[Intro]

(Think I wanna be a scapegoat for the whole damn machine?)

BLAQKNOIZ

Yo, yo, yo

[Hook]

Spend an arm and leg on the fool's gold

Only think you're great when the fools know

Put on a cool show, sell a couple shirts

Going everywhere, but you're never the first

Spend an arm and leg on the fool's gold

Only think you're great when the fools know

Put on a cool show, sell a couple shirts

Going everywhere, but you're never the first

[Verse]

The origin of Man was always innovation

It's always been the plan, to reach our graduation

But the elevation means you must respect the predecessors

The lessons done been told, Melle Mel and Large Professor

(The LP!) Got LT to engineer a session

The Dope Spot Studios, utilized me a blessing

Ten hours a month? Bet, we gonna do some work

I can lap a few rappers and still never make it to first

[Hook]

Spend an arm and leg on the fool's gold

Only think you're great when the fools know

Put on a cool show, sell a couple shirts

Going everywhere, but you're never the first

[Verse]

The dastardly bastard, the flirt who stay quiet

Understand a Titan, the man instigating the riots

Hiphop is anti-silent, we making KNOIZ on the mic

But it's legendary emcees who taught me to write

Don't question what you type? You disrespecting a God

Watch your ass get smited, prophecy the cattle prod

I battle odd cause I'm versed in a hand-me-down language

You'll never be first, but don't languish in frustration

[Hook]

Spend an arm and leg on the fool's gold

Only think you're great when the fools know

Put on a cool show, sell a couple shirts

Going everywhere, but you're never the first

Spend an arm and leg on the fool's gold

Only think you're great when the fools know

Put on a cool show, sell a couple shirts

Going everywhere, but you're never the first

[Outro]

But you're never the first, but you're never the first

Always second to the predecessors