Key: Db major
Verse 1
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nah
t right
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here we go
i want you all to understand
i'm down with bdp i got so
and of course I am back
Because these other emcees out here
are so weak and wack
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hey, we will teach them
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BDP will teach them,
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All about the guy who verses down
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But then he lies, what he is to you?
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He's a part -time sucker
Among thousands and thousands
A poet will blow like the breeze,
like the wind,
air is all around us, from what I hear
it's a good thing you found us,
and in a hurry, just in the nick of time,
cause I do 4 things, rhyme,
produce, teach,
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and bring to you new styles,
well here's the first style
right out the polyscope, vocabulary,
difficult isn't it, at least it looks that way
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when you witness it kill,
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meaning to deprive of life,
fiancé, future wife, poet,
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a person who writes poems,
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everyone sees me when I walk into the public,
even the suckers,
I just love it when they get disgusted,
every time I prove,
boogie down productions will move,
meaning to motivate,
let's rhyme straight,
let me just demonstrate why
I won't abbreviate television
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a view of scenes transmit
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ted every single second
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the choice of a new generation
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fired from work
termination quality
can you rock a party without rehearsing
I can anytime on the spot rhymes
many recording artists
can't do it but I'm
artist kicking dust
K plus R S equals one
I don't burn anymore,
I just cook till you're done
And when you're done, then I serve
Like alphabet soup, letters,
words, sentences
Chunks of meat and then a paragraph
Get the meaning,
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then ask the question
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About the guy who first is down
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But then he lies, but he is to you
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He's a part -time sucker
Q -I -Q -I -K, R -R -R -R, L -L -L -S
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My rhymes are fresh, please step back
Let me progress, meaning to advance
You'll only get a glance of me at a time
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Saying some rhyme,
or saying some record
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That you respected, selected
I'm never ever whack or rejected
Challenge BDP to get dissed, expected
I travel the nation by mostly plane
I travel New York by either
Some say that I'm insane, they say,
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why would you want to ride the train?
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But I don't care, as long as I get there
I never used to pay my fare,
but now I think I got to
Because from a jail cell I
can't rock you
That's being incarcerated,
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meaning locked up
A tool, a tool for holding water
The opposite for fresh is stale
The largest sea mammal is a whale
Beer is called ale,
or sometimes it is called brew
A group of human beings is a crew
You know what I'm gonna do?
Explain criminal -minded
Cause not too many people still are blinded
Let me rewind it
And elaborate on blinded
Meaning can't see through me
Hee hee hee hee hee
These people make me laugh
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The way they like to change up the past
So when you're there in class
Learning his story
Learn a little of your story, the real story
It doesn't pay to know
the life and times of someone else
It doesn't benefit your wealth
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or your mental health
but the real self is one with all
The self that's by himself does fall down
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Just like the guy who first was down
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what he is to you
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He's a part -time sucker
Alright, now here we go
Alright, now here we go
triple doesn't count.
triple doesn't count.
triple doesn't count.
to top that off, a double will that a double the
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