Mos Def - Breakdown Lyrics
YO!(1st Verse)Good evening ladies and gents, close and distant famLet me break it down for ya'll exactly who I am...(CAV)That brotha straight off of Myrtle AveThat dude that make the other dude say that's my man, (CAV)It ain't nuttin' I want I can't haveThe haters know it's real and that's why they madThey struggle so hard while I just lay backThey sound under pressure, sweaty and straight wackI 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 ownersShut down the stadiums, it's ovaI make the cat's in the back draw closerGet the comp choked up like white folks on OprahYeah you dope, but (CAV) is more doperMo skill, mo style than mo folkasI hit the lab with good shit to smoke upAnd tell the sound man where I wanna go fromBlow up, skit sheet across the notepadSchool em' all from the drop out to post gradsWhat history book you do or don't haveThere's only two eras of rap, pre and post CAVNow you know thatStop 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 wholeShout it out so it don't be a secret to folk it go, (CAV)Short for Cavee but I'm not from CaliI'm from the rotten apple, dirty streets and alleysBed-Stuy Brooklyn doin'it exactly, Get at me!!!(2nd Verse)Holla!!...Like Missy and Ja RuleAin't a crowd in the world that CAV cannot moveHot dude, cats was thinkin' it's not trueBut come front row at show, I got proofI went from sellin' candy in junior high schoolTo servin' spoony g for the fiends, to gnaw toGot sent upstate on bus, (Not cool)In the yard thinkin' damn should've listen to ma dukeCome home in 99, what the ***** I'm gonna doI won't move bundles, I got a new hustleI quit pie baking, started rhyme makinBuildin' up my rep to be one of the five greatestAnd I ain't saying CAV the best nigga out thereBut until he appear, I'm sittin'in his chairAnd I'ma need a few moments just to get in ya'll earTo make you forget the Duke was eva even hereI 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 VashonCapricorn hit em' off with the classic bong and then I'm gone...Ridin' back to Brook-Lan... boyeeeeee
