Japanese Steel

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Ollie Twist
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Used to rock Boss Gear and Hugo Boss
Fill the shopping cart like an art regardless of cost
Stay fresh it's best to just let it go
Michelangelo, impeccable on microphones
Head back to the lab at night, in another zone
Beats constantly on my dome won't leave me alone
Off Main Street, yeah you know that I rocked the show
Every single time, with the rhymes that's cocked to go
Jordan's on the toes, yet I'm sporting a different hood
Throughout the neighborhood, keeping the flavor good
Five star chef, Japanese steel, garlic fresh
Another recipe I had to get off my chest
Created this hip hop dish, no easy thing
Calculate the reasoning, incorporate the seasoning
Legal pads, marked up in Sharpe ink
It's takes a deep mind how I darkly think
Artsy, man don't even start even start me
Got me throwing lines like Shaq and Chuck Barkley
Keep the levels riding from here to the island
It's wild, peace to the golden child

Yo my rhymes are sharp as Japanese steel
Yo my rhymes are sharp as Japanese steel

No hooks on this one baby it's all lines
Experiment with lyrics and watch them combine
Back in '99, we started a dynasty
Dipped the Dodge Spirit, smoking and rhyming
On top of the whip the paint all chipped off
Looked like the mark on the dome on Gorbachev
Alpine face unit, glowing looking great
My CD's always scratched so I preferred the tapes
Magnetic, music pulled me from athletics
Always in the studio like extra credit
Peep the movie font credits on the back sleeve
Track list on the tombstone sequenced with ease
I could strum on guitar, or tickle the keys
Scratch the turntable, whatever you please
Class musician in the year 2000
Blastin' that EPMD like I was housin'
Swimming upstream at first then gained stamina
Strangling mics gripped around the diameter
Flipped the new shipment, upgrade the equipment
Need more space so erase the zip disc

Yo my rhymes are sharp as Japanese steel
Yo my rhymes are strong like Japanese steel

Learned to survive from the times of my youth and kept on
Feeling fortunate to still be here and so on
So I start a new beginning from scratch, how about that?
Whether I stamp the map, or was the champ of rap
I'm not looking for all that, just a making a contribution
Continuing the work from my own revolution
Underground sound with a solid foundation
Time to put the work back into this creation
Go as far as I can go, try to keep my head straight
Separate like church and state when I meditate
Focused on the future and the past we made
Remaining top grade like the strength from a blade
If used properly, it can defend and attack
Dangerous property as a matter of fact
Sometimes in my lines I reflect on the past
In these turbulent times just trying to stay on the raft
Remembering the moments and hoping they last
The universal ironies that always making me laugh
That's why it feels right to write and keep it real
Absorb the energy that is forged in steel