The Source (Magazine), T-Love, Ras Kass - Microphone Check: On Earth as It Is in Heaven lyrics

First there was the
Smoking underground single
"Won't Catch Me Runnin'" b
W "Remain Anonymous
" then there was the regionally notorious
Radio drop for Sway & Tech's mix show
"The Wake Up Show" Who was this rapper using
All these big words? But it wasn't
Until his team-up with fellow West Coast rap
Artists Saafir and Ahmad to do a
Song on the Streetfighter soundtrack
That the microphone
Specialist extraordinaire known as
Ras Kass became
A face within the hip-hop scene and a
Definite force to be reckoned with
With a XXXL sized buzz
5' 2" Ras took a Herculean step into a
Hectic bidding war between record
Labels like Buzztone
Immortal Records, Def Jam, Geffen, etc
Before finally
Landing at Priority along the way
Ras Kass -a 21-year old from
Carson, California has smoked mics
In several cities, wrote and
Performed songs on Coolio's mega-selling
LP, Gangsta's Paradise
And is now managed by the
Grammy-winning rapper via Crow
Bar Entertainment soul on Ice, Ras' debut LP
Is just the beginning of a new legacy in rap
Music, a new chapter in West Coast hip-hop
Ras Kass is a modern day lyrical phenomenon

What do you feel makes you different
From the average rapper today?
Just me it's not the rapper's fault
It's the industry they don't give
A fuck about who's dope -they just
Care about the bottom line
Which is making money -and they go
On precedent nWA blew up on the West so
That's all they sign so you might
Have this dope MC, but in order to
Get his foot in the door
He's gotta talk about
What he has to talk about to
Get a deal and to make
Some money for me, I did
My shit from the grassroots
I went into a record deal when I wasn't
Seeking it they came to me, so I
Could say, "I want creative control, " I did
Have creative control to be able to say
And do whatever the fuck I felt
And that's what's gonna make me
Different from the average MC

In the midst of these "newfound"
Rap music categories like
Gangsta rap, g-funk, jazz-abstract, spoken
Word, hardcore, etc, where does the music
Rhyme style on your LP fall?

How did you go about writing
Songs contained on the LP
And what can listeners expect?


Who did production on the record
And who's your crew?