The microphone I take, took, taken

You shake, shook, shaken,

Wake, woke, woken to the style I'm creating

Think, thought thought

Seek, sought, sought,

Listen to the lesson I teach, taught,taught.

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Don't sleep, slept, slept,

I creep, crept, crept

I sneak, snuck snuck up

You leap, leapt, leapt

I keep, kept, kept having fun!

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I'm never beat, beat, beaten

I win, won, won

Do, did, done,

Begin,began,begun

Shoot, shot,shot, no I don't own a gun.

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I lead, led, led so I can

Feed, fed, fed

The knowledge you need, straight to your head

When I bring, brought brought it

you catch, caught, caught it

Sit back, relax.

Don't fight, fought, fought it.

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Please don't freeze, froze, frozen

when I speak, spoke, spoken

It's real, you can feel I don't steal, stole, stolen.

I choose, chose, chosen the very best rhymes and

and write, wrote, written them into my lines.

and into your mind when we meet, met, met.

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I'll bet, bet,bet

I won't let you forget, forgot, forgotten

I get, got, got, every head nodding; don't think about stopping.

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Just come, came, come. This is hip hop;

I don't sing sang, sung.

I sting, stung, stung,

I cling, clung, clung,

On each and every word you hang, hung, hung.

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It's not enough yo dream, dreamt, dreamt,

you've got to spend, spent, spent, time on your goals

please lend, lent, lent me your ear

come near I'll lay laid, laid down this new sound

that I make,made, made

I hope that you say that you think it's junk.

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I hope you don't think that I stink, stank, stunk.

If you're thirsty for English, come drink, drank, drunk

because I sink, sank, sunk all the competition

when they hear, heard, heard

that I give, gave, given

encouragement when I spit, spat, spat

Never quit, quit, quit.

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Don't sit, sat, sat,

Yeah, I like it, like that; I'll even kneel, knelt, knelt,

and beg you to express what you feel, felt, felt.

I rise, rose, risen when I drive, drove, driven

through the beat.