Black Star, Jane Doe, Punchline, Wordsworth - Twice Inna Lifetime(2002)

[00:01.05] Yo, we been through this before right? (Word, word...) So we
[00:04.56] Figurin', if we gonna do it, we gotta freak it, y'know what I'm sayin?
[00:07.51] (True, true, true...) 'cause everything gotta go up from here, right?
[00:09.75] So Hi-Tek, turn it up a notch...
[00:11.35] Hail Mary, 'matta fact hail Jane
[00:13.73] Niggaz take my name in vain/vein like I was cocaine
[00:16.78] My affirmations kill emcees like assasination
[00:19.85] Bringin' you pain until you wish you had a vaccination
[00:22.69] Or vaccine, I shine like Vaseline
[00:25.22] Gas plays like petroleum, walk over them like linoleum
[00:28.14] My vocab expand like a rubber band
[00:30.48] Walkin' nekkid through the motherland, give the finger to my brotherman
[00:33.55] Niggaz just don't understand my reasons, I transcend like season
[00:37.03] And scar these rappers like legion
[00:39.13] It's treason, my suspension attract attention
[00:42.18] I'm ventin', givin' these chickenheads detention
[00:44.85] Did I mention my name, yo, go by the Jane Doe
[00:47.85] Drenched in Polo, chill downtown in Soho
[00:50.37] You don't know, this is just half my potential
[00:53.22] Check my credentials, come harder than sequential
[00:55.81] It's essential, you listen, I drive, you a pedestrian
[00:58.71] They bless me on the track 'cause I attack wit' the estrogen
[01:01.74] Rhyme against the best a men, Jane burn it up
[01:04.37] When you hear it in the whip, tell your man to turn it up!
[01:06.72] Yo... get it... yo
[01:07.32] Yo, we fortified live, supportin' allies
[01:09.44] The wack is tryin' to shorten our lives, it sorta waters my eyes
[01:12.41] But here is some'n the cryin' talk about
[01:14.27] The on that cassette you and cousin fought about
[01:16.72] That led to God and Satan's fallin' out
[01:18.53] Encourage the liquor for those who ain't here that you pourin' out
[01:21.13] On 3-way, your parents, preacher and spouse called my house
[01:23.88] Revive or ruin, my theories of mics
[01:26.25] Sony or Aiwa, black or white, I fit in all stereotypes
[01:29.49] Search for a cast to plot, I make you a laughin' stock
[01:32.24] So shook, I could walk a half a block and feel the aftershocks
[01:35.39] Rain of acid drops, seek some help
[01:37.57] Now don't rewind, get it the first time,
[01:39.68] Shouldn't have to repeat myself
[01:40.68] Eternally verbally, I have numbers, succumb to time outs
[01:43.50] In rhyme bouts you'll dial 9, just to get a line out
[01:46.53] Known fact or factors and non-rappers fractured
[01:49.37] Results in more cast appearances than a hundred actors
[01:52.06] Emcees I'm testin' like diseases injected in gerbils
[01:54.66] Wordsworth, Kweli, Hi-Tek, Reflection Eternal.what...
[01:57.41] My style high life like Fonz when I burn heads like a conk
[02:00.44] 'Cause niggaz front, when their chances get slim like Pharoahe Monch
[02:03.22] Thinkin' they shits is heavy when they light like ilumination
[02:05.97] Intellectual masturbation with premature ejaculation
[02:08.71] I'm comin' cleaner than vaccinations
[02:10.35] My fascination with character assassination,
[02:12.88] Got these niggaz burnin' like sensation
[02:14.43] We keep it hot like matches and on lock like latches
[02:17.29] Wack emcees get they microphones snatched like Lee patches
[02:20.25] So YOU GO! To every wack muthafucka that you know (Scram...)
[02:22.56] My lyrics they get up in your genes/jeans like Parasucos
[02:25.31] So there's no mystery about the father, niggaz is hot and bothered
[02:28.68] Like the bitches that they are, takin' pictures with stars
[02:31.17] And got 'em open, but after they little hopes and dreams get broken
[02:34.29] Me and Hi-Tek, we live long and prosper like Vulcans
[02:36.62] Think I'm jokin'? We both got sons, we make cream and break dreams
[02:39.80] See through the fake schemes, wipin' your slate clean
[02:42.52] Like a squeegee, we be lightin' shit up like phosphorus
[02:45.19] Turnin' flamboyant niggaz anonymous, depressin' to optimus
[02:48.26] You stoppin' us is preposterous, like an androgenous masohganist
[02:50.92] You pickin' the wrong time, steppin' to me when I'm in my prime like Optimus
[02:53.63] Transformin', from rookie of the year to veteran
[02:56.55] Hip-hop is big business like Con Edison or medicine
[02:59.60] But fuck it, they gonna let us in, or else we rush the door
[03:02.11] I got to many reasons, save your 'whys' and 'what fors'
[03:04.94] This is twice inna lifetime so I'm lettin' you know (let 'em know,
[03:07.60] Yo!)
[03:08.04] Blackstar, Wordsorth, Punchline and Jane Doe (yo!)
[03:10.52] Lyrical com-pete and WE emcee
[03:13.17] We got the fortified five, exhibit level degree
[03:16.01] Check it...
[03:16.43] I keep dough in my pocket while you follow the false prophet
[03:19.02] Get deep like Islamics wrapped in a white garment
[03:21.73] I touch topics that try to open up your optics
[03:24.71] Vacate in the Tropics, you dodgin' bullets in the projects
[03:27.34] Cut the nonsense, I'm hotter than alot a men
[03:30.18] Start honorin', got more wifeys than Solomon
[03:32.70] Fuck the squad you in, a-yo we be the biddomb
[03:35.68] Regardless what I spit on, you worse with the tracks I shit on
[03:38.38] Once you get on, it's fair you can't trust (Yes!)
[03:41.25] Words & Punch, make rappers march like the third month
[03:44.54] I build with friends, lyrically spit gems
[03:47.29] Call me diamond, 'cause I'm your girl's best friend
[03:49.74] Emcees are born losers, alcoholic abusers
[03:52.61] I'll go on the radio and start a gay rumor
[03:55.49] And then I'll talk about how the crowd tried to boo ya
[03:58.25] Label shoot ya, stressed out with brain tumors
[04:01.22] My gat claps, 50% of the wack
[04:03.72] Take it back to real rap, Krylons wit' the fat cap
[04:06.84] Get robbed for your ASCAP, leave you inside
[04:09.48] Fortified live, reppin' NY 'til I die!
[04:12.14] Black body radiation situation that we workin' wit'
[04:15.28] My verb exists enlisted by the bogeys campin' services
[04:18.04] The purpose is, make you go and purchase this, no nervousness
[04:20.84] We are, hot like black tar, Black Star with emergerence
[04:23.69] Superlative, you fabricated like the word absurditive
[04:26.29] I'm rockin this from here to where the persians live
[04:28.85] To Brooklyn where the merchants live
[04:30.24] Next door to the murderers
[04:31.61] And bourbon is a elder man's medicinal alternative
[04:34.23] My memory is furnished with, back streets to back seats to fat Jeeps
[04:37.57] Legendary athletes who play by the trash heap
[04:40.45] My crew wasn't that deep, but beef we didn't act sweet
[04:43.26] Treadin' on these stompin grounds you better catch some black feet
[04:46.10] Flashy, it was between DeKalb and Pulasky
[04:48.86] Off the meter like an out of borough taxi
[04:50.90] They run your pockets fastly, black and nasty, nappy and crafty
[04:54.40] THAT'S WHY they either sittin' in Clinton or Kaksaki
[04:57.16] MAYOR Rudolph can screw off! You too soft to stop us
[05:00.28] You and your coppers should see some foot doctors
[05:02.77] Got your BIRD chest popped up, but keep your guns cocked up
[05:05.82] 'Cause all them cats that you knocked up and always gon' be locked up
[05:08.52] HOT STUFF like Donna Summer, another number one
[05:11.37] And comin' from the underground, this is how it's comin' down
[05:14.16] Baby let me run it down,
[05:15.74] Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Jane Doe, Punch, Wor. umm.E!
[05:19.16] Excuse me! Just ate another emcee!
[05:22.71] Sometimes that's just how it be
[05:24.86] Partner wash you down with green tea and some lime
[05:27.58] We like the five on the fist, fortified organized like DIS!
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