| Picture a crown flooded with rubies and diamonds
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| On top of the dome of this man that’s rhymin
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| That signifies I’m in a bracket, beyond your mediocre back-packing emcees
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| Sorry for crackin your teeth
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| I got a back smackin disease
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| And it flairs up when I hear a rapper spit wacker than me
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| And don’t fit the category, that is corny
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| When a-nother emcee try to test me
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| But y’all, don’t impress me, heavens to Betsy
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| Y’all better jet-ski, pull a disappearin act like Wesley
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| Before a nigga gets back his swagger and steps up the ladder
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| Grandma, get the camera!
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| And take a flick of your baby boy doin his thing
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| Lookin like my dad, I swear we one in the same
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| And my son is the same
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| When we shine the sun dries up the rain and it’ll brighten your day
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| Yo I do this for my bro’s locked up in chains
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| And I do it for emcees that grew up on Kane
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| I do this for my brothers that sniff dust and 'caine
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| And fucked up they brain, let’s make a change
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| My needles only test the wax that’ll touch my veins
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| DP gives a scratch
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| Give it up to a brother that avoided the vultures |
| And’ll rep, every step of this hip-hop culture
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| I’m a E-M-C-E-E
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| A smooth operator operatin correctly
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| And I rep the four elements so nigga respect me
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| It’ll take more than your intelligence to test me
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| I’m an emcee, but started out as a B-boy
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| Windmillin, back spinnin on linolium towel boy
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| Adidas Shelltops, fat laces crossed over
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| Designer checker-box, my boombox would knock
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| It woke up like half of my block
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| I put my best foot forward, but my hip wasn’t hop
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| Shit was on lock, most of my boys, kept pistols on cock
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| At local hookey jams — when kids did the wop
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| And we stopped and we watched and we wopped and we rocked
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| And quickly went from Shelltops to Reeboks, S-curls to hightops
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| Black leather medallions with the African in it
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| I laughed cause I lived it and you didn’t
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| I made it a long way, and I can’t stop man
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| I «Refuse to Lose» like Chuck D — I’m a strong black man!
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| First and foremost, I’m still a hip-hop fan
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| This year Puffy went from «Making Da Band» to he’s in a band
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| Some say that he fakes, some say that he’s great |
| But I’ll be damned if I walk to Brooklyn to get your rich ass some cheesecake
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| That’s not hip-hop
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| That’s the type of shit that make me wanna not hip-hop
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| It make the government in protest and stop hip-hop
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| You don’t gotta agree with me Mr. P. Diddy
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| Toe-to-toe lyrically your artists can’t compete with me
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| I’m faster, I’m the master, y’all rappers and I’m a
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| — whispered |