Set It Off - Blueprint

Set it off, set it off, set it off brother, set it off

Set it off, set it off, set it off brother, set it off

Set it off, set it off, set it off brother, set it off

Set it off, set it off, set it off brother, set it off

Get your weight up

Double up and place your bets

I’m not a gangsta but my beats bang your head

Drop the anchor, post up and break some bread

Built my base up, rockin' 'til I’m grateful dead

My snare shake ya, words penetrate the skin

Melt your face up and cake up your skeleton bend

Into gelatin enveloped by my perilous pen

Where terror begins, you’re stuck until I tell you it ends

Fold your promotional poster into an airplane and toss it

Practice aim where trash is laid, you lost it

Can’t explain my massive gain so forfeit

Now I got the juice like Jack LeLanne, I’m awesome

Spine-tingling to rhymes swinging into action

Meanwhile my theme song blastin'

On television braggin' how they eat off rappin'

'Til my remote zap 'em and they leave closed-captioned

Set it off, set it off, set it off brother, set it off

Set it off, set it off, set it off brother, set it off

Set it off, set it off, set it off brother, set it off

Set it off, set it off, set it off brother, set it off

Call your dogs off, all y’all kibbles and bits

Just Chihuahuas riled up flipping your lips

We Rottweilers, Dobermen pinchers, and Pitts

Put you in pet cemetery quick as a lick

So many ballers, now they gotta sit on a bench

My shot fallen all cause the industry switched

For ignoring the score and exploiting the poor

They gon' be shown out the door at the end of their shift

Asked out and unemployed, passed out and null and void

Sat down for passing 'round wack styles I can’t enjoy

So-called bad boys that breach noise ordinance

I deploy b-boys to your home’s coordinates

It’s drop squad by the time you react

Open up my van doors, throw you right in the back

Take you for a ride, show you what’s right and exact

Knowledge in self in history, supply you with facts

Set it off, set it off, set it off brother, set it off

Set it off, set it off, set it off brother, set it off

Set it off, set it off, set it off brother, set it off

Set it off, set it off, set it off brother, set it off

Study your history!

Gotta study this hip-hop history.

Study this craft and

learn it, man, so you can contribute and build this shit and not destroy it.

Cause a lot of y’all not studying the dudes that came before y’all, «I don’t wanna hear about them old school niggas.

Them niggas is raw and stuff,

this and that…» Those are the same niggas your mother was ready to suck they

dick.

Your mother was ready to bone these niggas.

Your grandmother was ready to

fuck Run DMC and all that.

You bum-ass niggas tryna shoot these old school

niggas down, but them parties was popping your moms though.

Y’all gotta study

this fucking shit.

Same with y’all popping niggas mothers now or whatever y’all

doing.

Nah’m sayin?

I ain’t tryna sound bitter or nothing, but you know,

come on man, pay homage to those before you and learn what the fuck is going

on, man!