[Intro]

Yeah yeah yeah yeah, oh yeah

It's the late night hype Mack B dog in the house

Chillin', like a big ol' pimp

Right about now, at 3:01 in the morning

Everything else on is probably pretty faulty and repetitive

So if you're goin' through your radio

When you get down to that, you know, far left hand side

Keep it tuned to Mack B dog, 'cause you know

I'm keepin' it extra extra funky

Know what I'm sayin'?

[Hook]

Concentration

Concentration is the name

Keep the rhythm

Or you will be out the game

We bust shots like German Lugers

On intruders

Violate, we activate the ill-style shooters

So Lateef (yo)

Let your lyrics heat-seek (all right)

And yo, get on the mic and pump the microphone technique

(Check it out, here we go now)

(Look what we've got)

Akil, Lateef and Mark 7, deliverin' the presences

(J5 Quannum)

Zakir, Gab, Lyrics Born, natural as the elements

[Akil]

I jump down and customize

My lyrics to synchronize

And educate the young, dumb, deaf, and blind

And drop a seed in they minds, so they can open they eyes

Realize and recognize we livin' in the last times

[Gift of Gab]

I pull a spark of shining light out of the glorious fate

Create the lyric arsenals that verbal warriors make

Escape hell temporarily

Merrily vibes carry me to heavenly states

Inevitably rockin' steadily

[Marc 7]

Yeah, I represent the underground MC

Even though I move around, I'm still down with MCs

Now pound for pound, I go the round

I astound as you see

I'm from the group, Jayou, the J5 MCs, yea

[Hook]

Concentration

Concentration is the name

Keep the rhythm

Or you will be out the game

[Lyrics Born]

Oh god, it's so re-al, and yet, it's sur-real

Flowin' like soy milk, over sweetened cer-e-al

Y'all melt, like toys built from cheap material

Re-evaluate yourself, it ain't about the here and now

[Zaakir]

Yo, I hold it def for 6, blazed my way up out an orphanage

Assertive it, poetic scripts blast murderous

The earth shaker, I crack a nigga out his windbreaker

The verbal layer, rhythmatic fly commentator

[All]

Ayo, now if you stumble on a phonograph

To listen to the flavors that you got to have

With lyrics that we perfectly handcraft

All the way from the bay to L.A

We're tryin' to give you all different points of views

To show you our poetic words that we use

From the MCs that you're bound to choose

All the way from the bay to L.A

[Scratching/samples]

[Hook]

Concentration

Concentration is the name

Keep the rhythm

Or you will be out the game

Look what we've got

[Verse 3]

Akil, Lyrics Born, Zakir, Gift of Gab

Lateef, Mark 7, Chali, Cut Chemist, Nu-Mark

XL and DJ Shadow

[Gift of Gab]

The rhyme ambassador that mastered the ceremony

So passengers fasten up these average cats'll never catch up to us

[Zaakir]

Yeah I hot dog the ball behind the yes yes y'all

Fuck hanging on the shore trying to ball in the place

[Lyrics Born]

No, I don't jitterbug with lyrically idiotic litterbugs

They sit and bug the shit out of me

Eat 'em up for dinner, supper

[Marc 7]

We imburse to disperse, meant your last was your first spent

Consume the whole room and you wonder where the Earth went

[Akil]

So I reduce the risk, and spit words like a journalist

And burnin' it in unofficial mic tournaments

[Lyrics Born, (all)]

I'll play off night watchin' trife 'cause we might utilize

The mic as a rightful eyes on the prize

So try to conduct yourself in a manner that's wise

Ain't that right? (Right right)

True (right right)

Tell 'em why

[All]

We bust shots like German Lugers

On intruders

Violate we activate the ill-style shooters

J5, Quannum kick it live

North with the south, civil war with the rhymes

Bust shots like German Lugers

On intruders

Violate we activate the ill-style shooters

J5 Quannum kick it live

North with the south, other crews flatline