No Great Pretender

[Malik B]<br>Check it out, one two<br>M-illi-tant<br>I be the, alias Malik B<br>Internationale rationale<br>All the people up 68th Ave.<br>and across Broad Street<br>or Silk Lane in South Philly<br>And on, et cetera<br>Check it out, check it out<br><br>Chorus: The Roots<br><br>Here on this agenda, there is no pretenders<br>So when we begin to assassinate your cast members<br>Here on this agenda, there is no pretenders<br>So when we begin to assassinate your cast members<br><br>Verse One: Malik B<br><br>Dig it, cool calm collect in my perspective<br>Search the premises, I leave no clues for detectives<br>My verbal impact across your back slap<br>You talk about you see me, but your vision`s full of cataract<br>It don`t matter that, your glass house I shatter that<br>Bad luck I walk under now show me where the ladder at<br>Pull up the urinal organs up in your bladder cat<br>Approachin you with shriller rhetoric, as if you had a sac<br>Now crews down for it, your gas pedal floor it<br>with ammo and artillery and stash spots to keep and store it<br>I used the banner of a slant with a zort<br>Change your strategic plan, my man`s getting bored<br>Your vocal chord is fraudulent, and not the true porcelain<br>I bring the fire, earth, and the source of wind<br>The force of sin will endorse the pen<br>We all search for sanity, but I think that it was lost again<br>Now which stick of artists, can be the smartest<br>My beam of sunlight shines the brightest in the forest<br>Regardless, artists dislike because I`m ?<br>Control the temper, makin MC`s whimper<br>I tilt the Earth from off the axis in the center<br>Next I`m in the womb like a placenta<br>M-Illi-Tant the city ninja, uplift<br>cause I`m the soul avenger, remember I`m no great pretender<br><br>Chorus 2X<br><br>Verse Two: Black Thought<br><br>Strategis, I bet y`all niggaz can`t believe this<br>I read you like a whole avenue that`s filled with meters<br>parked, fuck your back talk, I watch how niggaz cat-walk<br>over my pit of venom and send em to the asphault<br>For inquisitives, who wanna try to test me<br>What protects me, will make you shake like epilipsy<br>Plague your neighborhood with lyrical le-prosy<br>Stimulate more than Ecstasy y`all niggaz check my recipe<br>Dig it, I must observe it, analyze when I`m chillin<br>Peep out who`s the villain then make your whole pavillion<br>of a Sicilian, excuse the greed don`t want a mill`<br>I want a zillion - stacks of Franklins to the ceiling<br>I counts stacks imported, fuck the yacht and the mansion<br>I want Pluto and Jupiter, political, universal expansion<br>Buy out Tommy and Halle Hanson<br>Kidnap America, ? you hold it for ransom<br>Pass it down to my grandson, I got no time to be romancin<br>Only time`s for mental food and advancement<br>This game of Life is strictly chancein - get to know <br>the nature before I get know the nigga while I`m glancing<br>Enhancing, is my mental - I play in the midst<br>a squad a team most crews is not in the halfs of rentals<br>My utensils, display a whole variety<br>Even when in the cut niggaz can`t cut they anxiety<br>Peep, I fill your brain with suspicion, pay attention<br>like you paid tuition, and stop all your bull-ishin<br>The rap chemist in the lab to the finish<br>The mic is my apprentice, cause I can`t stand <br>courts or tennis, my pigmentation is the menace<br>That`s why the system`s always tryin to pursue with a blemish<br>Pale asses, think a nigga in this<br>My flow`s tremendous, for the meal you can`t replenish<br>The question you ask me, situation get worse<br>Fam I won`t befriend ya, cause I`m no great pretender<br><br>Chorus 2X<br><br>[Malik B]<br>It`s like that, one time for your mind<br>Fifth Dynasty, interwine and combine<br> M-Illi-Tant<br>The Bad Lieuten-ant<br>One hundred X, Bahamadia<br> Minds and souls, like that<br>Fifth Dynast`, my man ?, P.R. Star<br> My man Slick Looka<br>Check it out, one time like that<br> Feel the Fifth<br>The One-Fifth attack<br> Your backbone and spine<br>Check it out<br> Brother Q.U.E.S.T.<br>South Philly, ?