--------------Shallow Styles--------- Sick of all these carbon-copy/ motherfuckas in the game/ makin' beats off only hits/ and their lyrics all the same/ it's all materialistic radio hits/ they just don't get it/ so I'm pressin' charges on those who front/ won't get aquitted/ I never bit it/ cause my original style is versatile/ ain't heard of that in a while/ cause this game has been defiled/ by hip-hop molesters/ spread like cancer and just fester/ and while their label takes their money/ they play the role of a jester/ weak MCs/ for a weak industry/ while they cover up the underground/ we still shine through you see/ I claim this game as mine/ name names if you outta line/ cock back the verbal 9/ and I ain't never sublime/ so fuck those like Puffy Combs/ get some beats of your own/ you put designers in your lines/ to get free clothes in your home/ got money-minded MCs/ that be writin' lines for ya/ only chickenheads adore ya/ beware my sword is commin' for ya/ whatever happened to all those/ who used to represent/ with knowledge that made ya repent/ simply put: they came and went/ so I must go on and on/ with the mic in my palm/ and even after I'm gone/ seeds'll study my psalms/ weed out the false and the fake/ watch them burn at the stake/ morn them as they bake/ warned them of their mistake/ too many have been locked in/ that conformity pen/ corrupting the minds of men/ hip-hop must begin again/ for too many today/ captive to the mainstream hits/ all suckin' corporate tits/ but that's as far as it gets/ for the corrupters are left behind/ when the Enlightened One shined/ upon all the dark minds/ then we'd no longer find/ clones of other styles/ but knowledge that's compiled/ into hip-hop's new dynasty/ the first step's now in your files