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PERFORMING ARTISTS
Intelligent Hoodlum
Intelligent Hoodlum
Performer
Tragedy
Tragedy
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Percy Chapman
Percy Chapman
Composer
Marlon Williams
Marlon Williams
Composer
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Marley Marl
Marley Marl
Producer

Lyrics

Now we can look into the cell of our own dreams And if we feed on the wisdom of God We can come into a life and a power Therefore absolute make us master over what the originator originated That is called creation And that is that Jesus was beckoning the world to To come up out of where you are And to start thinking that you got to exist On the law planted that you exist as Jesus ascended you can ascend Then you ever human being can be like him and therefore he says I had the mind that was designed for crime Now I'm two seconds away from the big time In the fast lane your life goes fast It's time to take a journey into Tragedy's past When I was one adopted by Michael Chapman This was years before I started rappin' My father held a scholarship for a year But then he died and so did his career He left his son and soon to be wife He died, and that was the end of his life It's just not fair that he couldn't live through But as I grew, I fell into the same trap, too But I lived the life that he couldn't see He died a 18 and that's the age of me I escaped the cage where your brother is your enemy And cops turn misdemeanors into felonies Playin the game the stakes are a lot Either you're strung out on drugs, in jail or get shot So I take the pain and put it in a song Cause some of my brothers didn't last this long Life to them just didn't seem important As I watched their bodies get stiffer in the coffin A young black target for someone to shoot ya Hoodlum's the past, Intelligent is the future I seek a life more promising than a waiter The mass educator puttin pain on paper Life is a battle and strength is survival Some search for better but most won't even try to Cause every day a young dream is shatterin Pressure is painful, the burden is batterin I'm a reborn rebel and my intellect leaks The Intelligent Hoodlum relates to the streets Cause the past stays on my back to remind me Intelligence is what you gain when you find me Heed the message I inject in your eardrum I'm the Intelligent Hoodlum I'm the Intelligent Hoodlum I'm the Intelligent Hoodlum I'm the Intelligent Hoodlum - reactor, I cause fear Writing like Mark Twain, recite like Shakespeare You're a typical prototype from off the block Everytime you say a rhyme all I hears hip-hop Spectacular encore when things get hectic I'm protracting lyrics geometric Projecting my vocals, lyrics are light My brainwave conduct sound waves like a satellite Pickin up a pen to put my anger on paper Intelligent Hoodlum, I design a skyscraper Lyrical converter, the inserter Spiritual harrassment, then I murder Warrior, rebel, trained assassinator Intelligent Hoodlum is the Live Motivator Detect verbal architect to construct Mentally I generate brainwaves, conduct Biceps in my lungs, rap fitness Mentally ill, psychiatrical sickness Lyrics like blood, capillaries My brain is a dictionary full of vocabulary I drop logic cause I'm the prophet Inject your eardrum I'm the Intelligent Hoodlum I'm the Intelligent Hoodlum I have the mind, the intellect of Einstein A poet using my art for design Destroying adversaries when I pick up a pen And my demo's more deadly when you play it again Lyrics deal with endurance, the most mega performance And if you wanna battle, you better have insurance A walkin sunspot, my energy is radium A gladiator generating your stadium Cause I'm compelling, acute and never yelling Syllables slide from my throat and excelling A poet possessed like the Excorcist Accommodating the transcript vocalist Exposed and expressed, no holds barred Dance to my record till you fall in a graveyard You calculate me wrong, I might afford ya Physical harassment, spiritual torture Like the flick of a Bic science, I kick And you couldn't come close to the pain I inflict I could still stimulate, even if my tongue's blisted Lyrics are sick cause my mind is kinda twisted Rhymes are related to the havoc and harm My words are packed just like a nuclear bomb Vocals flow like H2O out of a faucet Don't even grab the mic cause you lost it I bust your brain cells, pierce your eardrum I'm the Intelligent Hoodlum I'm the Intelligent Hoodlum I'm the Intelligent Hoodlum
Writer(s): Percy Chapman, Marlon Lu'ree Williams Lyrics powered by www.musixmatch.com
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