Liquid Swords-GZA

[00:00.907] When I was little, my father was famous [00:06.303] He was the greatest samurai in the empire [00:11.086] And he was the Shogun's decapitator [00:14.851] He cut off the heads of a 131 lords [00:20.190] It was a bad time for the empire [00:24.523] The Shogun just stayed inside his castle and he never came out [00:30.753] People said his brain was infected by devils [00:35.735] My father would come home, he would forget about the killings [00:40.930] He wasn't scared of the Shogun, but the Shogun was scared of him [00:46.317] Maybe that was the problem [00:51.008] Then, one night, the Shogun sent his ninja spies to our house [01:04.459] They were supposed to kill my father but they didn't [01:16.867] That was the night everything changed [01:19.037] See, sometimes [01:20.955] You gotta flash 'em back [01:22.161] See n****s don't know where this sh*t started [01:23.593] Y'all know where it came from [01:25.608] I'm saying we gonna take y'all back to the source [01:27.408] Do the knowledge, yo [01:28.856] When the MCs came to live out the name [01:32.198] And to perform, some had [01:34.515] To snort cocaine to act insane [01:37.184] Before Pete rocked it on [01:39.238] Now on with the mental plane [01:41.410] To spark the brain with the building to be born [01:44.419] Yo, RZA, flip the track with the what to cut [01:47.388] Fake n****s get flipped in mic fights I swing swords and cut clowns [01:53.329] Sh*t is too swift to bite you record and write it down [01:56.129] I flow like the blood on a murder scene, like a syringe [01:59.234] On some wild out sh*t to insert a fiend [02:02.020] But it was your op to shop stolen art [02:04.119] Catch a swollen heart from not rolling smart [02:06.337] I put mad pressure on phony wack rhymes that get hurt [02:09.481] Sh*t's played like zodiac signs on sweatshirts [02:12.219] That's minimum and feminine like sandals [02:14.940] My minimum table stacks a verse on a gamble [02:17.702] Energy is felt once the cards are dealt [02:20.251] With the impact of roundhouse kicks from black belts [02:22.989] That attack, the mic-phones like cyclones or typhoon [02:26.587] I represent from midnight to high noon [02:28.909] I don't waste ink, n****, I think [02:31.055] I drop megaton bombs more faster than you blink [02:33.847] 'Cause rhyme thoughts travel at a tremendous speed [02:36.543] Do clouds of smoke of natural blends of weed [02:39.244] Only under one circumstance that's if I'm blunted [02:41.907] Turn that sh*t up, my Clan in Da Front want it [02:44.438] Now when the MCs came to live out the name [02:47.343] And to perform, some had [02:49.981] To snort cocaine to act insane [02:52.662] Before Pete rocked it on [02:54.584] Now on with the mental plane to spark the brain [02:57.989] With the building to be born [03:00.012] Yo, the RZA flip the track with the what to cut [03:06.037] I'm on a Mission that n****s say is Impossible [03:08.777] But when I swing my swords they all choppable [03:11.541] I be the body dropper, the heartbeat stopper [03:14.329] Child educator, plus head amputator [03:16.980] 'Cause n****s styles are old like Mark 5 sneakers [03:19.700] Lyrics are weak like clock radio speakers [03:22.424] Don't even stop in my station and attack [03:25.099] While your plan failed, get derailed like Amtrak [03:27.618] What the f**k for? Down by law, I make law [03:30.262] I be justice, I sentence that ass two to four [03:32.948] Round the clock, that state pen time, check it [03:35.664] But the pens I be sticking with, you can't state the crime [03:38.513] Came through with the Wu, slid off on the DL [03:41.789] I'm low-key like seashells, I rock these bells [03:44.875] Now come aboard, it's Medina bound [03:46.663] Enter the chamber and it's a whole different sound [03:49.364] It's a wide entrance, small exit like a funnel [03:52.081] So deep it's picked up on radios in tunnels [03:54.843] N****s are fascinated how the sh*t begin [03:57.253] Get vaccinated, my logo is branded in your skin [04:00.071] When the MCs came to live out the name [04:03.176] And to perform, some had [04:05.468] To snort cocaine to act insane [04:08.218] Before Pete rocked it on [04:10.152] Now on with the mental plane to spark the brain [04:13.622] With the building to be born [04:15.604] Yo, RZA flip the track with the what to cut