Stress Rap-Cannibal Ox

[ti:Stress Rap] [ar:Cannibal Ox] [al:The Cold Vein] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Stress Rap - Cannibal Ox [00:16.09]Yo the NY city got a ni**a feelin' shitty [00:19.24]Tryin' to make it through the struggle [00:22.30]Niggas bubble in the jungle selling crack by the bundles [00:26.12]Yo these raps might hunt you like a cat in the jungle [00:29.93]Spittin' lines off the humble [00:31.05]Make your whole team crumble what the f**k made you fumble [00:32.74]In these streets where they f**k you like the face of a demon [00:34.86]I repent every evening trapped in the starvin' never eatin' [00:36.54]Yo I stay bleedin' while you jakes stay tryin' to take freedom [00:39.55]I'm like just a brother tryin' break even [00:41.44]Movin' through these odd days watchin' every snake breathin' [00:44.11]Ready to deface the at night [00:46.28]I'm just tryin' to reshape the meaning of life [00:49.09]Flowing on mics blowing you types off of the earth [00:52.14]Livin' it worse ready to burst on the first [00:54.39]Thinking he got it yo the apple stays rotten [00:59.58]Stress rap this applies to where we rest at [01:04.08]NY City full with nothing but stressed cats [01:07.07]That wanna test that flame of yours but not ready [01:09.26]When we aim the war's absolute retaliation against all [01:11.52]For real [01:13.51] [01:20.57]Yo yo elohim with the rhyme scheme [01:24.20]And when the lyrics leave the mouth they look like light beams [01:27.26]With wings attached to mic I say fly rhymes [01:29.63]The beat be tryin' to sex me and marry me [01:34.74]They stand behind me and reflect reality [01:37.61]Stage one- master of ceremonies [01:39.18]And when the seven magnificent walked in [01:44.74]Raisin' hell to lower heaven [01:46.54]We explored all the crevices [01:47.91]Brothers is mad I wear knowledge like a third degree burn [01:51.35]Light the match put it to the rhyme book make sure it all fits in the urn [01:55.21]The cream of life beats and rhymes are butter [01:57.35]That in which I churn [01:58.99]Stupid you could say these masculine thoughts are homosexual [02:01.11]'Cause they blow heads like that dead clothes designer [02:04.54]All men were created equal emcees are uneven [02:07.04]Ask blind man Steven if he's even seen how the sunset looks [02:11.47]That's something you couldn't feel with a braille book [02:15.28]I'm hear to smack your ear drum long so hum along [02:17.52]Let's communicate with rhythm tell 'em to come along [02:20.27]You'll get smacked right in the kisser like Jackie Gleason [02:22.73]And watch sun/son set it off like light decreasing oh sh*t [02:25.73]Watch sun set it off like light decreasing [02:31.35]Everything going wrong in the ghetto [02:34.92]Cops Desert Storm on blocks lettin' off [02:36.86]And they gettin' off on the ease [02:38.57]On the corner Ds hop out of unmarked Vs and squeeze 'till we on our knees [02:43.06]Po' on ice put us in the freeze on the streets of [02:55.80]Bloody beasts hoodies and fiends [03:02.14] [03:05.01]I stay muddy in a sleeze [03:08.27]With ozs breathin' through the vein cold [03:09.58]Got my whole frame froze [03:10.76]Tryin' to escape hold [03:11.89]Twist off the L they got ice in my grill and i'm dirty [03:14.38]And all i need for them to unlawfully search me [03:16.13]Throw me in a cell seven thirty [03:17.75]With thoughts hurtin' searchin' for freedom [03:19.65]We tryin' to get it and we stay bleedin' [03:22.45]Hear that one time i'll scream pheonix [03:24.71]Yo it's the starvin' happy Harlem rap magician [03:27.85]Chained underwater in sixty seconds the body's missing [03:30.84]Snake in the grass at six feet you can hear him hissin' [03:33.71]I got a problem with your mouth so I don't listen [03:36.27]Stress rap you got one I got five [03:38.14]You do yours I do mine but I'm still alive [03:40.65]They used to call me crazy joe had a bazooka [03:43.96]Now they can call me batman beyond your maneuvers [03:46.83]Sh*t I'm Atoms Fam to the bone marrow [03:49.18]F**k a soul even God knows this body is hollow [03:52.29]You love New York but New York don't love you [03:54.79]You're just a toy with Lucille Ball's hairdo [03:57.68]On the mic it's all magic and I got short sleeves [04:00.53]And I'm just that nice I might let you breathe [04:03.65]Put a mic in front of me and I'm gonna bless it [04:07.85]Hummingbird style seventy times in one second [04:09.03]Hummingbird style seventy times in one second