| Who am I? |
| The one that gets laced tight
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| The one you wear, hit a flare on the same night
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| That you hit an uprock, I’m the one in the closet next to one sock
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| The one you rock on the cardboard box
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| Walking to the one block
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| You know the one spot peeps get the one shot
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| Got one thought on the task at hand
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| You can ask your man I’m part of master plan
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| Only b-boys and b-girls, they understand
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| Whatever you say now, ya wish is my command
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| Name it, I’ll be the footwork to your head spin
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| Follow your lead, go anyplace that ya legs bend
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| At ya cipher session I’m ya best friend
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| I got a twin, we’s a pair clocking size 10
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| Head’s a shell, three stripes on side
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| Laces large, on your feets I reside
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| Keep me clean, keep me laced, and I’ll be allright
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| I be the first element up in here tonight
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| Who am I? |
| See, I’m the one that you be gripping tight
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| The one that makes you sound real good when you be flipping right
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| And I’m the one causing fights up at the open mic
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| I’ll make ya sound real stupid if you don’t hold me right
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| I got emcees fiending for me all day and night
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| I could care less if ya on me if ya black or white
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| See all that matters when you rock me don’t be coming wack and
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| Don’t hold me to the speaker or I’ma feedback and
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| I’m used for rapping, every now and the used for passng
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| Back and forth in ya crew in a freestyle fashion
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| I get rocked, ripped, flipped on and blasted,
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| I’m spoke on, choke on, hit on, spit on, and mastered
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| I’ve outlasted, been used to tell truth and lies
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| Used to kill the youth and used to open up they eyes
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| I come in all kinds of sizes, heard all kinds of voices
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| Sometimes I’m plugged in, you know sometimes I’m cordless
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| Keep me clear, keep me close, and I’ll be allright
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| See I’m the second element up in here tonight
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| Who am I? |
| I got two heads and they always spinning
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| I got two arms that the deejays, they use for ripping
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| Plus a fader in my middle that they always gripping
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| I’m completed with the two records used for mixing
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| They pulling tricks and cutting up, ya know they scratching
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| Remixing beat, juggling just whie they mix and match and
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| All kinds of beats till it’s the heat that I know ya catching
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| And I’m the one that started hip-hop in case ya asking
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| I got knobs and faders in a mad abundance
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| I come in many names, but most time it’s 1200
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| When I get played now, you know that you truly love it
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| Now clean the needle on my arm or I’ll be sounding busted
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| I’m disregarded, treated like I ain’t legitimate
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| I’m making music, you don’t see me as an instrument
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| And it takes true skills to get on me and be ripping it
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| Nobody sees my contribution, they ain’t getting it
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| You know there’s one thing that really now makes me mad
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| You used to blow me off but now I’m the latest fad
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| I’m the thing that every rock band they got’s to have
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| Now people say my name and they be like «Now what is that?»
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| Keep me running, keep me spinning, and I’ll be allright
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| I’ll be the third element up in here tonight
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| Who am I? |
| Se I’m hiding in your backpack
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| You tear my tip off, replace it with a fat cap
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| I’m 12 oz. |
| of steel concealed in a knapsack
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| Ya pull me out, ya shake me up, and then attack that
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| Wall or train while ya steady throwing up your name
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| Leaving these end to end burners, ya getting ghetto fame
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| Now me and my brothers, ya know we come in many colors
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| Steady beautifying the walls of a ghetto culture
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| Toys and suckers now you know they getting dissed quick
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| I’m going all city all up in ya district
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| Ya hold me with control so I never drip thick
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| I’m tagging up ya spot, nobody misses it
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| See I’m the brush to a modern day type DiVinci
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| I’m the new urban renewal for ya block’s committee
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| I’ve spoken words of the youth of an inner city
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| I’m vandalism but to others I’ll be called graffiti
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| Keep me shaking, keep me spraying, and I’ll be allright
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| I be the fourth element up in here tonight
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| Who am I? |
| See I’m the God that you don’t know about
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| I gave you breath up in your lungs that you can’t go without
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| See you know the facts of My story you been told about
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| I’m always reaching out for you but you just keep on holding out
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| I know your doubts, I know you’re thinking that I ain’t real
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| See I know you forgot about Me when you got ya last record deal
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| See I know the way you feel, I walked the earth just like you
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| And like a child up in his Father’s arms, I long to hide you
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| Many times I invite you while standing here right besides you
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| But you walk right past, you ignore My hands here given to guide you
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| I gave you gifts, I gave you talents that you just used to gain your wealth
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| But you took my gifts and talents only for you, just to glorify yourself
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| I was beaten and bruised, crushed now for your iniquity
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| Stripped naked, I was spit upon just for you to live eternally
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| Yet you blaspheme Me, you make moves without asking Me
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| Then you blame Me for your troubles and calamaties, you kidding me?
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| Keep Me first, keep Me in your life, and it’s gonna be allright
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| See I’m Jesus Christ, the Fifth Element up in here tonight |