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Straight from New York where black music was modernized |
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J-Live all wise and civilized |
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Always energized |
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All rights reserved and recognized |
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All rhymes supersized and come with fries |
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FOR THE FAT SHIT! |
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Stacked with fat backed opinions |
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Pinpoint accurate reflections |
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Timeless selections for your listening pleasures |
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Where rhymes be the bars minutes or miles can measure |
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Can you believe I do this shit for a living? |
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Politic and positvin' and get paid for poems given |
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On records, tapes, cds, MP3s |
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Radios, shows in the states and overseas yo |
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It's ill cuz my role models are my peers now |
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And my thoughts'll be in your ears for years now |
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I'm trying to play my cards right |
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Cuz despite joys and pains I felt |
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Several hands were dealt |
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Yet I live good, look good, eat good, dress good |
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Stroke good, rest good |
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Even if I didn't |
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I could think good, write good, spit good, rock good |
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No need to knock on wood |
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Know why? Cuz I'm a |
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[Chorus x3] |
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"M.....C" |
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"E-M-C-E-E" [Rakim] |
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[J-Live] |
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Know why, cuz I'm a |
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Master of Ceremony Making a Comeback and Moving the Crowd with Mad Charisma |
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Most of y'all Cornballs Mingle at Concerts Making a Claim but you know who is the ["MC"] |
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More Concentration on My Cadence Might Cloud your Mind Controlling your Movement Capaciously |
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My Capacity to Massacre Crumbs and Motive Change Most Certainly Makes you Consider me |
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Champion, Microphone is Consistently Modelling Candor of Magnificence |
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See My Conduct is Mute to Cajolery, I Maintain with Clamency and Manificence |
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Cunning and Marvelous, Crafty yet Malevolent to all the Cultivators of Mindless Crap |
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I Really Recognize the Rude Ramblings of those Random Riff Raffs cuz they just Rap and I |
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[Chorus x4] |
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"The M" [cut up] |
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"The C" [cut up] |
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"The MC" [cut up] |
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[J-Live] |
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["M"] I gonna let you in on how I |
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["C"] On the day to day doing what I do to these |
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["M"]-icroscopic sitopic ass |
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["C"] Now naysayers think they can stop it I |
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["M"]-ake money and made money even when I |
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[C]ouldn't make music, I was still makin dollars |
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And ["M"]-brace doubt, taking no as a vitamin |
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[C]onstantly moving motivating and proving |
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[M]any are called but few get chosen |
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[C]lowns posing in a post and get frozen |
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[M]ore often than not I get hot like |
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["C"]4 on the stage blowing up the spot |
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Just for ["M"], her, you and then All of the Above |
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It's [C]ontagious how the crowd show me love |
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With a ["M"]-I-C in my hand |
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[C]oming to a venue to you, I better make you say |
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[Chorus] |
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The J |
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The L |
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The I |
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The V |
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The E |