The Scoop

I don't get blind, I don't drink wine

And I'ma took a sledgehammer and I broke my nine

Because my life is mine, word is bond I rhyme

And every day I write the book down line by line

I'm feeling good when I do it like this

So come on and turn it up because you can't resist

Because I'm back with another track in which you lack

'Cause things is wack and that's a fact

Because I'm on time, you're shouting rewind

You know it's Ad-Rock that's blowing your mind

My shit is rough and you know it is "so damn tough"

I'm getting intense, not talking nonsense

I made up my mind, not sitting on the fence

I don't always know the right from the wrong

I do my best to figure it out and work it out in the long

I try to do a lot, more than I can chew

I balance out my ambitions with what I got to do

Because you hide in broad daylight, a parasite

A hypocrite, you take a peek quick

You turn your nose up, you think you're high up

You play it real safe and now your shit's fake

I seen you hawking and then you clock my style

And then you try to play it off like you think you're wild

D.I.Y. that means Do It Yourself

I don't sit around waiting for someone's help

I don't sit back and say "Good enough"

I keep on striving, reinventing but keeping it off the cuff

So I kick the level up cahoot-ified

A Mackadocius vibe positively fortified

I'm throwing rhymes down, kicking them downtown

Traveling high speed through the underground

I kick it freestyle, make it worth your while

I've got shelves of rhymes that I keep on file

I'm feeling good now back home again

Well, New York City is the city that I feel at home in

A blast from the Grasshoff awhile it's been

Stepping into the future again

Uh, and I'm straight from '88 to '93 to '94, I'm out the door

Step into the party with the FILA fresh gear

People looking at me like I was David Koresh here

Kicking rhymes from the heart 'cause that's where I'm at

Fuck the bullshit, be it far from me to pop that

In the search for truth, I go a lot of ways

There's not a lot of peace that I find these days

I try to stay cool, I try to stay calm

But my life is getting hectic like a smoke bomb

So I'll say it like the group Huggy Bear

There's a boy-grrrl revolution of which you should be aware

You can't dis me, it ain't worth it, B

You put yourself down and you don't even see

'Cause I don't play that, I know who I am

For a minute I didn't but now I'm back again

I'm feeling strong, see, trust myself, G

Well, I stopped smoking cheeba and that was part of the key

We, we, we've got fire, we need water

There ain't no water, so I guess I oughta

Leave you broke in a comatose state of mind

And I'm blind and I'm working overtime, so check it

I keep my rhymes in my little black book

And I know you wanna take another look