Rapp Snitch Knishes Lyrics

[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 crackin', boy? (Same ol' shit, kid)
Man, these rap snitches, man (Different day, you know?)
Shit is bugged out, man, what the fuck, man? (Shit, you tellin' me)
Niggas runnin' their mouth (Aw, ah)
Tellin' e'rything, e'rything (Critical)

[Chorus: Mr. Fantastik, Mr. Fantastik & MF DOOM]
Rap snitches, tellin' 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, uh
Rap snitches, tellin' 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, uh

[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-nosin' nigga, fake ass bastard
Admirin' my style, tour bus through Manhattan
Plottin', 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 an old accordion
Accordin' 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
[Outro: Mr. Fantastik & MF DOOM]
You know what I'm sayin'? (It's terrible)
It's crazy, man, I'm just analyzin' this whole game
This is bugged out, man, niggas is snitchin'
Tellin' on they own self (It's a horror, yo)
Fuck around and get everybody bagged, man (Atrocities)
Fuck around and get yo mama bagged, nigga
You know your grandmama used to be bootleggin'
Fake hustlin' nigga, heheheheheheheheheh, huh, hehehehe, heh
Perpetrator? Yeah, I'm right here

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Genius Annotation

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, which contains a sample from David Matthews “Space Oddity.”

Q&A

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What did MF DOOM say about "Rapp Snitch Knishes"?
Genius Answer

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.

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