[00:00.00]How You Like Me Now (Re-Recorded Remastered) - Various Artists
[00:03.03]Rock it
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[00:15.33]Rock it
[00:19.73]Rock rock rock it
[00:21.43]I throw my tape on then I watch ya
[00:23.78]Three seconds later I got ya
[00:25.96]Shakin' your head dancin' instead of sittin'
[00:28.51]The rhymes kick the beat's hittin' you
[00:30.71]Just like a home run slammin' like a slam dunk
[00:33.05]Riding the wave James Brown gave funk
[00:35.23]It happened to James like it happened to me
[00:37.54]How you think it feel to see another MC get paid
[00:40.97]Usin' my rap style?
[00:42.25]And I'm playin' the background meanwhile
[00:44.56]I ain't with that you can't forget that
[00:46.81]You took my style I'm takin' it back
[00:48.98]Comin' back like return of the Jedi
[00:51.23]Sucker MCs in the place that said
[00:53.19]I could only rock rhymes and only rock crowds
[00:55.71]But never rock records how ya like me now?
[01:06.39]How ya like me now?
[01:08.14]Rock rock rock
[01:12.24]Rock rock
[01:15.97]Now brothers are riding me like a pony
[01:18.96]I'm no phony I'm the only real mic-aroni
[01:21.11]Playin' the mic like it's supposed to be played
[01:23.64]New jacks you all shoulda stayed
[01:25.66]Out of the business what is this
[01:28.02]Amateur night at the Apollo?
[01:29.58]Get off this stage I'm in rage
[01:31.99]Just like a lion trapped inside of a cage
[01:34.60]I'm the real king rap is a jungle
[01:37.36]I never understood how could one go
[01:39.45]To a party watch me stand around and jock me
[01:41.95]Become a rapper then try to rock me?
[01:44.01]Schemin' like a demon you're screamin' and dreamin'
[01:46.51]I'm from the old school I used to see men
[01:48.51]Die for less but I'm not living that way
[01:50.54]I'll let my mic do the talkin'
[01:52.22]And let the music play
[02:02.64]How ya like me now?
[02:11.65]Rap is an art and I'm like Picasso
[02:14.13]But of course why else would you try so hard
[02:16.31]To paint a picture and try to get ya self in my shoes
[02:19.44]But they won't fit ya
[02:20.49]I'm bigger and better forget about deffer
[02:22.96]Every time I rocked the mic I left a stain
[02:25.45]In your brain that will remain
[02:27.56]Stuck in the back of your brain
[02:28.94]Until you see me again respect I come correct
[02:32.06]The rhymes I select are nothing short of perfect
[02:34.39]Vernacular's pure and I can ensure
[02:36.46]Life or death with my breath my voice is a cure
[02:38.82]I feel life from the words I spread
[02:40.97]I'll make a sick man rock on his death bed
[02:43.73]Sucker MCs I'll make your girl say ow
[02:46.27]And she's jockin' now how ya like me now?
[02:51.49]Rock it
[02:56.63]How ya like me now?
[02:57.46]Rock it
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[03:04.96]Rock rock rock
[03:06.11]It irked my nerve when I heard
[03:09.12]A sucker rapper that I know I'll serve
[03:11.24]Run around town sayin' he is the best
[03:13.67]Is that a test? I'm not impressed
[03:15.55]Get real you're nothing but a toy
[03:18.41]Don't ya know that I'll serve that boy?
[03:20.32]Just like a waiter
[03:21.45]Hit 'em with a plate of these fresh rhymes
[03:23.49]And make sure that he pay the pay the pay the bill
[03:25.77]And leave him standin' still
[03:26.91]And when he's had enough hit him with a refill
[03:29.18]And for dessert it won't be no ice cream
[03:31.18]I'm just gonna shatter and splatter his pipe dreams
[03:33.85]Make him feel the wrath beat him down and laugh
[03:36.13]And when I finish then I'm gonna ask him
[03:38.27]Who is the best? And if he don't say Moe Dee
[03:41.16]I'll take my whip and make him call himself Toby
[03:43.30]Whip him good then I'll make him sweat
[03:45.38]Always talkin' about battles but ain't never had a battle yet
[03:48.18]But if we ever did how could he beat me?
[03:50.44]He's so petrified he's scared to even meet me
[03:52.56]My word's the law that's why you don't beef
[03:54.72]You're nothing but a punk track star and a thief
[03:56.80]So I'm puttin' you on punishment just like a child
[03:59.41]Never touch another mic how ya like me now?
[04:41.05]Rock rock rock rock
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[04:46.75]How ya like me now?
[04:47.87]Rock rock rock rock
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[04:56.79]I could continue there's more on the menu
[04:59.20]But I'll relax 'cause I'm so far in you
[05:01.29]You had enough I know you're overstuffed
[05:03.27]And if I keep going you'll be throwin' up
[05:05.42]Old rhymes I used to say way back in the day
[05:08.12]When you used to come to my parties and pay
[05:10.16]Nobody's ever gonna rock me and this I vow
[05:12.70]So all I wanna say is how ya like me now?
[05:15.44]Rock rock rock rock
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[05:22.78]Rock rock
[05:23.46]How ya like me now?
[05:24.60]Rock rock rock rock
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[05:32.63]How ya like me now?