Crossover (Explicit)-EPMD

[ti:Crossover (explicit Album Version)] [ar:EPMD] [al:Best Of] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Crossover (Explicit) - EPMD [00:17.56]Erick Sermon's in the house [00:18.91] [00:19.52]Let's get up let's get down [00:21.10]Roll wit the hardcore funk the hardcore sound [00:23.43]Let's get wit this mackadocious funk material [00:26.13]So simple when I rock wit the instrumental [00:29.09]Who am I (E-D the Green Eyed Bandit) [00:31.25]Control my career so I can never get stranded [00:33.49]But the rest are gettin Brand Nubian [00:35.73]Changed up they style from jeans to suits and [00:38.09]Thinkin about a pop record somethin made for the station [00:41.26]For a whole new relation- [00:43.05]Ship of a new type of scene [00:45.29]To go platinum and clock mad green [00:47.63]AKA a sellout the rap definition [00:50.22]Get off that boy change your mission [00:52.40]Come back around the block [00:53.96]Pump Color Me Badd to the ah tick tock [00:57.18]Let them know your logo not a black thing [00:59.71]My background sing my background sing for the crossover [01:02.48] [01:11.03]The Crossover [01:11.51] [01:20.48]The rap era's outta control brother's sellin their soul [01:22.85]To go gold going going gone another rapper sold [01:25.70](To who) To pop and RandB not the MD [01:27.99]I'm strictly hip-hop I'll stick to Kid Capri [01:30.48]Funk mode yea kid that's how the Squad rolls [01:32.85]I know your head is bobbin 'cause the neck knows [01:35.24](Not like other rappers) frontin on they fans the ill [01:37.02]Trying to chill saying "damn it be great to sell a mill" [01:39.36]Thats when the mind switch to the pop tip [01:41.62](Kid you're gonna be large) [01:43.10]Yea right that's what the company kicks [01:44.78]Forget the black crowds you're wack now [01:46.52]In a zoot suit frontin black lookin mad foul [01:49.05]I speak for the hardcore (ruff rugged and raw) [01:51.92]I'm outta here catch me chillin on my next tour [01:54.17]From the US to the white cliffs of Dover [01:56.51]Strictly underground funk keep the crossover [01:58.75] [02:07.76]The Crossover [02:08.31] [02:17.65]So what cha sayin You wanna go pop goes the weasel [02:19.69]You know you should be rocking the fans wit something diezel [02:22.45]But you insist to piss me off black [02:24.39]So I flex the biceps so I can push em back [02:27.00]So real hardcore hip-hop continue wreck it [02:29.31]And all sucker MC's duck down and get the message [02:31.93]So ban the crossover yo who's wit me [02:33.80](Hit Squad) yea P hit me [02:36.52]Another megablast funky d**e style from cross yonder [02:38.92](So help me Rhonda help help me Rhonda) [02:41.15](Yo from what) the crossover yea crossing you over [02:43.70]Outta here gone peace nice to know ya [02:46.05]What a way to go out no clout is what the fans will shout [02:48.63]'Cause you got gassed and took the wrong route [02:50.77]Came on the scene chillin freakin a funky d**e line [02:53.28]But when they finish wit you (beep) flatline [02:55.70]Some say there's no business like show business [02:57.37] [02:57.88]But if this the truth please explain why is this [03:00.29]Rappers been around long makin mad noise you see [03:02.44]Still I haven't seen one rapper livin comfortably [03:04.25] [03:04.97]No time to pick and wish on a four leaf clover [03:07.38]I stick to underground keep the crossover [03:09.75] [03:18.86]The Crossover