I don`t get blind, I don`t drink wine
I took a sledge hammer and I broke my nine
Because the letter is mine, word is born I rhyme
And every day I write the book down line by line
I`m feeling good or when I do it like this
So come on and turn it up because you can`t resist
Because I`m back with another track get what you like
`Cause things is wack and that`s a fact
Because I`m on time, you`re shouting rewind
You know it`s Ad Rock that`s blowing your mind

My s**t is rough and you know it is so damn tough
I`m getting intense, not talking nonsense
I made up my mind, not sitting on the fence
I don`t always know the right from the wrong
I do my best to figure it out and work it out in the long
I try to do a lot more than I can chew
I balance out my ambition`s what I`ve got to do

Take it, better to leave it to y`all, it`s all scoop hey yo
Take it, better to leave it to y`all, this is rough and tough
Because you hide in broad day light, a parasite
A hypocrite, you take a peek quick
You turn your nose up, you think you`re high up

You play it real safe and now your s**t`s fake
I seen you hawking and then you clock my style
And then you try to play it off like you think you`re wild
DIY that means do it yourself
Don`t sit around waiting for someone`s help
I don`t sit back and say good enough
Keep on striving, reinventing
But keeping it off the cuff
So kick the level up cuhootnified
Mackadocius vibes positively fortified

I`m throwing rhymes down kicking them downtown
Traveling high speed through the underground
I kick it free style, make it worth your while
I`ve got shelves of rhymes that I keep on file
I`m feeling good now back home again
New York city is the city that I feel at home in
A blast from the grasshoff awhile it`s been
Stepping into the future again

I`m straight from the 88 to 93 to 94, I`m out the door
Step into the party with the Fila fresh gear
People looking at me like I was David Koresh here
Kicking rhymes from the heart `cause that`s where I`m at
F**k the bulls**t, be it far from me to pop that
In the search for truth, I go a lot of ways
There`s not a lot of peace, that I find these days
I try to stay cool, I try to stay calm

But my life is getting hectic like a smoke bomb
So I`ll say it like the group Huggy Bear
There`s a boy-girl revolution of which you should be aware
You can`t dis me, it ain`t worth it, B
You put yourself down and you don`t even see
`Cause I don`t play that, I know who I am
For a minute, I did but now I`m back again
I`m feeling strong see, trust myself G

Well I stopped smoking cheeba
And that was part of the key
We`ve got fire, we need water, there ain`t no water
So I guess I ought to
Leave you broke in a comatose state of mind
And I`m blind and I`m working overtime, so check it
I keep my rhymes in a little black book
And I know you want to take another look

This is rough and tough