[Erick Sermon]
 The employees of the year  yeah we back to work
 I took time off  while other rappers got jerked
 Due to the fact that they wack in their track
 Have to go back and stack 'cause they lack
 The ingredients... EPMD and Scratch for that...
 *DJ Scratch cuts and scratches*
 Yo  I'm the hip hopper  plus the show shocker
 Down with MD, yes the Microphone Doctor
 One wrecks, the other destroys
 And if you think you ready to mess (kill the noise)
 We don't play when it's time to slay
 I get a cut from my homey, yo, then I lay
 back and mack and all the rhymes I pack
 And wait for a sucker to jump and then attack

 [Parrish Smith]
 Well, I'm known to be the master in the MC field
 No respect in eighty-seven, eighty-eight you kneel
 Cause I produce and get loose, when it's time to perform
 Wax a sucker like Mop & Glow (that's word bond)
 Back a second time, but on a different assignment
 to do a sucker new jack, who needs a rappin alignment
 Cause I'm the cream of the crop, when it's time to do a show
 Girlies on my jock for my dope intro
 As I glance at E-Double, king microphone wrecker
 Turn on my cordless, sayin mic checka
 to the ladies... and all partygoers
 Some call me P, and others slow flower
 Brothers on my jock, for the way I hold a piece of steel
 So what you sayin?

 So what you sayin?

 [Erick Sermon]
 Puttin heads to bed, straight out the box
 MC's, are jumpin out shoes and socks
 I'm not playin, understand what I'm sayin
 Catch a sucker in my way, and I'm slayin
 Takin no shorts, showin vital signs
 You can tell by my lines that I'm gettin mines
 in ninety-nine, because I'm fine as wine
 Sit back and recline, watch the sun shine
 Take a stroll, listen to rock and roll
 Catch a flick at the movies, dance a bowl
 Cause I chose and refuse to slack while I'm back
 I take a chance jack, so I must attack
 With knick knack paddywack so I won't lack
 All my style is def, and as deadly as crack

 [Parrish Smith]
 While I'm slayin music's playin, a sucker is delayin
 Battle in the trenches where the funky be playin
 Cause with a partner like E Double don't come a dime a dozen
 A kin not blood related, but you can call us cousins
 Cause as we climb the charts, better known as statistics
 Brothers on my jock while we kickin ballistics
 Droppin hits like I'm Housin, You Gots Ta Chill, and more
 The proof is in the puddin (yo check the Billboard)
 People round town talkin this and that
 of how we sound like the R, and our music was wack
 Dropped the album Strictly Business and you thought we was bold
 Thirty days later, the LP went gold
 So what you sayin

 So what you sayin

 [Erick Sermon]
 Now party people it's time for the exquisite
 No knock knock who that, who's there, or who is it
 It's the E-R-I-C-K, yes the Boy Wonder
 No fouls no bleeps no bloops or no blunders
 So hot, so you can say I'm blazin
 Or Luther Vandross says, yo I am
 "Sooooooo amazing, and I've been waiting"
 For a sucker to attack yo me the E-Double
 Cause me and PMD's like the funky fresh couple

 [Parrish Smith]
 I fight fire with fire, that's why most retired
 And when we needed a piss boy, you was hired
 You was mesmerized, for that style that we was bringin
 In the all out battle, P comes out swingin
 Cause I'm just the type of brother that's out to get mines
 And if the odd's against me, I still drop lines
 and get mines on time that's why most resign
 Sit in my LazyBoy chair, relax my head and recline
 Sip a Pepsi or Coke, with a twist of lime
 Or crack a forty-oh, and then I go for mine
 So what you sayin

 So what you sayin