Artist: Natural Elements Album: Haze presents NY Reality Check 101 (DJ Premier) Song: Lyrical Tactics * * I assume this also appears on a Natural Elements 12", I don't know which Yeah yeah, this the group, this the group You're listening to the sounds of Natural Elements, know what I mean? We gonna do it like this, check it out B-E-E, Double-Oh, so easily will I eat M-C-E-E N-Y-C be the locality... tryin to inflate this low salary My sets is fat and yours is low calorie You're too full of carbohydrates, to flow my rate I shake and vibrate, the lightweight, and make foes migrate Plant seed and let it germinate, vermin I terminate Verbally I offend more *niggaz* that the Mark Fuhrman tapes... Yeah yeah, this the group, this the group You're listening to Yeah yeah, this the group, this the group Yeah yeah, this the group Yeah yeah, this the group Yeah yeah, this the group This the group... Yeah yeah, this the group, this the group You're listening to the sounds of Natural Elements, know what I mean? We gonna do it like this, check it out B-E-E, Double-Oh, so easily will I eat M-C-E... B-E-E, Double-Oh, so easily will I eat M-C... B-E-E, Double-Oh, so easily will I eat M-C-E... B-E-E, Double-Oh, so easily will I eat M-C... B-E-E, Double-Oh, so easily will I eat M-C-E-E N-Y-C be the locality... tryin to inflate this low salary My sets is fat and yours is low calorie Too, full-too full of carbohydrates, to flow my rate I shake-rate vi-light-brate, light-making, make late migrate Plant seed and let it germinate, vermin I terminate Verbally I offend more *niggaz* that the Mark Fuhrman tapes I burn this great when I get busy, the crowd ask what is he Human or robot, my flow's hot, those that know not must be dizzy, so, how many fingers do you see You goin up one, what, two, uh, three cause I knocked your ass silly Of course I'm livin Big but who the hell is Willie? Try to peel me, and I'll put you on the floor quicker than Tyson did McNeely Aiyyo, once you hear the Capital A, rappers stay Went through for a while son, it won't go away Composin dramatical plays, Element Natural ways Control your thoughts like, sniffin crazy thoughts, four-oh quarts Stay dipped, in Polo Sport menswear A-Butta be the one you and your friends fear Natural E, we droppin gems here Shinin for ten years, and keep writin until my pen-pen gets gets ink upon the paper, rhymin the flavor-flavor Too high-too higher than a skyscraper, my blades-blades deacon-deacon, my thoughts connectin like, when my beeper's beepin You stay sleepin, A's creepin, I'm makin mics parade-parade New jack new jack when... the mess While you procrastinate, I graduate, past your rate You see my flow'll fascinate, Natural E, we collaborate Check it cause rap is great, Wiz, scratch it up like cissy fights Butta, forever shine like, New York city lights Keep risin to the top No one can stop we Natural Elements We'll forever S-H-I-N-E (repeat 2X) Yo, physically I bring the pain here, for shorties wet like rain gear I hit you buck fifty, like New York city train fare Yo eryday I rock the same gear, cause money low, I bag a honey doe This one go out to all my sunny bros, in N-Y-C Northeast Bronx, my territory You confess to a priest, writing lyrics is better for me Never sweat a shorty, now I'm broke, got no sort of hope But in the future, when I got money, I'll be adorable But shorty played herself, like brothers on the train, usin a portable telly Cause both of y'all look the same, like Aaron Hall and R. Kelly I bust a shot like Marbury, battle? You must be sniffin somethin like, Darryl Strawberry Check what I get nice with, my right hand is what I grip a mic with In the future, I circle numbers on this Lex priceless, but yo Me gettin burnt or hurt, won't be tolerated I got rhymes up the UHHHHHH, forget it I'm constipated See these lines be like graffiti burners, Essence tags your mental hall as I come bust aerosol meets flame, into your face with no shame Rappers be talkin like they rich when they be ridin the train And when they flow you know it all sound the same Repetitive like escalators, plus sweeter than Now and Laters Your clout about as much weight as a sheet of paper You have no flavor, pullin my saber, removin you from the agenda wannabe pretenders Fall like September through November Get open end to then, verbally dismembered Remember Essence flows, I'm treatin you like Mendel From Bolo, to get dough, see the mic you need to let go Your high-low, you can't rip it with expertise Please, this MC, put simply is a G-O-double-D-E-double-S You cannot contest Keep rising to the top No one can stop we Natural Elements We'll forever S-H-I-N-E (repeat 2X) *fades into instrumental for "8 Steps to Perfection"* [Lady of Rage] Premier, DJ Premier, P-P-P-Premier, Premier, DJ "Premier, Premier, Premier, P-P-P-P-P-P-P Premier-Premier Premier Premier Premier Premier, P-Premier, P-Puh Premier" [Lady of Rage] Premier, DJ P-P-P-Premier...