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Erick Sermon's in the house |
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Let's get up let's get down |
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Roll wit the hardcore funk the hardcore sound |
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Let's get wit this mackadocious funk material |
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So simple when I rock wit the instrumental |
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Who am I(E-D the Green Eyed Bandit) |
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Control my career so I can never get stranded |
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But the rest are gettin Brand Nubian |
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Changed up they style from jeans to suits and |
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Thinkin about a pop record somethin made for the station |
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For a whole new relation |
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Ship of a new type of scene |
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To go platinum and clock mad green |
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AKA a sellout the rap definition |
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Get off that boy change your mission |
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Come back around the block |
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Pump Color Me Badd to the ah tick tock |
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Let them know your logo not a black thing |
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My background sing my background sing for the crossover |
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The Crossover |
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The rap era's outta control brother's sellin their soul |
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To go gold going going gone another rapper sold |
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(To who)To pop and RandB not the MD |
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I'm strictly hip-hop I'll stick to Kid Capri |
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Funk mode yea kid that's how the Squad rolls |
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I know your head is bobbin'cause the neck knows |
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(Not like other rappers)frontin on they fans the ill |
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Trying to chill saying"damn it be great to sell a mill" |
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Thats when the mind switch to the pop tip |
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(Kid you're gonna be large) |
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Yea right that's what the company kicks |
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Forget the black crowds you're wack now |
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In a zoot suit frontin black lookin mad foul |
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I speak for the hardcore(ruff rugged and raw) |
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I'm outta here catch me chillin on my next tour |
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From the US to the white cliffs of Dover |
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Strictly underground funk keep the crossover |
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The Crossover |
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So what cha sayin You wanna go pop goes the weasel |
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You know you should be rocking the fans wit something diezel |
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But you insist to piss me off black |
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So I flex the biceps so I can push em back |
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So real hardcore hip-hop continue wreck it |
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And all sucker MC's duck down and get the message |
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So ban the crossover yo who's wit me |
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(Hit Squad)yea P hit me |
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Another megablast funky dope style from cross yonder |
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(So help me Rhonda help help me Rhonda) |
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(Yo from what)the crossover yea crossing you over |
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Outta here gone peace nice to know ya |
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What a way to go out no clout is what the fans will shout |
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'Cause you got gassed and took the wrong route |
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Came on the scene chillin freakin a funky dope line |
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But when they finish wit you(beep)flatline |
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Some say there's no business like show business |
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But if this the truth please explain why is this |
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Rappers been around long makin mad noise you see |
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Still I haven't seen one rapper livin comfortably |
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No time to pick and wish on a four leaf clover |
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I stick to underground keep the crossover |
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The Crossover |
