[ti:You Know My Steez] [ar:Gang Starr] [al:Full Clip: A Decade of Gang Starr] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]You Know My Steez - Gang Starr [00:00.81]Written by:Keith Elam [00:01.62]The real [00:04.17]Hip hop [00:05.59]Mcing and djing from your own mind ya know [00:10.30]I I guess right now we should start the show [00:13.25]Who's the suspicious character strapped with the sounds profound [00:16.25]Similar to rounds spit by derringers [00:18.63]You're in the terrordome like my man chuck d said [00:21.24]It's time to dethrone you clones and all you knuckleheads [00:24.16]'Cause mc's have used up extended warranties [00:26.80]While real mc's and dj's are a minority [00:29.90]But right about now I use my authority [00:32.14]'Cause I'm like the wizard and you look lost like dorothy [00:35.24]The horror be when I return for my real people [00:37.79]Words that split wigs hittin' like some double desert eagles [00:40.53]Sportin' caps pulled low and baggy slacks [00:42.87]Subtractin' all the rappers who lack over premier's tracks [00:45.71]Severe facts have brought this rap game to near collapse [00:48.43]So as I have in the past I whup a** [00:50.61]Droppin' lyrics that be hotter than s*x and candlewax [00:53.47]And one dimensional mc's can't handle that [00:56.09]While the world's revolvin' on it's axis [00:58.89]I come with mad love and plus the illest warlike tactics [01:01.86]The wilderness is filled with this so many people [01:04.38]Searching for false lift I'm here with the skills you've missed [01:07.13]The rejected stone is now the cornerstone [01:09.48]Sort of like the master builder when I make my way home [01:11.94]You know my steez [01:15.38]You know my steez [01:17.54]Let 'em know do your thing y'all keep it live [01:21.60]To the beat y'all [01:22.98]The beat is sinister primo makes you relax [01:25.31]I'm like the minister when I be lacin' the wax [01:28.10]I be bringin' salvation through the way that I rap [01:30.78]And you know and I know I'm nice like that [01:33.42]Work through worldly problems I got the healing power [01:35.94]When the mic's within my reach I'm feelin' more power [01:38.64]Stealing at least three minutes of every rap radio hour [01:41.40]It's often easier for one to give advice [01:44.06]Than it is for a person to run one's own life [01:47.29]That's why I can't be caught up in all the hype [01:49.49]I keep my soul tight and let these lines takes flight [01:52.03]The apparatus gets blessed and suckers get put to rest [01:54.96]No more of the unpure I got the cure for this mess [01:57.87]The wackness is spreadin' like the plague [01:59.91]Mc's lucked up and got paid but still [02:01.60]Can't make the f**kin' grade [02:03.35]How many times are wannabe's gonna lie [02:05.62]Yo they must wanna fry they [02:06.86]Can't touch the knowledge I personify [02:09.10]I travel through the darkness carrying my torch [02:11.81]The illest soldier when I'm holding down the fort [02:14.42]You know my steez [02:16.01]Let 'em know do your thing y'all keep it live [02:19.28]You know my steez [02:21.43]Let 'em know do your thing y'all keep it live [02:24.50]You know my steez [02:26.59]Let 'em know do your thing y'all keep it live [02:29.92]You know my steez [02:32.26]Let 'em know do your thing y'all keep it live [02:36.29]The mic [02:37.56]On the microphone you know that I'm one of the best yet [02:40.11]Some punks ain't paid all of their debts yet [02:42.82]Tryin' to be fly ridin' high on the jet set [02:45.62]With juvenile rhymes makin' fake a** death threats [02:48.26]Big deal like en vogue here's something you can feel [02:51.05]Styles more tangible and image more real [02:53.20]For some time now I've held the scrolls and manuscripts [02:55.79]When it's time to go all out you be like damn he flipped [02:58.62]Now I'm sick fed up with the bullsh*t [03:00.97]Got the lyrical full clip giving you a verbal asswhip [03:04.06]Don't trip it's the gifted prolific one [03:06.67]Known as bald head slick why is the press all on my di d*ck [03:09.65]My style be wilder than a kamikaze pilot [03:12.21]Don't try it I'm about to start more than a friggin riot [03:15.15]Styles unsurpassable and nuccas that's suckas yo [03:18.59]Them motherf**kers are harrassable [03:20.38]For I be speaking from my parables and carry you beyond [03:23.37]The mic's either a magic wand [03:25.15]Or it gets tragic like the havoc of a nuclear bomb [03:28.13]Then I grab your palm no pulse you're gone [03:30.51]And if you thought we'd lose our niche [03:31.99]In this rap sh*t you way wrong [03:33.51]I stay up I stay on shine bright like neon [03:36.27]Your song's pathetic synthetic like rayon [03:38.92]Fat beats they play on want d**e rhymes put me on [03:41.66]Word is bond [03:43.33]You know my steez