'93 'til I

Opio:

You're irresponsible
No focus
I hold this advice script
I ripped it to shreds
I was headed
With sound waves and frequencies
Frequently i'm freakin the
Flows like hoes
_________ rub-a-dub those
Shattering glass joes
With decibels
To break spectacles
You can't see
You're feelin' queezy
And uneasy
Steppin cautious because you're nauseous
I squashes
Emcees like i was colossus
Flippin on magneto
Never metal
Without my bending
Ending all existance, my rhymes blending
Niggaz up and liquifying
Punks are crying
Crews are dying
While the mack keeps shining
Gleaming
Girls are screaming
Cuz i'm arousing
My styles bring
___ kids, so how you look?
Ya drowning, and drained
The frame of being slain
By my slang
Once again
I wreck brainz

Tajai:

Yo, shit occurs
When i shift my words
I dip a swisher
To my kisser
And get spliffta
I riff ta
Be the mista
The abyss ta
Widen
Cuz i slide in
Like a titan
Mythical
When i grip or pull
Spliff, it will manipulate my brain
In ways to plot or gain
And raises
Tajai is the brand that
Keep it jam-packed
Frankly- pretty damn phat
It's over me, i am enough to rip it flat
And pass- the mic to me
And see emcees sadden- fast!
You're ratty
Match my tip, you pips
And gladyss knight gets darkness
Is where we best start, kids
If ours gets bootlegged and sold in the market
Then mark this
Them stands plan to be targets
And i'll stand grand
Then peace to richmond and
Of course the land
I'm lettin ya know cuz i can

[chorus:]
"yeah, i'ma let ya know
Yeah, i'ma let ya know
Yeah, i let you know
Yo, i'm lettin niggaz know"

A-plus:

I say that nigga a
That nigga a-k
Can make a nigga day
In a very special nigga way
Breaking backs and fists
As i smack and dis
Wackness
Cuz they lack this
Phatness
In fact this
Very booty indeed
Prayin you could be freed
From torture
Or i'll scorch ya
With a torch a'
Gasoline
I smash your spleen
I'm quick to blast a fiend
You betta jet if ya' ass is keen
Yeah, i got a masta plan
I'm fasta than
Drastic man
My thing is "who would blast a friend?"
I only blast wack rhymas
It's time to find ya' own flows
I throw spines and bones
Your ass
Extremely ass
You see me pass
The senior class
Yo- and now i'm free at last
So let me bust a grill if i must
Making blood spill and your eyes fill with puss
When i bust

Phesto:

Here i go again
Return of the jedi
Red eye
Use my lightsaber to take guys that pick my flavor
I pounce and trounce on emcees when i slay ya
Remember the days
You parleys 'em to the left
Cuz i get deffer
Than senior citizens with alzheimer's
And squash rhymas to vapor
Shatter- at a
Forfeitcha when i splitcha
Tore and ripped ya
My oratore's quick ta
Concoct a sicka- flow
So crawl back under your rock
Get off my jock
I'm quicka than minute rice
To split and slice
Rappaz as i entrapped ya
Slapped ya
With my rapture
On the down low, i trapped your brain
And flips it
Watch the maestro
Slice hoz, entice hoz
As i rip shit
Dip shit
You rap but
Keep your trap shut
Cuz you lack what
Phesto's inducing
I get mood swings!

Hah hah, souls of mischief in the house
Rippin shit from ninety-three on
Souls of mischief, let em know
Hieroglyphics, is in the house
My man del the funky homosapien
Kwam is in the house
And i wanna say whassup to my nigga domino
Who hooked this phat track for us

Aiyyo i gotta give a fat, big swollen shout
To my man casual, youknowhati'msayin?

Hah, lettin you know about fear itself, huh

Yeah, my nigga tarai and my nigga jay-biz cuttin it up
Youknowhati'msayin

Shamen!

Yeah pep love, snupe, mike g, can't forget my niggaz, huh

My man mike p is chillin, saafir whassup!
And the rest of the hobo junction, the elements of change
Whassup to my nigga thai stick

Aiyyo wanna give a shout to tech and sway and the rest of the
Wake up show for keeping hip-hop alive on the radio
Yeah, youknowhati'msayin?

Yeah kevvy kev, vinny v, rock b and john in the house

Can't forget the pharcyde
You know that

Soul survivors, whassup and the rest of the gba posse
They in there

Yo i wanna give a shout to all my niggaz up in the land
Youknowhati'msayin? up in oakland where we chillin

Oakland

Yeah can't forget my niggaz

You know everybody in the whole bay area
The whole west coast. youknowhati'msayin? the whole west coast

We comin in fat b

Yeah yeah and on the east, youknowhati'msayin
Stretch armstrong, daddy reef, and bobbito

Hah, my boys organized konfusion in the house
Yz can't forget my man and plus kurious jorge

The whole jive staff

But speaking of jive you know we can't forget
Ant banks and too $hort
Hell no

Yeah the rest of the dangerous crew
Hell yeah

You know everybody we forget anybody we forgot
You know if you was really down you deserve a shout
And if we forget you, you'll get it, knowhati'msayin
Souls of mischief

Souls of mischief, ninety-three on, hieroglyphics
We out, like this

[talking between the souls and pep love]

"i find it fun to smash emcees into (fine bits)
So why i ain't get my just deserts for all the kids i busted, huh?
(baby!)
I crush the curtesy when dealin' with the folks is too much
For the askin'
Cool-i got the (skill crafted tools)
Massive fools at my work bench and
(i'm wrenchin') mics from they graspin'
(that's how it has been)
The drill's this: i kill swift
I feels i better slay or, (hey
My tape measures greater)
So now i'm (askin') dips if they (saw me)
And they was available
Would they want me to (nail'em all?)
Be through, screw drive her (screwdriver) crazy
Nuttin', bold, lively
(put on your high beams)

I, proliferator, quickly fade to niggas vigorous
Figure i kick stunts,
I punch twice that nigga that's dissin' at me
Attach'em to bats, latchin', and matchin' my cataclism
I give'em a (skism),
I (stroke to croak her, i broke her)
Chokin' up on my syntax, as i bend backs by impacts (impacts)
Then i give a concusssion in your nuts when i'm bustin'
(heads)
Dead with my lead graff
I cloth thee, i (swing) off-beat, off the
Cerebellum, swellin' nimrods
Ten brains couldn't parallel this,
(ha) i'm caraouselling kids
While they wallow and swallow hallow tips (yep)
You follow and slippin'
I'm rippin' mics nice twice like (dicin' kids in fractions)
Yo, (figure, i tax men)

Steppin' to casual
That's when ya lost

What about domino?
That's when ya lost

But if you step to snupe
That's when ya lost

Steppin' to a+...
That's when ya lost

If you play the tajai
That's when ya lost

Man, steppin' to opio
That's when ya lost

Seppin' to phesto
That's when ya lost

Phuck with toure'
That's when ya lost

(yo), i'm willin' to bet, you're willin' to sweat (yah)
But illin''ll get you - (bruised), i kill and i step to - (crews)
And abuse two's and three's, who's the g that hoe's know (me)
Me & hiero, i know, (i'm fly, bro)
So why flow if you're not invigerating (why)
I know where you live,
There at your crib,
(i got niggas waitin')
I figure raping is crime, see (see)
I take my time, b (b)
And now your g (is my g)
Now i'm gonna show you how the west coast smacks kids
(yo), i rhyme, it swells, so the hell with a (wack dis)
(generalizing),
Dissin' before you've ever seen this
So you can get the middle (what middle?), the penis

Never the match the miraculous tactics
I smack tricks, the wax is at your wack bitch
(i crack bricks)
Who can't cum
I leave'm broke and dumb
Def, and plus i'm causin' cardiac arrest
You need some rest
(check), as i'm chizzlin' (riddles in) your memory
Remember me?
I hacked your body to pieces
(disassembling) your (blows)
You bros started trembling from shock and trauma
(i'm water)
In lives when i bomb-a
Babbling dislexic, i make'em exit
This lifetime, i wake up words, (i excite rhymes)
I'm enthusin' when i'm bruisin'
Hoes, take off your shoes when i abuse men
Your losin'

If you slept on del
That's when ya lost

Steppin' to pep love
That's when ya lost

Phuckin' around with j-biz
That's when ya lost

Step to mike g
That's when ya lost

Smoke on that crackrock
That's when ya lost

The souls of mischief??
That's when ya lost

When you don't know where your goin'???
That's when ya lost

When you don't win!!??
That's when ya lost

Phuckin' around with hierogliphics
That's when ya lost

If you phuck with the shamen
That's when ya lost

That's when ya lost

(that's when you lose - proper)

That's when ya lost

(scratching)

[opio]

Understand this man is the grand-est
The mighty dreaded, niggaz step and get beheaded
Shredded, left a battered broken man
Chosen hand busted from the tussle from the mic which i ignite
Like a pyromaniac don't play me that's
Not recommended, you're winded your girl lays me back
And i attack the twat viciously
Got it twitchin, she's a bitch to the dopefiend beat
Hope we meet in the next lifetime
For the strife i'm, the nigga with the better rhyme
Hoes think i'm adorable, mc's think i'm oracle
Foolish mortal, i got the flows so call your crew
And crush the earth's crust because i bust
Thunderous, i'm breakin niggaz down to dust
The rhyme sorceror forces you to shout my praises
Phenomenal phrases hit you like exploding razors

[a-plus]

Now who put the west up on the map?
Perhaps you should run laps, you're wack with a stack of dumb raps
Thumbtacks mark your headquarters
You're dead when i slaughter, and now your head's leaking red water
You shoulda been a donor, i'm prone to bone ya hoe
Though she know i can flow, cuz i showed her
And now she's up on my shit, i'm slick
I rhyme quick, and i'm the shit, dick
Hieroglyphics in the house like punishment
Who is running shit, a-plus is the one to get
Foul, if you think i'm flippin on the man with the skills
Niggaz get the dills, still
Hieroglyphics sound the lights, surround the mics
I pound the lights cuz they haven't found the light
But i never taught ya discipline, feel my fist again
If it's in your face, get a taste, cuz you commit the sin

[del]

Mc's should know their limitations, their limitations
Mc's should know their limitations
Mc's should know their limitations, their limitations
Mc's should know their limitations

[tajai]

*singing* when captain tajai throws his weight it's hard
The verbs they scourge i fly nerds while i be fine
Put on your radar, i don't stay far
That's why men are noid, i irritate like hemmaroids (ouch)
You made the proper preperations, i still ate ya
I hate ya, i rate the
Mindstate of niggaz that i'm greater, none of that later
We can do this i wreck blocks like brutus
It's not a chore ta, make you come up shorter
Cuz niggaz know i'm sure to serve without takin no orders
So here's a tip from the hip to your dips
Get with the man who rips, stop being stalled by them drips
I'll do you swell, i got better aim than willie tell
I rung so let me ring your bell
Ding-dong! my sing song swells like a samolian
Stuck in my pocket, i simply rock it

[casual]

Call it splat on your face when you try to face the match
You're tripping you're slipping you're sliding off my fly blend
Of wording, soon to be hurting, a nerd teen rabbit
Peace to the niggaz who got my back and
Everyone else can get the dills
I hit your skills up, like my tag
You rag and boast about your coast but it really don't phase me
You're style's lazy, you must be drinkin that crazy
My thinking's phat and it pays me!
Your days be decreasing be-cause we beats men
I seen at least ten enemies daily!
But what you'll get bold, and try to play me maybe that
Imbecile, while my bat, is sensible
His brain i got ta beez giving niggaz lobotimes
I trife with these, individuals criminals of my own rap
On behalf of phesto, i like to laugh

[del]

Mc's should know their limitations, their limitations
Mc's should know their limitations
Mc's should know their limitations, their limitations
Mc's should know their limitations

Yeah, now i got something to say, on the behalf of hieroglyphics
This the d-e-l, and umm, i'm sick of all you weak-ass
Booty-ass motherfucking rappers
And uhh, next time i see you on the motherfucking street
I'ma bust your motherfucking nose
Uhh, fuck you!! peace

[a-plus]

Yo, nineteen ninety-three
New year, new world champions
Hahaha like this

Yo, the ill-minded mack will find the facts
I rhyme and acts, niggaz bound til i'm attacks
When niggaz say i can't rhyme i recline
I'm the first to tell you, i got g's in my verse who tell me
It hurts a fella when i rip, because i'm sly slick
The nigga fly chicks ride dick with me
I'm leaving niggaz stranded man that's how i planned it
Landed blows with my random flows
And it goes -- a little something like this
And i might diss, with my right fist i strike kids like a pitcher do
I split your bitch you better switch or i twist ya
I play tricks like a mix
When booty niggaz miss the beat
I figure that they wack i go and get my bat and a pack of swisher sweets
Plus be ill when i bust the grill but we chill
Who the fattest? {hiero} it's batting practice

[tajai]

It's no feat, how i defeat, weaker
Individuals set em up like give and go
A heat seaker, i take a bat and brighten your features
Beseech ya, proving i'll do that too
Cuz when you, pulls my clothes on and shrouded
I'm out with ya grip and you're pimpin so how did he
Do that shit, who dat kid, you're asking the masked man
Who fly higher than nasa
Ask friends what you need when i need your blockin
Then i leave you knocked in
Counts to call i scrubs em all
With the quickness, using fitness, leave you fitless
Who got a problem with me ripping all than i do
I'm batting way more than you
Hey sure you knew my rhymes was fly
My lines imply that i'm fatter, next batter

Chorus: repeat 2x

It's like this y'all, it's like that y'all
I got a hieroglyphics baseball bat y'all
It's like this y'all, it's like that y'all
I swing a hieroglyphics baseball bat y'all

[opio]

Get the fuck out, i never struck out
Better get the bucks out, and kick em down
Wrecking, extreme havoc when i'm practicing
That could mean a loss of conciousness when i launches this
Back to the scene of the crime i'm never on sight
Untouchable, what you pulled another hiest?
Precisely, i's be the man that did it
Said it, free up your posession never regretted
No anthistetic so you're headed for some suffering
Bufferin can't ease the aches and pains of my-grains
When i trail this drain on your lifestyle
Pull a knife while, you give it up, simp
I'm a pimp got your hoe and got your dough
And got the best flow in the universe, snatchin titles
Like a purse, niggaz be the spot in a hearse
I'm worse, than the baddest bat crack

[phesto]

It's phesto so get your cash flow, i crushed em
It's gone, right before your eyes, if you're wise
Another hiest done nice when i slice
Your neck and snatch a duffle-bag with a sag
And a tag in your crew, dag how you do
Dangerous if it's your brain i bust they taking
Chains and stuff, from the victim eyes is suprised
And i'm quick to size men, up with a swing to your grill
What i planned difficult that's split your skull
With a tool, if you ever fool, with us all
Did you ever think, if you blinked
I wouldn't get you for your links, and your cash and your minks
Savage enough to keep my average up
Puttin chumps in assume a new marking then i'm scots-free
Watch me, duck into the night with your valuables
I'm getting down with my tools

Chorus

[casual]

Hah, whassup? tell me we ain't the best now
That's how we do! ripping shit
Niggaz don't know...
They ain't the best, cuz we be
That's practice

A-plus:

Hmmmmm
I could give a damn about you and your crew
Everybody's frontin'
Aint nobody bein' true to
The things they say
They say...

Tajai:
Man, i understand,

A-plus: and,

Phesto:
I got a plan for improvement. . .

A-plus:
But you gets the finger
And i bring a
Attitude with me
Cause brothas that i know be acting shifty
Let me be me
And i'll let you be you
But why talk about me if it's not me that you're talkin' to
Lets make it clear
You do not know, me
So skip 'how ya livin', 'how ya feel, bro g'
To me that's phony
Asking if my shit's dropping
The kids stop when
They start to get they lips popped, and
They say i forgot 'em
But i aint seen 'em in four years,

Tajai:
You always had my number,

A-plus: so step with your poor tears
And what about,

Opio: plus is my man!

A0plus: you need to stop it
Screw the doers
Of rumors
Cause you nerds never profit.

[chorus:]
"tell me who profits? you got beat, cause you like to gossip."

Phesto:

In school i never used to raise my hand in class
I always knew the teacher's hand
A passing grade to me
In the back, relax
Cause they wasn't kickin' facts
In facts
I never learned nuttin',

Opio:

I can fool with the school system
They take facts and twist 'em
Into knots, right up the block's
A spot
To get a 40
Around the corner get craps,

Phesto:

Perhaps these is traps
To keep us tapped
Saps, can buy gats
With flat-tipped bullet caps
In the locker room with no hassle
And assholes sell cracks in sacks
To class-foes & friends
Cause the mass goes with the trend.

Opio:

My friend
The niggas makin' ends is livin' illegal
That's the way to go
I'm out to get dough.

Phesto:

Dough?
The education, to get you further
Than murder and drugs with thugs
You're better off being a nerd.

Opio:

That's absurd
Life don't mean nuthin' without phat pockets
That's the only way to get paid
You tell me who profits.

[chorus:]

"o&p: tell me who profits?
O: i'll have g's,
P: but you'll get shot, kid (dick)!"

Tajai:

Huh!
Ya gotta wonder
Why niggas plunder, kill
Have ya torn a sunder
Cuz i'ma build
And fill
A glass pipe full of crack
And black men's pockets be phat
A little
Lets whittle the way to the core now
Ya packin' a glock
Mackin' the block
Fight with the cops
Well, who ya takin' the risk for?
A kingpin swingin'
With the president
Greasin' 'em up & givin' 'em papes
For drugs in the states
Have ya dodgin' niggas and caps
He's with george & clarence
Digging golf balls out of sand traps
He's never seen frisco or oakland
He got a glimpse of new york
When he went to see the opera ("ahhhhhh!"
He's seventy-six, getting senile
If we live past 2-4 we're due for a stay in the penile
So see now, we polish our berettas
But there's no boats or caine fields nowhere in the ghetto
Yo...

[chorus:]
"tajai: tell me who profits?
Dc got schemes, and we aint got spit...damn."

[opio]

Now playful pulpit pussies poppin junk with the pistol
Sweated because i'm dreaded let's get ready to pull a fistful
Of extinction, reachin, quick on the trigger sneakin
And then send a flurry of bullets diggin deep in my flesh and wreakin
The props cuz they pops lots of mops heads drop
Dead plots, a cop, eager and ready to lick the shots hot
Ready to kick the plot so wipin the flop and then i vanish
Managed to escape by the skin of my teeth and then say damn
It's a shame, the brain is washed, to the point, when it's savage
Beast-es, i rest in peace, simply before i annex
And send, why can't there be, a resolution i ask you
No answer, so fuck it the next time my life is threatened i'll blast you
Packin the black steel makin the mack's feel pain and fear
As i smear blood from buckshots to the brain
Pump pump pump listen to the bullets hum as they buzz past
Your ears and dig in, drillin into your cranium
Not a gang-banger, crack-slanger, never done had the rep kid
Yet sweated, frequently, see me and step with
Intent to kill spilling your blood for your sins
Defends my livelihood cuz rivals could bring ends to
My youthful bliss bustin a trigger gun and missed this
Bullets, to the vital organs, in order to assist
In your death, your last breath havin spasms as i has em
The idea is demonic and the thought is surely sad
And not a murderer, ensurin the, longevity of my life i'll
Live and let live, kill if i must i shall

Chorus:

I give it all i got, that's all i got to give
Yo, you got to live and let live
I give it all i got, that's all i got to give
Yo, you gotta live and let live

[phesto]

Damn i wish, that i can have bliss, daily
Lately i try to speak my piece but words fail me
I'm dwelling in the halls of appalling sights of evil
I got to sweat the devil plus i got to sweat my people
Do i gotta blow them brains out to get them chains out
Your head, the mackin mentally offends to be dead
Deceased i gotta a peace deeds cuz the beast be
Lurkin up in them, so now i'm buckin them
And stuck in them, the herring fits means tricks
You learn it when you plunder and tell me to run the kicks
You might trip, and find it hard to swallow this
But follow this down a dark alley and you're catchin hollow tips
You got yo' shit, i got mine, leave it at that
Respect d or thank me, when i shank thee
Necks, cuz clever dreads can sever heads weasel
I may be thin but my lead friends be diesel
A law abiding citizen but shit it's been long enough
Strong and tough, sniff this and you're snuffed
Stifled, step lively, don't try to bust me
Trust the fact that i'm friendly and you'll plus see
I love humans, they hate, me
I'd love to live and let live but no-one's d
So until then i chill when it's possible
But i gotsta pull, pieces because we're peaceless

Chorus

[a-plus]

Yo, i shall not kill, i will if i have to
You say i'm the one promoting violence well i ask you
Have you ever heard the sound of bullets passing you
Ever thought of going out with someone blasting you
Willing to be killing maybe is a great sin but
It's not appealing when bullets penetrate skin what
Pain when a brain leaves a stain with the quickness
So i get a fool if i think that i'm on his shitlist
With the swiftness of a glock nine
So now who got your back? cuz my gat got mine
Find a brother with some dreads and now you figure you're gonna kill him
Well i grab my gun when i see one i'm gonna fill him
Why should you live in fear thinkin someone is gonna get ya
I bet ya, before he gets me he'll be on a streacher
So no nigga pulls a trigger on the s-o-m
And if there's more than one i'll have to kill the rest of them
Buckshots, leave a body ripped, cuz i got equipped
With a shotty quick, that nobody wanna riff with
Get split open with the fury of the lead g
Rat-a-tat, tat-a-tat, flat is what your head be
Dead see, why don't brothers wanna let me function
When i pull it, kids be eatin bullets like a luncheon
Adam got a magnum and i tag em with this weapon
Be threatened, cuz adam be pullin a pistol if you're steppin
I don't like it but i guess that that's the way it has to be
Live and let live but then you're dead before you're blastin me

Chorus 2x