| Mos def]
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| Yeah.
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| One for the treble, two for the bass
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| Welcome to the great incredible paper chase
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| Keep your boots laced if you want to keep pace
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| Oh no Niggas aint scared to hustle
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| Its been seven days, the same clothes
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| Ask them originals cause they know
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| Mos def, nate dogg, and pharoahe
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| Step away from the mic they too cold
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| The funk might fracture your nose
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| Say my name, say my name
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| Observe how I stake my claim, I independently lay it down
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| And played my game, my own two raise my flame
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| Cause dick ridin aint my thang
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| I earned what they said I wouldnt
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| I got it the way they said I couldnt
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| But now Im gettin it and they whole grill is crooked
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| Mad cause Im gettin caked out from my bookings
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| When yall was askin permission I just stepped up and took it What?! |
| the kids better buy my rookie card now
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| Cause after this year the price aint comin down
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| And if you got a joint bubblin then get money now
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| Cause in a minute, theres gonna be some real trouble comin out
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| Just a warnin, as usual some cats wont heed it The hard headed always gotta feel it to believe it Its a shame that jealous gays is too short to see it But when they face hit the cement, they nod in agreement
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| We could play nice and decent, or dirty like the 7−1 precinct
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| Call it a day or make it a long evenin
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| You keep on schemin, man give me some more reason
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| To have the women in your mamas church screamin «lord jesus!»
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| Harder than yall cause Im smarter than yall
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| I know that deep down its got to be bothering yall
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| Pay attention, watch fly gon get larger than yall
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| Put your pride on the rocks, make you swallow it all
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| The mathematic problem for yall, it just get harder to solve
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| Every day that the saga evolve
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| The do or die stay rumblin and bumblin hard
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| And when we move, we aint got no discussion at all
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| East coast on your neck and you aint shruggin it off
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| Try to bullyfoot and end up stumblin off
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| Im daddy brooklyn, yall niggaz are the sons of new york
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| Gettin spanked when theres too much trouble to talk
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| Respect mine
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| Oh no Look at who they let in the back door
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| From long beach to brooklyn they know
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| We rock from the east to west coast
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| Queens salute to pharoahe (you know)
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| Step away from the mic they too cold
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| The funk might fracture your nose
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| Very contagious raps should be trapped in cages
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| Through stages of wackness, pharoahes raps are blazin
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| And it amazes — me how you claim thug
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| But go two-ways without skytel pagers
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| Im intellectual, pass more essays/eses
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| Than motorcade police parades through east l.a.
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| More beef then delis, thus what I vent is just
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| What you lust to vent is irrele
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| Huh, hallelujah, pharoahe monchll do ya Maintain the same frame of mind — screw ya!
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| Get the picture, sit ya, seat ya, preacher with scriptures
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| Im equipped to rip ya, reach ya Pharoahe and mos is verbal osmosis
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| Coast to coast, we boast to be the most explosive here
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| Ferocious, the lyrical prognosis
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| The dosage is leavin you mentally unfocused here
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| Mcs just — come on round
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| Youre the next contestants on «catch-a-beat-down»
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| Dont be hesitant, sound cracks the sediment
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| Its evident we medicine for your whole town
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| Skys the limit, games infinite when Im in it
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| All windows is tinted, how you seein me when Im in it?
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| Rap, we got it on lock man, stop that
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| Put that mic back down, boy, drop that
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| Pharoahes flows blows shows like afros
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| We hate yall though, thats why nate dogg goes:
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| -nate dogg:
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| Oh no Niggas aint scared to hustle
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| Its been seven days, the same clothes
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| Ask them originals cause they know
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| Pharoah and mos verbalize most from coast to coast step away from the mic they
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| Too cold
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| The funk might fracture your nose
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| Oh no Look at who they let in the back door
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| From long beach to brooklyn they know
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| We rock from the east to west coast
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| Queens salute to pharoahe (you know)
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| Step away from the mic they too cold
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| The funk might fracture your nose |