* versions on "greatest hits" differ from the original recordings



[erick sermon]

The employees of the year, yeah we back to work

I took time off, while other rappers got jerked

Due to the fact that they wack in their track

Have to go back and stack 'cause they lack

The ingredients... epmd and scratch for that...

*dj scratch cuts and scratches*

Yo, i'm the hip-hopper, plus the show shocker

Down with md, yes the microphone doctor

One wrecks, the other destroys

And if you think you ready to mess (kill the noise)

We don't play when it's time to slay

I get a cut from my homey, yo, then i lay

Back and mack and all the rhymes i pack

And wait for a sucker to jump and then attack



[parrish smith]

Well, i'm known to be the master in the mc field

No respect in eighty-seven, eighty-eight you kneel

Cause i produce and get loose, when it's time to perform

Wax a sucker like mop & glow (that's word bond)

Back a second time, but on a different assignment

To do a sucker new jack, who needs a rappin alignment

Cause i'm the cream of the crop, when it's time to do a show

Girlies on my jock for my dope intro

As i glance at e-double, king microphone wrecker

Turn on my cordless, sayin mic checka

To the ladies... and all partygoers

Some call me p, and others slow flower

Brothers on my jock, for the way i hold a piece of steel

So what you sayin?



So what you sayin?



[erick sermon]

Puttin heads to bed, straight out the box

Mc's, are jumpin out shoes and socks

I'm not playin, understand what i'm sayin

Catch a sucker in my way, and i'm slayin

Takin no shorts, showin vital signs

You can tell by my lines that i'm gettin mines

In ninety-nine, because i'm fine as wine

Sit back and recline, watch the sun shine

Take a stroll, listen to rock and roll

Catch a flick at the movies, dance a bowl

Cause i chose and refuse to slack while i'm back

I take a chance jack, so i must attack

With knick knack paddywack so i won't lack

All my style is def, and as deadly as crack



[parrish smith]

While i'm slayin music's playin, a sucker is delayin

Battle in the trenches where the funky be playin

Cause with a partner like e double don't come a dime a dozen

A kin not blood related, but you can call us cousins

Cause as we climb the charts, better known as statistics

Brothers on my jock while we kickin ballistics

Droppin hits like i'm housin, you gots ta chill, and more

The proof is in the puddin (yo check the billboard)

People round town talkin this and that

Of how we sound like the r, and our music was wack

Dropped the album strictly business and you thought we was bold

Thirty days later, the lp went gold

So what you sayin



So what you sayin



[erick sermon]

Now party people it's time for the exquisite

No knock knock who that, who's there, or who is it

It's the e-r-i-c-k, yes the boy wonder

No fouls no bleeps no bloops or no blunders

So hot, so you can say i'm blazin

Or luther vandross says, yo i am

"sooooooo amazing, and i've been waiting"

For a sucker to attack yo me the e-double

Cause me and pmd's like the funky fresh couple



[parrish smith]

I fight fire with fire, that's why most retired

And when we needed a piss boy, you was hired

You was mesmerized, for that style that we was bringin

In the all out battle, p comes out swingin

Cause i'm just the type of brother that's out to get mines

And if the odd's against me, i still drop lines

And get mines on time that's why most resign

Sit in my lazyboy chair, relax my head and recline

Sip a pepsi or coke, with a twist of lime

Or crack a forty-oh, and then i go for mine

So what you sayin



So what you sayin


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