[CL Smooth]
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Above the level of a mezzanine, healthy as Ovaltine
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The dominant ? clean, I mean go, the light's green
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The protege could play like chess to quest the best
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Confess, never poor as Bangladesh
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I get busy like a boxer, operate like a Doctor
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Seal like a locker, pop like Orville Redenbacher
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Buy the tape, LP, CD
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All me, and Petey, to cater to the needy
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Like a Prayer for Madonna but A Different World for Jasmine
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CL is well a physical attraction
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Let me make myself perfectly clear:
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while I'm there, I make a peer a positive pap smear
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Really I do, once I light the barbeque
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Thread the loose ends, see my friends are the crew
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The fright night King of New York like Frank White
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If it ain't rough it ain't right man listen..
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[CL Smooth]
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If it ain't rough enough, to mingle in the stuff
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to scar and scuff and make you cuckoo like a cocoa puff;
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it ain't right so I smash the satellite
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Check the farenheight, before I take flight
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Unique as Mozambique, here to freak Sheik
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The skills that won't leak, and never antique
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Warm like a oven you're lovin the style I'm druggin
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Alleyway muggin, heavyweight sluggin
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No fibs I kick the ad libs and rock it in the cribs
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Break your ribs like a toothpick cause you were never slick
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? you lacked back when I first started
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CL's the one who got the Red Sea parted
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My conversation qualification is a doozy
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The rude Rudy wreckin write you off as a floozy
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I shoot for the moon, but even if I miss
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I'm among the stars, to put a bullethole in Mars..
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[CL Smooth]
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In my frame of mind I design the best-seller
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For rougher cats can Rockafeller you're Penn and Teller
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Steady with the convo, rought like Brillo
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Let your head hit the bed and knock the feathers out your pillow
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The master intelligent, with the black testament
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Found it relevant, and mailed it to the President
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But overall I get papes for my labor
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with the physical manifestation of a saviour
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You wanna test this, but I slay anyway
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cause your rhymes are old, with more wrinkles than a charpei
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Mecca Don upon the streets of Babylon
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Pass the baton to respond like Farrakhan
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Hard like Shaft with the staff for the Backdraft
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A blazin aftermath, so hon make a path
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If you don't trust him, bust him
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But if you don't have a weapon, then kid keep steppin
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The main idea in here for the hemisphere
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CL's here to get wreck for the year
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A large man's appetite, blowin like dynamite
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If it ain't rough it ain't right, COME ON!
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If It Ain't Rough, It Ain't Right
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Pete Rock and CL Smooth |