Living In The World Today-Genius/GZA

[ti:Living In The World Today] [ar:Genius/GZA] [al:Liquid Swords] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.01]Living In The World Today - Genius/GZA [00:00.02]Written by：GZA/Genius/Robert F. "Prince Rakeem" Diggs/GZA/Genius [00:00.04] [00:00.60]Yo check it out son [00:03.15]Yo live in the place to be [00:06.36]You got the capital G [00:07.45] [00:07.99]G to the A M C [00:09.29] [00:10.07]Givin' a mad shout out to the Ranch Crew from the old school [00:13.47]And we gonna take y'all back knowhat I'msayin [00:15.35]Lyrical sorcerers right here the fathers the cream of the crop son [00:18.81] [00:20.76]Well if you livin' in the world today [00:23.01]You be hearin' the slang that the Wu Tang say [00:25.67]Niggaz that front we don't handle 'em [00:27.64]So we blast 'em alright well okay [00:30.42]Well if you like the way it sound then clap man [00:33.08]And if the women love it too well then raise your hands [00:35.54]But only raise your hands [00:36.62]If you're sure [00:37.93]Punk niggaz shatter [00:38.58]Like a glass jaw break it [00:40.62]My rhyme gross weight vehicle combination [00:42.36] [00:42.98]Was too heavy for the [00:44.47]Chevy's is chased out the station [00:45.95]Double edged was the guillotine that beheaded it [00:48.08]Gassed up fkin' with some regular unleaded sh*t [00:50.97]Heads roll on hillsides behind ropes that [00:53.30]Bind in X marks the spot on the scope [00:55.90]Heavily armed military is necessary [00:58.43]It's a gamble [00:59.16]MC's bet they best at every [01:00.94]Powerful parable ditties might harm [01:03.20]If tampered with [01:04.55]Set off and strike like pipe bombs [01:05.77]Flashbacks to the Duel of the Iron Mic [01:08.46]Look out for these fatal flying spikes [01:10.56]Of massive [01:10.87]Sleep holds [01:12.04]Put strangle on commercial angle [01:13.59]Microphone cords tangled from being Star Spangled [01:16.12] [01:16.96]Now who could ever say they heard of this [01:18.79]My motherfkin' style is mad murderous [01:21.05]Well if you like the way [01:21.85]It sound then clap man [01:23.66]And if the women love it too [01:25.89] [01:26.57]But only raise your hands if you're sure [01:28.27]Punk niggaz shatter like a glass jaw [01:30.35]Break it [01:30.97]Well if you livin' in the world today [01:33.67]You be hearin' the slang that the Wu Tang say [01:36.42]Niggaz that front we don't handle 'em [01:38.27] [01:39.05]So we blast 'em alright well okay [01:40.95]Well what you know about MCin' [01:42.81]Yo I know a lot [01:43.99]Well can you demonstrate somethin' ni**a [01:45.22]Huh I'd rather not [01:46.36]I'm talkin' 'bout stacks cousin [01:47.88]Ni**a that's what I got [01:48.81]Cash Rules the world [01:50.07]Well Cash Rules the spot [01:51.14]My preliminary attack keep [01:52.85]Cemeteries packed [01:53.71]Of niggaz who think it ain't like that [01:56.00]MC's are gunned down [01:57.19]Like being run down with mad trucks [01:58.90]Them God struck religious niggaz call it bad luck [02:01.28]Rap celeb you got caught up in the web [02:03.93]Now bees are stingin' [02:04.91]Yo that niggaz 'em singin' [02:06.37]I'm just swingin' swords [02:07.47]Strictly based on keyboards [02:08.83]Unbalanced like elephants and ants on see saws [02:11.78]I throw raps that attack like the Japs on Pearl Harbor [02:14.73]MC's be out like bank robbers [02:16.77]Fleeing the scene to be a sole survivor [02:19.37]DJ the getaway driver [02:20.67]Tried to dip but he dive I socialize on vocal vibes [02:24.41]On tracks stabbed up with razor sharp knives [02:26.66]Criminal subliminal minded rappers find it [02:29.27]Hard to define it when narrow is the gate [02:31.74]For fat tapes and then played out and out of date [02:34.27]Then I construct my thoughts on site to renovate [02:36.42]And from that point the God made a statement [02:39.00]Draftin' tracements [02:39.67] [02:40.48]Replacements in basements [02:41.99]Materials in sheet rock [02:43.12]To sound proof the beat box [02:44.81]And microscopic optics received [02:46.30]Through the boxes [02:47.19]Obnoxious topic major labels flavor tropical [02:50.27]Punchlines that's unstoppable [02:52.13]Ring like shots from glocks that attract cops [02:54.45]Around the clubs and try to shut down the hip hop [02:57.09]But we only increase if everything is peace [02:59.22]Father U C King the police [03:01.51] [03:02.44]Well if you livin' in the world today [03:04.68]You be hearin' the slang that the Wu Tang say [03:07.08]Niggaz that front we don't handle 'em [03:09.63]So we blast 'em alright well okay [03:12.35]Well if you like the way it sound then [03:14.29]Clap man [03:15.25]And if the women love it too [03:16.97] [03:17.67]Well then raise your hands if you're sure [03:19.70]Punk niggaz shatter like a glass jaw break it [03:22.73]If you livin' in the world today [03:24.87]You be hearin' the slang that the Wu Tang say [03:27.59]Niggaz that front we don't handle 'em [03:29.70]So we blast 'em alright well okay [03:32.18] [03:47.21]The Wu Tang say [03:48.68] [03:49.25]We don't handle 'em alright well okay [03:52.58] [03:54.74]The world today the Wu Tang say [03:58.10]Niggaz that front we don't handle 'em [04:00.28]So we blast 'em alright well okay