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[ar:Rakim,Eric B] |
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[ti:I Ain't No Joke] |
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I ain't no joke, I use to let the mic smoke |
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Now I slam it when I'm done and make sure it's broke |
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When I'm gone no one gets on 'cuz I won't let |
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Nobody press up and mess up the scene I set |
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I like to stand in a crowd and watch the people wonder, damn |
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But think about it then you'll understand |
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I'm just an addict, addicted to music |
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Maybe it's a habit, I gotta use it |
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Even if it's jazz or the quiet storm |
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I hook a beat up convert it in to hip-hop form |
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Write a rhyme in graffiti in, every show you see me in |
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Deep concentration 'cuz I'm no comedian |
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Jokers are wild if you wanna be tame |
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I treat you like a child then you're gonna be named |
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Another enemy, not even a friend of me |
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'Cuz you'll get fried in the end when you pretend to be |
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Competing 'cuz I just put your mind on pause |
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And I can beat you when you compare my rhyme wit' yours |
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I wake you up and as I stare in your face you seem stunned |
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Remember me, the one you got your idea from? |
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But soon you start to suffer the tune'll get rougher |
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When you start to stutter that's when you had enough of |
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Biting it'll make you choke, you can't provoke |
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You can't cope, you should of broke because I ain't no joke |
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I got a question, as serious as cancer |
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Who can keep the average dancer |
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Hyper as a heart attack, nobody's smiling |
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'Cuz you're expressing the rhyme that I'm styling |
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This is what we all sit down to write |
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You can't make it so you take it home, break it and bite |
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Use pieces and bits of all the hip-hop hits |
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Get the style down packed then it's time to switch |
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Put my tape on pause and add some more to yours |
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Then you fake it, you're ready for the neighborhood chores |
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The E M C E E don't even try to be |
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When you come up to speak, don't even lie to me |
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You like to exaggerate, dream and imaginate |
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Then change the rhyme around that can aggravate me |
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So when you see me come up, freeze |
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Or you'll be one of those seven MC's |
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They think that I'm a new jack but only if they knew that |
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They who think wrong are they who can't do that |
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Style that I'm doing, they might ruin |
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Patterns of paragraphs based on you and |
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Your offbeat DJ, if anything he play |
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Sound familiar, I'll wait till E say |
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Play 'em, so I'ma have to dis and bro |
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You could get a smack for this, I ain't no joke |
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I hold the microphone like a grudge |
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B'll hold the record so the needle don't budge |
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I hold a conversation 'cuz when I invent |
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I nominated my DJ the president |
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When I'm see I'll, people freestyle, going steadily |
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So pucker up and whistle my melody |
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But whatever you do, don't miss one |
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They'll be another rough rhyme after this one |
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Before you know it, you're following and fiending |
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Waiting for the punch line to get the meaning |
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Like before the moral of my story I'm telling |
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Nobody beats the R, so stop yelling |
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Save it, put it in your pocket for later |
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'Cuz I'm moving the crowd and B a record fader |
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No interruptions till the mic is broke |
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When I'm gone, then you can joke |
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'Cuz everything is real on a serious tip |
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Keep playing and I get furious quick |
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And I take you for a walk through hell |
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Freeze your dome then watch your eyeballs swell |
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Guide you out of triple stage darkness |
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When it get dark again then I'ma spark this |
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Microphone 'cuz the heat is on, you see smoke |
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And I'm finish when the beat is gone, I'm no joke |
