[ti:Stronghold Grip]
[ar:Immortal Technique]
[al:The 3rd World]
[00:00.02]Immortal Technique Feat. Poison Pen & Swave Sevah - Stronghold Grip
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[00:19.04]Immortal Technique:
[00:19.60]Immortal Technique, Poison Pen
[00:20.34]Swave Sevah motherfucker (get 'em right now!)
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[00:23.20]I leave government spies and murderers
[00:24.96]wrapped in plastic like Dominican furniture
[00:27.83]I put the iron in you, like the center of Earth's curvature
[00:31.03]And make your block turn into the, border of Serbia
[00:34.08]My flow's dirtier than juiced-up players in baseball
[00:36.95]And beat you in the head like a sock with an 8-ball
[00:39.64]You got Stockholm Syndrome, and that's why I hate y'all
[00:42.96]Cause you be biggin up the industry while they rape y'all
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[00:45.99]Poison Pen:
[00:46.48]Yeah, I spaz out (spaz out) and beat the shit out niggaz
[00:48.59]You fag out (fag out) and beat the jizz out niggaz
[00:51.32]Gloves (check) ski mask (check) duct tape (check)
[00:54.34]Get a ducat and lost and recovered and break neck
[00:57.32]Bed-Stuy, BestBuy, clique and rush the {?}
[01:00.68]Rip up the pavement, throw the whole block on you
[01:03.49]Pop up, you gotta get it
[01:05.70]Like Ricky in "Boyz N the Hood," stoppin to scratch a lotto ticket
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[01:09.30]Swave Sevah:
[01:09.82]Yo, I feel the sudden surge given me the urge to speak (yo what up?)
[01:12.19]Scream somethin that's absurd and disturb the peace (fuck y'all!)
[01:15.28]Quick to throw a hot verse to beats
[01:18.48]You see the music I'm a prisoner, hip-hop is my work release
[01:20.82]I'm not the same Swave you knew, I'm a whole new person
[01:23.85]More assertive and aggressive, my attitude worsened
[01:26.72]I raise hell on this earth
[01:28.35]Your rap is over, you Casanova's gon' end up like Gerald Levert, bitch!
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[01:32.97]Chorus: Immortal Technique, Poison Pen & Swave Sevah
[01:33.54]Immortal Technique: Stronghold tighten the grip, on the underground
[01:35.64]Poison Pen: I fight back-to-back holdin my brothers down
[01:38.63]Swave Sevah: You done started, with the wrong motherfucker now
[01:41.54]Immortal Technique: Married to the cause and we loyal, we don't fuck around
[01:44.56]Poison Pen: Stronghold overthrow the whole fuckin underground
[01:47.34]Immortal Technique: Secretly run, by commercial motherfuckers now
[01:50.33]Swave Sevah: So while you little step-and-fetch niggaz run around
[01:53.27]All: Controlled demolition, we bringin the structure down!
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[01:56.56]Immortal Technique:
[01:57.08]Immortal Technique nigga, I'm the type to flip
[01:59.15]Cause me and my dogs fight to the death like Michael Vick's
[02:01.94]And I don't hit women so I'm not gonna mangle your wiz
[02:05.05]A prostitute with an AIDS race'll handle the biz
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[02:08.29]Poison Pen:
[02:08.77]Hit the block with a pen and glock, a ox and rocks, a devil spray
[02:10.70]If that's a K, play yo' punk-ass infected with leprosy
[02:13.59]Leave you half-murdered beyond, recognition beat and indecent
[02:16.78]Leave you with your plastic surgeon for a remix
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[02:19.65]Swave Sevah:
[02:20.15]Yo, aiyyo I'm hard-bodied with it
[02:20.94]And these scars, contusions, concussions, fractures
[02:23.60]and pains you suffer from; I probably did it
[02:25.63]You ain't worth spit, I put a hit out on your mother
[02:28.72]Then fuck up you and your four brothers
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[02:31.50]Immortal Technique:
[02:32.09]You play Scarface when a microphone's in the room
[02:34.36]But you more like Pacino in "Dog Day Afternoon"
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[02:37.62]Poison Pen:
[02:38.12]ASCAP clappin 'em, all this rap traps
[02:39.90]Snatch that diamonds off your neck, worth 50 dead Africans
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[02:43.20]Swave Sevah:
[02:43.76]Yo, this dude is truly a joke
[02:44.74]That stuff got you feelin tough, must be sniffin +Peruvian Coke+
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[02:48.94]Immortal Technique: We spit Cold War syndrome, it shatters the bones
[02:51.23]Poison Pen: Spray my dependance on your bitch face when it splatters you on
[02:54.27]Swave Sevah: Thrown in submission holds and choked 'til you tap out
[02:57.25]Immortal Technique: And shut down your party like Whitney Houston's crackhouse
[03:00.51]Poison Pen: Stronghold, live and direct up in your set
[03:03.17]Swave Sevah: The habitual line steppers - Swave, Pen and Tech
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[03:06.60]Chorus: Immortal Technique, Poison Pen & Swave Sevah
[03:07.23]Immortal Technique: Stronghold tighten the grip, on the underground
[03:09.28]Poison Pen: I fight back-to-back holdin my brothers down
[03:12.14]Swave Sevah: You done started, with the wrong motherfucker now
[03:15.11]Immortal Technique: Married to the cause and we loyal, we don't fuck around
[03:18.01]Poison Pen: Stronghold overthrow the whole fuckin underground
[03:20.91]Immortal Technique: Secretly run, by commercial motherfuckers now
[03:24.08]Swave Sevah: So while you little step-and-fetch niggaz run around
[03:26.75]All: Controlled demolition, we bringin the structure down!
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[03:30.60]End
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[03:32.02]Immortal Technique Feat. Poison Pen & Swave Sevah - Stronghold Grip
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