Represent - Intellectual

[Intro]

Yo what up though

Ya' listenin' to Elmatic

Fire that weed up and put it in the air, yeah

[Chorus]

Represent, represent

[Verse 1]

Straight up shit is real and and any day could be your last when you pass

Your sand has dropped now your hourglass in the flash

The corners is where they pitch rock

To move into a rich block

Find somebody up in your crib, you gotta' switch locks

Niggas pull triggers and ditch Glocks

Over things a bitch jock, as sick as a Hitchcock flick

To be a big shot, looks appealing

The life of crooks getting money off the books

Fuck a shook civilian

We took the illing and mistook the feeling

Of climbing to the top

Stay in when you don't know where the cops laying

Loaded guns, pop, spraying

Just to get the hands on your clock to stop swaying

Enough to cause both of your knees

To drop praying and niggas stop playing

'Cause I was told to represent

By OG's claiming the D and repping Flint

Pushing old school whips on 20s they kept in tint

[Chorus]

Represent, represent

[Verse 2]

They call me El, I'm not your legal type of fella

Bong smoker, pipe inhaler, keep a strong poker

Face, playing my cards right, fuck a case

Cops will run in your place

For hard white, treat you wrong, poke ya

With the night stick

I know these snitches telling in fact

I'm smelling a rat and the aroma is quite thick

They shut down your light lick bright quick

Charging you with shit that might stick

Thought you was Frank White slick

The jokes on

All you little niggas with locs on

Counting your figures, downing liquors

Getting your smokes on - representing

For the hood putting your city on the map

Young girls throw they kitty and they titties on your lap

Catch you slipping while you tricking

Stick the clip in

To get paid and leave you sicker than that AIDS symptom

They play your man like fools, feel the heat from the tools

Empty out your wallet take off your jewels, you know the rules

[Chorus]

Represent, represent

[Verse 3]

No doubt, see my stacks is fat, this is what it's about

Before that Ice Cube conflict with MC Ren

Around the time when 3rd Bass was dissed by X-Clan

I used to wake up every morning with my ear in a box

Bumping Rakim, Kane, Finesse, Freddie Foxxx

Then I bought the Nas CD, Biggie's and Pac's

Wu-Tang, Jay-Z, Gang Starr and the LOX

Nowadays I need the greening of cash just like the next man

Using my mind to make shit move, just like an X-Man

I'm talking checks, grands, commas and zeros

Growing up, my heroes palm firearms at dineros

Some of them went to jail, got life in the cell

Others got death, dwelling in Hell, most of 'em fail

When you laying low and the police is hot on your trail

Do you think of suicide or are you plotting for bail?

This is words of wisdom from El

Try to rise up above

Keep an eye out for snakes, represent, one love

[Chorus]

Represent, represent