Face-off

[00:00.15] They gon' take yo' face off

[00:03.40] Spirit of a lion describes my soul

[00:05.64] Give it up to Zion, then my fire grows

[00:08.14] Wishing of a riot inside my lobe

[00:11.39] Am I trippin'? Is the highest when I fight my foes?

[00:14.64] Bip, I'ma hit 'em with this, you 'bout ta get yo' ass kicked

[00:17.39] My technique is so sick, I'm 'bout to make the hit quick

[00:20.39] Whole lotta muscle (chea), you don't wanna be in a tussle (chea)

[00:22.89] Better than me? That's rubble

[00:24.89] You want trouble? What's up, dawg?

[00:26.14] Feelings hot to kill a top guerilla

[00:27.65] Drop and kneel to pops, I grilled the opp

[00:28.64] For real, your clock it yield and stop

[00:30.14] Your will is shot, the deal was knock ya 'til you plop

[00:31.65] I got the hell comin' your way

[00:33.14] You softer than a thing of Yoplait

[00:34.89] Never competitive with the better kid, I go kray

[00:35.89] Gonna be deaded because I fed it to the mo' graves

[00:37.39] When you wake up in that wet blood

[00:39.89] Ain't no way you 'bout to get up

[00:41.39] How you know that I taxed yo' ass

[00:42.14] 'Cause you got the motherfuckin' check stub

[00:43.64] Always gonna have to pay cost when you steppin' in my way boss

[00:46.14] When I build steel and you stay soft, you're gonna punk out when we face off

[00:49.40] Rumble

[00:50.64] They gon' take yo' face off

[00:52.14] They gon' rumble

[00:53.89] They gon' take yo' face off

[00:55.39] They gon' rumble

[00:56.90] They gon' take yo' face off

[00:58.14] They gon' rumble

[00:59.90] They gon' take yo' face off

[01:01.14] They gon'

[01:01.89] Rumble there young man, they rumble

[01:03.41] Run up, get a combo, quickly help you understand but stay humble

[01:06.15] Don't nobody wanna talk about the way of the world

[01:07.89] The weight of the world'll make 'em all crumble

[01:08.65] And I might stumble, but I pick myself up, brush myself off, my thoughts of a goddamn boss

[01:11.89] I am at they neck like I'm Malcolm X, like I'm Dr. King, like I'm Cornell West

[01:15.40] Like I'm Huey P., like I'm Booker T., like I'm Rosa Parks, I'ma need my rest

[01:18.39] Niggas know what I'm 'bout, I'll run up in yo' house

[01:20.14] Feet up all on your couch, sock you right in your mouth

[01:21.39] I ain't after no clout, it could really go south

[01:22.64] I'm prepared to go to battle whenever there is a bout

[01:24.14] I am Muhammad, Ali, I'm payin' the homage, policy is to be honest

[01:27.15] I take it beyond it though, I can relate to ebonics and really I hate to be ominous

[01:30.15] All of your hate is too obvious, I am the hustle, the muscle, I play for the audience

[01:32.90] I am a gangster with knowledge, if you wanna enter the ring, I would hate to be opposite

[01:35.90] Jab with the right, jab with the left, jab with the right, now you got 'em all staggerin'

[01:38.89] He gon' come back with the right back

[01:40.39] With the left that's when you step to the side, now dagger

[01:42.89] You gon' be damned if you do, damned if you don't, bastard, I'm like Cassius my swagger

[01:44.64] It really don't matter, pardon, I'm hardened, lawless the Martian, kickin' that jargon

[01:47.39] Rumble

[01:49.89] They gon' take yo' face off

[01:50.89] They gon' rumble

[01:52.14] They gon' take yo' face off

[01:53.65] They gon' rumble

[01:55.15] They gon' take yo' face off

[01:56.64] They gon' rumble

[01:58.40] They gon' take yo' face off

[01:59.89] They gon'

[02:00.64] Barber cape off how I'm giving a fade

[02:01.39] Based off the description I gave

[02:02.66] Cut the game off, I'm a Street Fighter

[02:04.15] Beat breaks off like the whip on the stage

[02:05.66] Hand out, ass whippings my plate

[02:07.14] Haters ate off, yeah, get Hitler a steak

[02:08.16] It'll be chaos like a emerald chase

[02:09.64] When I face off in a Nicolas Cage

[02:11.18] Yeah, I'm living in rage

[02:12.90] Punch a pussy nigga like I'm fistin' his babe

[02:14.39] I was sittin' in the 'spital, goin' mental

[02:15.42] Doc had told me they'll forget me, but they didn't, I remember them days

[02:17.66] And I don't wanna be Batman, nigga, I'm Bane

[02:18.91] Literally how the venom enters my veins

[02:19.91] Since a little one, Killa really been sick in the brain

[02:21.39] And the more I think about it, my life was twisted (wait)

[02:22.64] Reminiscing on when mom and dad would wonder

[02:24.39] Why they couldn't reach 'em, like they didn't have my number

[02:25.68] Fighting for my sanity, I never had it hunger

[02:26.89] Put a nigga under ground quick, that's a bunker

[02:28.89] Shock 'em like I'm Master's brother

[02:30.15] Better pick your battles, busters halfway under

[02:31.65] Hit more times than acupuncture

[02:33.15] When it comes to rumbling, I'm Afro thunder

[02:35.14] Really it be funny when I kick it to you dummies

[02:36.39] How I'm grippin' on this iron when I'm rhyming on the mic

[02:37.90] Because it really will get bloody like I'm kicking it with buddies

[02:39.14] When I beat a nigga up like I was Iron nigga Mike

[02:40.64] I tell 'em they don't wanna tussle when I'm at 'em, they gon' drop

[02:42.16] Bet you that he stumble when I jab 'em then I cross

[02:43.65] Leave a nigga humble, like Damn, when Kenny dropped

[02:45.16] 'Cause really we can rumble like Jackie in the Bronx, we gon'

[02:46.64] Rumble

[02:47.66] They gon' take yo' face off

[02:49.89] They gon' rumble

[02:50.91] They gon' take yo' face off

[02:52.14] They gon' rumble

[02:53.89] They gon' take yo' face off

[02:55.40] They gon' rumble

[02:56.89] They gon' take yo' face off (chyeah)

[02:58.40] It's about drive, it's about power

[02:59.41] We stay hungry, we devour

[03:00.91] Put in the work, put in the hours and take what's ours (ahoo)

[03:04.14] Black and Samoan in my veins

[03:05.41] My culture bangin' with Strange

[03:06.65] I change the game, so what's my motherfuckin' name (Rock)

[03:09.65] (What they gonna get though?)

[03:10.40] Desecration, defamation, if you wanna bring it to the masses

[03:12.91] Face to face, now we escalatin', when I have to put boots to asses

[03:15.66] Mean on ya, like a dream when I'm rumblin', you're gonna scream mama

[03:18.40] So bring drama to the King Brahma (then what?)

[03:20.64] Comin' at you with extreme mana

[03:22.39] Thank you, brother, Tech N9ne

[03:28.89] Thank you, Teremana

[03:32.41] One take, that's a wrap

[03:35.64] Face off