[Open Mike Eagle]
Found a book of rap verse in my suburban apartment
How much is that old style worth on the market?
Next to grandma's ceramic urchins and starfish
She said my grandfather worked it from birth to a carca**
Look, there's serpents and Martians perfectly carved in
Purchased for dirt at a Leimert Church auction
Cause it's covered in birdsh** and smells like an armpit
Sure the verses are tarnished just hit the surface with varnish
[Dumbfoundead]
This style is valued about…
Can we get an aisle price check on it now?
Since Wildstyle it's gone up a bit
The Dow's down and it's not made in Mao's town
Better buy the vowels now and the consonants on Christmas
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Style sold to the rapper in the long tee
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Style sold to the rapper on the blog links
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Style sold to the rapper wearing all pink
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Not for sale
Where you think you goin' with the mic?
[Psychosiz]
My attic is as cla**ic as a Nina Hartley feet apart scene
To rent to the youth who enter the booth
Vintage Taboo
They say it's depreciated
Nay-sayin'
Inebriated
They just can't appreciate when greatness isn't bling related
So get you varnish out
Change the bulbs
Up the watts
They ain't never seen a style polished out the box
It's time
I don't care what I can get for it
I care what I can do with it
It's mine
[Open Mike Eagle]
Incredible audible elements
What is your bid?
Your attempt to style is a guttural wind
A pitiful verse with nothing but stuttering ends
You're where urban development ends
Hard fella with delicate skin
Stealing bright pink pelican limb relics from ghetto museums
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Style sold to the rapper b**h in lip gloss
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Style sold to the rapper with the pimp talk
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Style sold to the rapper fistna' crip walk
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Not for sale
Where you think you goin' with the mic?
[Dumbfoundead]
What style is that?
Where can I purchase it?
That finger movement and nervous twitch
That Thirsty Fish wordplay that makes perfect sense
That Leimert intensity
Which comes with a certificate of authenticity
No Brian Austin Green
Blossom meets Dawson's Creek
More like Slauson Street
Gotham geeks on awesome beats
The Blowed is not for sale
We ain't go to Oxford, Yale
We're from the school of hard knocks, cops and shotgun shells
[Psychosiz]
Goin' once
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SOLD
To the cat in the back four rows with the black cornrows
SOLD
To the ragtag Linux holder with the Mac bag backpack on his shoulder
SOLD
To the effeminate gentleman and the women friends who bid with him
We'll open the bid again and when the bidding ends
We still won't sell out
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Style sold to the Project Blowed enthusiast
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Style sold to the honor role student list
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Style sold for the solid gold crucifix
Goin' once
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Not for sale
Where you think you goin' with the mic?
That was my favorite style as a youth
My bid is one aged bottle of island Vermouth
No, no, no
How uncouth
To waste such a style on someone as vile as you
I raise your childish brew a thousand proof
Howdy doo
I raise you two chickens and a goat
Oh, seventy-three virgins and a ticket to a Blowed show
Ay, I see you and I raise you three tickets to Paid Dues
My old rap magazines, Ego Trip and Blaze too
Weezy's lean and a pair of Kanyeezees space boots
An L.A. to the Bay cruise and Pelé's gra** stained shoes
An 8-Track tape of Dave Mustaine singing Strange Fruit
A Jesus Will Save You chain made by Ma$e phase two
SOLD
To the gangsta dude in the Kangol kangaroo training suit
Wearing Gazelles from nineteen eighty-two
With a Dangerdoom facial view
He must be making major moves
With the girl in uncovered fanny and candy colored gator shoes
Amplifying her rehabbed Eve tats on her paid for b**bs