Been This Way

Every MC, in this industry, wants one thing

To be the best, in the top of their game

You want it? Come and get me!

[CHORUS]

Do what you gotta do - come and get me

I came from the struggle; I'm bringing my pain with me

Nothing you can say will ever lead me astray (yo)

I been this way since back in the day YUP

Do what you gotta do - come and get me

I came from the struggle; I'm bringing my pain with me

Nothing you can say will ever lead me astray (yo)

I been this way since back in the day

Yo Shan, lets take 'em

You couldn't rock a joint with a mic and a pound of weed

You couldn't get a point across with a pen and a key a pee

You couldn't get high as me with two tabs of LSD

Cool as a cucumber with two sticks of celery

Spit like watermelon pips from your jojoba lips

Hands mo callus can see excel from the mics I read

My rhyme patterns supreme mm the baddest

Fresh - woo - my flows the fattest

Yeah and I gotta do this for those that never had it

But climbed the ladder only to watch all their dreams shatter

They doubled my pain; I tripled my skills in hip-hop

Quadrupled my strength, quintupled my props - yo

I got it locked yo and I'm ready to drop yo

And you can hit me with everything that you got yo

But I will not fall or trip over obstacles

Its logical I'm gonna run hip hop into the cortical

[CHORUS]

Do what you gotta do - come and get me

I came from the struggle; I'm bringing my pain with me

Nothing you can say will ever lead me astray (yo)

I been this way since back in the day YUP

Do what you gotta do - come and get me

I came from the struggle; I'm bringing my pain with me

Nothing you can say will ever lead me astray (yo)

I been this way since back in the day

First two I stepped up and I made moves

I stay true and like flows I paid dues

And came thru sliced inviters like blade two

Cos they knew I came to take our fake crews

And take YOU

If this is what it comes down to

Trying to break thru and go triple platinum like Che Fu (true)

Still I'm tighter then the El Kita with corn bread

Lines heavy like if you wake the whole with Dawn Raid

F*ck them and let them see I'm all yeah

I went to the true school like DJ Sir Vere

So who the, who the f*ck said that Scribe was in deep

Yo I'm deep like Mareko's voice tone when he speaks

And I'm ill like Uneepa with skills to pay the bills this year

And MCs is getting cut like One Tree Hill, for real

I'm still the baddest MC to grab a pad and a pen

Go tell ya friend Scribe is at it again. Yeah

[CHORUS]

Do what you gotta do - come and get me

I came from the struggle; I'm bringing my pain with me

Nothing you can say will ever lead me astray (yo)

I been this way since back in the day YUP

Do what you gotta do - come and get me

I came from the struggle; I'm bringing my pain with me

Nothing you can say will ever lead me astray (yo)

I been this way since ...

I complete the - be like the snarer come crisp and clear

I'm here to test MCs like it's their 5th form year

We 'bout to find out who is and who isn't prepared

About to make your arse disappear into thin air

Ask DJ Shan; yo I've been up in here

You'd better get it crystal clear your skill just doesn't compare

They're asking who's the best in the underground

No question the best is on the f*cken mic right now!

[CHORUS]

Do what you gotta do - come and get me

I came from the struggle; I'm bringing my pain with me

Nothing you can say will ever lead me astray (yo)

I been this way since back in the day YUP

Do what you gotta do - come and get me

I came from the struggle; I'm bringing my pain with me

Nothing you can say will ever lead me astray (yo)

I been this way since back in the day

Yeah now come and get me, I'm waiting

I'll still be here ... when you're ready