Mantis Lyrics - Rza As Bobby Digital In Stereo - Rza

featuring Masta Killa Tekitha 

[martial arts movie sample] 

The technique depends mainly 

on arm and finger strength 

Once you've that then the next step 

is to learn how to pierce stone 

Well you might as well start practicing now 

Do you Do you Do you Do you 

Do you know mantis legends? 

How it was it all started? 

It was fighting off this blackbird 

Although it was only a tenth of the bird's size 

it was a very valiant insect 

And that's why the technique, needs a brave man 

And a strong one, who isn't afraid of birds 

[Bobby Digital] 

Welcome back to the temple of hip-hop and Sword Kem'po 

Lyrical rhyme nympho, be -boy Bob Digital 

Diamond crystal ring solid gold bone rituals 

We be the humble most calmest individuals 

Hard to spot microdots, we Sasquatch 

Stomp MC's, third eye Cyclops lazer beam shots 

being fired once the father get raised up 

We John Blaze up, abrasive heat, from the phaser gun 

Never left for a stun Dunn, Atilla the Hun 

type Killa Park Hilla, eighteen wheeler Mack's 

in the truck lanes, from the rugged grains 

of Shaolin soil, the red wolves be prowlin 

Howlin over the shit that got the whole world bowin 

We spoiled, one thousand swordsmen 

One thousand recordings, one thousand Wu stores and 

One thousand rap tours and global insurance 

Not your everyday occurrence 

My rhyme torments MC's with the fear of God 

You'll be cursed like Farad, and struck by the iron rod 

Tchka-tchka-tchka-tchka-tchka-tchka-POW 

Chorus: Tekitha 

Hell's Wind Staff, the wrath of Black Titans 

Niggaz battlin, sword swingin 

Cutthroat women, whirlwind given save the children 

Escape the poverty for live and, let live 

Die by the mic, shadow steel by night 

(repeat 2X) 

[movie dialogue] 

Man-Mantis style isn't easy to learn 

A mantis is small, but powerful 

With it's arms, it can lift up many times it's own weight 

[Masta Killa] 

On behalf of the Wu-Tang Clan I'll display 

the Hong Kong, Shaolin King Kong poems 

Slaps niggaz in half from Kwan'tan 

Ten tigers scratch like Allah math, the Hell's Wind Staff 

Watch the eight diagram strike the diaphragm 

Pierced lung minute from tongue double-edged 

sound the drum, here I come as predicted 

Holdin the raw seal, all heads kneel 

7th Degree black mic skill is ill, listen to the guns holler 

Swallow the shell, East New York terrorist 

Break fool to this, madness, crazy low-hand 

grabs the mic stand, smooth as water 

Spat Seven Seas you've not yet mastered 

Breathe and lungs wheeze, Earth kills 

I'm wreckin MC's, blood spills, meadow is round 

The piercin sound of Shaolin's deafens ears 

Fires fears, wood sharp eagle claw tears 

tree from bark, hard to maintain control 

When you leakin I stand with the strength of Jobe 

and hold pleasure that I bust your head, while I'm teachin 

civilization, one havin Knowledge 

Wisdom Understanding, cultural firemen 

Knowledge savage in pursuit of happiness 

Thunderous mantis, all chant this