Take It Personal - Gang Starr

I never thought that you would crab me Undermine me and backstab me But I can see clearly now the rain is gone

The pain is gone but what you did was still wrong

There was a few times I needed your support

But you tried to play me like an indoor sport

Like racquetball tennis fool whatever

All I know is you attempted to be clever

Nevertheless cleverness can’t impress

Cause now you’ve been expose like a person undressed

Cause I see through you, I’m the Guru

Now what you gonna do when I step to you

And when I pay you back I’ll be hurting you

This ain’t no threat so take it personal

Rap is an art you can’t own no loops

It’s how you hook em up and the rhyme style troop

So don’t even think you could say someone bit

Off your weak beat come on you need to quit

I flip lines and kick rhymes that never sound like yours

There oughtta be laws against you yapping your jaws

Originality overflows from in me And the truth is, that you wish you could live the

Life I live and kick the lyrics I kick

But bear in mind that you can’t think as quick

So Premier drops a beat, for me to say verses to And if I sound doper then take it personal

Don’t be mad cause I don’t come around the way

Like I used to, I don’t have time these days

I’m keeping busy making power moves

Don’t try to say I don’t remember you

You shouldn’t let your jealousy show like that

I stopped coming by, cause of the way you act

Telling my business to kids I don’t even know

You’re like a daytime talk show, and that’s low

So you can tell everyone, that I’m jerking you

And if you don’t like it, take it personal