[00:04.814]Want to ha ha ha, oh oh
[00:12.669]Warn the town the beast is loose (ah ah)
[00:17.744]Word 'em up y'all
[00:18.705]Warn the town the beast is loose (ah ah)
[00:24.006]Come on
[00:24.649](Lauryn) Conflicts with night sticks
[00:25.707]Illegal sales districts
[00:27.256]Hand-picked lunatics, keep poli-TRICK-cians rich
[00:30.003]Heretics push narcotics amidst its risks and frisks
[00:33.390]Cool cliques throw bricks but seldom hit targets
[00:36.276]Private-DIC sell hits, like porno-flicks do chicks
[00:39.319]The 666 cut W.I.C. like Newt Gingrich SUCKS DICK
[00:42.502](CLEF) Meanwhile the government brings Star Wars from Glocks to glockers
[00:46.432]C.O.P. has an APB out on Chewbacca
[00:49.115]Mista Mayor, can I say something in yo honor
[00:52.205]Yesterday in Central Park they got the Jogger
[00:54.501]Okay, okay
[00:55.384]Let's get the confusion straight in ghetto Gotham
[00:58.098]The man behind the mask you thought was Batman is Bill Clinton
[01:01.019]Who soon retire, the roof is on fire
[01:03.492]Connie Chung brung the bomb as it comes from Oklahoma
[01:06.907]Things are getting serious, Kuumbaya
[01:09.455]On a mountain Satan offered me, Manhattan help me Jah Jah
[01:19.792]I can't sleep at night
[01:21.046]You can't search me without probable cause
[01:24.601]Or that proper ammunition they call reasonable suspicion
[01:27.900]Listen I bring friction to your whole jurisdiction
[01:30.872]You planted seeds in my seat when I wasn't lookin
[01:33.784]Now you ask me for my license registration
[01:36.462]"WHERE THE ****" do I work
[01:37.950]"WHAT THE ****" is my occupation
[01:40.036]Well I'm an MC, I'm down with the Fugees
[01:42.255]Mother Mary caught a flashback like Rodney
[01:44.563]Now the cops got Lolly
[01:45.725](Lauryn) The subconscious psychology that you use against me
[01:48.374]If I lose control will send me to the penetentiary
[01:51.307]Such as Alcatraz, or shot up like el Hajj Malik Shabazz
[01:54.737]High class get bypassed while my ass gets harrassed
[01:57.902]And the fuzz treat bruh's like they manhood never was
[02:00.533]And if you too powerful
[02:01.505]You get bugged like Peter Tosh and Marley was
[02:03.988]And my word does nothing against the feds
[02:05.982]So my eyes stay red as I chase crazy bald heads,word up!
[02:09.800]Warn the town the beast is loose (ah ah)
[02:14.717]Word 'em up y'all
[02:15.716]Warn the town the beast is loose (ah ah)
[02:21.854](CLEF) The chase is on I feel like the bad guy
[02:24.465]Fifth gear 125 like New Jersey Drive
[02:27.555]Looked in my rear view mirror
[02:28.901]Police was getting closer
[02:30.420]Heard a roar in the sky
[02:31.862]Looked up and saw the Blue Thunder
[02:33.978]My inner conscious says throw your handkerchief and surrender
[02:37.231]BUT TO WHO???
[02:38.227]The star spangled banner ooh
[02:39.925]Say can't you see cops more crooked than we
[02:42.405]By the dawn's early night robbin' niggas for kis
[02:45.572]Easy low key crooked military
[02:48.323]Pay taxes out my ass but they still harrass me
[02:51.714]Nigga
[02:57.595](Pras) The streets of corruption got me bustin
[02:59.657]And cussin' in the Concrete Jungle
[03:02.101]Thoughts being dribbled like that tall kid Mutumbo
[03:04.984]Handled by Hannibal
[03:06.543]Soon I'm gonna be a fugitive like Dr. Kimble
[03:09.428](Ay yo should I slow down?)
[03:10.911]Nah kid go faster (yeah)
[03:12.545]Just cause they got a badge, they could still be impostors
[03:15.576]Probable cause, got flaws like dirty draws
[03:18.255]Meet me at the corner store so we can start the street wars
[03:21.580]Aaah
[03:26.324]Were to marl ya'll
[03:27.747]Warn the town the beast is loose (ah ah)
[03:32.417]I can't sleep at night
[03:33.764]Warn the town
[03:36.402]Warn the town