I Gave You Power

Lyrics

Avatar the Articulate - "I Gave You Power" [Emcee(s): Avatar the Articulate (AKA Avie Fresh)] [Producer(s): DJ Premier (Original Instrumental from Nas - "I Gave You Power")] [Verse 1: Avatar the Articulate (AKA Avie Fresh)] I'm on My Grizzly with a vengeance, but I don't be selling Knicks. I'll Cel- -tics, I carry Rockets when I be going on trips I'm a Maverick for the cabbage, I ain't average ever, kid. I like To bag 'em up in Nets when I'm catching 'em like fish 'cause I'm A Hornet when I'm on it. When I be feeling a buzz, I click My Spurs on them herbs, steady peeling on the fuzz, I'm never Dealing with those drugs, I don't run with them things. I'll come With my Suns 'cause huns treat us brothers like Kings, and when I'm in the northwest and I'm Blazing a Trail, we rock Big Nuggets, carry stones in buckets and pails, and y'all Be running, y'all frail. I'm with a pack of Timberwolves, your crew Talk all that Jazz, but we passed and where were you? I'll relax with some juice and some tonic and some gin No ice, I'm Supersonic when I'm nice on the mic No friends are ever fakers or they ain't live friends. I treat 'em Like scrubs on Lakers, make 'em ride on the bench, hence [Hook: Avatar the Articulate (AKA Avie Fresh)] How you like me now? I bounce around, I Was used to move crowds, making every ghetto proud I might have took your first child, bought him Nikes, gave him some style I gave you power to make the bucks pile How you like me now? I bounce around, I Was used to move crowds and I'll never settle down I might have shook your first child ankles, broke, crippled his style I gave you power to make the bucks pile [Verse 2: Avatar the Articulate (AKA Avie Fresh)] Her name Was Charlotte, she made Cats Bob. They Hawk, they be stalking in mobs So Cavalier, when I appeared, I made her heart throb Pumping like Pistons, made her cum like it was my job Louder than Thunder, then she made a blunder. Now I had To wonder why she's feeding me bullshit, then honey dip Pulled out a full switchblade, I was laid up Couldn't clap her, then, on my side, she sliced me like a Raptor I yapped her, couldn't catch her, then she tried to flee I picked up my jeans with a burner and a magazine Man, she was racing. I tried to keep the Pace, her Fate was sealed—the Warrior with warpaint was Coming, her D-cups went up and down running But my Heat Bucks—you hear the sound like it's drumming The bitch had to slip up, I 76'd her, I had To Clip her, then dip like Magic Wizards [Hook: Avatar the Articulate (AKA Avie Fresh)] How you like me now? I bounce around, I Was used to move crowds, making every ghetto proud I might have took your first child, bought him Nikes, gave him some style I gave you power to make the bucks pile How you like me now? I bounce around, I Was used to move crowds and I'll never settle down I might have shook your first child ankles, broke, crippled his style I gave you power to make the bucks pile