[00:00:01] The Lesson Pt 1 - The Roots [00:00:28] Lyrically versatile [00:00:29] My rap definition is wild [00:00:31] I wrote graffiti as a juvenile [00:00:32] Restin on deuce trey [00:00:34] And used to boost gray Kangol's [00:00:36] With 555 Soul's from the streets [00:00:38] Of the Ill-a-delphiadaic insane [00:00:40] For monetary gain niggaz is slain on the train [00:00:43] It's homicide [00:00:44] For wealth stealth missions for crack [00:00:45] In the alleyways where niggaz get grazed in the back [00:00:48] From stray shots [00:00:49] Clips with hollow tips for your spine or [00:00:51] Either remain calm catch a rhyme to your mind [00:00:54] Niggaz ya know my style [00:00:55] I run a--motherf**kin-rap--muk [00:00:56] When Malik get a U-Haul truck [00:00:59] I stand five foot seven in command of the party [00:01:02] And scam like Uncle Sam [00:01:03] I'm never caught up in the glass eye [00:01:05] Of your action cam cause I'm down low [00:01:07] Artistic exquisite rap pro that get the dough [00:01:09] It's the Philly borough dread [00:01:11] Thoroughbread for dolo [00:01:12] I bag solo like a nigga that boost Polo [00:01:15] Steppin through the corridor of metaphors [00:01:17] Lookin over my left [00:01:18] Shoulder the mic still feel colder than before [00:01:21] With this jazz shit I hit your jaw [00:01:23] Dice Raw get up on the mic my young poor [00:01:25] I be the nigga blowin up the spot on tour [00:01:28] Surely real to the core old school like eighty-four [00:01:30] I never die and raps till my lungs collapse [00:01:33] Then relax until my knack for tracks [00:01:35] Bring it back on time [00:01:37] When I rhyme my rep remain [00:01:38] Either go against the grain or your ass is found slain [00:01:41] I overcome niggaz want styles then I throw you some [00:01:44] Show you some get on the mic and take it over son [00:01:47] Dice Raw the motherf**kin Wild Noid [00:01:49] Get on the mic and perpetratin is void [00:01:52] Ya leave niggaz missin in action like their dads in the projects [00:01:55] My style like an old mac travel round and catch wreck [00:01:57] I'm ill versatile with the skill no more [00:02:00] Wack MC's wanna flex but their styles they bore [00:02:02] Got to know the real meaning of the ill shit kid [00:02:05] I do mad damage but never will catch a bid [00:02:08] With my knapsack full of ill shit that I just boosted [00:02:11] From the corner store when I let loose more [00:02:13] Flavor that's me rippin heads off from the seams [00:02:16] Niggaz didn't play like Jeru and Come Clean [00:02:18] [he heh ha ha ha [00:02:21] Or 808's cause my style flows out great [00:02:24] And superspectac with all the raw rap [00:02:26] Pull a metal chair out my knapsack across your back ka-crack [00:02:30] Now do you feel the pain of course [00:02:32] I guess you're believin that I'm insane [00:02:34] When I'm taggin my name upon the train I got so much pride [00:02:37] I got so much soul with lyrics high [00:02:39] To make niggaz stop drop and roll now check me out one time [00:02:43] For your ass fat styles equivalent [00:02:44] Of an AIDS infected Glock blast [00:02:47] Niggaz know my style plus they know they want more [00:02:50] Props from Mount Vernon to Mount Rushmore [00:02:52] OK kid you know my style is buckwild literature [00:02:54] That you can never get when I'm thinkin your particular [00:02:57] Flavor that you want [00:02:59] I sit back and smoke a fat blunt in class [00:03:01] Teachers can kiss my ass I'm twice Dice [00:03:03] Nigga de Raw never take a bad fall [00:03:05] Smack your head up against the wall [00:03:07] Like playin handball my style's ill [00:03:09] I slam like Hulk Hogan Dice Raw bettin on my arm [00:03:12] Niggaz know my slogan while I breathe your last breath [00:03:14] Niggaz better watch they step fat bull catch wreck [00:03:17] Ill gots ta keep you in check [00:03:19] With the hellified beats and hard rhymes [00:03:21] Niggaz know my style when I go the whole nine