[Q-Tip - Intro] {*imitating Marley Marl} I don't care who first or who last I just know y'all betta rock dis at da drop of a dime, baby! (Renaissance...) I don't care what chy'all say or what chy'all do But you got to be finished befo' the music is through...
[Q-Tip - Verse One] I don't think they heard me, hold up.. ..So here we go, now It be the +Midnight Maurader+ on the scene Geographically earthed in a place called Queens I was formed with my principles, way I displayed When I used to cool out where all the other kids played Cause I was way too ill, I would hone my skill Go out in the park and let my chemicals spill Right there, on Farmers Boulevard, I made my mark Two dudes, brothers would dip from us, me, and NARCS And then my, legend would grow on the A-train line Where rappers would gather to see my blowin nicks and dimes It was me, Big, Pete, Tanya, and Sa-{?} When in the heat of the cipher, I was not liable For all the casualties of the dutty MCs' I split the train car like Moses did the Red Sea Get it in ya head, we gon' rock the dead Night of the living MCs', the weak ones fled C'mon Bus..
[Busta Rhymes - Verse Two] Yo, yo, God body, wise intellegence Smack niggas and wrestle with elephants My beloved respect my benevolence Comin like missles, the issue is this Be the shit you can't rebel against Then I sniff out you niggas that be hidin in bushes - whassup? And strangle niggas like poisonous octopuses - shut the fuck up! Back with hazardous weathers and blizzards As I spit, stickin out my tongue like an iguana lizard At you corny niggas, Animal Planet rap, Wildlife Stabbin you in yo' back wild nice (Ahhhh!) While I hunt and eat you niggas like food, leavin you bleedin BEATS - rattle the speakers, like some buffalo stampedin If you don't understand what I'm sayin Lyrically I'm like goons acci-DENTALLY beatin you like gorillas playin (Ha ha!) Bitches know when I spit, I be seducin 'em Countless money with diamonds that's buried in Jerusalem The Renaissance {*echoes*}
[Q-Tip: interlude] {*imitating Marley Marl} WHOOO, that Busta Rhymes right there I don'- look like sendin Raekwon in here Where Raekwon at??
[Raekwon - Verse Three] Aiyyo, aiyyo, squeezin Johnny Walker neck up in the Benzo freezin The head-long cock block pumpin is easy Poison medals on my neck wrists and arms Louie luggages is bronze, a big bag of D, Happy Kwanz' Together we the Chi-Lites to twists of the O'Jays One line from miss'll have you leanin like roach spray Poison up on holstery, my boys in Mrs., our choice Booklyn, Shaolin whylin in the Royces Old Gold at the Golden Globes, my robe hitin the cement Chef in the buildin, yep and he been A thousand one goons at the Rumba Certified clients, drug money and sum'thin up giants Yo, it's the Tarzan cocaine clan in the area Guerrillas in Louie hats, the more, the merrier Take mines, take a hunnid nines We be runnin out of rhymes, never bullets Try to front and you mines Renaissance...
(WHOOOOOOOOOO-WHEEE!!!)
[Lil Wayne - Verse Four] *clears throat* A-go off... Let me spaz, let me spaz (c'mon) Though they call me Weezy F., you gon let me pass So ahead of my time with my next week ass Money on the dinner table like let's eat cash And I do it for the killers and the hunnid dolla billas And from now on, I don't think you should stunt without a million - Dollars in the bank, I got money in the bank Now throw yo' hands in the air if yo' pussy don't stank You got a bullet and a shank, I got a bullet and a tank I got fur, in my boots, and the hoody on the minks Stop sweatin me, you should follow me, I'm directin it Other fools break it down, I be dissectin it EVER since I made it