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Re: The Black Eyed Peas - Biografie
von .just.I_am. am 04.01.2011 13:18Hip Hop mit den unterschiedlichsten musikalischen Einflüssen - dafür stehen die Black Eyed Peas nun schon seit 1998. Im Sommer desselben Jahres erscheint ihr Debütalbum bei Interscope. Offiziell existiert die Band bereits seit 1992.
In diesem Jahr wird Atban Klann (A Tribe Beyond A Nation) auf die in Los Angeles ansässige High School-Dance-Crew Tribal Nation aufmerksam. Deren Mitglieder, der Filipino Apl De Ap und der Schwarze Will.I.Am, nehmen mit Klann 1994 ihre erste Scheibe für Ruthless Records auf, die allerdings nie veröffentlicht wird. Gerüchten zufolge wurde das Debütalbum von Bone Thugs-N-Harmony vom Label als veröffentlichungswürdiger empfunden.
Als auch noch Labelchef Eazy E (Ex-NWA) an Aids stirbt, haben die beiden MCs genug von Ruthless. Zusammen mit Taboo, einem Indianer aus dem Chachoney-Stamm, wechselt man mit neuem Bandnamen zu Interscope, wo Mitte 1998 das Debüt "Behind The Front" erscheint. Zwischen Künstlern wie Snoop Dogg, Blackstreet und Marilyn Manson fühlt sich die Multikultitruppe dort musikalisch gut aufgehoben.
Inzwischen erregt das Trio mit einer vierköpfigen Liveband mächtig Aufsehen in der Hip Hop-Community an der Westcoast. Unter anderem tourt man mit No Doubt. Das BEP-Motto lautet: Live-Instrumente statt Sampling. Dementsprechend präsentiert sich der Erstling: losgelöst von kommerziellen Ansprüchen verarbeiten die Peas sämtliche Genres in ihrem Style. Mit Einflüssen aus dem Soul, Old School, Latin und Funk kreieren sie einen universellen Vibe, der die meisten eingefleischten Westcoastler überfordert.
So verwundert es wenig, wenn die Band vermeldet, dass Acts wie De La Soul und A Tribe Called Quest von der anderen Küstenseite schon immer zu ihren Favorites gehörten. Mit dem typischen Bad Guy-Image wollen die drei ebenfalls nichts zu tun haben. Viel lieber singen sie über wahre Liebe und wollen mit ihren Beats Freude und Optimismus transportieren, der natürlich auch tanzbar sein soll.
Das ist ihnen sowohl auf der Support-Tour mit Cypress Hill im Herbst 2000 als auch auf dem programmatisch betitelten zweiten Album "Bridging The Gap" erfrischend gelungen. Die Gaststarriege ist dabei im Vergleich zum Vorgänger populärer ausgefallen: dabei sind Wyclef, Gang Starrs DJ Premier, De La Soul und Macy Gray.
Kurz darauf beginnen sie die Aufnahmen an ihrem neuen Album "Elephunk". Sie sichern sich die Dienste der Ex-Wild Orchid-Sängerin Stacey "Fergie" Ferguson, die sie durch Live-Gigs kennen gelernt haben. Die Chemie scheint sofort zu stimmen, so dass man beschließt, den neuen BEP-Sound um einen weiblichen Anteil anzureichern. Kurz vor dem Einstieg überwindet sie ihre Crystal Meth-Abhängigkeit.
Zwei Jahre nach Beginn der Studio-Arbeit steht das Album im Spätsommer 2003 in den Regalen. Weniger dreckig, dafür noch eine Spur eingängiger präsentiert sich das Ergebnis mit Gastauftritten von Justin Timberlake und Papa Roach. Dass die erste Single "Where Is The Love?" sofort an die Chartspitze sämtlicher Länder schießt, übertrifft sogar die Erwartungen der Westcoast-Bande.
Mit Sängerin Fergie scheinen sie einen echten Glücksgriff gelandet zu haben. Der Nachfolge-Hit "Shut Up" geht ebenfalls voll ab, während das Album in Deutschland zielstrebig die Gold-Marke anpeilt (150.000 verkaufte Einheiten). Ein Teil der Fans sieht das allerdings ganz anders: Viele lasten Fergie die immer deutlicher zutage tretende Abkehr vom unaufgeregten Hip Hop und die Hinwendung zum Dance-Pop an.
"Monkey Business", das im Juni 2005 erscheint, toppt jedoch alles bisher Dagewesene und verkauft sich weltweit über neun Millionen Mal. Im Zuge der Album-Promo gibt Apl De Ap im US-Fernsehen zu, dass seine zeitweilige und stressbedingte Speed-Abhängigkeit fast die Band ruiniert hätte. Will.I.Am und die anderen hätten ihn aber zur Reha überreden können: "Das hat mich aus der Dunkelheit wieder heraus geholt, die Drogen waren wie eine Flucht für mich."
Nach der Welttour zum Album gehen Fergie und Will Soloaktivitäten nach, was in der Presse naturgemäß zu Auflösungsgerüchten führt, vor allem nach Fergies Erfolg mit "The Dutchess". Mit "The E.N.D." kehren BEP 2009 als Quartett zurück - der Albumtitel führt alle Skeptiker ein weiteres Mal aufs Glatteis, steht er doch für "The energy never dies".
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Re: The Black Eyed Peas
von .just.I_am. am 31.12.2010 12:53Say Goodbye
1992 and, you and I were fightin'
LAPD beatings got the whole world frontin
My man rodney king and the reginald ? deeney?
You could look for justice but I bet you won't find any
Because people getting beatin', news keep repeatin'
Chaos and anger, just surely peakin'
Yo everybody's runnin', some of them are gunnin
Avalanche the block, feel the anger, wantin something
'cause some of them are frontin
They didn't know the reason
Emotion in the end made it feel like revolution
And yeah, yeah, you can yell out your brains
I tell you right now, we got 8 years of chains
So hurry up because I'm runnin' out of clip
Runnin' out of time
Runnin' out of clip
Runnin' out of time
Runnin' out of clip
Runnin' out of time
Runnin' out of clip
Runnin' out of time
1997, reduction of a nation
The government is slayin', new laws is what you're facin'
Next comes the clonin, they're makin new creation
Secretly forming soldiers of you and they station
No more free education on former segregation
Politics' about affirmative activation
So make a run for the border
Caught by the deporter
The immigration caught you but you got to leave your daughter
We are slowly being slaughtered
So be prepared for the new world order
Yeah, yeah, you can yell out your brains
I tell you right now, we got eight years of chains
So hurry up because I'm runnin' out of clip
Runnin' out of time
Runnin' out of clip
Runnin' out of time
Runnin' out of clip
Runnin' out of time
Runnin' out of clip
Runnin' out of time
Year 2000, what's it really holdin'
Or is it really right, live beyond on what you're knowing
Or is it that technology is what keeps on going
Could it be that the end of time is what I'm showing
I don't see any grass growin
Everything's conquered, we're runnin' out of land
And goddamn yo, I'm runnin' out of clip
I'm almost out of time
Runnin' out of...
Damn, I'm almost out of time
We could all try now but just look up in the sky
We ain't got no ozone left, we are gonna die
Crime and corruption, is the only season
Is it 'cause the reason is that we out of time.
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Re: The Black Eyed Peas
von .just.I_am. am 31.12.2010 12:52Joints & Jam
Yeah...a chick-a-doom, chick-a-doom chick-a-doom.
Yeah that's the joint.
Chorus:
That's the joint, that's the jam
Turn that shit up, play it again. [x3]
[Will I Am:]
I like the way the rhythm makes me jump & move
It got's the feelin' that makes me wanna do my thing
Got me feelin' joy, turn my gray sky blue
& when you hear a cut baby doll I know you.
Will feel it huh? Get up on the flow & start movin' some
Body parts that got brothers actin' dumb
& they be actin' dumb from the cut that playin'
People break they neck from this demonstration
We about mass appeal, no segregation
Got Black to Asian & Caucasian sayin'...
Chorus:
That's the joint, that's the jam
Turn that shit up, play it again. [x2]
[APL:]
Let your body collide to the rhythm provided
By the mind state affairs classified & make your
Heat up & flare I swear
A serenade, a soul & so beware
& what's happenin' here, seek one to help you
Feelin' a piece of mind, let your spine unwind
Maybe in time you can stop this crime
But until then, yo I'm a rock a rhyme sayin'...
Chorus:
That's the joint, that's the jam
Turn that shit up, play it again. [x2]
[Kim Hill:]
It's the jam, it's the jam, it's the jam, it's the jam
It's got groove it's got feelin'
"A chick-a-doom, a chick-a-doom chick-a-doom doom"
It's the jam, it's the jam, it's the jam, it's the jam
It's got groove it's got meanin'
"A chick-a-doom, a chick-a-doom chick-a-doom doom"
[Taboo:]
Got the state's appeal with the joint's that real
I don't need no steel to make my point
Get down & dirty 'cause that's my joint.
Ha! We preferably make all points
Through a nation we build off the musical field
Or a visual thrill, we do what we feel
Any time or place, on stage in your face
Over tea in Earth & outer space.
[Will I Am:]
Because we rock that sh.. we flip that sh..
You know, some east coast west coast cosmic sh..
Some north bound sh.. some some south bound sh..
Some overseas London out of town shit
Rockin' the joint, rockin' the jams
Turn that shit up, play it again 'cause...
Chorus:
That's the joint, that's the jam
Turn that shit up, play it again. [x3]
[Kim Hill:]
It's the jam, it's the jam, it's the jam, it's the jam
It's got groove it's got feelin'
"A chick-a-doom, a chick-a-doom chick-a-doom doom"
It's the jam, it's the jam, it's the jam, it's the jam
It's got groove it's got meanin'
"A chick-a-doom, a chick-a-doom chick-a-doom doom."
[fades out]
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Re: The Black Eyed Peas
von .just.I_am. am 31.12.2010 12:52Rap Song
Wyclef on guitar.. with the black eyed peas
Here go the rap song, they wanna sing it to y'all
She like a rap song (she like a rap song)
She like a rap song (she like a rap song)
She like a rap song (she like a rap song)
She like a rap song (she like a rap song)
You're like a hip-hop song y'know
I wanna be your "buddy" like de la soul
Let me "rock +them+ bells" like I'm ll
I like you in a kangol and gazelles
Here's a ticket come and see me on my "planet rock"
Like the daddy kane, I can be your "smooth op'"
But wait-uh every month you're the flavor
I wanna get a scoop - lat-uh!
She like a rap song (she like a rap song)
She like a rap song ..
She make me clap (how's that) cause she a rap song
She like a rap song
She like a rap song (she like a rap song)
She like a rap song ..
She make me clap (how's that) cause she a rap song
She like a rap song
She was the, "public enemy #1"
She was my, "mona lisa" when we first begun
She got me, "jump-in' around" like Everlast
Singin a, "rap life" with help from tash
She be my, metronome rhythm to my feet
And when we, when we do it do it to the beat
She like, "my melody" done by Eric B., and Rakim
Cause she be rockin me steadily, yo
Yo, she got hips to hops
And she ain't goin' pop
She like a record that I wanna rock
When I'm rollin in my ride cruisin down my block
Yo, and if she was a rap song
She'd be "bonita applebum"
And I wanna put you on
I'm puttin you on, you're my favorite song
She like a rap song (she like a rap song)
She like a rap song ..
She make me clap (how's that) cause she a rap song
She like a rap song
She like a rap song (she like a rap song)
She like a rap song ..
She make me clap (how's that) cause she a rap song
She like a rap song
She makes me say 'ho' but she ain't a "hoe!!"
She "got it made" wit
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Re: The Black Eyed Peas
von .just.I_am. am 31.12.2010 12:51Release
[Will I Am:]
Just had a show tonight
Voice all scraggly and all...
Yo Tab and Ap let's go interact
Matter of fact let's attack 'em with the contact
Make the ultimate impact leave 'em hunchbacked
Light 'em up with the mic like we pyromaniacs
Feel the power when I unlash exact
There's no kinda act tactics that can stop that
When I climax I'm a like kick a hole in that
Sympathetic non poetic crap you callin' a rap
And I might revitalize your cardiac
So you can realize the heart of rap recited by the Black Eyed Peas
I'm a seize your income
And freeze all the competition and then some
I flip a show up in the Hamptons
Rip it down to Compton
Performin' my anthem
You know, you know
You know that's the joint that's the jam
Look I got some new sh..
We came to do it again.
[Chorus:]
Scream if you need to just let it out, let it out, let it out, let it out.
Holla if you need to just let it out, let it out, let it out, let it out.
Vent if you need to just let it out, let it out, let it out, let it out.
Yourself just let it out, y'all just let it out, holla and let it out.
[APL:]
Introduction, here's a new concussion
I'm a break it down like a mechanical conductant
Eruptin' volcanic lyrically meanin' somethin'
All you mutha....... sayin' nothin' need to stop them
Time to break forth, ain't no goin' back now
Movin' on for the better things that's my profile
Uproar uncontrollably make you say loco (Spanish word)
(Line in Spanish)
Creates so soul sonically makin' you bounce your
Energetic created terror shakin' your dance halls
One in a million with the mission, bringin' in back, raw
Talent on the mic will excite better than dropped bras
Anybody lost follow the source of course
BEP the family bringin' you the strongest force
Bridgin' it on every angle and make ya dance
From the mic APL De Ap is on demand.
[Chorus:]
Scream if you need to just let it out, let it out, let it out, let it out.
Holla if you need to just let it out, let it out, let it out, let it out.
Vent if you need to just let it out, let it out, let it out, let it out.
Yourself just let it out, y'all just let it out, holla and let it out.
[Taboo:]
Me and microphone go like source for me and warn
My delivery is news like get on your mark
When it's on then it's on step on stage and perform
If your scared then step off 'cause your pride be all gone
If it's time that you leave, go ahead then proceed
If it's skills that you lack
Take 20 steps back
It's a slap you will get
If you try and disrespect
The crew is the Peas
And we 'about to do the next
Es asi si asi musica es para mi
Para ti parate si tu quieres entender
Muevele muevele para hombre y mujer
Asi es eso es 'ora si puedes ver
Mirame voy hacer lo que vas a conocer
Esto es all for you
Spanish tongue your speakin' to
Makin' moves, makin' moves Angry Foot is makin' moves
Makin' moves, makin' moves Black Eyed Peas is makin' moves.
[Chorus:] [x2]
Scream if you need to just let it out, let it out, let it out, let it out.
Holla if you need to just let it out, let it out, let it out, let it out.
Vent if you need to just let it out, let it out, let it out, let it out.
Yourself just let it out, y'all just let it out, holla and let it out.
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Re: The Black Eyed Peas
von .just.I_am. am 31.12.2010 12:50Bridging the Gaps
(Will)
Yea
Kimmy kim kimmy kim kimmy kim kimmy kim
Why don't ya take it to the place where we're fillin' the skylight?
Where we'll be fillin' in the skylight
Uh huh
Check it out
(Will)
We be the connection to
Everything from calypso to
Hip hop down to bee bop
Now come rock slip slide to mine
B-boy niggas are gonna push butt
Rock-n-roll brothas are bound to serve it up
Got the leak so put the peas on turf
So get your waterproof walkman and go surf
John mcenroe get the kids all wacky
Jamal anderson look now he's from back in
The day now he runnin' over niggas for the fightin'
Instead of lookin' over all y'all brothas from the balcony
But we constructin' the bridge
So y'all could come and visit
This goes out to every pea that exists
How we doin' it?
Yo, it's like this
(Chorus:)
We bridging the gaps
We brought a little somethin' to
Start bridging the gaps
We brought a little somethin' to
Start bridging the gaps
We brought a little somethin' to
Start bridging the gaps
And it goes like...
(APL)
We direct, revolutionizing new concepts
Emergining binaries to prove success
Stereotypical they won't get it
We breakin' the barriers, some sonic shit
La to kingston to london bridge
New york to germany to brooklyn bridge
Also my people in the golden gate bridge
Innovators creatin' new rich
Got them skate kids sayin' "Let's rock"
Got them brothas sayin' "Yo let's get fly"
Got the whole south sayin' "You feel me?"
Got them chulos sayin' "You feel me?"
Every type of people be feelin' my section
Cuz we be expandin' to a wider selection
Now this goes out to everything that exists
Yo how we doin' it?
We do it like this
Come on
(Chorus:)
Do do do do do do do
Do do do do do do do
Do do do do do do do
Do do do do do do do
(Taboo)
Legacy must live on
Legacy must live on
Legacy must live on
Make sure that the bridge is strong
Make sure that the gap is wide
Supply the future that we provide
Won't commit and just go inside
Give me room so I can dip and di
Show you how we hypnotize
Angry foot is gonna tell you why
We built this bridge for the people in the park
We built this bridge for the dummies in the dark
And we built this bridge for the children in the light
We built this bridge for the skeezers with sight
And we built this bridge for my brothas that are blind
We built this bridge for the ones that use their mind
And we built this bridge for everybody
For everybody
(Chorus:)
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Re: The Black Eyed Peas
von .just.I_am. am 31.12.2010 12:50On My Own
(Les Nubians)
All on my own (4X)
(Will.I.Am)
We gonna build this bridge on our own
Original creation and let it be known
No duplication that I can condone
Constant elevation till I'm fully blown
I'm on my own now in my own world feeling free
Can't change the way I am with your insanity
I'ma stay who I be can't nobody change me
Got my soul to protect and support my family
(Les Nubians)
(verse in french)
All on my own(3X)
(Alp De Ap)
I'm all by myself no one can help me guy
Plus I'm the only one that know what it's about
I gotta stay calm to figure it out
It's gonna relax, stop, shout
You know you gotta breath in to breath out
I stay cool and collect of ??? cool out
I can't end on my own or go out that way
So why I gotta listen to what people got to say
I stay I stay
(Les Nubians)
All on my own (3X)
All on my
(Mos Def)
Yo I know self own self
To control self
Avoid or destroy
Whatever did to po' self
When brother's right muslim right and compose self
Stay on the grind to protect feet and clothe self
Stay true to self do for self do improve the self
To elevate the next man we need-could use some help
For long time I got a plan to see the root to self
So when the strong wind come it don't remove the self
We born alone and die alone but we don't strive alone
B E P 'N M O S blaze the trail and we ride it
(Les Nubians)
All on my own
(repeat)
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Re: The Black Eyed Peas
von .just.I_am. am 31.12.2010 12:49Cali to New York
As soon as a la stepped off (the floor)
People started hollerin (for more)
Beggin us to bless 'em with an (encore)
You know the peas they game to that (for sure)
No matter what the coast we, be on
Pacific or atlantic we, stay strong
Foreign or domestically, we conquer
All obstacles professionally and rock on
And that's exactly how we made it rock (made it rock)
We turn this on and then we make it hot (make it hot)
We also known to cause a state of shock (state of shock)
We start at 2 then go to 10 o'clock (10 o'clock)
10 o'clock the next day that is (day that is)
No matter what city or state that is (state that is)
Don't ask no questions, that's the way that is (way that is)
Don't ask no questions, that's the way that is
(chorus - 4x)
Back, back, back, back, and forth
From ca-li to new york
(verse two: pos)
Introduce posdonus y'all ('nus y'all)
Sticky like cous-cous y'all (cous y'all)
Be the words that I ap-ply (ap-ply)
My peeps mass, karma n.y. (n.y)
Check it out, you see you other emcees, sound like brother emcees
Raised by the same pop and mother emcees
While I got a lot of brand in my name, I'm recognizable
Leavin me the cash amount, that's quite sizable
Rich in that english that's broke as hell
That's why my niggaz in the hood understand me so well
Its the modern rap type talk
Used to walk, all over your ears
You hear the thump, this track pumps like, well order
Some others fell short of the line of finish
You didn't practice harder at the scrimmage
Now my image is the golden cup
My career is dirty compared to yours, it's all washed up
(chorus - 4x)
Back, back, back, back, and forth
From ca-li to new york
(verse three: dove)
We, we, we, we regulate and cross plates, destruct ya
Toss coins to distract it and we bust ya
Minds blow bigger than tempers out in russia
Cuss like a sailor, make you shame like thelya
Stitch a verse tailored to fit
Spray paintin' your spit
On the deco we art, spread apart
I raid mo' tracks than flicks in "beat street"
With kicks until the sole/soul wear out, never that!
We weather that, you light in the ass and feather that
Heavy like black leather coats, you pleather that
Last dick on the line, we way ahead of that
Squeezin like freddie foxx, and his two glocks
Rocks don't impress niggaz who speak to god
We get jams to make a tuna melt
Held down by the bep, we strictly, new getty
Two-fifty up in front of the mic, so what it look like?
(chorus to fade)
Back, back, back, back, and forth
From ca-li to new york
.just.I_am.
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Re: The Black Eyed Peas
von .just.I_am. am 31.12.2010 12:49Hot
(apl de ap)
It's so amazing when a show is captivatin'
Gettin' everybody jumpin' and celebratin'
Only one's own musically be overlayin'
Connecting energy circulatin' inspiration
Together movin' in a synchronized formation
And if you're feelin' down this is survival from depression
You see the lesson is we're rhyming for our mission
Abolish circumstance transmitting from a piston
Taking what i can but keeping peace in moderation
Ap is like an eagle with the alligator patience
Ready to attack any mic that i am facin'
No limitation where i'm takin' my creation cuz
(will)
We got we got we got it like that
We got we got we got it like that
We got we got we got it like that
We got we got we got it like that
(chorus)
You're so amazing, you're so hot and so blazing
You're hot, hot, hot (c'mon stop)
Hot, hot, hot (c'mon now)
You're so amazing, you're so hot and so blazing
You're hot, hot, hot (ooh wee)
Hot, hot, hot (c'mon now)
(will)
I'm more than ready to slice like machete
Leave ya like confetti
Break hearts like tom petty
Are you ready?
Cuz i am every metaphor
You are nearly ready for
The media predator
Cuz i'll bust in your session and kick my own raps, yes
Grab the microphone and show you where the forms at
Tell your girl adapts cuz the rhyme contact
And she easily attracted to it just like that
It's like this cuz the way we capitvatin'
We put her in a situation where she debatin'
If she gonna up and jump and leave her mate and
Go promote for us down at the radio station
She likes the
She really likes the music we be makin'
She likes the
She wants to be down when we creatin'
She likes the
She likes the way the vibe's vibratin'
Yo, yo
She likes the way the vibes y'all ratin'
(chorus)
We got we got we got it like that
We got we got we got it like that
We got we got we got it like that
We got we got we got it like that
We got we got we got it like that
Cuz we got got it like that
We got we got we got it like that
We got got got we got it like that
(taboo)
1,2, 3 taboo is on the set
It's the family clique broshiggez (aw shit)
Boy don't fret everything's aight
We gonna fall on up when luis in flight
Yo, fuck the rhyme tryin' we on poetic control
Nevermind the behind and step ahead of your soul
And move on to the next with the words we bless
Cuz black eyed peas is comin' hotter than sex
We're writin', rhymin', makin' the beats
Okay, hip hop blazers bringin' the heat
Motivate cut, cut and scratch the groove
Elevate then make them powerful moves
How amazin' is it?
It's so amazin' the blind be gazin'
Even got deaf people listenin' and sayin'
Keep on
And ya don't stop
We got the music that makes your body hot
You're so amazing, you're so hot and so blazing
You're hot, hot, hot (c'mon now)
Hot, hot, hot (ohh wee)
You're so amazing, you are so hot and so blazing
You're hot, hot, hot (c'mon now)
Hot, hot, hot (y'all need to quit)
You're so amazing, you're so hot and so blazing
You're hot, hot, hot (c'mon now)
Hot, hot, hot (c'mon now)
You're so amazing, you're so hot and so blazing
You're hot, hot, hot (its time to go)
Hot, hot, hot (its time to go)
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Re: The Black Eyed Peas
von .just.I_am. am 31.12.2010 12:48Get Original
What?
(Verse One)
A lot of brothers, claimin they hard (HUH?)
I grab the microphone and leave 'em scarred (scarred)
But not scarred physically (WHAT?)
More like scarred mentally (yeah)
I correct your ego (YOUR EGO?)
I'ma show you how it go {*scratch "go"*}
Cause you killin me, ain't no skill in you
With my hands on you I wouldn't be feelin you
Yeah you platinum, but you wack as hell
I dubbed over your single like a Maxell
You need to
Stop now, get original
Start practicin, master your flow
You might as well, turn in your mic
and start collectin dollars at the turnpike
Cause the rhymes you kick, need to be fixed
But you couldn't even fix them {*scratch "in the mix*}
If you ate pebbles, your shit wouldn't rock
You one of them balloons made to go pop
You need to
Stop now, get original
Start practicin, master your flow
Stop now, get original
WHAAAT?
Stop now, get original
Start practicin, master your flow
(Verse Two)
There is really nothin you can do
We about to hit you in your face with my kung-fu
Risky on the microphone, I am
Got the energy of (??) and (??)
I'm about to let you know the deal on how I feel
Many people can't be real, so they gotta chase the steel
What the deal? Is it really all about the bills?
What's the thrill? I'd rather have my soul fulfilled
You gotta
Stop now, get original
Start practicin, master your flow
We delegate the skills to conversating
The loss of motivation of MC's to create
Sent it in for quick hit, waitin for the break
You didn't pay your dues, so you got on Rikki Lake
How does it feel to be the man on top
when everything you got ain't any of your props?
You need to
Stop now, get original
Start practicin, master your flow
Stop now, get original
Stop now, get original
Start practicin, master your flow
(Verse Three - Chali 2na)
When you think about rap in it's entirety
Violence became variety
Silently personalities differ from what they try to be
2na be on the frontline, with rhyme shell I hit you
You're sluggish like a barbituate
We can make you admit you bit
A hectic thrill, connect with Will
and we create with the kung-fu collective skill
The checks get real, people think this shit is hunky-dory
It's another story while we be fightin for re-
-demption pimps and prostitutes get the break they need
With breakneck speed, the fakes succeed indeed
Thinkin life is a party and it's a must to please
But many pop MC's work for Mephistopheles stop it please
Choppin broccoli happily for your company
Publically sellin Satan when really you should be bumpin the truth
So stop now
Stop now, get original
Just practice and master your flow