(Ladies and gentlemen
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There are seven acknowledge wonders of the world
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You are about to witness the eighth)
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Karma
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Poetic Justice
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What goes around, comes around
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[ VERSE 1 ]
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Stop, look, listen, learn
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Play with fire and you'll get burned
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You think you want some but you don't want none
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A fight on the mic, you don't want one
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I turn the heat on, proceed to beat on
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Any soft sap who think he's gon-
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na come in my realm when I'm at the helm
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Nightmare's a joke when I'm on Elm
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Street, sleep but you don't dream
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Awaken, achin, takin Codeine
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Now you're tryin to O.D.
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Cause you don't want none of Moe Dee
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Pain relievers won't relieve ya
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Suicide won't do it either
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Even after I cremate you
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I'ma re-incarnate you
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Bring you back for another round
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Just to put you back in the ground
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Over and over again
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When is it over? It ends
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When I die but I won't die, don't try
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Rhyme forever, huh, why won't I
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Crush whoever tries to crush this
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Hurt like the truth, poetic justice
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Poetic Justice
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[ female voices ]
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What goes around, comes around
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Goes around, comes around(2x)
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Doing justice to poetry
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[ VERSE 2 ]
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This is a flurry, a fist of fury
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A rhyme so fast that it has to blurry
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Your vision, don't wink, blink or stop to think
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Or you might miss the next rhyme, ink
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Flows from the brain to the pen
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And comes alive when the thought transcends
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From the pen to the paper and paper to tape, and
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A tape to wax and back to the tape, a-
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nother hit which you can't get with
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A brainiac'll react, but a nitwit
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Can't relate, he can't hold the weight
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The rhyme's too deep and he sleeps awake
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The comatose need a double dose
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Cause Kool Moe Dee don't rhyme like most
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Simplified rhymes or out of the norm
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But I simplify as I'm to perform
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Records for the pop???? playlist
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The pop jocks don't play this
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In an intent to hold rap back
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They stop the hard and play the wack
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They play the weak cause the weak won't speak
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But that just makes a fan go seek
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A station that they know will bust this
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(Who's on the radio) poetic justice
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Poetic Justice
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[ female voices ]
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What goes around, comes around
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Goes around, comes around(2x)
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Doing justice to poetry
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[ VERSE 3 ]
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Poetic, phonetic, genetic, fanatic
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- you connect it
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Those who chose to oppose are foes
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And usually can't grow afros
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As the rhyme flows the spirit grows
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But only those with a pure soul knows
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The relevance of the beat of the drum
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And where it's comin from
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For those of you who just don't listen
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Here's the second boat you're missin
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Just like Noah had you swimmin
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Rap's the warnin of an endin
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Of an era, a reign of terror
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Over like a nova, never ever
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Try to amplify the lie
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The truth won't die, and that's why I
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A versatile child of the Nile
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Speak with a ghetto style, and meanwhile
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The reason I relate to the youth
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Is pure souls can feel the truth
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The poisoned souls have tried to stop it
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But just stop it, cause hip-hop is
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From our roots, and you can't touch this
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This is our ancestors' poetic justice
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Poetic Justice
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[ female voices ]
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What goes around, comes around
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Goes around, comes around(2x)
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Doing justice to poetry
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Poetic Justice
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Kool Moe Dee |