Canibus - How Many Emcees lyrics

How many MC's must get dissed
Before somebody says don't fuck with Bis?
How many MC's? Don't fuck with Bis

Yo, I'm valued as one
America's most prestigious
Breeds of rapper for oral
Speeches and ghetto English
Canibus, Can-IBus is my LLC
Limited Liability Corp
Can you spell that for me?
When I was young I wish I had
Someone to tell that to me
Here's my card, Poet Laureate since 1803
I know people who have
Written newspapers on me
Some are grateful to me
Others be hating on me
You wanna bet I ain't the illest?
What you tradin' wit G
Occasionally I can feel the
Ripper raging in me i dunno
Maybe it could be how the
Industry behaved with me
And let's say probably the Jamaican in me
It could also be Universal
Wasn't patient with me
If they weren't paying me I
Coulda called it slavery
The way they blatantly labeled me
Some satanically motivated rapper that
Was related to beef
I know I'm strange but my blood ain't green
And I never needed a team because I'm
Not as dumb as I seem
The trinity divided into a dozen light beams
The future I've seen has humbled my dreams
To come in famine and disease
But lemme chill I sound like Priest
And I don't really feel like getting deep
Yall niggas know anyone of The
Horsemen could rip shit
But how many MC's must get dissed?

How many MC's must get dissed
Before somebody says don't fuck with Bis?
How many MC's? Don't fuck with Bis

How many MC's must get dissed
Before somebody says don't fuck with Bis?
How many MC's? Don't fuck with Bis

Ya know
I just think it's time to be grateful
For every emcee that came through and
Spit tapeful's of data for you
Every album before this, I made it for you
Nowadays the truth is I got nothing to prove
But, I heard him call my name a couple times
In a couple of his rhymes and I
Thought about it a couple of times
Is he lookin' for a response or
Is he being a jerk?
Or am I just too involved in my work?
I thought to myself
"Why he put my name in his verse"?
When he said I wasn't ill
He just made things worse
Thats when I recognized what Stan was worth
The only man on earth that could
Reverse the 'Cool J curse'
I searched like a nigga without purpose
Constantly taking Rip The Jacker back
And forth to my therapist
I wasn't prepared for this
People wanna embarrass Bis for
Reasons that are
Not really apparent to me yet
What, I can't get signed because I
Got mad at a vet?
How could a couple verses have
So much anger in 'em?
Don't you know the difference between
Rip The Jacker and Bis?
Go use the Pythagoras theory and
Do the math on this
Add up every multi-syllable paragraph
That I've managed to average
Since January '96 and tell me when you find
It you dick ridin' bitch
I'm so sick of you being skeptical
Always running behind my shit
Tell me the truth
You really think it's time that I quit?
You think maybe I could wholesale
These rhymes that I spit?
I guess the nicest MC's got tired of Bis
And lied to theyself like they
Never relied on Bis
The real rock of the game
People have climbed on Bis
Rhyme mo' sick then anybody out your clique
Wit' thousands of niggas that
Vouch for that shit
I got a couple of bitches too
I make 'em bow to the dick
The album is sick
Some Hollywood biography shit
The difference between ships in bottles
And bottles in ships
Fuckin wit Rip they find your fossils
At the bottoms of cliffs
Stick 6 mics up your ass even
Though I doubt it'll fit but still

How many MC's must get dissed
Before somebody says don't fuck with Bis?
How many MC's?

How many MC's must get dissed
Before somebody says don't fuck with Bis?
How many MC's? Don't fuck with Bis

How many MC's must get dissed
Before somebody says don't fuck with Bis?
"I'll battle you on the net
I'll battle you in the flesh
Y'all niggas know the rest
" don't fuck with Bis

How many MC's must get dissed
Before somebody says don't fuck with Bis?
How many MC's? Don't fuck with Bis

How many MC's must get dissed
Before somebody says don't fuck with Bis?
"I'll battle you on the net
I'll battle you in the flesh
Y'all niggas know the rest
" don't fuck with Bis