[Produced by Mr. Elite]
[Intro]
Yeah some of y'all flip like wills never got
What we gon' do right here is go back
Way back, back into rhyme
We gonna do a song that you never heard before
[Verse 1]
No comeback stories, no corny choruses
No glories, no hallelujahs, no Land Cruisers, no drug users
No grins, no trends, no phony ass friends
Who begin with ends and end with no ends and no estrogen
No gas-ups, no soups, no Lex Coups
No crackers, no backers, no niggas for the blackers
No triple teams, no mainstream dreams
No stress beams, no accusations, cop chases, court cases
No rape charges, no Sarges, no DeBarge's
No lightweight bouts up in the air, shoot outs and no sellouts
No Negroes with egos, no mo' shows callin' women bitches and hoes
No thoughtless flows, no woes
No singin' voices, no Rolls Royce's, no wack choices
No volunteers getting peers of career years
No solutions, no problems, no more vinyl revolving
No happy campers, no offense, no funk samples
[Hook]
The easiest and the hardest word to say is no
Only got two letters, only takes a second to say it
No meanin' no, no contest, no stress, no second guessin'
No bodyguards, no question
The easiest and the hardest word to say is no
Only got two letters, only takes a second to say it
No meanin' no, no contest, no stress, no second guessin'
No bodyguards, no question
[Verse 2]
No succotash, no "Girl, I got the cash" raps
No sex traps, no Rolexes, no unprotected sexes
No false hopes, no hand ropes, boats, no car notes
No killers, no vanilla, no bigger Willie's, no Wilma's
No jail time, no fuckin' lil' kid rhymes, no studio terrors, no mirrors
NO absent pops, NO sweatshops, no pork chops
NO justice NO peace NO please please please
NO legal freestyles NO willies, NO
McCovey
NO industry rapes, capes NO suits NO
Ties
NO stars NO over paid A&R's
NO body guards gold teeth
NO east coast, west coast beefs
NO dumb looks, NO one sided books
NO special cooks NO finesse NO mess NO struggle to progress
NO hittin sprees NO HIV NO lies
From NO TV's
NO contracts NO tracks with NO mechanicals
The easiest and the hardest word to say is NO
Only got two letters
Only takes a second to say it
NO meanin No
NO contest NO stress
NO second guessin
NO body guards
NO question
The easiest and the hardest word to say is NO
Only got two letters
Only takes a second to say it
NO meanin No
NO contest NO stress
NO second guessin
NO body guards
NO question
The easiest and the hardest word to say is NO
Only got two letters
Only takes a second to say it
NO meanin No
NO contest NO stress
NO second guessin
NO body guards
NO question
The easiest and the hardest word to say is NO
Only got two letters
Only takes a second to say it
NO meanin No
NO contest NO stress
NO second guessin
NO body guards
NO question
Chuck links an important wealth – important enough to buy Rolexes – to an obvious stupidity in a person’s action. He might want to say that fancy clothes and shiny jewels blind people’s perspective on life, and you might get fooled in it – having sex with no protection is a bad decision that may have been led by dreams-of-being-rich-blindness.
Chuck D says that he can rap without disrespecting women.
We can all agree that the East Coast-West Coast beef was the stupidest thing to happen in hip-hop.
No explicit signs of obvious richness like fancy cars or any luxurious accessories.
No dream of getting money, just rapping for the realness of it, and for the message it spreads.
The whole lyric is a long list of all Chuck’s idea of rap cliches that he wants to avoid. ‘No corny choruses’ – there are many offenders in the history of rap.
Chuck D thinks people don’t know anything about a song only being about lyrics. So this song is about NO lyrics.
In hip hop, some black people helps adding to the sterotype that black people are stupid – it’s just another stupid myth, Chuck D raps about humbleness and modesty.
He says that people who like him usually don’t do drugs and talk about like some others.
The annoying habit of misspelling words, especially “the” as “da” etc.
Chuck D isn’t a criminal. He says that towards people who only rap about the gangster life, and who talk about murder and rape as if we could find pride in these matters.