies, for Gucci's and Lucci
Find me in my Mitsubishi, eatin'
sushi, bumpin' Fugees.
Hey Hey Hey
Try to take the crew and we don't play
play
Say say say
Like Paul McCartney, not hardly,
ODD-ly enough
I
can see right through your bluff
Niggas huff and they puff but they can't
handle us, WE BUST
Cause we fortified, I could never hide, seen "Cooley
High", Cried when Cochise died.
I'm twisted, black-listed by some other
negroes,
Don't remove my Polos on the first episode.
Ha Ha Ha Ha, You
shouldn't diss refugees, and
Ha Ha Ha Ha, You whole sound set's bootie ,
and
Ha Ha Ha Ha, You have to respect JERSEY, cause I'm superfly when I'm
super-high on
the Fu-Gee-La.
Oooh La La La, It's the way that we rock
when we're doing our thang
Oooh La La La, It's the natural LA that the
Refugees Bring
Oooh La La La La La La Lalala La Laaah, Sweeeeet
Thing
I sit 90 degrees underneath palm trees,
Smokin' beadies as I
burn my calories,
Brooklyn roof tops become Brooklyn tee-pees,
Who that
be, enemies, wanna see the death of me.
From Hawaii to Hawthorne, I run
marathons, like
Buju Banton, I'm a true champion, like,
Farakkhan reads
his Daily Qu'ran it's a phenomenon, lyrics fast like
Ramadan.
(2X)
What's goin' on
Armageddon come you know we soon
done
Gun by my side just in case I gotta rump
A boy on the side of
Babylon, trying to front like he's down with Mount Zion.
(2X)
Oooh La
La La, It's the way that we rock when we're doing our thang
Oooh La La La,
It's the natural LA that the Refugees Bring
Oooh La La La La La La Lalala La
Laaah, Sweeeeet Thing
Family Business
Where I was born, nothing is promised
My life is filled with less hope than the prophecies of Nostradamus
Omega marks the ending of predictability, birth of agility
Who will it
be to test me and expose their futility.
Iron like a lion from Zion stop
tryin' so hard,
I think I smell your brain cells fryin'.
The family's
behind you if you're worthy
Philosophies developed deep in the back streets
of dirty Jersey
Troops with scully hats and Timberland boots
No more
break-dancing for loot.
Niggas hustle and shoot
In the Garden State, it
grows stink weeds and criminals
Government funds are minimal
Oppression's subliminal
These days it's hard for we to find peace of
mind
Between insanity and sanity there lies a thin line.
Some dwell in
hotels with Jezebels
A stone age and fall a victim to the Plague
Unclean
bad dreams of Wyclef being a fiend, one last kiss from my sweet serpentine
Eliminate then break, navigate to rejuvenate thoughts of suicide with my
nickel plate.
Reconcilation came from my enemy-friend
Who said family
don't bend
We stay silent till the end.
Now who would think that your
best friend
Would be your worst enemy and your enemy your best friend.
Stare into the air inspiration from the atmosphere
I think of old
ghosts, that ain't even here.
Like Alex Haley take notes on this Biography
My family tree consists of street refugees.
A ghetto land, where we talk
slang
Stolen cars bang, like my chitty bang-bang sh-bang
For the heads,
we ain't sellin' cocaine today
So refrain and let my family reign okay
Just walkin' the streets death can take you away
It's never
guaranteed that you'll see the next day
of Shaton don't play
At night
the evil armies So defend the family that's the code to obey
But if I
fall asleep and death takes me away
Don't be surprised son, I wasn't put
here to stay
At night the evil armies of Shaton don't play
So the family
sticks together and we never betray.
Nah F**k that
Fifty-two pick
up, no cops around
Fifty-two thousand in cash, I don't want no savings bonds
Have the money ready, I smell something fishy
Your wife's in my custody
One false move and you'll find her body in the sea.
That's the voice of
the kid, that's the kidnapper
I do my work and then I catch my ticket to
Jamaica.
Meet me in the alley, make sure you bring the money
This ain't
the seventies I'm far from a jive turkey
My circle it can't be broken
Open, cut-throatin', provokin'
Record promotin, tokens chokin' on they
words like smoke and.
Cause we soft spoken, doesn't mean that we've
forgotten
Your bootie smells rotten and one day you will be gotten
See
joker's is scatter-brained, their focus is unrestrained
My army is trained,
you never find us beefin' in vain.
Cause I've seen fire and I've seen rain
You claim fame, while modest niggas remain.
I can judge a character like
Ito judge a verdict
And if you bringin' threats I give you sex if I ain't
heard it.
See poppin' s***'s about your attitude and how you word it
I've seen the biggest niggas on the block get murdered
And they
deserverd it
Or so the beast said when they served it ???
That s*** is
nervous
So what's my purpose?
Family, we must preserve it.
Your
number's retired
I hope you like the hell fires
You'll be screamin'
Murder she Wrote like Chaka Demus and Pliars.
Just walkin' the streets
death can take you away
It's never guaranteed that you'll see the next day
At night the evil armies of Shaton don't play
So defend the family
that's the code to obey
If I should fall asleep and death takes me
away
Don't be surprised son, I wasn't put here to stay
At night the evil
armies of Shaton don't play
So the family stick together and we never
betray.
We used to jump rope,
But now we gun hope
Bustin' shots
off of project roof tops
Sending signals with the blunt smoke.
Ock,
don't talk a lot if you can't hold it in lock
If you think lips sink ships,
Imagine full glock clips.
I hold a glass of Remy Martin
Gettin'
milks by the carton
Extortin' the light weights for thinkin' they important
The night pays and heavenly ways
Ain't nothin' free ah
Knowledge of
your family and steppin' to your B.I.
You see I, stay on top of s*** like a
fly
My niggas reach when they got beef
Then jet down to South Beach
Yo mouthpiece is yappin'
I hear it in your rap and
My family is
thick so that bulls*** could never happen.
Just walkin' the streets
death can take you away
It's never guaranteed that you'll see the next day
At night the evil armies of Shaton don't play
So defend the family
that's the code to obey
If I should fall asleep and death takes me away
Don't be surprised son, I wasn't put here to stay
At night the evil
armies of Shaton don't play
So the family stick together and we never
betray.
Killing Me Softly
Strumming dub plates with our
fingers,
Eliminate sounds with our song,
Killing a sound boy with this
sound,
Killing a sound boy with this sound,
Taking sound boys' lives with
this dub, killing him softly with this sound.
Strumming my pain with his
fingers, singing my life with his words,
Killing me softly with his song,
killing me softly with his song,
Telling my whole life with his words,
killing me softly with his song.
I heard he sang a good song, I heard he had
a style,
And so I came to see him and listen for a while.
And there he was
this young bwoy, stranger to my eyes,
Strumming my pain with his
fingers,
Singing my life with his words,
Killing me softly with his song,
killing me softly with his song, telling
my whole life with
his words,
killing me softly with his song. I felt all flushed with fever,
embarrassed
by the crowd, I felt he found my letters and read each one out loud.
I prayed
that he would finish, but he just kept right on strumming my pain
with his
fingers, singing my life with his words,
Killing me softly with his song,
killing me softly with his song, telling my
whole life with his words,
killing me softly with his song
Yo L-Boogie, take it to the
bridge
Strumming my pain with his fingers, singing my life with his
words,
killing me softly with his song,
killing me softly with his
song,
telling my whole life with his words,
killing me softly with his
song.
Strumming my pain with his finger, yeah he was . . .
shoutouts and
fade.
The Score
Look into the rhyme
Rum to the
ripple
Sing boo,
But at times I come in triple.
Blaow, blaow put the
heater to your head
Now your dead.
Wyclef don't give a *beep* if your
dead.
Raaaaah, raaaah
Let me attack just like the black cat
You in
the wrong neighborhood, check the map.
Hooo, you've got to go for backup
To do what you gotta do.
So you'll be back with France CU
Traitor in
your crew is mafo heat
Put the poison in your tea
and kill the toad, But
I'll be back with the centipede
I'm on some new technique, drunken bamboo
Awoo hoo a hoo, I'm taking all crews what.
Competition, stimulation for
the rap man
Losers check your tooters
While I'm suckin' on your girls
h******.
Don't play macho, while you got the gun
Cause if you got to
reload . . .
Wyclef the multi-talented
Average heads can't handle it
I'll bring it to you live
Only if you want it.
Me and my guitar go
back like the days of the RMC's
(C'mon check out my melody)
The
W-Y-C-L-E-F, Wyclef
Through any contest
I'm victorious
Still keep it
real, if you will and manifest
Through your skills, not by how many shells
you peel.
I'm a bring down the ruckus
Play the nutcracker
Rough-neck rednecks make me no bother
Time after time, ask Cyndi Lauper,
Boss, you don't want to f**k with my partners
Motion, commotion, what's
your proposal
Uphold two-fold, the crew is disposal
Like utensil, false
idental,
I autograph my lyrics with a number 2 pencil
I'm the L,
Won't you pull it
Straight to the head
With the speed of a bullet
Cuttin' jokers off at the meeky-freeky gullet
Lyrical sedative, keep
niggas medative
Head rushers I give to creative kids and fiends
Dreams
of euphoria,
Aurora,
To another galaxy
Phallic-sy
Be this
microphone, but get lifted
Lyrically I'm gifted
Burn on in without the
roach clip (it)
Henders, mind-bender
Pleasure sender,
So frequently
your nerve endings belong to me
Wrongfully you put me down not receiving the
full capacity of my smoke
Wack niggas choke
From the fumes that I emote,
Or emit s***
See even I feel the mahogany L
Natural hallucinogen
Turning boys to men again
With estrogen dreams
Release blues,
yellows and greens
From Brownsville to Queens
I creep like a theif,
no doubt the man's swift
I'm more magnificent than Lee Van Cliff
You
stand stiff and got the nerve to let your man riff
(We know where to run)
And start flakin' like dandruff.
C'mon son my steelo's tight
Cause
by far I'm the best producer on the mic
On the right, analytical conceptions
With precision and leave lyrical incisions.
The Mask
Have you ever worn the mask one-two one-two,
(M) to the (A) to the (S) to the (K)
Put the mask upon the face just to
make the next day,
Feds be hawkin me
Jokers be stalking me,
I walk
the streets and camouflage my identity,
My posse in the Brooklyn wear the
mask.
My crew in the Jersey wear the mask.
Stick up kids doing boogie
woogie wear the mask.
Yeah everybody wear da mask but how long will it last.
I used to work at Burger King. A king taking orders.
Punching my
clock. Now I'm wanted by the manager.
Soupin me up sayin "You're a nice
worker,"
"How would you like a quarter raise, move up the register"
"Large in charge, but cha gotta be my spy,
Come back and tell me who's
baggin my fries,
Getting high on company time."
Hell no sirree, wrong
M.C.
Why should I be a spy, when you spying me,
And you see whatcha
thought ya saw but never seen.
Ya missed ya last move, Checkmate! Crown me
King,
Hold my 22 pistol whipped him in his face.
Hired now I'm fired,
sold bud now I'm wired,
Eyes pitch red but da beat bop my head
Hit the
streets for relief, I bumped into the Feds,
I got kidnapped they took me to
D.C.,
Have me working underground building missiles for World War III.
(M) to the (A) to the (S) to the (K),
put the mask up on the face
just to make the next day.
Brothers be gaming, Ladies be claiming.
I
walk the streets and camouflage my identity.
My posse Uptown wear the mask.
My crew in the Queens wear the mask.
Stick up kids with the Tommy Hil
wear the mask.
Yeah everbody wear the mask but how long will it last.
I thought he was the wonder, and I was stunned by his lips,
Taking
sips sipping Amaretto sour with a twist,
Shook my hips to the bass line,
this joker grabbed my waistline,
Putting pressure on my spine trying to get
L-Boog to wind,
I backed up off him then caught him with five finger to his
face,
I had to put him in his place,
This kids invading my space,
But then I recognized the smile, but I couldn't place the style,
So many
fronts in his mouth, I thought he was the Golden Child,
Then it hit me
that's Tariq from off the street around Grams.
I haven't seeen him since
fifteen, when he got booked for doing scams.
I tried to walk away but he
wouldn't let me leave,
He ran up quick behind me asking, "Yo what happened
to my nigga Steve?"
Steve was like this kid I went with back in Grammar
School.
I chuckled knucklehead I seen him yesterday he's cool,
He's
busted, "so who you checking for now?"
Probably some intellectual.
I
kept the conversation straight and he kept trying to make it sexual.
Then
his old lady tried to play me waved her hands up in my face,
Yo I told her
check your man cause b**** you acting out of place.
(M) to the (A) to
the (S) to the (K),
put the mask up on the face just to make the next day.
Brothers be gaming, Ladies be claiming.
I walk the streets and
camouflage my identity.
My posse Uptown wear the mask.
My crew in the
Queens wear the mask.
Stick up kids with the Tommy Hil wear the mask.
Yeah everbody wear the mask but how long will it last.
3a.m. in th
morning on the Boulevard,
I'm still at large engaged with my entourage,
me and Godfather and a 67 Dodge.
I stepped out the note to post up my
guard
searching for my car that was stolen from Scotland Yard.
My first
instinct was to check the chop shop garage.
As I rung the bell someone
tapped me on my back,
I turned around to look it was a rookie in a mask.
He said, "I got a itchin' on my trigger,
Don't move nigga I'm taking you
for murder."
See cops got two faces like two laces on my Reeboks.
My
knees knock as I step back for a claear shot,
Well did you shoot him? Naw
kid I didn't have the balls,
That's when I realized I'm pumpin'too much
Biggie Smalls.
(M) to the (A) to the (S) to the (K),
put the mask up
on the face just to make the next day.
Brothers be gaming, Ladies be
claiming.
I walk the streets and camouflage my identity.
My posse Uptown
wear the mask.
My crew in the Queens wear the mask.
Stick up kids with
the Tommy Hil wear the mask.
Yeah everbody wear the mask but how long will
it last.
Cowboys
This is the Fugees, Outsiders up in here:
Everyone wants to be a cowboy
Grab your guns boy
Forty-five by
my side,
No the n***er dies.
Zen, zen zen zen zen zen zen
You
shot your bullet, but the bullet when ****
Desperado, do work for new boy
I pull out my gun and plug two like Trugoy
Wyclef
Zen, zen
zen zen zen zen zen
You shot your bullet, but the bullet when ****
Desperado, do work for new boy
I pull out my gun and plug two like
Trugoy
Yo this was how the West was won,
Our motto, a true
Desperado.
Rappers want to be actors
So they play the Jesse James
Character
And get they bones fractured.
You ain't got no guns,
you off to the precinct
Inside tuff guys are feminine like Sheena Easton
Woman cry, woman cry, Son still dies
Thrown off the building
like the Fall guy
Caved in the grave cause you didn't know how to behave
Playin' cowboy now you sleep with the slaves
Who's the desperado,
sellin' bottles in the alley
On some villain shit, wearin' a mask like Jim
Carrey
With his gat cocked, stinkin' up the crack spot
Pace 1 dies with
both eyes on the jackpot
The town that I'm from beggars eat cat chowder
Sundance Kid is the everyday purse snatcher
If you see him coming, you
better start running
Like a terrorist I guarantee you he'll be humming.
PACE1: Dynamite, dynamite, Clef I got the cash
Yo let's skip town
like Harlem nights.
We make moves in stage coaches
Rah Digga likes
the roaches
If anyone approaches
We be like noches, buenos
And I
compose a poem for the many gun-slingers
R & B singers, perpetrating
guns with two fingers.
My style is perhaps one of the foulest
I
inhale large clouds of smoke through my chalice.
(Buckin' at stars) and
write rhymes for hours
The ghetto missy, drinkin' whiskey sours.
Bust this scenario, can't no other n***ers in the barrio
(From
Newark to Ontario), bust us when we in stereo.
Cause me and Rashida rock the
battles
It's apparent, you're no talent, cause your blazin' in your saddle.
Watch these rap b***hes get all up in your pockets
Then bounce with
accountants that give me good stock tips
Cause props is up, Digga's through
the roof
Burnin' n***ers like I'm 90 proof.
And for all you head
beaters
The lead eaters, the cheaters soon to be retreaters
While
mamasitas carry real heaters.
I rock the Dooby and
L rocks the
Nubian twists
96
Muthaf***as gettin' dissed
Everyone wants to be
a cowboy
Grab your guns boy
Forty-five by my side,
No the n***er
dies.
Yeah, when the OUT's hooked up with the Refugees
It be more
n***as than the NAACP
Comin' up on weed of all type
Smokin' home-grown
out tobacco pipes.
(You've got to know when to hold them,
Know when
to fold them)
I can take the sunshine, piss in your wine
Steal your
concubine, walk away with your goldmine.
Young Zee: So ooh aaah achiga,
Mamase Mamasa Mamakusa
F*** the sheriff, I shot John Wayne
Push him
off the runaway train in the movie Shane
Yeah me and that kid, um "What's
his name?"
That would be me, Young Zee from No Brain
Smokin' pure
from the health fodd store,
While my whore slaps cops like Zsa Zsa Gabor
F**k with OUT's it's like those Islam brothers,
We march through your
hood with a million muthaf***as.
So let's get high off the Fu-Gee-La
When the east is in the house, like I'm Blahzay-blah
When
pandemonium strikes, at midnight
Full moon splits soft niggas in a lunatic
On some absurd s**t
You talk back, hustlin' crack don't make you bigger
N***as who take your measurements quick, don't make it quicker.
Stick
and slide with vigor
City streets hot like liquor
21 gun salutin,
shootin' niggas from the roof and
Got nerve to mouth about it and the weight
you claim you movin'
Your whole style is loose and we gon' sew it like it's
cotton.
You fail to recognize that everybody could get gotten
the bounty
on your head, says your dead by manana
Pop babies whisperin' that there's a
body dropped, behind the lot
Police blew up the spot and locked the whole
block
Medina is the east side of town lounge never till we yawnin'
Gun
players regular front page is the bonus
Life will keep existing while I'm
s***tin' on the corners
Life will keep existing while I'm s***tin' on the
corners
Everyone wants to be a cowboy
Grab your guns boy
Forty-five by my side,
No the n***er dies.
No Woman, No Cry
A dedication to all the refugees
worldwide
One time say, say, say
I remember when we used to sit in
the government yard in Brooklyn.
Observing the crookedness as it mingled
with the good people we meet.
Good friends we had,
Good friends we've
lost along the way.
In this great future you can't forget your past,
So
dry your tears I say
And to my peeps who passed
Away,
No woman, no
cry, no woman no cry, say say say.
Hey little sister don't shed no tears
No woman no cry say say say.
I remember when we used to rock in a
project yard in Jersey,
And little Georgie would make the firelight,
As
stolen cars passed through the night
And then we'd hit the corner store for
Roots, paper, and brew.
My drink's my only remedy
For pain of losing
family, but while I'm gone Shorty,
Everything's gonna be alright,
everything's gonna be alright,
Fugees come to the dance tonight,
everything's gonna be alright,
O everything's gonna be alright,
The gun
man's in the house tonight,
But everything's gonna be alright.
(7X)
Oh ah oh ah
No woman no cry, no woman no cry.
Hey, little sister, don't shed no tears
no woman no cry say say say.
I remember when we used to sit in a government yard in Trenchtown.
The
hypocrites as they mingled with the good people we meet.
Good friends we had
Oh good friends we've lost
Along the way hey.
In this great future,
You can't forget your past so dry your tears I say
And no woman no cry.
No woman no cry say say say.
Hey, little sister, don't shed no tears
No
woman no cry and to my peeps who passed away
(5X)
Oh ah oh
ah
Manifest
I woke up this morning
I was feeling
kind of high
It was me, Jesus Christ and Haile Selassie
Selassie said
greetings in the name of the most high,
Jah Rhastafari,
Christ, took a
sip of the Amaretto,
Passed it down the table said today I'll be betrayed by
one you 12 disciples
Give me a clue who could do this to you?
The kid on
the block who makes less money than you.
Crooked cops pulled up, they
offered him 20 pieces of silver
All he got to do is deliver the savior
Right on Bergen St. from bad luck to good luck
My cup runneth over, pass
it down, guzzle up
The time has arrived, the prophecy will manifest
I
saw death, I got scared, butterflies on my chest
Father if possible, pass
this cup before me,
But it's too late I chose my destiny in Gethsemane.
You see I loved hard once, but the love wasn't returned
I found out
the man I'd die for, he wasn't even concerned
And time it turned,
He
tried to burn me like a perm
Though my eyes saw the deception, My heart
wouldn't let me learn
From um, some, dumb woman, was I,
And everytime
he'd lie, he would cry and inside I'd die.
My heart must have died a
thousand deaths
Compared myself to Toni Braxton thought I'd never catch my
breath
Nothing left, he stole the heart beating from my chest
I tried to
call the cops, that type of thief you can't arrest
Pain suppressed, will
lead to cardiac arrest
Diamonds deserve diamonds, but he convinced me I was
worth less
when my peoples would protest,
I told them mind their
business, cause my s*** was complex
More than just the sex
I was
blessed, but couldn't feel it like when I was caressed
I'd spend nights
clutching my breasts overwhelmed by God's test
I was God's best
contemplating death with a Gillette
But no man is ever worth the paradise
MANIFEST
Gun-clap Shell cap,
Got them crawling on they back
Come
through with the Fu
They be who the F**k is that
It's unpredictable,
when my tongue performs like Jujitsu
Cut you with my lyrics, stab you with
my pencil
Lethal injection, witness protection
Refugee camp's under
investigation
Gunshot bursts in all directions
For the wack MC's we read
your revelations
Discharge through your pores
Get raw and kill Boors
I can Capleton when I'm on a Tour
Some manifest, with slugs in they
chest
God bless all the Cowboys in the Wild Wild West