Story Behind the Song
They certainly do know how to rock. We just wanted to say hi in a memorable way, so each MC drops the standard hip hop fare - battle rhymes - in their own, off-kilter fashion.
Lyrics
Jugular Vein
The Sentinels
The Lying City EP
[troy]
Ginzu Three
making mc's fade like old jeans, selling they beans
for cattle, when the snake shakes the rattle the tattle tales
are getting forced to walk the plank,
we stealing from food banks, fully equipped, we've got tanks
for war, and semen in the sperm banks to generate more
soldiers if the numbers get low, we blow the whistle
kid, we're sentinalz, you're merely Cardinal Officials
its all about my skills, I'm dealing cash money for ill shit
with Shebang X writing cheques, we'll get Savage Poetic to bill it
my linguistics factor weighs 10 tongues, Redrum is being served at
the launch party, and tardy guests are gettin served asbestos
I honeymoon weekly on the Island of Lesbos, I suppose, I do
believe I've got crazy skill in droppin prose
posers are getting sliced by my backlash once they see the
Resurrection Brother, died and reborn as Ginzu 3
those stagnant MCs pulling stunts and hard fronts, we let you
escape once and now you're gonna get burned slow like blunts
and cigar paper, light your ass up and transform you into vapor
as they taper off to nothing we'll be off on another crazy caper
another line of scrimmage, check me out like popeye, hyper off
the spinnage on turntables, and weaving twisted fables to make
ripples in the pond, mc's suck on rubber nipples till the milk's
all gone, but not my ilk.....
I represent dementedly, haltown CORRECT
every box on the checklist is marked in blood with an X
I flex like a fuckin giant, I cast hexes, I'm out of sync, profound
like tyranosaurus rexes in dog pounds
check this flow - "oh no, the sentinalz show up, we blow up
like baking soda in H20", I thought you didn't know
I thought you were saying something, but talk is cheap
like thrills in the back of a jeep with the stereo bumpin
[jeff]
Savage Poetic
Step inside the octagon if you don't know whose jocks you on 'cause
Word is bond, I give the mic cancer when I put it on
If you wanna battle, get in line, and mind your manners
Snapping shots without a camera and I'm bad news like Princess Diana
Body slamming all amateurs in my spandex outfit
My flow is so def you want to tell people about it that you
Don't even know. Blow up like firecrackers strapped to G.I.Joes
Twenty thousand leagues, in the sea, down below
I flow evil like Doctor Octopus, it's obvious that
No-one's stopping us, we'll desecrate your populace, right on is
How we dropping this, playing truth or dare but we in the lying
City, my flow is so hot that you could start a fire with me
You say you come strapped with gats, I say I come strapped with
Giant squids, you say your crew's got raps, I say your
Crew's a bunch of little kids. The Sentinels master their
Domain with an iron fist, we're tireless, better than
Letterman, plus communicating wireless, more advanced than rap
We make music with smoke signals.
Totally tight like gold-plated shingles, smoke the herb
Because I like the way it tingles way back in my throat
And also in way up in my skull, I'm from way out where it's
Illegal to be dull, where firing squads will gun you
Down if you're wack, I've been there and miles beyond but
Last year I made it back alive and ready to use the
Knowledge that I've learned to get funky like the worm with
Endearment like the terms in the movie, high on doobies with
Groupis in my hooptie, shakin' booties 'less they got cooties
Now do your duty and blow me like Hootie blows fish
Shoot the gift off the wall, past the bleachers, nothing but net
Swish...
[jesse]
Maxfield Stanton
Doesn't know how being wack feels, standing in the floodlight
Taking out sucker MCs 'cause it's my blood right
Bring on the girls for the mud fight and the sex later
Security will escort you suckers off my escalator
I'm saving the best for later, now is for practise
I'm vanquishing villains with superpowers of wackness
I emphasize the most important lines with a highlighter
And cruise through outer space in my own personal TIE fighter
..Last week an MC who thought he was clever said
Something about my mother, and now he's just a severed head
I use him for bowling on Wednesdays after my drum lesson
And his blood was the ink I used to write and sign a confession
My sharp eyes bring objects in motion into focus, awesome
Beats like this one get me open like a crocus blossom
Your last hope is lost when you're up against Sentinels
We have six arms, six eyes, three heads and tentacles
We create chemicals in mad scientists' laboratories
And I invite you critics to try and dis my oratory
You'll soon find out that it's an extremely hairy business
To detract from the way I shoot the gift like merry Christmas
I'm very vicious, unscrupulous, capricious and ruthless
I terrorize the mic and I have witnesses to prove this
Clueless MCs should shut up, but since they're never silent
They'd better move at least as far as Prince Edward Island
Otherwise, they risk getting pulverized lyrically
Which is one way to experience the afterlife empirically
Drop the mic and pick up a guitar, join a garage band
You've got no kind of substance, you're nothing but mirage and
After that barrage I know you soiled your unmentionables
Learn from your mistake, you can't foil the Sentinels.
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