First The Sheep Next The Shepherd

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First the sheep, next the shepherd, chucks run amok multiplying
 Like leopards, spots 'em up the long bomb's a record
 A long shot, three minutes fifteen seconds, if I was cloned
 Never would I be alone, just the two of us mutherfuck, the Lexus
 Strange fruit be hangin' in Texas, rope be holdin' the necks
 Poison politics affects us, get my flow on a show of flexes
 Got too much love above for the battle of the sexes, now I won't go
 As far as romancin' myself or dancin' with wolves
 Or runnin' wit the bulls, shit, I be in two places at one time
 Split spaces wit one rhyme, get three nickels outta one dime
 First the sheep next the shepherd
 Fill generation gaps wit mad raps, get slapped, give four smacks
 The hell on back, be the father son and the holy ghost
 As I represent, both the east and the west coasts, whatever
 That's worth 360, the planet earth, that's the whole black man's turf
 Now I be the rational national ever present international
 Spy wit the third eye against the conquer and divide
 Now wit three of me, I can run a country, make apocalypse
 Quit do mad shit on the side, I go on wit my bad self
 If I had four of myself, I would sacrifice two to get that slave
 Outta you in my eyes, be the anger of the furious five
 Flashbacks, cut across psycho tracks, been there done that
 And I swung a big bat like that there, it is I be the startin' six pack
 First the sheep, next the shepherd
 The east to the west south to the north, the music might switch
 The rhymes never fall off, non alcoholic avoiding the bomb
 In abortion clinics, I be the hero up in it, Jack the cracker dat did it
 Now the magnificent seven, hip hop gangsta rappin', holdin it down
 Makin' it happen from Oakland to Manhattan, if I was eight
 I be damn great, city to city, state to state, won't never be too much
 On my plate, flow like watergate wit nine of mine, I'd get piece of mine
 Again and again wit that power of ten men, duplicated by the split
 Of one mean gene and shit, back to the lab wit them scientific crabs
 What next? Three minutes and fifteen seconds

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Song Details

Duration
03:15
Key
1
Tempo
95 BPM

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