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Five Steez, Mordecai Check, check Yes, yes This is part of my journey Listen to me Yow You talk shit, I live it, what you dreamt of, I did it (yeah) Fuck a hater or a critic, I use them as a pivot Treat them like bigots, opinions is useless Facts is what matters and your work is where the proof is For years, I been doing this, and many others too (long time) Repping the movement and running with the toughest crews So pardon me if I ask who the fuck are you You such a fool, you move like a sucker do (uh huh) Check the catalogue, over the past five years Amount to many careers, please respect it (you better respect it) Especially if you never dropped a decent record Or even a recent effort, you speech is reckless (reckless) Check my ethics, put in work, stay on point It don't take much for me to write or lay a joint (uh huh) The hunger is still here, and I'm more determined I persevered, and the fire still burning I work, what about you You complain all day, not a damn thing you do We could never par, you not in my crew You talk too much so I know you not true I work, what about you You complain all day, not a damn thing you do We could never par, you not in my crew You talk too much so I know you not true I wake up, wish I could bake up Go to slave on the plantation and get my paper Still sending out applications with my data Even though I'm dope enough for Complex and The Fader (fi real) Large Up to Okayplayer, I'm the mayor (salute) Rhyme sayer, dragon slayer, this is my prayer I know I'll make it 'cause I believe in it alone And you hear it in my voice when I spit a poem With these words, I can beat you like sticks and stones Or I could reach you just like the teacher Mrs Jones (yeah) So I hit the studio and play Mordecai beats I get the truth to flow, it's from the core that I speak I'm on my grind like my niggaz that's more in the street (uh) Except it's not my backyard where I'm storing the heat I'm cooking up rhymes every day, reflecting my life Signed, sealed, from me to you, this letter I write I work, what about you You complain all day, not a damn thing you do We could never par, you not in my crew You talk too much so I know you not true I work, what about you You complain all day, not a damn thing you do We could never par, you not in my crew You talk too much so I know you not true A lot of speculation on the moves I've made (Dem a watch mi) Niggaz is sounding hurt like they dude got slain Busy watching me and can't emulate Trying to get my secrets, wanna interrogate You hella lame, see through like cellophane Walking with your head in the sky like aeroplanes I stay grounded as confident as I'm sounding Nuff man get boost up because of who deh around dem (uh huh) And some just pree evil for no good reason (yeah) Some are just demons, others straight heathens As long as I'm breathing, I promise to do good I have faults but I can't do what you could And that's hate on another for what they work for (nah) More than a surfer, you a stalker slash lurker That's why I treat you cold like Serbia, this ain't Persia I'm independent and we could never have a merger I work, what about you You complain all day, not a damn thing you do We could never par, you not in my crew You talk too much so I know you not true I work, what about you You complain all day, not a damn thing you do We could never par, you not in my crew You talk too much so I know you not true I work, what about you You complain all day, not a damn thing you do We could never par, you not in my crew You talk too much so I know you not true I work, what about you You complain all day, not a damn thing you do We could never par, you not in my crew You talk too much so I know you not true I work