Making a Name for Ourselves-Common

[ti:Making a Name for Ourselves] [ar:Common] [al:One Day It'll All Make Sense] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Making a Name for Ourselves - Common [00:02.68]Yeah [00:03.85]Yeah [00:04.31]Me and my man com sense [00:05.99] [00:06.55]Rallyin' troops like Joseph [00:08.01]Stalin stalin [00:08.43] [00:09.24]Where you at yo [00:10.50]I'm 'bout to make the name com sense a name you fear [00:13.10]Y'all niggaz is scared I'm your worst nightmare squared [00:15.87]And I'ma make the name Canibus a name you fear [00:18.57]Y'all niggaz is scared I'm your worst nightmare squared [00:21.29]That's double for niggaz who ain't mathematically aware [00:24.17]Yo [00:24.70]Yo [00:25.26] [00:26.14]I can tell by how you write [00:27.65]You the type to run [00:28.85]In a fight [00:29.37]I hold mics while you hold Sprite [00:31.54]Like a broken hearted b**ch [00:32.81]Don't give no f**k who yo team or who you startin' with [00:35.15]Cameoed or charted with I house niggaz like [00:37.40]Apartments with [00:38.76]Mic mechanisms I dissect a rhythm [00:40.89]Move crowds with kinetic wisdom [00:42.66]It's like a Malcolm X orcisim f**k [00:44.43]The rhythm I hit him [00:45.48]I want him got not get him auction [00:47.14]His wack ass off then bid him [00:48.26]I'm creatin' the ultimate verses with perfect lines [00:50.66]Puttin' together them whether my rhyme [00:52.40]One threat at a time [00:53.40]So you niggaz need to stop testin' me [00:55.44]'Cuz you know you can't F with me [00:56.92]Steppin' to me with insuperior weaponry [00:59.28]Exposin' yourself to the verbal radiations [01:01.62]Sayin' you can defeat me is nothin' but speculation [01:04.13]Lyrics unravel faster than bullets travel [01:06.43]Through barrels [01:07.01]Niggaz be diggin' my styles like fossils [01:08.87]And pterodactyls [01:09.84]Who wanna battle [01:10.75]I'm bad to the bone marrow [01:12.26]The Earth got one sun but I walk with three shadows [01:15.06]With Allah my supernatural bodyguard [01:17.54]Niggaz couldn't touch me if they gave me a massage [01:20.30]MCs will compete with lyrics and beats get crushed [01:23.01]I'll hit you in your chest so hard your [01:24.63]Shoulders will touch [01:25.73]What [01:26.39]What [01:26.86] [01:28.63]Steppin' to me is like going [01:29.67]To the County being a neutron [01:31.32]Common I ain't scared of no nigga [01:35.73]I persue sound fairs relaxed like Dru Down's hair [01:39.23]Other nigga's rhymes are like gang signs [01:41.11]I throw down theirs [01:42.09]On knots I landed players get played like Hamlet [01:45.11]Supposedly nice taken for granted like life [01:47.66]I write twice and drop singles in record pools [01:50.53]Niggaz I'm dinkin' like when cops mingle [01:52.27]F**k hip hop jingles rhymin' big words [01:54.45]And not sayin' sh*t [01:55.34]The click that you came in with accent your flavor with [01:58.01]Like moose I go to the caves and get niggaz off [02:00.18]All fours [02:00.65]I'm the sh*t that's uncalled for the sh*t [02:02.63]That you fall for [02:03.78]Far more advanced than a rapper who's career [02:06.07]You could only take a glance couldn't make [02:08.16]The transition [02:08.77]From B boy to C note stance [02:10.70]I stand in a circumference the humbleness [02:12.77]But in the Chi bumbleless [02:14.07]Was thinkin' as a weakness were poetrys in motion [02:16.91]Like a b**ch I'm the main feature [02:18.61]Amongst hard working teachers and corrupt preachers [02:21.30]I make my living off of singles like Latifah [02:23.60]In between sheets like reefer with blunted senses [02:26.32]You couldn't make a statement if you was [02:27.91]From a sentence [02:28.91]I'm cold with numb intentions [02:30.19] [02:30.93]F**k with Canibus [02:31.68] [02:33.31]F**k with Canibus [02:34.40] [02:36.28]F**k with Canibus [02:37.07] [02:39.05]F**k with Canibus [02:39.53]Yo the Canibus is an animal with a mechanical mandible [02:43.02]Comin' to damage you spittin' [02:44.38]Understandable slang at you [02:45.86]I be the all seeing lyrical [02:47.54]Hammerhead sharp peripheral [02:48.99]With 360 degree visual [02:51.61]When the signal was given MCs get biten with venom [02:54.28]From a poisonous algorithm liable to kill 'em [02:56.43]My style will get in 'em way up in 'em [02:58.74]My face don't belong in The Source [03:00.37]It belongs on the shroud of turan for certain [03:03.02]I grab mics and murder sh*t [03:04.42]It's wickeder than Satan worshippers going [03:06.00]To Catholic church services [03:07.51]You heard of this [03:08.33]The lyrical verbalist trash herbalist [03:10.51]The wrath of my cold blooded verses is merciless [03:13.01]Rap snap get your ass cracked like bear traps [03:15.51]Contaminate your air sacs like tear gas [03:17.82]And I swear black try to battle me you won't last [03:20.49]I'll turn your ass into [03:21.51]The artist formerly known as you gay ass fag [03:24.34]I'll blow you to ashes with tactics [03:26.13]Strip you naked then make you hug a cactus you bastard [03:29.01]So phat to be a rap star takin' pictures at [03:31.75]Music seminars [03:32.83]People know who you are [03:33.99]Now I got mad shorties that wanna call me [03:36.26]Because they saw me up in The Source chillin' on page 40 [03:39.92]Put this in your CD ROM [03:41.60]WWW dot canivas dot com [03:44.61]Common [03:44.94]You can find me on the internet talkin' to chicks [03:47.22]That was sweatin' me off the Music Makes Me High remix [03:50.24]I be talkin' mad trash tryin' to get 'em to laugh [03:53.04]See if I click and drag long enough I'll get the ass [03:55.74]Bring it bag to the lab on Mount Prospect Ave [03:58.16]Let your chicken suck me off [03:59.42]And send her home in a cab [04:00.77]You know how we do liquid aluminum like the T2 [04:03.80]A beast from the East part 2 comin' to see you [04:06.60]It's time I made the name [04:07.40]Com Sense a name y'all fear [04:08.99]Y'all niggaz is scared [04:09.91]I'm your worst nightmare squared [04:11.44]Now that I made the name Canibus a name you fear [04:14.09]You still scared I'm your worst nightmare squared [04:16.93]That's double for niggaz [04:17.83]Who ain't mathematically aware [04:19.96]To catch another sucka duck MC out there [04:22.23]Since I made the name Com Sense a name y'all fear [04:24.77]Y'all niggaz is scared I'm your worst nightmare squared [04:27.71]And since I made the name Canibus a name you fear [04:30.19]You stay scared I'm still your worst nightmare squared [04:33.00]That's double for niggaz who ain't mathematically aware [04:35.87]To catch another sucka duck MC out there [04:38.04] [04:38.90]Think out think think out think think out [04:41.19]Another sucka duck MC out there [04:43.42]Common common [04:43.88] [04:44.81]Think out [04:45.45]Another sucka duck MC out there out there out there