D. Original

Jeru The Damaja

Verse One:




Dirty rotten scoundrel that's what I'm called on the street



Could connive and cheat but rarely get beat



Ya see I'm streetwise a con game pro



Kickin the Bobby bullshit too smart for Willie Bobo



Not stressin five o hot hand in celo



Live in the land of crooks yes Brooklyn's the borough



Homicide central East New York



Where the manic depressive psycho murderers stalk



Walk like a ninja, on the asphalt



Here talk is cheap, you're outlined in chalk



And there's more hardtimes, than on Good Times



And most niggaz dedicate their life to crime



So I'm steady schemin, won't work for a dime



Used to get, tax free loot, all the time



Type slick can't fess on 'Ru, because




Verse Two:




Before trains were graffiti proof I used to get loose



Dirty rotten since the days of the deuce



Dirty, because of the skin I'm in



The fact I have melanin automatically makes me a felon



Even though I'm righteous, rotten's what you're yellin



But I'm not chain-snatchin, or drug-sellin



According to your books you said I would be damned like Ham



Scoundrel opposite of the king that I am



But wanna get funny, we can get bummy



Take you to the East and back again money



Filthy putrified trick, step past your sister



Challenge the Damaja, and you'll be history



Mortal Kombat fatality, the original don't sing no R&B



Nasty MC deity



Chop off domes with the poems that come out of my pin-eal



gland, as I expand, you know who I am




Verse Three:




Father of all stylin, I be whylin on wax



We hack shit up like big ax and little ax



Don't need tokes to make you jump like bungee



Tracks real