[Scratches in the intro and Hook by Pete Rock] [A sample of the Onyx cla**ic "Slam" is heard in the background of the intro and the Hook] [Intro: Pete Rock] Rock the house East New-York East New-York East New-York East New-York East New-York East New-York East New-York East New-York Shout out my n***a AZ East New-York [Verse 1] We was already molded into people's minds as mulignanes Now we more f**ed up with a mayor named Giuliani You can try to blind me, an*lyze but can't define me My mind's divine, heavily entwined with Gandhi's Far from feeble, I leave your nostrils hard to breathe through Cause my cerebrals are more of a higher plane than the Hebrews My mic devotion brings out my deepest emotions Overdosing wannabes posing, sending them through convulsions Too hard to follow, you took a bite but couldn't swallow Your mind's boggled, but I'm as deep as Donald Goines novels My whole persona's kinda laid back like a recliner And since a minor, I been f**ing with marijuana Wavy-haired, my skin got a money getting glare Strictly menace wear, macking offa Guinness beer So where it all begins is here, destiny and me finally meet So how can I be weak? I'm rather unique [Refrain: AZ](Pete Rock) Why I'm rather unique (Check it out) [x9] [Verse 2] My verbals rip sh**, brains give birth to thoughts in triplets f** it I'm on some flip sh**, ready to let my clip spit Dramatical, vocals release shells like automatics do Music's magical causing any battles to be tragical Child, got a style sick as hell, sicker than sickle cell anemia Slaughter your circulatory like lukemia Filled with larceny, who want parts of me? I'm vicious Mad malicious, cause it's real on this road to riches I got this mastered, other rappers'll craft it Weak and wicked camouflaged as k**ers how they speak and kick it Peep this uniqueness, non-believers I'm leaving speechless Left to choke as if skunk smoke was coming through the speakers Surgically nice with any verbal device, trife Breathing life into mics, my insight's beyond the twilight So die or fight, no surrender, no retreat Techniques speak, I'm rather unique [Refrain] [Verse 3] So it's gonna take more than your astrologist to knowledge this A physiologist couldn't even figure out the exoticness Raps demolishing certified the way I style it My wordplay blaze with the rays of ultraviolet My culture's smiling, getting more in depth with each breath Autobiography follows the footsteps of Malcolm X Money and s**, Gore-Tex, Donna Karan and Guess Finesse, success through the life stress, mics I bless Puffing trees to get me high as trapeze, looking Japanese At ease when I'm stacking G's, so let's discuss, plus degrees How the rhyme forces the source for thoughts that's lost So don't cross cause it'll cost The ghetto savior, smooth, the real playa with flavor Moves be major, with un-explainable behavior The word's on the street so keep your ears to the concrete [Why I'm rather unique] [Refrain]