You Know My Steez Songtext
von Gang Starr

That makes me know that what we′re doing
We had the right idea in the beginning
And and we just need to maintain our focus and elevate
We what we do we update our formulas

We have certain formulas but we update em (oh right)
With the times and everything y'know
So y′know the rhyme style is elevated
The style of beats is elevated but it's still Guru and Premier
And it's always a message involved

The real (The real)
Hip-hop (Hip-hop)
MCing(MCing), and DJing (DJing)
From your own mind (from your own mind)
You know? (you know?)
I, I guess right now we should start the show


Who′s the suspicious character
Strapped with the sounds profound
Similar to rounds spit by Derringers
You′re in the Terrordome, like my man Chuck D said
It's time to dethrone you clones and all you knuckleheads

′Cause MC's have used up extended warranties
While real MC′s and DJ's are a minority
But right about now, I use my authority
′Cause I'm like the Wizard, and you look lost like Dorothy

The horror be when I return for my real people
Words that split wigs hitting like some double Desert Eagles
Sporting caps pulled low, and baggy slacks
Subtracting all the rappers who lack over Premier's tracks

Severe facts have brought this rap game to near collapse
So as I have in the past, I whoop ass
Dropping lyrics that be hotter than sex and candlewax
And one-dimensional MC′s can′t handle that

While the world's revolving, on it′s axis
I come with mad love and plus the illest warlike tactics
The wilderness is filled with this
So many people searching for false bliss


I'm here with the skills you′ve missed
The rejected stone is now the cornerstone
Sort of like the master builder when I make my way home
You know my steez

You know my steez
Let 'em know, do your thing, God
Keep it live (Keep it live, Keep it live)
To the beat y′all

The beat is sinister, Primo makes you relax
I'm like the minister, when I be lacing the wax
I be bringing salvation through the way that I rap
And you know, and I know, I'm nice like that

Work through worldly problems, I got the healing power
When the mic′s within my reach, I′m feeling more power
Stealing at least three minutes of every rap radio hour
It's often easier for one to give advice
Than it is for a person to run one′s own life

That's why I can′t be caught up in all the hype
I keep my soul tight and let these lines take flight
The apparatus gets blessed
And suckers get put to rest
No more of the unpure, I got the cure for this mess

The wackness is spreading like the plague
MC's lucked up and got paid
But still can′t make the fucking grade
How many times are wannabe's gonna lie?
Yo, they must wanna fry
They can't touch the knowledge I personify

I travel through the darkness, carrying my torch
The illest soldier, when I′m holding down the fort
You know my steez
(You know my steez)

Let em know, do your thing, God
Keep it live (Keep it live)
You know my steez
Let em know, do your thing, God
Keep it live (Keep it live)
You know my steez

Let em know, do your thing, God
Keep it live (Keep it live)
You know my steez
Let em know, do your thing, God
Keep it live (Keep it live)
The mic

On the microphone, you know that I′m one of the best yet
Some punks ain't paid all of their debts yet
Trying to be fly, riding high on the jet-set
With juvenile rhymes, making fake-ass death threats

Big deal, like En Vogue, here′s something you can feel
Styles more tangible, and image more real
For some time now, I've held the scrolls and manuscripts
When it′s time to go all out you be like, "Damn, he flipped!"

Now I'm sick, fed up with the bullshit
Got the lyrical full clip, giving you a verbal asswhip
Don′t trip, it's the gifted prolific one
Known as Bald Head Slick why is the press all on my di-dick?

My style be wilder than a kamikaze pilot
Don't try it, I′m about to start more than a frigging riot
Styles unsurpassable, and nuccas that′s suckas
Yo, them motherfuckers are harrassable

For I be speaking from my parables and carry you beyond
The mic's either a magic wand
Or it gets tragic like the havoc of a nuclear bomb
Then I grab your palm, no pulse, you′re gone
And if you thought we'd lose our niche
In this rap shit, you way wrong

I stay up, I stay on, shine bright, like neon
Your song′s pathetic, synthetic, like Rayon
Fat beats, they play on, want dope rhymes, put me on
Word is bond
You know my steez