Common

Making A Name For Ourselves

Common


Canibus: 
Yeah yeah 
Me and my man Com Sense 
Rallyin troops like Joseph Stalin 
Where you at yo? 

Common: 
I'm bout to make the name Com Sense a name you fear 
Y'all niggaz is scared I'm your worst nightmare squared 

Canibus: 
And I'ma make the name Canibus a name you fear 
Y'all niggaz is scared I'm your worst nightmare squared 

Canibus and Common: 
That's double for niggaz who ain't mathematically aware 
(Rakim from "My Melody"(To catch another sucka duck MC out there) 

Common: 
I can tell by how you write, you the type to run in a fight 
I hold mics while you hold Sprite 
Like a broken hearted bitch 
Don't give no fuck who yo team or who you startin with 
Cameoed or charted with, I house niggaz like apartments with 
Mic mechanisms, I dissect a rhythm 
Move crowds with kinetic wisdom 
It's like a Malcolm X-orcisim, fuck the rhythm, I hit him 
I want him got not get him, auction his wack ass off, then bid him 

Canibus: 
I'm creatin the ultimate verses with perfect lines 
Puttin together them whether my rhyme one threat at a time 
So you niggaz need to stop testin me 
Cuz you know you can't "F" with me 
Steppin to me with insuperior weaponry 
Exposin yourself to the verbal radiations 
Sayin you can defeat me is nothin but speculation 
Lyrics unravel, faster than bullets travel through barrels 
Niggaz be diggin my styles like fossils and pterodactyls 
Who wanna battle? 
I'm bad to the bone marrow 
The Earth got one sun but I walk with three shadows 
With Allah, my supernatural bodyguard 
Niggaz couldn't touch me if they gave me a massage 
MCs will compete with lyrics and beats get crushed 
I'll hit you in your chest so hard, your shoulders will touch 
What! 

(scratching) 
Common, steppin to me is like going to the county being a neutron 
Common, I ain't scared of no nigga 

Common: 
I persue sound fairs, relaxed like Dru Down's hair 
Other nigga's rhymes are like gang signs, I throw down theirs 
On knots, I landed, players get played like Hamlet 
Supposedly nice, taken for granted like life 
I write twice and drop singles in record pools 
Niggaz I'm dunkin like when cops mingle 
Fuck hip hop jingles, rhymin big words and not sayin shit 
The click that you came in with accent your flavor wit 
Like moose, I go to the caves and get niggaz off all fours 
I'm the shit that's uncalled for, the shit that you fall for 
Far more advanced than a rapper who's career 
You could only take a glance, couldn't make the transition 
>From B-boy to C-note stance 
I stand in a circumference, the humbleness 
But in the Chi, bumbleless 
Was thinkin as a weakness were poetrys in motion 
Like a bitch, I'm the main feature 
Amongst hard working teachers and corrupt preachers 
I make my living off of singles like Latifah 
In between sheets like reefer with blunted senses 
You couldn't make a statement if you was from a sentence 
I'm cold with numb intentions 

(scratching)Fuck with Canibus(x4) 

Canibus: 
Yo, the Canibus is an animal with a mechanical mandible 
Comin to damage you, spittin understandable slang at you 
I be the all seeing lyrical, hammerhead sharp peripheral 
With 360 degree visual 
When the signal was given, MCs get biten with venom 
>From a poisonous algorithm liable to kill 'em 
My style will get in 'em, way up in 'em 
My face don't belong in The Source 
It belongs on the shroud of turan, for certain 
I grab mics and murder shit 
It's wickeder than Satan worshippers going to Catholic church services 
You heard of this 
The lyrical verbalist, trash herbalist 
The wrath of my cold-blooded verses is merciless 
Rap snap, get your ass cracked like bear traps 
Contaminate your air sacs like tear gas 
And I swear black, try to battle me, you won't last 
I'll turn your ass into the artist formerly known as, you gay ass fag 
I'll blow you to ashes with tactics 
Strip you naked, then make you hug a cactus, you bastard 
So phat to be a rap star, takin pictures at music seminars 
People know who you are 
Now I got mad shorties that wanna call me 
Because they saw me, up in The Source chillin on page 40 
Put this in your CD-ROM 
www dot Canibus dot com 
You can find me on the internet talkin to chicks 
That was sweatin me off the Music Makes Me High remix 
I be talkin mad trash tryin to get 'em to laugh 
See, if I click and drag long enough, I'll get the ass 
Bring it bag to the lab on Mount Prospect Ave. 
Let your chicken suck me off and send her home in a cab 
You know how we do, liquid aluminum like the T2 
Beast from the East part 2, comin to see you 

Common: 
It's time I made the name Com Sense a name y'all fear 
Y'all niggaz is scared, I'm your worst nightmare squared 

Canibus: 
Now that I made the name Canibus a name you fear 
You still scared, I'm your worst nightmare squared 

Common and Canibus: 
That's double for niggaz who ain't mathematically aware 
(To catch another sucka duck MC out there) 

Common: 
Since I made the name Com Sense a name y'all fear 
Y'all niggaz is scared, I'm your worst nightmare squared 

Canibus: 
And since I made the name Canibus a name you fear 
You stay scared, I'm still your worst nightmare squared 

Common and Canibus: 
That's double for niggaz who ain't mathematically aware 
(To catch another sucka duck MC out there)