[The Grouch]

What can I say?  Something that you've never heard before

What can I do?  Something that you've probably never seen

Who can I be?  Someone who you've not yet met

Got respect from a few but, what am I to you?

When you view this emcee, do you know what motivates him?

Why some people like him and, others spend time hatin?

Friends I'm waitin for the answers, I came with questions

Do you know the answers, fuck it, I got the lessons

Impressions they be gettin made before I even spit a phrase

or get a day's worth of tolerance

to prove I'm hollerin susbtance

Had lessons in production

So when you suction to my shit I wonder did you feel the same way?

Are we on the same plane, are you just a Plain Jane

trying to be Sade, with a poem and some olge'?

That's Japanese for weed, I'm rather cultured, well traveled

Get the gavel weigh the evidence, my intelligence is evident

Peep the sentence structure, I'm bit and frustrated

Thoughts I hate a buster lost in the front row at my show

What do I know?  Something that you probably never learned

What do I like?  Something that you've never even tried

How can you front, if only you could understand the artform

apart from the norm, we swarm, it's natural

Born with my body like my name, I'm

naughty with my fame take advantage I'm a hustler

Tussle with the best of men, always get the best of their

impression when you thought that I was restin tryin to master my

profession and my pasttime, same thing, but my name rings bells

Deck the halls with double L's, that spells trouble - times eight

smells great to my nostrils

I'm a fossil up to date, being studied but they can't recreate

this soul, shit slow, gettin hold to copy mo'

than sloppy stereotypes, into what's right

Puttin you up like this, you might hear the song

but the point's missed if the joint hits

and you don't heed the words



"Bitch don't you hear the music?"

[scratching of sample for seven or eight bars]



[The Grouch]

How will it change, only if I take it on myself

How can you help, only if you learn and spread the wealth

How will it be, we're gonna have to wait in time will see

Free thought I use a lot, I encourage y'all to join me

Destroyin fun is not my mission, I got ambition

Wishin crowds would listen got me fishin through the clouds

Tryin to be proud of who I am, it's true I stand alone

Yet known to like attention just - want it for the right reasons

Mention me when you think: strong, silent, consistant

Persistant with my song spreadin knowledge, so distant

For common methods used yet effective as fuck

If you can't see it comin duck we runnin mugs in ninety-eight

Lucky streaks up in my face struck like gold

Holdin your attention upon the music from here

it only gets more bold

Highlight it when I right it cause it's tight

Not cause we're alike or I'm white but I'm right

So who's in the.