Chorus (scratch)
Very particular set of skills and they taken,
when I’m in the booth, it’s proof who got the iller rhymes,
that means with me the facts are undisputed,
when I’m serving up this music.
Verse One
The Consist, heat like an arsonist,
I’m done with the hardships, elite diagnostics,
precise with it, chopsticks, magic like card tricks,
potent like it’s arsenic, but smooth like guitar strings,
alert when alarms ring, the beat-making, rhyme-slaying,
street shaking, concave in your chest, keep playing its the D,
I bring the L.I.G.H.T with a vocal resolution applied in HD,
designed by eighteen, a style you ain’t heard in while,
I make dreams come true with a skip and a smile,
I stay clean, no curses, no need to be vile and obscene,
I was just a child when I defined my destiny,
declined a deputy, I don’t need em’ next to me to enshrine my legacy,
I’m a different kinda’ beast with the finest pedigree,
so you ain’t gone find nobody like this instead of me,
cos’ so lately I got a flow stately,
so don’t hate me when your folks rate me, cos so innately,
I can take a set words and put em’ back to back
and know precisely where they take me,
another stratosphere with another status there
and apparatus, yeah, that got me on the palace chair,
so bring your battle gear cos’ I can take your challenges,
but be prepared for me to show you what the English language is.
Chorus (scratch)
Verse Two
Now for my next trick you can take your best pick,
I still got your cards marked, supremely majestic,
routinely forensic, I got bars like the Vegas strip,
these rappers got less yards than a fragrance strip,
they ain’t been making no deposits like a payment slip,
so there’s no point in staying close in relationship,
we ain’t friends this is barely an acquaintanceship,
jumping off? Let help me with installation tips,
so start here and count sixteen bars,
but don't come with nothing less than the sixteen cards
of Jack, King, Queen, Ace,
it’s gonna take a lot more than you’re bringing to keep pace
and you can have as many stabs in the dark, but each case,
you bound to miss the target yo’,
every attempt is swept under the carpet,
so take heed to the dopest MC,
I’m so cold dawg, I’m bout’ to make your Doberman freeze
and rappers falling off like this is October and leaves,
don’t have to do much to have your thoughts sobering, jeez!
I get my gusto from brother and my strength from my pops
but they both gone now, so this is where the buck stops,
Funky DL, funky like you just don’t know,
so take them raps off them beats cos’ they just don’t go,
I suggest go slow, or maybe just no show,
cos’ standing next to the best of the best is so no.
Funky DL is regarded as one of the most legendary and significant MC's and Producers to come out of the UK. Now globally known for delivering albums with both musical and lyrical finesse...
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