[Intro]

Ayo, don't go near the speakers

[Verse]

The big showdown, the display of skill

I'm that type of guy, so put your girl on the pill

Take a family snapshot and kiss your wife

'Cause I'm like a knife, I cause grief and strife

And I'll take your life and choke you like a python

I'ma do you wrong

Any emcee, who you wanna name?

I'm one panther that can't be tamed

You talk about guns, punk, it don't alarm me

Got enough cash to make a whole damn army

I can't hold back the way that I feel

'Cause when I bust a rhyme it's like you're slipping on banana peels

You're like fruitcake and fruit cocktails

First your title now I'm takin' your female

All of a sudden, you're so proud and Black

A baseball hat, but you ain't saying jack

The ripper is back and you can't escape

'Cause one of my records'll sell more than your whole tape

I want beef, bring on the rookies

I got more than just Cool J cookies

Rip, rock, crush, stomp the comp

I'm poison, come and take a chomp

I bet you your teeth'll end up around the corner, kid

Don't ask me why I did uncivilized damage to a nobody

And I'm carrying a gun if I'm rhymin' at the party

New York, Chicago, Detroit, LA

I'll slay wherever you play

D.C. or Philly or Baltimore

I murder the rich and maim the poor

Perpetratin' in your video, here's the real schoolin'

Country accents, who you think you're foolin'?

I play Russian Roulette, not Craps

You're only known 'cause of Yo! MTV Raps

And Rap City and BET

And Channel 31, but now here I come

To save the day and now you're getting done

Like a hooker, don't drop the soap, crumb

The first sign of the battle, you little fink

Is you see blood coming out your kitchen sink

Your mic's a baby bottle, son

Some say they ain't, but I am the one

To slice and dice and fry and boil, to bake and serve a nerd

I heard a word occurred to him that he could move and wouldn't get moved on

Like a shotgun blast

Big mouth emcees, I'll bet you none last

'Cause they ain't stable or able

And I boost the party like jumper cables

So plug me in and put me on

Arsenio Hall so I can battle 'em all

From coast to coast, blind, crippled or crazy

You use a dictionary but you still don't phase me

Listen and weep, you sound cheap

You preach about Blackness, but you represent wackness

You're knocking on the castle door

But when you fall in the moat, I won't see you no more

Let's get together and diss LL

Use his name and your records might sell

I can't believe your band of dead maggots

Crawling all over my name, I won't have it

You better look in the mirror and rethink your plan

Why walk in quicksand

When you can stand on your own two feet?

I'm rippin' emcees from "Funky Drummer" to "Big Beat"

Name the date and the arena

You three year old ballerina

I can't believe that suckers try to throw down

Whether you're new or older than Motown

Just kick back, I don't slack, attack a wack and slap a rap

They can't handle the format

Whether you're suave or smooth

Rough or rugged, all I need is a groove

I display a way to slay, punk, play to pay

Mr. Morris has entered the buffet

Some of y'all are sitting in bowls

Plates of the hot buttered rolls

Beat you with baloney, stab you with salami

'Cause when I get hot, I get hot like pastrami

Then I make you wonder

Why you don't hear bass, but you feel the thunder

You get kuff, I'll knock out your tooth

We'll be fighting from the lobby to the roof

You annoy me like a roach at dinner time

Yo, Marley (What's up?) It's Miller time

Nah, man, just kick a little more

Pass the brass knuckles let me break his jaw

When I'm on the microphone I want silence

Let KRS-One stop the violence

Ain't no rivals, ain't no competition

Punk, I'm beatin' you into submission

I'm gettin' busier than ever before

Never more will I slack, I'ma keep it real raw

Eat you up like a pack-jam

Video's more popular than Batman

Rippin' you to shreds, tap you in the head

Then leave the battle lookin' happy as a newlywed

Give me a TEC-9 to spray

Save the beef and put it on layaway

I'm in command, your man abandoned, slammin' jammin' fans will understand

Then you weep about the murdergram