Aye yo
This my girls song
Its called my lady
Lets do it!
More than all my kicks
More than all my clothes
More than all my friends
More than all my flows
More than everything
Cuz you were there for me
Just like you said you'd be (Just like you said it)
Thru my darkest day
My coldest night
Kept hold me tight
You said id be alright
I wish i could turn back time to when you were mine
(Thats my lady)
When im with you i feel
I can do anything
I can just spread ma wings
I can just say some things
Becuz i feel comfotable
When im around you girl
So we can do wot you like
Its me and you against the world
Ever since the day you came
I havent felt no pain
Ill never be the same
Now i know i love you
More than all my kicks
More than all my clothes
More than all my friends
More than all my flows
More than everything
Cuz you were there for me
Just like you'd said you'd be (Just like you said it)
Thru my darkest day
My coldest night
You'd hold me tight
You said id be alright
I wish i could turn back time to when you were mine
(Thats my lady)
Yo
2 words
Me and you
Lets just gets away
Far away from it all
Lets find a better day
Everythings alright
We talked all night on the phone
Lets go just us all alone
I know i was unsure before but now i see
I love you more
More than all my kicks
More than all my clothes
More than all my friends
More than all my flows
Cuz more than everything
You were there for me
Just like you said you'd be
Thru my darkest day
My coldest night
You'd hold me tight
You said id be alright
I wish i could turn back time to when you were mine
Now lets freak em on this one Jo Jo
I never thought you wud be
Everything that i need
Everything that i ever wanted
In you i can see
And then we made love
From the car to the house
To the hall on the wall
From the floor to the couch
Then i went away on tour
And you said you missed my touch
I reply i love you
And you asked me how much
More than all my kicks
More than all my clothes
More than all my friends
More than all my flows
Cuz more than everything
You were there for me
Just like you'd said you'd be
Thru my darkest day
My coldest night
You'd hold me tight
You'd said id be alright
I wish i could turn back time to when you were mine
(Thats my lady n' i love you more than all those material things, id give it all up for you...dont forget that)
Scribe and ali and yea we still together thru the stormiest weather its been along forever holding it down in the south surrounded by the southern alps with the lyrics hot fun if you know what im talkin bout then throw your hands in the air I freestyle in the square then i'll cathch a number five so i can rock at the pierre get live im 90.5 the main source show spell it out for cats who dont know bout the F L O and we how move through the rain slet hail and snow rockin mic with our minds heart body and soul i'll be unsigned hight till i get creative control and i know the haters praying that the scribe wont blow but (its too late) and i made it like that i sacrificed everything just to get where im at and to be honest im not stopping till im counting them grands and everythings on schedule and according to plan
CHORUS But so your out of time if you think your f***ing with mine because (its too late) I know you didnt want to see scribe and ali doing our thing but (its too late) yo, smiling at my face stab me in the back, its cool because (its too late) because im here now its our year but for you (its too late)
Yea its too late scribe and ali since 98 still going, were still flowing like a can of speights still cut up the vinal plates like a piece of cake still write songs to stimulate your mental state sharpen your state of mind catch up yo you way behind like even your anatomical clock is out of time we on a mission, moving up at a steady pace aiming for first place, so we got no time to waste and you can do it too the scribe is gonna show you how the only trick is that you got to do do do it now and stop sitting around like you got nothing to do say you cant do it then its already too late for you take out a leaf out of rhyme book you know i made it through can't teach a crowd if you can even educate the crew you know i cant compare training for several years i made it here without a second to spare
CHORUS
Said its too late for haters out there trying to stop me now you never heard, yo i submerged from the underground this time im staying up and i aint never comin down i made it this far and i did it all by myself so think twice, if you think gonna take me out said you dont know me and you dont know what my crews about cause weve been doing this were not losing this and weve been proving were forever staying true to this get with the movement as im not hanging round for long in fact im gone, your too late you better check my song you know this lyrisist individualist MC puriest slash communication specialist even when effortless my skill can still rip a show this scribe is definant so dont act like you didnt know i know you know my rhyme and you flow it line for line but its too late to discipher cause you out of time
CHORUS
Yeah 1,2 yes yes
Uh Scribble is back
Uh I€™m from Christchurch the place of my birth
My home this earth represent my peep and their worth
Phillips town Philly baby translatin€™ the zone
Kind of sore entrepreneur rocking this microphone
I get busy like Bone keep my whole cipher in harmony
Can it be one of the worlds best from Canterbury
Straight from the under the scribe the eighth wonder
Make no mistake and tell us the rock, that came from Sumner
I€™m creepin€™ on the come up from the squid and the pimp
Drivable wizardry for your whole atmosphere
Watch me do this for the love like Salmonella Dub
I don€™t get caught up I€™m the world you no we stay above
The physical is selfish and the spiritual is us
Lyrically combust in our day it is a must
So well your mics rust im'a prove my crews well'a
I€™m from the hometown of the feelers and we don€™t feel ya
(Chorus) x2
It€™s the Crusader represent city to shine
(Check it out world wide we got beats and flows)
It€™s the Crusader represent city to shine
(Recognize the way we drop this universal)
It€™s the Crusader tight like Nathan and Aaron Mauger
Do it first talk later
I'm running things like I€™m Robbie Deans I got a champion team
And you can hate it if you want but I am living my dream
I'm on the road to the Holy Grail and I will never fail
I get pribes I keep em locked like Norman Maxwell
You no I rap well that€™s for certain
Because I€™m on point like Andrew Mehrtans
So for you fake mc's its curtains
I'm steppin€™ up a level, for the silver I could never settle
I'm taking the gold medal
I suggest you do the same
You best improve your game or get burnt by the Canterbury Flames
The hometown of Anika Moa Crusading thru this war
Best to find out who you fighting for
Cause I€™m the best and there€™s none greater
Both sides of the equator, I battle like a gladiator
(Chorus) x2
And i made through, and i made it through the,
Oh and i made it through the rain and the cold
through the dark all alone
my life hit rock bottom i had no where to go
and if i could turn back time and change the road that i choose
all the mistakes that i made it burns a hole in my soul
and it took all that i had to get out of that hole
it took the birth of my sons to get back on control
so man i just went number one and going back to the doll
im stronger than ever my enemies they thought i would fold and yo
CHORUS Thats why Im standing up,
Im holding on to my life yo I gotta be strong
now watch me rise you wont see me fall
Im stronger now Im-a take them all
So alone and confused and my soul was abused
and a hand came of the handrail to me a loose
it took the love of my family and my friends to show me the truth
I lived a lifetime of pain and i was only a youth
and its hard tryin to swim in an ocean of fools
and i thought I catch a break but i'd broken the rules
and my aunt always told me take care of yourself
lest you never put a fork in the road that you choose
and even the strongest trees must grow from the roots
see a house without love aint no home its a roof
its shelter without warmth and you know its the truth
and i feel most at home when im alone in the booth
and my flow is unstoppable this boii is the proof
its poetry pen and paper my label is showing the fruits
while i grow and improve and their all slow and observant
exactly what youve learned and your old and thrown at the curve
and if their showing concerns its not cause their caring
its just cause they know what they owe in return
time just feels like its taking me too long
trials and tribulations are why i grew strong
CHORUS
oh, tell my mother that i love her like no other
im holding of in above we made it out of the gutter
did i stutter i came with the goods and for my fam
i came from the hood you got no choice but to plan
a way to make it out somehow well brake away
from these chains like che fu well never fade away
i came to stay made it through the rainy days
never will i go astray came to take the pain away
Thats why Im standing up, Im holding on
i just made it through the storm
by all rights i should be gone
they said id never make it i'll prove them all wrong
i took the pain now for so long
and im still here and its my life and im not scared
against all odds i got here give me your best shot yea
cause i can take it i was destined to make it
i was destined to forever burn in a fire you laid
CHORUS
Yeah it's the crusada, and i don't think yo ready, i thought i told ya'll
We can not stop now, NEW ZEALAND hip hop, stand the fuck up, we
got it locked down, i'm ready to rock, ready to roll, i am
ready to go, ya'll ready to flow?! just let me know ya'll
Im a be there and blow like C4, got plans to take over Japan like the
D4, and like P-MONEY told me at the top it's hell and lonely,
i rock like Blindspott, what the fuckkkk u don't know me, i keep
going, i keep grown', i keep flown', i keep shown mc's how to
raise the bar, i still rhymin', im still writing, im still fighting,
and
we can't turn back now coz we've came so far
We can not stop now, NEW ZEALAND hip hop, stand the f*ck up, we
got it locked down, i'm ready to rock, ready to roll, i am
ready to go, ya'll ready to flow?! just let me know ya'll
We can not stop now, NEW ZEALAND hip hop, stand the f*ck up, we
got it locked down, i'm ready to rock, ready to roll, i am
ready to go, ya'll ready to flow?! just let me know ya'll !
Im like NESIAN MYSTIK, u dissed it, and now u love it, NEW ZEALAND
hip hop there's not many things i hold above it, now it's the
time to focus, call up the FOOTSOULJAHS, DECEPITIKONZ,
HOMAFIDE, yeah we taking over, tell 4 CORNERS, that we ain't
holding back
any longer, THE TIME BANDITS, and wonders, and now we gettin'
stronger, dances they won, like SIR-VERE, ALI and SHAN, yo it's real
real hip hop so u wouldn't understand why
We can not stop now, NEW ZEALAND hip hop, stand the fuck up, we
got it locked down, i'm ready to rock, ready to roll, i am
ready to go, ya'll ready to flow?! just let me know ya'll !
We can not stop now, NEW ZEALAND hip hop, stand the fuck up, we
got it locked down, i'm ready to rock, ready to roll, i am
ready to go, ya'll ready to flow?! just let me know ya'll !
INSTRUMENTAL
Yeah!, yeah!, we hit the big time. We makin big noise, we makin
big moves, playing with the big boys, told u in big things, we
stayin' motivated, we bout take NEW ZEALAND hip hop and renovate
it, i grab the mic and do it, like there was nothing to it, been
thought some bull shit, but now i can see thought it, I'm ready to
rock, ready to roll, I am ready to go, but whatcha don't know,
u can hear it in my flow..... C'MON
We can not stop now, NEW ZEALAND hip hop, stand the fuck up, we
got it locked down, i'm ready to rock, ready to roll, i am
ready to go, ya'll ready to flow?! just let me know ya'll !
We can not stop now, NEW ZEALAND hip hop, stand the fuck up, we
got it locked down, i'm ready to rock, ready to roll, i am
ready to go, ya'll ready to flow?! just let me know ya'll !
voice
i said im so high put me on this year we number one pass a beer cheers neva thought we'd be up in here
chrishchuruch city so pretty in the suma time we drop the summer rhymin it got to be double time
so high lazy eye down for wateva uh uh you no im beta than the ninteenth feather leather as to the sizzy i rizzy a bizzy man can rap to get bust cant get busy the way i can im well knoiwn to expand on ya i'll leave you touched without layin a hand on you ya'll know the "who who" we cumin "thru thru" represent my "crew crew" takin you on a ride a ride a ride its like
oh you sound so nicre your the love of mine x 2
i heard bout her back in 86 wen i went to skool with voodoo child spax span and lady six
8:30 sharp wit the ali on callisbrook we may be late but we got a way for cook
back in the day my brother was the man man battles came to and wen he dropped his hand span
neva tell her how felt bout her i jjst kept it inside and watched the other people crowd around her
but i was in the back finkin of little raps scheming on the waist so i could make contact
we fell in love and struggled over the wrong rap round the time i got caught stealing form the top rack but she incoureged me showed me how to stop that made me realize i was chillin wit the rong cats so jjst for you i sat down and rote this song phat to let you no that the scribe is back on track
oh you sound so nicre your the love of mine x2
type of indavidual hystirical, types of individual.
far from the nonscence while peeps walk the streets in their sleep, i stay conscious ready to speak over beats for the needs i reptresent a thousand souls who never made it this far whaching from the other side of the stars spend a mission in mars pushin my music not just amusement i made this so u can use it for ur own improvment not as a mc but as a human livin on the same earth and breathin in the same polution everythin was ment to be hip hip was sent to me keep the fame the money i hold it centimentally own material things will be turned to dust eventually ill be the mc those lyrics will last infinitlly so to the death of me keep tryin to snatch the breaf of me negativity only brought out the best of me it was my destiny to be one of the illest i represent that to the fullest.
(chorus)
scribe take it seriouse check it,check it just check it each word each line perfected.
scribe original sh#! for u to listen to for those who dont give a far i do
scribe take it seriouse check it,check it just check it each word each line perfected.
scribe original sh#! for u to listen to for those who dont give a far i do
ay yo watch and observe a master of words internationally from the suburb where rhymes are never heard un less they're seen by the third alyways prefered droppin rymes over doin crimes captivated by hip hop doin time sentenced for life a life time of wippen the mike use my incite i serve the world we ways alike for yo im not gonna go the way this time im doin wats right im the scribe i write and send wat comes from my wind pipe ive bin type since the day of my birth you can represent the neighbourhood money guns and represent earth differnt to dove to universe the true emerge has bin tested you'd be first to find the exit when i write my next sh#! im doin everything i said i would true to my word life is perb im finaly gettin wat i deserve and its like that wat so realize and reconize and when u see me u won't have to wonder why.
(chorus)
Why the scribe take it serious check it check it jus check it every word each line perfected
scribe original sh#! for u to listen to for those who don't give a far,i do
scribe take it serious check it check it juss check it each word each line perfected
scribe original sh#! for u to listen to for those who don't give a far,i do
ay yo who said i wasn't ready this scribe would never make it the hateration only motavated me to take it kept hip hop sacred even though at times i felt forsaken make no mistake my skill is real no need to fake it i had the hunger sice i was younger for bits and pieces check my crudentials the evidece to support my pices thats if you don't believe it look for yourself and see it open you ears and hear the deepest air and speek it
(chorus)
scribe take it serious check it check it juss check it each word each line perfected
scribe original sh#! for you to listen to for those who don't give a far,i do
scribe take it serious check it check it juss check it each word each line perfected
scribe original sh#! for you to listen to for those whodon't give a far i do
(feat. Savage of Deceptikonz & Con Psy of Frontline)
[Intro: Savage]
Pito Saute Aukilagi!!! It ain't good, it ain't good 'cos you'll get jumped in my hood
Pito Saute Aukilagi!!! It ain't good, it ain't good 'cos you'll get jumped in my hood, ah!
[Adlibs] It's the remix! yeah, uh, yeah, c'mon...ah, savage
[1st Verse: Savage]
I'm hearin' you still talking that shit but none of your actions here are speakin' to me
I'm talkin' it, walkin' it, my stompin' style will stop your movement'
Hold up who's this? (aarrah!) Still leavin' you with cuts and bruises
So cut the bullshit before I rrrrock your face with a pool stick
Dirty, Dawnraid and Frontline, P-Money, Scribe, Savage and Con Psy
Everybody is feelin' that shit, I'm out your speakers like Ill Semantics
On stage for the crowd reaction, Everyone just bounce your asses
Keep it movin', uh-huh, New Zealand music
South Auckland raise your arms!!
Let me see you throw it up!!
And I will always represent my crew decep-deceptikonz! What!!
[Chorus: Scribe]
How many dudes you know roll like this?
How many dudes you know flow like this?
Not many, if any
Not many, if any
How many dudes you know got the skills to go and rock a show like this?
Uh-uh, uh-uh, I don't know anybody...
[Savage ad libs] cha-hoo, yeah, yeah, c'mon, Savage!...aaaarrock a show like this! I don't know anybody
[2nd Verse: Con Psy]
You know who this is, act right
It's the kid comin' up that's flow is untapped
Wrote enough drafts, know enough raps, off the head skill that'll crush cats
But it's hard to spit without comin' off arrogant
And y'all insist on droppin' comparisons
And y'all who sit, mouths runnin' and chatterin'
Get off my dick, you're so fuckin' embarrassing
Y'all don't want no part of this, upon this ish
I serve the ill like a pharmacist, I'm on to this
I've been broke like promises
so if you get me started kid you're gonna see the consequence and y'all
Don't want that
'Cos I stay on, gimme you're words to play on
and I'ma make your writtens look thick like you lost your pen and wrote it in crayon
But yo, y'all should play the back like scenery
I'm dope, the writings on the wall like graffiti
So, y'all can't even hold your own
You get a manicure if you're goin' toe to toe
Suppose you know, that I treat tracks like kicks 'cos I'm clean when I lace mine
I break minds, If I put a watch in a bum bag that's the only scene where I waste time
Let's go
[Chorus: Scribe]
How many dudes you know roll like this?
How many dudes you know flow like this?
Not many, if any
Not many, if any
How many dudes you know got the skills to go and rock a show like this?
Uh-uh, uh-uh, I don't know anybody
[Con Psy ad libs] Frontline remix, Con psy up in it, come on, let's go
How many dudes you know roll like this?
How many dudes you know flow like this?
Not many, if any
Not many, if any
How many dudes you know got the skills to go and rock a show like this?
Uh-uh, uh-uh, I don't know anybody...
[Scribe ad libs] Congratulations, you made it. Welcome to the reeee-miiiiix!
[3rd Verse: Scribe]
Scribe's here so give it up [applause]
I never put the mic down when I pick it up
I rip it up so dope this year, everybody want a hit of us
But y'all need to breathe because you're hiccin' up (hic)
We refuse to leave you can't get rid of us
Yo, they think I'm drugs because I come in the club
and I be dancin' by myself like I don't give a fuck, what-what?
Scribe on the mic I write an elegant flow
Even drop adagio for the lyrically slow
Not hypothetically, physically lettin' you know
I got my rhyme packed tight and we're ready to go
Made some mistakes in the past, that was yesterday
Today I'm on my way to a better way
Forever bringing together what you separate
So whether, you like it or not I'ma elevate
You know this rhyme is me takin' time to celebrate
Relax and take a breath y'all [breathing]
I'm here to stay and not goin' away
And can I get a 'yes yall'? yes-yes y'all!!
[ad libs] ooh-ooooh!
Theres...check it out
No...check it out
One...check it out (ain't noone like me!)
Like me
[Chorus: Scribe]
How many dudes you know roll like this?
How many dudes you know flow like this?
Not many, if any
Not many, if any
How many dudes you know got the skills to go and rock a show like this?
Uh-uh, uh-uh, I don't know anybody
How many dudes you know roll like this?
How many dudes you know flow like this?
Not many, if any
Not many, if any
How many dudes you know got the skills to go and rock a show like this?
[Outro: Savage]
[ad libs] check it out...check it out
Can you please give it up for Savage!
It's all good, thank you! it's all good when you come to my hood
Can you please give it up for Savage!
It's all good, Yeah!
Thank you!
Very much!
Peace!
[Intro: Savage]
Pito Saute Aukilagi!!! It ain't good, it ain't good 'cos you'll get jumped in my hood
Pito Saute Aukilagi!!! It ain't good, it ain't good 'cos you'll get jumped in my hood, ah!
[Adlibs] It's the remix! yeah, uh, yeah, c'mon...ah, savage
[1st Verse: Savage]
I'm hearin' you still talking that shit but none of your actions here are speakin' to me
I'm talkin' it, walkin' it, my stompin' style will stop your movement'
Hold up who's this? (aarrah!) Still leavin' you with cuts and bruises
So cut the bullshit before I rrrrock your face with a pool stick
Dirty, Dawnraid and Frontline, P-Money, Scribe, Savage and Con Psy
Everybody is feelin' that shit, I'm out your speakers like Ill Semantics
On stage for the crowd reaction, Everyone just bounce your asses
Keep it movin', uh-huh, New Zealand music
South Auckland raise your arms!!
Let me see you throw it up!!
And I will always represent my crew decep-deceptikonz! What!!
[Chorus: Scribe]
How many dudes you know roll like this?
How many dudes you know flow like this?
Not many, if any
Not many, if any
How many dudes you know got the skills to go and rock a show like this?
Uh-uh, uh-uh, I don't know anybody...
[Savage ad libs] cha-hoo, yeah, yeah, c'mon, Savage!...aaaarrock a show like this! I don't know anybody
[2nd Verse: Con Psy]
You know who this is, act right
It's the kid comin' up that's flow is untapped
Wrote enough drafts, know enough raps, off the head skill that'll crush cats
But it's hard to spit without comin' off arrogant
And y'all insist on droppin' comparisons
And y'all who sit, mouths runnin' and chatterin'
Get off my dick, you're so fuckin' embarrassing
Y'all don't want no part of this, upon this ish
I serve the ill like a pharmacist, I'm on to this
I've been broke like promises
so if you get me started kid you're gonna see the consequence and y'all
Don't want that
'Cos I stay on, gimme you're words to play on
and I'ma make your writtens look thick like you lost your pen and wrote it in crayon
But yo, y'all should play the back like scenery
I'm dope, the writings on the wall like graffiti
So, y'all can't even hold your own
You get a manicure if you're goin' toe to toe
Suppose you know, that I treat tracks like kicks 'cos I'm clean when I lace mine
I break minds, If I put a watch in a bum bag that's the only scene where I waste time
Let's go
[Chorus: Scribe]
How many dudes you know roll like this?
How many dudes you know flow like this?
Not many, if any
Not many, if any
How many dudes you know got the skills to go and rock a show like this?
Uh-uh, uh-uh, I don't know anybody
[Con Psy ad libs] Frontline remix, Con psy up in it, come on, let's go
How many dudes you know roll like this?
How many dudes you know flow like this?
Not many, if any
Not many, if any
How many dudes you know got the skills to go and rock a show like this?
Uh-uh, uh-uh, I don't know anybody...
[Scribe ad libs] Congratulations, you made it. Welcome to the reeee-miiiiix!
[3rd Verse: Scribe]
Scribe's here so give it up [applause]
I never put the mic down when I pick it up
I rip it up so dope this year, everybody want a hit of us
But y'all need to breathe because you're hiccin' up (hic)
We refuse to leave you can't get rid of us
Yo, they think I'm drugs because I come in the club
and I be dancin' by myself like I don't give a fuck, what-what?
Scribe on the mic I write an elegant flow
Even drop adagio for the lyrically slow
Not hypothetically, physically lettin' you know
I got my rhyme packed tight and we're ready to go
Made some mistakes in the past, that was yesterday
Today I'm on my way to a better way
Forever bringing together what you separate
So whether, you like it or not I'ma elevate
You know this rhyme is me takin' time to celebrate
Relax and take a breath y'all [breathing]
I'm here to stay and not goin' away
And can I get a 'yes yall'? yes-yes y'all!!
[ad libs] ooh-ooooh!
Theres...check it out
No...check it out
One...check it out (ain't noone like me!)
Like me
[Chorus: Scribe]
How many dudes you know roll like this?
How many dudes you know flow like this?
Not many, if any
Not many, if any
How many dudes you know got the skills to go and rock a show like this?
Uh-uh, uh-uh, I don't know anybody
How many dudes you know roll like this?
How many dudes you know flow like this?
Not many, if any
Not many, if any
How many dudes you know got the skills to go and rock a show like this?
[Outro: Savage]
[ad libs] check it out...check it out
Can you please give it up for Savage!
It's all good, thank you! it's all good when you come to my hood
Can you please give it up for Savage!
It's all good, Yeah!
Thank you!
Very much!
Peace!
Aye yo
This ma girls song
Its called my lady
Lets do it!
More than all my kicks
More than all my clothes
More than all my friends
More than all my flows
More than everything
Cuz you were there for me
Just like you said you'd be (Just like you said it)
Thru my darkest day
My coldest night
Kept hold me tight
You said id be alright
I wish i cud turn back time to when you were mine
(Thats my lady)
When im with you i feel
I can do anything
I can just spread ma wings
I can just say some things
Becuz i feel comfotable
When im around you girl
So we can do wot you like
Its me and you against the world
Ever since the day you came
I havent felt no pain
Ill never be the same
Now i know i love you
More than all my kicks
More than all my clothes
More than all my friends
More than all my flows
More than everything
Cuz you were there for me
Just like you'd said you'd be (Just like you said it)
Thru my darkest day
My coldest night
You'd hold me tight
You said id be alright
I wish i cud turn back time to when you were mine
(Thats my lady)
Yo
2 words
Me and you
Lets just gets away
Far away from it all
Lets find a better day
Everythings alright
We talked all night on the phone
Lets go just us all alone
I know i was unsure before but now i see
I love you more
More than all my kicks
More than all my clothes
More than all my friends
More than all my flows
Cuz more than everything
You were there for me
Just like you said you'd be
Thru my darkest day
My coldest night
You'd hold me tight
You said id be alright
I wish i cud turn back time to when you were mine
Now lets freak em on this one Jo Jo
I never thought you wud be
Everything that i need
Everything that i ever wanted
In you i can see
And then we made love
From the car to the house
To the hall on the wall
From the floor to the couch
Then i went away on tour
And you said you missed my touch
I reply i love you
And you asked me how much
More than all my kicks
More than all my clothes
More than all my friends
More than all my flows
Cuz more than everything
You were there for me
Just like you'd said you'd be
Thru my darkest day
My coldest night
You'd hold me tight
You'd said id be alright
I wish i cud turn back time to when you were mine
(Thats my lady n' i love you more than all those material things, id give it all up for you...dont forget that)
Check it out, 1, 2, hey yo, hey yo
I came a long way since back in the day
From a teenager trying to make a rap in this way
Ever since I was a kid I had something to say
Rocking mics was a dream I didn't care about pay
I sacrificed late nights and going out with my friends
Just to stay home alone with my pad and my pen
Had my eyes on my prize, my mind on my goal
As I carved these rhymes out with my hear and my soul
I didn't have a CD; all I had was a tape
On the dole thru my flow was my only escape
From a world where they didn't wanna see my prevail
Didn't wanna see me take it all
They'd rather see me fail
Its like ...
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I was down and out
Struggling
Wondered how I'm gonna make it thru
I got a dream (I got a dream)
Holding old (I'm gonna hold on)
I can't let go cos I gotta make it come true
Hey yo
I got a dream to make it big in New York
Give up the drugs and alcohol
I didn't want to distort
My vision to be living life to the full
And I wouldn't of made it if it wasn't for you
You picked me up every time that I fell
When I was going thru hell you told me that I would prevail
You said I had exactly what it took to be great
That I was young and in the future would a man I would make
Its like you saw something in me I couldn't see
You said I would succeed and be anything I wanted to be
I'm 23 and I just wanna be me
Wanna be free
Wanna be everything I can be
But I don't have many choices
Can't afford to be wrong
All I do is try to stay true to the words of my song
Just don't hesitate and wait too long
Cos like a dream when you wake up its gone ... its gone
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I was down and out
Struggling
Wondered how I'm gonna make it thru (I had no money in my pockets)
I got a dream (all I had was a pad and a pen)
Holding old (that's all I ever needed)
I can't let go cos I gotta make it come true
Hey yo
It was a sunny day and we were feeling high
Jamming the song underneath the baby blue sky
Thinking 'bout in the time when we were so poor
'Member the kids used to laugh at the clothes we wore
We always knew one day that things were gonna change
And from that day I was never gonna be the same
I went to sleep that night; I dreamt I touched the sky
And ever since I've been trying to keep my dream alive
So when you see this Scribe, dropping the Ill'ed rhyme
To find how I'm living mine in this day and time
I'm working 9 to 5; I'm slaving over beats
Its hard work living the dream I hardly ever sleep
I'm in the rhythm deep, Yo just trying to do my thing
Its funny when you shine and people hate to see the gleam
No matter what they say keep on doing what you do
And don't give up cos only you can make that dream come true
Its like...
[CHORUS]
I was down and out (I was way out)
Struggling
Wondered how I'm gonna make it thru
I got a dream
Holding old
I can't let go cos I gotta make it come true
I was down and out ...
Wonder how ...
I got a dream ...
I won't let go cos I got ...
Every MC, in this industry, wants one thing
To be the best, in the top of their game
You want it? Come and get me!
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Do what you gotta do - come and get me
I came from the struggle; I'm bringing my pain with me
Nothing you can say will ever lead me astray (yo)
I been this way since back in the day YUP
Do what you gotta do - come and get me
I came from the struggle; I'm bringing my pain with me
Nothing you can say will ever lead me astray (yo)
I been this way since back in the day
Yo Shan, lets take 'em
You couldn't rock a joint with a mic and a pound of week
You couldn't get a point across with a pen and a key a pee
You couldn't get high as me with two tabs of LSD
Cool as a cucumber with two sticks of celery
Spit like watermelon pips from your jojoba lips
Hands mo callus can see excel from the mics I read
My rhyme patterns supreme mm the baddest
Fresh - woo - my flows the fattest
Yeah and I gotta do this for those that never had it
But climbed the ladder only to watch all their dreams shatter
They doubled my pain; I tripled my skills in hip-hop
Quadrupled my strength, quintupled my props - yo
I got it locked yo and I'm ready to drop yo
And you can hit me with everything that you got yo
But I will not fall or trip over obstacles
Its logical I'm gonna run hip hop into the cortical
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Do what you gotta do - come and get me
I came from the struggle; I'm bringing my pain with me
Nothing you can say will ever lead me astray (yo)
I been this way since back in the day YUP
Do what you gotta do - come and get me
I came from the struggle; I'm bringing my pain with me
Nothing you can say will ever lead me astray (yo)
I been this way since back in the day
First two I stepped up and I made moves
I stay true and like flows I paid dues
And came thru sliced inviters like blade two
Cos they knew I came to take our fake crews
And take YOU
If this is what it comes down to
Trying to break thru and go triple platinum like Che Fu (true)
Still I'm tighter then the El Kita with corn bread
Lines heavy like if you wake the whole with Dawn Raid
F*ck them and let them see I'm all yeah
I went to the true school like DJ Sir Vere
So who the, who the f*ck said that Scribe was in deep
Yo I'm deep like Mareko's voice tone when he speaks
And I'm ill like Uneepa with skills to pay the bills this year
And MCs is getting cut like One Tree Hill, for real
I'm still the baddest MC to grab a pad and a pen
Go tell ya friend Scribe is at it again. Yeah
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Do what you gotta do - come and get me
I came from the struggle; I'm bringing my pain with me
Nothing you can say will ever lead me astray (yo)
I been this way since back in the day YUP
Do what you gotta do - come and get me
I came from the struggle; I'm bringing my pain with me
Nothing you can say will ever lead me astray (yo)
I been this way since ...
I complete the - be like the snarer come crisp and clear
I'm here to test MCs like it's their 5th form year
We 'bout to find out who is and who isn't prepared
About to make your arse disappear into thin air
Ask DJ Shan; yo I've been up in here
You'd better get it crystal clear your skill just doesn't compare
They're asking who's the best in the underground
No question the best is on the f*cken mic right now!
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Do what you gotta do - come and get me
I came from the struggle; I'm bringing my pain with me
Nothing you can say will ever lead me astray (yo)
I been this way since back in the day YUP
Do what you gotta do - come and get me
I came from the struggle; I'm bringing my pain with me
Nothing you can say will ever lead me astray (yo)
I been this way since back in the day
Yeah now come and get me, I'm waiting
I'll still be here ... when you're ready