Up Against The Wall they caught me...Got the world carved on min...all these niggas in the street for a while ...Checkin' lyrics to the city like a newport...at's organized with the time ...I'm on the road checkin' my V....But the seasons enough to t...Yo I'm up against the wall ...Yo the world is falling ...On the mike, when I get hy...I'm on the wall my back is on the wall ...Won't get in the trap I'm passed all...Phat as can be on the M-I-see ...In the place to be, if you...I'm on the wall, I'm on the wall ...The devil's on some sli...But I maintain my focus and just hold the fort down ...w cb riding through the East ...o-type brother make the undercovers wonder ...Got lawyers all in the East ready to shine...m pen for his spark the night ...s and my sisters in the streets dong their ...My back is against the wall and can't do a...Yo I'm Up Against The Wall

We had the right idea in the beginning ...and we just need to maintain our focus, and elev...with the times, and everythi...The rhyme style is elev...The style of beats is e..."The real... hip-hop" ...now we should start the show" ...Who's the suspicious character strapped with the sounds profound ...You're in the Terrordome like my ...Cause I'm like the Wizard and you look...The horror be when I re...Subtractin all the rappers who lack, o...So as I have in the past, I whup ass ...While the world's revolvin, o...h mad love and plus the illest warlike tact...The wilderness is fille...lift, I'm here with the skills you've misse...The rejected stone is now the cornerstone ...Sort of like the master builder when..."To the beat y'all" ...The beat is sinister, P...I'm like the minister, when I be lacin the wax ...n salvation through the way that I rap ...dly problems, I got the healing power ...When the mic's within my rea...be caught up in all the hype ...The apparatus gets bles...No more of the unpure I got the cure for this mess ...The wackness is spreadin like the plague ...ut still can't make the fuckin grade ...y, they can't touch the knowledge I personi...I travel through the darkness carrying m...The illest soldier, when I'm holding down the fort ..."The mic..." ..."The mic..." ..."The mic..." ...On the microphone you know that I'm one of the best yet ... fly, ridin high on the jet-set ...time now, I've held the scrolls and manuscr...m sick, fed up with the bullshit ...Got the lyrical full clip, ...Don't trip it's the gifted prolific one...ead Slick -- why is the press all on my di-...The mic's either a magi...it gets tragic like the havoc of a nuclear

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We had the right idea in the beginning ...and we just need to maintain our focus, and elev...with the times, and everythi...The rhyme style is elev...The style of beats is e..."The real... hip-hop" ...now we should start the show" ...Who's the suspicious character strapped with the sounds profound ...You're in the Terrordome like my ...Cause I'm like the Wizard and you look...The horror be when I re...Subtractin all the rappers who lack, o...So as I have in the past, I whup ass ...While the world's revolvin, o...h mad love and plus the illest warlike tact...The wilderness is fille...lift, I'm here with the skills you've misse...The rejected stone is now the cornerstone ...Sort of like the master builder when..."To the beat y'all" ...The beat is sinister, P...I'm like the minister, when I be lacin the wax ...n salvation through the way that I rap ...dly problems, I got the healing power ...When the mic's within my rea...be caught up in all the hype ...The apparatus gets bles...No more of the unpure I got the cure for this mess ...The wackness is spreadin like the plague ...ut still can't make the fuckin grade ...y, they can't touch the knowledge I personi...I travel through the darkness carrying m...The illest soldier, when I'm holding down the fort ..."The mic..." ..."The mic..." ..."The mic..." ...On the microphone you know that I'm one of the best yet ... fly, ridin high on the jet-set ...time now, I've held the scrolls and manuscr...m sick, fed up with the bullshit ...Got the lyrical full clip, ...Don't trip it's the gifted prolific one...ead Slick -- why is the press all on my di-...The mic's either a magi...it gets tragic like the havoc of a nuclear

We had the right idea in the beginning ...and we just need to maintain our focus, and elev...with the times, and everythi...The rhyme style is elev...The style of beats is e..."The real... hip-hop" ...now we should start the show" ...Who's the suspicious character strapped with the sounds profound ...You're in the Terrordome like my ...Cause I'm like the Wizard and you look...The horror be when I re...Subtractin all the rappers who lack, o...So as I have in the past, I whup ass ...While the world's revolvin, o...h mad love and plus the illest warlike tact...The wilderness is fille...lift, I'm here with the skills you've misse...The rejected stone is now the cornerstone ...Sort of like the master builder when..."To the beat y'all" ...The beat is sinister, P...I'm like the minister, when I be lacin the wax ...n salvation through the way that I rap ...dly problems, I got the healing power ...When the mic's within my rea...be caught up in all the hype ...The apparatus gets bles...No more of the unpure I got the cure for this mess ...The wackness is spreadin like the plague ...ut still can't make the fuckin grade ...y, they can't touch the knowledge I personi...I travel through the darkness carrying m...The illest soldier, when I'm holding down the fort ..."The mic..." ..."The mic..." ..."The mic..." ...On the microphone you know that I'm one of the best yet ... fly, ridin high on the jet-set ...time now, I've held the scrolls and manuscr...m sick, fed up with the bullshit ...Got the lyrical full clip, ...Don't trip it's the gifted prolific one...ead Slick -- why is the press all on my di-...The mic's either a magi...it gets tragic like the havoc of a nuclear

We had the right idea in the beginning ...and we just need to maintain our focus, and elev...with the times, and everythi...The rhyme style is elev...The style of beats is e..."The real... hip-hop" ...now we should start the show" ...Who's the suspicious character strapped with the sounds profound ...You're in the Terrordome like my ...Cause I'm like the Wizard and you look...The horror be when I re...Subtractin all the rappers who lack, o...So as I have in the past, I whup ass ...While the world's revolvin, o...h mad love and plus the illest warlike tact...The wilderness is fille...lift, I'm here with the skills you've misse...The rejected stone is now the cornerstone ...Sort of like the master builder when..."To the beat y'all" ...The beat is sinister, P...I'm like the minister, when I be lacin the wax ...n salvation through the way that I rap ...dly problems, I got the healing power ...When the mic's within my rea...be caught up in all the hype ...The apparatus gets bles...No more of the unpure I got the cure for this mess ...The wackness is spreadin like the plague ...ut still can't make the fuckin grade ...y, they can't touch the knowledge I personi...I travel through the darkness carrying m...The illest soldier, when I'm holding down the fort ..."The mic..." ..."The mic..." ..."The mic..." ...On the microphone you know that I'm one of the best yet ... fly, ridin high on the jet-set ...time now, I've held the scrolls and manuscr...m sick, fed up with the bullshit ...Got the lyrical full clip, ...Don't trip it's the gifted prolific one...ead Slick -- why is the press all on my di-...The mic's either a magi...it gets tragic like the havoc of a nuclear

We had the right idea in the beginning ...and we just need to maintain our focus, and elev...with the times, and everythi...The rhyme style is elev...The style of beats is e..."The real... hip-hop" ...now we should start the show" ...Who's the suspicious character strapped with the sounds profound ...You're in the Terrordome like my ...Cause I'm like the Wizard and you look...The horror be when I re...Subtractin all the rappers who lack, o...So as I have in the past, I whup ass ...While the world's revolvin, o...h mad love and plus the illest warlike tact...The wilderness is fille...lift, I'm here with the skills you've misse...The rejected stone is now the cornerstone ...Sort of like the master builder when..."To the beat y'all" ...The beat is sinister, P...I'm like the minister, when I be lacin the wax ...n salvation through the way that I rap ...dly problems, I got the healing power ...When the mic's within my rea...be caught up in all the hype ...The apparatus gets bles...No more of the unpure I got the cure for this mess ...The wackness is spreadin like the plague ...ut still can't make the fuckin grade ...y, they can't touch the knowledge I personi...I travel through the darkness carrying m...The illest soldier, when I'm holding down the fort ..."The mic..." ..."The mic..." ..."The mic..." ...On the microphone you know that I'm one of the best yet ... fly, ridin high on the jet-set ...time now, I've held the scrolls and manuscr...m sick, fed up with the bullshit ...Got the lyrical full clip, ...Don't trip it's the gifted prolific one...ead Slick -- why is the press all on my di-...The mic's either a magi...it gets tragic like the havoc of a nuclear

We had the right idea in the beginning...and we just need to maintain our focus, and elev...with the times, and everythi...The rhyme style is elev...The style of beats is e..."The real... hip-hop"...now we should start the show"...Who's the suspicious character strapped with the sounds profound...You're in the Terrordome like my ...Cause I'm like the Wizard and you look...The horror be when I re...Subtractin all the rappers who lack, o...So as I have in the past, I whup ass...While the world's revolvin, o...h mad love and plus the illest warlike tact...The wilderness is fille...lift, I'm here with the skills you've misse...The rejected stone is now the cornerstone...Sort of like the master builder when..."To the beat y'all"...The beat is sinister, P...I'm like the minister, when I be lacin the wax...n salvation through the way that I rap...dly problems, I got the healing power...When the mic's within my rea...be caught up in all the hype...The apparatus gets bles...No more of the unpure I got the cure for this mess...The wackness is spreadin like the plague...ut still can't make the fuckin grade...y, they can't touch the knowledge I personi...I travel through the darkness carrying m...The illest soldier, when I'm holding down the fort..."The mic..."..."The mic..."..."The mic..."...On the microphone you know that I'm one of the best yet... fly, ridin high on the jet-set...time now, I've held the scrolls and manuscr...m sick, fed up with the bullshit...Got the lyrical full clip, ...Don't trip it's the gifted prolific one...ead Slick -- why is the press all on my di-...The mic's either a magi...it gets tragic like the havoc of a nuclear

I maintain with a mindframe to bring the rain and the thunder...and focus(focus) on the days and times(focu...l be eaten alive by the locusts...You can feel the animosity through t...I'm in the struggle to bring the underground to the top...as Angeles, home of the scandalous...iful bitches, smell the aroma...Nothin but doja, the Likwit soldier...Xzibit maintain focus till the casket drop...That's (focus) the only to survive and...And focus(focus) on the days and times that...And focus(focus) on the days and times that...Be on the lookout ...Takin' off of the scene...Dedicated to the critics that hope a...That's the mind state...I carry the weight from state t...Spread the product... comfort, I'm under the gun...Making niggas role the credits and fade to

I maintain with a mindframe to bring the rain and the thunder ...and focus(focus) on the days and times(focu...l be eaten alive by the locusts ...You can feel the animosity through t...I'm in the struggle to bring the underground to the top ...as Angeles, home of the scandalous ...iful bitches, smell the aroma ...Nothin but doja, the Likwit soldier ...Xzibit maintain focus till the casket drop ...That's (focus) the only to survive and...And focus(focus) on the days and times that...Be on the lookout ...Takin off of the scene ...Dedicated to the critics that hope a...That's the mind state ...I carry the weight from state t...Spread the product ... comfort, I'm under the gun ...Making niggas role the credits and fade to

I maintain with a mindframe to bring the rain and the thunder ...and focus(focus) on the days and times(focu...l be eaten alive by the locusts ...You can feel the animosity through t...I'm in the struggle to bring the underground to the top ...as Angeles, home of the scandalous ...iful bitches, smell the aroma ...Nothin but doja, the Likwit soldier ...Xzibit maintain focus till the casket drop ...That's (focus) the only to survive and...And focus(focus) on the days and times that...Be on the lookout ...Takin off of the scene ...Dedicated to the critics that hope a...That's the mind state ...I carry the weight from state t...Spread the product ... comfort, I'm under the gun ...Making niggas role the credits and fade to

I'm sitting at the edge of my bed and ...Dropped the fat LP in '91 of Oc...My focus is stronger, mom pi...r Mr. J used to say the beats was fat... packing pistols on the bully...We're respecting the matter, hops...ing mad harassed by the cops...So now I'm in the chop shop creating ...Thanks to the streets and my peep...And the la-la-lee, la-la-le... We gotta maintain (Repeat 8x)...I wake up in the morning, get some n...ing you man, I'm on the brink of ???...Who's that man in the mirror? Ha!...The picture's getting c...The end is coming neare...I got to make it to the studio someway some...I stop at the store to quench my ...u want to bring out the beast in me...And maintain, gotta maintain

But I can't focus cause so many niggas in the street owe me some ...ga nobody knows all the trouble I been thro...ur grind because of the shine it give us...y it's like I can't maintain... feel I'm in it for the same thing...hese bitches 'cause the hatred I got for my...Witness the J.Prince runnin' the south... ain't no mercy for the weak better get str... be goin' on try to maintain... it just to stay in the game (mayne)...Kickin' it with the jealous got me begg...rone to throw me in the fuckin' prison...God blessed the child that can doub

The kiss was the chaser and I ain't ...Then the next day I don't re...Hungover can't focus on what I got to do...n't even think bout the song...The list goes on and on...What I felt the first time...Can't even find the words to say (crazy...Can't maintain I'm felling crazy...Can't maintain I'm felling crazy

ould of shot me, in the jimmy instead ...her, to get head in the bed ... preaching, calling the kettle black ...got my back, except the laws when they on i...n I'm sober I can't maintain ...hough I do my best, the only thing I earn i...ng and fiending for the day, I could make s... did nothing, cause the lights ain't on ... I'm broke they out the do', with wheels sp...nely, daily dodging the devil but he on me ...n attitude, I can't maintain ...hony, straight from the motherfucking start...So I bless the streets, with my sm