Immortal Technique - That's What It Is lyrics
rate me<BR>
<i>[Invasion]</i><br>
Ok... let's go... talk to em'... holler<br>
Don't you get tired of hearing niggas say that shit?... all the time?<br>
Why can't you shut the fuck up and rhyme nigga?!<br>
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<i>[Invasion]</i><br>
Yeah... yeah... used to run around getting my fight in the streets on<br>
Back in the day before Harlem had a green zone<br>
What good is a good education with no direction?<br>
Like the right to vote with no one to vote for in an election<br>
Like a gun with no bullets in the clip for protection<br>
Like the crowd packed in the front without the midsection<br>
Used to live robbing and stealing and being reckless<br>
It took time for my mind to put the ghetto in perspective<br>
I used to live in the back, of a holding van<br>
Used to be offbeat, like the white girls' shoulder dance<br>
I wrote rhymes a cappella, no beat, behind bars<br>
Shed blood to make it, like the story behind scars<br>
I used to be a battle champion, in the meanwhile<br>
Before some of you little fuckers learned to freestyle<br>
Prematurely senile, underground prima donnas<br>
I was Oliver North during Iran Contra<br>
Cause I, never snitched, and that's backed by evidence<br>
I learned it by watching you, don't ever forget it bitch<br>
Cause everybody knows how the government do<br>
They never snitch on themselves, but they want you to snitch on YOU<br>
Evolution from Australopithecus<br>
Primitive commercial shit to hard-core lyricist<br>
Your wax is useless<br>
Rappers are dropping like Icarus<br>
Technological revolution... nigga picture this<br>
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(motherfucka what?)<br>
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Yeah... I told you what it was, but this is what it is now<br>
Lyrical bullets, packed to the top of the clip now<br>
Treat it like a robbery, I'm shutting this shit down<br>
Fellas put your hands up and the all the women strip down<br>
That's not misogynist, you ostriches, cause I could just, apocalypse<br>
Talk politics to the populace<br>
Or challenge what the market is<br>
With militant caucuses<br>
That'll smash the spirit of Hip Hop out the sarcophagus<br>
This is the curse of Tutankhamen, I bring the drama on<br>
I'm sinful, I eat you, broad daylight on Ramadan<br>
Hip Hop, reparations, now we taking back Delucci<br>
Don't tell me you spent it on coke, like Danny Bonaduce<br>
We're tired of being on the outside, looking in<br>
Wondering what the fuck Hip Hop would've been<br>
This is what it is, as opposed to what it used to be<br>
And this is your corporate tax ID eulogy<br>
Dominant speech is the new breed, that won't let you breath<br>
I'll make you die for what I believe<br>
So we got nothing in common<br>
There ain't no comparison<br>
You got beef with niggas, I got beef with Aryans<br>
White power Nazi European Americans<br>
Rapid Poverty pimps, and fake vegetarians<br>
The resurrection, ripping a ball through the record (wrecking?) section<br>
Flight connection to the gentry board of all guerrilla lessons<br>
Fuck a middle man distributor, I got a choice now<br>
This ain't Volume 1., I got a grown man's voice now<br>
Toured the country four times over, I'm older and wiser<br>
Poisonous words, you'll find strychnine in my saliva<br>
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(motherfucka what?... Bring it to 'em raw)<br>
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I told you what it was, but this is what it is now<br>
50 caliber bullets, I don't need a clip now<br>
Fuck your private jet nigga we shooting the shit down<br>
Bomb wall street and make the stock market dip down<br>
I told you what it was, but this is what it is now<br>
you the shit nigga, I don't care about shit now<br>
I play the role of Abraham, idols get ripped down<br>
Melt the ice caps, and make all of this shit brown<br>
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(No one out there can fuck with me)<br>
(motherfucka what?)<br>
(I speak that real shit)<br>
(to smash the airwaves)<br>
(I don't want to tell you motherfuckers again)<br>
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