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[chali 2na]
Like that like that ya don't stop, check it
One mo' time for the people out there
It goes peace -- if you come to see me rebel
2na-fish'll come ready like i was edie brickell
I'm everlasting, never will my head expand
This publisher is clearinghouse like i'm ed mcmahon
I getcha -- open like a bullet wound, test the repoitoire
And i'll connect a right cross to your upper jaw
I'm on my toes, all my foes beware
Cause 2na-fish'll tackle flows like i'm rosie grier, yeah
Forgot to tell you the response is choice
Comin to smother the brother with the monster voice
It's gonna -- wipe slow specimen i got the hype
So listen in lyrical nitro-glycerin
We pack a punch like a earthquake set
Comin through your {fuckin} tapedeck is how we shake {shit}
So all you {bitch-ass} brothers take shelter
Or you'll be on my conveyor belt when i melt ya
It's like that, one two for j-5
Let me tell you that we, make it live, gray-la-hey
Breathin in and out lung style, huh
Mr. canibus, won'tcha funk it up for a while

[chorus]
We see a coming war
We see a coming war

Now
Can you imagine this world with no oppression?
And no need to dabble in greed and transgression
The solution for murder and prostitution
Never glorify this pollution on television
Corrupt an entire nation
Explicit images
Never freeing mumia regardless of proven innocence
Turning to crime and not using intelligence
What makes me wonder sometimes are we in hell or
Inches away from confronting the powers that be
Saw in seconds what has taken some hours to see
Temps is hot enough to melt a bullion
More than a million people are ready
For rebellion
This shit is ill
Sun set to the crack of dawn
If you're black or blonde
Uncle sam is robbing you blind and putting shackles 'pon
The minds of your children for real son
Beware this system and go to war with this institution.

They see a coming war
They see a coming war

They expect those of us who peep to not see
Medical benefits should be cheap if not free (right?)
The richest people are those without morals
Cuz once they get inside they tend to keep the door closed
Lord knows they killing us quick and clean
>from baseheads to people addicted to nicotine
Man-made diseases where skin cells corrode
To ones where if infected you die from common colds
Economical foes they pose the true threat
Using your tax dollars to sell and produce death
What's left?
We got guns and drug trafficking
Government will be backing
And blaming latin and african brothers for dirty work done
The shit they do not only hurts young
But it's provoking revolutionary circum-
Stances
Slow like molasses
This is a message to the masses
Never ass kiss

[chorus]

Emergency, emergency, evacuate the premises immediately
Emergency, emergency

Now
Open your ear
Cause slavery will appear
When corporate cutthroats control your career
The treats of life are toned and ain't no way the ripple fix
Beware the microchip that replaces the triple six
Which one?
Are you a soldier who fights against fraud
Or pawns in this game on this government's chess board?
The signs are clearly defined
It's merely your mind state
Wars coming my people so stay awake

Now i'ma say this once again open up your mind
Shot heard around the world came from our fresh rhymes
The contribution to showbiz, mixed with entertainment
Resurrected rhymes, not the same old same
Now if you like what we came with
And you feel you can sang wit it
Peep the verbal language and the way we arranged it
Now entertainment to make the people applaud
I'm not trying to say my style is better than yours

I'm from the graduating class from one-nine-eight-eight
L.a. unified school m a h
A gangbanger from the streets taught me how to break
In south central l.a., ay yo, can you relate?

I'm charli 2na
The one who ???? to keep the snapple in the cooler
Used to go to junior high with son doola
Old skoola
A permanent, element, in ya tournament
Tellin it prevalent never delicate when we burnin it

Now from l.a. to the u.k. we attempt to rock a party
The rhyme and the music you don't hear that no more hardly
I can say it's partly, all our faults smarty
J5'll bring you more than the shakin of a body

Ay yo a child is born but no state of mind
But when i first heard it, put words to rhymes
I went from hypercars, to powder blue all-stars
To hangin on monkey bars catchin spiders and ????

[chorus x2]
So uh, take it back to the concrete streets
Original beats from real live mcs
Playground tactics
No rabbit-in-a-hat tricks
Just act classic, rappin from jurassic

I bring the noise plus the funk, entertainin like a dunk
>from a snotty-nosed prima donna millionaire punk
But uh, i heard a hunch, that somebody might runch(?)
Cuz j5 go together like parties and spiked punch
Your crew's captain crunch, and i'm the seven seas
Bombin on mc's, crushin crews with ease
Brother please you know my steez is 100 degrees
With no era bring it live like the trio of terror

Trio of terror no mascara,
At last your brass surpass pleasure
We the last treasure set to entice the cash bearer
Mash wearers(?) who bite my reflection like glass mirrors
Be trash pickers who need to consider the past clearer

Now what you thought was old and out of date
We brought it back alive and changed the shape
We put it on wax for those who think that
The 5 we energize has been extinct

[chorus x2]

We takin it back like battles in hallways and bathrooms
And battles in the back of the classroom
And in the bungalows came a def with flows
Lunchtime rhymes you had to prove and show

Never the school type, couldn't pronounce the words right
The class jester, i was flunkin every semester
The summer hit, had it burnin in '86
Class cuttin and runnin wit all the neighborhood derelicts

Within the concrete jungle [huh!] we remain humble
Akil and akir, bounce, flip and tumble
Uh, we never fumble, break down or stumble
Hot mumbo jumbo, just bring it when we rumble

We push it like the daytona
Fresh rhymes we blaze on yas
Strictly from california old skool public diplomas
We spittin from every corner we flippin it when we wanna
Beneath the concrete b street word on ya

[chorus x2]

*all cuts by dj revolution*

"this is a revolution shoot"

"let me show ya exactly how it's properly done"
"sit back and learn"
"let me show ya exactly how it's properly done"
"and yes ya'll" "this for your own concern"
"let me show ya exactly how it's properly done"
"class is in session so you can stop guessin" [krs-one]
"let me show ya exactly how it's properly done"
"lights, camera, action!"

[ahmad]
They tryin to get us off the bat like heavy hitters
But my squad ain't goin for it, charlie the rainer is you wit us?
We upset it how you did us, laughin at em tryin to kid us
And vow to tear it up like home alone without the sitters
So the first one steppin up will be the first one i'm gettin rid of
While you fakin al capone, i make the hits like frankie nitta
Ya'll rappers gon' remember me, of course you can't forget, i'm from the west
Where we be battle-rappin off a doo-ah-ditta
Even sway and tech admit-a
Wake up show and skills, i never sleep, i never quit-a
The dopest, don't be bitter
Adopted a new motto: no retreat and no surrender
I'm the champ and i been lookin for the number one contender, like that

*cut up* "the wake up show"

[chali 2na]
No longer of thugs and pimps and style
What we continue the tension like the simpson trial
Wake up show, come to class just to pass the test
Or be on your deathbed, givin last request
Sway and tech keep you listenin
Bringin hip hop discipline
Makin it hot, takin the plot from lake michigan
Fisherman been mature, suckers who miniature
That be faker than cabbage patch dolls without the signature
Witness your destruction, when i bust ten
Men die while the ink from my pen dry
Tryin to make ends by words not crack rocks
If raps are plane crash, my rhyme's the black box, like that

[kurupt]
Raw dog for sure, paw core
Supposed to know that
Golden paw, wha what wha what what!
Sway and tech, wha what wha what what!
Yo, try me *nigga*, the new millennium came
I'm invincible wit my abdaminium frame
Deminigon, tenagon poetical pentagon
None silence, *mothafuckers* unbalanced
Get ya calicos, war? sure
I heard a million mc's, ain't none raw
Kurupt spit brimstone, fire and magma
Magnums and multi-minis in multi-cities

"let me show ya..."
"let me show ya..."
"let me show ya exactly how it's properly done"

[mos def]
Forward on the 2g's, yo i don't ease
My style's so deep it make the police freeze
Seize domestic and land overseas
From the hard brooklyn to the breeze in belise
Ya gotta give me mine, no "can i applease"
Sway and king tech keep green like palm trees
Transmitted globally, i'm mos def, you hopefully
Calm, ain't sayin much, they catchin nuts like a ovary
Wake up!!!

[crooked eye/tech n9ne]
Light em up, blow em out, light em up
Sway and tech, rider, sway and tee-zay
Crooked eye's the don-datta
No worries, hacuna matata
A couple of verbal shots to hit your medula ablingalla
I'm donald goines character kenyatta
On the wake up show, beatin these rappers like a tiajuana pinata
My ish, flip and kick like jim carter
From bambatta to crooked eye, hip hop never die like madonna
My rap receital is fact receital was kane and abel
Rock a rapper's cradle, even the ones signed to my label
Get broken, i'm open like the eyes of insomniacs
Standin on the corner, in big game hunters in dodger hats

"let me show ya exactly how it's properly done"
"sway and tech" [guru]
"and of course"
"on production and the scratch" "dj!" "revolution"
"it's the wake up show" "you suckas!!!" [krs-one]