[Intro]
One time for CM Smooth
and one time as we bust a move
and one time for Funky D
and grab the mic and just MC and… [x2]
[Verse One]
Pick up the pen like Picasso, I write like I gots no time to waste
I’m so quick they say “not so fast, slow down sunny I can’t keep up”
So I slow but there’s Norway like Oslo
I’m incognito as far as the cops know
unrevealing like women don’t let they top show
microphone assassin so I got to get my props yo’
dedicated all my service to hip-hop yo’
I don’t rush I bop slow, I’m a perfectionist
tell me “what’s point if you ain’t listening to the rest of this?”
But people want to criticise and be a pessimist
but couldn’t do the way that I do it and do it effortless
nevertheless, my message is I just can’t lose
chillin’ with my dude we call him CM Smooth
he’s on the beat and I float on the rhyme that’s how we do
Blackcurrent crew with the Blackcurrent two
so forget it if you’re trying to attack me
cos I roll too deep from the Borough of Hackney, East London
they tell me I don’t sound like a Londoner
but this is no misrepresentation like a “Wonder Bra”
I am what I is and I is what I am
and I is what I was, you don’t like it? Too bad
you didn’t want him to, but man he still did it
so put your headphones on and deal with it
[Chorus]
Deal with it
yo’ it’s the way the game is, it’s the way we used to running the biz
just deal with it
yo’ it’s the way that we roll, it’s the way we used to taking control
just deal with it
yo’ it’s the way that we run from the days that we started, begun
just deal with it
yo’ it’s the way that we ride, CM Smooth, DL, let’s glide
[Verse Two]
What’s wrong these moist MC’s?
Yeah they rhyme but they can’t see the wood for the trees
they focused on too many intricacies so they style grow old like the mould on a cheese
and I really so hate to be one to pass judgement
cos all they’re really doing is they own way of hustling
to each his own, that means my way ain't your way
you jump through the window, I just walk through the doorway
I ain’t trying to say it ain’t hard though
but they won’t reduce me to no desperado
I went from “not quite” to a “bravo”
went from luke-warm, now I’m hot like charcoal
and never scared even when I’m in a dark hole
Funky I’m trying to bring the goods like cargo
and got the type of joints that make the people go marbles
CM Smooth and DL what a combo
so ya’ll know we both mean business
so stop the pretending and don’t bear false witness
you’ve got to put Blackcurrent Jazz on the hit list
get this, style dope, don’t really sweat this
I am what I is and I is what I am
and I is what I was, you don’t like it? Too bad
you didn’t want’ him to but man he still did it
so put your headphones on and deal with it
[Chorus]