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[record company flunkie]
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Yeah I don't think Keith's gonna show up to the meeting y'all
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See Keith's the type of artist to do his own thing
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There's no A&R out there that can tell him how to make a record
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You can't tell him he needs to make something like everyone else
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cause everyone else is just stealing his originality and ideas
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ANYWAY .. I think we should cancel the marketing meeting
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[Kool Keith]
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As a big secret, Kevin Glickman chill with Chris
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Don't like Jeremy Lawner
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So Ruffhouse politically had to freeze my album
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Regular Columbia don't know what the hell is goin on
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With a sheisty distribution switch behind my back
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I worked on my album February last year
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13 months, passed by, all I heard was a bunch of lies
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Six weeks in ?? hawkin with a so-called manager
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Univested, livin off my budget
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My LP was completed before John Forte, Sporty Thievz and Pras
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but too many secret fans had they hands in the pan
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When I got to Philadelphia, everybody was waitin for me
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with tracks with a bag full of unconceptual DAT's
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Throwin me off, distractin me
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?? ?? came out with programmin
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Me on the basslines, all my beats were slammin
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Nothin they could tell us
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While everybody except Tim Devine was jealous
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With my album leakin out to a bunch of critics
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It was somethin stupid the record company
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and the scam bookin agent, slash manager did
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Dubbin my cassette for the industry, it got silly
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Opinions from people who don't know jack about music
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in the industry, know what?
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Had to do the album practically over
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Chorus: Kool Keith (repeat 4X)
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This is a test press
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White label test press
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[Kool Keith]
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Back like "Return of the Jedi"
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While the average person critiquin my album
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Most MC's look at me with red eyes
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DJ's don't understand my sound is too new
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He can't feel it on the felt; he say he'll make it a hit
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if I give him a Rolls Royce and a Versace belt
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Take care of program directors
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Yeah gonna call Billboard when y'all send them a Mustang Ford
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Then buy a 20-page ad about Kool Keith headbands
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Soap powder's in The Source, that'll get me the cover boss
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Everybody's small
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You're gonna have to buy video shows with washing machines
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I got to step up to bat in 3 Rivers Stadium like the Yankees
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in the World Series against the Big Red Machine
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Y'all gotta make it work, every video producer
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Y'all gotta send 'em a V-12
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cause nobody wants the t-shirt at Urban Network
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Big Truck productions need to hire 20 people on the phones
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Callin retail; 90 foot pictures of me and my daughter
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lifts on the side of the building
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Half of these records are wack cause street teams get paid
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to pull out wack snippet tapes out their wack backpacks
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Get off early with a crew pile up in a suburban
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Go to the clubs and get the flats and posters and start servin
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Yeah
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Chorus 1.25X
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[Kool Keith]
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Yeah..
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White Label Test Press
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Kool Keith |