If I should fall asleep and death takes me away
Don't be surprised, son, I wasn't put here to stay
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Wit leads here (9 of 21), and every line is a lyric. 18 are credited to The Score, with Ready or Not (5) and Zealots (3) in front, and Manifest, How Many Mics, The Beast, The Mask and Fu-Gee-La giving two each. The mix is lyrical battling, as in "too many MCs, not enough mics", with sharp lines about policing and the law (6 are tagged justice). Craft and struggle show up on 4 lines each. Family Business is the quiet one.
Too many MCs, not enough mics
Exit your show like I exit the turnpike
Now that I escape, sleepwalk awake (Yeah)
Those who could relate know the world ain't cake
Jail bars ain't golden gates, those who fake, they break
My girl pinched my hips to see if I still exist
I refugee from Guantanamo Bay
Dance around the border like I'm Cassius Clay (Yes, sir)
Easy, low-key crooked military
Pay taxes up my ass, but they still harass me
And even after all my logic and my theory
I add a "motherfucker" so you ignant niggas hear me
We used to be number ten, now we're permanent at one
Buju Banton, I'm a true champion, like
Farrakhan reads his daily Qur'an
It's a phenomenon, lyrics fast like Ramadan
See hoochies pop coochies, for Gucci's and Lucci
Find me in my Mitsubishi, eatin' sushi, bumpin' Fugees
I get mad frustrated when I rhyme
Thinkin' of all them kids that try to do this for all the wrong reasons
It's unpredictable when my tongue performs Jiu-Jitsu
Cut you with my lyrics, stab you with my pencil (Come on)
Crooked cops pulled up, they offered him thirty pieces of silver
All he got to do is deliver the Savior
So while you imitating Al Capone
I'll be Nina Simone and defecating on your microphone
Ready or not, refugees taking over
The Buffalo Soldier, dreadlock Rasta
On the twelfth hour, fly by in my bomber (Drop bombs)
Crews run for cover, now they're under, pushing up flowers
You can't search me without probable cause
Or that proper ammunition they call reasonable suspicion
Listen, I'll bring friction to your whole jurisdiction
See cops, got two faces like two laces on my Reeboks
Nah, kid, I didn't have the balls
That's when I realized I'm bumpin' too much Biggie Smalls
Yeah, I'm the L, won't you pull it? (Pull it)
Straight to the head with the speed of a bullet (Bullet)
Cuttin' niggas off at the meeky-freaky gullet
I haunt MCs like Mephistopheles, bringing swords of Damocles
So while you fuming, I'm consuming mango juice under Polaris
You just embarrassed 'cause it's your last tango in Paris