| Yeah… just about now in the studio, Im cooling out with scratchmaster
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| Rahiem, andre the giant, my dj mike smooth, shlomo on the engineering
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| Tip, my man dj premier from gangstarr… were gonna kick this off
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| Something funky for this track, know what Im saying?
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| Now when it comes to rhymes, Ill drop a swift one
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| (theyll be another rough rhyme after this one — rakim)
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| Im the rap senator, ake about ten of ya The best mc on the southeast perimeter
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| Equipped to flip with the slip of a lip
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| So dance, hop, or skip or shake your hips
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| Cause Ill wax and tax, eat ya up like a kit kat
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| Dont even riff back, I aint with that
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| Skillful sharp with the words of an index
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| Spark and glow mcs like windex
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| Swifter, faster, microphone master
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| Lord finesse writes rhymes by the chapter
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| Adapt to rap but I wont even break yet
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| So damn hype that I might blow your tape deck
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| Full grown, stoned to the bone
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| Write rhymes and poems just to get known
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| Superior sargeant, take your whole squadren
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| Toast mcs, eat em up with margin
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| Cause Im smart like einstein, I say the fly lines
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| I get funky while you play the sidelines
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| Here to take care of you, never sound terrible
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| Ready equipped, cause Im always available
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| To rag, snag, and rip the mic
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| Cause me and dre will get ya hyped
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| On top in rank and I plan to stay there
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| The funkiest poet out since shakespeare
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| Take note of this soloist, cause Im a pro at this
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| Even make the crippled want to get up and go to this
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| Now mcs try to get rid of me But, I wont fall in negativity
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| Cause Im well respected, lord thats majestic
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| Rhymes are written by thoughts thats selected
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| Released in public, but not as a subject
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| Many are below it but not quite above it Dre my brother, drop the know how
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| One, two three, here we go now
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| Finesse, its my turn to kick a swift one
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| (theyll be another rough rhyme after this one — rakim)
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| You know an mc, well tell him to hybernate
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| Cause dre smooth is flowing at a liver rate
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| You knock em out the box, Im knocking niggas out
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| You fear the giant, well money live it out
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| Im not a punk, far from a chump
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| You sleep at all, and you will fall from the top bunk
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| Im dropping math, science, and all that other shit
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| Step in the studio, its just another hit
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| Take about ten from beginning to end
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| Dont mean to brag, but I am what I am And thats a mean machine, a dream machine
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| You say, «golly polly, dres a jolly green
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| Giant"and youre not half or even semi
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| You say «is he? |
| «I say «am i? |
| «The one you fear cause its near
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| The time for your death so step to the rear
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| Now get off, let off, step off cause youre soft
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| Stop blushing Im rushing/russian like mikael gorbechov
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| Special tactics, you cant hack this
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| Brothers aint half stepping, theyre walking backwards
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| You cant get near, if you do, youre near here
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| Stepping to me like a man in a wheelchair
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| Pressures like a new pearl, youre in a new world
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| I run with just a pen like a catholic schoolgirl
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| Back in the first grade, thought you had it made
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| Got a tounge twister to catch a tounge blister
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| Sally sells seashells down by the seashore
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| How much wood could a woodchuck chuck more
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| No more twisters, for blisters blistex
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| Now youre confused, you whats this, whats next
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| Tables rotate, you will go rate
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| Try to locate, but dre wont negotiate
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| Slaughter toys say boys whats the science
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| You shugged your shoulders and «e «andres a giant»
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| Yeah, that was crazy funky. |
| yo, like I said, we two brothers just getting
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| Crazy funky in the studio and we gonna drop it like this… see ya! |