Akil The MC - Skills in California featuring 006 and shorty rock)

It’s no secret with microphone fiends
Blazing up the lime green rhyme for rhyme
The tightest crew on the scene
You wonder how we keep persevering?

We got skills in California mcs wanna run for cover
And if you look will will discover we got skills
In California yeah we got skills in California yeah

We got nuff skills to pay the bills
Set trends no cheap trills we keep it real
Ain’t no way to scribe the way a Nigga feels
I lost too many lies within in the battlefield
Learning how to survive is how I got skills
I used thеm same skills to climb a hill
Get over thе hump and get a record deal
But don’t get it fucked up that’s when it got real
I ain’t talking bout mink sex and poppin pills
I’m talking about mic checks you can’t feel
Then record excess tryna take a mil
It ain’t bout respect and tryna have skills
They give a damn about skills and how
The fuck you feel if it ain’t gangster gangster
With the gold grills, or sexy enough to have a whip appeal
Or stupid enough to get a nigga killed then you ain’t tryna get a deal
But we got
Chorus

Yo, I know a fake rapper by the name wack mc
See him in the studio never seen him on the streets
Yet you wanna get paid living wild charades
Tattoos ❲?❳ pistol and blades were you at with the flow
Can your rock a show? Yeah I know your Dipping lo-los
And pimping the hoes nigga I’m tight form the
Inside out you ain’t know these cash Capone
Lyrical soilder get low keeping my head on
Striaght ❲?❳ mixed with Indian blood
Circulated throughout my system make Nigga dread
Melt with my head venom I send them on the ropes
From the west coast toast to all ❲?❳ Jheri curls
I swirl on boats making moves to keep it tight
Cashing checks I disconnect and dialect
With lethal injections of my miracal weapon

Chorus

Yo I’m a va receipt California resident skill district mangling
Niggas with the etiquette hip hops medicine
Got you dudes hesitant flexing like you real
Man stop with all the bullshit you ever seen a
Nigga hot like me? Get in the booth and heat
It up like 6,000 stop with the accusations Nigga
Is facing replacement cuz the shit I’m laced up clear the basement
❲?❳ distributor street corner nuclear nickel slick ❲?❳ working re
Purposely to keep money circulating through the staff
I’m in the lab pen and pad break it down in half
If you hard like you say you are spit it if not
Ima kill it let the parademics deal wth it collaborate with street corner
Y’all alrea know we got skills in California