Rather Unique
Title | Rather Unique |
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Artist | AZ |
Album | Doe or Die |
Release Date | 1995-10-10 |
Description | On this track, AZ brilliantly incorporates ingenious metaphors, similes, euphemisms, hyperbole, and personification while being rhetorically symmetric. |
Lyrics | [Scratches in the intro and Chorus by Pete Rock] [A sample of the Onyx classic "Slam" is heard in the background of the intro and the Chorus] [Intro: Pete Rock] Rock the house (rock the house...) East New York, East New York East New York, East New York Uhh, East New York, East New York East New York, East New-York To my nigga AZ, hit it off [Verse 1: AZ] We was already molded in people's minds as mulignanes Now we more fucked, stuck with a mayor named Giuliani You can try to blind me, analyze but can't define me My mind's divine, heavily entwined with Gandhi's Far from feeble, I leave your nostrils hard to breathe through 'Cause my cerebrals are more of a higher plane than the Hebrews My mic devotion brings out my deepest emotions Overdosin' wannabes posin', sendin' 'em through convulsions Too hard to follow, you took a bite but couldn't swallow Your mind's boggled But I'm as deep as Donald Goines novels My whole persona's kinda laid back like a recliner And since a minor, I been fuckin' with marijuana Wavy hair, my skin got a money-gettin' glare Strictly menace wear, mackin' off a Guinness beer So where it all begins is here Destiny and me finally meet So how can I be weak? I'm rather unique [Refrain: Big Daddy Kane sample & Pete Rock] Why, why, why I'm rather unique So check it out, why I'm rather unique So check it out, why, why, I'm rather unique So check it out, why I'm rather, rather rather unique So check it out, why I'm rather unique Just check it out, why I'm, why, why I'm rather unique So check it out, why, why, why I'm rather unique AZ, check him out, one time, why, why, why I'm rather unique You might also like[Verse 2: AZ] My verbals rip shit, brains give birth to thoughts in triplets Fuck it, I'm on some flip shit, ready to let my clip spit Dramatical, vocals release shells like automatics do Music's magical, causin' any battles to be tragical, child Got a style sick as hell, sicker than sickle cell anemia Slaughter your circulatory like leukemia Filled with larceny, who want parts of me? I'm vicious Mad malicious, 'cause it's real on this road to riches I got this mastered, other rappers'll graft it; weak and wicked Camouflagin' as killers, how they speak and kick it Peep this uniqueness, non-believers I'm leavin' speechless Left to choke as if skunk smoke was comin' through the speakers Surgically nice with any verbal device Trife, breathin' life into mics My eyesight's beyond the twilight So die or fight, no surrender, no retreat Techniques speak, I'm rather unique [Refrain: Big Daddy Kane sample & Pete Rock] So check it out, why I'm rather unique Uhh, why, why, I'm rather unique East New York, East New York, why, why, I'm rather unique Why, why, I'm rather unique East New York, East New York, why, why, I'm rather unique Why, why, I'm rather unique East New York, East New York, why, why, I'm rather unique My man AZ to the fullest [Verse 3: AZ] So it's gonna take more than your astrologist to knowledge this Physiologists couldn't even figure out the exoticness Raps demolishin', certified the way I style it My wordplay blaze with the rays of ultraviolet My culture's smilin', gettin' more in depth with each breath Autobiography follows the footsteps of Malcolm X Money and sex, Gore-Tex, Donna Karan and Guess Finesse, success through the life stress, mics I bless Puffin' trees to get me high as trapeze Lookin' Japanese, at ease when I'm stackin' G's So let's discuss, plus degrees Why the rhyme force is the source for thoughts that's lost So don't cross 'cause it'll cost The ghetto savior, smooth for real playa with flavor Moves be major, with un-explainable behavior The word's on the street, so keep your ears to the concrete Why I'm rather unique [Refrain: Big Daddy Kane & Pete Rock] Why I'm rather unique Check it out Check it out Check it out Check it out Check it out Check it out Check it out Check it out Check it out |