What It Is

As we move forward towards the new millennium

We will no longer communicate with vocal inflections

It will be necessary to communicate through telekinesis

We will open your mind and concentrate harder

Focus, focus, focus, focus, hey brother, what it is?

Raps like Star Wars, only the stars die

It's no sequels, B3 cases, C3P0's

Before Morpheus and Neo was killin' 'em

We was duckin' roulette's in the hood like Remo Williams

Understand an underground bomb cipritate

Get serious or die laughin' like John Ritter

Young Eastwood, just tryin' to eat good

Breathe easy, relax, Mac like Fleetwood

Keep snorin', keep sleepin', I'll keep tourin'

Come back, lay in the cut like Neosporin

Came out of the fallopian blastin'

Pharoahe hungrier than Ethiopians fastin'

Flies all in my teeth, stomach stickin' out

Niggas want dibs on the weed but ain't kickin' out

See this is not 'American Idol'

This is me tryin' to eat, human survival

Spit at your favorite rapper, take his title

Stick needles in his eyeballs 'til his signs are no longer vital

This is ain't that, I'm not them

These ain't those rhymes, I'm not him

This is more like cocaine all night

Shine like the new five halogen fog lights, no

More like sunshine and one line in your mind

To remind you of when you were nine

Before you were bustin' cherries

It wasn't necessary to grind them

Now we all on our grizzly

And you got the nerve to press Frisbee's, what it is?

What it is

What it is

What it is

If I'm not home on the range, catch me at the range

Practicin' my aim, gat you in your brain, shame

They thought I was backpacks, slept

Didn't know that he kept inside the knapsack

Today's niggas do skate by hits

Run in your crib on some 'Queer Eye for the Straight Guy' shit

But not homosexuals, they master in gun play

Rearrange your furniture, fix your Feng Shui

They be swearin' it's cute

But a be up in the glove box, cutter in the boot

With the sex appeal and no ice either

To fight the bear arms, I'm not talkin' wife beaters either

When they see me they say that's that nigga

My last name should be "That's That Nigga"

Sounds kinda nice, Pharoahe that's that

Never catch me with them plastic cat fast niggas

With the flow that's so influential

Niggas fucked up, they get no instrumentals now

Next time you spittin' on mine

Bet your bottom dollar you be spittin' over rhymes, what it is?

What it is

What it is

What it is