[ti:] [ar:] [al:] [00:01.73](Intro: DJ Premier) [00:02.41]PRhyme! Adrian Younge, Royce Da 5'9", DJ Premier. [00:07.76]This song here was originally supposed to be done with my man Black Thought. [00:14.60]Unfortunately, we lost a great man: Mr. Richard Nichols; R.I.P. [00:22.97]To the legendary Roots crew, hold your head.(We love y'all, you know) We all continue on, [00:31.72]that's how life's supposed to be, and that's how we treat life. [00:34.04]So, one day, Riq gave me a call; [00:40.19]he said "Yo, that joint you did with Common, y'all wanna do a remix of that?" [00:45.86]By the way, shout out to Common. [00:48.04]Congratulations on the Oscar, my *************. John Legend, big up. [00:52.77]Word, I said, "yeah, yeah, when y'all wanna do that?" [00:56.79]He said, "yo, I'll come over right now". [01:00.18]Oh, yeah? Well, step inside the booth. [01:03.26]Yo, Riq, it's go time. Wi*************n': Part II [01:11.27](Verse 1: Black Thought) [01:12.61]Yo, the voice of the announcer signing off [01:15.15]Salvador, a connoisseur, a hot monologue [01:18.64]Rachmaninoff, livin' life not by the law [01:21.72]And I'm a product of that Rakim — God, Allah [01:25.47]Forensic files, leaving 'em disemboweled, '87 style [01:28.51]They chance slimmer than reverend Al or Kevin Liles [01:31.60]Some friends are vile, still be peddlin' vials [01:34.06]Off of eleven mile, they wi*************n' you would [01:36.23]You prolly better reconcile [01:38.08]The dark side of to who they rising in prominence [01:41.12]My crown's taller than Suleiman of The Ottoman's [01:44.37]Wiser than Solomon, mobilizing the following [01:47.25]They try and give me the Nobel prize for novelists [01:50.62]Peace to cats that rock MAC knowledge knowledges [01:54.05]Hood astrologists, illegal anesthesiologists, yo [01:57.57]El elefante, Bella Fonte [01:59.99]Keep a regimen ready to give 'em hell if PRhyme say [02:03.84](Verse 2: Black Thought) [02:06.05]Yo, post traumatic stress, I wear it as a family crest [02:08.48]I murder at its best, words that'll manifest causing cardiac arrest [02:11.98]Budapest to Marrakesh, my slang Bangladesh [02:14.55]My gang’s Clarence X, I'm life after death, the last Levine X [02:18.07]Lettin' every other rapper know they better wear a vest [02:20.49]I'm pulling in two hundred thousand for appearances [02:22.90]I wrote a song about it, here it is, yo [02:25.26]The creature feature search a preacher teacher torch [02:27.58]Capture, rupture, rapture, reach her, the preacher [02:30.61]He defeat ya, speak the ether, sneak then creep ya [02:33.32]Say no peace to meet ya, can't nobody get with me [02:35.94]Strong suits from Italy, chill, humility what I'm all about, ability, yo [02:39.56]I wish a ************* would bring the hostility though [02:41.92]You know how them boys from Philly be [02:43.68]I'm like cyanide, creeping through the air ducts [02:46.35]And I got a foul mouth, tell 'em kids earmuffs [02:48.55]When I was at school, I was who to steer clear of [02:50.91]Smoking a reefer in the bathroom, sipping Smirnoff [02:53.29]When it came time for the pictures in the yearbook [02:55.64]I was up in Paris like an American werewolf [02:58.06]Years later, yo I'm an American hero verse evil like [03:00.89]Deerhoof, if I let the bear woof [03:02.84]They don't recognize me when I'm shopping up in Berdgdorf [03:05.26]They just know I'm flier than the mother******* airport [03:07.56]Therefore they say I'm a sartorial gear whore, yeah [03:11.02](Verse 3: Royce Da 5'9") [03:12.46]Uh, Ascots on the tailor suits [03:14.73]You artists throwing bands on the radio like they made you [03:18.32]I'm looking for artists on stage to throw tomatoes to [03:21.42]The way I act you think I'm banned from radio, like Trae Tha Truth [03:24.52]I don't really care, *************, I'm getting yen [03:26.77]I’ve got a C-63, V-Twizzy Benz I’m sitting in [03:29.76]I'on, I'on, I'on give a *************, any DJ anywhere [03:32.80]I'on, I'on give 'em as a triple dare, I'll tie him to a swivel chair [03:36.97]I'on give 'em spins, ha ha, I'on give 'em grins and count dividends [03:40.38]Ask around by them D-Town *************s that'll leave you with a concert [03:43.72]Full of dead fans and bloody merch [03:45.48]Smoking **** that Celie... That’s the color purp [03:48.60]You might wanna study first [03:50.14]Every verse lyrical but nutty first [03:51.58]Every verb and every word is like a speeding bullet [03:54.16]'Bout to chop your body in half while it's on the way to heaven [03:56.75]Like Kid Cudi *************rt, *************t could be a hit but it's gotta be money first [03:59.94]I rap with a sickness card, Iraq pistol pulling private, shh [04:03.51](Interlude: Royce Da 5'9") [04:04.08]Chris, I think I got the Gully curse [04:05.21](Verse 4: Royce Da 5'9") [04:05.94]Underground, underrated, y'all keep digging for answers, like the route to cancer [04:08.78]I keep turning Preemo beats into chemo treatments, I keep wiggin' like a oop to Andrew [04:13.52]I'm clumsy when I shoot, oops, I bet your crew'll scrambled [04:15.94]I don't write for limelight, I *************ne the rhyme light down then I'll produce a scandal [04:19.33]I'm what your baby moms would do for cameras [04:21.44]I'm leaving everything from the marriage to her little cooch in shambles [04:24.16]Your posse even get in my broad way your posse'll perish [04:26.52]Your posse'll become the posse up there [04:28.41]I'm outlining all of they bodies in chalk, setting fire to 'em [04:31.51]To the chocolate on top like chocolate eclairs [04:33.35]They outfit and jacket is bail staff [04:35.17]While we in the air, it's Yahtzee on Lears [04:36.65]And when we land, we on yatchs saying grazie to the mail staff [04:39.07]Muah, kiss my ass, y'all can go to hell fast [04:41.07]I'm just ready for whatever hell brings (Focus, man) [04:44.00]Getting closer to that real money like Gayle King (That's Oprah's friend) [04:47.20]I think of nightmares that'll ruining your dreams [04:50.51]And I just went shopping in China, yeah I flew with the team [04:53.44]************* a translator, I speak fluent, cha-ching [04:55.29]Y'all holding *************t down with that selfie stick [04:57.10]I'm fly in some *************t out of Harvey Nichols and Selfridges [04:59.53]Even when me and Shady was Abel and Caine [05:01.42]We worked our magic separately like Angel and Blaine [05:03.92]Came into this game with a navy like Baby and Wayne [05:05.86]Now every pair of glasses I have has a crazy insane Jazze Pha gradient frame [05:09.56]The least most amazing vehicle I have is a lease, though [05:13.31]It's a beast 4-80 and change [05:14.75]Y'all tryna pick up Bieber and Drake fans [05:17.28]Not me, but I'm in the streets though, like a Canadian crane [05:19.95]To elaborate is to annihilate, please don't make me explain [05:22.93]Come get your *************! Before I make her smile, ha [05:26.22]'Fore I perform a bunch of acts on her like Saturday Night Live then take a bow [05:30.08]Like Kenan Thompson, I don't believe in nonsense [05:32.65]I don't got no felonies in my record, I just got a fleeing conscience [05:36.47]I'm just out here spending money like I'm being sponsored [05:38.88]I'm just on my Philly crime *************t, my ice cold Jack Frost mind [05:41.97]My black thoughts are my only real accomplice...