The Jungle

Southside, you know we living in the jungle
 Brook'nam, you know we living in the jungle
 See them gorillas over there in the park, them my niggas
 After dark we get sparked up and pull triggers
 You gotta speak orangutan slang or pull capers
 The cops are the cheetahs and the trees are the skyscrapers
 See in the jungle we often rumble for loot
 Some of us just stumble around high off the booze, shoot
 You get shot, shit
 Play humble like last year when the cheetahs tried to catch my uncle
 When you come through, you could get bumped too
 If you don't got at least 4 to 5 gorillas amongst you
 The bigger tree hit 'em shocked and amazed
 41 shots hot, take you out in the blaze
 And if not, they ship your ass to the Bronx in a cage
 Into the island where you spend your time counting the days
 But still agriculturally, it's kind of ill, we blow mills
 They make a killing and build new lands in the jungle
 Shaolin, you know we living in the jungle
 Chi-town, you know we living in the jungle
 Westside, you know we living in the jungle
 I tell these chimpanzees who be carrying tools
 You don't wanna invest your life in a cesspool
 Pharmaceutical distributin', breaking the rules
 You need to take your monkey ass off to school
 And learn about Botswana, Sudan and Ghana
 Mozambique and speak of pride and honor
 I understand sometimes we all feel fenced in
 But utilize your mind to define dimensions
 Just then I lost the little monkey's attention
 As he stared into the distance focusing and squinting at a
 Beautiful gazelle that was grazing in the grass with
 Muscular legs and a rhinoceros ass
 But in the least case scenario I did try to tell him
 Hit him with some signs that was a little compelling
 Little gibbon on a mission, not unlike Magellan
 What you caught was some felons, crimes and drug selling in the jungle
 Yo, Ghana, you know we living in the jungle
 Cape Town, you know we living in the jungle
 Jo-burg, you know we living in the jungle
 I'm talking epileptic episodes off that Epinephrine
 That Albuterol and them other prescribed medicines
 A zombie in insomnia frecking the Amphetamines
 My moms had me smoking weed from the Netherlands at age 13
 Broke apart the scene, a lot of moist weed that was sticky and green
 See in the 80's it was wine-coolers and woolies
 The Facts of Life, crack, David Dinkins and toolies
 Mike Jack said "kick me, kike me, Jew me"
 Now all the white chicks in the world got booties
 He rap by popular demand
 And a nigga nosey on some Toucan Sam shit
 You not Florida A&M, you not fam, dawg
 That would be (Marco), that's my man
 My biceps will isolate with one hand
 The triceps will do reps and dip sets, but not Cam
 Scandal, governors busted, got damn
 Power to the people unite with one plan
 I used to write about green eggs and ham
 'Til I found out the Food and Drug Administration was a scam
 Now we steam vegetables, brown, forget the white rice
 My life is all I have, studying zeitgeist
 Lyrics bang now and again, sing like the Chi-Lites
 It's my right to use my power to shine my light
 To function, you know the function
 Yo, Pharoahe Monch, what's your motherfucking function?
 I go to Queens for queens, I eat organic in Brooklyn
 Swing on a vine over the swine and keep 'em shook
 And take the anaconda through the tunnels
 Through the Mecca where the piranha try to ball and style on the persona
 You know I keep it on the low like an iguana
 When the monikers never leave the crib without the llama in the...