[00:00.52]Don't, don't, don't, don't
[00:04.47]Don't, don't, don't
[00:07.81]Now here's what I want you all to do for me
[00:09.68]Back caught you lookin' for the same thing
[00:12.25]It's a new thing-check out this I bring
[00:14.71]Uhh, oh, the roll below the level, 'cause I'm livin' low
[00:17.22]Next to the bass, c'mon, turn up the radio
[00:19.54]They claimin' I'm a criminal
[00:21.39]By now I wonder how, some people never know
[00:24.45]The enemy could be their friend, guardian
[00:26.85]I'm not a hooligan, I rock the party and clear all the madness
[00:30.65]I'm not a racist, preach to teach to all
[00:33.00]'Cause some they never had this
[00:34.21]Number one, not born to run about the gun
[00:37.12]I wasn't licensed to have one
[00:39.12]The minute they see me, fear me
[00:41.53]I'm the epitome, of Public Enemy
[00:43.88]Used, abused, without clues
[00:45.55]I refused to blow a fuse
[00:46.85]They even had it on the news
[00:48.84]Don't believe the hype
[00:50.24]Don't, don't, don't, don't believe the hype
[00:52.49]Don't, don't, don't, don't believe the hype
[00:57.98]Yes was the start of my last jam, so here it is again
[01:02.45]Another def jam, but since I gave you all a little something
[01:05.70]That I knew you lacked, they still consider me a new jack
[01:08.18]All the critics you can hang 'em, I'll hold the rope
[01:10.83]But they hope to the Pope, and pray it ain't dope
[01:13.16]The follower of Farrakhan, don't tell me that you understand
[01:16.80]Until you hear the man, the book of the new school rap game
[01:19.93]Writers treat me like Coltrane, insane
[01:22.94]Yes to them but to me I'm a different kind
[01:25.23]We're brothers of the same mind, unblind
[01:27.76]Caught in the middle and not surrenderin'
[01:30.12]I don't rhyme for the sake of of riddlin', some claim that I'm a smuggler
[01:33.96]Some say I never heard of ya, a rap burglar, false media
[01:38.52]We don't need it do we? It's fake that's what it be to ya, dig me?
[01:42.02]Yo, Terminator X, step up on the stand
[01:45.05]And show these people what time it is boy
[01:47.09]Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't believe the hype
[01:49.94]Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't believe the hype
[01:56.55]Don't believe the hype, don't believe the hype
[02:01.54]Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't believe the hype
[02:06.48]Don't believe the hype, it's a sequel
[02:09.03]As an equal, can I get this through to you
[02:11.80]My ninety-eight's boomin' with a trunk of funk
[02:14.21]All the jealous punks can't stop the dunk
[02:16.63]Comin' from the school of hard knocks
[02:19.08]Some perpetrate, they drink Clorox
[02:21.43]Attack the Black, because I know they lack exact
[02:23.66]The cold facts, and still they try to Xerox
[02:26.29]The leader of the new school, uncool
[02:29.01]Never played the fool, just made the rules
[02:31.28]Remember there's a need to get alarmed
[02:33.68]Again I said I was a time bomb
[02:35.84]In the daytime radio's scared of me
[02:38.60]'Cause I'm mad, 'cause I'm the enemy
[02:40.90]They can't come on and play me in prime time
[02:43.37]'Cause I know the time, plus I'm gettin' mine
[02:45.89]I get on the mix late in the night
[02:48.45]They know I'm livin' right, so here go the mike, psych
[02:52.10]Before I let it go, don't rush my show
[02:53.24]You try to reach and grab and get elbowed
[02:55.62]Word to Herb, yo if you can't swing this
[02:58.10]Learn the words, you might sing this
[03:00.48]Just a little bit of the taste of the bass for you
[03:02.90]As you get up and dance at the LQ
[03:05.39]When some deny it, defy it, I swing bolos
[03:07.61]And then they clear the lane, I go solo
[03:10.10]The meaning of all of that, some media is the wack
[03:12.39]As you believe it's true
[03:14.45]It blows me through the roof
[03:15.24]Suckers, liars, get me a shovel
[03:17.41]Some writers I know are damn devils
[03:19.84]For them I say, don't believe the hype
[03:21.93]Yo Chuck, they must be on a pipe, right?
[03:24.23]Their pens and pads I'll snatch, 'cause I've had it
[03:27.14]I'm not a addict, fiendin' for static
[03:29.45]I'll see their tape recorder and I grab it
[03:31.94]No, you can't have it back, silly rabbit
[03:34.46]I'm going' to my media assassin', Harry Allen, I gotta ask him
[03:39.49]Yo Harry, you're a writer, are we that type?
[03:41.65]Don't believe the hype
[03:43.53]Now here's what I want you all to do for me
[03:53.87]Don't believe
[03:55.29]Don't, don't, don't believe the hype
[03:57.89]Don't believe
[04:00.50]Don't, don't, don't believe the hype
[04:03.42]I got Flava and all those things you know
[04:06.23]Yeah boy, part two bum rush and show
[04:08.76]Yo Griff, get the green, black, red, and
[04:11.01]Gold down, countdown to Armageddon
[04:13.50]Eighty-eight to eight the S-One's will
[04:16.07]Put the left in effect and I still will
[04:18.42]Rock the hard jams, treat it like a seminar
[04:20.80]Reach the bourgeois and rock the boulevard
[04:23.24]Some say I'm negative, but they're not positive
[04:25.72]But what I got to give, the media says this
[04:28.11]Red black and green, you know what I mean
[04:30.47]The media says this, yo don't believe the hype
[04:31.28]They got to be beating that pipe you know what I'm sayin'
[04:32.89]Yo the Megas got 'em goin' up to see Captain Kirk
[04:35.59]Like a jerk and they outta work, let me tell you a lil' some'in' man
[04:37.81]A lot of people on radio scared of 'em
[04:40.49]Bcoz they're too ignorant to understand the lyrics of the
[04:43.13]that we pumpin' into them clogs their brain cells
[04:45.46]That just spun their little skulls they call caps
[04:47.94]You know what I'm sayin' but the S-One's are straightenin' it up
[04:51.15]Quick fast in a hurry, don't worry vision ain't blurry
[04:54.80]You know what I'm sayin' yo Terminator X
[04:56.69]Don't, don't believe, don't believe the hype
[05:03.70]Don't, don't believe, don't believe the hype
[05:09.21]Don't believe the hype, don't believe the hype
[05:13.41]Don't, don't believe the, don't believe the hype
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