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MF DOOM - Rapp Snitch Knishes feat. Mr. Fantastik
[Intro: Mr. Fantastik & (MF DOOM)]
Yo! (Yo!)
MF DOOM (Mr. Fantastik)
Mr. Fantastik (Villain)
What up, nigga? (Ain't nuttin; what's the word?)
What's cracking, boy? (Same ol' shit, kid)
Man (Different day, you know?)
These rap snitches, man, shit is bugged out, man
What the fuck, man? (Shit, you telling me)
Niggas running their mouth, telling e'rything, e'rything (critical)
[Chorus: Mr. Fantastik & MF DOOM]
Rap snitches, telling all their business
Sit in the court and be their own star witness
Do you see the perpetrator? Yeah, I'm right here
Fuck around, get the whole label sent up for years
Rap snitches, telling all their business
Sit in the court and be their own star witness
Do you see the perpetrator? Yeah, I'm right here
Fuck around, get the whole label sent up for years
[Verse 1: Mr. Fantastik]
Type profile low, like A in Paid in Full
Attract heavy cash cause the game's centrifugal
Mr. Fantastik, long dough like elastic
Guard my life with twin Glocks that's made out of plastic
Can't stand a brown nosing nigga, fake ass bastard
Admiring my style, tour bus through Manhattan
Plotting, plan the quickest, my flow's the sickest
My hoes be the thickest, my dro the stickiest
Street nigga, stamped and bonafide
When beef jump niggas come get me cause they know I ride
True to the ski mask, New York's my origin
Play a fake gangsta like a old accordion
According to him, when the D's rushed in
Complication from the wire, testimony was thin
Caused his man to go up north, the ball hit 'em again
Lame rap snitch nigga even told on the Mexican
DOOM and Fantastik talk about how foolish it is to rap about crimes that you could be prosecuted for one day. The song’s instrumental had previously been released in DOOM’s collection of beats, Special Herbs, under the name Coffin Nails. Explained in an XXL Magazine interview: DOOM: Yeah, yeah, that’s another good one. I grew up in New York so knishes were a part of life. At the time I wrote the song, I think I was with one of my boys and we stopped and got knishes that day. It’s just something that resonated with me. I had a knish the other day and it reminded me of… [Phone gets mysteriously disconnected] XXL: You were saying you got a knish recently? DOOM: Yeah, recently, like over five years ago, but to me, that’s kinda recent. I grew up in a multicultural town in Long Island where it was part of our experience of dealing with different cultures and different foods and different influences they brought to the country. It’s a funny-sounding word too. Knish. Words that rhyme with knish…any aspect of that, how it sounds, how it can match with something in society. So “rap snitch” and “knishes” kinda go together. So it was easy to find a title. The challenge was coming up with good enough references to make a song.
