Let’s Get Serious

Lyrics

[Chorus: Kool Moe Dee, James Brown, Bell Biv DeVoe] Uh, give me (Serious) Let's get serious Uh, give me Serious Uh, give me (Serious) Let's get serious Uh, give me Serious, serious, serious, serious [Verse 1: Kool Moe Dee] Movin', smoothin', smokin', I ain't jokin' Black smoke is chokin' any brother attempting the gas face on me He'll see a vision of black space A taste of my bass is infinite darkness A test in vain as he strains to embark this Rhyme, because it's written in allegory He should've checked this out before he stepped a vet 'Cause rhymes like these take emcees to thirty-two degrees and freeze Got ya frozen like dry ice But the smoke is black, 'cause when you freeze, you burn twice This clarifies the term "freeze or burn" How many bodies will it take to emcees to learn You'll dissipate and disappear, dispose, dispense, disintegrate? You're out of here, I got something better to do Instead of putting words together for you Stop wasting energy trying to do me 'Cause you can't do me Oh, why can't you see you're wasting T-I-M-E? It's time to get P-A-I-D So fatten your payroll, lay low, and chill Because you can't get with this, let's get serious [Chorus: Kool Moe Dee, James Brown, Bell Biv DeVoe] Uh, give me (Serious) Let's get serious Uh, give me Serious Uh, give me (Serious) Let's get serious Uh, give me Serious, serious, serious, serious [Verse 2: Kool Moe Dee] Stop smiling, 'cause ain't nothing funny Who's laughing, who's got the real money? Weak rappers'll say anything for a payday And after the heyday, it's mayday, and they say "The harder you come, the harder you fall" If I gotta come soft, I'll take a fall, y'all Because my lyrics are hard, because I'm livin' hard I manifested it, man, but like a living god Righteous or wicked, you depict it As I kick it, the pain is inflicted You can't evict it, afflicted, addicted As it gets flipped, disrespected, I fixed it So the truth is heard, every spoken word Brings action activated through a verb Words are weapons; no half-stepping Stick and stones break bones, but words kept induce The pain 'cause the truth is painful A brain full of pain aims, attains the gains and sustains the pain Explains the fame game, maintains the same name Before the flame came, he was allusive And conducive to flotation of egos He, who lives larger than life, is caught up and delirious Come down to earth and let's get serious [Chorus: Kool Moe Dee, James Brown, Bell Biv DeVoe] Uh, give me (Serious) Let's get serious Uh, give me Serious Uh, give me (Serious) Let's get serious Uh, give me Serious, serious, serious [Verse 3: Kool Moe Dee] I'm serious, all jokes aside I write rhymes and get inside Many tried, many died Malcolm, Marcus, and Martin all coincide With the rhymes I write on a spiritual level I drop knowledge, 'cause I'm a mental rebel There's money to be made, brothers to get paid So wise up and stop getting played Afraid of a conflict, going out, like a convict Destination is jail 'cause you aren't this Want this, want that, brain's so compact But we need strong minds ready for combat An army of thinking men of action We're overreacting, it's not a reaction of satisfaction In fact, it's a fraction of powerful passion Subdued in a fashion To make your mind tick, like a timebomb And when mine clicks, then I rhyme calm The brain is explosive, the mouth's a gun The lip's a clip, and the trigger's the tongue I'm shootin' brothers alive when I rock parties And when it comes alive, then I got bodies So bring body bags 'cause I'm shootin' to kill Weak-willed and we'll build until we're serious [Chorus: Kool Moe Dee, James Brown, Bell Biv DeVoe] Uh, give me (Serious) Let's get serious Uh, give me Serious Uh, give me (Serious) Let's get serious Uh, give me Serious, serious, serious