Big Daddy Kane Lyrics

Album: Looks Like A Job For...

Prelude Lyrics

[Preacher] 

Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today 

for this somber occasion 

Please join us in the mourning of this U-47 

It was a great microphone in it's day 

until it met it's fate 

One evening while it was in the studio 

it was struck by the lyrical force of the Big Daddy Kane 

So ashes to ashes, and dust to dust 

May this microphone, rest, in peace.. 

[Big Daddy Kane] 

Knock knock, guess who? Yes, ooh 

The Bigger the B, the Iggah the I, 

the Jigga the G is comin through 

Yes I'm the one with clout, they're all talkin bout 

To be frank, I have the flavor like sauerkraut 

The microphone assassinator and furthermore 

I murdered plenty rappers and believe that I'll murder more 

So if you ask to give the Kane a go 

You better treat me like drugs, and Just Say No 

Because I utilize my skills to brutilize 

And in a battle, man you should see what I do to guys 

Whenever the mic's mine, I'll rock a hype rhyme 

and come off, like dirty panties at nighttime 

Cause any mic that I caress, I finesse 

with zest, and just bless, best yet to progress 

King Asiatic, no other rapper stands this 

You couldn't be a King if you played hockey in Los Angeles 

I gets pi-daid, top gri-dade, gotta admit ey 

point blank, the kid's stri-daight 

Cause when it comes to R-A-P-P-I-N, huh 

I got it locked up like a bullpen 

"May you rest in peace" -> 3X 

"If this meaning doesn't manifest, put it to rest!" -> KRS-One 

[Big Daddy Kane] 

Rappers I get em and hit em and slit em and split em and rid em 

Acquit em, when I get wit em, you can tell that I did em 

I take em and shake em and bake em and ache em and break em 

and rake em, you can't awake em from the comatose way I make em 

Cause when you're messin with me -- you know what? 

You can swallow a live grenade and you STILL won't blow up! 

Pickin up the microphone you shouldn't dare 

It's like bein on a Stairmaster, climbin and goin nowhere 

You're perpetratin like you're ready and able 

but couldn't rock a show, if the stage was a cradle 

Your rhymes are old as an artifact, and you don't want no part of that 

So don't even start it black 

Anyone riffin I show them how I'm livin 

And give them some of that treatment like my man Michael Bivins 

I smack em up, flip em and then shove em down 

Huh, oh I-ah-ah-I-ah-I-ah-I don't be fuckin around 

To rip this microphone like this today 

since eighty-seven I came a LONG, LONG way 

To headlinin, all the way from supportin.. 

.. and I know you've been watchin me Norton! 

Through my whole rap career, a lot of young, huh, 

rappers sat there, and listened, a lot of young, huh, 

rappers sat there, and wishin.. but.. 

you couldn't see the Kane with X-Ray vision 

And just because you didn't see my crew for a few 

A lot of people thought the Wolfpack was through 

But if you think the Kane and Scoob and Scrap'll breakup 

I tell you like Marvin Gaye, "wake up.. wake up.. wake up.." 

Put it to rest, it's best to 'fess 

Because the Kane is breakin rappers like the IRS 

And consider this microphone the deceased 

Now may it rest in peace 

"May you rest in peace" -> 7X 

"If this meaning doesn't manifest, put it to rest!" -> KRS-One