* versions on "Greatest Hits" differ from the original recordings
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[Erick Sermon]
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The employees of the year, yeah we back to work
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I took time off, while other rappers got jerked
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Due to the fact that they wack in their track
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Have to go back and stack 'cause they lack
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The ingredients... EPMD and Scratch for that...
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*DJ Scratch cuts and scratches*
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Yo, I'm the hip-hopper, plus the show shocker
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Down with MD, yes the Microphone Doctor
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One wrecks, the other destroys
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And if you think you ready to mess (kill the noise)
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We don't play when it's time to slay
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I get a cut from my homey, yo, then I lay
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back and mack and all the rhymes I pack
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And wait for a sucker to jump and then attack
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[Parrish Smith]
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Well, I'm known to be the master in the MC field
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No respect in eighty-seven, eighty-eight you kneel
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Cause I produce and get loose, when it's time to perform
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Wax a sucker like Mop & Glow (that's word bond)
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Back a second time, but on a different assignment
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to do a sucker new jack, who needs a rappin alignment
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Cause I'm the cream of the crop, when it's time to do a show
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Girlies on my jock for my dope intro
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As I glance at E-Double, king microphone wrecker
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Turn on my cordless, sayin mic checka
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to the ladies... and all partygoers
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Some call me P, and others slow flower
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Brothers on my jock, for the way I hold a piece of steel
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So what you sayin?
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So what you sayin?
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[Erick Sermon]
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Puttin heads to bed, straight out the box
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MC's, are jumpin out shoes and socks
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I'm not playin, understand what I'm sayin
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Catch a sucker in my way, and I'm slayin
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Takin no shorts, showin vital signs
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You can tell by my lines that I'm gettin mines
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in ninety-nine, because I'm fine as wine
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Sit back and recline, watch the sun shine
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Take a stroll, listen to rock and roll
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Catch a flick at the movies, dance a bowl
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Cause I chose and refuse to slack while I'm back
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I take a chance jack, so I must attack
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With knick knack paddywack so I won't lack
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All my style is def, and as deadly as crack
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[Parrish Smith]
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While I'm slayin music's playin, a sucker is delayin
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Battle in the trenches where the funky be playin
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Cause with a partner like E Double don't come a dime a dozen
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A kin not blood related, but you can call us cousins
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Cause as we climb the charts, better known as statistics
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Brothers on my jock while we kickin ballistics
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Droppin hits like I'm Housin, You Gots Ta Chill, and more
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The proof is in the puddin (yo check the Billboard)
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People round town talkin this and that
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of how we sound like the R, and our music was wack
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Dropped the album Strictly Business and you thought we was bold
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Thirty days later, the LP went gold
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So what you sayin
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So what you sayin
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[Erick Sermon]
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Now party people it's time for the exquisite
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No knock knock who that, who's there, or who is it
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It's the E-R-I-C-K, yes the Boy Wonder
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No fouls no bleeps no bloops or no blunders
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So hot, so you can say I'm blazin
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Or Luther Vandross says, yo I am
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"Sooooooo amazing, and I've been waiting"
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For a sucker to attack yo me the E-Double
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Cause me and PMD's like the funky fresh couple
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[Parrish Smith]
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I fight fire with fire, that's why most retired
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And when we needed a piss boy, you was hired
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You was mesmerized, for that style that we was bringin
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In the all out battle, P comes out swingin
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Cause I'm just the type of brother that's out to get mines
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And if the odd's against me, I still drop lines
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and get mines on time that's why most resign
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Sit in my LazyBoy chair, relax my head and recline
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Sip a Pepsi or Coke, with a twist of lime
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Or crack a forty-oh, and then I go for mine
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So what you sayin
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So what you sayin
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So Whatcha Sayin' *
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