What Do You Know

*I know, I know, I know* (sample repeats)<br><br>[Verse 1]<br>Feel free to hate me and to doubt me, but until you stood behind my plate<br>And peep the way I truly swing, you could never out me<br>See, opinions are like rap careers: Everybody`s got one<br>And most of `em out to zip, even less if it`s a hot one<br>Like the radio songs that make us sing along<br>`Cause the beat is real heavy and the hook is real catchy<br>Make you nod your head steady, and you don`t feel sketchy<br>`Til you`re all by yourself, and you ridin` around<br>And realize to yourself how stupid it sounds<br>Mainstream or Underground, away team, home town<br>It boils down to the facts: Wack is wack<br>Camby can`t hold Shaq, and a party ain`t a party if<br>you don`t bring a sack<br>Or your own 12-Pack or this 12 on the wax<br>I detail every track to make a sentence sparkle<br>Giving thoughts to the thoughtful, but I don`t know<br>How I know how to pull these diamonds outta charcoal<br>I just know<br><br>[Chorus]<br>*I know, I know, I know*<br>Think you do when you don`t `cause uh. <br>*I know, I know, I know*<br>Think I don`t when I do but uh. <br>*I know, I know, I know*<br>Think you do when you don`t `cause uh. <br><br>[Verse 2]<br>It`s knowledge of self, knowing what you can and you can`t do<br>And knowing to play the hand that God chose to hand you<br>I plan to double down when my turn comes around<br>I suggest you do the same, you can`t take these chips with you<br>So it`s best to play the game while there`s breath up in your frame<br>Judge to death be the name, so I modern-day confuse<br>For you Latter Day souls, promote the type of fun<br>That makes your Saturdays whole, grey matter turn gold<br>With the stroke of a pen, help your spirit verge free<br>Before it chokes from within, me I`m cloaked in my sin<br>So I decorate my shrow, so the tat on my arm<br>Is the badge of a proud, B-Boy gone wild<br>In the rap sense of child born in `78<br>So I know no other culture just to set the record straight<br>I`m a vandal B-Boyin`, turntable destroyin`<br>Right now it`s the skills with the mic I`m employin`<br>`cause I<br><br>[Chorus]<br><br>[Verse 3]<br>I know tomorrow`s not promised so handle business while you can<br>I know a friend`s not a friend just because he lends a hand<br>I know a man`s not a man, if he has to beat his woman<br>I know she`ll push you to the point where you feel she had it comin`<br>I know you both love each other so a brawl would be senseless<br>I know this `cause I lived it, and I mean every sentence<br>I know that 25 to Life is a very long time<br>I know that that`s the reason that I have to go for mine<br>I know that waitin` on no man is the scheduled flight of time<br>I know that time is unfair when I listen to Sublime<br>I know that my time is comin` so I gotta keep runnin`<br>I know that our time is now so let`s have a little fun and<br>I know you gotta feel me, or my fate is soon to seal me<br>I know that cigarettes and alcohol are out to kill me<br>I know I gotta quit, but not right know<br>I know I gotta quit, but I just don`t know how; I just<br><br>[Chorus]