| Back at it
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| So out the box in an instant I spit and get cheese
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| Craftmatic
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| So out the box in the present I represent the eMCees
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| Of the past the icons
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| At the last my Mic’s on
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| Alas the light’s on
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| I flash 'em shinin' for minutes of fame
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| For continuous streams of a dream that I climbed in
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| I flow on and on like the Nile and Amazon and Mississippi
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| Steam 'cuz I’m risin heat before you’re eyes
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| I’m planning on
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| Standing on top like I know I’m the man and all
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| Like a year ago I wasn’t even a man involved
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| Solving my own problems I might hand 'em off
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| Fumble
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| Intercept myself corrected
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| Now I’m a player of the game wasn’t even expected
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| On the humble
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| No stoppin' this (yeah yeah)
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| Take it to the top in this (yeah yeah)
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| Represent the block for this (yeah yeah)
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| And we go' make it pop in this (yeah yeah)
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| I’m makin' hip hop look cool again
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| I’m makin' hip hop look cool again
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| I’m makin' hip hop look cool again
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| It’s Oddisee and I’m takin' y’all to school again
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| (yeah)
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| I’m half A-rab half nigga
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| AK47 9 milli mixture
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| In the mosque friday sunday scripture
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| Parents split because they views always differ
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| Get harassed at the airport and the block
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| By the FBI, Interpol & the cops
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| I’m acclimated to the winter cold and the hot
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| Spit a flow in the desert rollin' on a cinder block
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| Concrete jungle yeah that’s my livin' spot
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| Sudanese restaurant that’s the dinner spot
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| Wake up breakfast on facin' mecca don
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| Got the wheaties yeah i’m the champ of the (get it pie)
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| Bend
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| No stoppin'
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| The ball i’m passin' y’all like stock-ton
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| I’m after those claimin' they on top and
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| I topple them like west bank apart-ments
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| No stoppin' this (yeah yeah)
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| Take it to the top in this (yeah yeah)
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| Represent the block for this (yeah yeah)
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| And we go' make it pop in this (yeah yeah)
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| I’m makin' hip hop look cool again
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| I’m makin' hip hop look cool again
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| I’m makin' hip hop look cool again
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| It’s Oddisee and I’m takin' y’all to school again
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| (yeah)
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| May my competitors fall
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| I better myself by look at myself in the mirror
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| Hear myself say I’m better than y’all
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| Telling myself who am I to argue with that
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| I mean its fact so I’m betting it all
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| On the underdog in the motor race
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| Runnin' tall catch the motorcade at a slower pace
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| So the sweat is involved
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| Tears to us and the blood’ll stand through those
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| Except for the fall
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| I represent 'em
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| The streets you rappin' 'bout, I’m in 'em
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| A preacher lashin' out in denim
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| The speakers blackin' out — I’m in 'em
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| Pumpin' that bass like bass free show
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| At the club pack it out and kill 'em
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| Leave nothing before or after
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| Fire like the lord and rapture
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| I am like the (raw) and pastor
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| The foundation of this DMV gritty shit
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| I recall and capture
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| No stoppin' this (yeah yeah)
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| Take it to the top in this (yeah yeah)
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| Represent the block for this (yeah yeah)
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| And we go' make it pop in this (yeah yeah)
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| I’m makin' hip hop look cool again
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| I’m makin' hip hop look cool again
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| I’m makin' hip hop look cool again
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| It’s Oddisee and I’m takin' y’all to school again |