Once Upon A Rhyme

Follow me, follow me

I'm goin.. on a little, excursion

Check it out

Won't you take me away, sweet music

Take me away..

Never lead me astray, I use it

to get through the day..

Like fiends use drugs and, cars use gas

I'm one with the beat but how long will it last

I, once had a vision that, every flower dies

so now I ride the rhythm without pride

I used to have a gray Sanyo, the kind with one speaker

No antenna I used tinfoil to help me pick the weaker powered

stations of my shit was set on cable, bumpin

Pause record to press just in case I caught somethin

I always did, just a kid and that's literal

Daddy used to tell me turn that shit off

if I didn't he would get a fool

I turned it down to dub it, listened to it later

He knew how much I loved it, but rather I'd be a skater

or a baseball player

- C'mon dad, let me just hear it

I said no!

- It's only five more minutes, please please

- Slick Rick's about to come on

Go to your room!

So now I'm sixteen, tryin to fuckin mix things

No money in my pockets just desires and some big dreams

My homey got an SP, I really wanna freak it but he won't let me

Let's see, what am I to do?

I waited for school to get out then I scrounged together big bank

Put mine with Jelani's went in halves and now the beats crank

if only for a second though for it was a Mirage

And that's a pun intended in the garage we pretended and meet

I recommend it, strugglin independence

An apprentice not a pro from the get go

Music so genuine, don't even have to speak on it

Got it in my veins but, I'ma let em bleed

Won't you take me away, sweet music

Take me away..

Never lead me astray, I use it

to get through the day..

Like fiends use drugs and, cars use gas

I'm one with the beat but how long can it last

said I, once had a vision that, every flower died

so now I ride the rhythm without pride

What the hell's a Journeyman? Hipped me to the game

Katie brought em by and life would never be the same

What you say is what they said, pushed my head towards a new realm

seldom ever seen, now we clean, call them crews ? and you out

what I do through a tape and tryin to captivate live

Met up with MPX, Sidol-P, and MOS and felt the vibe

We let it ride one, season to the next

And then we took it, worldwide, came back and couldn't rest

Was so impressed when I met Eligh,

and the man to make you really see why

you shouldn't speak up in a battle, that'll bring us next to

Mister Nomemono man, do you feel diversity

The Universe MC was next to perfectly X

Acute a freak of nature, and Bizarre's on the fader

We major, our music's major

Won't you take me away, sweet music

Take me away..

and never lead me astray, I use it

to get through the day..

Like fiends use drugs and, cars use gas

I'm one with the beat but how long can it last

said I once had a vision that, every flower died

so now I ride the rhythm without pride

I said I once had a vision that, every flower died

so now I ride the rhythm without pride