Before I start, like to make sure I'm smart Gather my composure, rather my swagger and my culture Pivot my fitted, then begin to rivet, with a change of lyric In other words, I reposition how I sit it, Then make u "feel it" Like I mispronounced Filet, On second thought, I can't make u fill it Like u diggin' ya own grave, 'less u can Kill Bill it A night of the living passed the wait Can u dig it? Why Emcee? Hey, I do it for my village- The pennin' is John Lennon, the beat; is the Beatles Go together like Lennon and the people In some fresh linens and some John Lennon's fresh outta Seagle's The pen and the needles... I'm back at cha, and I Pac' like cap backwards Like a hat's backwards, you know, when the bats backwards Yeah, like a bat catchers The law gotta long arm like a back scratcher But before I leave mine at home Like a bad catcher, I think about my zone Where pimps make scratch off the track like a DJ Easy, that's my zone rappers It's my deck... And if I catch u set trippin' wit my cassette sittin' in a zone rappers: It's not a threat, Cuz it'll span ya where I roam rappers, where I hone my skills They wanna send me back home the devil, is on my heels The wreckingness thing like in a sequences police, i repeat We go together like the Beauty and the Beast Writing is in my veins; The ink is the diesel, the pen and the needles
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