
…[Intro: Ghetts & Bashy]
I know, my cousin Stanaman, he's told me a couple stories about you
I'm not gonna lie-I'm not gonna lie, I'm…
Black whip, all black swag like a panther
Heard through the vine that Stormz' ain't a bad boy
But I take care of my fam, I'm…
…bad, I'm bad, ask Carlos
How they gonna harm us?
Came wearing a flat-cap looking like somebody's father
I brought the bad man here, I…

…[Intro: Ghetts & Bashy]
I know, my cousin Stanaman, he's told me a couple stories about you
I'm not gonna lie-I'm not gonna lie, I'm…
Black whip, all black swag like a panther
Heard through the vine that Stormz' ain't a bad boy
But I take care of my fam, I'm…
…bad, I'm bad, ask Carlos
How they gonna harm us?
Came wearing a flat-cap looking like somebody's father
I brought the bad man here, I…
By Todd Williams
On album December 1994

…” was dropped the reign of the “insects” was over—a streetlevel backlash hit them like Raiddd!!!. All the attention and heavy-heavy commercial rotation had created an “I'm-tired…
…as” Digable Planets.
It's an early summer morning, from the subway car window it looks like rain. I'm on my way…
…like them,” chuckles Knowledge.
He doesn't say too much after that, or too much any other time. While articulate, he's not…

Yah OPTMUS yah yah...
Yu see i done made so many steps in my life but this Haa
This time round im stepping like…
…i am not a clown
Wake up everymorning and im praying to my only_praay
Father in the heavens and im not…
…with courage
So with a new step its obvious that im going for the crown...
Wake up everymorning and im praying to my only
Father in the heavens and im not…

…are gettin much darker
Because the africanism is in effect
So check it out, man!
And try not to bite the lyrics
Poi!
So come…
…my father and you raped my mother africa
And now you wanna laugh at her
I feel like pickin up a razor, and slashin ya
Snatch up…
…in the dance, my lyrics not done
Pray to my father cause yes me are the son
Cause you are the guide and my pro-tection
Any sucker mc must…

…you SUCKA
You beat down my father and you raped my mother Africa
And now you wanna laugh at her
I feel like pickin up…
…[Verse Five: KRS-One]
Well now it's Blastmaster KRS-One
When we come in the dance, my lyrics not done
Pray to my father cause yes me…
…-D-I-E on the mic check
Well I'm up in your face like the wind from a blizzard
Got my wrap around your throat, like you're chokin…

…you SUCKA
You beat down my father and you raped my mother Africa
And now you wanna laugh at her
I feel like pickin up…
…[Verse Five: KRS-One]
Well now it's Blastmaster KRS-One
When we come in the dance, my lyrics not done
Pray to my father cause yes me…
…-D-I-E on the mic check
Well I'm up in your face like the wind from a blizzard
Got my wrap around your throat, like you're chokin…

…are just words
At the moment you are angry at me
I understand but im not biggie
Im not a legend like SLIM SHADY…
The road is full of people, fake people
They are talking shit about me
But I don't give a fuck about them
Because I go on my way I follow myself
Im not…
…am and if you want to change than fuck off
Im not obssesed by you
Im just stressed when I say I love you
Im treated like an animal
I will tell you…

…in your hands. Fuck these niggas man, go get it. Feel me...
[VERSE 1]
Now what it be like/
I was fifteen/
And scheming on big dreams/
And a father not…
…mom I was a burden/
And my brother he observed it/
I was breaking into houses/
With the homies like I owned it shit/
You niggas…
Ima do me/
And focus on the team/
I got the vision of a scholar/
My heart it pumps harder/
And the hunger in my stomach/
Is like a father…

…[lyrics originally transcripted by jimmy dyna & etze]
Emcees spitting pixelated pictures that don't fit into my frame…
…of wearing them
Like, that's how I do
Like heart surgeon's hands my lyrics reach deep inside you
Father figure spitter who's always here…
…of wearing them
Like, that's how I do
Like heart surgeon's hands my lyrics reach deep inside you
Father figure spitter who's always here to advise you [x2]…

…baby.
TRY NOT TO BREATHE LYRICS
I will try not to breathe.
I can hold my head still with my hands at my knees…
…and these are the eyes that I want you to remember. Oh.
I need something to fly over my grave again.
I need something to breathe.
I will try not…
…
Nightswimming deserves a quiet night.
I'm not sure all these people understand.
It's not like years ago…

…I'm being ripped apart
Like, there's needles in my epidermis
Like, my scalp has no connection to my head
Like, where's my father…
…? Father, is that you?
Like, I need my father, father
Oh no, like, I'm dead
Like, I'm hungry, like, I need food
Starvation, no, no, no
Like…
…the hand paint onto the wall while I'm trying to make it sound like I'm not being tortured by thirteen Asian children in my basement…

…be mad at me
And Soph, I know you're worried 'bout me
And I'm quick to tell you don't worry 'bout me
My shoulders are for your tears, don't worry…
…and chilling with some brandy
Pukka Pie or Peter's but not Andy, my family
2016, real niggas on the flat screen
Token white Charlie, Brylcreem…
…if I told you that Twin slept on this?
Not right or wrong, they write me off, I write lyrics
3000 tickets before one could even…
By Don't Flop
On album Ressurection

…nigga
But play lowkey, cause my son got the hammer, I'm playing Odin, nigga
In any account, I get the steel, it's like I'm…
…and let it go like yous a bodybuilder
Fuck you mean? Like Hollow said, I'm gon' hate you till I'm seventy-five
I get them clean shots up…
…to give y'all classics, but all my peers are frozen scared
I did this for my fans, cause me and Chilla, yeah, I know, it's weird
I'm like D…

…in a spin
They try to put lyrics on my time
I rock the rhyme
That heals the blind
Shorten minutes less then five, I
(Culture Freedom…
…it
We're the best inna the dance
Well we have it so we flaunt it
Listen to me Listen
I explain my position
I'm not dissing
But I'm p…
…the rules a bit
Cause I'm Wise Intelligent
For whom they make the A Plus
Now what am I going to tell them
When they say my words not bond?
That them…