Released: November 13, 2001
Featuring: Akrobatik Breez Evahflowin’
Producer: Fakts One
[Intro: Breez Evahflowin’ and Akrobatik]
I need... I need to hear shit like this all the time, man. I need to just... keep getting... getting headbanged in the head with, with, with beats like this. Yeah. We... we gotta hit ‘em with the lyrics too, man. No doubt. Raw shit. I’mma, I’mma set it. Let ‘em know
[Verse 1: Akrobatik]
Sound the air traffic control siren, grab the seismograph
Witness rap’s final clash, live radio simulcast
Via satellite-televised apocalypse
Who these rap niggas on the rise that’s dropping hits? (Detonator)
To wage war against monotonous imbeciles
I’m finna kill the wack like they acne and I’m Clearasil
Deliver fear at will to backstabbers and cheats
And clear our people’s palates of wack rapper and beats
[Verse 2: Breez Evahflowin’]
My nigga, even we can’t win, I’m calling it curtains
I say, “Success should be certain from all of this working”
In this champion, the purpose in cards is pulling cards
Pulling up on your boulevard. The verse like a pig use billy club
Give me an excuse to use it. That ain’t music
You’ve got a budget, bitch, and you abuse it
But we about to show you how a track get run
Whenever Flow and Akrobatik set the Fakts at One
[Verse 3: Akrobatik]
“God damn! Akrobatik, son, you really blowing up”
I’ve been doing this for years, kid. You just now showing up
I don’t waste my time throwing up gang signs
I simply drop lyrical bombs world-renowned for their hang time
And Detonator be the missile launcher plus the sponsor
Breez Evahflowin’ plus Akrobatik want to haunt your brain like monsters
And devastate it. Fakts One, Detonate it
[Hook: Samples with Fakts One Scratches]
“This is how it should be done” - Rakim on Eric B. & Rakim’s “I Know You Got Soul”
“This style is identical to none” - Rakim on Eric B. & Rakim’s “I Know You Got Soul”
“You got to have style and learn to be original” - KRS-ONE on Boogie Down Productions’ “My Philosophy”
“This is how it should be done” - Rakim on Eric B. & Rakim’s “I Know You Got Soul”
“This style is identical to none” - Rakim on Eric B. & Rakim’s “I Know You Got Soul”
“This is how it should be done” - Rakim on Eric B. & Rakim’s “I Know You Got Soul”
[Verse 4: Breez Evahflowin’]
Yo, break out the ice packs for nice tries and aight raps
These two goodnight taps to the chin. Grown men
From the gladiator pits smash through golden armor
Don’t involve our name and you won’t claim the drama
I’m saying, your honor. It was all a big joke
‘Til he spoke. Then the mic got lodged in his throat
Take it how you want it, choose your point and vanish
And if you bring it, can your mouth manage a mic cord sandwich?
[Verse 5: Akrobatik]
Manage the mic from Los Angeles to Australia the long way
Those who step to Ak and Breez get taught failure the wrong way
You’re better off to keep smoking more blunts and not running
And stop coming to rap shows you’re not stunning
When you bring forth rain, hail, snow, and earthquakes
My adrenaline increases like inner city birth rates
Cats be always thinking with they dicks
I try to keep my brain inside my head ‘cause it’s a much better fit
[Verse 6: Breez Evahflowin’ and Akrobatik]
And we some bigheaded motherfuckers for more than rap
While most of y’all spat and never saw more than dap
I’ll pass it to Ak. Nah, I’ll pass it back
Why? ‘Cause that’s the way it is and it’s like that
Hip hop. Once fought over Bronx and Queens
Got me rocking with a king on the Boston scene
You stupid if you think we lost some steam
Fakts One, get on the cross and endorse the team
[Hook: Samples with Fakts One Scratches]
“This is how it should be done” - Rakim on Eric B. & Rakim’s “I Know You Got Soul”
“This style is identical to none” - Rakim on Eric B. & Rakim’s “I Know You Got Soul”
“You got to have style and learn to be original” - KRS-ONE on Boogie Down Productions’ “My Philosophy”
“This is how it should be done” - Rakim on Eric B. & Rakim’s “I Know You Got Soul”
“This style is identical to none” - Rakim on Eric B. & Rakim’s “I Know You Got Soul”
“You got to have style and learn to be original” - KRS-ONE on Boogie Down Productions’ “My Philosophy”
“This style is identical to none” - Rakim on Eric B. & Rakim’s “I Know You Got Soul”
I need... I need to hear shit like this all the time, man. I need to just... keep getting... getting headbanged in the head with, with, with beats like this. Yeah. We... we gotta hit ‘em with the lyrics too, man. No doubt. Raw shit. I’mma, I’mma set it. Let ‘em know
[Verse 1: Akrobatik]
Sound the air traffic control siren, grab the seismograph
Witness rap’s final clash, live radio simulcast
Via satellite-televised apocalypse
Who these rap niggas on the rise that’s dropping hits? (Detonator)
To wage war against monotonous imbeciles
I’m finna kill the wack like they acne and I’m Clearasil
Deliver fear at will to backstabbers and cheats
And clear our people’s palates of wack rapper and beats
[Verse 2: Breez Evahflowin’]
My nigga, even we can’t win, I’m calling it curtains
I say, “Success should be certain from all of this working”
In this champion, the purpose in cards is pulling cards
Pulling up on your boulevard. The verse like a pig use billy club
Give me an excuse to use it. That ain’t music
You’ve got a budget, bitch, and you abuse it
But we about to show you how a track get run
Whenever Flow and Akrobatik set the Fakts at One
[Verse 3: Akrobatik]
“God damn! Akrobatik, son, you really blowing up”
I’ve been doing this for years, kid. You just now showing up
I don’t waste my time throwing up gang signs
I simply drop lyrical bombs world-renowned for their hang time
And Detonator be the missile launcher plus the sponsor
Breez Evahflowin’ plus Akrobatik want to haunt your brain like monsters
And devastate it. Fakts One, Detonate it
[Hook: Samples with Fakts One Scratches]
“This is how it should be done” - Rakim on Eric B. & Rakim’s “I Know You Got Soul”
“This style is identical to none” - Rakim on Eric B. & Rakim’s “I Know You Got Soul”
“You got to have style and learn to be original” - KRS-ONE on Boogie Down Productions’ “My Philosophy”
“This is how it should be done” - Rakim on Eric B. & Rakim’s “I Know You Got Soul”
“This style is identical to none” - Rakim on Eric B. & Rakim’s “I Know You Got Soul”
“This is how it should be done” - Rakim on Eric B. & Rakim’s “I Know You Got Soul”
[Verse 4: Breez Evahflowin’]
Yo, break out the ice packs for nice tries and aight raps
These two goodnight taps to the chin. Grown men
From the gladiator pits smash through golden armor
Don’t involve our name and you won’t claim the drama
I’m saying, your honor. It was all a big joke
‘Til he spoke. Then the mic got lodged in his throat
Take it how you want it, choose your point and vanish
And if you bring it, can your mouth manage a mic cord sandwich?
[Verse 5: Akrobatik]
Manage the mic from Los Angeles to Australia the long way
Those who step to Ak and Breez get taught failure the wrong way
You’re better off to keep smoking more blunts and not running
And stop coming to rap shows you’re not stunning
When you bring forth rain, hail, snow, and earthquakes
My adrenaline increases like inner city birth rates
Cats be always thinking with they dicks
I try to keep my brain inside my head ‘cause it’s a much better fit
[Verse 6: Breez Evahflowin’ and Akrobatik]
And we some bigheaded motherfuckers for more than rap
While most of y’all spat and never saw more than dap
I’ll pass it to Ak. Nah, I’ll pass it back
Why? ‘Cause that’s the way it is and it’s like that
Hip hop. Once fought over Bronx and Queens
Got me rocking with a king on the Boston scene
You stupid if you think we lost some steam
Fakts One, get on the cross and endorse the team
[Hook: Samples with Fakts One Scratches]
“This is how it should be done” - Rakim on Eric B. & Rakim’s “I Know You Got Soul”
“This style is identical to none” - Rakim on Eric B. & Rakim’s “I Know You Got Soul”
“You got to have style and learn to be original” - KRS-ONE on Boogie Down Productions’ “My Philosophy”
“This is how it should be done” - Rakim on Eric B. & Rakim’s “I Know You Got Soul”
“This style is identical to none” - Rakim on Eric B. & Rakim’s “I Know You Got Soul”
“You got to have style and learn to be original” - KRS-ONE on Boogie Down Productions’ “My Philosophy”
“This style is identical to none” - Rakim on Eric B. & Rakim’s “I Know You Got Soul”