Canibus - Making a Name for Ourselves lyrics

[Intro: Canibus] Yeah, yeah Me and my man Common Sense Rallying troops like Joseph Stalin Where you at, yo? [Hook] [Common] I'm about to make the name Common Sense a name you fear Y'all n***as is scared, I'm your worst nightmare squared [Canibus] And I'm a make the name Canibus a name you fear Y'all n***as is scared, I'm your worst nightmare squared [Common and Canibus] That's double for n***as who ain't mathematically aware [Sample: Another s**er thug MC out there] [Verse 1: Common] I can tell by how you write, you the type to run in a fight I hold mics while you hold spite Like a broken-hearted b**h Don't give no f** who your team or who you started with Cameoed or charted with, I house n***as like apartments with Mic mechanisms, I dissect a rhythm Move crowds with kinetic wisdom It's like a Malcolm X-orcism, f** the rhythm, I hit him I want him got and I get him, auction his wack a** off, then bid him [Verse 2: Canibus] I'm creating the ultimate verses with perfect lines Putting together the web of my rhyme one thread at a time So you n***as need to stop testing me Because you know you can't "F" with me Stepping to me with insuperior weaponry Exposing yourself to the verbal radiations Saying you can defeat me is nothing but speculation Lyrics unravel, faster than bullets travel through barrels n***as be digging my styles like fossils and pterodactyls Who want to battle? I'm bad to the bone marrow The Earth got one sun but I walk with three shadows With Allah, my supernatural bodyguard n***as couldn't touch me if they gave me a ma**age MCs will compete with lyrics and beats get crushed I'll hit you in your chest so hard, your shoulders will touch What [Interlude] "Stepping to me is like going to the county being a neutron" "I ain't scared of no n***a" [Verse 3: Common] I pursue sound fairs, relaxed like Dru Down's hair Other n***a's rhymes are like gang signs, I throw down theirs On knots, I landed, players get played like Hamlet Supposedly nice, taken for granted like life I write twice and drop singles in record pools n***as I'm dunking like when cops mingle f** hip-hop jingles, rhyming big words and not saying sh** The clique that you came in with accent your flavor with Like moose, I go to the caves and get n***as off all fours I'm the sh** that's uncalled for, the sh** that you fall for Far more advanced than a rapper whose career You could only take a glance Couldn't make the transition from B-boy to C-note stance I stand in a circumference of humbleness But in the Chi rumble it's Mistaken as a weakness, when poetry's in motion Like a picture, I'm the main feature Amongst hard working teachers and corrupt preachers I make my living off of singles like Latifah In between sheets like reefer with blunted senses You couldn't make a statement if you was from a sentence I'm cold with numb intentions [Interlude] "f**ing with Canibus" 4x [Verse 4: Canibus] Yo, the Canibus is a animal With a mechanical mandible coming to damage you Spitting understandable slang at you I be the all seeing lyrical, hammerhead shark peripheral With three-hundred sixty degree visual When the signal was given, MCs get bitten With venom from a poisonous algorithm liable to k** 'em My style will get in 'em, way up in 'em My face don't belong in The Source It belongs on the Shroud of Turin for certain I grab mics and murder sh** It's wickeder than Satan worshipers Going to Catholic church services, you heard of this The lyrical verbalist slash herbalist The wrath of my cold-blooded verses is merciless Rap snap, get your a** cracked like bear traps Contaminate your air sacs like tear gas And I swear black, try to battle me, you won't last I'll turn your a** into The Artist Formerly Known As You gay a** f*g, I'll blow you to ashes with tactics Strip you naked, then make you hug a cactus, you ba*tard So phat to be a rap star, taking pictures at music seminars People know who you are Now I got mad shorties that wanna call me Because they saw me up in The Source chilling on page 40 Put this in your CD-ROM: WWW dot Canibus dot com You can find me on the internet talking to chicks That was sweating me off the Music Makes Me High remix I be talking mad trash, trying to get 'em to laugh See, if I click and drag long enough, I'll get the a** Bring it back to the lab on Mount Prospect Ave Let your chicken s** me off and send her home in a cab You know how we do, liquid aluminum like the T2 Beast from the East part 2, coming to see you [Hook] It's time I made the name Common Sense a name y'all fear Y'all n***as is scared, I'm your worst nightmare squared Now that I made the name Canibus a name you fear You still scared, I'm your worst nightmare squared That's double for n***as who ain't mathematically aware [Another s**er thug MC out there] Since I made the name Common Sense a name y'all fear Y'all n***as is scared, I'm your worst nightmare squared And since I made the name Canibus a name you fear You stay scared, I'm still your worst nightmare squared That's double for n***as who ain't mathematically aware [Another s**er thug MC out there]