Official

[Chorus]

Pharoahe's official like Starter, hit harder than Fort Greene

Authentic, Nike, Adidas and Spalding

Then hid it behind the back like making 'em all fiend

From my intricate ways to shake your whole team

Official, Starter hit harder than Fort Greene

No authentic, Nike, Adidas and Spalding

Then hid it behind the back like making 'em all fiend

For my intricate ways to break your whole team

[Verse 1]

My style makes the crowd say, "Ow!"

Like number 55 on the Chargers

I promise thee, I dodge a nigga like Raul Mondesi

Sombrely stay calm, by any means like Natrone

The bomb like Hail Mary's inflated with napalm

Rap please us, deliver scriptures similar to Jesus

That you couldn't catch if you was Ivan Rodriguez

So don't compete within the zone where the mind enters

I'm on the phone in the luxury box like George Steinbrenner

The owner, making you give your diamond back like Arizona

Winning, always Indian like Chief Noc-A-Homa

Sock a nigga in his face, Pharoahe's a sporting authority

Blacks attracted to my rap like dames to sororities

You already fucked up when you stepped up to bat

Strike (one), strike (two), strike (three), that's that

[Chorus]

Pharoahe's official like Starter, hit harder than Fort Greene

Authentic, Nike, Adidas and Spalding

Then hid it behind the back like making 'em all fiend

From my intricate ways to shake your whole team

Official, Starter hit harder than Fort Greene

No authentic, Nike, Adidas and Spalding

Then hid it behind the back like making 'em all fiend

For my intricate ways to break your whole team

[Verse 2]

Yo, the realness stuck, females 'blauch' my knob like Chuck

Dispense the standing eight count

Commence to rebound like Buck Williams

Triple Crown threat to score, plus the bonus strange

Without the Rover, more range than Rey Ordonez

One of the MC's, flip my kind of grammar on the break

Three on one like Phi Slamma Jamma

Serve a slot, a curve-splitter-knuckleball-spitter-change

Every bitter rhyme hit a note, quote, "Get a game"

Not Allen Iverson, forget crossing over, shake men

Similar to Troy, I bring the pain destined to ache men

Break men off, take men out, make me wanna slander

Prime Time, my rhyme defense beyond Deion Sanders

I walk the earth with my rod in this strick land

Promise, people thought I was Thomas Hearns the way I hit, man

[Chorus]

Pharoahe's official like Starter, hit harder than Fort Greene

Authentic, Nike, Adidas and Spalding

Then hid it behind the back like making 'em all fiend

From my intricate ways to shake your whole team

Official, Starter hit harder than Fort Greene

No authentic, Nike, Adidas and Spalding

Then hid it behind the back like making 'em all fiend

For my intricate ways to break your whole team

Official

[Bridge]

Yeah, yeah, come on, come on

It's Lee Stone, Pharoahe Monch for real

With the official Hip Hop to kill

Know what's the deal, come on, check it

Yo, yo, yo

[Chorus]

Pharoahe's official like Starter, hit harder than Fort Greene

Authentic, Nike, Adidas and Spalding

Then hid it behind the back like making 'em all fiend

From my intricate ways to-to-to-to, yo, yo

Official, Starter hit harder than Fort Greene

No authentic, Nike, Adidas and Spalding

Then hid it behind the back like making 'em all fiend

For my intricate ways to-to-to-to

[Verse 3]

Yo, I stick around like hockey, now what the puck?

Cooler than fuck, maneuver like Vancouver Canucks

In your speaker, destroy your woofer, mids and tweeters

Not Wolverine but still I holds claws like Chamique

Waterboys get slaughtered automatic like Bobby Boucher

Push your wig back like Marv Albert's toupee

Blaze a trail like Portland on a track that'll amaze ya

Omnipotent on the D like Clyde Frazier

Slide, phase ya, glide get off the, uh

I'm coming with the *scatting*