Filed under: Bronx Bombers,Ced Gee Special,Features,Kool Moe Dee Special,Steady Bootleggin'
Written by: Robbie Ettelson
Kool Keith once described Kool Moe Dee as “the fuckin’ Space Invader of Rap”.
This is one song where it pays to have the lyrics in front of you in order to catch the barrage of disses served up by Rhythm X (courtesy of DJ Flash from OHHLA).
Hey yo stupid, you thought I was over
Living like Oscar, Big Bird and Grover
I’m the X the man the first challenger
I keep rhymes in place like Bob Gallagher
Fittin, and in the chair I’m sittin
Rappers know I’m Kool, rappers know I’m Keith
Like Charlie Brown, good grief
I see rappers I know they turned African
I just pedal my bike, then I laugh again
I pull the girls with thread and one string
They say I’m steppin to them for one thing
But I don’t think so, you think so, really?
Tapes is wack and new MC’s sound silly
I hate to criticize, I have a problem
In this school wack rappers I’ll solve them
They wanna be like Ultra on the jizock
Try to act like they not but on the kizock
Suckin, takin, aw-ll be slurpin
Comical bums your wack jams ain’t workin
You ain’t got the style to rock no man
You get a pound from me, but with no hand
Diss em, I’m not the one Miss Ferguson
Cold stupid as hell like George Jefferson
Yeah, you dummies better be careful
I pick up rappers and throw away a handful
Yes… I’m pluckin everyone’s card
Twinkle twinkle twinkle little star
Behind those glasses I know who you are
You Racer X, here’s rubber speed
You dissin James? He’s chicken feed
He can’t rap or clap or make a feet tap
How bout Monie and Nikki they both bullcrap
I see light in my lamp, but not on the mic
How could I diss myself in front of Dolemite
You wanna preach and teach and be a rebel
Then underline disguise and be the devil
Call yourself God, can you make it rain
Can you tell me how or what I’m thinkin in my brain
I’m not the bighead kid who wanna show off
I just pick up the mic and then I blow off
Dirt, crumbs, any type of feather
You ain’t genuine, toyin real leather
Pleather, coming out in the weather
You rap on R&B tracks and whatever
Hi Uncle Tom, go head entertain
Dance and get sweaty, and let me use my brain
I think twice about the big bow tie
You wearin one? I wanna know why
I see fools all dressed in tuxedos
And at the Grammy’s, a bag of Fritos
Dumb people wonder, dumb people think
Just to be large, do they have to wear a mink
Drive a Cadillac, drive a Benzo
A Rolls Royce with a funky Testarosso
I’d rather stay in New York and not Hollywood
Fool, I’m pluckin everyone’s card
You takin off and you’re gold and for what?
Because you wanna be down and so what?
You buy your African beads from Koreans
Africans, you walkin by human beings
You don’t know, you’re so stupid
Take the books you read you’re still stupid
Learn, see the rappers I burn
You’re coming next, it’s your turn
Let me sprinkle Salt, let me sprinkle Pepa
on doo-doo, and whatever
You wanna speak on the X, then let’s go with this
I know I’m talented, good, and such a pro at this
Trade, skill, future my job
And at lunch I eat a rap shishkabob
You wanna spin with the real and make a big deal
Yes, you’re in the showcase showdown
I hope you’re ready to rock and come blow down
Huff, and puff, like the big bad wolf
I’m not the man concerned with that story
Look out, watch, you’re Three Feet and Sinkin
The Tribe’s are lost and everyone’s breath stinkin
[Ahhh, to the crossroad]
Look at one man carry many loads
I gotta move enlighten a sleepy world
Remember, I’m pluckin everyone’s card
Ultramagnetic MCs - “Pluckin’ Cards”
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Robbie you should have put “Bust the facts” up. He goes at Moe Dee on some real MC shit and crushes him!! Moe Dee never responded even after Keith Told Moe Dee LL was not the one to battle lyricaly and step to some real competition in the source article.
Comment by Marc Davis 02.28.08 @yea…..he didnt have to…neither one of those dudes would of had a career if it wasnt for moe dee….oh well…. i love how the sons try to disrespect the father……it’s cute
Comment by mercilesz 02.28.08 @“Look out, watch, you’re Three Feet and Sinkin”
makes you kinda trip off Dove’s first verse on Ego Trippin’ (pt.2) that came out a year later. Part 1 was obviously Ultra’s clowning on the big names in ’88
and now I gotta go listen to their “traveling at the speed of thought” singalong on Judgment Night soundtrack for clues if they ever hit back. HA, HA
all these tracks served to pop shots at chart toppers of their time
advanced with elevation, astonishing with rhythm
’cause we’re…
When Moe Dee was with Treacherous he was all that and a bag of chips and was a big influence along with T-La Rock for the UltraMags. Just like when Jordan was reigning on the court and Allen Iverson stepped into the league he gave Jordan the business with the cross over. Keith just handed Moe Dee a lyrical crossover. I guess his old rhymes were “rust very dirty and dusty and under his arms he was kickin power and musty”
Comment by Marc Davis 02.28.08 @I can’t front, I laughed out loud at “I think twice about the big bow tie”… it reminded me of Moe Dee’s ‘I Go To Work’ video.
And yeah, there’s quite a number of disses in there to numerous folk. Some subtle, some not-so-much.
Comment by DANJAMANIA 02.28.08 @These lines from Funky II (off of the critical Beatdwon album were about Moe Dee’s Charts from the How Ya Like me No album too. If anyone has a picof the charts I’d really like to see it again since I never bought the Moe Dee album. Anyway, the lyrics are below…
“I’m not that average rapper, nobody’s equal
And for the biter, his beat will
grow and grow and grow, til he finds out
He’s not a pro-fessionally,
up to par, with myself
No comp’, I like to battle myself
by myself, compete again myself
Score myself, on these weak ass charts
How can a fool say he’s on the top?
Eight million rappers, my rhymes stop
with lyric bombs, the wack ones drop
like snowflakes, they turn to cornflakes
My voice shakes, causin earthquakes in Michigan
parts of New York”
haha i love that song, he does pluck everyones card!
i’m sure the “call yourself god, can you make it rain/ can you tell me now what i’m thinking in my brain” line was aimed at rakim.
the lines “i’m on a mission/i see your balls of clay with x-vision/i’m a scientist, your satellites are weak/ they get dimmer every time I speak” rhyme on ‘aint it good to you’ were clearly a diss to rakim too.
Comment by KQ 02.29.08 @a satelite gets dimmer? what does even mean? i love kool keith fans……..
Comment by mercilesz 02.29.08 @“I see light in my lamp, but not on the mic
How could I diss myself in front of Dolemite”
This line clearly directed at Kane for that skit on his 3rd record where he was trading jabs with Rudy Ray.
Comment by Marc Oz 03.03.08 @Bust the Facts and Pluckin Cards are 2 of Keith’s best songs! Yo, mercilez, that satellite line was a diss to rakim, a take off from ra’s lines in Follow the Leader:
“What could ya say as the Earth gets further and further away
Planets are small as balls of clay
Astray into the Milky Way – world’s outasight
Far as the eye can see – not even a satellite ”
Now peep Keith’s lines:
“i’m on a mission/i see your balls of clay with x-vision/i’m a scientist, your satellites are weak/ they get dimmer every time I speak”
Keith has said in interviews that he and the other top MCs of the Golden Age used to trade barbs all the time, but it was battling more to see who could get iller. It wasn’t on some beef shit.
Yo, and speaking of Keith dissing people, he’s dissed the shit out of Marc Davis! He had a song dissing him on myspace for awhile and he took him to task in this interview from http://www.koolkeith.co.uk
“Marc Davis has nothing to do with me. I don’t know why he is even calling people around the business and putting my name in his mouth. He doesn’t have shit to do with me. I have nothing to do with Marc Davis. I haven’t seen him in about 15 years now. People just want to come out the graveyard and start doing shit. I don’t fuck with Marc Davis.”
Comment by Mike G 03.05.08 @Let me sprinkle salt. Let me sprinkle pepper.
On doo doo.
And whatever.
One of Kool Keith’s finest lines.
Comment by Finally 03.06.08 @Yo Mike G or whoever your fake bitch ass is!! I got keith record deals on more then one occasion!! He is like a big kid, he hates you one day then your his best friend the next. Your talking about Kool Keith the same guy who tried to air out Ced-Gee out then recorded an album with him. He is the same guy who said he would never do another Octagon Record. I like the fact that he mentions my name, let’s me know I’m all on his mind!! Oh and for the record I spoke to Keith yesterday. Get your weight up next time you try and pull it Beyotch!!
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