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Don’t Try To Illjack

Posted by Larry Mizell, Jr. at 02:20 PM

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If you think Justin Warfield’s lyrics in She Wants Revenge are stupid, just peep his bars from when he was still a shitty nerd-rapper under Prince Paul’s tutelage:

I got my skullcap on, then the flow from my mind starts
As I rip for days from the land of the mic arts
Cream of the crop, a cool, blue beatnik
Blessed with the gift, and now it’s time to kick the ill shit
Love to eat the scallops, and quit with the doo-doo raps
Stay away from ill crack, listen to the Fatback
Smooth on a rough track, time to catch a catnap
If you are my brother, I’ll be sure to give you much dap
Ya bound to get your head smacked, if you try to illjack
Get your kit from Acme, set yourself an ill trap
I used to talk of vickin’, would step and finger-lickin’
But now my mic endeavors have improved over time
Oh yeah, I’m still the same brother who has got to pickin’
So listen to the moody groove, piano, and the vibes…

My Field Trip To Planet 9 had some good beats, but Justin’s ‘psychedelic’ rhyming always gave me the hives. Whatever he’s doing now, more power to him.

Comments

1

I'll take Planet 9 over She Wants Revenge any day, goofy pseudo-surrealist raps and all.

Anybody remember Warfield's other hiphop project from about a decade ago, One Inch Punch? Now they were dope (what I heard of them).

http://www.discogs.com/artist/One+Inch+Punch

2

kinda...if i recall correctly, they were no Basehead.

3

True—Basehead were definitely unique. Play with Toys cracked my dome but good when it came out. But, man, did they fall off after that.

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