[Produced by Pete Rock]

[Onyx "Slam" sample in the background of intro and hook]

[Intro: Pete Rock]

Rock the house (Rock the house)

East New York, East New York

East New York, East New York

Uhh, East New York, East New York

East New York, East New-York

To my nigga AZ, hit it off

[Verse 1: AZ]

We was already molded in people's minds as mulignans

Now we more fucked, stuck with a mayor named Giuliani

You can try to blind me, analyze but can't define me

My mind's divine, heavily entwined with Gandhi's

Far from feeble, I leave your nostrils hard to breathe through

'Cause my cerebrals are more of a higher plane than the Hebrews

My mic devotion brings out my deepest emotions

Overdosin' wannabes posin', sendin' 'em through convulsions

Too hard to follow, you took a bite but couldn't swallow

Your mind's boggled, but I'm as deep as Donald Goines novels

My whole persona's kinda laid back like a recliner

And since a minor, I been fuckin' with marijuana

Wavy hair, my skin got a money-gettin' glare

Strictly menace wear, mackin' off a Guinness beer

So where it all begins is here

Destiny and me finally meet

So how can I be weak? I'm rather unique

[Hook: Big Daddy Kane sample & (Pete Rock)]

"Why, why, why, I'm rather unique"

(So check it out) — "Why, I'm rather unique"

(So check it out) — "Why, why, I'm rather unique"

(So check it out) — "Why, I'm rather, rather rather unique"

(So check it out) — "Why, I'm rather unique"

(Just check it out) — "Why I'm, why, why, I'm rather unique"

(So check it out) — "Why, why, why, I'm rather unique"

(AZ, check him out, one time) — "Why, why, why, I'm rather unique"

[Verse 2: AZ]

My verbals rip shit, brains give birth to thoughts in triplets

Fuck it, I'm on some flip shit, ready to let my clip spit

Dramatical, vocals release shells like automatics do

Music's magical, causin' any battles to be tragical

Child got a style sick as hell, sicker than sickle cell anemia

Slaughter your circulatory like leukemia

Filled with larceny, who want parts of me? I'm vicious

Mad malicious, 'cause it's real on this road to riches

I got this mastered, other rappers'll graft it; weak and wicked

Camouflagin' as killers, how they speak and kick it

Peep this uniqueness, non-believers I'm leavin' speechless

Left to choke as if skunk smoke was comin' through the speakers

Surgically nice with any verbal device

Trife, breathin' life into mics

My eyesight's beyond the twilight

So die or fight — no surrender, no retreat

Techniques speak, I'm rather unique

[Hook: Big Daddy Kane sample & (Pete Rock)]

(So check it out) — "Why I'm rather unique"

(Uhh) — "Why, why, I'm rather unique"

(East New York, East New York) — "Why, why, I'm rather unique"

"Why, why, I'm rather unique"

(East New York, East New York) — "Why, why, I'm rather unique"

"Why, why, I'm rather unique"

(East New York, East New York) — "Why, why, I'm rather unique"

(My man AZ to the fullest)

[Verse 3: AZ]

So it's gonna take more than your astrologist to knowledge this

Physiologists couldn't even figure out the exotic-ness

Raps demolishin', certified the way I style it

My wordplay blaze with the rays of ultraviolet

My culture's smilin', gettin' more in depth with each breath

Autobiography follows the footsteps of Malcolm X

Money and sex, Gore-Tex, Donna Karan and Guess

Finesse, success through the life stress, mics I bless

Puffin' trees to get me high as trapeze

Lookin' Japanese, at ease when I'm stackin' G's

So let's discuss, plus degrees

Why the rhyme force is the source for thoughts that's lost

So don't cross 'cause it'll cost

The ghetto savior, smooth for real playa with flavor

Moves be major, with un-explainable behavior

The word's on the street, so keep your ears to the concrete

"Why I'm rather unique"

[Refrain repeated: Big Daddy Kane & (Pete Rock)]

"Why, I'm rather unique"

(Check it out)