The Breakthrough-LL Cool J

[ti:The Breakthrough] [ar:LL Cool J] [al:Bigger & Deffer] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Breakthrough - LL Cool J [00:11.57]Knuckleheads spreadin' gossip all over town [00:13.84]Every time I drive by you're just standin' around [00:16.51]Hundred-bottles in your pocket [00:18.00]Forty-dog in your hand [00:19.30]Don't you know you're just a worker [00:21.09]And your boss is my man [00:22.22]L L this L L that soon as I walk in the place [00:24.77]I wanna take my gun and shoot [00:26.25]You in your muthaf**kin' face [00:27.26] [00:27.78]You're playin' me too close with the schemin' and games [00:30.27]I guess the beef and the b******t is the price of fame [00:32.89] [00:33.47]Movies records goin' on tour [00:36.11]Twenty-thousand people hip-hoppin' on the floor [00:38.73]Whole parties body-rockin' and everything's chill [00:41.26]Get back to New York and the suckers act ill [00:44.08]See I fought with the devil made a promise to God [00:46.73]I have experience in goin' all the way to the top [00:49.51]It's harder harder than hard [00:50.94]All the suckers are barred [00:52.32]You used to try to talk down now your ego is scarred [00:54.96]See the problem is you want what another man has [00:58.01]His car his wife or his razzamatazz [01:00.59]But that's weak you gotta do work on your own [01:03.34]Cuz when you're rich you got friends [01:04.76]But when you're poor you're alone [01:06.09]So get your own on your own [01:07.56]It'll strengthen your soul [01:08.69]Stop livin' off your parents like you're three years old [01:11.54]Instead of walkin' like you're limp [01:13.12]And talkin' yang about me [01:14.28]Why don't you take your monkey-ass [01:15.54]And get a college degree [01:17.03]Or write a rhyme and ride a bike and try to live carefree [01:20.04]Hope my message reaches you [01:21.18]Before you're seventy-three [01:21.89] [01:22.63]A old man when people ask you [01:24.05]What you did with your life [01:25.42]You'll say "I hated L L and I carried a big knife" [01:28.31]Every day is a chase every day is a race [01:30.86]And every day you're being overpowered by my bass [01:33.71]Too much juice to be a deuce I had to be a ace [01:36.59]It's like the fire's in my eyes and the gun's in my face [01:39.16]I'm stompin' stupid knuckleheads until they bleed [01:41.99]I'm the leader of the show so it's up to me to lead [01:44.87]I'mma lead you away from drugs and petty crime [01:47.57]Lead you away from wack beats and rhyme [01:50.66]Lead you to that ticket line [01:52.96]So you can come in my show and watch the stars shine [01:55.58]Get busy not dizzy wanna teach the young [01:58.33]The last man who didn't listen ended up gettin' hung [02:01.28]Not that I killed him it's just [02:02.82]He didn't wanna trust [02:03.70]The words of a master that's why you must [02:06.73]Take heed to the speech it's gonna reach your ear [02:09.22]Don't try to say you can't hear cuz the words are clear [02:12.20]Throwin' flurries punks scurry and I bury the rest [02:14.97]You better hurry up and rock a rhyme [02:16.79]And give it your best [02:17.81]Cuz tonight's the night we gonna see the big fight [02:20.71]Twelve-gauge on the stage in case it don't go right [02:23.30]E-Love drives a tank he's strong like a truck [02:26.22]If you're cryin' while you're dyin' we ain't givin' a f**k [02:28.84]L L Cool J is on the microphone [02:31.23]Tellin' all you punk ducks "Leave me the hell alone" [02:34.44]Cuz I'm rated X born to snap necks [02:37.46]Straight up and down no special effects [02:39.73]I'm the professor the teacher the hip-hop dean [02:42.70]If Russia bombed the U S [02:43.87]They'd be scared to touch Queens [02:45.17]Cuz that's where I live and this is what I give [02:48.41]Turnin' top-notch crews into fugitives [02:50.36] [02:50.91]They run they frightened they hide from King Titan [02:53.65]Like a sniper when he's shootin' [02:54.96]Or a viper when he's bitin' [02:56.79]Here I am tellin' the truth [02:59.13]And I'm spreadin' the word to my fellow youth [03:01.71]It goes man-to-man and jam-to-jam [03:03.93] [03:04.69]I got hip-hop rock and love song fans [03:07.40]All you petty MC's in the state of New York [03:10.08]Gettin' a thousand for a show [03:11.66]But you still wanna squawk [03:12.71]Can't get a decent contract your beats ain't workin' [03:15.77]Dogged-out Pumas plus you're manager's jerkin' [03:18.77]Your mic sounds weak remember that skeezer [03:21.23]I'm badder than Napoleon h****r or Caesar [03:24.06]I'm a hitman but I'm not for hire [03:26.99]Fly girl's desire the man you admire [03:29.81]Not only on the stage I rock in the park [03:32.20]And I'm a killer in the daytime and worse after dark [03:34.85]So don't never ever mess with the king of the sound [03:37.80]L L Cool J the baddest around