Time To Rock Our Shit
Written by: Michael Turner & Christopher Portugal
([Rap sample:] Freak it now!)
[Spoken sample:] …advised they'll come
Be advised they'll come in
Be advised they'll come
Someone's sure that they'll win
[Double K:] Yo, Thes One!
[Thes One:] What up?
[Double K:] Can you rock the mic?
[Thes One:] A ha ha, my mellow my man
It's like ridin' a bike! Uh, Double K…
[Double K:] What's up?
[Thes One:] Can you rock it?
[Double K:] Like ridin' a bike, but only with training wheels
So uh, shoot the gift, and let them know the deal
[Thes One:]
I shoot the gift like NRA members on Christmas morning
Warning wack MCs, I dismiss like a principal
On a principle, our crew's invincible, Under The Stairs
Impairs auditory of your whole municipal (municipal?) code area
Attack like malaria, concrete jungle bundle of joy with my b-boys
It's scary to think your tape destroys your crew's hopes, wack
I can't cope with that, say, "No, put it on a DAT, Double K!"
'Cause everything I say one day will be one way
Or another recovered in its original play
Signify this straight calligraphied verse
Petrified rock, put your goddamn block in a Hearse
Only thing worse, Kaos bursts the eardrums, the P
Making the beats and rhymes fugly-dugly
Fat like Chunky A, but not out for radio play
Here's a crew, wash out the wax my mind sprays
Type A, not negative, no way, preps for three-sixty-five days
I add a fourth 'cause I leap year, I leap tracks like Amtrack
Battles the P and "Superbad", after that your crew will try to forget
Like he's storing just the Amistad, man, bist you know it better
I rip your crew up like a letter from the principal
On the principle, our crew's invincible, Under The Stairs
Impairs auditory of your whole municipal (municipal?)
Code area (code area…), attack like malaria (malaria…)
Concrete jungle bundle of joy with my b-boys
It's scary to think your tape destroys your crew's hopes (wack?)
I can't cope with that, say, "No, put it on a DAT, Double K!"
'Cause everything I say one day will be one way
Or another recovered in its original play
Signify this straight calligraphied verse
Petrified rock, put your goddamn block in a Hearse
Kaos' verse… [Thes is cut off]
[Double K:]
You remind me of my crew Bad as Hell
Thes One laced the track like a blunt with a weird smell, nigga
It's none other than the "brothers from another mother" shit
Put the penny on the Stanton, yo, make sure it don't skip
Hip-hop in is rarest, punk, you know you wanna admit it
All these crews running around with wackest tracks
They don't get it, the gettin me stressed (word?), they gettin me mad
([Thes One:] So what you sayin, Double K?) Just put that shit on my tab!
Don't feel like dealing with it now, I'll deal with it later
See, the mic's in my possesion, yo, so I should cater to the niggas
Who been fronting since we first stepped in
Brought it back a couple of times, now you give it a grin
First, you tell your homey, "Yeah, man, that shit's fresh!"
Didn't know this kinda shit could even lurk in the West
We putting hair on your chest, we flow with no hesitation
Like radio stations ain't allowed on these premesis
Millions is hearing this, late at night, like domestic violece
Slapping you the fuck up (uh, bitch!) until we get some silence, word
The P be like Judge Judy on the mic, putting up a fight
Rolling hard 'til the break of daylight
So the next time you corny niggas wanna come hardcore:
Go listen to Lil' Kim… word…
[Rap sample #1:] Time to rock our shit!
[Rap sample #2:] What's the time?
(scratched over and over again loosely)
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Trivia:
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This track appears on the following releases:
- The Next Step (1998) (CD) - PUTS Records (PUTS 6002)
- The Next Step II (1998) (12" single) - PUTS Records (PUTS 6001)
- The Next Step (2001) (Reissue) (CD & LP) - Om Records (OM-033)
- The Om Years (2008) (CD & LP) - Om Records (OH-312)
- The Hip Hop Wants List Volume 2 (2009) (LP) - Stackin' Cheddar (SC021)
- Live Version: The 10 Year Anniversary Set (Live DVD) - Golden Fire Pig/Piecelock 70
