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Craig Mack (born May 10, 1971) is an American Grammy nominated rapper, who gained fame on Puff Daddy's Bad Boy Entertainment record label in the 1990s. Although his first single was released under the name MC EZ in 1988, he is best known for his 1994 hit single "Flava In Ya Ear", which was released under his real name. The remix of the single was the breakout appearance of The Notorious B.I.G., as well as one of the first solo appearances by Busta Rhymes. The success of The Notorious B.I.G.'s debut album Ready To Die overshadowed Mack's early success on the Bad Boy label.
Although Puff Daddy mentioned in a 1994 interview on MTV's Yo! MTV Raps that he was working with Mack on his second album, which was to be released sometime in January the following year, this proved to not be the case. Present at that interview (which also included The Notorious B.I.G.), Mack himself appeared puzzled by the statement. As of September 1, 2008, he was no longer on Stereo Nasty Records.
James Todd Smith (born January 14, 1968), better known as LL Cool J (an abbreviation for Ladies Love Cool James), is an American rapper, entrepreneur, and actor from Bay Shore, New York. He is known for romantic ballads such as "I Need Love", "Around the Way Girl" and "Hey Lover" as well as pioneering hip-hop such as "I Can't Live Without My Radio", "I'm Bad", "The Boomin' System", and "Mama Said Knock You Out". He has released thirteen studio albums and two greatest hits compilations, including 2008's Exit 13, the last for his record deal with Def Jam Recordings. He has also appeared in numerous films, and currently stars as NCIS Special Agent Sam Hanna on the CBS crime drama television series NCIS: Los Angeles.
As he grew older, Smith found a way to escape the effects of his abuse, and his bullying attitude: hip-hop music. He fell in love with it at the age of nine, and by 11 he was writing lyrics and making his own songs with some DJ equipment his grandmother gave him to stop him riding motorcycles or doing karate. Before too long, LL was an established member of the Hip-Hop community in his area. He gained notoriety through his many rap battles against well-established MCs, including the battle against Chicken and Porn that rocketed him to fame.
Aw shit, here come the man again
You know, if you can't get with the style that's goin' on right now
Then you need to be sittin' down
If MC's can't get with the style that's goin' on
Then they need to sit down
Do your thing Mack, do it to 'em, nigga
Ahh, whassup?
What you don't know, what you don't know, kick 'em in the grill
But anyway, I'd like to take this, anyway I'd
Anyway I'd like to take this time out to bother you
Oh, no no no no no, I don't think you can get liver than me G
So sit back, relax, Mack's about to attack
And turn your flav into Similac 'cause it's like that
I kick funk out the frame, make it insane
With all local stops set to crumble like a [Incomprehensible] train
My thickest format, my format's thicker all that
No comp for combat with boy like Supercat
Show you where my head's at, I crack you with a bat
Where the funk? Hear the trunk a bit and fat knit
Rearrange the skit, make it fit, so you can't sit
Ain't that some shh, I rip it
I snap a jaw, I stabba jab a dinosaur
Live from Creedmore under the floor
Like the roughest of ruffnecks, wicked and wick
Check the [Incomprehensible] MC and his project
All you brothers need to know doe
There's no more best MC 'cause that is now me
See G, I am king MC
Once said from me can't another brother disagree
Got the funk bleedin' all out your trunk
And that's all there is to
If you can't funk with the style that's goin' on
Then you need to be sittin' down
If you can't funk with the style that's goin' on
Then you need to be sittin' down
If you can't funk with the style that's goin' on
Then you need to be sittin' down
If you can't funk with the style that's goin' on
Then you need to be sittin' down
You must got no brains in ya head
I kill ya dead on the spot with the hits I got
Trust my flavor G, I make ya wanna pee-pee
I got what you can't see, somethin' like a leprosy
I slow it down, somethin' like this
When it's time for me to stun 'em, MC's I warned them
I'll put 'em on the moon without funk to listen to
Then again, my vibration may give the sensation, they're on vacation
Y'all brothers need a [Incomprehensible]
Real rugged alligator MC hater from the fader
You little tic-tac, tryin' to act like a lumberjack
Sit back and watch how the earth crack
You funk around, you lay around, that's how it goes
And I suppose MC's still wanna try me
King of the mountain is a hard rock
Do you understand, smile but I'll take you out like the mob
Check it black, after the Mack there's no recoup
Not even soup, get out shake the hula hoop
Comin' out the ground, gettin' down
If you can't funk with the style that's goin' on
Then you need to be sittin' down
If you can't funk with the style that's goin' on
Then you need to be sittin' down
If you can't funk with the style that's goin' on
Then you need to be sittin' down
If you can't funk with the style that's goin' on
Then you need to be sittin' down
Sometimes alone I be writin'
Must be frightenin', to hear I'm on the air but I don't care
I fell sick, wonder how I'll see you sick
Son, grandson, no tellin' when I'm done
I'm about to do you and you on some new
Who has a date and thank you for waitin'
There my bad, I thought you took a beatin' in the brain
Then you learned from [Incomprehensible] that rap's a mistake
You won't get a break
Big as a cake for me to make, you bake
So Banzai, here comes the flyest guy
That you ever heard in your lifetime
I do a behind and rewind, I wanna kick some more shit
Down your faucet, I pours it
Mighta lost it but then I retrieve it
Believe it, I got this fat okey-dokey style for a while
Peace from the king, peace from the king G, here it go
One time for your motherfunkin' mind
If you can't funk with the style that's goin' on
Then you need to be sittin' down
If you can't funk with the style that's goin' on
Then you need to be sittin' down
If you can't funk with the style that's goin' on
Then you need to be sittin' down
If you can't funk with the style that's goin' on
Then you need to be sittin' down
Sittin' down
Anyway I'd like to take this time out
No more music by the suckers