Portrait Of The Artist As A Hood - 3rd Bass

Today I'm prepared to bring specific charges 
against certain members working in an industry 
that reaches into every household in the country 

[Pete Nice] 
Hoods is up so skills is up 
It's a stick-up, so why'd you interrupt? 
So such bust material cerebral 
I'm eatin cereal with spoons sippin Cepacol 
Daddy-O slipped me some cause my breath stank 
White gold, but no accounts in Swiss banks 
Think tanks once rolled on the city streets 
I used to meet your moms between the sheets 
Universe is versus hoods prospectus 
True flam, flammin words on wax discus 
So they dismiss this as vulgarity 
And once laughed and pointed at the university 
Some perk without skills and push a pen 
I send surreal scenes where you never been 
Looked out, gave you three strikes, you struck out 
Pop shit with the 3rd, knock your fronts out 
Blew your blunts out you wings stuck up your ass 
Gassed you up then slap you with my staff 
I seen your skins like to go to the motels 
but your ass won't know to the hotels 
Cause a lip is zipped, I paint pictures 
A portrait, a self far from ?? 
My discussion of impression ain't ignorance 
So don't label the hoods on appearances 
You never thought that a gangsta could talk sense 
But this artifice flipped, your beans is spent 
Took your papes out your pocket and just stood out 
The focus, the portrait of the artist as a hoods-up 

[MC Serch] 
Portrait planned it back in the days 
Young strays, posted at the L.Q. on Friday's 
Waitin for Dice to give the go ahead 
Hawkin 50 cent, puttin heads to bed 
for a herringbone hear the tune of the Audio Two 
Milk was chillin as I chilled in the back room 
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