80 Bars

Duration4:30
ArtistWyclef Jean
Album(s) Masquerade    (Track 4)
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80 Bars Lyrics
 

80 Bars Lyrics

80 Bars
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Yo, engineer, turn me up, yo

I started off in the underground
From mono to stereo
Now I`m surround sound
Blowin through your tubes
Leavin holes through your speakers
Crackin through your tweeters
My frequency`s off the meters
Jam pack arenas from here to Bangkok
I`m ahead of my time like Jimmy Hendrix played Woodstock
Me, I`m playin Hoodstock
Before I had the dreadlocks I used to reminisce
Should I do music or sell rocks
Grow my own crops
Livin in the PJs
That`s when an angel, Gabriel, said
It`s all a masquerade
Eyes wit no face, sneakers wit no lace
I feel the earth spinnin but I`m standing in the same space
Wit no trace of what happened last night
I seen two fiends fightin over a crack pipe
Now I`m watchin tv
My antenna was a clothes hanger
Blurry vision Mista Mondehan David Banner
Flip the data
The kids are wearin bandanas
Totin hammers
Aimin at your medulla oblongata
Blow Blow
A young thug wit a slim figure
Romantic type like the movie Casablanca
Herb seller once got busted by a undercover buyer
My supplier was a Gypsie cab driver
That`s when I realized I need to find a new hustle
Livin in the jungle
The guitar became my muscle
I scribe through snake eyes that wanted my crucified
Y`all thought that I was drownin but I was getting baptized
Now behold I heard you sold twenty mill
But wit no street credibility you overkill
Y`all ain`t real
Talkin bout keep it gangsta
Only if you knew the gangsta sent me to shank you
Gank you, gank you, tie up your ankles
And if that ain`t enough I call hinchmens to lynch you
Now at the funeral I could see the priest bless you
But in the after life I`ma still touch you
Knockin on heaven`s door you beggin to get in
That`s when the Son of Man greets you wit the face of Satan
Now you look frightened in the belly of the whale
That`s when the warden say I wanna welcome you to hell
Bones is five bucks
Get off the phone, time`s up
I seen him cut from his head to his (scratch $#@%)
You wish you would wish you could
Wishin got you here
You screamin so loud that a deaf man could hear
Back to the silence
No more droppin science
Everybody rappin bout diamonds and violence
And A&R`s all they do is charge credit cards
And when the bill comes
They blame it on the rap stars
Now how you figure
I ain`t rent a car
I wasn`t at the spa
I ain`t buy the bar
Now here`s a Jew
When you get your first record deal
Don`t subject yourself to the mass appeal
First class, caviar in the ?Ville
In the new S class wit da Jordan wheels
Remember the music in the streets like the streets
You know the code of the streets
Everybody tryin to eat
The evidence is concrete
I`m tired of the same song
You take me out
You must be high off of heroine
Sharper than I ever been
This one gon get a ten
Rappers, I`ma murder y`all wit your own medicine
I move with faith
I never have doubt
I`m so hungry you would think I`m just comin out
But I been here before from Blunted to The Score
To the Carnival, Ecleftic, World Tour
I`m poison
Whores waitin in the back door
They want me to rock they boat and shift them on shore
That`s when the Father said,
?Take heed to this lesson`
They wanna cut your hair like Delilah did Samson
I felt that
So I went back to my format
Raps in backpack
Gats for car jacks
Hats for pussy cats
Cause AIDS I don`t want that
And for the DJ`s here`s somethin y`all can scratch
Technique twelve
The needle hits the wax
Hypnotize the crowd
The dance floor`s jam packed
Now sing along like a Negro spiritual
No one got shot tonight
It`s a miracle
But what`s this I hear
Y`all wanna take my spot
You got a better chance puttin a gorilla in a headlock
I`m too focused I can see through your lens
You ain`t a G, just a wannabe kingpin
So, the next time y`all wanna pay for protection
I suggest that you hit up the Hatian Sicilian

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