[00:17.06]Erick Sermon's in the house
[00:19.02]Let's get up let's get down
[00:20.60]Roll wit the hardcore funk the hardcore sound
[00:22.93]Let's get wit this mackadocious funk material
[00:25.63]So simple when I rock wit the instrumental
[00:28.59]Who am I(E-D the Green Eyed Bandit)
[00:30.75]Control my career so I can never get stranded
[00:32.99]But the rest are gettin Brand Nubian
[00:35.23]Changed up they style from jeans to suits and
[00:37.59]Thinkin about a pop record somethin made for the station
[00:40.76]For a whole new relation
[00:42.55]Ship of a new type of scene
[00:44.79]To go platinum and clock mad green
[00:47.13]AKA a sellout the rap definition
[00:49.72]Get off that boy change your mission
[00:51.90]Come back around the block
[00:53.46]Pump Color Me Badd to the ah tick tock
[00:56.68]Let them know your logo not a black thing
[00:59.21]My background sing my background sing for the crossover
[01:10.53]The Crossover
[01:19.98]The rap era's outta control brother's sellin their soul
[01:22.35]To go gold going going gone another rapper sold
[01:25.20](To who)To pop and RandB not the MD
[01:27.49]I'm strictly hip-hop I'll stick to Kid Capri
[01:29.98]Funk mode yea kid that's how the Squad rolls
[01:32.35]I know your head is bobbin'cause the neck knows
[01:34.74](Not like other rappers)frontin on they fans the ill
[01:36.52]Trying to chill saying"damn it be great to sell a mill"
[01:38.86]Thats when the mind switch to the pop tip
[01:41.12](Kid you're gonna be large)
[01:42.60]Yea right that's what the company kicks
[01:44.28]Forget the black crowds you're wack now
[01:46.02]In a zoot suit frontin black lookin mad foul
[01:48.55]I speak for the hardcore(ruff rugged and raw)
[01:51.42]I'm outta here catch me chillin on my next tour
[01:53.67]From the US to the white cliffs of Dover
[01:56.01]Strictly underground funk keep the crossover
[02:07.26]The Crossover
[02:17.15]So what cha sayin You wanna go pop goes the weasel
[02:19.19]You know you should be rocking the fans wit something diezel
[02:21.95]But you insist to piss me off black
[02:23.89]So I flex the biceps so I can push em back
[02:26.50]So real hardcore hip-hop continue wreck it
[02:28.81]And all sucker MC's duck down and get the message
[02:31.43]So ban the crossover yo who's wit me
[02:33.30](Hit Squad)yea P hit me
[02:36.02]Another megablast funky dope style from cross yonder
[02:38.42](So help me Rhonda help help me Rhonda)
[02:40.65](Yo from what)the crossover yea crossing you over
[02:43.20]Outta here gone peace nice to know ya
[02:45.55]What a way to go out no clout is what the fans will shout
[02:48.13]'Cause you got gassed and took the wrong route
[02:50.27]Came on the scene chillin freakin a funky dope line
[02:52.78]But when they finish wit you(beep)flatline
[02:55.20]Some say there's no business like show business
[02:57.38]But if this the truth please explain why is this
[02:59.79]Rappers been around long makin mad noise you see
[03:01.94]Still I haven't seen one rapper livin comfortably
[03:04.47]No time to pick and wish on a four leaf clover
[03:06.88]I stick to underground keep the crossover
[03:18.36]The Crossover