I Ain't No Joke

I ain't no joke, I use to let the mic smoke

Now I slam it when I'm done and make sure it's broke

When i'm gone no one gets on cuz I won't let

Nobody press up and mess up the seen I set

I like to stand in a crowd and watch the people wonder damn

But think about it then you'll understand

I'm just an addict addicted to music

Maybe it's a habit, I gotta use it

Even if it's jazz or the quiet storm

I a beat up convert it into hip-hop form

Write a rhyme in graffitti in every show you see me in

Deep concentration, cuz I'm no comedian

Jokers are wild if you wanna be tamed

I treat you like a child then you're gonna be named

Another enemy, not even a friend of me

Cuz you'll get fried in the end when you pretend to be

Competin' cuz I just put your mind on pause

And I complete when - you compare my rhyme wit yours

I wake you up and as I stare in your face you seem stunned

Remember me, the one you got your idea from

But soon you start to suffer, the tune'll get rougher

When you start to stutter that's when you had enuff of

Biting, it'll make you choke, you can't provoke

You can't cope, you should've broke because I ain't no joke

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I got a question, as serious as cancer

Who can keep the average dancer

Hyper as a heart attack nobody smiling

Cuz you're expressing the rhyme that I'm styling

This is what we all sit down to write

You can't make it so you take it home, break it and bite

Use pieces and bits of all the hip-hop hits

Get the style down pat then it's time to switch

Put my tape on pause and add some more to yours

Then you fake it you're ready for the neighborhood chores

The E-M-C-E-E don't even try to be

When you come up to speak, don't even lie to me

You like to exaggerate, dream and imaginate

Then change the rhyme around, that can aggravate me

So when you see me come up, freeze

Or you'll be one of those 7 MC's

They think that I'm a new jack but only if they knew that

They who think wrong are they who can't do that

Style that I'm doing, they might ruin

Patterns and paragraphs based on you and

Your offbeat DJ, if anything he play

Sound familiar, I'll wait til E say

Play 'em, so I'ma have to diss and bro

You could get a smack for this, I ain't no joke

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I hold the microphone like a grudge

B'll hold the record so the needle don't budge

I hold a conversation cuz when I invent

I nominated my DJ to president

When I'm see I'll, keep a freestyle, going steadily

So pucker up and whistle my melody

But whatever you do, don't miss one

They'll be another rough rhyme after this one

Before you know it, you're following and fiending

Waiting for the punchline to get the meaning

Like before the middle of my story I'm telling

Nobody beats the R so stop yelling

Save it, put it in your pocket for later

Cuz I'm moving the crowd and B'll wreck the fader

No interruptions til the mic is broke

When I'm gone, then you can joke

Cuz everything is real on a serious tip

Keep playing and I varies quick

And take you for a walk through hell

Freeze your dome then watch your eyeballs swell

Guide you out of triple stage darkness

When it get dark again then I'ma spark this

Microphone cuz the heat is on, you see smoke

Then I finish when the beat is gone, I'm no joke