Common

Maintaining

Common


Intro: 
Gotta watch out for them critters 
I get the party live, Common Sense will get the party live huh
(x4) 
Verse 1: 
I was born in Chicago raised on Planet Rock talking zsa zsa zsa
zsa, 
Catch knock my tape like beats (uh), I'm fresh as fruits, 
You pussy MC, it's you I rebuke, repent 
You burn up you got me bit, I'm coming as ebit 
Got on big hoes at Freaknit, frequently your telling me 
Won and worn your rockets, so, he ain't put no scratch in my
pocket 
Yo heard, with my head I cock it, and rock it like that brother
in 
Colors 
Cause I want y'all to live, my crew is 2 Live, we sneakin' to
the rear 
But I can't get us all in free (what?) it's just another case of
that 
2 
dollar MC 
I rock the same clothes 3 days straight to you they wrinkled but
to my 
they 
straight 
Now I'm straight are you straight? I'm straight as long as I got
beer 
I thought about it jack, and now I'm out of here 
Hook: 
"Maintain the rock" 
I get the party live, Common Sense will get the party live, huh
"Don't 
stop 
the rock" (X4) 
Verse 2: 
I need me some new socks, I need me some new drawers 
I draws attention, like a letter to a sargent 
Theres A Few Good MC's the wack I'm giving code red 
Slim say I got nobody but when they see me at the party they be
like 
"Go head, go head", cause I gots the cuts like Bobby,
rappers are 
dickheads 
Choppin' they demo, I do it like Big Red 
My office hours are from 9 to 5, while you avoid the party I
make it 
live 
The fellas nod and the chicks dance 
While I'm coolin' in my jumpers and my big pants 
I'm as dope as PCP, MC's see me and start having flashbacks 
I don't flash scratch, I gotta watch my back 
Now a days blacks don't know how to act, besides Larry Fishburn 
Charles Jug and Wesly Snipes, marks wanna test me because I test
the 
mics 
I check 'em like sound, and like loose I'm down 
Plus I done got better since Soul By the Pound, I maintain 
Hook (X4) 
Verse 3: 
I fall fresh apon the spirit, with the lyric that's overwhelming

And house more hoes then Spellman, worse unwelcome like James
Johnston 
My brains sponcering speech on the mic, I'm like a Jackson 
Rappers I'm fondaling, they try to settle out of court 
But I, could never be bought, what type of rebel eats pork? 
I'll take the cat and never get caught, you wack together we
fought 
Cause I can't see my melons boxing if he's not boxin' with 'em 
I don't care who started it, I'm gonna be apart of it 
Regardless of the odds of how hard 
It's been many times we was outnumbered and we still got with
them 
I got rhythm from some boogers and some foxes 
But if I becomes a 10 then some brothers all some gin 
And I got juice, and this niggas scared 
I'll F your head up, like the L.A. 4, when I flow for cash I got
for 
broke 
like Mel for Moore 
Why should a male with a B8 get more then me? 
When Rashid got an MC degree, and a doctorine in rockin' shit I
go to 
docs 
to get 
A fishwish with cheese, I don't mix with MCs, cause I just don't
like 
the 
mother____ 
But I'm still maintaining 
Hook