[The Grouch]
What can I say? Something that you`ve never heard before
What can I do? Something that you`ve probably never seen
Who can I be? Someone who you`ve not yet met
Got respect from a few but, what am I to you?
When you view this emcee, do you know what motivates him?
Why some people like him and, others spend time hatin?
Friends I`m waitin for the answers, I came with questions
Do you know the answers, fuck it, I got the lessons
Impressions they be gettin made before I even spit a phrase
or get a day`s worth of tolerance
to prove I`m hollerin susbtance
Had lessons in production
So when you suction to my shit I wonder did you feel the same way?
Are we on the same plane, are you just a Plain Jane
trying to be Sade, with a poem and some olge`?
That`s Japanese for weed, I`m rather cultured, well traveled
Get the gavel weigh the evidence, my intelligence is evident
Peep the sentence structure, I`m bit and frustrated
Thoughts I hate a buster lost in the front row at my show
What do I know? Something that you probably never learned
What do I like? Something that you`ve never even tried
How can you front, if only you could understand the artform
apart from the norm, we swarm, it`s natural
Born with my body like my name, I`m
naughty with my fame take advantage I`m a hustler
Tussle with the best of men, always get the best of their
impression when you thought that I was restin tryin to master my
profession and my pasttime, same thing, but my name rings bells
Deck the halls with double L`s, that spells trouble - times eight
smells great to my nostrils
I`m a fossil up to date, being studied but they can`t recreate
this soul, shit slow, gettin hold to copy mo`
than sloppy stereotypes, into what`s right
Puttin you up like this, you might hear the song
but the point`s missed if the joint hits
and you don`t heed the words
Bitch don`t you hear the music?
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[The Grouch]
How will it change, only if I take it on myself
How can you help, only if you learn and spread the wealth
How will it be, we`re gonna have to wait in time will see
Free thought I use a lot, I encourage y`all to join me
Destroyin fun is not my mission, I got ambition
Wishin crowds would listen got me fishin through the clouds
Tryin to be proud of who I am, it`s true I stand alone
Yet known to like attention just - want it for the right reasons
Mention me when you think: strong, silent, consistant
Persistant with my song spreadin knowledge, so distant
For common methods used yet effective as fuck
If you can`t see it comin duck we runnin mugs in ninety-eight
Lucky streaks up in my face struck like gold
Holdin your attention upon the music from here
it only gets more bold
Highlight it when I right it cause it`s tight
Not cause we`re alike or I`m white but I`m right
So who`s in the..
