Business

Album: The Eminem Show (2002)
Charted: 6
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  • Marshall, sounds like an SOS
    Holy wack unlyrical lyrics, Andre, you're fucking right
    To the Rapmobile, let's go
    (Marshall, Marshall)
    Bitches and gentlemen, it's showtime
    Hurry, hurry, step right up
    Introducing the star of our show
    His name is (Marshall)
    You wouldn't wanna be anywhere else in the world right now
    So without further ado, I bring to you (Marshall)

    You 'bout to witness hip-hop in its most purest
    Most rawest form, flow almost flawless
    Most hardest, most honest known artist
    Chip off the old block, but old Doc is (back)
    Looks like Batman brought his own Robin
    Oh God, Saddam's got his own Laden
    With his own private plane, his own pilot
    Set to blow college dorm room doors off the hinges
    Oranges, peach, pears, plums, syringes
    Vrinn, vrinn, yeah, here I come, I'm inches
    Away from you, dear, fear none
    Hip-hop is in a state of 9-1-1, so

    Let's get down to business
    I don't got no time to play around, what is this?
    Must be a circus in town, let's shut the shit down
    On these clowns, can I get a witness? (Hell yeah)
    Let's get down to business
    I don't got no time to play around, what is this?
    Must be a circus in town, let's shut the shit down
    On these clowns, can I get a witness? (Hell yeah)

    Quick, gotta move fast, gotta perform miracles
    Gee willikers, Dre, holy bat syllables
    Look at all the bullshit that goes on in Gotham
    When I'm gone, time to get rid of these rap criminals
    So skip to your lou while I do what I do best
    You ain't even impressed no more, you're used to it
    Flow's too wet, nobody close to it
    Nobody says it but still everybody knows the shit
    The most hated on out of all those who say they get hated on
    In eighty songs and exaggerate it all so much
    They make it all up, there's no such thing
    Like a female with good looks who cooks and cleans
    It just means so much more to so much more
    People, when you're rappin' and you know what for
    The show must go on, so I'd like to welcome y'all
    To Marshall and Andre's carnival, c'mon

    Now let's get down to business
    I don't got no time to play around, what is this?
    Must be a circus in town, let's shut the shit down
    On these clowns, can I get a witness? (Hell yeah)
    Let's get down to business
    I don't got no time to play around, what is this?
    Must be a circus in town, let's shut the shit down
    On these clowns, can I get a witness? (Hell yeah)

    It's just like old times, the Dynamic Duo
    Two old friends, why panic? You already know
    Who's fully capable, the two caped heroes
    Dial straight down the center, eight-zero-zero
    You can even call collect, the most feared duet
    Since me and Elton played career Russian Roulette
    And never even see me blink or get to bustin' a sweat
    People steppin' over people just to rush to the set
    Just to get to see an MC who breathes so freely
    Ease over these beats and be so breezy
    Jesus, how can shit be so easy?
    How can one Chandra be so Levy?
    Turn on these beats, MCs don't see me
    Believe me, BET and MTV
    Are gonna grieve when we leave, dog, fo' sheezy
    Can't leave rap alone, the game needs me
    'Til we grow beards, get weird and disappear
    Into the mountains, nothin' but clowns down here
    But we ain't fuckin' around 'round here
    Yo, Dre (what up?) Can I get a "hell" (hell yeah)

    Now let's get down to business
    I don't got no time to play around, what is this?
    Must be a circus in town, let's shut the shit down
    On these clowns, can I get a witness? (Hell yeah)
    Let's get down to business
    I don't got no time to play around, what is this?
    Must be a circus in town, let's shut the shit down
    On these clowns, can I get a witness? (Hell yeah)

    So there you have it, folks
    (Marshall) has come to save the day
    Back with his friend Andre
    And to remind you that bullshit does not pay
    Because (Marshall) and Andre are here to stay
    And never go away
    Until our dying day
    Until we're old and grey (Marshall)
    So until next time, friends
    Same blonde hair, same rap channel
    Good night, everyone
    Thank you for coming, your host for the evening (Marshall)
    Oh, ha Writer/s: Andre Romell Young, Marshall B Mathers, Michael A Elizondo, Ronald Feemster
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Royalty Network, Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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  • Tyfa from North, United Kingdomthe vid was crap, but the song is good...
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