Lyrics Set It Off - Blueprint

Set It Off

Set it off, set it off, set it off brother, set it off
Set it off, set it off, set it off brother, set it off
Set it off, set it off, set it off brother, set it off
Set it off, set it off, set it off brother, set it off
Get your weight up
Double up and place your bets
I’m not a gangsta but my beats bang your head
Drop the anchor, post up and break some bread
Built my base up, rockin' 'til I’m grateful dead
My snare shake ya, words penetrate the skin
Melt your face up and cake up your skeleton bend
Into gelatin enveloped by my perilous pen
Where terror begins, you’re stuck until I tell you it ends
Fold your promotional poster into an airplane and toss it
Practice aim where trash is laid, you lost it
Can’t explain my massive gain so forfeit
Now I got the juice like Jack LeLanne, I’m awesome
Spine-tingling to rhymes swinging into action
Meanwhile my theme song blastin'
On television braggin' how they eat off rappin'
'Til my remote zap 'em and they leave closed-captioned
Set it off, set it off, set it off brother, set it off
Set it off, set it off, set it off brother, set it off
Set it off, set it off, set it off brother, set it off
Set it off, set it off, set it off brother, set it off
Call your dogs off, all y’all kibbles and bits
Just Chihuahuas riled up flipping your lips
We Rottweilers, Dobermen pinchers, and Pitts
Put you in pet cemetery quick as a lick
So many ballers, now they gotta sit on a bench
My shot fallen all cause the industry switched
For ignoring the score and exploiting the poor
They gon' be shown out the door at the end of their shift
Asked out and unemployed, passed out and null and void
Sat down for passing 'round wack styles I can’t enjoy
So-called bad boys that breach noise ordinance
I deploy b-boys to your home’s coordinates
It’s drop squad by the time you react
Open up my van doors, throw you right in the back
Take you for a ride, show you what’s right and exact
Knowledge in self in history, supply you with facts
Set it off, set it off, set it off brother, set it off
Set it off, set it off, set it off brother, set it off
Set it off, set it off, set it off brother, set it off
Set it off, set it off, set it off brother, set it off
Study your history!
Gotta study this hip-hop history.
Study this craft and
learn it, man, so you can contribute and build this shit and not destroy it.
Cause a lot of y’all not studying the dudes that came before y’all, «I don’t wanna hear about them old school niggas.
Them niggas is raw and stuff,
this and that…» Those are the same niggas your mother was ready to suck they
dick.
Your mother was ready to bone these niggas.
Your grandmother was ready to
fuck Run DMC and all that.
You bum-ass niggas tryna shoot these old school
niggas down, but them parties was popping your moms though.
Y’all gotta study
this fucking shit.
Same with y’all popping niggas mothers now or whatever y’all
doing.
Nah’m sayin?
I ain’t tryna sound bitter or nothing, but you know,
come on man, pay homage to those before you and learn what the fuck is going
on, man!