Greenhouse - Performance Is Everything lyrics

Mama told me there would be drama
Days where emcees would try to test me
Thinking then forgetting that it’s my
School of hard knocks
I’m the sure-shot, the principal
Issuing discipline, sittin’
On a goldmine that rests between my hairlines
A gold nugget that shines
Through these rhymes
So emcees looking for static
For that type of action
Get turned into mathematics
Broke down to fractions
You’re one fifth of my style
The reciprocal is five times live
Off what I ink while
The poetic penpal most down with the locale
I’m for this game like
As of right now, I’m tellin’ emcees to hush
You talkin’ too much
Even when you breathe, you a pet peeve


Trust me, the key to last long is stay strong
As we know it’s the weakest that’s
The quickest ones to go
Rappers fold like, with one hit that’s it
‘cause all they wanted to be was seen
In the ring and that’s embarrassing
Like the great white hype
The prototype to take nine to five
Word is born, that’s why I
Got my game face on, prepared to perform
‘cause I ain’t goin’ out in one bout
When it’s all said and done
Even if they start on page one
They won’t have enough mics
To rep Greenhouse Effect

Performance is everything, words mean nothing
Talk is cheap unless your
Words mean something
Don’t waste your breath ‘cause to
Me you’re just puffin’
Greenhouse don’t take kind to bluffin’

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Approximately three out of every four
Emcees disregard me and lyrically
Basically in my eyes
Leaving about twenty-five percent to
Keep it live but that’s all inscribed
We need that other seventy-five percent to
Recognize who’s writing tight lines
Priceless messages poetically personified
Paragraphs equal in verses
My rhymes will make your rhymes worthless
You’ll leave the scene green with envy
The effect when you step to our house
Evidently you ain’t heard nothing
I don’t even like the word ‘bluffing’
‘cause it means you would lie to get by
Why try to back to transparent?
Must be mentally as often
As mercury physically
Mental capacity burn to the third degree
Later you’re asking me

Performance is everything, words mean nothing
Talk is cheap unless your
Words mean something
Don’t waste your breath ‘cause to
Me you’re just puffin’
Greenhouse don’t take kind to bluffin’

A wise man said advice was golden
So in my goal ‘cause I’m the chosen
One to advise who’s frozen in time
The only mind thing that’s aged is wine
Not rhymes so emcees on they last breath
Please step left
The lyrical locksmith with the
Skeleton keys got next poetically violent
Taking this game to new depths
Putting pressure on these wack performers
Penetrating their pathetic patience
Purpose for leaving ‘em naked
Plus it wasn’t there for me to take it
The premise was vacated
Left behind was a nemesis to find
Quick ways to get paid which
Makes the game change
From hip-hop to how to entertain
Placing emphasis on imaging
But performance is everything
Images fade fast but
Images only touch my path for my fans when
I expand on the problem at hand
But only then
Inkwell wouldn’t rock the trend
My band has it's own wagon
For emcees to sit in
Plus the Greenhouse wouldn’t take
The wrong route having the money man come in
And white our rhymes out, please
What does that say of creativity?
That an artist is as good
As the money he brings well if so
We’re emphasizing a new criteria for
Those who like hearing us
So I tell ‘em ‘cause

Performance is everything, words mean nothing
Talk is cheap unless your
Words mean something
Don’t waste your breath ‘cause to
Me you’re just puffin’
Greenhouse don’t take kind to bluffin’
Performance is everything, words mean nothing
Talk is cheap unless your
Words mean something
Don’t waste your breath ‘cause to
Me you’re just puffin’
Greenhouse don’t take kind to bluffin’

Yeah, Greenhouse Effect, this is Mr inkwell
Giving shouts out to my man
Blueprint and Manifest, I’m
Carrying the torch
Nias, representin’ my crew, haha
Sending shouts out to all those wack emcees
That underestimate our abilities to perform