Natural Elements - “Knick Knack”
[Emcee(s): Mr. Voodoo, A-Butta, and L-Swift]
[Producer(s): Charlemagne]
[Sample (Melody): Joe Cocker - “Woman to Woman” (0:10)]
[Intro: L-Swift and A-Butta]
[L-Swift]
A special guest on my shoulder
V-double-O-to-the-D-O-O
And me (Who?), the capital L-the-dash-the-S-
-the-W-I-F-to-the-T
[A-Butta]
And me, the A-to-the-dash-to-the-B-
-to-the-U-to-the-double-T-A. Anyway
[L-Swift]
It’s time, NYC, to rip the M that I see/M that I C, so
[Hook: L-Swift and A-Butta]
[L-Swift]
Knick knack paddy wack, give a dog a bone
Ayyo (Say what?), I’ll pass A the microphone
[A-Butta]
Yo, I’ll pass. (Why, son?) Haha, to each his own
[L-Swift]
So, yo
Knick knack paddy wack, give a dog a bone
Ayyo, I’ll pass Voo the microphone
[Verse 1: Mr. Voodoo]
Rappers is getting rocked
I’ll moisten your block. Talk
Proper when you see me or lose your voice like the doc
Put fear in the air like carbon dioxide, my ox slice
Niggas, buy flights day-to-day that your fox likes
Causing chickenheads to have cockfights, plus
Your Glock tight, the cloud ignorance block light, but I
Got sight, got it hemmed it plus locked tight
Don’t sleep, I’m foul, son. My sex is deep as Malcolm X
Speeches, taking purses like church preachers
My mouthpiece is like a loaded heater—when I unleash
These streets see more data flow an IBM
Keyboard. Emcees releasing speech, seize the wack species
I’m hectic like a girl on a contraceptic
In a fight, I’ll put out more light than General Electric
So emcees out there, you better stand clear ‘cause
The Natural Elements a world premiere, so
[Hook: Mr. Voodoo and L-Swift]
[Mr. Voodoo]
Knick knack paddy wack, give a dog a bone
Ayyo (What up?), I’ll pass L the microphone
[L-Swift]
I’ll pass. (Why, son?) To each his own, so
[Mr. Voodoo]
So
Knick knack paddy wack, give a dog a bone
Ayyo, I’ll pass A the microphone
[Verse 2: A-Butta]
Well, I’m
F-R-E-S-H
And I could rock any party from state to state
Ayyo, this is how we take the old from the new
Natural E, that be we, the chosen few
Holding you hostage like terrorists—check this
No academic awards can reach my degree of excellence
The man you met with reverence hold down the fort
Never get caught ‘cause I conceal the evidence. We’re setting
It off the right way, plus I might say
“No other motherfucker flow quite like A”
“Hey Hey Hey,” ripping it for “NYC”
A-Butta’s getting busy on this M-I-C, so, yo
[Hook: A-Butta and Mr. Voodoo]
[A-Butta]
Knick knack paddy wack, give a dog a bone
Ayyo (Yo, yo), I’ll pass Voo the microphone
[Mr. Voodoo]
I’ll pass. (Why, black?) To each his own
[A-Butta]
So, yo
Knick knack paddy wack, give a dog a bone
Ayyo, I’ll pass my man L the microphone
[Verse 3: L-Swift]
Here I
Am (Say who?), L-S-W-
-I-F-T, here to bring trouble to
Phony emcees, I drop degrees like thermometers
Who losing couldn’t measure my wind with barometers
Kick bomb shit my crew make, may shake it up in
Your mouth like a toothache, be the half of 2Face
Who lace niggas BX motion? One dead
Three left smoking. I see my nigga G instead
Coasting, flex notion when I spit a knickknack flow
And that’s about three niggas out like tic-tac-toe
I be larger than fat hoes in black clothes I be seeing
At rap shows. Bangers? I pack those (Word, is that so?)
Plus I’m running with my niggas from the Northeast Bronx
So fuck around and catch an off-beat stomp, but you’re confused like
Kids who wonder where their daddy at. Got kids
In Cali bumping “Knick Knack Paddy Wack” up in their Cadillac
You got an L? Pass me that—high as a bird
But, for now, I take my piece of the pie and a third
I redesign these words for my niggas and niggettes
I ain’t chilling—I’ll bust the triggers and jitters
L-Swift, yo, I’ll always come equipped with
Heavy ammunition so I don’t have to dip
Check this shit, it be Natural Elements on this new shit
How I do shit. Ayyo, niggas be on two dicks
2Face, who lace niggas all over the border
I’ll take your daughter, split her ass for, like, a quarter
My nigga Kendu hem crews like my nigga named Voodoo
We be Natural Elements—who you? We be them
Nigga who be repping on the East Coast major
Got that flavor. Who be calling on my pager?
Bringing danger like motherfucking… I don’t know, but
I be flowing whenever I grow like an embryo
Like my nigga said (Yeah, yeah), A-Butta slay brothers
I don’t be fucking around with gay lovers (Motherfucking Grant Projects)
