| Yeah
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| EPMD, 9th Wonder
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| It’s crazy
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| New York
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| Charlotte, yep!
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| EPMD can hold you down baby
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| Uh
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| Spark this off with a b-boy who show P love
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| O.G. |
| from the golden era, duckin bullets and slugs
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| Meltin ice cream mugs, EPMD the niggas you love
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| New York Vice, tight like Crockett and Tubbs
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| Rarely seen but when seen on the scene (who you wit?)
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| I’m with Green, gettin cream, a +Wild Thing+ like Charlie Sheen
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| A «Wild Thing» like Tone Loc, I’m no joke, take notes
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| The rap intrepid, I blow on record
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| No boat, I’m still captain, what’s happenin
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| The big dawg of rap and the E Great Dane
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| My name is Hall of Fame, the game owe me some change
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| +The Collector+, Denzel director, go tell
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| Yeah mock bird with six shells, leave a smoky smell
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| Have you up in the hospital ringin the nurse’s bell
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| Like ding I got hit (uh-huh) by two of rap’s, most dangerous
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| E and P and they both had stainless
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| Biggie Smalls and 2Pac — left for dead
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| Innocent bystanders — left for dead
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| Big L, Jam Master Jay — left for dead
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| The whole hip-hop culture — left for dead (oh, my, God)
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| Okay fun’s up (say what?) The reign son’s up
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| Hoes down, G’s up, yo let your guns bust
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| For the soldiers that fell, for the soldiers in jail
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| For the cats that ain’t makin it, dudes with no bail
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| Stand or die, yo I tell no lie
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| You get caught not tellin the truth they make sure you fry
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| Uh-huh, we won’t fry, cause we don’t lie
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| We ain’t change funk flow still same
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| Beats still knockin, we still rockin
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| Cats on the bozack, they ain’t poppin
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| Lil' things stoppin, and that means you
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| Cause we shuttin you down, for the underground
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| Run cats out of town like P.E. |
| we «Shut 'Em Down»
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| Bustin live rounds, straight gunnin now
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| Shhh, out in the open, rubber grip shit with red scope an'
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| Beware when you approachin
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| Yeah, call me S-K-Y, Z-O-O
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| They say the first line is probably the best line
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| I call it the set line it’s sort of the fetch line
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| But then the next line that follows the first line
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| Will body the first line and make it the worst line
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| So what it means is, whatever procedes this
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| Is above the previous, stepping stong weak shit
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| 24 leak shit, grind with a pen
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| And try to line up with the pen but it’s up where the nosebleeds is
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| S-K, the forechosen to cut 'cross
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| The last rapper for everyone you grew up on
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| I’m past better, my past letters is past headers
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| I’m a product of student money and black leathers
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| 7−1-8 shit, no better replacement
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| Started writin backwards, young’un letters is basic
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| Huh, different with a given goal the way I’m pitchin with it
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| Don’t take it to heart homey it’s «Strictly Business» |