Strictly Business

Don't get too close

Because you might get shot

Try to answer to the master on the MC rap artists

No joke on the lyric, it's hard to be modest

I knew I was the man with the master plan

To make you wiggle and jiggle like gelatin

Just think while I sing and to the brain structure

Don't sleep on the E, ya see, something might rupture

I don't take time for me to blow your mind

It takes a second to wreck it because you're dumb and blind

So just lounge 'cause you're a MC clown

Or join the circus, EPMD's in town

Total chaos, no mass confusion

Rhymes so hypnotizing, known to cause an illusion

Like a magician, he draws a rabbit out a hat, son

I'm drawin' more like a .44 Magnum

MC, please stop, look and listen and try to imagine

It's travellin' the speed of light but everything's in motion

It's frightening, plus the thought of you alone

You now enter the dimension called the twilight zone

You're terrified plus you can't bear the thought

You and I, one on one, in the land of the lost

You start to shiver, then you scream, my friend

You wake up Muttley because you're dreamin' again

But next time I'm on the scene, do not try to diss us

Keep your mouth suckered up because I'm strictly business

Don't get too close

Because you might get shot

(Strictly business)

Don't get too close

Because you might get shot

This is the rap season where the E starts pleasin'

Girls around the world, no need to be skeezin'

When I roll, I stroll, cool, always pack a 2

Just in case a brother acts a fool

I've got the energy to put the girls in a frenzy

Put a shock when I rock even though I'm not stingy

Make sure I don't bore when I'm on the dance floor

Get busy, boy, like you never saw before

Wine flow, good to go

After the show, I'll pull your hoe, boy

Do you sniff blow? Hell, no

Have my whole life ahead of me, no time to be sniffin'

And if my parents find out, then they start riffin'

So I stay, A-okay 'cause I'm the E, the R I C K

MCs look me in my face, then their eyes get weak

Pulse rate descends, heart rate increases

It's like, beam me up, Scotty! I control your body

I'm as deadly as AIDS when it's time to rock a party

In all due respect, when I say mike check

I let a sucker slide once, then I break his neck

So when I say jump, you reply, "How high?"

Because I'm takin' no prisoners, so don't play hero and die

You're just a soldier and I'm a Green Beret

I do not think twice about the MCs I slay

So if you want to battle, I highly recommend this

Bring your dog, mom and dad because I'm strictly business

Don't get too close

Because you might get shot

(Strictly business)

Don't get too close

Because you might get shot

Yo, yo, you're still pickin' on that four-leaf clover?

Bring in the Sandman, sucker, because it's over

My name is Eric Sermon and I'm back again

I see the head's still turnin' of my so-called friends

They smile in my face, behind my back, they talk trash

Mad and stuff because they don't have cash

Like the E-Double or the PMD

He drives a Corvette, I drive a Samurai Suzuki

I'm the locksmith with the key to fame

Never high on myself, always stay the same

Play a lot because I'm hot, like a horse, I trot

Around the track and back, fatigued? No, I'm not

I'm the mellow, the fellow, the one that likes to say hello

To a fly girl that is good to go

With the slow tempo and the off-beat rhyme flow

'Cause when I am in action, there is no time for maxin' or relaxin'

Just reactin' and subtractin'

On a sucker MC who's mouth keeps on yappin' and flappin'

I lose my cool, then I'll start slappin' and smackin'

You on a roll, then Albee starts jabbin' and cappin'

No time to lounge, I'm packin' and strappin'

At my point attack, I soar at you like an eagle

I'm the sheriff and bitin' is illegal

So next time in town, I highly recommend this

You gots to chill because I'm strictly business

Hey yo, E-Double man, let 'em know what time it is

Yo, I'm strictly business

You know what I'm sayin', PMD?

Yo word, EPMD is in full effect

Don't get too close

Because you might get shot

Lounge, be the E-Double, E-Double, E

In the place to be and with PMD

Know what I mean? My homeboy, Bernard on the scene

Know what I'm sayin', Mixmaster Chuck Chase?

Don't get too close

Because you might get shot

In the place

Yo, I'd like to say peace to my homey

Big Daddy Kane and Biz Markie