[00:00.00]What is a nightmare?
[00:02.38]The dictionary tells us it is a terrifying dream
[00:04.95]A nightmare (A nightmare, a nightmare, a nightmare)
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[00:07.84]I used to think I had bad luck, but I wasn't superstitious
[00:10.46]Till one day I grew suspicious,
[00:12.05]When I stepped on a crack on Aunt Edna's stoop
[00:13.76]And got pooped on by a group of stupid pigeons
[00:16.73]Then we flew the coop to Michigan to start a new be-ditching
[00:18.89]Missouri from Michigan didn't work
[00:21.40]So we moved back to Missouri from Michigan
[00:23.76]From Missouri back to Michigan
[00:25.28]Someone put me out my misery, I can't do this again
[00:27.39]Mom please stick to a decision
[00:29.79]Discipline, last thing I wanna' do is listen
[00:31.94]She's like Lex Luthor, *****, her rules are krypton-ite
[00:34.20]To the walls and I've lost my power to see through them *******
[00:37.51]But I run into them, running through the kitchen
[00:39.15]Pretending to be blind, Superman
[00:41.31]'Cause I had no supervision
[00:42.56]But I did have a super power though
[00:45.07]I could turn into invisible kid
[00:47.02]Disappear out of sight, like a true magician
[00:49.13]And one day uncle Ronnie brought over this new, but different
[00:52.00]Music into the picture and it become my new religion
[00:54.16]"I remember it clearly, even today"
[00:57.34]Move back to Michigan again, to live with my Grandma Ned
[01:01.03]Always itchin' for something to do, was flipping
[01:03.43]Through the radio stations one day and discovered this DJ who was mixing
[01:06.24]I say it to this day, if you ain't listened to the the wizard
[01:09.78]You ain't have a ******* clue what you was missing
[01:11.84]I'd zone out with my headphones, all I remember doing's wishing
[01:14.65]For shoes, **** them stupid Pumas *****, it's all about them new edition
[01:18.57]shoes
[01:19.17]You get them LL Cool J coolin' systems
[01:20.67]Think I finally maneuvered to 8 Mile and Hoover
[01:23.28]And somehow I saw my future is in this that's how I know my mission
[01:25.90]Little boom box boomin', spitting
[01:28.06]Practicing numerous rhythms
[01:30.38]When I sit in my room envisioning my dreams come true for wishin'
[01:32.33]I remember Proof would visit
[01:34.18]Couldn't wait to play him my new ****, he'd go complete ballistic
[01:37.00]Go through the roof for his ****
[01:38.20]It's like we knew the instant
[01:39.80]We touched a mic that both of us two existed to do this ****
[01:41.90]Never quit, too persistent
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[01:44.61]Started a group of misfits
[01:48.38]Proof had a proposition
[01:49.49]If we all brand together, there ain't no stopping this ****
[01:52.64]Come up with aliases, bipolar opposites and
[01:54.40]Be ready to come off the top as sharp position
[01:58.18]If you got dissed at the shop 'cause if they caught you slippin'
[02:00.88]They'd take your spot if someone got to rippin' you
[02:02.95]And you forgot your written
[02:04.61]Opportunity knocked us once, it ain't knocking again
[02:07.37]It tried ding dong ditching ****
[02:08.73]I ******* got that ***** in a headlock
[02:10.24]Cut off his oxygen slim
[02:12.39]Snot forgin' like cocksuckers and rocks in the wind
[02:14.90]Now I got my pot to piss in
[02:16.23]Spottin' the top of this chain
[02:17.69]Cuppin' over the opposition
[02:19.15]Lookin' like a dog that's pissin'
[02:20.60]Wake up on the competition
[02:21.97]Promise incomplete
[02:23.34]Diamond and Sugar Ray Robinson
[02:24.84]I'm in a league Muhammad's in
[02:26.10]Ali's my colleague bombin' them probably
[02:27.86]Probably end up on top of them
[02:29.27]Stomping them like Adomakin
[02:30.53]I'm rushing like your cranium LaDainian Tomlinson
[02:34.12]Flow vomits in your face
[02:35.88]Competitors fall at my waist
[02:37.67]You spit a rhyme, I spit in a rhyme's face
[02:40.03]So name the time, place
[02:41.39]To battle ***** I'm still in that mind state
[02:43.44]Don't make me step on you and make you wine grapes
[02:45.70]Cry babies, maybe my way that I use words is loose
[02:49.03]But you turds better be careful how you choose yours
[02:51.62]'Cause feelings scar but egos bruise worse
[02:54.66]And the truth hurts, **** no wonder you're sore losers
[02:57.13]Now wish you pink birds, ooh no more drippin' in bird ****,
[03:01.08]This songs a self empowerment surgeon
[03:03.23]Words of encouragement but discourage any rappers the rap games God
[03:06.63]But the name's not James Todd, I'm just a wordsmith
[03:09.13]So let these words lift
[03:10.87]'Cause all I got is bars for you dumbbells
[03:12.78]And doors ain't working out
[03:14.29]Each verse is more merciless than the first
[03:16.76]As you ain't got to wear no shoes and shirt in this beast to get served
[03:20.69]Blood thirst, revenge of the nerds
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[03:23.05](They shall not escape my vengeance)
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[03:24.79]And I'm the kid with them ears like Dumbo's gone
[03:26.40]With the uncle Ron I'm turning into an non-humble Don
[03:28.85]You blind dumbos, all I got is **** for you to crumble on
[03:32.20]So stop the show, but I need a drum roll for I go on
[03:34.97]Better back away from the front row, get lunch, I'm
[03:37.49]Bigger than Dikembe Mutombo on the ******* jumbo tron
[03:41.10]I'm a juggernaut, you do not wanna crumble, you bambacluts
[03:44.61]I'll leave you stretched out, like a ******* yarn
[03:46.91]So mow the ******* lawn, your asses are blades of grass
[03:50.58]And I'm ******* up this whole landscape of rap
[03:52.64]The goat just ate eight acres, and ate the vet
[03:55.84]Who just make a path and take you straight to your favorite rapper
[03:58.80]Oh look, my notebook with smoke cook
[04:02.42]Like the flow stood a foot over the flame on the stove, soot
[04:05.43]It's hard to breath floating like oak wood was burning
[04:07.44]Return of the no good and I wont (quit)
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[04:16.99]And a gauntlet, with a chain henge, its like a groundhogs day
[04:22.75]So crowd around y'all, 'cause you may, see about y'all hey