Out of Business lyrics

f/ Lady Luck, Method Man, Redman

[PMD] Yeh.. Erick Sermon.. EPMD.. check it

[E-Dub] Redman.. Method Man.. Lady Luck.. Def Jam

[PMD] Erick and Parrish Millenium Ducats
Hold me down, hold me down (*echoes*)..

Uhh.. yo!

I grab the mic and grip it hard like it's my last time to shine

I want the chrome and the cream so I put it down for mine

Ill cat, slick talk, slang New York

[Erick Sermon]

EPMD.. Def Jam.. blazin..

Check it, uh-huh, YO

It's E-Dub on the microphone
My style be Elektra, I'm the male Syl Rhome

Homes, walk around with forty-four chrome

on safety, spike the mic in the endzone

This here ain't the average shit, you used to

Front, and automatic rounds, will shoot you

So knock it off, like Biggie Smalls said Duke you soft

[Erick Sermon]
Mm hmm hold me down
Hold me down
Hold me down
Ah yeah yeah hold me down
Yeah uh huh uh huh hold me down
Word up ye yeah a yeh to hold me down
Eh te eh te eh hold me down
Word to everybody that hold me down
Huh? Ah huh yo what?

Aiyyo P back me up now hold me down
while I go around this town snatchin crowns

* one minute and fourty second opening long skit
which features neither Erick or Parrish *

It's like this y'all IT'S LIKE THAT Y'ALL
It's like this y'all IT'S LIKE THAT Y'ALL
It's like this y'all IT'S LIKE THAT Y'ALL

[Parrish Smith]
This is the year for the barbaric and the cats with skills
Underground with the hoodie fuck keepin it real

[Erick Sermon]
EPMD
Erick and Parrish Millenium Ducats
Squadron, uh-huh

.. [DJ Scratch] ..

[Erick Sermon]
Hah, let me introduce my DJ, Scratch the black Balboa
I'm Erick Sermon, the dope rhyme blower
My DJ Scratchatori, interesting like, war stories
with EPMD, the fame and the glory
The Boy Wonder, the second Nature, the Arnold Schwarzeneggar
_The Eraser_, upon the crossfader

[Erick Sermon]
And you don't quit
Yeah pioneers one time (one time two times)
Yeah Erick Sermon boy

[Parrish Smith]
Yeah we rap where you at? (mic check)
"Check this out!"
Aiyyo who wanna step up and get their cranium cracked
from my man +Louis+ from the +Ville+ Slugger baseball bat
Cock back gats cause rugged apparel's where it's at

featuring Busta Rhymes

[Busta Rhymes]
Rap is outta control!
Hey hey rap rap.. (for sure dude) wait what wait
Aiy rap is outta control
Hold on!

[B.R.] Yeah yeah yeah yeah yi yeah yeah yeah yi yeah yeah
[P.S.] Erick and Parrish Busta Bus check it
[B.R.] This is one of my favorites
[P.S.] Aight? So check it check it
[B.R.] Yeah
[P.S.] Outta control

[Busta Rhymes]
Rap is outta control!
Hey, hey rap, rap.. (for sure dude) wait what, wait
Aiy, rap is outta control
Hold on!

[B.R.] Yeah yeah yeah yeah, yi-yeah yeah yeah yi-yeah yeah
[P.S.] Erick and Parrish, Busta Bus, check it
[B.R.] This is one of my favorites
[P.S.] Aight? So check it, check it
[B.R.] Yeah
[P.S.] Outta control
[E.S.] F'real, rap is outta control, like that (For sure dude!)

Right here, right now?

[Erick Sermon] (Parrish Smith)
Yeah, uh-huh
Uh-huh
Ah y'all know what, that is, yo, uh-huh (E-Dub)
Uh-huh, uh-huh, y'know what that is, word up
(Wax and tax em) The Squadron, PMD, Erick Sermon
(Millenium Ducats) Yo, yo.. uh-huh
Def Jam

[Erick Sermon]
Excuse me! I'm tryin to earn a mere buck or two
Yo my name's E-Dub, so who the fuck are you?

[Erick Sermon]
Yeah yeah uh huh word up
Yo yo yo.. YO

Aiyyo this here's procedure rock MC's durin my leisure
time I spend to do em in
The sound pumps hard and runs right through ya
When it hits it reacts like a airbag to ya
Some flip to it small kids might skip to it
and jail cats get rep to it
You get by on record but you wack on stage

[Erick Sermon]
Yeah yeah, uh-huh, word up
Yo, yo-yo.. YO

Aiyyo this here's procedure, rock MC's durin my leisure
time I spend to do em in
The sound pumps hard, and runs right through ya
When it hits, it reacts like a airbag to ya
Some flip to it, small kids might skip to it
and jail cats get rep to it
You get, by on record but you wack on stage

[Erick Sermon]
Uh-huh

[Parrish Smith]
Yo it's the return (uh-huh) Parrish Smith and Erick Serm'
Kid don't mess with fire because you will get burned
Cause we earn respective checks, regulated when a nigga flex
to get a rep totin mack-10's and techs
Hoes and sex, weed and Beck's, and first class flights
You name it, niggaz had it, and still got it
Always rhymin with a pardon

"You got shot cause you knock knock knocked
Who's there? Another motherfuckin hardrock" -> ODB

"Whoa-ho-hoh, let me like slow up with the flow" -> ODB

"Introducing, yo FUCK that nigga's name!" -> ODB

"If you wanna step to my motherfuckin rep
Chk-chk, BLAOW BLAOW BLAOW, blown traject'" -> ODB

* one minute and fourty second opening long skit

which features neither Erick or Parrish *

It's like this y'all IT'S LIKE THAT Y'ALL

It's like this y'all IT'S LIKE THAT Y'ALL
It's like this y'all IT'S LIKE THAT Y'ALL

[Parrish Smith]

This is the year for the barbaric and the cats with skills

Underground with the hoodie, fuck keepin it real

* versions on "Greatest Hits" differ from the original recordings

[Parrish Smith]

Yeah, vacation's over

As I say mic check, in eighty-nine, time to wreck
Tellin all the sucker crab MC's to step

EPMD's in effect

Snappin necks and cashin large checks, youknowhatI'msayin?

And we gonna do it somethin like this

[Erick Sermon]

Shazam, let me tell you who I am

* versions on "Greatest Hits" differ from the original recordings

[Erick Sermon]
The employees of the year yeah we back to work
I took time off while other rappers got jerked
Due to the fact that they wack in their track
Have to go back and stack 'cause they lack
The ingredients... EPMD and Scratch for that...
*DJ Scratch cuts and scratches*

* versions on "Greatest Hits" differ from the original recordings

("Don't get too close because you might get shot")

* a flurry of gunshots ensues *

[Erick Sermon]

Try to answer to the master or the MC rap God is no joke

on the lyric - it's hard to be modest

I knew I was the man with the master plan

to make you wiggle and jiggle, like gelatin