Breakdown
by Mos Def
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YO!
[1st Verse]
Good evening ladies and gents, close and distant fam
Let me break it down for ya´ll exactly who I am...(CAV)
That brotha straight off of Myrtle Ave
That dude that make the other dude say that´s my man, (CAV)
It ain´t nuttin´ I want I can´t have
The haters know it´s real and that´s why they mad
They struggle so hard while I just lay back
They sound under pressure, sweaty and straight wack
I rock like this because I ain´t that, (CAV)
Tell the players I´m taking the game back...
Matta fact tell the coaches, the GMs, and owners
Shut down the stadiums, it´s ova
I make the cat´s in the back draw closer
Get the comp choked up like white folks on Oprah
Yeah you dope, but (CAV) is more doper
Mo skill, mo style than mo folkas
I hit the lab with good shit to smoke up
And tell the sound man where I wanna go from
Blow up, skit sheet across the notepad
School em´ all from the drop out to post grads
What history book you do or don´t have
There´s only two eras of rap, pre and post CAV
Now you know that
Stop the train, there´s no place for the game left to go at
[BREAK]
CAV is my name but you can call me, (CAV)
It´s all the same abbreviated or whole
Shout it out so it don´t be a secret to folk it go, (CAV)
Short for Cavee but I´m not from Cali
I´m from the rotten apple, dirty streets and alleys
Bed-Stuy Brooklyn doin´it exactly, Get at me!!!
[2nd Verse]
Holla!!...Like Missy and Ja Rule
Ain´t a crowd in the world that CAV cannot move
Hot dude, cats was thinkin´ it´s not true
But come front row at show, I got proof
I went from sellin´ candy in junior high school
To servin´ spoony g for the fiends, to gnaw to
Got sent upstate on bus, (Not cool)
In the yard thinkin´ damn should´ve listen to ma duke
Come home in 99, what the fuck I´m gonna do
I won´t move bundles, I got a new hustle
I quit pie baking, started rhyme makin
Buildin´ up my rep to be one of the five greatest
And I ain´t saying CAV the best nigga out there
But until he appear, I´m sittin´in his chair
And I´ma need a few moments just to get in ya´ll ear
To make you forget the Duke was eva even here
I got two words for the world, BE PREPARED!!
I got three words for your girl, DON´T BE SCARED!!!
And when they ask where the real hip-hop, IT´S OVA HERE!!!
And when they ask where Brooklyn at, HOLD YA EAR!!!!
It´s like YEAH!!!!, Chris Antione Vashon
Capricorn hit em´ off with the classic bong and then I´m gone...
Ridin´ back to Brook-Lan... boyeeeeee
[1st Verse]
Good evening ladies and gents, close and distant fam
Let me break it down for ya´ll exactly who I am...(CAV)
That brotha straight off of Myrtle Ave
That dude that make the other dude say that´s my man, (CAV)
It ain´t nuttin´ I want I can´t have
The haters know it´s real and that´s why they mad
They struggle so hard while I just lay back
They sound under pressure, sweaty and straight wack
I rock like this because I ain´t that, (CAV)
Tell the players I´m taking the game back...
Matta fact tell the coaches, the GMs, and owners
Shut down the stadiums, it´s ova
I make the cat´s in the back draw closer
Get the comp choked up like white folks on Oprah
Yeah you dope, but (CAV) is more doper
Mo skill, mo style than mo folkas
I hit the lab with good shit to smoke up
And tell the sound man where I wanna go from
Blow up, skit sheet across the notepad
School em´ all from the drop out to post grads
What history book you do or don´t have
There´s only two eras of rap, pre and post CAV
Now you know that
Stop the train, there´s no place for the game left to go at
[BREAK]
CAV is my name but you can call me, (CAV)
It´s all the same abbreviated or whole
Shout it out so it don´t be a secret to folk it go, (CAV)
Short for Cavee but I´m not from Cali
I´m from the rotten apple, dirty streets and alleys
Bed-Stuy Brooklyn doin´it exactly, Get at me!!!
[2nd Verse]
Holla!!...Like Missy and Ja Rule
Ain´t a crowd in the world that CAV cannot move
Hot dude, cats was thinkin´ it´s not true
But come front row at show, I got proof
I went from sellin´ candy in junior high school
To servin´ spoony g for the fiends, to gnaw to
Got sent upstate on bus, (Not cool)
In the yard thinkin´ damn should´ve listen to ma duke
Come home in 99, what the fuck I´m gonna do
I won´t move bundles, I got a new hustle
I quit pie baking, started rhyme makin
Buildin´ up my rep to be one of the five greatest
And I ain´t saying CAV the best nigga out there
But until he appear, I´m sittin´in his chair
And I´ma need a few moments just to get in ya´ll ear
To make you forget the Duke was eva even here
I got two words for the world, BE PREPARED!!
I got three words for your girl, DON´T BE SCARED!!!
And when they ask where the real hip-hop, IT´S OVA HERE!!!
And when they ask where Brooklyn at, HOLD YA EAR!!!!
It´s like YEAH!!!!, Chris Antione Vashon
Capricorn hit em´ off with the classic bong and then I´m gone...
Ridin´ back to Brook-Lan... boyeeeeee