GZA/Genius - Living In The World Today

[00:00.11] Yo (yeah), check it out, son, check it out, son [00:03.39] Yo (Wu, can I get a soo?), live in the place to be [00:06.32] You got the capital G, Z to the A, MC [00:09.99] Givin' a mad shout out to the Ranch Crew, from the old school [00:13.05] And we gonna take that one back, know what I'm sayin'? [00:15.33] Lyrical sorcerers right here, the fathers, the cream of the crop, son [00:18.91] (Yo, check it) [00:20.23] Well, if you livin' in the world today [00:22.79] You be hearin' the slang that the Wu-Tang say [00:25.37] Niggas that front, we don't have them [00:27.75] So we blast 'em, alright, well okay [00:30.15] Well, if you like the way it sounds, then clap, man [00:32.61] And if the women love it too, well then raise your hands [00:35.36] But only raise your hands if you're sure [00:37.51] Punk niggas shatter like a glass jaw, break it [00:40.48] My rhyme gross weight vehicle combination [00:42.76] Was too heavy for the Chevy's, is chased out the station [00:45.59] Double-edged was the guillotine that beheaded it [00:48.14] Gassed up, fuckin' with some regular unleaded shit [00:50.78] Heads roll on hillsides behind ropes that [00:53.23] Bind-in, X marks the spot on the scope [00:55.56] Heavily armed, military is necessary, it's a gamble [00:58.76] MC's bet they best at every [01:00.91] Powerful parable ditties might harm [01:03.05] If tampered with, set off and strike like pipe bombs [01:05.75] Flashbacks to the "Duel of the Iron Mic" [01:08.23] Look out for these fatal flying spikes [01:10.39] Of massive sleep holds [01:11.64] Put strangle on commercial angle [01:13.39] Microphone cords tangled from being Star Spangled [01:16.13] Now, who could ever say they heard of this? [01:18.24] My motherfuckin' style is mad murderous [01:20.69] Well, if you like the way it sounds, then clap man (clap man) [01:23.25] And if the bitches love it too, well then raise your hands (c'mon, c'mon) [01:25.93] But only raise your hands if you're sure [01:28.03] Punk niggas shatter like a glass jaw, yeah [01:30.98] Well, if you livin' in the world today [01:33.46] You be hearin' the slang that the Wu-Tang say [01:36.06] Niggas that front, we don't have them (have them) [01:38.57] So we blast 'em (pow), alright, well okay [01:40.72] Well, what you know about MC'in'? (Yo, I know a lot) [01:43.51] Well, can you demonstrate somethin', nigga? (Huh, I'd rather not) [01:46.02] I'm talkin 'bout stacks, cousin (nigga, that's what I got) [01:48.85] Cash rules the world (well, cash rules the spot) [01:51.26] My preliminary attack keep cemeteries packed [01:53.63] Of niggas who think it ain't like that [01:55.73] MC's are gunned down like being run down with mad trucks [01:58.73] Then God struck, religious niggas call it "bad luck" [02:01.21] Rap celeb, you got caught up in the web [02:03.78] Now, bees are stingin', yo, that niggas em-singin' [02:06.32] I'm just swingin' swords strictly based on keyboards [02:08.73] Unbalanced like elephants and ants on see-saws [02:11.63] I throw raps that attack like the Japs on Pearl Harbor [02:14.68] MC's be out like bank robbers [02:16.56] Fleeing the scene, to be a sole survivor [02:19.29] DJ, the getaway driver [02:20.95] Tried to dip, but he dive, I socialize on vocal vibes [02:24.39] On tracks stabbed up with razor-sharp knives [02:26.78] Criminal subliminal minded rappers [02:28.88] Find it hard to define it [02:30.38] When narrow is the gate for fat tapes [02:32.40] And if played out and out of date [02:33.94] Then I construct my thoughts on site to renovate [02:36.67] And from that point, the God made a statement [02:39.06] Draftin' tracements, replacements in basements [02:41.77] Materials in sheet-rock to sound proof the beatbox [02:44.42] And microscopic optics received through the boxes [02:46.94] Obnoxious topic, major labels, flavor tropical [02:50.12] Punchlines, that's unstoppable [02:51.98] Ring like shots from Glocks that attract cops [02:54.32] Around the clubs and try to shut down the hip-hop [02:56.95] But we only increase if everything is peace [02:59.29] Father You See King the police [03:01.74] Well, if you livin' in the world today [03:04.50] You be hearin' the slang that the Wu-Tang say [03:07.06] Niggas that front, we don't have them (have them) [03:09.56] So we blast 'em (pow), alright, well okay [03:12.11] Well, if you like the way it sounds, then clap man (clap man) [03:14.49] And if yo' women love it too, well then raise your hands (c'mon, c'mon) [03:17.18] But only raise your hands if you're sure [03:19.39] Punk niggas shatter like a glass jaw, break it [03:22.01] If you livin' in the world today [03:24.50] You be hearin' the slang that the Wu-Tang say [03:27.23] Niggas that front, we don't have them (have them) [03:29.69] So we blast 'em (pow), alright, well okay [03:32.26] Yeah [03:34.41] [03:45.92] The Wu-Tang say [03:48.44] We don't have them [03:50.36] Alright, well okay [03:53.51] The world today [03:55.31] The Wu-Tang say [03:57.85] Niggas that front, we don't have them [03:59.91] Blast them, alright, well okay [04:01.98]