Yeah, check it out, one-two

Check it out, check it out

One-two, one-two, one-two, one-two

Yeah, check it out

Yes, I am

(My hip-hop will rock and shock the nation)

(My hip-hop will rock and shock the nation)

Are you ready?

Hah, yeah (Yes, I am)

The way that mama raised us was pure faith

So diablo wouldn't faze us or daze us

Or lay us down to sleep, know the wolf from the sheep

Or the sheep who cried wolf and threw the deadly hoof

While the wolf was asleep, I keep my mind a ghost

Follow my heart the most, don't play fools too close

Sleep with my eyes at post

So diablo won't be hostin' the game of life

The knife sits by the throats of the young

And blows death straight through the lungs

As the mind gets washed by visions of sugar plums

But we shall overcome 'cause we ain't dumb

But we ain't smart, they got the girls by the hearts

And the **** by the nuts, ear, tongue, and butts

Yeah, they're tryin' to fuck us up, but, shit, you know what's up

We gotta get with the movements and move men soon

They consume every womb who bares beneath the stairs of they doom

Before they let a new soul bloom

Best believe they're gonna shove 'em in a tomb

'Cause every time I step to the microphone

I put my soul on two-inch reels that I don't even own

Every time I step to the microphone

I put my soul on two-inch reels that I don't even own

Every time I step to the microphone

I put my soul on two-inch reels that I don't even own

Every time I step to the microphone

I put my soul on two-inch reels that I don't even own

Early Saturday mornin', I was cartoon gazin'

Slowly broke into the kitchen to fill a bowl full of Raisin Bran

As I ran up and down the TV stations

I witnessed Indian Joe getting tricked out of his nation

By a silly hillbilly who laughed as the shit happened

Everything the same, the game continued into rappin'

Deception is at an all-time high

You give a piece of your soul to receive some crumbs from the pie

But you know I keep on rappin' until the break of dawn

Even though it is my soul that I do not even own (What? What?)

You know I keep on rappin' 'til the break of dawn

Even though it is my soul that I do not even own 'cause

'Cause every time I step to the microphone

I put my soul on two-inch reels that I don't even own

Every time I step to the microphone

I put my soul on two-inch reels that I don't even own

Every time I step to the microphone

I put my soul on two-inch reels that I don't even own

Every time I step to the microphone

I put my soul on two-inch reels that I don't even own

I was poor (Poor), Black, broke, beyond a shadow of a doubt (Doubt)

Ass-out, wide open, waitin' for my shit to come on out

Speakin' about the time before I got signed

I was coolin' behind Coolio in the county line

My big brother used to say I was an asshole

Didn't graduate, couldn't handle the hassle

Of high school, why fool with foolish rules and guidelines?

Fuck the cap and tassels, said forget the trade and tried rhymes

Hooked up with J-Swift, got with 2-4-2

Me and my **** LA Jay back at SCU

I grabbed the mic one time, check it, one-two, we in

Freakin' major flavors for my fellow Nubians

Takin' shit to the next level

Too bad I sold my soul to the fuckin' devil

'Cause every time I step to the microphone

I put my soul on two-inch reels that I don't even own

Every time I step to the microphone

I put my soul on two-inch reels that I don't even own

Every time I step to the microphone

I put my soul on two-inch reels that I don't even own

Every time I step to the microphone

I put my soul on two-inch reels that I don't even own

Yeah, I wanna give a shout out to my man Self Jupiter, you know what I'm sayin'?

Locked up and shit

Yeah, what's up, ****?

Yo, yo, yo, this is Imani, you know what I'm sayin'?

It's 1995 and everything is alright

I'ma say peace to my man Kalani and let him rest in peace, pieces (Yes, indeed, yes, indeed, yes, indeed)

And it goes, and it goes

And it goes like (And it goes)

And it goes, and it goes

And it goes like (And it goes like)

And it goes, and it goes

And it goes like this (And it goes like)

And it goes, and it goes (Yes, indeed)

And it goes like this (Check it out)