Big Daddy Kane - Long Live the Kane(1988)

[00:04.49] Party people in the place
[00:06.24] Embrace the bass as I commence to pick up the pace
[00:08.99] And make you motivate, and accelerate
[00:10.77] Cause like Tony the Tiger, I'm greeeat!
[00:14.48] Always seem to come off, hard for you somehow
[00:16.28] I mean me being wack, oh come come now
[00:18.90] That's quite ridiculous, so just admit you was
[00:21.63] Thrilled, it's on your face, and it's conspicuous
[00:23.57] Not that you're on this, but my performance
[00:26.26] Is rather exquisite, so hard is it
[00:28.96] Or supremacy, that's the perfect definition
[00:30.71] But rappers keep wishing to be in my position
[00:33.45] Know good and damn well they ain't no competition
[00:35.22] Huh, I gotta give it to you kid, that's ambition
[00:38.07] For you to perpetrate the role of me, the Big Daddy
[00:40.72] The Big Father, naah, don't even bother
[00:43.45] Cause that would mean you would have to teach
[00:45.28] Each and every one idiotic son
[00:48.03] Trying to make it, you can't fake it
[00:48.99] The rhymes I recite are fully dressed and yours are butt naked
[00:52.55] Your speech is weak, while my mine stands strong
[00:55.26] So, all hail the man that's here to live long
[01:12.21] You know you heard this voice before somewhere
[01:14.08] And when I said that I'm the Kane, you said oh yeah!
[01:16.88] That brother that used to rhyme on stage with Biz
[01:19.59] Oh he's def, you know what time it is
[01:21.32] But this time I'm not assisted on the microphone
[01:24.00] More like Patti Labelle, on my own
[01:25.82] Just single-handed, the mic I commanded
[01:28.69] Phony MC's don't understand it, and it
[01:31.36] Is the real thing like the taste of Coke
[01:34.02] So never sleep on me, better stay awoke
[01:35.83] Like a gambler in Vegas, I go for broke
[01:38.55] To make a long story short, yo I ain't no joke
[01:41.20] I take time and care in whatever I'm doing
[01:43.11] And when I rock a party, I make sure that you en-
[01:45.84] Joy what you're hearing as I entertain
[01:47.60] So hip hip hoolay, long live the Kane
[02:09.65] I got the freedom of speech to use it anyway that I choose it
[02:12.43] So all hail to the music
[02:14.27] On exhibit, get with it, now here's my ring
[02:16.91] The original supreme being Black man
[02:19.63] Point blank, the cream to rise supreme
[02:21.42] As those go below like a submarine
[02:24.23] Reaching and teaching a lesson that I'm giving
[02:26.91] Addressing and impressing the crowd, so how we living?
[02:29.64] Fine in mind, to decline is out of line
[02:31.48] So pardon this brother as I give you mine
[02:35.10] To say I'm not, don't even diss yourself
[02:36.98] Cause at times, I have to jump back and kiss myself
[02:39.68] Long live the K, the A, the N, the E
[02:42.35] I say the end will be
[02:43.24] A big movement, by the time I'm through
[02:46.09] And that's coming from a Black man's point of view
[03:08.34] Now pardon me for just changing the issue
[03:10.11] But all you sucker MC's, it's a must that I diss you
[03:12.99] The way y'all be fronting has made me disgusted
[03:14.75] Now I'mma set you straight, so so yo yo, bust it
[03:17.42] Rappers try and hang and just swear that they can party
[03:20.12] But the style that I'm using is just like karate
[03:22.94] So if we ever battle you're bound to be through
[03:24.78] Because I got a black belt in Rap Can Do
[03:27.44] No I'm not Chinese, it's just rhymes like these
[03:29.28] That destroy an MC with black belt degrees
[03:31.94] You're rocking a party, trying so hard to get loose
[03:34.74] Kid sound awiiite, but I can't taste the juice
[03:36.59] Therefore, the job is left to me
[03:39.29] So I get the party kicking just like Bruce Lee
[03:41.95] But I won't stop there, I still rock a little harder
[03:43.74] While the toy MC's step and say, Sayonara!
[03:46.41] Long Live the Kane! (x2)
[04:05.53] Break it down!
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