Nitro

[LL Cool J]

Check this

I excel, they fell, I said - well, hell

L can yell or make em melt like gel

I signed the contracts that bills'll stack

Play the wall or fall I stand tall you're small in fact

Step aside, you might get fried

By the super technique that the rapper applied

As a matter of fact, the impact will distract

Your attention away, from the rest who say

They can mess with Cool J the best of today

You fess cause the rhymes are so funky fresh

I'mma attack smack and make em stand back

Black strong as Cognac I got the knack

To rhyme to the rhythm of this, and give em a gift

That's swift, other rappers are stiff and don't riff with

Mr. Smith, cause that ain't safe

I get you wide open like an uncut eighth

I write to fight, don't bite, to reach heights

The mic makes right, give me the spotlight

So I can prove the pen is mightier than the sword

LL hard as hell, the lyrical lord

The counterfeit misfits that rap had to admit that

My rhymes are so dangerous, I need a permit to rap

Solo, on the microphone

MC's -- don't let me catch you alone

I'm nitro!

Yo, I got the kick of a kettle drum, guaranteed to overcome

You're just a minimum, messin with the maximum

And when I swung my tongue among the high strung

Young MC's, they all got done by the legend

Every second I'm wreckin

Not a mistake you'll find, but you can keep checkin

Out the sound you'll find that it's genuine

Bet that you'll rewind this a thousand times

You can taste the bass like it's filet-of-sole

I leave the microphone full of bullet holes

I drop the bomb like I'm in 'Nam and go beyond

The normal boundaries of too much harm

To MC's, but as they say please I freeze

Rhymes like these kill like a disease

Tried to fill my shoes, and caught the blues

Because they get bruised by the rhymes I choose

I kill rappers at random, I don't understand em

The ones I didn't get, are on a memorandum

Lines I recite are spontaneous

The nursery rhymes you write, are miscellaneous

So pass the crown, bow down and give in

I'm the Prince of Rap, that's how we livin

Settin milestones on the microphone

Empires are overthrown, and I ain't even baritone

No joke I spoke then God stroke

As Job tried to sweat the style and got soaked

Conquered and killed on the microphone

MC's -- don't let me catch you alone

LL's nitro!

Nitro!

Yo, flammable -- like gasoline

Threatening -- like a guillotine

It's like a bad dream when you battle my team

I go to every extreme to make MC's scream

I'm clever, I last forever, we can do whatever

With whoever, whenever, I never

Ever got rocked, stopped or dropped

They got popped, by the hip-hop rock that I concoct

I'm so nice yo, flowin with the maestro

Murderin and hurtin MC's because I'm nitro

The earthquakes'll kill snakes and fakes

You can't flake, you made a mistake, give me a break, thanks

Now that we're straight and that's clear

Watch all the big mouths - dissapear

Disintergrate, deteriorate, fall

I demonstrate, and devastate you all

There's no doubt about the fact I turn it out, the wack

Be on the lookout, LL made a comeback

Full of power, I'mma devour

I stand tall as a tower, I won't allow a

MC to C-O-M-E, C-L-O-S-E

Play me long D-I-S-T-A-N-C-E, M-C's

On the microphone, I'm nitro!

Nitro!

Yo (funky)

I daze amaze faze blaze and beat em down

Nowadays they crave and praise, the funky sound I pound

Rhymes I write em in, recite em and then slide em in

Order to slaughter comp and stomp soon as I begin

Total domination, across the nation

Devestation, cut sensation, it's the invasion

Of L the Terrible, devastating rhymin wiz

I cut through through do and chew, you know what time it is

Slick, I kill for kicks, vic you quick

Hard as bricks, rock ya sick over the mix

The L, L, C, O, O -- L J Period now you know bro!

N-I-T-R-O yo, go for what you know

Unless you're dumb cause yo, I'm nitro-glycerin

Listenin and takin notes

Icin enticin and slicin throats