| Can you feel it Nothin’can save ya For this is the seaon of catchin’the vpors
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| And since I got time, what I’m gonna do Is tell ya how to spread it throughout my crew
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| Wel you all know TJ Swan who sang on my records
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| Made the music, Nobody Beats the Biz
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| Well, check it Back in the days before this began
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| He usually tried to talk to this girl name Fran
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| The type of female with fly Gucci wear
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| With big trunk jewelry and extensions in her hair
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| When Swan tried to kick it, she always fessed
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| Talkin’about Nigger, please, you work for UPS
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| Since he wasn’t no type of big drug dealer
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| My man TJ Swan didn’t appeal to her
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| But now he trucks gold and wears fly Valley boots
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| Rough leather fashions and tough silk suits
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| Now she stop frontin’an’wants to speak
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| And be comin’to all the shows
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| Every single weekend
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| To get his beeper number, she’d be beggin’please
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| Dyin’for the day to get skeezed
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| She caught the vapors (4X)
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| I got another partner that’s calm and plain
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| He goes by the name of the Big Daddy Kane
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| A mellow type of fellow that’s laid back
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| Back in the days, he was nothin’like that
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| I remember when he used to fight every day
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| What grown-ups would tell him he would never obey
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| He wore his pants hangin’down and his sneakers untied
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| And a rasta-type Kango tilted to the side
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| Around his neighborhood, people treated him bad
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| And said he was the worst thing his mom’s ever had
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| They said that he will grow up to be nothin’but a hoodlum
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| Or either injail or someone would shoot him
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| But now he’s grown up, to their surprise
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| Big Daddy got a hit record sellin’worldwide
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| Now the same people that didn’t like him as a child be sayin'
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| Can I borrow a dollar, ooh, you’re a star now
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| They caught the vapors (4X)
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| Now I got a cousin by the name of Von Lee
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| Better known to y’all as Cutmaster Cool V He cuts scratch, transform with finesse
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| …(cuts and scratches)…and all that mess
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| Well I remember when he first started to rock
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| And tried to get his job in a record shop
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| He was in it to win it but the boss fronted
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| Said, Sorry Mr. Lee, but there’s no help wanted
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| Now my cousin Von still tried on and on and on
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| 'Til the like break of dawn
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| To put this j-o-b in effect
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| But they’d look right past him and be like next
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| Now for the year of '88
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| Cool V is makin’dollars so my cousin’s like straight
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| He walks into the same record shop as before
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| And the boss’ll be like, Von, welcome to my store
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| Offerin’him a job but naw, he don’t want it Damn it feels goo to see people up on it
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| 'Cause I remember when at first they wasn’t
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| Now guess what they caught from my cousin
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| The vapors
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| They caught the vapors (4X)
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| Last subject of the story is about Biz Mark
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| I had to work for mine to put your body in park
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| When I was a teenager, I wanted to be down
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| With a lot of M.C.-deejayin'crews in town
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| So in school on Nobel Street, I say Can I be down, champ
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| They said no and treated me like a wet food stamp
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| After gettin’rejected, I was very depressed
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| Sat and wrote some def doo-doo rhymes at my rest
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| When I used to come to parties they’d make me pay
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| I’d have to beg to get on the mike and rap that day
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| I was never into girls, I was just into my music
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| They acted like I wanted to keep it Instead of tryin’to use it But now things switched without belief
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| Yo, Biz, do you remember me from Nober Street, chief?
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| We used to be down back in the days
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| It happens all the time and never ceases to amaze
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| They caught the vapors (4X) |