if it ain't rough, it ain't right

above the level of a mezzanine

healthy as ovaltine

the dominant gene clean

i mean go

the light's green

the protege could play like chess to quest the best

confess

never poor as bangladesh

i get busy like a boxer

operate like a doctor

seal like a locker

pop like orville redenbacher

buy the tape

lp

cd

all me

and petey

to cater to the needy

like a prayer for madonna but a different world for jasmine

cl is well a physical attraction

let me make myself perfectly clear: while i'm there

i make a peer a positive pap smear

really i do

once i light the barbeque

thread the loose ends

see my friends are the crew

the fright night king of new york like frank white

if it ain't rough it ain't right man listen. if it ain't rough enough

to mingle in the stuff

to scar and scuff and make you cuckoo like a cocoa puff;

it ain't right so i smash the satellite

check the farenheight

before i take flight

unique as mozambique

here to freak sheik

the skills that won't leak

and never antique

warm like a oven you're lovin the style i'm druggin

alleyway muggin

heavyweight sluggin

no fibs i kick the ad libs and rock it in the cribs

break your ribs like a toothpick cause you were never slick

you lacked back when i first started

cl's the one who got the red sea parted

my conversation qualification is a doozy

the rude rudy wreckin write you off as a floozy

i shoot for the moon

but even if i miss

i'm among the stars

to put a bullethole in mars. in my frame of mind i design the best-seller

for rougher cats can rockafeller you're penn and teller

steady with the convo

rough like brillo

let your head hit the bed and knock the feathers out your pillow

the master intelligent

with the black testament

found it relevant

and mailed it to the president

but overall i get papes for my labor

with the physical manifestation of a saviour

you wanna test this

but i slay anyway

cause your rhymes are old

with more wrinkles than a shar pei

mecca don upon the streets of babylon

pass the baton to respond like farrakhan

hard like shaft with the staff for the backdraft

a blazin aftermath

so hon make a path

if you don't trust him

bust him

but if you don't have a weapon

then kid keep steppin

the main idea in here for the hemisphere

cl's here to get wreck for the year

a large man's appetite

blowin like dynamite

if it ain't rough it ain't right

come on!