Don't Get It Twisted

High velocity, past mediocrity

Transcend hypocrisy, Egyptian mystery systems, the glow of Socrates

You can steal my Book of the Dead and my philosophies

You can steal the book of true ways and try an' copy me

Pray in your pantheon, I'm in my pyramid

How did I do it kid?

Hey there Napolean, little Bonaparte

You got a short man complex and no heart

Shout at my Sphinx around 21 times

Cause he didn't like the fact he had a face like mine

But hey~! Mr. Slave Trader, pick this up in your boats

Many of us died, some survived because "Hope Floats"

[Chorus:]

Don't get it twisted, just because I'm doin it different

Don't mean that you can't get lifted

Oh no~! Had a shot but you missed it

You ain't know, the bro's so gifted

[Nyoil:]

When we was segregated, we got situated

We build wealth, all the sudden let's get integrated

Rosa Parks wasn't tryin to play the back seat

Civil rights, water hoses blows us off of our feet

Assassinated Martin, they murdered Malcolm X

Black leaders lose they backbone, they scared they next

Killed off the Panthers and they left a huge void

Filled it up with coke and crack and left your son employed

Now we're, Blood'n and Crip'n, set trippin

But if you listenin to Bronx, they discovered a different mission

Zulu beads, MC's and DJ's

B-Boys, murals painted on three trains

[Chorus x2]

[Nyoil:]

Grandmaster Caz, Grandmaster Flash, Busy Bee

Fearless Four, Treacherous Three, Force M.D.'s

Rock my Adidas like Run-D.M.C.

And the corporations realized they can market to we

Now we up to X-Clan, KRS and BDP

Criminal Minded, I'm reminded of P.E.

Those +Intelligent Hoodlums+, they tryin to see college

Them MC's had 'em motivated, kickin that knowledge

Just when it seemed like we was doin a-aight

Now we N.W.A., we Niggaz4Life

Thug lives is lost, Bad Boys is punished

Everybody wanna be 'Pac but they not 100

Rats and snitches, self-haters and hood-traitors

Keep fillin up prisons, free labor they makin paper

Maybe you get it later - later it's TOO LATE~!

Let's dedicate this to a people that was once great

[Chorus x2]

[Nyoil:]

I'm so gifted, I'm so gifted!

You ain't know? The bro's so gifted

You ain't know?... Nyoil, yeah