No Great Pretender

[Malik B]

Check it out, one two

M-illi-tant

I be the, alias Malik B

Internationale rationale

All the people up 68th Ave.

and across Broad Street

or Silk Lane in South Philly

And on, et cetera

Check it out, check it out

Chorus: The Roots

Here on this agenda, there is no pretenders

So when we begin to assassinate your cast members

Here on this agenda, there is no pretenders

So when we begin to assassinate your cast members

Verse One: Malik B

Dig it, cool calm collect in my perspective

Search the premises, I leave no clues for detectives

My verbal impact across your back slap

You talk about you see me, but your vision's full of cataract

It don't matter that, your glass house I shatter that

Bad luck I walk under now show me where the ladder at

Pull up the urinal organs up in your bladder cat

Approachin you with shriller rhetoric, as if you had a sac

Now crews down for it, your gas pedal floor it

with ammo and artillery and stash spots to keep and store it

I used the banner of a slant with a zort

Change your strategic plan, my man's getting bored

Your vocal chord is fraudulent, and not the true porcelain

I bring the fire, earth, and the source of wind

The force of sin will endorse the pen

We all search for sanity, but I think that it was lost again

Now which stick of artists, can be the smartest

My beam of sunlight shines the brightest in the forest

Regardless, artists dislike because I'm ?

Control the temper, makin MC's whimper

I tilt the Earth from off the axis in the center

Next I'm in the womb like a placenta

M-Illi-Tant the city ninja, uplift

cause I'm the soul avenger, remember I'm no great pretender

Chorus 2X

Verse Two: Black Thought

Strategis, I bet y'all niggaz can't believe this

I read you like a whole avenue that's filled with meters

parked, fuck your back talk, I watch how niggaz cat-walk

over my pit of venom and send em to the asphault

For inquisitives, who wanna try to test me

What protects me, will make you shake like epilipsy

Plague your neighborhood with lyrical le-prosy

Stimulate more than Ecstasy y'all niggaz check my recipe

Dig it, I must observe it, analyze when I'm chillin

Peep out who's the villain then make your whole pavillion

of a Sicilian, excuse the greed don't want a mill'

I want a zillion - stacks of Franklins to the ceiling

I counts stacks imported, fuck the yacht and the mansion

I want Pluto and Jupiter, political, universal expansion

Buy out Tommy and Halle Hanson

Kidnap America, ? you hold it for ransom

Pass it down to my grandson, I got no time to be romancin

Only time's for mental food and advancement

This game of Life is strictly chancein - get to know

the nature before I get know the nigga while I'm glancing

Enhancing, is my mental - I play in the midst

a squad a team most crews is not in the halfs of rentals

My utensils, display a whole variety

Even when in the cut niggaz can't cut they anxiety

Peep, I fill your brain with suspicion, pay attention

like you paid tuition, and stop all your bull-ishin

The rap chemist in the lab to the finish

The mic is my apprentice, cause I can't stand

courts or tennis, my pigmentation is the menace

That's why the system's always tryin to pursue with a blemish

Pale asses, think a nigga in this

My flow's tremendous, for the meal you can't replenish

The question you ask me, situation get worse

Fam I won't befriend ya, cause I'm no great pretender

Chorus 2X

[Malik B]

It's like that, one time for your mind

Fifth Dynasty, interwine and combine

M-Illi-Tant

The Bad Lieuten-ant

One hundred X, Bahamadia

Minds and souls, like that

Fifth Dynast', my man ?, P.R. Star

My man Slick Looka

Check it out, one time like that

Feel the Fifth

The One-Fifth attack

Your backbone and spine

Check it out

Brother Q.U.E.S.T.

South Philly, ?