The microphone
I take (took, taken)
You shake (shook, shaken)
Wake (woke, woken) to the style I'm creating
Think (thought, thought)
Seek (sought, sought)
Listen to the lesson that I teach (taught, taught)
Don’t sleep (slept, slept)
I creep (crept, crept)
I sneak (snuck, snuck) up
You leap (leapt, leapt)
I keep (kept, kept) having fun
I'm never beat (beat, beaten)
I win (won, won)
Do (did, done)
Begin (began, begun)
Shoot (shot, shot)
No, I don’t own a gun
I lead (led, led) so
I can feed (fed, fed)
The knowledge you need
Straight to your head
When I bring it, I brought it
You catch it, you caught it
Sit back, relax
Don't fight (fought, fought) it
Please don't
Freeze (froze, frozen)
When I speak (spoke, spoken)
It’s real, you can feel
I don't steal (stole, stolen)
I choose (chose, chosen)
The very best rhymes
And write (wrote, written) them
Into my lines and into your mind
When we meet (met, met)
I’ll bet (bet, bet)
I won't let you forget
(Forgot, forgotten) I get (got, gotten)
Every head nodding
Don’t think about stopping
Just come (came, come)
This is hip hop
I don't sing (sang, sung)
I sting (stung, stung)
You cling (clung, clung)
On each and every word
You hang (hung, hung)
It's not enough to
Dream (dreamt, dreamt)
You've got to spend (spent, spent)
Time on your goals
Please lend (lent, lent) me your ear
Come near and I'll lay (laid, laid)
Down this new sound that I make (made, made)
I hope you don't say that you think it's junk
I hope you don't think that I stink (stank, stunk)
If you're thirsty for English
Come drink (drank, drunk)
Because I sink (sank, sunk)
All competition when they
Hear (heard, heard)
That I give (gave, given)
Encouragement when I spit (spat, spat)
Never quit (quit, quit)
Don't sit (sat, sat)
Yeah, I like it like that
I'll even kneel (knelt, knelt)
And beg you to express what you feel (felt, felt)
I rise (rose, risen)
When I drive (drove, driven)
Through the beat, tap your feet
As you ride (rode, ridden)
Those that hide (hid, hidden)
I find (found, found)
If you flee (fled, fled)
Then I'll track you down
Now you see (saw, seen)
That I mean (meant, meant)
Every word of the message
That I send (sent, sent)
I show (showed, shown)
I can fly (flew, flown)
Now you know (knew, known)
I shine (shone, shone)
I'll throw (threw, thrown) you the ball it's your turn
To grow (grew, grown) with the verbs that you've learned
Grammar through lyrics I draw (drew, drawn)
Peace to eels, now I go (went, gone)!
