GZA/Genius, Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, U-God - Investigative Reports(1995)

[00:01.59] Here we go, come on
[00:03.27] "A battle-A battle was fought, in Brooklyn..."
[00:06.43] "Hessian Soldiers killed 3,000 men (rugged rhymsters, crooked crimesters)
[00:09.14] Much of the fighting took place in (dime droppers, 25-to-lifers)
[00:10.52] What is now Prospect Park in Green-Wood Cemetery (backstabbers, low blowers)
[00:13.11] As well as the Park Slope and Gowanus neighborhoods" (illegal... cocaine growers)
[00:16.40] "This was the first battle of America"
[00:17.62] Starvation, profanity
[00:19.93] Anxiety, brothers tryin' me
[00:22.58] Gun slingers, dead ringers
[00:24.96] Yo! My slang's out of this world
[00:26.53] Mix collaboration man, little man and his girl
[00:29.13] Way of life got me thinkin'
[00:30.69] Plus I'm analyzin' young youths on roofs, you know
[00:33.40] Three-time felony brutes roll together
[00:35.70] Tropical trees puff, whatever
[00:37.73] Yo, we could go run up on kids for leathers
[00:40.06] What drug? Faculties bubble keys for G's
[00:42.57] Cream flow like seven seas, hit chicks, Guyanese
[00:45.29] Word up, hold your head before you fall out the morgue route
[00:48.02] The devil want that, let's get my niggas locked all out
[00:50.58] Change for better, that be my only vendetta
[00:52.88] When life feed your seed right, he's breathin' indeed, right
[00:55.56] Chef, remarkable, sparkable raps
[00:57.74] And tackable gats never get jacked
[00:59.53] See ya then move, black
[01:00.74] Paradise trife, plush with much ice
[01:02.77] Gettin' nice, layin' back, speak on my life, word up!
[01:05.76] "The battle of Brooklyn depicted was the bloodiest (crack patients, dime smokers)
[01:09.20] Clash of the American revolution, soldiers killed (vial carriers, mocha tokers)
[01:11.58] 3,000 men, much of the fighting took place in what is now..." (burnt buildings, brothers buildin')
[01:13.53] Save the children, investigative reports!
[01:16.17] Callin' all cars, callin' all cars!
[01:18.10] Ghetto psychos armed and dangerous, leavin' mad scars
[01:21.37] On those who are found bound, gagged and shot
[01:23.48] When they blast the spot, victims took off like astronauts
[01:26.42] Get with this, even your best can't
[01:28.37] Come on down, you're the next contestant!
[01:30.71] Get your pockets dug from all your Chemical Bank ends
[01:33.36] Caught him at the red light on Putnam Avenue and Franklin
[01:36.64] They used to heat up the cipher with a shot that was hyper
[01:39.85] Than your average JFK sniper
[01:41.87] He just came home from Spofford
[01:43.38] Rollin' like Kaufman, and laid that ass out like carpet
[01:46.84] Stop the stutterin', boy, save complaints for the five-oh
[01:49.97] Then praise the God, chk-a-chk pow!
[01:52.07] They release shots and premeditate to grab
[01:54.89] And then they jet back to the lab
[01:57.14] And then remain in Shaolin, an endangered island
[02:00.14] Where shorties lose blood by the gallons
[02:02.18] Crack patients, dime smokers
[02:04.77] Vial carriers, mocha tokers
[02:07.23] Burnt buildings, brothers buildin'
[02:09.87] Save the children, investigative reports!
[02:12.13] Yo, I grab the pen for revenge and let loose, see
[02:14.87] Like Muslims standin' on the block, rockin' a kufi
[02:17.30] The hundred-dollar kick rockin' kid's back for more
[02:19.67] Startin' gun wars with black Reeboks and Velours
[02:22.24] Jungle way of life livin' villain
[02:23.96] Packed with visions, copywritten
[02:25.27] Throwin' bread to pigeons, Christ has risen
[02:27.31] King Elegant, slang master, jack expensive noodle hats
[02:30.20] In '69, old timers time that brothers shot craps
[02:32.74] The baggy blue Guess jeans, pull strings off in Palm Springs
[02:35.22] I'm locked in the bing, Rocky ring labelled rap king
[02:37.77] The corner emperor, the golden thieves play the benches
[02:40.22] Rednecks be hangin' big niggas down in Memphis
[02:42.84] Back in Now-Y, hit the bull's eye with loaded nines
[02:45.54] Life is like Tarzan, swingin' from a thin vine
[02:48.04] Shatter dreams, then mirrors don't need a press spirals
[02:50.50] Aim at the white shadows with big barrels
[02:53.09] Of Moet-ers, the bald headers milkin' Armarettas
[02:55.49] Who fear none, crushin' all personal vendettas, yo
[02:58.37] They use guns while we angrily shot arrows
[03:01.06] You better keep your eye on the sparrow
[03:03.44] Rugged rhymsters, crooked crimesters
[03:06.15] Dime droppers, 25-to-lifers
[03:08.55] Backstabbers, low blowers
[03:11.13] Illegal... cocaine growers
[03:13.68] Starvation, profanity
[03:16.19] Anxiety, brothers tryin' me
[03:18.71] Gun slingers, dead ringers
[03:21.65] Investigative reports
[03:27.00] Investigative reports
[03:28.87] "Have integrated a number of corrupt cops, judges and lawyers (investigative reports)
[03:33.17] Into high-level positions, to insure the continued success
[03:36.68] Of the drug smuggling and money laundering operations"
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