Part of the Game-Lone Catalysts

[00:00.00]Part of the Game -Lone Catalysts [00:05.220]Lone Catalysts [00:07.10]Yo [00:07.750]I grab these microphones to live son [00:10.199]Pay the rent put food on the table [00:14.588]Got a roof over my head [00:15.938]But I take it serious [00:17.398]No joke [00:18.338]Comin straight out the box [00:22.158]First edition nutrition [00:23.678]From musicians [00:24.488]Food for thought when you listen [00:26.198]I been around the atlas countries and states [00:27.988]Everybody knows the Catalysts bumps [00:30.18]Beats and breaks [00:30.988]The most true to life rap tactics for practise [00:33.458]The fact is I tilt a ni**a off his axis [00:36.48]The way that Sands taxes doin his mic matches [00:38.838]Somethin massive [00:39.318]Let me explain what the wrath is [00:41.218]Four hundred years of oppression [00:42.568]Anger aggression [00:43.178]And the anxiety of a blackman stressin [00:45.268]The devil keep on testin [00:46.988]Always gotta offer his suggestions [00:48.688]Make it seem greater when it's less than [00:50.958]That's just tricknowledge [00:51.588]They teach you it from high school through college [00:54.38]So you can go out and get them dollars [00:55.478]It's just a game they play to see [00:56.768]Who has the fattest wallet [00:57.578]That's why most blacks smoke crack [00:58.728]And most white alcoholics [00:59.987]I grab these microphones to live son [01:02.47]Rest in peace Big Pun [01:03.417]Because you know another day [01:04.487]You're not promised to live one [01:05.897]Yo the streets are hot most blocks are like a prison [01:07.857]So if you're lookin for love kid [01:09.527]You gots to give some [01:10.577]Man these days are cold-blooded [01:11.547]Everyone's butted [01:12.167]Rock jewels that stay flooded [01:13.427]The weak they never cut it [01:15.357]Sometime I be like 'what if' [01:16.847]But ain't a damn thing gonna change [01:18.437]Cause it's just part of the game [01:20.257]Aiyo I slap-box lyrics through mics [01:22.107]The smooth type [01:22.897]That move right into a state of mind to fight [01:25.167]Cause it's all ground zero [01:26.357]My street level bureau [01:27.347]We'll play this game until we master it like Ken Duro [01:30.457]So what's your role [01:31.437]My part is the aural [01:32.937]Sub-moral [01:33.167]Lone Catalysts remain plural [01:34.627]I'm like a ni**a re-in'up [01:36.957]Heading out to Laurel [01:37.897]Maryland in a caravan to a rural [01:39.877]Spot to make a drop-off [01:41.447]That's how I hustle my raps to prosper [01:43.347]Cause MC's disappear like Jimmy Hoffa [01:45.287]The hungriest cats are at the crib [01:46.877]Writin this very minute [01:47.917]They see the pennant and wanna win it [01:50.377]That's how styles get invented [01:51.587]Y'all new jack timid frontin-a**niggas [01:53.567]Rhymes be rented [01:54.307]I got no respect for y'all [01:55.977]Y'all probably be the next to fall [01:58.37]You wanna bang kid [01:59.87]Should be waitin for the ref to call [02:00.847]A time-out [02:01.177]So you can find out [02:02.217]Any possible way to exit this rhyme bout [02:04.436]Because you know another day [02:05.646]You're not promised to live one [02:07.236]Yo the streets are hot [02:08.536]Most blocks are like a prison [02:10.126]So if you're lookin for love kid [02:11.856]You gots to give some [02:13.126]Man these days are cold-blooded [02:14.296]Everyone's butted [02:14.976]Rock jewels that stay flooded [02:16.396]The weak they never cut it [02:18.666]Sometime I be like 'what if' [02:21.376]But ain't a damn thing gonna change [02:22.876]Cause it's just part of the game [02:24.676]Okay now let me get back to the session at hand [02:27.196]My DJ's name is Jason Rawls I don't need no band [02:29.536]Yo I travel across the land microphone in hand [02:31.686]Do some dates out west so I can work on my tan [02:34.576]I guess it's just the rap life [02:36.156]Y'all know who y'all niggas act like [02:37.586]Quick to blaze the bag pipe [02:38.986]And talk about the last night [02:40.306]Some are real grimey [02:41.56]Muthaf**kas up in the fast life [02:42.236]Don't give a damn about rap [02:43.426]Cause they're stresin the crack price [02:44.646]And grip the Mack tight [02:45.796]Some niggas frail like a glass pipe [02:47.386]With more bodyguards than [02:48.276]Bill Clinton around they a**type [02:49.596]To walk the streets [02:50.506]At night carryin a flashlight [02:51.756]Some are players grabbin [02:52.746]All the mamis on they a**tight [02:54.506]Bust it some smoke w**d [02:56.155]Get skeed hashis [02:56.745]Dust and ecstacy shrooms and drink [02:59.535]Booze [02:59.745]For all my rappin niggas I hope we link soon [03:02.124]Get yours I'm gettin mine cause it's about time [03:03.984]Because you know another day [03:05.274]You're not promised to live one [03:06.834]Yo the streets are hot [03:08.134]Most blocks are like a prison [03:09.504]So if you're lookin for love kid [03:12.984]You gots to give some [03:14.434]Man these days are cold-blooded [03:16.284]Everyone's butted [03:17.74]Rock jewels that stay flooded [03:18.44]The weak they never cut it [03:19.254]Sometime I be like 'what if' [03:20.774]But ain't a damn thing gonna change [03:22.603]Cause it's just part of the game [03:24.352]A life [03:25.962]Yo I wanna give a shoutout to everybody [03:27.472]In hip-hop who couldn't be here [03:29.472]Yo Big Pun [03:31.252]Freaky Tah [03:32.752]Big L [03:34.52]Scott La Rock [03:35.292]Trouble T Roy [03:37.362]MC Trouble [03:39.592]Keith Cowboy [03:43.431]Peace [03:46.551]We miss you