Music Class: Canibus - Buckingham Palace

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[Verse 1: Canibus]
Ayo, I stand outside the gates of Buckingham Palace selling reefer
Puffing the chalice with the Beefeaters
Getting so high that whenever I drop shit
It'll land on the window of your airplane cockpit
Canibus with the hot shit, crazy eye clique
Niggas is bloody idiots thinking that they can stop this
I'll increase my strength to a super human extent
Nigga your rhyme ain't worth sixpence
And if you can hear, smell, see, touch and taste
Then you don't need six senses to feel me punch you in the face
From Brixton to Clapham Common
My lyrics invade Europe like Joseph Stalin and murder niggas for rhyming
Spitting fire with gasoline for saliva
As drunk as Lady Diana's driver with reporters behind her
Alcohol in the hands of a minor
I got you panicking like bombs with 30 second timers
Clear the building, evacuate women and children
Fuck what you feeling nigga, I came here to kill 'em
Straight shitting from New York to Great Britain
And when we do shows we make the Queen pay admission

[Chorus: Canibus (and crowd)]
When I say "Can-I" you say "Bus"
Can-I (BUS!) Can-I (BUS!)
Yo, when I say "Can-I" you say "Bus"
Can-I (BUS!) Can-I (BUS!)
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[Verse 2: Canibus]
Prepare for the worst, this next verse is the face of death
Me without lyrics is like a porn flick without sex
Illmatic, my lyrical skills are Jurassic
With more flavor then Skittles when I'm digitally mastered
I go off like a cannon and blow up the planet
With "No Fear," like them clothes white boys be wearing
I'm tougher than denim, lethal like venomous snake bites
The marijuana makes my eyes bright red like brake lights
There ain't a party I couldn't rock, believe that
There ain't a microphone brave enough to give me feedback
I'm strong, my word is Bond like James
Niggas be trying to test but they 'week' like seven days
MC's run away when I kick it; they act so chicken
They should come with a large drink and a biscuit
My style's radioactive, massive atomic
I plan to push the Earth in front of Halley's Comet
Breaking the 'Facts of Life' down like Tootie, I'm raw like sushi
With more Vocab than three fucking Fugees
So recognize or be hospitalized
Cause lyrically on a scale of one to ten I'm twenty-five

Chorus

[Verse 3: Canibus]
A little bit of weed and some Hennessy
Got me ready to set it with kinetic energy
See I need much more energy then my enemies
If I wanna make more Bill's then Bellamy
So I could be on MTV
With women constantly telling me I resemble Billy Dee
I make fly rhymes to get my name on the scene
Then when I'm on the scene I do shows to get the green
Then I take the green, buy a automobile machine
For that thing on page 43 in Jet Magazine
Canibus is the ultimate executioner's dream
Swinging the guillotine
Cause whenever the head is severed from the human body with a sharp enough weapon
The brain remains conscious for ten seconds
Long enough for me to give you one last message
And when you get to Hell you can tell Lucifer I said it
Don't ever get it confused
Fucking with Canibus the human Rubik's Cube like you got something to prove
Yo, whoever grabs the mic after me will get booed
Get everything in the club thrown at you and your crew
From Moet bottles to bar stools, fruits and foods
You got a album out, you get hit with your CD too
Running outside crying, lying, denying
That you ain't The Gay Rapper but you got fucked by him
What's the difference? Y'all niggas still ain't in lyrical fitness
Too busy mixing your business with your bitches
While I be in the lab composing forbidden scriptures
So wicked I got Satan ejaculating on his fingers
Like Dirk Diggler in the middle of Boogie Nights
Sniffing white, living the hype, he ruined his life
But I'm a MC of a different type, yeah that's right
Make sure your shit is tight or I'ma snatch your mic, nigga!
 

bdquest9

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Always a Canibus fan, no one could go pound for pound with him lyrically. Just couldn't understand how he didn't transition from battle rapper to MC.
 

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This song is so amazing...

As excellent as the "whenever the head is severed from the human body" lines are, I gotta go with the bars beginning with "Niggas is bloody idiots thinkin' that they can stop this." Kanye hasn't spit a verse that hot in his entire career.
 

Art Vandelay

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Constanza bout to go thru a whole bottle of lotion.

Canibus has many joints that are like the porn that can desensitize you to the real pussy that is Poet Laureate II. As fantastic as Buckingham Palace is, I know better than to reach for the lotion on a song like this, though it very much merits it, when the upper echelons of Bis's greatness is so much higher. Metaphorical pussy and lotion, of course.
 

Amajorfucup

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Canibus has many joints that are like the porn that can desensitize you to the real pussy that is Poet Laureate II. As fantastic as Buckingham Palace is, I know better than to reach for the lotion on a song like this, though it very much merits it,...
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tallblacknyc

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i remember hearing this on a mixtape yrsssssssss ago when the original had a chick singing can-i-bus..this was my shit.. i actually brought his albulm because of this track... yeah i actually paid for an albulm and this was 1 of them:angry::angry::angry::angry::smh::smh::smh::smh::smh:...thanks for reminding me i owe canibus a gut punch when i see him.. i'll hit him in the stomach and he'll fall to the ground and look up and go whyyyy..i'll look at him and be like you kno why.. he'll go oh you 1 of those people that heard buckingham palace on a mixtape and brought the albulm..i apologize here goes 15 bucks for your troubles
 

jack walsh13

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i remember hearing this on a mixtape yrsssssssss ago when the original had a chick singing can-i-bus..this was my shit.. i actually brought his albulm because of this track... yeah i actually paid for an albulm and this was 1 of them:angry::angry::angry::angry::smh::smh::smh::smh::smh:...thanks for reminding me i owe canibus a gut punch when i see him.. i'll hit him in the stomach and he'll fall to the ground and look up and go whyyyy..i'll look at him and be like you kno why.. he'll go oh you 1 of those people that heard buckingham palace on a mixtape and brought the albulm..i apologize here goes 15 bucks for your troubles
Yeah that was Barbra Streisand singing in the background. How he got her to do that shit I'll never fuckin know.

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Raeeb7

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What ever happened to the original version of this song with Barbra Streisand singing the hook? Can't fine dat shit anywhere.




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Tony Touch and DJ Khaled Terrorist Activity came out like 99 or 2000. I can't find a good download but that's the name of the mixtape that version on. And yes it's the We the best Khaled.
*My bad Chitown got u straight I ain't see till after I posted*
 
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Raeeb7

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And Streisand won't singing on his track it was a sample. That's why they released the album version with that dumb ass hook.
 

playahaitian

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i remember hearing this on a mixtape yrsssssssss ago when the original had a chick singing can-i-bus..this was my shit.. i actually brought his albulm because of this track... yeah i actually paid for an albulm and this was 1 of them:angry::angry::angry::angry::smh::smh::smh::smh::smh:...thanks for reminding me i owe canibus a gut punch when i see him.. i'll hit him in the stomach and he'll fall to the ground and look up and go whyyyy..i'll look at him and be like you kno why.. he'll go oh you 1 of those people that heard buckingham palace on a mixtape and brought the albulm..i apologize here goes 15 bucks for your troubles

^^^^^

damn I COMPLETELY forgot about that!!!!
 

TheyCallMeBe

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I came in here to talk about how great the mixtape circuit was in '98 but the bitch Jack Walsh posted fucked up my flow. :smh:
 

Raeeb7

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Playa I do not know for sure. To my understanding Wyclef and Salaam
Remi made the track. Some classical music and they took the violin parts and made it sound like someone singing.
 
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