This is me, what you see is what you get
This is the rookie giving props
to the vets, oh
This is me, what you see is what you get
This is the rookie giving props to the vets
People say I sound like
Jason Mraz or G. Love
Dave Matthews with a little bit of thug
Pac and BIG inject into the flow
Recollect Bad Boy records
and Death Row
Common, Kanye or Talib Kweli
Plus I got Mos Def’s lyrical ability
Billy Joel, Springsteen
or Mick Jagger and I
Walk and I talk
with a Jimmy Page swagger, said
This is me, what you see is what you get
This is the rookie giving props to the vets
This is me, what you see is what you get
This is the rookie giving props to the vets
Props to the females,
Aretha, Joni Mitchell
I cry like Ani so get me a tissue
The rhythm of Blakey,
let the groove shake me
Afterwards have Nirvana “Rape Me.”
Leonard Bernstein,
Steven Bernstein, got the
Fire of Hendrix and the Hulk’s
when he turns green!
Sinatra I got ya, Tosh the rasta
Come at ya like Frank
Zappa the monster, said…
This is me, what you see is what you get
This is the rookie giving props to the vets
This is me, what you see is what you get
This is the rookie giving props to the vets
It’s the coming of age
Learning musical ways
I wanna take in more and more
I’m coming up, I’m coming up!
Kind of blue like Davis
or the Roots’ latest
Of all time, like Cool J I’m the greatest
Mad respect to Trey,
helped pave the way, I shoulda
Put him in my ill song “One Day.”
Can’t forget Jerry, Elvis or Chuck Berry
I wonder if Franti rocks a Blackberry?
The Band, the bard
and the great Bob Marley
That’s a lot of legends
in a sentence, I ain’t sorry!
This is me, what you see is what you get
This is the rookie giving props to the vets
This is me, what you see is what you get
This is the rookie giving props to the vets
I had to overload it,
let the government decode it
Dead Prez inspired the flow,
I just wrote it
Verbal AK spray with flower at the end
I honor John Lennon
through the power of the pen
Jay-Z Jigga,
I chill in Muddy Waters and rivers
And the Hammond
of Jimmy gimme shivers
I hear Janis, and I hear Pink Floyd
What about the Beastie Boys?!? Said
This is me, what you see is what you get
This is the rookie giving props to the vets
This is me, what you see is what you get
This is the rookie giving props to the vets
DJ Logic scratchin’ it up,
Danger Mouse in the lab, mashing it up
Michael Jackson bought
the Beatles now he’s cashing it up
Murder Mase went holy
now he’s massing it up, uh
Job of musician get close to God
Electrify the crowd like a lightning rod
Supremes and Temptations
can bring elation
Hold up I got Stevie Wonder
on the station!
This is me, what you see is what you get
This is the rookie giving props to the vets
This is me, what you see is what you get
This is the rookie giving props to the vets
This is me, what you see is what you get
This is the rookie giving props to the vets
This is me, what you see is what you get
This is the rookie giving props to the vets
This is me, what you see is what you get
This is the rookie giving props to the vets
This is me, what you see is what you get
This is the rookie giving props to the vets