Making a Name for Ourselves - Common (凡夫俗子) Yeah Yeah Me and my man com sense Rallyin' troops like Joseph Stalin stalin Where you at yo I'm 'bout to make the name com sense a name you fear Y'all niggaz is scared I'm your worst nightmare squared And I'ma make the name Canibus a name you fear Y'all niggaz is scared I'm your worst nightmare squared That's double for niggaz who ain't mathematically aware Yo Yo I can tell by how you write You the type to run In a fight I hold mics while you hold Sprite Like a broken hearted b**ch Don't give no f**k who yo team or who you startin' with Cameoed or charted with I house niggaz like Apartments with Mic mechanisms I dissect a rhythm Move crowds with kinetic wisdom It's like a Malcolm X orcisim f**k The rhythm I hit him I want him got not get him auction His wack ass off then bid him I'm creatin' the ultimate verses with perfect lines Puttin' together them whether my rhyme One threat at a time So you niggaz need to stop testin' me 'Cuz you know you can't F with me Steppin' to me with insuperior weaponry Exposin' yourself to the verbal radiations Sayin' you can defeat me is nothin' but speculation Lyrics unravel faster than bullets travel Through barrels Niggaz be diggin' my styles like fossils And pterodactyls Who wanna battle I'm bad to the bone marrow The Earth got one sun but I walk with three shadows With Allah my supernatural bodyguard Niggaz couldn't touch me if they gave me a massage MCs will compete with lyrics and beats get crushed I'll hit you in your chest so hard your Shoulders will touch What What Steppin' to me is like going To the County being a neutron Common I ain't scared of no nigga I persue sound fairs relaxed like Dru Down's hair Other nigga's rhymes are like gang signs I throw down theirs On knots I landed players get played like Hamlet Supposedly nice taken for granted like life I write twice and drop singles in record pools Niggaz I'm dinkin' like when cops mingle F**k hip hop jingles rhymin' big words And not sayin' sh*t The click that you came in with accent your flavor with Like moose I go to the caves and get niggaz off All fours I'm the sh*t that's uncalled for the sh*t That you fall for Far more advanced than a rapper who's career You could only take a glance couldn't make The transition From B boy to C note stance I stand in a circumference the humbleness But in the Chi bumbleless Was thinkin' as a weakness were poetrys in motion Like a b**ch I'm the main feature Amongst hard working teachers and corrupt preachers I make my living off of singles like Latifah In between sheets like reefer with blunted senses You couldn't make a statement if you was From a sentence I'm cold with numb intentions F**k with Canibus F**k with Canibus F**k with Canibus F**k with Canibus Yo the Canibus is an animal with a mechanical mandible Comin' to damage you spittin' Understandable slang at you I be the all seeing lyrical Hammerhead sharp peripheral With 360 degree visual When the signal was given MCs get biten with venom From a poisonous algorithm liable to kill 'em My style will get in 'em way up in 'em My face don't belong in The Source It belongs on the shroud of turan for certain I grab mics and murder sh*t It's wickeder than Satan worshippers going To Catholic church services You heard of this The lyrical verbalist trash herbalist The wrath of my cold blooded verses is merciless Rap snap get your ass cracked like bear traps Contaminate your air sacs like tear gas And I swear black try to battle me you won't last I'll turn your ass into The artist formerly known as you gay ass fag I'll blow you to ashes with tactics Strip you naked then make you hug a cactus you bastard So phat to be a rap star takin' pictures at Music seminars People know who you are Now I got mad shorties that wanna call me Because they saw me up in The Source chillin' on page 40 Put this in your CD ROM WWW dot canivas dot com Common You can find me on the internet talkin' to chicks That was sweatin' me off the Music Makes Me High remix I be talkin' mad trash tryin' to get 'em to laugh See if I click and drag long enough I'll get the ass