I'm a problem child, I'm my own worst enemy. No matter what happens in life, precise and nothing scares me. Even the bombs is exploding all around me.
Perverted Monks style. '99 Style, know what I'm sayin?. Comin at cha, this how we do. . Paraplegic, my fightin stance too strategic. No shadows on my kicks too much Chi horrific.
Back in the days, I never snatched pocket books. I just snatch your mind up with the flow and the hook. That's right, be on alert, comin' faster. Corny MC's, body snatcher with the rapture.
Perverted monks style. '99 style, know what I'm sayin'?. Comin' at cha, this how we do. . Paraplegic, my fightin' stance, too strategic. No shadows on my kicks too much chi-horrific.
Well, I just wanna ride with you. Well, I just wanna ride with you. Well, I just wanna roll with you. . Hey, hey, hey, we light it up everyday. And always seem to go when something fresh to say.
[DJ Premier scratches]. . Pure microphone magic. Carving up mc's, straight up torch their weak embellishments. Getting it. Put it on. Dirty download gigolo with the illest flow.
[Intro: DJ Premier]. Yeah, Afu-Ra, the Body of the Life Force. Yo, you know how I do son (yeah). Yeah, so why don't you (yeah). Get on this mic and represent one time.
[Hook 4X: samples scratched by DJ Premier]. "Uprising surprising". "Knowledge wisdom understanding". . [Afu-Ra]. Smooth like Johnny Cochran, I keep it movin through Brooklyn.
Cradled in the womb of the metropolis, dodging hell swarm. Vision of going to heaven, nothing can stop this. Although I'm optimistic, balance it with being realistic.
Yo, go straight rockin' it. Hit the block with it, chess boxin' it. If I can't shoot it, I ox it. And I'm reppin' for Brooklyn, tools in my rocket. Broke right outta my cage, I'm gonna rock it.
Lyrical gangsta, murderer. Pick up a toolie inna the area, murderer. Lyrical gangsta, murderer. Still livin' like dat. . Lyrical gangsta, murderer. Pick up a toolie inna the area, murderer.
[Bridge]. Slow down, don't rush. I'm here to keep the peace but I'm prepared to say, ay. Slow down, don't rush. I'm here to keep the peace but I'm prepared, now I say.
I put my ears to the streets and got hostile. A-F-you, I'ma show you my style. All the ladies get buck and show me your style. You wanna ride with king of the rodeo.
[RZA]. Give me the sign. Heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh. . [Afu-Ra]. Yo ayoyoyoyo ayoyoyoyo ayoyoyoyo yo yo. Ayoyoyoyo ayoyoyoyo yo yo. . I float like a butterfly, sting like like a bee.
[Verse One]: Afu-Ra. Peep the finisher, blemisher, menace to sinister. It's him with the, been with the, mic's Next to kin with the. Lyrical assassinate like toxic waste.
I'm sorry, look what they've done to me. Left my love behind to suit their fantasies. I'm dying, why won't they just let me be?. I once was carefree, now I'm all so lonely.
Feel this, feel this. Brooklyn's in the house. Brooklyn's in the house. . S-T, supreme teacher, read you like a preacher. Seat you down, make you pay close attention to my ether.
[Intro: Rasheedah]. Desfrutar de ti. Hmm, oh, yeah yeah yeah. Oh, oh. [Afu-Ra]. You know I'm comin though hotter, drip sweat meltin ya collar. Afu-Ra takin care like I'm ya father.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, oh. I don't want to be a rap dude no more. Nigga. . Yo, come back with that gangsta shit pa you're fraudulent. G's bang it out homeboy fuck the argument.
To sleep, sleep in the shade of a cityscape. Awake, in the shade of a love that waits. . Yet you tower over all. I'll take a life in the shade. Tower over all.