Straight Off the D.I.C.

[Intro: Vast Aire]

Def Jux, Cipher Unknown

This is hard right here

Co-Flow, what the deal?

This is Brooklyn right here

This on fire right now

This is East, this is West

Third degree – what?

[Verse 1: Vast Aire]

Yo, I been nice since you had to put your hat in your sleeve

And break arms like Seagal, don't wear your heart on your sleeve

There's two things in life: fact and belief

Yeah, and you best to believe, it's a fact I just rolled the leaf

Def Jux don't care about your culture or creed

Or the color you bleed, and it'd be Ox versus aliens

All you see is Martians piled up

As the yeast in my b-boy chest rises up

You ain't a convict, you got caught jaywalking

And you don't know the alphabet, but you still talking

Well, I got a blade too

And I know it's sharp enough to cut you

They call me Starving Harlem Scissor Tongue, I lick tissue

And pardon me, my lava just spit almost hit you

You know I got lava spit, and got a lot of it

We can call it in the air, this is the raindrop missiles

Heads or tails

The last cat who tried to see me – he now gotta touch braille

Everybody inherit the earth, why not?

We can sell it to the frail, and feed them fairy tales

[Hook: Vordul]

Cannibal O, plus the X

Love to sex microphones, the type of poems

We spit rips through scripts and strips your bones

Yo, we sick with poems off the dome

I'm often known, inhaling Newports and eighths

'Cause New York is sick, still we walk and spit

Straight off the D.I.C. 

With these niggas, please, you freeze in the NYC where everyone...

[Verse 2: Vordul]

Live from the 1-3-5, representing niggas that strive

Straight through hard times trying to survive

Inside New York, the island of crime

Where the most violent of minds, walking these blocks

Stay eyeing on mine, yo, my brain sparks like sporting a Glock

I might start firing live, straight off of the top

Cannibal Ox, inspiring minds, flipping on tracks

Spitting these live animal raps

I'm strangling cats, sliding on my side of the map

Thinking he all, you ain't got it like the mighty, matter of fact

You small, claiming you large?

I'm pulling your card, leaving you scarred

Repping tragedy, warfare, but nod, yo

This god writes light travelled bars adapt to stars and shine to

Rap Allah, yo, we crack cigars to get through stress

Pulling on sess, stabbing these birds, loving the sex

Now I'm chilling in front of my rest

Smoking the rent, watching these cops, popping on blocks

Screaming y'all niggas ain't nothing to wet

We trying to gain freedom like a tribe in Tibet

Starving niggas had to still spit it live on the set

Live on the set

[Bridge: Vordul]

How you do it? we stay moving

Through the jungle, ghetto surviving, spitting lines off the D.I.C. 

How you do it? we stay moving

Through the jungle, ghetto surviving, spitting lines off the D.I.C. 

How you do it?

[Hook: Vordul]

Cannibal O, plus the X

Love to sex microphones, the type of poems

We spit rips through scripts and strips your bones

Off the dome

I'm often known, inhaling Newports and eighths

'Cause New York is sick, but still we walk and spit

Straight off the D.I.C. with these

Straight off the D.I.C. with these

You all freeze in the NYC where everyone

Cannibal O, now fuck with me

Y'all better realize

[Outro: Vordul]

Cipher Unknown, Cannibal O

Straight off, straight off

Straight off the D.I.C. with these

Y'all niggas freeze, so please

Straight off the D.I.C. with these

Straight off the D.I.C. with these

Y'all niggas freeze, in the NYC, so c'mon, please