You Know the Game - Kool Keith, Kutmasta Kurt

Yo Keith, let me tell you sumthin' son

Rap is big business

They been signin' whack M.C.'s

Since the beginnin' of time

It’s been goin' on and it continues goin' on

I’m Rhythm X, Kool Keith, Papa Large same time the Phantom

Four People in one, sometimes I can stand 'em

My lyrics spark the world on a station in your program

Girls get wild, this ain’t no slimy corny slow jam

I walk around sometimes in Santa Cruz

California and drop the funky news

The kids flowin' with speed like Jesse Owen

Mexican girls, I love 'em mixed with Samoan

I go cruz up the west goin' ta Oakland Town

Passin' Fremont, the caddy runnin' Oakland bound

I turn a right an' make a left on a nice block

No time for drugs, cocaine and a nice rock

I might lean to the side like I’m super fly

Smoke no skag, I’m bugged and a super guy

I might flip out, my attitude change

People in America, whoo they think I’m strange

I’m not no regular man or the average man

I might trip-out, sometimes I think I’m Batman

You know the game, this time they gotta play it

You know the game, this time they gotta play it

You know the game, this time they gotta play it

You know the game, this time they gotta play it

I read my comic books, I bring my cartoons to life

Gangsters and immortals, they can bleed with a knife

I straight bug 'em my way, they live their fantasy

I seen wilder stuff, what they tellin' me?

That’s just an act from them, they in a studio

Wildin' on wax and perpetratin' in they video

I hate to look at TV, I’m gettin' sleepy

They grabbin' Dr Dre’s sound, tryna get sneaky

I see my style so different, they can’t take it

2 million rappers and everybody wants to make it

4 thirds are whack and stop and clog the industry

You wanna sign him?

To me, I think he sound like pee

I was dissed and insulted at the Gavin

800 whack M.C.'s

(Huh, huh)

They kept me laughin'

Playin' and perpetratin', you thinkin' and debatin'

All this time, no one and still has awakened

You know the game, this time they gotta play it

You know the game, this time they gotta play it

You know the game, this time they gotta play it

You know the game, this time they gotta play it

You know the game, this time they gotta play it

You know the game, this time they gotta play it

Flight in, flight out, every single night out

Lookin' at people jumpin' you puppets with no clout

I got no deal in that part, no half a second movie

I stay down low, my music touch still groovy

I look at contracts what’s up with Warner Brothers?

My day on the sliver screens, with condoms and more rubbers

You bet your socks again, this Bronx kid rocks again

Smokin' that blunt, your black lungs need oxygen

Who you cool with, and stupid who you fool with?

Never mind my mental friend I went to school with

My style is pro, connectin' to a confessional

Breakin' it down like tiny parts in a mineral

I chill and watch MC’s, they don’t see me

2 hundred 80 million, a thousand try to be me

Yo company’s are dumb, bum’s signin' anythin'

In the long run, you’re stuck with a chicken wing

Wastin' your money these acts they can’t rhyme

You’re dealin' with cornflakes, a lemon head an lime

Everybody’s mean and walkin' up on the scene

They’re pure bacon, a brand new pack of sizzle lean

I hate to walk on over and pull and pick your file

Like a bandit i wear a mask and vic your style

You know the game, this time they gotta play it

You know the game, this time they gotta play it

You know the game, this time they gotta play it

You know the game, this time they gotta play it

You know the game, this time they gotta play it

You know the game, this time they gotta play it

You know the game, this time they gotta play it

You know the game, this time they gotta play it

Yeah, I hear what you sayin' man

You just gotta keep on doin' what you doin'

With all these people runnin' the game

You just gotta play the game

Goldy know about that

You should know that too

Think about the real player