The Reason - Saigon, Statik Selektah

I used to rhyme complex flows rapidly fire

Then they told me simplify it so the people would buy it

I thought about all the kids I admired

The Rakims, big daddy kanes, why they ain’t remain in the game

They shouldn’t have never changed

They should have kept it the same

They let the music industry play tricks on they brain, dang

If I remember correct

When Ra rock with jody watley he lost some respect

In the beginning its like they was telling us how to do shit

Then they start thinking about trying to sell a unit

Industry rule number four thousand and eighty

Record company people are lazy

They try to say the way the king gon last

Is if I come out with a ringtone smash

Tell’em kiss my ass

I got nothing but hit records in the stash

The game I don’t respect it, it’s trash give it a epitaph

(Saigon)

I’m every lyricist bitterness

I’m the shit he wanna say but won’t cuz

he don’t realize how real his own niggas is

Is they live or bitter men

Genuine or just frivolous

See numbers pass the book of Leviticus

And get this it’ll take you a thousand christmas'

Just to begin to dismiss the men

Crackers is crazy on top of that they hypocrites

I sell you my life in snippets

Don’t flip it or get it twisted

I married the chronic but my mistress is biscuits

You rappers cannot compute math like mine

Yo ass will sit and write rhymes for nine and a half lifetimes

I’m genetically better than you

Like ebony versus the man with leprosy

Get dressed for a date with your destiny

Ya’ll grab the mics then try and rip it

With the supply some scientific

Ya’ll should quit not because I insisted

Niggas tired of fiction

Nigga fuck how many cars you got tell us about your sister Mya’s addiction

We might listen