[D Shade]
 Yeah  Yeah  SOCs about to do it to ya once again
 Live and direct
 [Revolution]
 To all the SOCs kick up dust you can trust
 The three of us to bust
 True to Earth's crust
 I must enforce my force of course
 You need to cry for help because I'm fast like a quarterhorse
 In the latenight  or afternoon ryhmes
 In the daytime  it's never playtime
 I creep up on your village or sector
 Change your vector, your angle
 The complex rap erector
 Swallow your pride come to the stage and grab the mirco
 Phone, your life leaked, your fucked, mic's blown
 My shit's clear like mountain spring water
 You better reaching for that nickel plated ink blotter
 [D-Shade]
 I see them suckers turning yellow like was struck by jaundice
 It will be a cold day in hell before them fools get on this
 Tactics that make moves that blur your vision
 Some try, but come up dry like hair's thats not conditioned
 Why they risk it? They will be insane, they defeated
 False information to my peeps that I been seeing
 For X amount of years and yo we never had no static
 Them big yap kids, they need to break like a bad habit
 Silly rabbits, trying to get their rep up
 But they get wrecked up, when this verbalist decides to step up
 You, what's your function?
 Mine's to hit you like percussion
 Some need to think twice before they be coming in and rushing
 Yes, yes y'all you know we don't stop
 It be the Shades of Culture crew making it hot on your block
 Yes, yes y'all you know we never quit
 It be the Shades of Culture crew with the Shades of Culture shhh...

 {Chorus:D-Shade}
 We keep it nice with this mic device
 Some need to think twice if they don't think we precise
 Take our advice and start adjusting your sites
 Ay yo we take it to mics when reality bites
 {REPEAT}

 [Revolution]
 Yo, here comes the Revolution and the Dark Shade
 With the rap attitude to never get payed, out
 You're laid out in a box, not yet
 You're never too young to die, want to bet
 Get thrown away from me like stuntmen on cables
 In a Jet Li movie, silber screen story fable
 Or Clive Barker's darker novels and short stories
 These rap skills make most MC chill, (EPMD sample 'chill')
 Up in the sky so high like cumulus, not Columbus
 I'm calculated like calculus
 I rock your shit from birth to the crypt, that's the deal
 Can you keep a secret like Egypt
 [D-Shade]
 I let it shoot from the start
 That I'm well skilled in this art
 I be moving like a Ferrari compared to a go-cart
 Put them shits in park
 It's the all terrain vechicle
 That brings the ruckus when I roll through your muncipal
 District get hit by this kid with sharper wits
 How a sucker wanna rap with missing teeth and swollen lips
 Man, it's simple they gotta break out like a pimple
 Evacuate the premises, vanish like William Kimble
 'Cause Real people don't like those fakes who perpetrate
 That's why we come correct with all the rhymes that we state
 It's too late for apolagies
 I'm out to demolish these
 Obstacles in the way of we getting monopolies
 There is not stopping these
 What what, yo yo yo
 Yes, yes y'all we don't stop
 It be the Shades of Culture crew making it hot on your block

 {Chorus}

 "My advice is to you, think twice
 My advice is to you, think twice
 My advice is to you, think twice
 The price to pay is your life"

 "1,2" scratched by DJ A-Trak

 {Chorus