"Let me show ya exactly how it's properly done" "Sit back and learn" "Let me show ya exactly how it's properly done" "And yes ya'll" "This for your own concern" "Let me show ya exactly how it's properly done" "Class is in session so you can stop guessin" [KRS-One] "Let me show ya exactly how it's properly done" "Lights, camera, action!"
[Ahmad] They tryin to get us off the bat like heavy hitters But my squad ain't goin for it, Charlie the Rainer is you wit us? We upset it how you did us, laughin at em tryin to kid us And vow to tear it up like Home Alone without the sitters So the first one steppin up will be the first one I'm gettin rid of While you fakin Al Capone, I make the hits like Frankie Nitta Ya'll rappers gon' remember me, of course you can't forget, I'm from the west Where we be battle-rappin off a doo-ah-ditta Even Sway and Tech admit-a Wake Up Show and skills, I never sleep, I never quit-a The dopest, don't be bitter Adopted a new motto: No retreat and no surrender I'm the champ and I been lookin for the number one contender, like that
*Cut up* "The Wake Up Show"
[Chali 2na] No longer of thugs and pimps and style What we continue the tension like the Simpson Trial Wake Up Show, come to class just to pass the test Or be on your deathbed, givin last request Sway and Tech keep you listenin Bringin hip hop discipline Makin it hot, takin the plot from Lake Michigan Fisherman been mature, suckers who miniature That be faker than Cabbage Patch dolls without the signature Witness your destruction, when I bust ten Men die while the ink from my pen dry Tryin to make ends by words not crack rocks If raps are plane crash, my rhyme's the black box, like that
[Kurupt] Raw dog for sure, paw core Supposed to know that Golden paw, wha what wha what what! Sway and Tech, wha what wha what what! Yo, try me *nigga*, the new millennium came I'm invincible wit my abdaminium frame Deminigon, tenagon poetical pentagon None silence, *mothafuckers* unbalanced Get ya calicos, WAR? SURE I heard a million MC's, ain't none raw Kurupt spit brimstone, fire and magma Magnums and multi-minis in multi-cities
"Let me show ya..." "Let me show ya..." "Let me show ya exactly how it's properly done"
[Mos Def] Forward on the 2G's, yo I don't ease My style's so deep it make the police freeze Seize domestic and land overseas From the hard Brooklyn to the breeze in Belise Ya gotta give me mine, no "Can I applease" Sway and King Tech keep green like palm trees Transmitted globally, I'm Mos Def, you hopefully Calm, ain't sayin much, they catchin nuts like a ovary WAKE UP!!!
[Crooked Eye/Tech N9NE] Light em up, blow em out, light em up Sway and Tech, rider, Sway and Tee-zay Crooked Eye's the don-datta No worries, hacuna matata A couple of verbal shots to hit your medula ablingalla I'm Donald Goines character Kenyatta On the Wake Up Show, beatin these rappers like a Tiajuana pinata My ish, flip and kick like Jim Carter From Bambatta to Crooked Eye, hip hop never die like Madonna My rap receital is fact receital was Kane and Abel Rock a rapper's cradle, even the ones signed to my label Get broken, I'm open like the eyes of insomniacs Standin on the corner, in big game hunters in Dodger hats
"Let me show ya exactly how it's properly done" "Sway and Tech" [Guru] "And of course" "On production and the scratch" "DJ!" "Revolution" "It's the Wake Up Show" "You SUCKAS!!!" [KRS-One]