EPMD - Crossover(2014)

[00:04.38] (Erick Sermon)
[00:06.06] Erick Sermon's in the house
[00:19.73] Let's get up, let's get down
[00:22.03] Roll wit the hardcore funk, the hardcore sound
[00:24.35] Let's get wit this, mackadocious funk material
[00:27.57] So simple, when I rock wit the instrumental
[00:29.87] Who am I (E-D the Green Eyed Bandit)
[00:32.23] Control my career so I can never get stranded
[00:34.52] But the rest are gettin Brand Nubian
[00:36.86] Changed up they style, from jeans to suits and
[00:39.43] Thinkin about a pop record, somethin made for the station
[00:42.37] For a whole new relation-
[00:44.13] Ship of a new type of scene
[00:46.16] To go platinum and clock mad green
[00:48.76] AKA, a sellout, the rap definition
[00:51.34] Get off that boy, change your mission
[00:53.36] Come back around the block
[00:55.14] Pump Color Me Badd to the ah, tick tock
[00:58.34] Let them know your logo, not a black thing
[01:00.93] My background sing, my background sing for the crossover
[01:03.85] The Crossover
[01:12.52] (PMD)
[01:15.46] The rap era's outta control, brother's sellin their soul
[01:23.87] To go gold, going, going, gone, another rapper sold
[01:26.77] (To who) To pop and R&B, not the MD
[01:28.77] I'm strictly hip-hop, I'll stick to Kid Capri
[01:31.43] Funk mode, yea, kid, that's how the Squad rolls
[01:33.74] I know your head is bobbin cuz the neck knows
[01:36.60] (Not like other rappers) frontin on they fans, the ill
[01:38.37] Trying to chill, saying "damn, it be great to sell a mill"
[01:40.67] Thats when the mind switch to the pop tip
[01:42.76] (Kid, you're gonna be large)
[01:44.73] Yea right, that's what the company kicks
[01:45.89] Forget the black crowds, you're wack now
[01:47.63] In a zoot suit, frontin black lookin mad foul
[01:50.26] I speak for the hardcore (ruff, rugged and raw)
[01:52.85] I'm outta here, catch me chillin on my next tour
[01:54.93] From the US to the white cliffs of Dover
[01:57.22] Strictly underground funk, keep the crossover
[01:59.84] The crossover
[02:09.96] (Erick Sermon)
[02:12.93] (So what cha sayin) You wanna go pop goes the weasel
[02:20.73] You know you should be rocking the fans wit something diezel
[02:23.63] But you insist to piss me off black
[02:25.65] So I flex the biceps so I can push em back
[02:28.01] So real hardcore hip-hop continue wreck it
[02:30.33] And all sucker MC's duck down and get the message
[02:32.93] So ban the crossover, yo, who's wit me
[02:35.27] (Hit Squad) yea, P, hit me
[02:37.58] (PMD)
[02:38.47] Another megablast, funky dope style from cross yonder
[02:40.17] (So help me Rhonda, help, help me Rhonda)
[02:42.21] (Yo, from what) the crossover, yea crossing you over
[02:44.54] Outta here, gone, peace, nice to know ya (see ya)
[02:47.14] What a way to go out, no clout is what the fans will shout
[02:49.46] Cuz you got gassed and took the wrong route
[02:51.79] Came on the scene, chillin, freakin a funky dope line
[02:54.15] But when they finish wit you (beep) flatline
[02:56.42] Some say there's no business like show business
[02:58.77] But if this the truth, please explain why is this
[03:01.07] Rappers been around long, makin mad noise you see
[03:03.66] Still I haven't seen one rapper livin comfortably
[03:06.05] No time to pick and wish on a four leaf clover
[03:08.36] I stick to underground, keep the crossover
[03:10.95] The crossover
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