Plastic World - Kool Keith.mp3

[00:00.06]Yeah, Kool
[00:01.44]Keith should keep it real
[00:03.00]He should rap about space and
[00:06.33]MarsYo, I'm tired of looking at everybody, same boots, skully hats in90 degree weather, looking to get into clubs for free
[00:14.25]I'm not smoking blunts, or looking for jazz records at the
[00:16.71]RooseveltI left
[00:18.63]New York, the city itself was stress depression
[00:21.30]High boots and urban beats, that wasn't my direction
[00:24.27]Producers filtering join in with
[00:26.19]R&BA million rappers, some clones trying to sound like me
[00:29.67]Biting my space styles, biting my horror core
[00:32.43]All I saw was
[00:33.27]Kool Keiths on my thaw
[00:34.98]Record companies had
[00:36.12]G'd off all my royalties
[00:37.71]Watching vinyl spin, local groups' wack
[00:39.93]MC'sSome try to rap with that perpetrate mobster crap
[00:43.11]Karl Kani jeans, fat stomachs in the limousines
[00:45.69]Mixtapes by wack
[00:46.65]DJ's adds doo doo play
[00:48.57]I'm on the turnpike, the city drifting down the highway
[00:51.21]Like a mirage, the style there is all illusion
[00:53.94]On videos out of town, peoples buy confusion
[00:56.67]Rolling high with cash pulled over down my eye
[00:59.28]Since I've been out, y'all can't see
[01:01.56]Is the world made of plastic?
[01:04.20]Is the city buried in dreams?
[01:06.06]YeahIs the world made of plastic?'
[01:08.85]Cause that's the way is seems, ow
[01:12.33]Is the world made of plastic?
[01:14.97]Is the city buried in dreams?
[01:17.04]YeahWatching
[01:18.06]TV so bored, while imbeciles hold the mic cord
[01:20.79]Graffiti playgrounds are played out, yo how'd that sound?
[01:23.67]Army fatigues are weak, is for the minor leagues
[01:26.22]No rapping cyphers or brothers in the rented
[01:28.50]BenzCrews on stage, acting hard with a thousand friends
[01:31.68]I saw the place turn plastic, crackers looping beats
[01:34.35]People with no deals, walk men rappin' on the streets
[01:37.05]I turned my back, 90 percent of the city sounded wack
[01:39.69]Payola scams switched
[01:40.86]DJ's like a rubber band
[01:42.45]Everybody clear with beats trying to be
[01:44.49]PremierClearing samples, your
[01:46.41]SP-12 fake examples
[01:47.88]My money grows with green from my own label
[01:50.52]While you act rich with no cash on the bigger label
[01:53.19]Your tri state ways are shut down by barricades
[01:55.89]In fact I packed my bags, and listened to
[01:57.84]E-40Mac Mall,
[01:59.04]C-Bo, and other rappers you don't know
[02:01.29]You're narrow minded and styles of mind you won't find it
[02:04.02]My sound proceeds with moog and undertone bass
[02:06.63]No comic gimmicks with beats rapping in my face
[02:09.42]I come back real, solid rock razor steel
[02:12.03]Taping your program, show the world
[02:14.04]I'm the man
[02:14.73]You copy Poppa
[02:15.72]Large, the industry is large
[02:17.22]Is the world made of plastic?
[02:19.68]Is the city buried in dreams?
[02:21.93]OwIs the world made of plastic?'
[02:24.42]Cause that's the way is seems, yeah
[02:27.78]Is the world made of plastic?
[02:30.57]Is the city buried in dreams?
[02:33.00]OwIs the world made of plastic?'
[02:35.22]Cause that's the way is seems, yeah
[02:38.52]As I do see sorta rugged wack beer commercials
[02:41.43]Some rappers are bought and puppeteered like the
[02:43.62]Ninja Turtles
[02:44.40]From Manhattan
[02:45.21]I heat up, yo light up
[02:46.35]Times Square
[02:47.22]I make noise like open high hats on your cheap snare
[02:49.77]No promotional shows, girls wear corn rows
[02:52.32]People with hooded sweaters on crack keep me on my toes
[02:55.29]I walk with straw hats, fake glasses in the projects
[02:57.81]Bring my ghost image so tense on the line of scrimmage
[03:00.69]Playing my numbers, waiting for the five to come
[03:03.21]Spaghetti out the window, people acting dumb
[03:05.91]Fire hazards wake the neighbors, your family's nosy
[03:08.76]I come and go as
[03:09.63]I please on blockhead
[03:10.65]MC'sYou bought new sneakers, no car, scrambling on the corner
[03:14.22]I'm not the star you are, the city's fallen far
[03:16.68]By mechanism, you're on my tip
[03:18.84]Stay off my *****, you've duplicated me for years
[03:22.02]Yeah, yeah, yeah, you are the one
[03:27.06]Is the world made of plastic?
[03:29.76]Is the city buried in dreams?
[03:32.34]OwIs the world made of plastic?'
[03:34.50]Cause that's the way is seems, yeah
[03:37.86]Is the world made of plastic?
[03:40.53]Is the city buried in dreams?
[03:42.18]OwIs the world made of plastic?'
[03:45.30]Cause that's the way is seems, yeah, ow