Making A Name For Ourselves (Featuring Canibus) (Album Version)

Making a Name for Ourselves - Common

Yeah

Yeah

Me and my man com sense

Rallyin' troops like Joseph

Stalin stalin

Where you at yo

I'm 'bout to make the name com sense a name you fear

Y'all niggaz is scared I'm your worst nightmare squared

And I'ma make the name Canibus a name you fear

Y'all niggaz is scared I'm your worst nightmare squared

That's double for niggaz who ain't mathematically aware

Yo

Yo

I can tell by how you write

You the type to run

In a fight

I hold mics while you hold Sprite

Like a broken hearted b**ch

Don't give no f**k who yo team or who you startin' with

Cameoed or charted with I house niggaz like

Apartments with

Mic mechanisms I dissect a rhythm

Move crowds with kinetic wisdom

It's like a Malcolm X orcisim f**k

The rhythm I hit him

I want him got not get him auction

His wack ass off then bid him

I'm creatin' the ultimate verses with perfect lines

Puttin' together them whether my rhyme

One threat at a time

So you niggaz need to stop testin' me

'Cuz you know you can't F with me

Steppin' to me with insuperior weaponry

Exposin' yourself to the verbal radiations

Sayin' you can defeat me is nothin' but speculation

Lyrics unravel faster than bullets travel

Through barrels

Niggaz be diggin' my styles like fossils

And pterodactyls

Who wanna battle

I'm bad to the bone marrow

The Earth got one sun but I walk with three shadows

With Allah my supernatural bodyguard

Niggaz couldn't touch me if they gave me a massage

MCs will compete with lyrics and beats get crushed

I'll hit you in your chest so hard your

Shoulders will touch

What

What

Steppin' to me is like going

To the County being a neutron

Common I ain't scared of no nigga

I persue sound fairs relaxed like Dru Down's hair

Other nigga's rhymes are like gang signs

I throw down theirs

On knots I landed players get played like Hamlet

Supposedly nice taken for granted like life

I write twice and drop singles in record pools

Niggaz I'm dinkin' like when cops mingle

F**k hip hop jingles rhymin' big words

And not sayin' sh*t

The click that you came in with accent your flavor with

Like moose I go to the caves and get niggaz off

All fours

I'm the sh*t that's uncalled for the sh*t

That you fall for

Far more advanced than a rapper who's career

You could only take a glance couldn't make

The transition

From B boy to C note stance

I stand in a circumference the humbleness

But in the Chi bumbleless

Was thinkin' as a weakness were poetrys in motion

Like a b**ch I'm the main feature

Amongst hard working teachers and corrupt preachers

I make my living off of singles like Latifah

In between sheets like ** with blunted senses

You couldn't make a statement if you was

From a sentence

I'm cold with numb intentions

F**k with Canibus

F**k with Canibus

F**k with Canibus

F**k with Canibus

Yo the Canibus is an animal with a mechanical mandible

Comin' to damage you spittin'

Understandable slang at you

I be the all seeing lyrical

Hammerhead sharp peripheral

With 360 degree visual

When the signal was given MCs get biten with venom

From a poisonous algorithm liable to kill 'em

My style will get in 'em way up in 'em

My face don't belong in The Source

It belongs on the shroud of turan for certain

I grab mics and murder sh*t

It's wickeder than Satan worshippers going

To Catholic church services

You heard of this

The lyrical verbalist trash herbalist

The wrath of my cold blooded verses is merciless

Rap snap get your ass cracked like bear traps

Contaminate your air sacs like tear gas

And I swear black try to battle me you won't last

I'll turn your ass into

The artist formerly known as you gay ass fag

I'll blow you to ashes with tactics

Strip you naked then make you hug a cactus you bastard

So phat to be a rap star takin' pictures at

Music seminars

People know who you are

Now I got mad shorties that wanna call me

Because they saw me up in The Source chillin' on page 40

Put this in your CD ROM

WWW dot canivas dot com

Common

You can find me on the internet talkin' to chicks

That was sweatin' me off the Music Makes Me High remix

I be talkin' mad trash tryin' to get 'em to laugh

See if I click and drag long enough I'll get the ass

Bring it bag to the lab on Mount Prospect Ave

Let your chicken suck me off

And send her home in a cab

You know how we do liquid aluminum like the T2

A beast from the East part 2 comin' to see you

It's time I made the name

Com Sense a name y'all fear

Y'all niggaz is scared

I'm your worst nightmare squared

Now that I made the name Canibus a name you fear

You still scared I'm your worst nightmare squared

That's double for niggaz

Who ain't mathematically aware

To catch another sucka duck MC out there

Since I made the name Com Sense a name y'all fear

Y'all niggaz is scared I'm your worst nightmare squared

And since I made the name Canibus a name you fear

You stay scared I'm still your worst nightmare squared

That's double for niggaz who ain't mathematically aware

To catch another sucka duck MC out there

Think out think think out think think out

Another sucka duck MC out there

Common common

Think out

Another sucka duck MC out there out there out there