Buckingham Palace

By Canibus

On Can-I-Bus

Released on September 8, 1998

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[Verse 1]

Ayo, I stand outside the gates of Buckingham Palace sellin' reefer

Puffin' the chalice with the Beefeaters

Gettin' so high that whenever I drop shit

It'll land on the window of your airplane cockpit

Canibus with the hot shit, crazy hot clique

Niggas is bloody idiots thinkin' they can stop this

I'll increase my strength to a superhuman extent

Nigga, your rhyme ain't worth six pence

And if you can hear, smell, see, touch and taste

Then you don't need six senses to feel me punch you in the face

From Brixton to Clapham Common

My lyrics invade Europe like Joseph Stalin and murder niggas for rhymin'

Spittin' fire with gasoline for saliva

As drunk as Lady Diana's driver with reporters behind her

Alcohol in the hands of a minor

I got you panickin' like bombs with thirty second timers

Clear the building, evacuate women and children

Fuck what you feelin', nigga, I came here to kill 'em

Straight shittin' from New York to Great Britain

And when we do shows, we make the Queen pay admission

What?!


[Chorus]

When I say, "Can-I," you say, "Bus"

Can-I (Bus!), Can-I (Bus!)

Yo, when I say, "Can-I," you say, "Bus"

Can-I (Bus!), Can-I (Bus!)

Yo, yo, yo


[Verse 2]

Prepare for the worst, this next verse is the Face of Death

Me without lyrics is like a porn flick without sex

Illmatic, my lyrical skills are Jurassic

With more flavor than Skittles when I'm digitally mastered

I go off like a cannon and blow up the planet

With No Fear like them clothes white boys be wearin'

I'm tougher than denim, lethal like venomous snake bites

The marijuana makes my eyes bright red like brake lights

There ain't a party I couldn't rock, believe that

There ain't a microphone brave enough to give me feedback

I'm strong, my word is Bond like James

Niggas be tryna test but they weak like seven days

MCs run away when I kick it

They act so chicken they should come with a large drink and a biscuit

My style's radioactive, massive, atomic

I plan to push the Earth in front of Halley's Comet

Breakin' the facts of life down like Tootie

I'm raw like sushi, with more Vocab than three fuckin' Fugees

So recognize or be hospitalized

'Cause lyrically on a scale of one to ten, I'm twenty-five


[Chorus]

When I say, "Can-I," you say, "Bus"

Can-I (Bus!), Can-I (Bus!)

Yo, when I say, "Can-I," you say, "Bus"

Can-I (Bus!), Can-I (Bus!)


[Verse 3]

Yo, yo, a little bit of weed and some Hennessy

Got me ready to set it with kinetic energy

See, I need much more energy than my enemies

If I wanna make more Bills than Bellamy

So I could be on MTV

With women constantly tellin' me I resemble Billy Dee

I make fly rhymes to get my name on the scene

Then when I'm on the scene, I do shows to get the green

Then I take the green, buy a automobile machine

For that thing on page forty-three in Jet Magazine

Canibus is the ultimate executioner's dream

Swingin' the guillotine

'Cause whenever the head is severed from the human body with a sharp enough weapon

The brain remains conscious for ten seconds

Long enough for me to give you one last message

And when you get to Hell you can tell Lucifer I said it

Don't ever get it confused

Fuckin' with Canibus the human Rubik's Cube like you got somethin' to prove

Yo, whoever grabs the mic after me'll get booed

Get everythin' in the club thrown at you and your crew

From Moet bottles to bar stools, fruits and foods

You got a album out? You get hit with your CD, too

Runnin' outside cryin', lyin', denyin'

That you ain't The Gay Rapper, but you got fucked by him

What's the difference? Y'all niggas still ain't in lyrical fitness

Too busy mixin' your bidness with your bitches

While I be in the lab composin' forbidden scriptures

So wicked I got Satan ejaculatin' on his fingers

Like Dirk Diggler in the middle of Boogie Nights

Sniffin' white, livin' the hype, he ruined his life

But I'm an MC of a different type, yeah, that's right!

Make sure your shit is tight or I'ma snatch your mic, nigga


[Chorus]

When I say, "Can-I," you say, "Bus"

Can-I (Bus!), Can-I (Bus!)

Yo, when I say, "Can-I," you say, "Bus"

Can-I (Bus!), Can-I (Bus!)