Strictly Business lyrics

M.C.s out there ya better stand clear EPMD is a world premier From
New York
straight talk America's best Cold Wild Long Island is where we rest
The style
of the rap makes your hands clap Take care sucker 'cause the lines
are
strapped They mean business no time for play If you bite a line they
blow
you away The more you bite your body gets hot Don't get too cold

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

[P] Uhh yeah knahmean?
Just kick back in the studio with my man E Double ?
[E] Yeah yeah
[P] Just thinkin back to yo how large we'd be knahmean?
Yeah to them cats out there hustlin them demos
Keep the faith keep hustlin knahmean E?
[E] Yeah yeah yeah yeah
[P] I'ma lace em like this check it

[Erick Sermon]
Yo, what's up PMD?

[PMD]
Ayo coolin man, done with this album, about to take it up to Leon
Wills, see what they say.

[E] Hold up man, we ain't bringing nothing up until I diss this girl, man.
[P] Aw, you ain't going to go into that Jane thing again?
[E] You know I had to diss her! I told her don't mess with me, you know?

[Parrish Smith]
Relax while I tax, or you can just max
It really doesn't matter, just stay the hell back
Poppin much junk, now the time has arose-n
I pick your card and your name has been chosen
Not all about ?line-opin? or the stick up scene
"Let it flow!", you know what I mean
I'm the PMD, in the place to be
Clock rhymin and I lock ya, around the tick-tocker

Try to answer to the master on the MC rap artists
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
Just think while I sing and to the brain structure
Don't sleep on the E -- 'ya see, something might rupture
I don't take time for me to blow your mind
It takes a second to wreck it because you're dumb and blind

[Parrish Smith]
Sick em champ...

Well I have a new dance, that you all must learn
You may have seen the Pee-Wee Herman but it's had it's turn
Now this brand new dance, I know you not with it
You might break your neck, to really try to get it
If you seen the clumsy movie it was called The Jerk
You had to check out Steve Martin as he started to work

[Erick Sermon]
Knick knack patty whack give a dog a bone
Yo, don't give him nothing but a microphone
Don't stop, I'm not finished yet
You said I'm not the E, you wanna make a bet?
Remember this: Lounge, you in the danger zone
I figured you would, now leave me alone
You pick and you wish on a four-leaf clover
To be the E double E over and over
You're intrigued by the way I do my thing

[Parrish Smith]

You gots to chill.. TO CHILL.. *echoes*

* DJ K La Boss cuts "Jungle boogie!" *

[Erick Sermon]

Relax your mind, let your conscience be free

and get down to the sounds of EPMD

Well you should keep quiet while the MC rap

but if you tired -- then go take a nap!!

Or stay awake and watch the show I take

because right now -- I'm bout to shake'n'bake

[PMD]

Ayo, what's up E Double?

[Erick Sermon]

Yo, whole thing man, got a lot of customers out there man, trying
to get paid off what we made.

[PMD]

Ayo, rapping ain't your field, you took the wrong trade. So you'd

better get a grip on them lips, and get off the...

[P] Ayo yo yo, I be the P twice E M D

[E] I be the E double E in the place to be