Kool Keith - The Overviewer lyrics

"The man that gets out of bed is accustomed
To having the problems of the world
Upon his massive shoulders
Whether asleep or awake for this man
Opening the window in his pajamas
Is secretly implying (KEITH) needs help!"

Bigger than rock ever was
The overnight sensation, with
Ella Fitzgerald, mahalia Jackson
At the Cotton Club
The limo's comin up to Harlem
USA, the black tie affair
Diana Ross and the Supremes
Patti LaBelle was there only 18 in a Ford
The Rudy Baker with Elliott
Ness from The Untouchables
Y'all remember that?
I had the custom pinstripe suit
Me and Frank Sinatra
Wore green in the crowd
Everybody couldn't cope
That's right, the US army
America's #1 knight, cBS television
The camera's on me and Bob Hope
The beige cashmere
The top poet in the country
Shakin hands with the Pope yEAHHH'!
The overviewer, chastizer mind tantalizer
Sun beamin down on your visor
(Uh, uh, uh uh, uh! Uh, uh, uh uh, uh)

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The most energetic, the popular extravaganza
The parade at Wrigley Field
With Lyndon B johnson
Based on the true story
The small cable networks couldn't cover
Such a huge territory
Way before the Hamptons and Eric Clapton
Kool Herc was 11 years old in Jamaica
Howard Cosell, was a baby Jocko
Wasn't even rappin only me and Eisenhower
Before the wheels was invinted
The first guy to create electrical power
Y'all was in the Boy Scout camp
With a oil lamp
Way before the tennis classics
Models in the runways
21 trucks me, the original
Black lady from Star Trek
Watchin Evil Kneivel, land on the ramp
It gets no bigger than this, the lifestyle
Ridiculous

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Change your diapers baby, you saw the cameo
Me on McHale's Navy
My book the #1 best seller
The horse ranch in Morocco
3 nights in the Hilton
Elvis Presley walked up to me
The lobby's full of paparazzi
The greatest ever brings you to Chicago
I love the music and Sam Cooke
And flyin on to tomorrow
Dinner for 3, Akai wasn't made yet
Babe Ruth bought the Rolls Royce, it was NBC
Not the MPC
Photographers, all around Martin Luther King
The Nobel Peace Prize, chuck grounds
Father James did the split in the tuxedo
Entertainer of the year I receive
Letters by the BILLIONS!
I thank the people of the world
Including Washington DC
The President can see me
(the President can see me) YEAHHH'!


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