(Ming Xia)

Welcome.......
To the.......
Karma.........
Hoooooooo..........
Welcome.......
To the.......
Karma.........
Hoooooooo..........

First Verse (????):

Karma Hotel lobby, and I'm lookin' for enlightenment
Concierge, where can I go to find adventure and excitement?
Played of all the casinos, bars, and orgies, they bore me
Here's another twenty, now what you got for me?
He stared at me hard, finally dipped in his drawer
Flipped the elevator keys and said "Go to the fourteenth floor"
So in a flash I was there, cold knock on the door
Bombarded by cigar smoke, the smell of Hell and War
And when the fog cleared, the scene was like an eerie nightmare
"Come in, we've been waitin' on you for years"
"You wanted adventure, now you got it boy, don't show me no tears,"
"This is the place where you face your desires and fears,"
In each of his hands was a revolver, forty-five in the left
Twenty-two in his right
Russian roulette's the game tonight
And there's NO escape, so don't try to run
But I'll fill your life with bliss if you're alive once the death wheel has spun
"Choose your gun"
Gimme the forty-five, I said with a smile
"Here's a shiny silver bullet, might as well go out in style"
Put one in the cylinder, spun it, aimed at my dome and slowly clicked it
Now I feel the adrenheline rush that's got me so addicted
Motivatin' me to play, a second time, then a third time
Fourth time I clicked and popped
BOOM! Money shot
Next morning, cops found me, needle stickin' out my arm
Peep the drama, another sad story at the Karma

Chorus (Ming Xia):

Welcome to the Karma Hotel
Looks like Heaven but could be Hell
Where pleasant screams transform to yells
And every suite casts its own spell

(2x)

Second Verse (????):

Peep the gamblin' scene
Gettin' dough as he rambled the fiends
Exotic queens dancin' with tamborines
And the Gambler's theme
One eye open, one eye scopin'
Watchin' his gat, watchin' his back
Watchin' his stack, watchin' his wrap
Watchin' his deck, as people notice like
"OH SHIT!  Boy just won a hundred grand!"
"Where?  Where?"   "Oh my God, at Table Seven, did you see him yet?"
Look at his chips, all that green growin' like Chia Pets
Two out the handle and he can't stop
The more and more the fans flock, the more the dice out his hands drop
Walk in the room, he's bettin' and makin' money and every table
Women are sweatin' him like he was James Bond or Joe David
Yeah, he's satisfied, he's in his element now
To do this for the rest of his life is how it's goin' down
So it seems like, he got his whole shit set
But his son is gangbangin' in the park, holdin' a rain check
Meanwhile, somehow, somethin' is kinda eerie
About this place that he seems to be payin' a permanent visit to
Every face he sees, expressionless, like a mannequin
He really wants to leave, but stays cool, to avoid panickin'
He's gettin' the same attention, but somethin' seems sorta different
He's wrinklin' up, losin' weight, and his body's startin' to stiffen
Now he notices years have passed in one night
He made more cash than we could imagine, but never lived life

Chorus

Third Verse (Ming Xia & ????):

(Ming Xia)

Since we're all trapped in, peace guys, see you later
I'ma go to that red door near the elevator
Triple nines on nails danglin' off the door
Excuse me sir, I didn't notice you before

(????)

Pleased to meet you, Macristo's the name
Pretty young thing
Come into my room, I'd like to play a game, it's called "Doom"
Beat the friends and family
Gotta give yourself to me
By the way, what's your name?

(Ming Xia)

Eve

(????)

Check the scenery

(Ming Xia)

Looks so happy, at the same time
The way they're entwined seems so good it's a crime

(????)

Believe in me as I believe in you, live it up tonight

(Ming Xia)

Well fuck it I feel I've got all of my life!

(????)

So true, pleasure and pain, transform lust to thrust
One night stands of hot sex, the bottle entrusts

(Ming Xia)

Oooh, invitation accepted, too good to reject it
So I join in unprotected

(????)

Expected, one life to live, don't respect it

(Ming Xia)

Respect what?

(????)

Ooh, you poor child you've been neglected

(Ming Xia)

Cristo why do I feel so cold?
It's like each time I climax you take a piece of my soul

(????)

You could never leave, you made a pact with the Devil himself
Infected in my family of trust, my daughter of lust

(Ming Xia)

So what you're tellin' me is I can't leave!
And I'm trapped here for eternity!
Oooooohhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!

Chorus

[Chorus:] X 4
One, two!!
Achoo!!
Bless you!
I got you!!
Caught you and taught you!!

[J.D.]
Matter fact, here take two
Pits of flesh, political palm picked and gone
Spooks with Uz', ice picks, blades and tools
Listen fool, the revolution is cool
We leave clans in pools of blood
Let 'em all scrub to thug
Bustin' for love, (?) and mud and bloody rugs
Screamin' on cats, we spit in your face, blast back!
The Spooks put politicians in bags and (?)

[Hypno]
Ay yo my crew chased you down, outside your compound
Now we got you in the four point hold, on the ground
Whoop, hand me that barbed wire, now your arms and legs are bound
Hey Vengeance, pass me that scalpel now
Relax! Close your eyes as the sound of my voice penetrates
Submission is your only choice, to avoid the pain
'Cause I don't want no lip as I slip this microchip in your brain!

[Water Water]
Go 'head, look, I know you're thinkin' "Who's behind me?"
"Oh my God it's Water Water and no one's ever gonna find me!"
I got your brains pushin', head in the frame
In a case not far over, head of the flames
Hangin' over the fire, I know y'all hope I retire
But all y'all gettin' is open fire!
Ga ga! Spray down, stay down, lay down
Y'all niggas said we was commercial, what y'all gon' say now?!

[Chorus] X 4

[J.D.]
Rectangle, sugar Shane pound mc's and mangle
Bending you back and bitch spank you!
A Grammy?! Fuck you talkin' 'bout? I'm tappin' your chin!
See you at a club for no reason, tap it again
This ball bully mc's, we buildin' 'em Greek
Large like Tiger Wood's teeth when chewin' on beef
Take you 'round the block, bring you back, tie the knots
He bitch man, slap your whole block, moms and pops

[???]
I ain't gon' lie though, brothers got a lotta bravado
But can't back it up with the skills, they playin' lotto
With they careers, when they step to me on the streets
On stage or over beats you can't engage the heat
>From this etherial thriller, mysterious serving guerilla
Stalk you with the sick precision of a serial killer
Record your routine, I watch you from the day to the night
Calculatin' when it might be the best time to strike!

[Water Water]
They keep callin' my name!
Water Water, come smack the whack in the back
With a Louisville Ax Slugger
Then slash the jugular
Hit your back rawdog with no rubber
He's a dirty mawfucka!!
Won't last long, that's what my momma turned and told my daddy when I was born
I got your neck in a noose, damn right I'm flexin' my juice
Shut your mouth nigga, that's an excuse

[Chrous] X 4

[???]
What?! Which one of you manufactured rappers
With the materialistic, naive, egotistical fan base
Has the nerve to be offended?!
What you gon' do? Dis me?
Go 'head, rhyme, kick a verse, I dare ya
Oh I know it scares ya
A bangin' beat, a empty room, a full pen and a blank pad
But don't get mad cause you don't know what the fuck you doin'
Go 'head, freestyle punk, wait, before you start
I know somebody done told you that a freestyle's the reciting of a rhyme
That hasn't been recorded or put on the market
But when you write that rhyme down, that's a record of the rhyme
That rhyme's been recorded, so don't even start that shit!
A true freestyle's a rhyme or verse kicked from the dome
Simultaneous and timed to a beat
Where mistakes are made, you got bleeps and (?) all the time
But these are the things that makes a freestyle so unique
>From a precorded, practiced, or writen rhyme
Now what you gon' do?
If your response is "I know he ain't talkin' about me!"
I'm talkin' about you!
So fuck you to a break beat, bitch, I Got U!!!!

[Ming Xia] (sung)
The Mission.....

[Hypno]
My style cap to the Bible rap to the title track
I got it locked and aim like a rifle master
After the nine double, I need therapy cause my mind struggles
I search, but all I can find is trouble
With my big eye open, when I roll with a flow
It's just like, magnifico
Though my creations are felt and got occupational wealth
Still wicked as Satan's health
It's ok for your health, take a journey today
You'll learn the rules if ya please let me play with your mind
I make ya feel divine when I unravel a rhyme
That's gonna make you travel through time
You wanna get high? I'll take you to the bottom of the sky
Pass the galax-i, Hypno's gonna teach you to fly
Close your eye, then close your other eye
Now in a flash you on another ride to the other side

[Chorus:] (Ming Xia - sung) X 2
Travelin', searchin' for Wisdom....The Mission

[Ming Xia] (sung)
I want Wisdom, but Wisdom's only friend is time
Who I, I run away from
But he always catches me and walks faster than I ran
Time always gets his way
An uninvited guest who spends more than just one day
Told me the only way, that I can meet Wise
Is if he brought his friend Mistake

[Chorus] X 2 

[???]
Y'all know I'm movin' like a current, through the socket I shock 'em
Put me on the stereo, here we go spritiual I sock 'em
>From the top to the bottom, ya know what? I got 'em
I load the mic up with heat, lock it cock it and rock 'em
Cause here I come, travelin', searchin' for Wisdom
Hittin' another plane that's in between the drum
So journey with me, I think you'll find when your done
Spooks raisin' up the caliber, out shinin' the sun

[???]
My control raps speak the truth like phone taps
I know you wanna express yourself, blow that
Cause my dispersement of searches remain stable and pertinent
When I'm hurtin' it the verbal philosophy resembles Socrates
Now who the FUCK wanna rock with me?
My approach is thunderous like giants with knockin' knees
And then I'm on a mission for bad karma that blister my balls
GA GA! Got 'em from behind his pigeon door

[Ming Xia] (sung)
Time always gets his way
An uninvited guest who spends more than just one day
Told me the only way that I can meet Wise
Is if he brought his friend Mistake

[Chorus til fade]

[Chorus:] X 2
Spooks is on some other script
That's why you be lovin' it
My crew? That's the butter clique, be glad you discovered it
Hip hop originals, Spook rock, we runnin' this
Playin' in the club it hits, radio be bumpin' it

[J.D.]
Consensus: these cats are forever flippin' hits
But every time I turn around, Spooks got to prove this
Old hits to new hits, next hits to crew hits
You fuck with it, poppin' that nonsense, we true to this
My alternator flow be flippin' radio, we done that
Spooks still spit it for you thugs, yeah we done that
You want it? Then battle a Spook, we can't lose, for God we fight
Suffice the plight with the might from piety rights
Plunge you with lice, plead your plight, spice for spite
On judgement night with three strikes
The wicked is right, livin' in trife, recite songs
Repent crimes, it's pendulum time
The comin' of Christ for mankind

[Chorus] X 2

[Hypno]
Most of these stupid mc's could never handle the steez
Spooks be bringin' when we singin' man y'all wing it and please
I got the crucial chromosones to stimulate these microphones
The hardware, plus the software, plus the hormones
A prerequisite, for wreckin' cliques, keepin' it hectic
Phenobarbitol could never stall this wild epileptic style
Electric and mental, spasmodic, erotic
Type of flow that could only be described as hypnotic
Man it's a fact that I got it, hemmed up and guaranteed
Mc's approach me, but they gainin' in the cranial bleed
You need to learn to read, between the lines of coke, dust and weed
You're smokin', chokin' off the speed of illusion indeed

[Chorus] X 2

[Water Water]
I speak the Spookanese
Like abominable dominos crushin' crews with ease
Who never had the need or the beats, the loser's theme
Oh, what I'm always luke warm?
Then put that group on, and WHAM your necks under the Yukon!
I crash the savage, talkin' badly while livin' lavish
Put your cabbage on the block, CHOP! Straight drop the hatchet
Now your head's rollin'
Put my fingers in your eyes, and my thumb in your mouth
And make up a new sport called head bowlin'!
Oh is flow in it, boy you're finished
Bite my script and I'll extort my percentage
Of your royalty, not waitin' to disregard, it's blatant
When chhh chhh ahhh ahhh, I sneak up, like Jason
So got me when ya can't get it, bitin' me's a grand mimic
This is (?) from Popeye, but even he gon' eat some bad spinach
Cause I'm forever spittin' for cheddar fixin's
Make clever kittens do the wop outside the reverend's mission

[Chorus] X 2

Yeah come on chumps, y'all ain't girl
We pretty, we hit hard, we takin' over the world!!

[Chorus]
Reminiesce, we takin' you back to your school days
Hand us the mic and we flip it fifty million ways
"They don't know"
Sloppy with your flows, you bore me at your shows
Whack clothes and pitiful karaoke demos
"They don't know"

[???]
Aight, you caught me stalkin', studios and stages
Chasin' the outrageous
Ecstatic sensations, I'm tragic trapped inside the pages
Of melodramtic rages to dark to mention
Over the fact most of these cats lack comprehension
In other words: They Don't Know
I see 'em cringin' when Spooks mediate
To penetrate the next dimension
Ming rhymin' and singin' it, Spooks climbin' and bringin' it
This black light'll swallow your shine from diamond ringin' it
How many times must I remind? The Spooks is killin' shit
We on some thrillin' shit, nothin' but hits on my disc
And I am witness to this, lyrical fitness and rip
You still don't know, so you'll be frantic as we hijack the planet

[Mr. Booka-T]
They Don't Know
We expose flows like no clothes and blow
Chest full a holes with (???)
I spit stormshadow and tomes that's reminiscent of monks
Blowin' up lungs with C4 laced in bones
You mentally tour my rhyme book is covered in thorns
"Some givin' a fuck" Some fuckin' hip hop like porn
Booka-T testin' mc, a dumb mc, I said who's the best mc
You said "Young MC"
Let me guess, you started rockin' hip hop in '88
"Naw naw man, it was like, it was like 19-" Nigga too late!
I'm smackin' up cats to back slap crack in my hand
Bitch blood bouncin' off of your dome and splatter your van

[Chorus]
Remineisce, we takin' you back to your school days
Hand us the mic and we flip it fifty million ways
"They don't know"
Open up your mind and you'll find The Spooks in it
Experimentally sick, pusin' the limits
"They don't know" (They don't know!)

[Ming Xia] (sung)
Shoppin' for a deal with persistance
Initially label heads were like "What is this?"
It won't get y'all from original to different
Conceptual hip hop will be resistant
The pendulum will swing back again
Pass accept, now follow the trend
Hard to believe, but easy to pretend
Revolution (Revolution!) is why we began
They don't know (They don't know)

[J.D.]
Too many soft niggas stress, try your best to same some hip shit
Get caught up in these lyrics with me, you get your wig split
You tired of me? Try me, can't even stand beside me
I be havin' people you study big up and high five me
Forty million one thousand nine hundred and sixty two
I'm irresistable, unpredictable and so is my crew
Never accidental, everything I do is intentional
Joe Davis, premeditated, creative and unconventional
A lot of truth seekers are people peepin' for secrets
Some assembly tryin' to find my Safe House
And I got beef with everyone of you wannabe's
Tryin' to infiltrate my company
You swear you know the business but actually you don't know nothin'

[Water Water]
Ah ah ah, ah ah ah ah (Who dat?!)
It's the killer, ha ha ha (What?!)
Niggas don't hate me cause I'm fly (Come on!)
I'm the one bankin' on driveby's (Yeah!)
I keep pleasure packed in my clever raps
Once I sever the track, I'ma live inside a cheddar stack
I don't stutter once my tome shudder
And I become the bone crusher, I scream on my own mother
What a pimp, I roll with the gangsta limp
In the cut, drinkin' wine, eatin' shrimp
Yeah come on chump, y'all ain't girl
We pretty, we hit hard, we takin' over the world!

[Chorus]
Remineisce, we takin' you back to your school days
Hand us the mic and we flip it fifty million ways
"They don't know"
We can see us niggas, my crew is causin' you fear
Spooks takin' it there, industry ain't prepared
"They don't know"

Chorus One: female vocalist

You won't believe the things I've seen
Far beyond your wildest dreams
I've seen chaos and order reign supreme
I've seen the beauty of the uni-
-verse so peaceful and serene
in seconds turn to violence and screams

[Verse One]
I've seen true genius, too often to lose the meaningless
appreciation of this mediocre nation
I've heard the mind is repetition, of empty words without tradition
Turned original verbs into submission
I smelled this malignerance addiction, but I guess I wouldn't be right
if I said the blunt was like a baby pipe
THERE AIN'T GON' BE NO REVOLUTION TONIGHT
Half of my warriors as high as a kite
Lost and they lost all they fight
And I've tasted, the bitter tragedy of lives wasted
And men who glimpsed the darkness inside, but never faced it
And it's a shame that most of y'all are followin sheep
Wallowin deeper than the darkness, you're fallin asleep

Chorus One

[Verse Two]
I've seen and experienced things
that'll push the average to the edge and swan dive to death
I'm two guys, multiplied by ninety-three guys
Evenly balanced seein evil equally in each eye now
Maybe I'm the most thorough worker on the job to you
or maybe I'm the one, who was plottin to rob you
The fear of this beatdown, the women on no cash to floss
makes most of y'all hustle ya ass off
From nothin to two mill', in five years I'll live to see it
vanish in six months, with no tears believe it
I'll rock, twenty-eight years before the Feds can lay a trace
See they plan is to erase me, just to replace me

Chorus Two: female vocalist

LIFE!  Your heart is one with your brain
Emotional or reason, now which one do you obey?
LIFE!  Somebody callin you insane
When overwhelmed and blessed, burst in tears of happiness

[Verse Three]
Yo, yo, I've seen relationships that's so sick
Life long friendships so cha-o-tic
Thug cat bangin this chick but won't kiss
Drinkin her spit, when coppin a fix for dope bliss
I got a knife and a bat, to bust your brain, put a knife in your back
"Once in the Life" I was trifle like that
like my man Troy, who lost his days
shootin dice on worldly ways
and ended up in a early grave
Because once in a lifetime is rough
Twice in a lifetime you combat the ghost of mistrust
Mentally cuffed, thrust by a cop thinkin he tough
You bust, Amadou Diallo is us, and what
now I'm on my knees, beggin GOD PLEASE
SAVE ME FROM THE FIRES OF HELL
LET WATER WATER SOUL PREVAIL - cause I can't take no more
Who's that knockin, at, my door?
Is that you, Pete from Cobb's Creek, who died in my sleep?
We was playin for fun, now it's keeps
Like my man Mark I beat to death wrapped in a carpet
and left in the garbage, now that's cold-hearted
Ask Book he saw it, "Yo black I ain't seen (shit)
Kids in the 6, they flip for nonsense"
Poke an icepick, smokin that (shit) since preschool fool
and packin a tool, (fuck you) Mom Dukes it's cool

Chorus One + Chorus Two