1.Casualties Of War
Casualties of war!
Casualties of war; as i approach the barricade
Where's the enemy？ who do i invade？
Bullets of teflon, bulletproof vest rip
Tear ya outta ya frame with a bag full of clips
Cause i got a family that waits for my return
To get back home is my main concern
I'ma get back to new york in one piece
But i'm bent in the sand that is hot as the city streets
Sky lights up like fireworks blind me
Bullets, whistlin over my head remind me...
President bush said attack
Flashback to nam, i might not make it back
Missile hits the area, screams wake me up
From a war of dreams, heat up the m-16
Basic training, trained for torture
Take no prisoners, and i just caught ya
Addicted to murder, send more bodybags
They can't identify em, leave the nametags
I get a rush when i see blood, dead bodies on the floor
Casualties of war! (4x)
Day divides the night and night divides the day
It's all hard work and no play
More than combat, it's far beyond that
Cause i got a kill or be killed kind of attack
Area's mapped out, there'll be no, stratego
Me and my platoon make a boom wherever we go
But what are we here for？ who's on the other side of the wall？
Somebody give the president a call
But i hear warfare scream through the air
Back to the battlegrounds, it's war they declare
A desert storm： let's see who reigns supreme
Something like monopoly： a government scheme
Go to the army, be all you can be
Another dead soldier？ hell no, not me
So i start letting off ammunition in every direction
Allah is my only protection
But wait a minute, saddam hussein prays the same
And this is asia, from where i came
I'm on the wrong side, so change the target
Shooting at the general; and where's the sergeant？
Blame it on john hardy hawkins for bringing me to america
Now it's mass hysteria
I get a rush when i see blood, dead bodies on the floor
Casualties of war! (4x)
The war is over, for now at least
Just because they lost it don't mean it's peace
It's a long way home, it's a lot to think about
Whole generation, left in doubt
Innocent families killed in the midst
It'll be more dead people after this
So i'm glad to be alive and walkin
Half of my platoon came home in coffins
Except the general, buried in the storm
In bits and pieces no need to look for em
I played it slick and got away with it
Rigged it up so they would think they did it
Now i'm home on reserves and you can bet
When they call, i'm going awol
Cause it ain't no way i'm going back to war
When i don't know who or what i'm fighting for
So i wait for terrorists to attack
Every time a truck backfires i fire back
I look for shelter when a plane is over me
Remember pearl harbor？ new york could be over, g
Kamikaze, strapped with bombs
No peace in the east, they want revenge for saddam
Did i hear gunshots, or thunder？
No time to wonder, somebody's going under
Put on my fatigues and my camoflouge
Take control, cause i'm in charge
When i snapped out of it, it was blood, dead bodies on the floor
Casualties of war! (4x)
2.Don't Sweat The Technique
Don't sweat the technique(2x)
Let's trace the hints and check the file
Let see who bit to detect the style
I flip the script so they can't get foul.
At least not now, it'll take a while
I change the pace to complete the beat
I drop the bass,'till mc's get weak.
For every word they trace, it's a scar they keep...
'cause when i speak, they freak
To sweat the technique
I made my debut in '86
Wit a melody and a president's mix
And now i stay on target and refuse to miss
And i still make hits
Wit' beats, parties, clubs, in the cars and jeeps
My underground sound vibrates the streets
Mc's wanna beef then i play for keeps
When they sweat the technique
Don't sweat the technique
They wanna know how many rhymes have i ripped in rep., but
Researchers never found all the pieces yet
Scientists try to solve the context
Philosophers are wondering what's next
Pieces are took to last who observe them
They couldn't absorb them, they didn't deserve them
My ideas are only for the audience's ears
For my opponents, it might take years
Pencils and pens, are swords
Letters put together form a key to chords
I'm also a sculpture, born with structure
Because of my culture, i'm a rip and destruct the
Difficult styles that'll be for the technology
Complete sights and new heights after i get deep
You don't have to speak just seek
And peep the technique
But don't sweat the technique
I speak indiscreet cause talk is cheap
Then i get deep and the weak then complete their
Pull with a seat, never weak or obsolete
They never grow old techniques become antiques
Better then something brand new 'cause it's radiant
And the wild style'll have much more volume
Classical too intelligent to be radical
Masterful, never irrelevant： mathematical
Here's some soothing souvenirs for all the years
They fought, and sought, the thoughts and ideas
It's cool when you freak to the beat
But don't sweat the technique
Don't sweat the technique (2x)
3.Juice (know The Ledge) ＊(Know The Ledge)
＊ - originally appeared on the juice sndtrk
Sip the juice cuz i got enough to go around,
And the thought takes place uptown
I grew up on the sidewalk where i learned street talk,
And then taught to hawk new york-
I go to queens for queens to get the crew from brooklyn,
Make money in manhattan and never been tooken,
Go uptown and the bronx to boogie down,
Get strong on the island, recoupe, and lay around.
Time to bulid my juice back up-
Props back up, suckers get smacked up
Don't doubt the clout, you know what i'm about
Knocking niggaz off, knocking niggaz out
Shaking em up, waking em up
Raking em up, breaking em up...
Standing on shaky grounds too close to the edge
Let's see if i know the ledge
Corners' trifling 'cause shorty's here
I get cock-d liffin' forty's of beer;
Here's a sip for the crew that's deceased,
If i get revenge, then they rest in peace.
Somebody's got to suffer, i just might spare one-
And give a brother a fair one!
Stay alert and on 'p's'.
And i do work with these- like hercules,
Switch to southpaw, split your right jaw
'cause i don't like y'all, i'm hype when night fall.
Smooth but i move like an army
Bulletproof down in case brothers try to bomb me,
Putting brothers to rest like elliot ness
'cause i don't like stress
Streets ain't a place for innocent bystanders to stand
Nutting's gonna stop the plan
I'll chill like pacino, kill like deniro
Black gambino, die like a hero
Living on shaky grounds too close to the edge
Let's see if i know the ledge!
Shells lay around on the battleground
Dead bodies are found throughout the town.
Tried to put shame in my game to make a name, i'm a
Put it on a bullet, put it in your brain.
Rip the block like a buckshot,
Who cares where it goes, just keep the casket closed,
No remorse when a life is lost
I paid my dues- paid the cost!
...and my pockets are still fat,
Wherever i'm at, i get the welcome mat.
Even if my crew steep with one deep
I attract attention, people like to peep
So come say hi to the badguy
Don't say goodbye, i don't plan to die!
'cause i get loose and i got troops
And crazy juice!
In control of many like ayatollah khomeini
Hang out wit smith and wesson, don't try to play me.
I'm at war alot, like anwar sadat..
But no warning shot, my gun is warm alot.
When i cook beef, the smoke will never clear,
Areas in fear but this here's a fear!
Living life too close to the edge
Hoping that i know the ledge....
A brand new morn, no time to yawn
Shower's on, power's on
Late for school, i catch the train
Girls sip 'cristal' and whisper my name
I push up like an exercise,
Check the intellect and inspect the thighs
Select the best one, pull her to the side
Keep her occupied for the rest of the ride
Read my resume she's know i'm 'ready cool
Just meet me after school,
We can moan and groan until your mom come home ,
And you be calling me al 'dope' capone.
Sweatin' me, she didn't want to let me loose-
Come get me, that's if you want to sip the juice
Cause the streets await me, so i take my gun off safety
Cause alot of niggaz hate me
Coming out of the building, they set me up
Sprayed wit automatics, they wet me up
In a puddle of blood, i lay close to the edge
I guess i didn't know the ledge.....
4.Keep The Beat
She asked could i keep the beat
So here's the beat, everytime it pounds, you get weak
Comfy, imbedded like a pillow, bouncin wit an echo
My voice is moist, and plus mellow
I got it going on, you're gonna wanna come
Skins is the drum, (i) said i'm the drummer, give the drummer
some
And we'll see if you can hang wit ra
Hm, let's see if you can shangri-la
Easy ...like tina marie i play it slick
Like rick james, i'm the fire in your desire's flames;
I heat up your temperature, keep the tempo raw
When you start to smoke, rest assured
I start to think 'cause you're a singer like anita
High pitched like a tweeter, deep beats start to beat her
Much harder than love taps, my rap's above that
I get girls where i want wit a maze full of lovetraps
But i don't want to fall in love
I stand in love, good balanced wit a plan to shove
Accapella as we start to speak
Heart to heart and cheek to cheek then i complete the beat
(chorus)
Tempo's moving and i'm hoping it'll never fade away...
The beat is grooving, words are soothing and please tell me that
you're here
To stay
In the morning and i'm hoping the morning come again
Hold me close and give me another dose and
Keep the beat don't ever let it end
She said, ah, so far, you didn't miss a beat yet
Pop in another cassette, then i'm in to wreck
I'll give you a beat you never had before,
I had to explore and came up wit more
Deep trunk kicks wit a brick for a drum stick
You know the song, don't hum along, come quick
You lay like sade, it feels like paradise
At the top of the pyramid, we review new heights
The scenery of egypt, you and me as we get
So deep in the groove, when you move, you get seasick
You seen enough, close your eyes and relax
Move wit the tracks and stay tuned for the sax
The instrumental, enters your mental..
Tense but gentle and, sentimental,
Accapella as we start to speak
Heart to heart and cheek to cheek then i complete the beat
Chorus
She wanted the extended version
So i kept splurging and add more words in;
Strong： the emotion, notions move and
The poetry's smoking, potions soothing,
There goes the moon, i'm far from done,
Rise like the sun, here comes the sun
And i won't stop 'till it sets and then
Rewind the cassettes and i'm a play it again;
But this time it's instrumental at a faster tempo
All i wanna hear is 'yea rakim, go'!
I work overtime on your body and mind
'cause i'm incline to do both combined
My job is never done but done well
Horizontal or parallel
Accapella as we start to speak
Heart to heart and cheek to cheek then i complete the beat
Chorus
5.Kick Along
Kick along (3x)
If you like it accapella; soul clap will be sweet,
Almost complete.
Feel the impact when it hit the street
But uh, it sound thicker when i kick it wit a beat
See i can let it speak for itself
But every now and then, i need a little help
Guess who, to the rescue ？ comp!
Ripping up comp, i step and then stomp
A spark scam'll skin the land like it's a timberland
Prepare the stage for rakim to stand
Then i pick a song, grab the mic, click it on
Time to get it on, kick along
See if you can move to the words i speak
Pick up on a rhythm (kickin' wit da beat)
My menta-llect gets warm, feed into your physical form
You can't keep calm
Get fit to the skit, try to hop on-
Get up to the trick as i flip the script
You're feeling rust like a thrust of an arrow, plus,
You're looking through the eye of a barrel, bus!
Emergency! take him to the operating room,
Put him on the floor, let his heart feel the boom
React to the wrath of a brand new song
Then kick along
Kick along (5x)
A kick is a hip wit hop
A pep wit step like the floor is hot
I project alot so you can use every kick you got
But don't forget, don't kick when i stop
I'm something like simon says
As i'm pumping hype rhymes in your heads
The mic's a remote control and i'm pointing it at cha
When i push buttons, you're gonna have ta
Break straight to the floor
'cause i'm a make more
Each one's composed in the shows
And each one flows, how long, nobody knows
And whoever try to take 'em, i'm a break 'em
Drag it out of him, dehydrate 'em
The beat makes the beat in your heart accelerate
Your pulse is a drumroll, it's too late to wait
A pen'll send adrendaline to ten
If then begin to blend the smooth that's sent;
That's to prevent you from getting asthma
You try to keep up, because, the cut has ya
Blood pressure to the point, never stops a drop
Putting stain in the veins in the brain, ya blood clots!
Too quick to pause it, you almost lost it
So kick along to you're all exhausted
And look what my data made! my power'll never fade
I keep it energetic, or hype as gatorade...
Now kick it wit a beat
C'mon, kick along
Kick along(3x)
They can't wait to kick steps to this
So i make a skit just for kicks
Syncopated, pausing though,
Innovated 'cause the flow
Melodic and melodramatic styles occur,
Like a choreographer, my mind's a photographer
Making music visible for the individual
That gets visual
What i manifest you express on the dance floor
Pants get torn when the jam is on
'cause i kick rhymes until the rhymes kick back
It's hard to kick that, where did'cha get that
Here's the concept, part of you're concert
Expect the expert to perfect and do work.
Don't stop the song 'til i'm gone
Keep getting it on, kick it off with the horns
Kick along
Kick along(2x)
Kick it wit a beat
6.Pass The Hand Grenade
Pass the hand grenade
It's gonna blow 'cause i took out the pin
Detach the detonator, data send
Programmed wit protons, eqipped wit predicates
Electrons and elements just fit
Your pronoun hits the ground and that's that
Hit the floor like a meteor so get back
Commas, punctuation marks separate, it sparks
Follow the course in to avoid getting sharked
More volts than a lightning bolt： handle with care!
I'm far from fragile, warfare won't tear
I'm armed and dangerous, trained for combat
Let off rounds and they won't just bomb back
Explosions i made to invade your parade-
Your weak beats' decay 'till they can't get played!
Wrong elements in the mic, they get sprayed
Pass the hand grenade
After the stage gets warm, i heat it up
The crowd gets charged, i speed it up
They couldn't get warm, gimme a cut
The rhyme gets good, so eat it up
Food for thought until your thoughts is sore,
Fill up a colosseum, i can serve them all
Bake another plate, and cook it far from raw
And if your overweight, then here's some more....
'cause every dish i make tastes great and
Plus filling, if i sold a third of my rhymes, i make a killing,
Get the salt and pepper from the maid
Get the blood off the blade, pass the hand grenade
If you try this, your response is tonsilitis,
I'm leaving authors and writers with arthritis;
You got the slightest ideas, i got the brightest
Here's the lightest, so clear, it's out of sight, it's
Darkness, from the darkness, came the light
The night is the time for ra to recite it.
Educated, but complicated style
For all the biters, i'm shutting rappers up like midas
I got the force of a turbo porsche
You get lost in the sauce and then thrown off course
You can't destroy the decoys so detour!
No sense of direction, so what'cha speed for？
You wouldn't of never made it, how many styles have i created？
So many rhymes i bust, ya frustrated,
Then the mic will self sestruct, you'll get sprayed!
Pass the hand grenade (3x)
7.Relax With Pep
Relax with pep
My styles will move
I'm calm but deadly, heat up but cool
I'm rough as a right hook but still look smooth
Even when i'm unseen, i show and prove
Women, i give 'em pain and still soothe
As i 'll put you down ？(when them)？, hard to put up wit
Swell up like helium but i can make you fit
I'm taking what i want and make you wanna give it here
Provoking you to flaunt, you get the idea
Got it, gone, my schedule is packed
My day is lay back 'cause i'm ahead of all that
Then i can relax 'cause i'm before my time
I hand you a manual before the rhymes
So you can catch up and keep up and move right alone
The day is kind of off but i can get it on
I'm taking it step by step and when the night is in depth
It's cool 'cause i'm relax wit pep
Relax wit pep
Relax wit pep
I inchant a riot wit a quiet storm
Is it the way i parlay or the knowledge being born
All praise due to the magnificient, most high and magnificient
From him, i was sent wit intent to invent
New ways for better displays, for better days
No more crimes, i got rhymes and it pays
I'm prepared to take mine and get mine
And i can protect mine even wit a rhyme or a nine
A silent rage but ？(i'm amplified)？
Rhymes multiply, it's hard to provoke when i
Put a mode in effect, the episode's correct
Reload and you don't know code to respect
I get swift and change a rule, adapt the master
But still remainable, rap gets faster
Reacts and projects and tracks and it get
To the max, it's in depth, it attacks but it's relax wit pep
Relax wit pep
Relax wit pep, relax wit pep
Check one, them i'm a check another one, two
The r's brand new so you can view a view
I got equisite, exhibit, explizzit
Is it a whiz kid or kid quiz it, well is it
Relax, i'll track out, lap the halpf stepper
Here come the right one baby and dr. pepper
So check the wreck up scale rhymes overload
Blow up and explode, abrupt and reload the code
You can't pinpoint a low cape, the rape
Or evaluate the up to date, skate
Up front, laid back, coming off on track
Girls want some of this because i'm all of that
Sweat the concept as the ？(epps)？ in depth
As the track is kept, you can't intercept the step
React and projects and it tracks and it gets
To the max and in depth, it attacks but it's relax wit pep
Relax wit pep
Relax wit pep, it's relax wit pep
8.Rest Assured
Double oh seven is back..
Double oh seven is back..
Double oh seven is back..
I don't stress my day cause it's best to parlay
I guess you could say i've been away
I wake up slow when i'm hot but i destruct the plant
And fourteen hands comb new york for fans
They make waves as they wiggle in my waterbed
Pull back the leather covers and silk bedspread
A mornin massage turnin into a real rough rubdown
So i figured i'll lay around
They keep me wet with a juice called tahiti
It make the room steamy, so soon they couldn't see me
They know more than calisthetics as they worked up a sweat
It wasn't even ten o'clock yet
Scrub down, then i get moist, they never treat me mean
They sweetly keep me squeaky clean
I chill as they filled the jacuzzi
I said, 'i'm tight from a real long flight, could you soothe me
Support my thoughts, cause i got a lot of writing to do'
They said, 'cool,' and just enjoyed the view
It ain't hard cause it's miles from the sidewalk
I'm overlookin every borough in new york
The entire, empire, state to concentrate
For every rhyme i make
So at exactly noon they played my favorite tune
And just before they all cleared the room
They said, 'we're glad you're home from tour, now we feel secure
We wish you didn't have to leave no more'
But they wanna go to war, they even tried to shoot up the door
Double oh seven is back..
Rest assured
Double oh seven is back..
Feel secure
Double oh seven is back..
I'm fillin up the page when i'm steppin on stage
Got the people in a rage with they hands in the air
Fellas sayin hoe, everybody yellin go
Fly ladies in the house all screamin 'awww yeah'
That's how they react when i attack the mic
In fact it's like a stack of dynamite, powerful and bright
Girls love to squeeze me real tight
Double oh seven is back..
Ra has returned, to romance em, better than johnny handsome
When i was young, women said, 'damn son'
Ain't nuthin change but the year and i'm still here
C'mere dear and let me whisper in your ear
Hug my words so i can taste your lips
I set up hips like domino chips
But i don't let em hit the floor
And if you got sore, then feel secure
Where's the pain, is it the spot you set us in
Almost magic, better than medicine
Take one of these and put your mind at ease
I get more work than a lot of m.d.'s
If i'm hawkin new york, or out on tour
I express the raw dialect and explore
But don't get fooled by metaphor
Double oh seven is back
Rest assured
Feel secure
Rest assured
Rest assured
Yo, feel secure
9.Teach The Children
No more time to pass time 'cause these are the last rhymes,
'cause we're living in the last times...
They wanna go to war, more wars to come
But most of us fight more wars than one
Discrimination in the racial nation
While they destroy our strong foundation
Nature's balance is way off balance
They tip the scale, now it's no more silence
The hole in the ozone layer is outta control
But they wanna fight for more oil and gold
Unemployment, i got laid off
The streets is the last resorts to get paid off
For more, more mint, no doe for rent
I gotta shed blood to make a red cent
Maybe i should ask the president
Somebody give me the president
But he don't want to hear it, it's out of the question
'cause in my section it's worse than recession
So i go to a rich neighborhood and play robin hood
Take from the bad and give to the good
First i go to bensonhurst, steal a benz, snatch a purse
Pick up my friends, that's when it gets worse
'cause i need government and they need government
Alot of mint spent, now i gotta pay rent
Who makes the most dead presidents in the projects
You're gonna get robbed and wrecked
I parked up the block to plot on a kid that made a knot
Let's get him for all he got
I approached him slow like i was a basehead
Put the fo-fifth to his face and said
You see those kids over there wit the hoods
Walk to them real slow and give them the goods
First the gun and the doe and crush the jumbos
One false move and no one knows
'cause i got a silencer to hush the bust
And i'm in a rush, so hush the fuss
Plus the poison you fed will no longer spread
You good as dead, i'm a fill your head wit lead
That's when i pushed him into his building
To murder him ...but i remember the children...
Chorus：
We gotta teach the children everyday, keep a song
Show them the light, teach them right from wrong
Make some sense so they can carry on
Teach the children
We gotta teach the children so that they can sing along
Understand the words in this song
Can't be done when we're gone, so...'
Teach the children ,save the nation
I see the destruction, the situation
They're corrupt, and their time's up soon
But they'll blow it up and prepare life on the moon
Sounds like total recall
But who gotta spaceship, you get it, we fall
So hope for the best and expect the worst
The end is near and it's u-n-i verse...
The one's that interfere wit nature
Labeled you limited and underrate ya,
His plans over rule when he separates ya
Now it's u-n-i verse, the one that hates ya
So we gotta let them know, we're hip to the script
Change the skit, or we're about to flip
'cause we want access to happiness
Livin' the good life and much success
Equal opportunity
Self awareness and unity
Education, the kids need a sculpture
Teach them the abacus and their culture...
And that'll help stop the robbing, raping and killing
Poison neighborhoods are illing
But they import more keys from across seas
A drug disease hits the streets wit ease
So keep on building.... 'cause we gotta keep building
Till the answers are filled in
And make sure you don't stop till then...
And if you do, remember the children!
10.The Punisher
Kill him again!
Try to identufy the man in front of ya
But it ain't the role, the gear, or the money, the
Swift intellectionist with pleny, ya
Bite, if it's dark i'll spark every one of ya,
I throw a mic in the crowd, it's a question,
I got the answer..it includes directions：
'go manufacture a mask, show me after
A glass of a master that has to make musical massacre...'
Attack your wack 'till it's handicapped,
You'll never hold the mic again, try to hand it back,
Cuz every rapper that comes, i cut off his thumbs,
Put a record to his neck, if he swallows it hums!
Slice from ear to ear-so 'till can hear better,
Before he bleed to death, here, hear every letter!
And you can see quick and thick the blood can get
If you try to change the style or the subject;
As i get deep in the rhyme i'm becomin' a
Emcee murderer...before i'm done, i'm a
Prepare the chamber, the torture's comin' up,
Trip through the mind, at the end you'll find it's
The punisher....
Kill 'em again!
I hold the mic as hostage, emcees are ransome,
Rhymes'll punish 'em cuz they don't undertsand 'em,
I heat up his brain, then explain then i hand him
A redhot microphone...that's how i planned 'em,
Rhymes call information(？), unite midnught(？),
Like a platoon putting bullet wounds in the mic,
If ya curse me, it ain't no mercy,
Give him a autopsy, killed by a verse of me,
I took a kid and cut off his eyelid,
Kill him slow so he could see what i did,
And if he don't understand what i said,
I'm pushing his eyeballs way to the back of his head
So he can see what he's getting into,
A part of the mind that he never been through,
A journey is coming cuz ya getting sent to
A place harder to find but it's all in the mental,
I ran a brainscan to locate his game plan,
When i'm through with his brain he ain't the same, man!
Did he lose his mind or lost in his mind,
But this ain't the lost and found because ya can't find
Your foundation; coasting, your mind is
Drifting, in slow motion..frozen,
Looks like another murder at the mardi gras, b!
Too late to send out a search party,
Once ya out of ya head then ya can't get back,
I give 'em a map, but he still get trapped, so
Prepare the chamber, the torture's coming up,
Trip through the mind, at the end you'll find it's the
punisher....
Kill 'em again!
Dangerous rhymes (are) performed like surgery,
Cuts so deep you'll be bleeding burgundy,
My intellect wrecks and disconnects your cerebral cortex,
Your cerebellum is next!
Your conscience becomes sub-conscious,
Soon your response is nonsense....
The last words are blurred...mumbled then slurred,
Then your verbs are no longer heard,
You get your lung fried so good you're tongue-tied,
He couldn't swing or hang so he hung 'till he died,
Reincarnate him...and kill him again...again and again...again
and again...
I leave him in the mausoleum so you can see him,
I got a dead-mc'ing museum,
When i create 'em, i cremate 'em and complicate 'em,
You can't save 'em...there's no ultamatum,
Mic's lay around full of ashes, with the victim's name in
slashes,
Got a long list and i'm a get every one of ya...
Beware of the punisher!
Then i'm a kill 'em again!
Wake 'em up...kill 'em again!
11.What's Going On？
What's going on？
What's happening, it's been so long, what's going on
And what's going wrong？ the good old days are gone
You forgot your plot and your plans as a young man
You invented a scam even you don't understand
You rig the enigma, can't figure it out
You change the route, now you're in doubt
You use to cut class, smoked grass, still passed,
Figured you was all that but that ain't last;
The times is harder, the drugs is heavier
You say whatever, the more, the merrier;
Smoke chokes your dreams and blurs your scenes,
Now a young man fiend change his plan to schemes;
No more good times, no more time,
Too far to find, you're almost blind,
You can't see what spot that the trap is in...
(hey bra!)what's happening!
You had it mapped out, your plans get torn,
You stayed up for days and now your dreams are gone
You said you quit, stated your word is bond
(hey bro) what's going on？
What's going on？
My neighborhood don't look so good
I'll find a way out.. yeah, i would if i could,
But the government is doing a project...
So i live in the projects;
Where we fight for elbow room to the doom,
Try to live long but you die too soon,
I might not be alive to see 25,
Taught at ten to make money and strive;
I sold tapes at school and made some ends
Met alot of skins and even made some friends,
Cool, 'cause now i got a crew to run wit,
Break a couple of rules, have crazy fun wit;
But every now and then, they give my knuckle game a test,
But i won't fess, i just get rid of the stress!
And then shake hands like a man,
'cause it's a family thing, only the crew would understand!
But you had a one on one fight wit drugs,
When we ain't cool no more, we buss slugs,
Clip after clip, until one of us is gone...
(hey bra!) what's going on？
Yo, what's going on？
The crime rate in new york state elevate,
A city filled wit hate, more deaths accumulate,
Drug wars daily, alot of blood spilt,
Kids on the playground shot down and kilt!
Nobody wants to live on the 1st floor no more...
'cause stray bullets explore!
We're killing ourselves off slowly but surely,
And at the end of the year, i'm sure many more'll be
Rubbed out in a quest for clout
The rest'll be drugged out, this is bugged out!
Half of the projects is dead or locked up,
Kids getting kidnapped and then found chopped up.
Human abortion create distortions...
And that's just a portion, you know that we're lost when
Babies are addicted to drugs when they are born....!
(hey bra!) what's going on？ (3x)
12.What's On Your Mind
I seen her in the subway, on my way to brooklyn
Hello, good looking, is this seat tooken
On the a-train, picking at her brain
I couldn't get her number, i couldn't get her name
I said i still like your style of fashion
But i hate your hostile, 'itty attitude wit a passion
Is it because brothers like to hawk alot
Is it because your sign don't talk alot
She turned away, no play, i said ok
You don't really look good, i hope you have a bad day
Sat back, relaxed though the ride was tight
I was thinking of the rhymes i wrote last night
Next stop was mine, a familar scene
I was meeting my friend, killer ben in ft green
Where the girls are real, they tell ya how they feel
If you're soft, you're soft, or if you're hard like steel
See i don't bend and i won't rust
And i don't break and i won't bust
Stomped up the street and did i hear a treat？
Hard high heels tappin' on the concrete
I took a peek, it was the girl from the train behind me
Did she live in the area, was she trying to find me？
Hm, i didn't wanna play myself out
I played it off, stopped and i bought a guiness stout
Now was she shy, she didn't walk by
She came in the store then she even said hi
Curiosity- at a high velocity
Maybe possibly she had the hots for me
I said if we're playing games then we're gonna play mine
I'm a lay the rules 'cause it ain't much time
If you hide your feelings, and they hard to find,
I wanna know what's on your mind
Chorus
About a week went by and i called her, 'hello'
I said yo, can i speak to, um, she said no
Hey yo, i know i didn't call, i didn't wanna stress you
Go out my way to impress you, press to undress you
See i wanna get to know you so i can show you
What a strong relationship can grow to
But you gotta trust me and you're gonna love me
Squeeze the phone and hug me, use your mind to rub me
Now how does it feel when my mental, massage ya temple
Telephone's hot from the vibes that i sent you
Now tell me your inner thoughts and deepest emotions
Next you see ectacy's explosions
Now i'm coming to see you to spend some time
I'm a romantic warrior but is it a crime
And if you hide your feelings and they hard to find...
I wanna know what's on your mind
I wanna know what's on your mind
Now it's been months and it's smooth and lovely
I'm in your head so you'll be thinking of me
So we met in queens and went to valley streams
And, uh, couldn't remember the movie we just seen
But it's wednesday, take the train uptown
How do the 125th street sound
Amateur night, showtime at the apollo
Probably be watching bill cosby tomorrow
Then after that get into it, i mean intimate
Every word is an instrument
Making sounds and tones and songs and moans
My lips so close to your ear, it's like headphones
You smile, you said you never know what the day will bring
It's always a new song to sing
The next day i went back to the her rest
Knocked on the door, intentions：finesse
She let me in and had nothing but a neglige on
Smelling like liz claiborne
I sat down and got comfortable and watched the huxtables
She sat next to me and said what's up wit you
I got the feeling for sexual healing
A mental healing ; how you feeling
She caught the effect and said she feel the same
Could you massage my intellect and stop the pain
Desire's yearning, the fire's burning
You hot 'cause it's alot you're learning
Now i'm ready to explore you inner world
It's take a long time cuz i'm just beginning, girl...
Take it easy, cut off the tv
Cut off the lights, use your mind to see me,
Use your physical form if i'm hard to find
'cause now i know what's on your mind...
'cause now i know what's on your mind...
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