The Meaning (Explicit)-High & Mighty

[ti:The Meaning] [ar:The High And Mighty] [al:Home Field Advantage] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Meaning (Explicit) - High & Mighty [00:03.00]High & Mighty back in this [00:04.73]"You think you know what I'm meaning" (B Real) [00:07.31]I'm just a '86 witness [00:09.08]"You thi-think-think-think ya know" [00:11.54]Take it out you suckers [00:12.78]You don't know how I did it [00:14.16] [00:15.19]"You think you know what I'm meaning" [00:16.77]Yo yo [00:17.25]You're now a game and don't think you're gonna win it [00:19.57]"You-think-you think you know what I'm meaning" [00:22.32]Maybe if I popped Cristal [00:24.13]Said I had a Lexus [00:25.60]Or a triple beam I'd get a deal [00:27.42]I'd rather speak upon a Maurice Cheeks steal [00:30.01]It's the outta paper [00:31.15]Not the caps I peel [00:32.77]I used my independent [00:34.22]Money to pay the rent [00:35.47]Remain at hell bent [00:36.52]And far from heaven sent [00:37.98]Where they went [00:38.69]The days when mics got destroyed [00:40.86]B's just boy-ed [00:41.72]The soft punks got toyed [00:43.41]Unemployed [00:43.61]Was a happy-go-lucky MC [00:46.10]And now that's all they f**kin be bringing to me [00:48.46]Where they went [00:49.40]The summer concerts on concrete [00:50.98]Elite could put twelve G's in the seat [00:54.16]Now I release the masterpiece of my music [00:56.98]It's '99 [00:58.07]And no one could use it [00:59.52]They rather re-use it [01:00.69]The audience confuse it [01:02.14]Take Chuck D's Time Bomb [01:03.43]Try to defuse it [01:04.63]"I've seen your kind before [01:06.33]You're not original" (Lord Jamar) [01:07.85]"Ya-you're not ya-you're not orig-riginal" [01:10.27]"I've seen your kind before [01:11.88]You're not original" [01:13.02]"The-the-the meaning [01:13.71]Ya think you know what I'm meaning" (B Real) [01:16.05]"I've seen your kind before [01:17.47]You're not original" [01:18.38]"Ya-you're not ya-you're not original" [01:19.95] [01:21.90]"I've seen your kind before [01:22.77]You're not original" [01:23.40] [01:24.62]"Ya think you know what I'm meaning" [01:26.16]It seems that you gotta come cheap to compete [01:28.36]That's why when I chose to go deep you go sleep [01:31.00]On a verse [01:32.39]You not gonna get at first [01:33.69]Like O J would never ever get a Hertz hearse [01:36.66]When he die [01:37.48]Think about the lie over lie [01:39.16]Converse about the hertz of this rap universe [01:41.81]Cuz radical elements remain eloquent [01:44.78]The reprocussions tear right through the fabric [01:47.13]So act quick [01:48.24]Kids at the top is lackin [01:49.79]They tryin to turn hip hop to just plain rappin [01:52.87]Let the poppers pop and the breakers break [01:54.99]Cuz there's just so much of this sh*t that I can take [01:58.03]Now I can't stand the rain [01:59.60]This sh*t's all the same [02:00.79]Mr E excommuincate your whole game [02:03.19]Back in '88 baby everything was gleaming [02:05.92]"The meaning [02:06.63]You think you know [02:07.81]What I'm meaning" [02:09.00]"I've seen your kind before [02:10.20]You're not original" [02:11.21]"You're not-you're not-you're not original" [02:14.23]"I've seen your kind before [02:15.45]You're not original" [02:16.77]"Ya-ya-think-ya-think [02:18.32]You know what I'm meaning" [02:19.44]Where your skills at [02:20.83]Where the ill raps [02:22.28]Where the new tracks [02:23.53]Where your heart at [02:25.11]Where the new jacks [02:26.45]Gettin contracts [02:27.74]I got a rhyme that I ain't even wrote yet [02:29.97]Save the drama classes for the masses [02:32.12]Hip hop [02:32.76]Glacoma [02:33.31]Baby I prescribe the glasses [02:35.37]The vision's near-sighted [02:36.32]And narrow-minded [02:37.95]The wack sh*t that you hear [02:39.52]Is all hate and fight [02:40.44]Take it like harder [02:41.97]Fools act retarder [02:43.56]In '98 [02:44.22]Lyrics just disregarded [02:45.99]Now how hard it be yo to really concentrate [02:48.73]Writin metaphors [02:49.67]Wack sh*t I annihilate [02:50.70]Now fools comin through spillin much gibberish [02:53.96]While Mighty Mi and I stay acknicilous [02:56.21] [02:56.82]Raps are bed pan [02:58.29]And I be the nurse [02:59.39]Removin sh*t wit lyrics that I disperse [03:02.07]Nail ya coffin [03:03.22] So you're death's epitome [03:04.62]Ya fate be taken out is most likely [03:07.20]Not likely [03:08.24]We be The High & The Mighty [03:10.25]Stompin out crews [03:11.36]The team of the '90's [03:12.75] [03:13.53]"I've seen your kind before [03:14.44]You're not original" [03:15.32] [03:17.44]"Not original" [03:18.01] [03:19.24]"I've seen your kind before [03:20.20]You're not original" [03:21.33]"The meaning [03:21.70]You think you know what I'm meaning" [03:23.62]"I've seen your kind before [03:24.81]You're not original" [03:25.55] [03:26.52]"Ya not original--" "Ya not" [03:28.37] [03:29.50]"I've seen your kind before [03:30.39]You're not original" [03:31.06] [03:32.65]"You think you know what I'm meaning" [03:34.35]Gang Starr "Shoulda been number one to me" (Biggie) [03:36.82]And D O C "Shoulda been number one to me" [03:39.26]Live Team "Shoulda been number one to me" [03:41.89]The Disc Masters "Shoulda been number one to me" [03:44.62]Show & A "Shoulda been number one to me" [03:47.25]The Crown Rulers "Shoulda been number one to me" [03:49.73]And Dilated "Shoulda been number one to me" [03:52.48]KMD "Shoulda been number one to me" [03:55.27]The Tough Crew "Shoulda been number one to me" [03:57.81]And JVC "Shoulda been number one to me" [04:00.45]The Main Source "Shoulda been number one to me" [04:03.04]The Arsonists "Shoulda been number one to me"