Brother With A Purpose [Controversy Music, ASCAP - 1991]

---------------------- [US flipside to NPG]



MC T on a hit and to make sure I don't miss,

kick the beat as this fool persists



Step off me, get the hell off, well I'm riding

Flowing with this funky beat, you suckers keep on tryin'a

diss this, uh-uh, I ain't having it

Sucker duck, understand my schedule work too heavy

I'm a man, I mean, sometimes it seems hammer claim

but I can still cop a lean and explain to you

an MC who's got beef, I'm giving grief to disbelief

You said that I was new to this well put me on your hit list

I'm 'quipped to rule, and I squash all the bull



We got our own ideas!

We got our own ideas!

yeah



Antogonistic action, it's just a fraction

of what I feel for you, I'll take my time in a rhyme

Yo, let's bust a move, I'm steppin' with confidence

yes I know it's evident, a backseat to you that's irrelevant

you see it's like this, you shot and missed, and now it's my turn

you learn, you mess with the fire, you burn. and it's a heat up

situation sticky

You're the duck, huh, I won't be picky, I'm bassin'

you're chasing a dream that I'm livin'

you stupid pigeon, cause even with the high flow, I keep a low pro

you step off on me, and that's a sho' nuff n.o.

I mean a no-go

yeah, something like that



We got our own ideas! (yeah, yeah)

We got our own ideas! (yeah, yeah)



Fuck it, you're tryin' to step on my tip, yeah



{on top of a slow NPG chorus:}

I'm a brother with a purpose (pump it up, T)

so I'll take my time and serve this right

despite the negativity,

never want society to get the best of me

you sold out, just another fool, holdin' out

on the pockets of my brothers tryin' to get clout

step back, cast the vapors, your vision's blurred, check out my behaviour

calm, cool, never sweat the issue (so what you're saying?)

What I'm saying is that we're past due

gotta stand up and be counted, can't you see the trouble keeps mountin', boy

And I won't stand for it, so get off

cause I'm about to have a fit

you can't step unless you step legit

Enough talk y'all, this is it, let's get ill with this

yeah, yeah



Suckers are trying to step off on my tip

We got our own ideas!

Suckers are trying to step off on my tip

We got our own ideas!

Suckers are trying to step off on my tip

We got our own ideas!

Suckers are trying to step off on my tip



As I roast, you toast - can't stand the heat of the aftermath

The worst you ran with you dis just to get a laugh

the brother you ridiculed,

they say you're the king of rules

yeah, time for school, time for walking,

I'm stalking, you're talking

as you run your mouth down, I'm chalking up another way of

gettin' paid in dividends

in the end, my friend, its just a verbal blend

yeah, get with that



What's up?

We got our own ideas! (yeah)

What's up?

We got our own ideas! (yeah)



Brothers be jocking, freaks keep clocking

Brothers be jocking, skeezers are clocking



We got our own ideas!

Skeezers be on my tip (yeah)

trying to get with this

We got our own ideas!

Skeezers be on my tip (yeah)

trying to get with this

Skeezers be on my tip (yeah)

trying to get with this

Skeezers be on my tip (yeah)

We got our own ideas!



trying to get to this

clocking, I got my own ideas,

and they ain't got nothing to do with what's in here

see ya next year, 91, in full effect

I'm getting ign'ant

(yeah, yeah)



We got our own ideas! (yeah, yeah