The Mission

[Intro: Scratch Break 1]​​

[Apani B] "The mission I'm on, to educate and elevate"

[J-Treds] "That's why I don't stress!"

[Big L] "Yo, the spotlight is mine, it ain't his no more"

[Lil Fame] "You thinkin' it's all good"

[Big L] "Niggas can't live no more, and—"

[Lil Fame] "Fool, what you want?!"

[Big L] "I'm straight—"

[Lil Fame] "Yeah!"

[Verse 1: J Dilla]

Madlib, turn the strings up

My knuckleheads, put them things with the beams up

You won't need your heat this time around

I spits fire, it's like the rhymes are rounds

In a big-ass block of the bitch-ass niggas

Who wan' hate, 'cause they don't get cash with us

But they really on Jay and Mad dilznick

If you want the truth, then that's just it

They sick 'cause I slipped they chick this magic stick

We all that, can we get them balls back?

I keeps it simple, as well as complicated

Jaylib for service, just compensate us

I'm tryin' to cop the Maker's

And hop up in the latest whips, caked, rockin' gators

It's P-I', D-I', and 'L-I-B

Better know what the hell I brings, it's fire

[Scratch Break 2]

[Pep Love] "Get ya thang on"

[Planet Asia] "Ready for action"

[Pep Love] "On, on, on, on – 'til the break'a dawn"

[Buckshot] "Nigga, cock ya gauge—"

[Buckshot] "He was talkin' shit to my man, so I had to get 'em – yup"

[Redman (Method Man)] "Rock the house, chalk 'em out! (No doubt)"

[Madlib] "M-A-D-L-I-B — B-A-D K-I-D" "Oh yeah!"

[Pep Love] "Wait!"

[Verse 2: J Dilla, (Big L sample)]

Yo, wait – now, let me speak on these journalists

Only the ones who need to learn to listen

Before they criticize verses that burns kitchens

Live from the land of Hearns and Pistons – ya heard me?

Beats and rhymes so dirty

Play it too loud and you'll feel a burn where you pissin'

Ugh, my nigga, turn the motherfuckin' strings up

The ultimate link-up, about to cha-ching up

Jaylib—baby, don't forget the name

How you want it, Beemer, four-fifth, or Range?

Come see the Dillalade with the fifth

Maybe you can write an article about how Jay play with them whips

And who said producers ain't supposed to rap?

You don't want the Ruger to bang? Then close your traps

Better not run them jibs or fibs no more

We pullin' plugs, so haters ("Can't live no more, and—")

[Outro: Scratch Break 3]

[Lil Fame] "Fool, what you want?!?"

[Big L] "I'm straight—"

[Lil Fame] "Yeah!"

[Dank] "Y'all nig— know y'all outta there – yeah, come on with the real"

[Smif N Wessun] "I read ya reviews, tryin' to downplay the sh-- my team do"

[Rah Digga] "I keep heat by the waist, for those that playa hate"

[Posdnous] "If a n---a take offense, f--- it, got to be that way"

[Phat Kat] "Yooo – this is dedicated..."

[T3] "To these people out here getting bank"

"Where the pursuit of" "the money" "is reali-tay"

"Never front on a clique that you can't evaluate"

[Phat Kat] "Suck–" "Suckers follow, but–" "–but they all fake"

[Tommy Evans] "Ah, yeah, wah, yah!"