[Spoken Dialogue]
When I was little, my father was famous
He was the greatest samurai in the empire

And he was the Shogun's decapitator
He cut off the heads of a hundred and thirty-one lords
It was a bad time for the empire

The Shogun just stayed inside his castle and he never came out
People said his brain was infected by devils
My father would come home, he would forget about the killings

He wasn't scared of the Shogun, but the Shogun was scared of him
Maybe that was the problem
Then, one night, the Shogun sent his ninja spies to our house

They were supposed to kill my father,s but they didn't
{*woman screams*}
That was the night everything changed...


[Intro: RZA]
See, sometimes

You gotta flash em back
See ^!$$%s don't know where this %#@! started
Y'all know where it came from

I'm saying we gonna take y'all back to the source
Do the knowledge... yo!


[Hook: RZA, GZA]
When the MCs came to live out the name and to perform
Some had to snort cocaine to act insane before he rocked it on

Now on with the mental plane to spark the brain with the building to be born
Yo RZA flip the track with the what to cut...


[Verse 1: GZA]
Fake ^!$$%s get flipped
In mic fights I swing swords and cut clowns

%#@! is too swift to bite you record and write it down
I flow like the blood on a murder scene, like a syringe
On some wild out %#@!, to insert a fiend

But it was your op the shop stolen art
Catch a swollen heart from not rolling smart
I put mad pressure, on phony wack rhymes that get hurt

%#@!'s played like zodiac signs on sweatshirt
That's minimum, and feminine like sandals
My minimum table stacks a verse on a gamble

Energy is felt once the cards are dealt
With the impact of roundhouse kicks from black belts
That attack, the mic-fones like cyclones or typhoon

I represent from midnight to high noon
I don't waste ink, ^!$$% I think
I drop megaton bombs more faster than you blink

Cause rhyme thoughts travel at a tremendous speed
Clouds of smoke, of natural blends of weed
Only under one circumstance that's if I'm blunted

Turn that %#@! up, my clan in the front want it

[Hook]


[Verse 2: GZA]
I'm on a mission that ^!$$%s say is impossible

But when I swing my swords they all choppable
I be the body dropper, the heartbeat stopper
Child educator, plus head amputator

Cause ^!$$%s styles are old like Mark 5 sneakers
Lyrics are weak like clock radio speakers
Don't even stop in my station and attack

While your plan failed, get derailed like Amtrak
What the $#&@ for? Down by law, I make law
I be justice, I sentence that $$# two to four

Round the clock, that state pen time check it
With the pens I be sticking but you can't stick to crime
Came through with the Wu, slid off on the DL

I'm low-key like seashells, I rock these bells
Now come aboard, it's Medina bound
Enter the chamber, and it's a whole different sound

It's a wide entrance, small exit like a funnel
So deep it's picked up on radios in tunnels
^!$$%s are fascinated how the %#@! begin

Get vaccinated, my logo is branded in your skin

[Hook]