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[Chorus] |
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Check your collection, what's your selection |
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Is it pretty pop or hip hop perfected |
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Sleeves of the binder, personality projected |
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Ignorant or intelligent, your case reflects it |
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Check your collection, what's your selection |
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Is it pretty pop or hip hop perfected |
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Sleeves of the binder, personality projected |
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Ignorant or intelligent, your case reflects it |
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[Verse 1: Othello] |
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Hi-de-ho at five below |
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I blow through the wind like hair on Fabio |
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Eavesdrop on the selections of CDs bought |
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Motivated by what he or she got |
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Replicas, consumer clones keep carbon copying |
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Common cliches of corny compositions |
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Can you call a kid who kicks it kinda prone to receiving |
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A KUBE 93 complex |
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All sex-oriented computer-generated jiggy jams jamming the airwaves |
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Preventing innovative cats from a chance to make it |
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True talent forsaken, spend the money your making |
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Supporting quality creations |
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Simple minds get drawn to simplicity |
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But not me, I wanna experience genuine creativity |
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If you can appreciate that theory you could be feeling me |
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'Cause shoot, we put a lot of time into being original |
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Not saying that I'm phat or all that but from the heart I rap |
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And Christ is exulted so what more can I ask for? |
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Rock on, look kids, the lesson is |
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I'm not dissing your preferences, I'm just saying, c'mon now |
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[Chorus] |
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Check your collection, what's your selection |
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Is it pretty pop or hip hop perfected |
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Sleeves of the binder, personality projected |
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Ignorant or intelligent, your case reflects it |
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Check your collection, what's your selection |
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Is it pretty pop or hip hop perfected |
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Sleeves of the binder, personality projected |
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Ignorant or intelligent, your case reflects it |
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[Verse 2: Page One] |
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Keep them hands movin' from the right to the left |
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I take my craft as seriously as a fight to the death |
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This industry, I stay incensed with it |
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Wouldn't have that much against it if it were case sensitive |
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Would you not judge it, if it wasn't so big budget |
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And would you object to hear your kids repeat it in public |
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This subject, some won't even touch it, but wait a minute |
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A computer's monitor only displays the data in it |
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We wasn't fooled by some new lie |
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Don't have to light it up like the Fourth of July, to see this mess is ruled by |
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Past presidents' printed paper portraits |
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Telecommunications putting satellites in orbit |
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To control what you see and hear, thus what you think |
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They don't trust what you think, so they got to know just what you think |
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But they can't stop the underground movement |
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Trying to blow it off as a nuisance, but the truth is |
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Accessible, if not readily digestible |
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If your palette is accustomed to devouring the detestable |
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Flesh festival permeating the airwaves |
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It's time to take it to the next level like a staircase |
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[Chorus] |
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Check your collection, what's your selection |
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Is it pretty pop or hip hop perfected |
|
Sleeves of the binder, personality projected |
|
Ignorant or intelligent, your case reflects it |
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Check your collection, what's your selection |
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Is it pretty pop or hip hop perfected |
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Sleeves of the binder, personality projected |
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Ignorant or intelligent, your case reflects it |
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[Verse 3: Page One &Othello] |
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The ultimate heist, robbing you of Christ |
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Now is your case a treasure chest, or a mind-control device |
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What do you purchase, who do you worship |
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It's a fine line between artist and merchant, it's all about the pesos |
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Hip hop, rock or jazz, whatever we have |
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Yo, we be rockin' it, rockin' it as the bass goes... |
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The bass goes... |
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Case closed |
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[Chorus] |
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Check your collection, what's your selection |
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Is it pretty pop or hip hop perfected |
|
Sleeves of the binder, personality projected |
|
Ignorant or intelligent, your case reflects it |
|
Check your collection, what's your selection |
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Is it pretty pop or hip hop perfected |
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Sleeves of the binder, personality projected |
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Ignorant or intelligent, your case reflects it |
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[Verse 4: Page One & Othello] |
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This is not a dis to those of you |
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Who support wack music and trend-following crews |
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Creativity is whatever you think it is |
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But if everyone's doing it, how creative is it, kid? |
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This is not a dis to those of you |
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Who support wack music and trend-following crews |
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Creativity is whatever you think it is |
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But if everyone's doing it, how creative is it, kid? |
