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[Off Topic:] I don't preach teachers I survive seizures and fill bleachers Turn a broken glass world into mosaics of pretty girls And cut my lips on the first kiss of the church mural So now I leave emcees sea sick like the Tilt-A-Whirl You don't rock like I rock So don't try it And you wouldn't like my CD So don't buy it 'Cause I see the clowns you nod your head to Ride around while you gobble down the products that they tell to you Like first they turned you robot, now you vacuum Suck, suck, success is achieving our goals By focusing on core objectives and crushing the ball I Pack Mad Symptoms you couldn't cure with Midol And I don't brag or talk shit but now and then I go off 'Cause every time I had to swallow my pride and fall in line I follow those same guys outside and make 'em 'pologize With a lead pipe mic stand and a batter's box stance I get more even than balanced equations in high math [Off Topic:] Lyricist, imperialist Area 51 escape artist Optimist, prime, realist State facts Take that and run with it Artificial artifacts in one's past Make bitch rap for rich sales figures Go and figure that Mimic all the copycats An beat dead horse for talking back That means you I'll hand-address a letter-bomb envelope Put my first record in for good measure Mail it, hope you get the joke Send skill through subconscious isotopes And signal smoke Watch 'em try to rhyme along and fucking choke I don't wanna work at Depot no more 9 to 5, 8 to 4 My apron's full of holes and torn Helping people on the floor Working for these fucking whores They want J. Moore to go explore the back and be a janitor I made ten dollars The government kept three Took my seven bucks, bought a second-hand CD Another fifty cents sales tax on top of that Got me digging in my car seat cracks No wonder I'm strapped Got some dude in my face and my boss on my back Got so much on my mind I can't even rock a hat I'm dreaming about pressing new vinyl But instead I'm pushing floor tile To these reptiles in the carpet aisle Expecting me to smile like some clown Til I cut 'em down so nasty they open X-Files on me [Off Topic:] Indie rap, mainstream, alternative, underground Call it what you wanna call it Top is gonna hold it down I found my album in the store in the rock n' roll section And I'm still moving units out the front end I got lyrics like Shakespeare and Morrisette had crazy sex And she popped some freestylin' triplets I bang the beats like a jackhammer operator Kick drum holes in the street Like moon craters Ahead of my time with a prematurely aged mind I drop the gloves when I'm on the mic and go for mine I turn blank stares to highly animated individuals Who stand up in the face of ridicule Like, "Fuck you!" Trash talk makes garbage records What'd you ever say besides claiming you're the best at this? Hype like the first time you touched a breast-a-sis Your rap maturity is five grades behind the rest of us My reputation for rhyming spreads like wildfire Hit 'em like Andy Kaufman with a pile driver Without the fake part Cut 'em like Braveheart Raise the bar so far they can't chin up It's too hard Now my cell phone is ringing Getting paged on the intercom People always yelling at me Totally unnecessary Wanna be the straw that breaks the camel's headset? It's Russian roulette So go ahead and get your day wrecked