The Scoop

I don't get blind, I don't drink wine I went and took a sledgehammer and I broke my nine Because my life is mine, word is bond I rhyme And every day I write the book down line by line I'm feeling good when I do it like this So come on and turn it up because you can't resist Because I'm back with another track in which you lack 'Cause things is wack and that's a fact Because I'm on time, you're shouting rewind You know it's Adrock that's blowing your mind My shit is rough and you know it is (so damn tough!) I'm getting intense, not talking nonsense I made up my mind, not sitting on the fence I don't always know the right from the wrong Do my best to figure it out and work it out in the long I try to do a lot, more than I can chew I balance out my ambitions what I got to do Check it, better believe it y'all Check it, better believe it y'all This is rough and tough 'Cause you hide in broad day light, a parasite A hypocrite, you take a peek quick You turn your nose up (what), you think you're high up You play it real safe and now your shit's fake I seen you hawking and then you clock my style And then you try to play it off like you think you're wild D.I.Y., that means do it yourself I don't sit around waitin' for someone's help I don't sit back and say "Good enough" I keep on striving, reinventing, keepin' it off the cuff So I kick the level up cahoot-ified Mackadocius vibes, positively fortified I'm throwing rhymes down, kickin' them downtown Traveling high speed through the underground I kick it freestyle, make it worth your while I've got shelves of rhymes that I keep on file I'm feeling good now, back home again Well, New York City is the city that I feel at home in A blast from the Grasshoff, awhile it's been Stepping into the future again Uh, and now I'm straight from eighty-eight To ninety-three, to ninety-four, I'm out the door Step into the party with the Fila fresh gear People looking at me like I was David Koresh here Kicking rhymes from the heart cause that's where I'm at Fuck the bullshit, be it far from me to pop that In the search for truth, I go a lot of ways There's not a lot of peace that I find these days I try to stay cool, I try to stay calm But my life is getting hectic like a smoke bomb So I'll say it like the group Huggy Bear There's a boy-girl revolution of which you should be aware You can't dis me, it ain't worth it, B You put yourself down and you don't even see 'Cause I don't play that, I know who I am For a minute I didn't but now I'm back again I'm feeling strong, see, trust myself, G Well, I stopped smoking cheeba and that was part of the key We, we, we've got fire, we need water There ain't no water, so I guess I ought to Leave you broke in a comatose state of mind And I'm blind and I'm working overtime, so check it I keep my rhymes in my little black book And I know you wanna take another look