
Apollo Throwdown
(many thanks to August Krater for
transcribing)
it's not up to me, it's not A 1 3 it's not the Circle K at the top of street i know it may seem debonnaire but there's time on the line that we just can't spare hold up everybody, put it all on ice gotta feeling on the the mic that's twice as nice gotta cope with the dope by cutting soap so turned on livin' out my horoscope no can do it like we can we take the stand with a master plan we are the educated, motivated, skin tight, rawhide, hardworkin', blood-sweatin', hollerin', your world wreckin' ladies of eighty-three ladies you want to be we're not the first but that matters least cos there's free rough justice for the masterpiece i said a panther is what a couger ain't what a royal wants to be what a hustler can't what the ladies like what the fellas love what U L C can't get enough of i said now walk like a panther? i said walk like a panther? what the ladies like what the fellas love what U L C can't get enough of we got no second chance, we got a soldier's stance we got the thrills in our skills that you can't advance never gonna get ninety-nine percent my get up and go just got up and went so unrelenting, pay strict attention my mind is heading in the right direction more hits than bazooka smooth our guarantee is we can move our Q and A don't ricochet we make the play with a double A we are the educated, motivated, skin tight, rawhide, hardworkin', blood-sweatin', hollerin', your world wreckin' ladies of eighty-three ladies you want to be we're not the first but that matters least cos there's free rough justice for the masterpiece i said a panther is what a couger ain't what a royal wants to be what a hustler can't what the ladies like what the fellas love what U L C can't get enough of i said now walk like a panther? i said walk like a panther? what the ladies like what the fellas love what U L C can't get enough of i got rockets to the left of me bullets to the right of me flames to the back of me spark the TNT cobras to the left of me vipers to the right of me we're the G. O. T. E. A. M. O O double-O P O O double-O P we say, you say you say, we fly you're the ones we notify i said a panther is what a couger ain't what a royal wants to be what a hustler can't what the ladies like what the fellas love what U L C can't get enough of i said now walk like a panther? i said walk like a panther? what the ladies like what the fellas love what U L C can't get enough of one nine one three you know you wanna be like me one nine one three we gotta life to set free one nine one three we gonna shake the AKG one nine one three you wanna bring it back like me yeah! yeah!