Big L - Day One lyrics

[Diamond D] Now its the mad magician with the ill deposition No repetition holding down Bronx traditions My compositions simply squash the competition Step up and get beat into submission Cause this musician with the street intuition 735 fuel-injected transmission My opposition will have to recognize my steez Exotic trees, leave a trail of scuffed up knees So please you couldn't touch this cat with a stick Quick to inflict tricks blaze up in the flicks Son I'm sick and you could put that on my mama Exclamation point, quotation, comma Lay up on the beaches when I'm down in the Bahamas The sk**s go back to the days of Wonderama So pa** the scama, son its time to get this money So we can relax and recline where it's sunny [Big L] I went from standing on the corner selling c**aine To ripping shows live on stage with hoes yelling my name To be precise ripping mics is the light of my life You fronting like you trife but never pulled a heist in your life The price of my ice is sky high, I'm a fly guy That's every thug's dream I really love cream, it's in my bloodstream You mad cause I got more chicks than you, more bricks than you More nines with extra clips than you Where I live it ain't a nice town You can't walk around iced down Some clown probably getting stuck right now Peace to D-I-T-C, Show and AG, Fat J-O-E Diamond D, Lord Finesse, and me I'm from the East Coast, this is how we roll in New York A bunch of rowdy n***as holding the fort Jacking creeps, packing heat, these Harlem streets is for keeps Much love to all my peeps who got covered with sheets [Hook] Most these rap cats don't know where it started, where it came from We been repping this sh** since Day One Digging In The Crates originators Why n***as player hate us, knowing damn well you can't fade us [A.G.] You better take me out quick Cause I'm accurate when I bust mine And make it count like Jordan at crunch time Just in case I play Fishburne and double up on nines You could never make it rain or stop my sunshine So I keep eyes on these chumps the whole time Take note of your technique like we scheme on dimes Disregard your crew, f** your heart Put a slug in me, it'll be marriage, til d**h do us part Until then master this art and k** them With the pen that's dramatic, automatics I commit sins Hold my head, but when I've had it I test chins If that ain't real then feel the stainless steel Bang 'em and hang 'em like they did our relatives Thought he was the best on the mic that ever lived? Negative Wu-diggity if you with me then say word Lets get twisted like bottlecaps [and] create like Spielberg [Lord Finesse] Check the referral, man my whole squad's thorough We worldwide, n***as just nice in one borough We all gleam, plus we fiend for more cream You got some nice players, they just on the wrong team Knah'mean? As the world turns To who it concern we'll set you straight like a perm Rap apostle, lyrical type Pica**o, kinda hostile Nothing less than colossal You dig me like fossils, be the cat with the groovy soul Lotta rappers out here acting with no movie roles You know the deal, I represent sk**s And n***as with bent grills that live to make a mill On the real that's my motto, too hard to follow Will die in sorrow before I'm going out like Gravato Hard to hit like Lotto, underworld role model D.I.T.C. we be them cats of tomorrow [Hook] [O.C.] Holding it down for D.I.T.C, n***as stink like feces Coming against raw dogs you're lost The way I stimulate rhyme and rhythmatic timing On beat, off beat, drunk flow here we go Assignments handed out, each individual stand out Carrying his own clout Phenomenal Moses of rap I pose a threat Foes I put 'em on a block like a hole in a pen Lyrical genocide on the witty side n***as give me respect due, like the pope in a synagogue Who weighing my odds? O.C. far from a fraud You waste my time n***a so I bagged your broad Blow your mind ditto with no conscience I decide the law motherf**er I'm Congress This concludes my repertoire of what I be on MC's make way for mines or get peed on f** that