Текст песни How Ya Like Me Now - Longer Version - Kool Moe Dee

Oh, the night train

I throw my tape on and I watch ya
Three second later
I got ya shakin' your head dancin' instead of sittin'
The rhymes kick, the beats hittin' you

Just like a home run slammin' like a slam dunk
Riding the wave that James Brown gave funk
It happened to James like it happened to me
How you think I feel to see another MC

Gettin' paid usin' my rap style
And I'm playn' the background meanwhile
I ain't with that you can forget that
You took my style I'm takin' it back

Coming back like return of the Jedi
Sucker MC's in the place that said I
Could only rock rhymes and only rock crowds
But never rock records

How ya like me now
How ya like me now

Now brothers are riding me like a pony
I'm no phony I'm the only real macaroni
Playin' the mic like it's supposed to be played
New jacks, you all shoulda stayed out of the business

What is this
Amateur night at the Apollo?
Get off this stage, I'm in a rage
I'm like a lion that's been trapped in a cage

I'm the real king, rap is a jungle
I never understood, how could one go
To a party, watch me, stand around and jock me
Become a rapper, then try to rock me

Scheming like a demon, you're screamin' and dreamin'
I'm from the old school, I used to see men
Dies for less, but I'm not living that way
I'll let my mic do the talkin' and let the music play

How ya like me now

Rap is an art and I'm a Picasso
But of course why else would you try so
Hard to paint a picture, and try to get ya
Self in my shoes, but they won't fit ya

I'm bigger and better, forget about deffer
Every time I rocked the mic, I left a
Stain in your brain that will remain
Stuck in the back of your brain till you see me again

Respect, I come correct
The rhymes I select are nothing short of
Vernacular's pure and I can insure
Life or death with my breath, my voice is a cure

I heal life from the words I spread
I'll make a sick man rock on his death bed
Sucker MC's, I'll make your girl say, "Ow"
She's jockin'

How ya like me now
How ya like me now

It irked my nerve when I heard
A sucker rapper that I know I'll serve
Run around town sayin' he is the best
Is that a test? I'm not impressed

Get real, you're nothin' but a toy
Don't ya know I'll serve that boy
Just like a waiter hit 'em with a place of
These fresh rhymes and make sure that he

Pays the bill, and leave him standin' still
And when he's had enough, hit him with a refill
And for dessert it won't be no ice cream
I'm just gonna splatter and shatter his pipe dream

Make him feel the wrath, beat him and laugh
And when I finish them, I'm gonna ask him
Who's the bests, and if he don't say Moe Dee
I'll take my whip and make him call himself Toby

Whip him good, then I'll make him sweat
All I'm talkin' about battles and never had a battle yet
But if we ever did how could you beat me
You're so petrified even scared to meet me

My word's the law that's why you don't beef
You're nothing but a punk, track star, and a thief
So I'm puttin' you on punishment
Just like a child never touch another mic

How ya like me now
How ya like me now

I could continue there's more on the menu
But I relax 'cos I'm so far in you
You had enough I know you're overstuffed
If I keep going you'll be throwin' up

Old rhymes I used to say back in the day
When you used to me, to my parties and pay
Nobody's ever gonna rack me, this I vow
So all I wanna say is

How ya like me now
How ya like me now
How ya like me now