Get The Picture Lyrics - Singles - Kool Moe Dee

Yo 

I had to go for mine 

From the bottom to the top is a hard climb 

But hard rhymes beat hard times 

Gimme a spotlight and I'll shine 

Brither than the brightest star 

No matter who you are 

You're outdone 

I won 

And for the coup de grace 

Competition turns into fans 

Like a politician 

My competition spans 

From country to country 

It's never too far cause I'll take 'em all 

From the Shah to the Czar 

The Fu Man Chu 

The Prime Minister too 

The King and the Queen 

My rhymes are so mean I'll do 

A number on the country 

Like never before 

Is it a contest 

Or the threat of world war 

Choose your weapon no half-steppin' 

And let's go 

But if ya steppin' watch ya step 

And step slow 

Take your time change your mind 

Cause steppin' to my rhyme is like 

steppin' on a land mine 

Blowing you to kingdom come 

This ain't Vietnam 

A brother thinks he's ready for war brings him on 

A perilous journey 

You catch a hernia 

Trying to burn me 

Cause like an attorney I'll 

Cross-examine 

Your rhymes of my design 

And I'm styill standing 

Tall 

As the competition falls 

In actuality ain't no competition y'all 

Cause I'm rollin' over 

Rappers like a U.S. tank 

Meanwhile laughin' all the way to the bank 

Get the picture (3x) 

Suckers 

Tried to put me down 

Siad rap was crap 

And wouldn't be around 

Any longer than two years 

But eight years later 

I'm still here 

Fully paid 

Because the rhymes I made 

Made dollars and cents 

I wasn't dense 

I stayed 

Away from drugs 

I never touched a pipe 

When I wanna get high 

I smoke the mic 

I never did white lines 

I only write lines 

And I ain't sniffin' nothing but 

The vapors from hype rhymes 

As I start to float 

On the rhymes I wrote 

Ascending to a level with the gods and I tote 

Loads and mounds of people 

As they reach new heights 

A half-a-mile from heaven is the party site 

And I'm the attraction 

The ods will be packed in 

Coming out of their pockets for me to rock it 

And acting 

Like they've never ever ever been entertained 

They try to act godly but they can't maintain 

Aphrodite would freak 

As her knees get weak 

And Venus would peak 

Off every word I speak 

Zeus would get loose 

Fully induced 

I'll make Apollo's ryhmes sound like 

Mother Goose 

By night's end 

Mercury is so hyped 

He'd spread the word 

That there's a god on the mic 

Captivating all the other gods 

By the masses 

Described as a dark-skinned brother in glasses 

But unlike the other gods 

I ain't a myth 

You wanna rif 

I suggest you take the fifth 

Get the picture (3x) 

Knowledge 

Is the source of my success 

History is the course 

And life's the test 

For those who don't know 

History's repetitive 

Lack of knowledge 

Serves as a sedative 

Makes you relax and max 

The lack of facts 

Holds you back 

The odds are stacked 

Against a weak mind 

Makes a meek mind 

But mine ain't weak 

I got a piece and I'ma speak mine 

Telling you the truth 

I raise the roof 

With rhymes so hard 

I'm bulletproof 

One slip of the lip 

Could sink your ship 

You wanna get hip 

Let's take a trip 

All aboard 

This is the last call 

I ain't a mandate cause 

I'll only ask y'all 

Once and only once 

To purchase a ticket 

Get on the rap train 

Watch me kick it 

From state to state 

And every little hick town 

They'll all be down 

With the new hip sound 

Treating me like more 

Than just a star of the sport 

But more like the judge in a court 

Y'all rise 

And raise your hands in the air 

Pump your fists 

And solemnly swear 

To rock the truth 

The whole truth 

And nothing but the truth 

Not only the youth 

Cause the young and the old 

Are all alike 

It makes no difference 

When I'm on the mic 

For those who can't 

Visualize what their eyes can't see 

You wanna get the picture 

Focus on me 

Get the picture (3x)