White Label Test Press * Lyrics - Kool Keith

[record company flunkie] 

Yeah I don't think Keith's gonna show up to the meeting y'all 

See Keith's the type of artist to do his own thing 

There's no A&R out there that can tell him how to make a record 

You can't tell him he needs to make something like everyone else 

cause everyone else is just stealing his originality and ideas 

ANYWAY .. I think we should cancel the marketing meeting 

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[Kool Keith] 

As a big secret, Kevin Glickman chill with Chris 

Don't like Jeremy Lawner 

So Ruffhouse politically had to freeze my album 

Regular Columbia don't know what the hell is goin on 

With a sheisty distribution switch behind my back 

I worked on my album February last year 

13 months, passed by, all I heard was a bunch of lies 

Six weeks in ?? hawkin with a so-called manager 

Univested, livin off my budget 

My LP was completed before John Forte, Sporty Thievz and Pras 

but too many secret fans had they hands in the pan 

When I got to Philadelphia, everybody was waitin for me 

with tracks with a bag full of unconceptual DAT's 

Throwin me off, distractin me 

With Marc and K Matlin programmin 

Me on the basslines, all my beats were slammin 

Nothin they could tell us 

While everybody except Tim Devine was jealous 

With my album leakin out to a bunch of critics 

It was somethin stupid the record company 

and the scam bookin agent, slash manager did 

Dubbin my cassette for the industry, it got silly 

Opinions from people who don't know jack about music 

in the industry, know what? 

Had to do the album practically over 

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Chorus: Kool Keith (repeat 4X) 

This is a test press 

White label test press 

[Kool Keith] 

Back like "Return of the Jedi" 

While the average person critiquin my album 

Most MC's look at me with red eyes 

DJ's don't understand my sound is too new 

He can't feel it on the felt; he say he'll make it a hit 

if I give him a Rolls Royce and a Versace belt 

Take care of program directors 

Yeah gonna call Billboard when y'all send them a Mustang Ford 

Then buy a 20-page ad about Kool Keith headbands 

Soap powder's in The Source, that'll get me the cover boss 

Everybody's small 

You're gonna have to buy video shows with washing machines 

I got to step up to bat in 3 Rivers Stadium like the Yankees 

in the World Series against the Big Red Machine 

Y'all gotta make it work, every video producer 

Y'all gotta send 'em a V-12 

cause nobody wants the t-shirt at Urban Network 

Big Truck productions need to hire 20 people on the phones 

Callin retail; 90 foot pictures of me and my daughter 

lifts on the side of the building 

Half of these records are wack cause street teams get paid 

to pull out wack snippet tapes out their wack backpacks 

Get off early with a crew pile up in a suburban 

Go to the clubs and get the flats and posters and start servin 

Yeah 

Chorus 1.25X 

[Kool Keith] 

Yeah..