[00:11.95]Don't get too close
[00:13.18]Because you might get shot
[00:22.93]Try to answer to the master on the MC rap artists
[00:25.46]No joke on the lyric, it's hard to be modest
[00:27.78]I knew I was the man with the master plan
[00:30.21]To make you wiggle and jiggle like gelatin
[00:32.96]Just think while I sing and to the brain structure
[00:35.63]Don't sleep on the E, ya see, something might rupture
[00:37.96]I don't take time for me to blow your mind
[00:40.23]It takes a second to wreck it because you're dumb and blind
[00:42.56]So just lounge 'cause you're a MC clown
[00:45.15]Or join the circus, EPMD's in town
[00:47.78]Total chaos, no mass confusion
[00:50.42]Rhymes so hypnotizing, known to cause an illusion
[00:52.64]Like a magician, he draws a rabbit out a hat, son
[00:55.42]I'm drawin' more like a .44 Magnum
[00:57.89]MC, please stop, look and listen and try to imagine
[00:59.97]It's travellin' the speed of light but everything's in motion
[01:02.60]It's frightening, plus the thought of you alone
[01:04.93]You now enter the dimension called the twilight zone
[01:07.50]You're terrified plus you can't bear the thought
[01:09.97]You and I, one on one, in the land of the lost
[01:12.40]You start to shiver, then you scream, my friend
[01:14.77]You wake up Muttley because you're dreamin' again
[01:17.27]But next time I'm on the scene, do not try to diss us
[01:20.10]Keep your mouth suckered up because I'm strictly business
[01:25.36]Don't get too close
[01:26.53]Because you might get shot
[01:27.81](Strictly business)
[01:30.30]Don't get too close
[01:31.48]Because you might get shot
[01:32.74]This is the rap season where the E starts pleasin'
[01:35.31]Girls around the world, no need to be skeezin'
[01:37.66]When I roll, I stroll, cool, always pack a 2
[01:39.98]Just in case a brother acts a fool
[01:42.66]I've got the energy to put the girls in a frenzy
[01:45.09]Put a shock when I rock even though I'm not stingy
[01:47.53]Make sure I don't bore when I'm on the dance floor
[01:50.16]Get busy, boy, like you never saw before
[01:52.59]Wine flow, good to go
[01:54.35]After the show, I'll pull your hoe, boy
[01:58.20]Do you sniff blow? Hell, no
[02:00.08]Have my whole life ahead of me, no time to be sniffin'
[02:02.66]And if my parents find out, then they start riffin'
[02:05.49]So I stay, A-okay 'cause I'm the E, the R I C K
[02:10.13]MCs look me in my face, then their eyes get weak
[02:12.30]Pulse rate descends, heart rate increases
[02:14.88]It's like, beam me up, Scotty! I control your body
[02:17.37]I'm as deadly as AIDS when it's time to rock a party
[02:20.05]In all due respect, when I say mike check
[02:22.43]I let a sucker slide once, then I break his neck
[02:24.90]So when I say jump, you reply, "How high?"
[02:27.28]Because I'm takin' no prisoners, so don't play hero and die
[02:29.65]You're just a soldier and I'm a Green Beret
[02:32.53]I do not think twice about the MCs I slay
[02:34.90]So if you want to battle, I highly recommend this
[02:37.29]Bring your dog, mom and dad because I'm strictly business
[02:42.65]Don't get too close
[02:43.76]Because you might get shot
[02:45.03](Strictly business)
[02:47.62]Don't get too close
[02:48.68]Because you might get shot
[02:49.99]Yo, yo, you're still pickin' on that four-leaf clover?
[02:52.22]Bring in the Sandman, sucker, because it's over
[02:54.86]My name is Eric Sermon and I'm back again
[02:57.23]I see the head's still turnin' of my so-called friends
[02:59.56]They smile in my face, behind my back, they talk trash
[03:02.40]Mad and stuff because they don't have cash
[03:04.63]Like the E-Double or the PMD
[03:07.56]He drives a Corvette, I drive a Samurai Suzuki
[03:09.69]I'm the locksmith with the key to fame
[03:12.28]Never high on myself, always stay the same
[03:14.81]Play a lot because I'm hot, like a horse, I trot
[03:17.09]Around the track and back, fatigued? No, I'm not
[03:19.66]I'm the mellow, the fellow, the one that likes to say hello
[03:22.39]To a fly girl that is good to go
[03:24.78]With the slow tempo and the off-beat rhyme flow
[03:27.10]'Cause when I am in action, there is no time for maxin' or relaxin'
[03:29.67]Just reactin' and subtractin'
[03:32.15]On a sucker MC who's mouth keeps on yappin' and flappin'
[03:34.63]I lose my cool, then I'll start slappin' and smackin'
[03:37.32]You on a roll, then Albee starts jabbin' and cappin'
[03:40.04]No time to lounge, I'm packin' and strappin'
[03:42.06]At my point attack, I soar at you like an eagle
[03:44.70]I'm the sheriff and bitin' is illegal
[03:47.13]So next time in town, I highly recommend this
[03:50.06]You gots to chill because I'm strictly business
[03:54.32]Hey yo, E-Double man, let 'em know what time it is
[03:56.70]Yo, I'm strictly business
[03:59.24]You know what I'm sayin', PMD?
[04:00.44]Yo word, EPMD is in full effect
[04:05.21]Don't get too close
[04:05.86]Because you might get shot
[04:07.52]Lounge, be the E-Double, E-Double, E
[04:10.85]In the place to be and with PMD
[04:12.77]Know what I mean? My homeboy, Bernard on the scene
[04:16.00]Know what I'm sayin', Mixmaster Chuck Chase?
[04:19.76]Don't get too close
[04:21.13]Because you might get shot
[04:20.56]In the place
[04:21.32]Yo, I'd like to say peace to my homey
[04:23.19]Big Daddy Kane and Biz Markie