Knuckleheads spreadin' gossip all over town   Every time I drive by you're just standin' around   Hundred-bottles in your pocket, forty-dog in your hand   Don't you know you're just a worker and your boss is my man?   L.L. this, L.L. that, soon as I walk in the place   I wanna take my gun and shoot you in your muthafuckin' face   You're playin' me too close with the schemin' and games   I guess the beef and the bullshit is the price of fame      Movies, records, goin' on tour   Twenty-thousand people hip-hoppin' on the floor   Whole parties body-rockin', and everything's chill   Get back to New York, and the suckers act ill   See, I fought with the devil, made a promise to God   I have experience in goin' all the way to the top   It's harder harder than hard all the suckers are barred   You used to try to talk down now your ego is scarred      See the problem is you want what another man has   His car, his wife, or his razzamatazz   But that's weak, you gotta do work on your own   'Cuz when you're rich you got friends but when you're poor you're alone   So get your own on your own, it'll strengthen your soul   Stop livin' off your parents like you're three years old   Instead of walkin' like you're limp and talkin' yang about me   Why don't you take your monkey-ass and get a college degree?      Or write a rhyme and ride a bike and try to live carefree   Hope my message reaches you before you're seventy-three   A old man, when people ask you what you did with your life   You'll say "I hated L.L. and I carried a big knife"   Every day is a chase, every day is a race   And every day you're being overpowered by my bass   Too much juice to be a deuce, I had to be a ace   It's like the fire's in my eyes and the gun's in my face      I'm stompin' stupid knuckleheads until they bleed   I'm the leader of the show, so it's up to me to lead   I'ma lead you away from drugs and petty crime   Lead you away from wack beats and rhyme   Lead you to that ticket line   So you can come in my show and watch the stars shine   Get busy, not dizzy, wanna teach the young   The last man who didn't listen ended up gettin' hung      Not that I killed him, it's just he didn't wanna trust   The words of a master that's why you must   Take heed to the speech, it's gonna reach your ear   Don't try to say you can't hear 'cause the words are clear   Throwin' flurries, punks scurry and I bury the rest   You better hurry up and rock a rhyme and give it your best   'Cuz tonight's the night we gonna see the big fight   Twelve-gauge on the stage in case it don't go right      E-Love drives a tank, he's strong like a truck   If you're cryin' while you're dyin' we ain't givin' a fuck   L.L. Cool J is on the microphone   Tellin' all you punk ducks "Leave me the hell alone"   'Cuz I'm rated X, born to snap necks   Straight up and down, no special effects   I'm the professor, the teacher, the hip-hop dean   If Russia bombed the U.S., they'd be scared to touch Queens      'Cuz that's where I live, and this is what I give   Turnin' top-notch crews into fugitives   They run, they frightened, they hide from King Titan   Like a sniper when he's shootin' or a viper when he's bitin'   Here I am, tellin' the truth and I'm spreadin' the word to my fellow youth   It goes man-to-man and jam-to-jam   I got hip-hop, rock, and love song fans   All you petty MC's in the state of New York   Gettin' a thousand for a show but you still wanna squawk      Can't get a decent contract, your beats ain't workin'   Dogged-out Pumas plus you're manager's jerkin'   Your mic sounds weak, remember that skeezer   I'm badder than Napoleon, Hitler or Caesar   I'm a hitman, but I'm not for hire, fly girl's desire, the man you admire   Not only on the stage, I rock in the park   And I'm a killer in the daytime, and worse after dark   So don't never ever mess with the king of the sound   L.L. Cool J, the baddest around