Freestyle 99

[Intro]

Brooknam, Bedsty, Crown Heights, mad hood

What it is y'all, bust it yap

[Verse 1]

As is requested on the record my speech is live, devised or nothin'

Fortified the weapon, the best was selected

You ain't the mos def you the mos defective

Bounce and keep steppin'

My inkwell is a riverbed that resurrect the living dead

I manifest what's considered but what isn't said

Stay on the dot like a infrared

It's off the block with whole different thread

The durable, flame-resistant, breathable, fantastic fabric

You all get into your formal wear, weave classics

My speech fits so seamless ya need glasses

to recognize the stitch on your nerve fiber

The Black Star gon' make the whole world turn brighter

You shine bright but my constellation burn brighter

They ain't invited to the table, make it turn cipher

They chattin' big words but backs is yellow like Big Bird

When I flow you ain't seein' no dough like interns

I'm professor, you a freshman just scared of your midterms

The title on my bookbinding is "Advanced Mic Science"

A champion can only rest at the place where the title is

Brooklyn

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[Notorious B.I.G.] "And I'm Crooklyn's finest, Crooklyn's finest"

[Verse 2]

Believe that

Brooklyn my habitat

The place where it happen at

Lives sway in the sharp balance of the battle-ax

Irons is brandished at

Thugs draw their hammer back

It's where you find the News 2 crew cameras at

It's where my fam is at, the Summertime Jam is at

They play B.I.G. and get you open like a sandleback

Hotter than candle wax

Hustle and you can't relax

The crack babies tryin' to find where their mammas at

It's off the handle, black

Where big police scandals at

Turned in to action screenplay sold to Miramax

The type of place where they check your appearance at

And cats who know where all the hot low gear is at

The stompin' grounds is where you find the pound smokers that

be blazin' tron that have your wave cap floatin' back

The doorstep where the "Dispossessed" posted at

Dope fiends out on Franklin Ave. sellin' Zorarax

You big ballin' better keep your money folded back

Cuz once the young guns notice that, it's over black

Brooklyn keep on takin' it, worldwide we known for that

Flossy cats get it snatched like the local tax

The place I sharpen up my baritone vocals at

Where one of the greatest MCs was a local cat

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[Verse 3]

uh huh yeah

I keep it rockin'

Classic like Adidas Top 10s

I'm free from all feelings and toxins

Mysterious like chessboxin'

Roll with the force to stop gents

from mixin' up their wicked concoctions

Kweli, that's my (???) and thought is our department

If you can't clean up, don't start then

My print on the parchment translate finer and larger

to leave the competition disheartened

The stars shine black like carbon

Writin' in my book of rhymes, all my words pass the margin

To hold a mic I'm throbbin'

I carry off the page

Go on and on for days

So my phrase autographed on the breeze you breathe

Inhale the crisp air of the brand new seas

Where we run things but things don't run we

What you hear from me constructed carefully

Walk until my brothers on the run so fearfully

Passionate to the point of tearful

They be like "Mos I FEEL YOU"

Holdin' it down and still DO

FO' REAL DUDE, I'm real true

Radiate whatever I'm far from or near to

Stay electric like eels who preside in the ocean tide

Better tell the clothesline time to open wide, and RECIEVE this

No trick, son we sleeveless

So nice you can either recite or read this

My semantic's deep like Atlantis secrets

Who you got beef with? Then STATE your grievance

MAKE IT KNOWN before my defense make a zone

Make peace 'fore you find it too hard to make it home

Vocal cords so powerful they might break a bone

We rollin' with the natives, regulate the Terrordome

Bout to enter to the ages where my crew take the throne

My DNA is out of print, you can't make a clone

So rockin' it, keep rockin' it

A hundred percent "B-Boy Document"

Magnetic marvelous, astonishin' accomplishments like consciousness

Whether solo or partnership I dominate the conferences

Can't say that twice, but you ain't that nice

But Mos Def is, ain't that right?