The Meaning

High & Mighty back in this
 (You think you know what I'm meanin')
 I'm just a '86 witness
 (You think ya know)
 Take it out you suckers, you don't know how I did it
 (You think you know what I'm meaning)
 Yo yo, you're now a game and don't think you're gonna win it
 (You think you know what I'm meaning)
 Maybe if I popped Cristal
 Said I had a Lexus or a triple beam I'd get a deal
 I'd rather speak upon a Maurice Cheeks steal
 It's the outta paper, not the caps I peel
 I used my independent, money to pay the rent
 Remain at hell bent and far from heaven sent
 Where they went? The days when mics got destroyed
 B's just boyed, the soft punks got toyed
 Unemployed, was a happy-go-lucky MC
 And now that's all they fuckin' be bringing to me
 Where they went? The summer concerts on concrete
 Elite could put twelve G's in the seat
 Now I release the masterpiece of my music
 It's '99 and no one could use it
 They rather re-use it, the audience confuse it
 Take Chuck D's Time Bomb, try to defuse it
 I've seen your kind before, you're not original
 Ya, you're not original
 I've seen your kind before, you're not original
 The meaning, ya think you know what I'm meaning
 I've seen your kind before, you're not original
 Ya, you're not original
 I've seen your kind before, you're not original
 Ya think you know what I'm meaning
 It seems that you gotta come cheap to compete
 That's why when I chose to go deep, you go sleep
 On a verse, you not gonna get at first
 Like O.J. would never ever get a hearse first
 When he die, think about the lie over lie
 From verse about the hearse of this rap universe
 'Cuz radical elements remain eloquent
 The repercussions tear right through the fabric
 So act quick, kids at the top is lackin'
 They tryin' to turn hip hop to just plain rappin'
 Let the poppers pop and the breakers break
 'Cuz there's just so much of this shit that I can take
 Now I can't stand the rain, this shit's all the same
 Mr. E, excommunicate your whole game
 Back in '88 baby, everything was gleaming
 The meaning, you think you know what I'm meaning
 I've seen your kind before, you're not original
 Ya, you're not original
 I've seen your kind before, you're not original
 Ya think you know what I'm meaning
 Where your skills at, where the ill raps?
 Where the new tracks, where your heart at?
 Where the new jacks, gettin' contracts?
 I got a rhyme that I ain't even wrote yet
 Save the drama classes for the masses
 Hip hop, glaucoma, baby, I prescribe the glasses
 The vision's near-sighted and narrow-minded
 The wack shit that you hear is all hate and fight
 Take it like harder, fools act retarder
 In '98, lyrics just disregarded
 Now how hard it be yo to really concentrate
 Writin' metaphors, wack shit I annihilate
 Now fools comin' through spellin' much gibberish
 While Mighty Mi and I stay acknicilous
 Raps are bed pan and I be the nurse
 Removin' shit wit lyrics that I disperse
 Nail ya coffin, 'cuz death's epitome
 Ya fate be taken out is most likely
 Not likely, we be 'The High & The Mighty'
 Stompin' out crews, the team of the '90's
 I've seen your kind before, you're not original
 Not original
 I've seen your kind before, you're not original
 The meaning, you think you know what I'm meaning
 I've seen your kind before, you're not original
 Ya not original, ya not
 I've seen your kind before, you're not original
 You think, you know what I'm meaning
 Gang Starr, shoulda been number one to me
 And D.O.C., shoulda been number one to me
 Live Team, shoulda been number one to me
 The Disc Masters, shoulda been number one to me
 Show & A., shoulda been number one to me
 The Crown Rulers, shoulda been number one to me
 And Dilated, shoulda been number one to me
 KMD, shoulda been number one to me
 The Tough Crew, shoulda been number one to me
 And JVC, shoulda been number one to me
 The Main Source, shoulda been number one to me
 The Arsonists, shoulda been number one to me