Canibus, Hamza - Punch Lines lyrics

Canibus, Hamza! Follow us into a new era
Where lyrical content is a MUST!

We cut microphones like
Gangsters holdin chrome
Like, Toto you far from home
Like, words spoken wrong will never
Help you reach excellence
Stop bitin like you got a speech impediment
When will you learn?
Whack lyrics and a hot beat
Makes your song irrelevant
This is not a movie
I'm a poet so it takes more
Than punchlines to move me

Can-IBus, your favorite rap star on ice
What I talk on the mic
Make them call on Christ
As far as the eye can see
Gaze out into the wide sea


Look for the island, the island is me
I heard Fat Joe said, I was over in Iraq
He said I was a soldier in lyrical combat
Other people slandered my name
But I dodged that
They don't see the missing pieces
My thesis provides rap under the influence
Bang 'Bis music in a Bonneville Buick
I see your face, I'mma crash into it
Lyrically I kick ass
If you don't wanna know don't ask
I might do it pro bono for no cash
The two handed choke from the hope
Turn your brain and skull to sand and salt
Sprinkle you on the floor
I didn't wanna rap like that, but I had to
Cause that's what my master would do
If he was asked to
The perfect music machine, mechanical being
The most lyrical digital streams the
World has ever seen
I did, I do, I does, I am, I will be, I was
The same nigga you love

We cut microphones like
Gangsters holdin chrome
Like, Toto you far from home
Like, words spoken wrong will never
Help you reach excellence
Stop bitin like you got a speech impediment
When will you learn?
Whack lyrics and a hot beat
Makes your song irrelevant
This is not a movie
I'm a poet so it takes more
Than punchlines to move me

Yo, I hope they film this shit
Cause I'm 'bout to blaze you
And get it on tape too
I'm 'bout to Kay Slay you
Somebody gon' grab you - try to escape
Hold you down while I perform ? on your face
Why you sound like that
Why you tear the mic down like that
Why you sound so intense when you rap
The airborne attack you can't call off
Breathe exhaust like a horse or
A supercharged Mustang Ford
Drugs rain from the sky
It's like the angels want me to die
They push me harder cause they want me to try
A pitbull off the leash, barkin speech
Like a bull in the pit
Liftin you off your feet
I feel like the world's mine
I can park in the streets
Kick the world's illest rhyme
Police officers weak
People layin on the concrete
Exhausted from heat
Watchin John Kerry spit over
Michael Moore beats
This is a little somethin
That my repertoire boast
I almost, was in control of all coasts

We cut microphones like
Gangsters holdin chrome
Like, Toto you far from home
Like, words spoken wrong will never
Help you reach excellence
Stop bitin like you got a speech impediment
When will you learn?
Whack lyrics and a hot beat
Makes your song irrelevant
This is not a movie
I'm a poet so it takes more
Than punchlines to move me

I get advanced rhymes to quote, they all dope
Tote a lyrical landslide, give me all votes
But, I can be as quiet as they want me to be
Cause even though they say my name
They ain't talkin to me
They talk to magazines, they talk to MTV
They up on 106 on BET talkin to Free
Big niggas actin tough
But they walk like they ankles is cuffed
Who gives a fuck if your ankles is buff
I can ar-ticulate, I wanna participate
But they tryin to hold me back
A black ball number eight
I pick the microphone up and spark the debate
Ever since ninety-eight I been
A target for hate
Jesus Christ! My name should be He-Bus Mic
Even when I rip the shit, fans leave uptight
But, I don't know if I'm right no more
But, I don't know if I'm right no more

We cut microphones like
Gangsters holdin chrome
Like, Toto you far from home
Like, words spoken wrong will never
Help you reach excellence
Stop bitin like you got a speech impediment
When will you learn?
Whack lyrics and a hot beat
Makes your song irrelevant
This is not a movie
I'm a poet so it takes more
Than punchlines to move me