Can’t Make It

By Rhymefest

On Man in the Mirror

Released on December 29, 2007

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[Intro: Rhymefest & Michael Jackson]

You can't get out... Woo!

Of the game!

No, no...

Hey, it's the Best Kept Secret

El Che is coming!

This the only dedication album ever done, ever

You can't duplicate this, man!

Mark Ronson, you ready?

Aight, look

Look, ugh! (C'mon!)


[Verse 1: Rhymefest]

I think you runnin' outta time (Huh)... runnin' for your life

Runnin' from the cops like you runnin' from a crime

Check your rear view, yeah who comin' from behind?

I'm! El Che, never runnin' outta lines

Rappers (Can't make it)

Thinkin' that these fuckin' record deals

Finna change your fuckin' life when you sign? (Nah)

Labels is falling, whole industries are on decline

It ain't no more dope in the streets, only mine (Woo!)

Only a matter of time before you see the pattern unwind

And I disappear, take that as a sign

Of who's the man behind the mask in front of the shrine

With every revolutionary who defying they time

Like Booker T., Muhammad Ali, Huey P

You and me! Yeah, nigga, I said it: you and me

Either you fight or I'ma pull a Harriet Tubman

And put a shotgun blast to your head until you free (Blaow!)

It ain't Pooh or Phonte (Ugh), Common or Kanye

My name is Rhymefest (Who?), El Che, El Commandante

Serving up the hood like an entrée

With over three thousand OutKast without a motherfuckin' Andre, nigga!

[Hook: Rhymefest & Michael Jackson]

If you keep selling dope on the block, we (Can't make it)

Without education and jobs, we (Can't make it)

And everybody know what it is

Homie, we living in a (Game...)

All these rappers (Can't make it)

That ringtone shit is a wrap, you (Can't make it)

I'm bringing real hip-hop back, you (Can't make it)

And everybody know what it is

Homie, we living in a (Game...)


[Verse 2: Rhymefest]

Yo, yo, yo, I get so loose

I'll turn your brains into fresh produce

Mixed vegetable, cauliflowers, tofu!

Skip what they told you, running scared, let 'em go

(Boom!) Black Jason in the forest with a gold tooth

Music (Can't make it)

We went from Marvin Gaye

To Stevie Wonder to Michael Jack' to "A Bay Bay"

Now El Che-ayy-ayy, from L.A. down to the A-A-A

And I ain't hating, just clear my way

Late-lay, I've been the king of this underground thing

Don't believe me, then jump-jump-jump to get sting’d

Like Killa Bees, I come from a city with killer G’s

Artilleries, bullets will make your ass feel a freeze

If this was Jeopardy ('dy), the answer would be me (Me)

The question would be, "Who is hard?"

Bitch, I leave you scarred (Ahh!)

Napoleon Dynamite, you fucking retard

("Gosh!") This year, 'Fest came so hard

Straight starched, so thirsty, I'm so parched

So dirty, yet so clean, my money is washed (Yeah)

I spend everything, man, no matter the cost (Ugh, ugh, ugh!)

And I don't need a million men, bitch, I'm still gon' march

Ahhhhh


[Interlude: Rhymefest]

Yeah, this is Rhymefest

A.K.A. El Che

And we doing the Michael Jackson dedication album

Never been done before

Let's kick it off the right way, baby

We livin' in the game, homie

C'mon!

[Hook: Rhymefest & Michael Jackson]

If you keep selling dope on the block, we (Can't make it)

Without education and jobs, we (Can't make it)

And everybody know what it is

Homie, we living in a (Game...)

All these rappers (Can't make it)

That ringtone shit is a wrap, you (Can't make it)

I'm bringing real hip-hop back, you (Can't make it)

And everybody know what it is

Homie, we living in a...