[00:01.001] I don't care who first or who last
[00:02.472] I just know y'all betta rock dis at da drop of a dime, baby!
[00:08.879] (Renaissance…) I don't care what y'all say or what y'all do
[00:12.191] But you got to be finished before the music is through
[00:14.969] I don't think they heard me, hold up…
[00:17.913] So here we go, now
[00:19.362] It be the Midnight Maurader on the scene
[00:21.209] Geographically earthed in a place called Queens
[00:23.584] I was formed with my principles, way I displayed
[00:25.857] When I used to cool out where all the other kids played
[00:28.270] Cause I was way too ill, I would hone my skill
[00:31.023] Go out in the park and let my chemicals spill
[00:33.436] Right there, on Farmers Boulevard, I made my mark
[00:36.013] Two dudes, brothers would dip from us, me, and NARCS
[00:38.629] And then my legend would grow on the A-train line
[00:41.122] Where rappers would gather to see me blowin' nicks and dimes
[00:43.535] It was me, Big Pete, Tanya, and Sir Ibu
[00:45.914] When in the heat of the cypher, I was not liable
[00:48.500] For all the casualties of the dutty MCs
[00:51.269] I split the train car like Moses did the Red Sea
[00:53.846] Get it in your head, we gon' rock the dead
[00:56.156] Night of the living MC's, the weak ones fled; c'mon Bus…
[00:59.338] Yo, yo, Godbody, wise intelligence
[01:01.341] Smack ni**as and wrestle with elephants
[01:04.615] My beloved, respect my benevolence, comin' like missiles
[01:07.357] The issue is this, be the s**t you can't rebel against
[01:08.426] Then I sniff out you ni**as that be hidin' in bushes, waassup?
[01:12.633] And strangle ni**as like poisonous octopuses, shut the **** up!
[01:14.921] Back with hazardous weathers and blizzards
[01:17.177] As I spit, stickin' out my tongue like an iguana lizard
[01:19.039] At you corny ni**as (ha!), Animal Planet rap, Wildlife
[01:21.624] Stabbin' you in your back wild nice (Ahhhh!)
[01:23.979] While I hunt and eat you ni**as like food, leavin' you bleedin'
[01:26.893] (Beats!) Rattle the speakers, like some buffalo stampedin'
[01:28.844] If you don't understand what I'm sayin', lyrically
[01:31.205] I'm like goons acci-DENTALLY beating you like gorillas playin'
[01:33.244] (Ha ha!) Bi**hes know when I spit, I be seducin' them
[01:36.711] Countless money with diamonds that's buried in Jerusalem
[01:39.431] The Renaissance
[01:40.901] WHOOO, that's Busta Rhymes right there
[01:44.936] I don't know what I look like sendin' Raekwon in there
[01:45.573] Where Raekwon at?
[01:46.781] Ayo, squeezing Johnny Walker neck up in the Benzo freezing
[01:49.182] The head-long ****, block pumpin' is easy
[01:51.597] Poison medals on my neck wrists and arms
[01:53.578] Louie luggages is bronze, a big bag of D, Happy Kwanz'
[01:56.728] Together, we the Chi-Lites to twists of the O'Jays
[01:59.179] One line from this'll have you leanin' like roach spray
[02:01.779] Poison up on Hoyt Street, my boys in Mrs., our choice
[02:04.332] Brooklyn, Shaolin wildin' in the Royces
[02:06.799] Old Gold at the Golden Globes, my robe hittin' the cement
[02:09.119] Chef in the building, yep, and he been
[02:11.838] A thousand one goons at the Rhumba
[02:13.725] Certified clients, drug money and somethin' up, giants
[02:16.928] Yo, it's the Tarzan ******* clan in the area
[02:20.683] Guerrillas in Louie hats, the more, the merrier
[02:21.892] Take mines, take a hundred 9's
[02:24.282] We be runnin' out of rhymes, never ******s
[02:25.728] Try to front and you mines, Renaissance
[02:27.836] (WHOOOOOOOOOO-WHEEE!!!)
[02:29.998] Ahem, I go off
[02:32.200] Let me spaz, let me spaz (C'mon!)
[02:34.219] Though they call me Weezy F., you gon let me pass
[02:36.610] So ahead of my time with my next-week a*s
[02:39.147] Money on the dinner table like, "Let's eat cash!"
[02:41.596] And I do it for the killers and the hundred dollar billas
[02:44.161] And from now on, I don't think you should stunt without a million
[02:46.918] Dollars in the bank, I got money in the bank
[02:48.230] Now throw yo' hands in the air if your pu**y don't stank
[02:52.063] You got a ****** and a shank, I got a ****** and a tank
[02:54.638] I got fur in my boots, and the hoodie on the minks
[02:57.038] Stop sweatin' me, you should follow me, I'm directing it
[03:00.376] Other fools break it down, I be dissecting it
[03:02.023] Ever since I made it up out of middle America
[03:04.556] Everybody wanna be in my genital area
[03:07.058] But you better stay away from my chemical barrier
[03:09.533] Weezy Baby, straight out the Caesarean, ni**a
[03:12.120] (What's it called, man?) Oh yeah: "Renaissance Rap"
[03:16.103] Man, I ain't gon give y'all my microphone no more!
[03:21.104] ‘Cause y'all tear it up when you get it
[03:22.739] Lemme see who we had on here
[03:25.128] Now, we had Q-Tip, we had Busta Rhymes
[03:27.216] You had Raekwon the Chef, you had Lil Wayne on here
[03:29.747] Man, I ain't givin' y'all my microphone no more
[03:32.723] ‘Cause y'all tear it up when you get it
[03:34.496] I just said, get a lil' somethin before the beats go…