It’s Only Right

By O.C.

On Jewelz

Released on August 19, 1997

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[Chorus: Samples]

“A-one, two, yeah, and you don’t stop”

“One, two, hah, and you don’t stop”

“A-one, two, yeah, and you don’t stop”

“One, two, hah, and you don’t stop”

“A-one, two, yeah, and you don’t stop”

“One, two, hah, and you don’t stop”

“A-one, two, yeah, and you don’t stop”

“One, two, hah… now check it out”


[Verse 1]

Style like something the Microphone Fiend would spark

Sort of reminiscent, of how it used to go down in the parks

Equipment roped off, you could hear the Vegas echo from miles away

Bass pound the asphalt

Thunder vibration shake like a tremor from an earthquaking

O.C. a classic in the making

Mental make thoughts, my physical form words

Out of my mouth like a joust, no doubt

Sum of phenomenon, mic technician, electrician

Split the mic down the middle like an El Producto and throw out the resin

Then add some potent and shit

Gift of gab in a rhyme, make rappers stand stunned

The way I do it, switch up the fluid

So smooth, you wanna pursue it, I’m raw like underground sewage

You fishing for insight? Well, I’m back, never was gone

What I write be tighter than pinstripes worn

By mob boss, my cause in effect on the mic

Keep it tight, what I suffice is raw, it’s only right


[Interlude: Sample]

“I know it’s hot, and we’re hot too"

"You ready to throw down, we ready to have a party"

"So if y’all ready to have a party, make some noise!”


[Verse 2]

Any mic, I hold in the grip of my palm, I wave it over the crowd

Dictating shit like Genghis Khan

Nonchalantly deliver the flow like drug traffic

Schooling, bringing schematics to this rap shit

Bonafide, mic set, you can’t see me on it

Mastered the art, so now I just flaunt it

Born to live a life and die, but ‘til then

I’ma keep on writing slick rhymes with the pen

Take the cherry from a beat, like a virgin have their innocence

Bust my nuts, bring rhymes to life like Genesis

Poetical renaissance, endeavors are flawless

Tearing shit up when it comes to me, picking up a cordless

One of New York’s finest

On this trip, I coincide with Beatminerz

Bringing out the best in me, we’re formulating like a recipe

What I implore will sho'nuff bestow my presence

Then I’m divine like the seven

Keeping it tight ‘cause what I suffice is raw, nigga

It’s only right


[Chorus: Samples]

“A-one, two, yeah, and you don’t stop”

“One, two, hah, and you don’t stop”

“A-one, two, yeah, and you don’t stop”

“One, two, hah, and you don’t stop”

“A-one, two, yeah, and you don’t stop”

“One, two, hah, and you don’t stop”

“A-one, two, yeah, and you don’t stop”

“One, two, hah… now check it out”


[Verse 3]

Microphones I melt down, slap clowns, push ‘em out of bounds

Crush your crowd as I lay my third verse down

Because this is what I want, to gain control of that position

It’s only right that I follow through

Competition, be warned of me, homicide rhymes hold mad rounds

You get fly, some pins in hearse batting you down

Contents flexed, text expert since my born day

5-slash-1-3-slash-7-1

Like a stick been, injection inside your bloodstream

Digest what I manifest

O.C., you best buy me, others are mediocre, like

I slam the earth like a meteorite

‘Cause I’ma take mine, leaving you face-down in a puddle

Blow up like a shuttle when I give you my rebuttal

Frame of mind across state lines

Await to taste me like fine wines from a vineyard

For those who wanna select cyphers, decipher styles

Straight up, I don’t rhyme for niggas

I prove myself, been styling for years on the mic

On another level of being, what’s to be mines

It’s only right


[Chorus: Samples]

“A-one, two, yeah, and you don’t stop”

“One, two, hah, and you don’t stop”

“A-one, two, yeah, and you don’t stop”

“One, two, hah, and you don’t stop”

“A-one, two, yeah, and you don’t stop”

“One, two, hah, and you don’t stop”

“A-one, two, yeah, and you don’t stop”

“One, two, hah… now check it out”


[Outro: Sample]

“Is Brooklyn in the house?"

"Is Brooklyn in the house?"

"Say, 'Oh!'”

“Oh!”

“Say, ‘Oh, oh!’”

“Oh!”

“Yeah, yeah, yeah”

“Yo, let me tell you something"

"Let me tell you something before we start, alright?”

“Uh, almighty all nighty, alrighty”

“Nah, fuck this shit, y’all”