Stage One: They call me bad lieutenant when my eyes are squinted Child of the seventies and the eighties was in it Lost the first homeboy in the 9-0 and liable To get the gun bucking at 5-0, we tribal I'm from a place where the niggas is jelly And pretend to be your friend and put one your belly And you can keep on yelling, the cops won't come You want beef, we got burgers and then some We from the era when we learned on our own Running wild in the streets with both parents at home Kind of hard to find a young un alone - caused we was crewed up Tagging on the walls, turf wars and getting chewed up St. Paul Slim: Now I don't know about y'all, but I'm 'bout to make a small fortune By taking small things and blowing 'em out of proportion Using sarcasm as my second language Look mom, I'm famous, I mean I'm flagrant You say you write your best rhymes when you high? I say I write my best rhymes cause I'm fly This is why I'm cold on Minnesota nights If you want my CD, I will give you special price He he he, take Trummond's advice St. Paul Slim the best, homie, none of it's hype So please lil' asshole, keep your mouth closed 'Fore your momma be like "Look at my son, he out cold!" Muja Messiah: You could tell I'm focused by the look in my eye You could see I'm dirty by how clean my kicks is You know, I tell the truth, I got no reason to lie Hey, like I tell my chicks "You ain't got a lotta kick it" All I'm trying to do is get a piece of the pie And turn these bricks into a legit business Now run along and go home to your wives And leave me and Slug here to play with these bitches You know I spit the sickest sickness since syphilis Mixed with malaria, fuck it, the more the merrier B-Boy, D-Boy, yep I'm in your area Muja Messiah, uh huh, hello America YZ: Yo, yo, y'all wack, yo, what the fuck is new? I'm back with Atmos and the crew To do this you need style, I thought you knew It's not a diss, yo, it's just my point of view Maybe if I turn sideways, y'all niggas will Throw lyrics my way instead of the highway Now getting ran over by cars and Land Rovers We starred, you sub par, maybe send your man over Pardon, you going step to this Spit phat, not anorexic shit Come stacked, boy, it ain't no need to go there I knock rappers out, y'all scratch and pull hair Brother Ali: I hustle hard for the love of god My life has been the biggest struggle from the bloody start I knuckle up and throw the hands, I'm a thug at heart So when the shit hit the fan, I don't come apart I breathe and shrug it off Atmosphere - the Big Brother's big brothers Catch is here to turn king to wrist cutters Just trust it ain't no regular shit That's a polite asshole and a sensitive pimp You would think it was a party, not a Cadillac Church mosque, have a knack Dr. Dre Training Day rappers don't know how to act Remove 'em all from my sight, like a cataract Poof! It's a magic act Toki Wright: Walk over beats like DMC, three stripes Thievery, three strikes, Visa need three swipes DVDs, jeans, clean cuts, brush dandruff Mobile phones, student loan, courted blown pampers Chilling at the party in my B-Boy stance And they looking at me funny, why, cause they can't dance So I'm cutting up and strutting up, I'm buttercup but just enough To lean on top of this metropolis with binoculars Walk like a pimp, think like a Macintosh Battle scars, off to try to figure out your avatar Leave the cameras on, told your partner that he can't perform Brought a torch to burn the building, he think I'ma hand it to him Blueprint: Yeah, yeah, I solemnly swear To fight the good fight as long as I'm here But sometimes the good fight don't seem fair Cause all the best soldiers we had ain't here They gone now, we all on our own now And most of those left ain't got no style You give 'em a inch they try to take a whole mile Too overconfident to keep a low profile Pump your brakes, stay in your lane A bunch of fakes chasing fame I'll punch your face and take your chains Sit your five dollar ass down before I make change Slug: Break these chips down, count your business Ain't nothing free, it's a James Brown Christmas So god bless the underground now and give it To the sound of the drums, won't none of us outlive it I treat hip hop like a sport Stay on my game, put my time on the court While you complain and get high some more Might explain why your team can't find support Now catch me in the back with a whiskey Chatting up a missy, like I'm attractive and witty I have to dip to do my raps and get busy Why don't you come see me when I'm back in your city?