Natural Elements - “Knick Knack”

[Emcee(s): Mr. Voodoo, A-Butta, and L-Swift]

[Producer(s): Charlemagne]

[Sample (Melody): Joe Cocker - “Woman to Woman” (0:10)]

[Intro: L-Swift and A-Butta]

[L-Swift]

A special guest on my shoulder

V-double-O-to-the-D-O-O

And me (Who?), the capital L-the-dash-the-S-

-the-W-I-F-to-the-T

[A-Butta]

And me, the A-to-the-dash-to-the-B-

-to-the-U-to-the-double-T-A. Anyway

[L-Swift]

It’s time, NYC, to rip the M that I see/M that I C, so

[Hook: L-Swift and A-Butta]

[L-Swift]

Knick knack paddy wack, give a dog a bone

Ayyo (Say what?), I’ll pass A the microphone

[A-Butta]

Yo, I’ll pass. (Why, son?) Haha, to each his own

[L-Swift]

So, yo

Knick knack paddy wack, give a dog a bone

Ayyo, I’ll pass Voo the microphone

[Verse 1: Mr. Voodoo]

Rappers is getting rocked

I’ll moisten your block. Talk

Proper when you see me or lose your voice like the doc

Put fear in the air like carbon dioxide, my ox slice

Niggas, buy flights day-to-day that your fox likes

Causing chickenheads to have cockfights, plus

Your Glock tight, the cloud ignorance block light, but I

Got sight, got it hemmed it plus locked tight

Don’t sleep, I’m foul, son. My sex is deep as Malcolm X

Speeches, taking purses like church preachers

My mouthpiece is like a loaded heater—when I unleash

These streets see more data flow an IBM

Keyboard. Emcees releasing speech, seize the wack species

I’m hectic like a girl on a contraceptic

In a fight, I’ll put out more light than General Electric

So emcees out there, you better stand clear ‘cause

The Natural Elements a world premiere, so

[Hook: Mr. Voodoo and L-Swift]

[Mr. Voodoo]

Knick knack paddy wack, give a dog a bone

Ayyo (What up?), I’ll pass L the microphone

[L-Swift]

I’ll pass. (Why, son?) To each his own, so

[Mr. Voodoo]

So

Knick knack paddy wack, give a dog a bone

Ayyo, I’ll pass A the microphone

[Verse 2: A-Butta]

Well, I’m

F-R-E-S-H

And I could rock any party from state to state

Ayyo, this is how we take the old from the new

Natural E, that be we, the chosen few

Holding you hostage like terrorists—check this

No academic awards can reach my degree of excellence

The man you met with reverence hold down the fort

Never get caught ‘cause I conceal the evidence. We’re setting

It off the right way, plus I might say

“No other motherfucker flow quite like A”

“Hey Hey Hey,” ripping it for “NYC”

A-Butta’s getting busy on this M-I-C, so, yo

[Hook: A-Butta and Mr. Voodoo]

[A-Butta]

Knick knack paddy wack, give a dog a bone

Ayyo (Yo, yo), I’ll pass Voo the microphone

[Mr. Voodoo]

I’ll pass. (Why, black?) To each his own

[A-Butta]

So, yo

Knick knack paddy wack, give a dog a bone

Ayyo, I’ll pass my man L the microphone

[Verse 3: L-Swift]

Here I

Am (Say who?), L-S-W-

-I-F-T, here to bring trouble to

Phony emcees, I drop degrees like thermometers

Who losing couldn’t measure my wind with barometers

Kick bomb shit my crew make, may shake it up in

Your mouth like a toothache, be the half of 2Face

Who lace niggas BX motion? One dead

Three left smoking. I see my nigga G instead

Coasting, flex notion when I spit a knickknack flow

And that’s about three niggas out like tic-tac-toe

I be larger than fat hoes in black clothes I be seeing

At rap shows. Bangers? I pack those (Word, is that so?)

Plus I’m running with my niggas from the Northeast Bronx

So fuck around and catch an off-beat stomp, but you’re confused like

Kids who wonder where their daddy at. Got kids

In Cali bumping “Knick Knack Paddy Wack” up in their Cadillac

You got an L? Pass me that—high as a bird

But, for now, I take my piece of the pie and a third

I redesign these words for my niggas and niggettes

I ain’t chilling—I’ll bust the triggers and jitters

L-Swift, yo, I’ll always come equipped with

Heavy ammunition so I don’t have to dip

Check this shit, it be Natural Elements on this new shit

How I do shit. Ayyo, niggas be on two dicks

2Face, who lace niggas all over the border

I’ll take your daughter, split her ass for, like, a quarter

My nigga Kendu hem crews like my nigga named Voodoo

We be Natural Elements—who you? We be them

Nigga who be repping on the East Coast major

Got that flavor. Who be calling on my pager?

Bringing danger like motherfucking… I don’t know, but

I be flowing whenever I grow like an embryo

Like my nigga said (Yeah, yeah), A-Butta slay brothers

I don’t be fucking around with gay lovers (Motherfucking Grant Projects)