CHORUS [Saukrates]
   Little piece of sumpin'
   "Play" <-- Saukrates
   "Orginial rap" <-- KRS-One
   "Play" <-- Saukrates
   Little piece of sumpin'
   "Play" <-- Saukrates
   "Hardcore in hip-hop" <-- KRS-One
  
   [Saukrates]
   Amazed dudes to wack crews
   Lay it down
   Kids could never walk a mile in my shoes
   Shorties clockin' me
   Always be coming in the two
   Niggas from the north
   I'm bringing you tracks and good news
   My debut was real to the blind industry minds
   Who never had the time
   Now kids press rewind to the top
   But legally I gotta show love
   Call me A, B and C, the answers D
   All of the above
   I attack the microphone like Jack Ripper
   Real for stacks, leaving kids no headroom like Max
   Try to react, but you were never calm
   And never, could kick a verse
   When worse come to worse I'm better
   Shine like genuine rhine and black patented leather
   On half naked honeys who forgot about the weather
   Fuck an exhibition, and warm up scrimmage
   Shoot more words that Macho Man spit gism in the village
  
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   [Common Sense]
   Stimulated by a tree and drama
   I advanced on a branch of respect and honor
   A patient of the Ill state
   Sittin' in trauma, never been one to side with hama (yeah)
   For Armageddon, I'm getting armed plus armor
   The comma of matter on the rise like a tip in the southside diner
   Your preference to the book of life that likes to pack humid
   To it I react by staying strapped with the mack and courage
   Parallel to a carrousel of murders
   I prefer to make a life than take a life
   Stopped at a street called Wise and made a right
   Sort of how I play my broads, just how I play the mic
   First I cuff it, then finger fuck it
   Check it something rugged, other niggas be reluctant
   To touch it after me
   Passively they strike, never matching me
   Rapidly, don't placidly
   I fabricate the verbal tapestry
   Tap the keg of your conscious
   Navigate niggas like Farrhakan with a compass
  
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   [Saukrates]
   Kids setting their watches 5 minutes fast to stay
   On top of time, but I'm already 10 minutes away
   Nigga play what you want to play, he say she say
   But Saukrates got the buttas in T dot O dot today
  
   [Common]
   Slowly but surely I pour the lyric into the glass of your mind
   My rhyming will be the diamond that will cut through
   Lines say but you to do, you don't know what to
   Got wisdom like a tooth
   Incidentally I get buck too
   Didn't get my jest, so I just had to do it
   My mic or your mic, come on no congruent
   Seen broads in brew to me, be jubilee
   On my neck be hot jewelry
   My old man be schooling me
   For sho' I rock good, cats claim this hood and that hood
   Black man, your hood is the universe
   On this Earth, you were first through the worse
   My crew could hearse
   Used to go up stairs and we went through the purse
   I don't cures around juniors
   Spread live like rumors
   Niggas loved my tape, but how many were consumers?
  
   [Saukrates]
   Shout out to honeys working them hourgalss hips
   Stay soprano, reading surano
   Dramatic episodes, yo Common
   Let me play with niggas brains like clay kits
   When I rock stage hits
   Skip the rumors and lies
   So you're under the stairs
   When I drop my hip-hop, you'll be some Maytag repairmen
   And flip flop the fake, who thought the scored
   And half-assed niggas sending you back to drawing boards
   To deliver the real shit, at least we'll spit on your mic
   I'm versatile like a plate of read grits
  
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