The Breakthrough

[00:04.05] Verse
[00:10.97] Knuckleheads spreadin' gossip all over town
[00:14.07] Every time I drive by you're just standin' around
[00:16.35] Hundred-bottles in your pocket, forty-dog in your hand
[00:19.07] Don't you know you're just a worker and your boss is my man?
[00:21.77] L.l. this, l.l. that, soon as I walk in the place
[00:24.58] I wanna take my gun and shoot you in your muthafuckin' face
[00:27.53] You're playin' me too close with the schemin' and games
[00:29.93] I guess the beef and the bullshit is the price of fame
[00:33.88] Movies, records, goin' on tour
[00:35.86] Twenty-thousand people hip-hoppin' on the floor
[00:38.22] Whole parties body-rockin', and everything's chill
[00:41.07] Get back to new york, and the suckers act ill
[00:43.62] See I fought with the devil, made a promise to god
[00:46.36] I have experience in goin' all the way to the top
[00:49.50] It's harder harder than hard
[00:50.67] All the suckers are barred
[00:52.03] You used to try to talk down now your ego is scarred
[00:54.76] See the problem is you want what another man has
[00:57.56] His car, his wife, or his razzamatazz
[01:00.41] But that's weak, you gotta do work on your own
[01:03.09] Cuz when you're rich you got friends
[01:04.43] But when you're poor you're alone
[01:05.73] So get your own on your own, it'll strengthen your soul
[01:08.37] Stop livin' off your parents like you're three years old
[01:11.02] Instead of walkin' like you're limp and talkin' yang about me
[01:13.83] Why don't you take your monkey-ass and get a college degree?
[01:16.64] Or write a rhyme and ride a bike and try to live carefree
[01:19.33] Hope my message reaches you before you're seventy-three
[01:22.09] A old man, when people ask you what you did with your life
[01:24.99] You'll say I hated l.l. and I carried a big knife
[01:27.79] Every day is a chase, every day is a race
[01:30.36] And every day you're being overpowered by my bass
[01:33.16] Too much juice to be a deuce, I had to be a ace
[01:36.03] It's like the fire's in my eyes and the gun's in my face
[01:38.74] I'm stompin' stupid knuckleheads until they bleed
[01:41.34] I'm the leader of the show, so it's up to me to lead
[01:44.22] I'mma lead you away from drugs and petty crime
[01:47.47] Lead you away from wack beats and rhyme
[01:49.78] Lead you to that ticket line
[01:52.60] So you can come in my show and watch the stars shine
[01:55.34] Get busy, not dizzy, wanna teach the young
[01:58.00] The last man who didn't listen ended up gettin' hung
[02:00.57] Not that I killed him, it's just
[02:02.56] He didn't wanna trust
[02:03.97] The words of a master that's why you must
[02:05.77] Take heed to the speech, it's gonna reach your ear
[02:08.93] Don't try to say you can't hear cuz the words are clear
[02:11.60] Throwin' flurries, punks scurry and I bury the rest
[02:14.44] You better hurry up and rock a rhyme and give it your best
[02:17.11] Cuz tonight's the night we gonna see the big fight
[02:20.13] Twelve-gauge on the stage in case it don't go right
[02:22.74] E-love drives a tank, he's strong like a truck
[02:25.74] If you're cryin' while you're dyin' we ain't givin' a fuck
[02:29.04] L.l. cool j is on the microphone
[02:31.11] Tellin' all you punk ducks leave me the hell alone
[02:34.06] Cuz I'm rated x, born to snap necks
[02:36.68] Straight up and down, no special effects
[02:39.36] I'm the professor, the teacher, the hip-hop dean
[02:42.19] If russia bombed the u.s., they'd be scared to touch queens
[02:44.87] Cuz that's where I live, and this is what I give
[02:47.85] Turnin' top-notch crews into fugitives
[02:50.28] They run, they frightened, they hide from king titan
[02:53.24] Like a sniper when he's shootin' or a viper when he's bitin'
[02:55.92] Here I am, tellin' the truth
[02:58.52] And I'm spreadin' the word to my fellow youth
[03:01.38] It goes man-to-man and jam-to-jam
[03:04.27] I got hip-hop, rock, and love song fans
[03:06.94] All you petty mc's in the state of new york
[03:09.66] Gettin' a thousand for a show but you still wanna squawk
[03:12.05] Can't get a decent contract, your beats ain't workin'
[03:15.44] Dogged-out pumas plus you're manager's jerkin'
[03:17.90] Your mic sounds weak, remember that skeezer
[03:20.76] I'm badder than napoleon, hitler or caesar
[03:23.21] I'm a hitman, but I'm not for hire
[03:26.37] Fly girl's desire, the man you admire
[03:28.43] Not only on the stage, I rock in the park
[03:30.78] And I'm a killer in the daytime, and worse after dark
[03:33.61] So don't never ever mess with the king of the sound
[03:37.24] L.l. cool j, the baddest around.
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