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I Run This

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I Run This

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I[Slick Rick]

Is it a custom - to what? To provoke out a hostile apostle

and make him smack the coke out your nostril

BAP, the butter cat at gutter rappin and I'm all man

Whatever gotta happen gotta happen

Boy don't make me put my grown man shoe in you

And I'm sorry father, for any wrongdoing doin you

Cause dogs barkin and the girl sigh

Here to present myself as the sparkle of the world's eye

Picture I - where Spice Girls chick arrived

England, January 14th, six-five

While you scream out Brannyville

"You old ass rapper!" You got it, but can he still

sever, in other words, rap more clever

like no other younger rapper walkin could ever?

Apparently I done this, on this

Stunned his behind - out the way of who reign

I RUN THIS

"Hurry up, run" * cut and scratched*

"Run, run, run, r-run" * scratched from Run-D.M.C.*

"Hurry up, run" * cut and scratched*

[Rick] Out the way of who reign, I RUN THIS

"Run.. run, r-run" * scratched from Run-D.M.C.*

[Rick] Stop the world kid, bring it home Slick

"run, r-run" "run, r-run"

[Slick Rick]

Are, you, ready? "run"

The fact is, mack caught cable in an actress

and really is the black Clark Gable of the rap biz

Racists reactin, hastin for action

The motherfucker got exquisite taste for a black man

What you never know? All clothes come off a hoe

Ever see me with my jewels and toast from off of Mo'?

*psssh* Past where handsome measures

like the whole entire Rat Pack, AND some precious

And chartable, such a big spark I pull

Nuns even say, "That motherfucker's remarkable!"

And aliens who came to earth gathering

"Great gosh the man has soul, we must have him"

Like a catastrophe, there isn't none after me

Liz will throw away her walker and run after me

Snatch crowns -- done this, on this

Stunned his behind - out the way of who reign

I RUN THIS

"Hurry up, run" * cut and scratched*

"Run, run, run, r-run" * scratched from Run-D.M.C.*

"Hurry up, run" * cut and scratched*

[Rick] Out the way of who reign, I RUN THIS

"run, r-run" "as we go" "run, r-run"

"run, r-run" "as we go" "run, r-run"

"run, r-run" "as we go" "run, r-run"

"as we go a little somethin like this, HIT IT!"

[Slick Rick]

Up Hastings, crew downfaced and lose

Either one way or the other, foundation choose

Although the prune I kick, I didn't come to wound a sick child

Hit a lost world, actin like a lunatic *blblblblbl*

who provoke til a heard of smoke

forced good men to pull out and start to murder folk

Tired of the basement placed in

Take responsibility for your action as a race then

Instead of put cheer in our bone, paperhood promote

negativity, and fear in our own neighborhood

Since royalty breed to be (uh-huh)

And I puts small seed where small seed need to be

Like an angel tend to fly as, mention I as

I didn't make the laws, but they make sense to my ass

While waitin for the world end, won this

Stunned his behind - out the way of who reign

I RUN THIS

[Rick] See what I mean kid?

"Hurry up, run" * cut and scratched*

[Rick] That patch-eyed motherfucker RUN THIS

"Run, run, run, r-run" * scratched from Run-D.M.C.*

"Hurry up, run" * cut and scratched*

[Rick] I RUN THIS

"run, r-run" "run, r-run"

"run, r-run" "run, r-run"

"run, r-run" "run, r-run"

Are, you, ready?? "run"

[Rick] RUN THISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

"Hurry up, run" * cut and scratched*

"Run, run, run, r-run" * scratched from Run-D.M.C.*

"Hurry up, run" * cut and scratched*

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