["Born on the cusp in the month of November","But, yo technically I'm as hard as steel","But I had to do the shit just let me embark","Ma Bell","Pass me the mic and I'll be rocking the whole park","Listen to the abstract that freaky nigger","Ad rock down with the ione","","","I've got to get him by the reigns because I know that I'm freaking","Like John Holmes, the x-rated nigger","Got a grandma Hazel and a grandma Tilly","Let me kick the shit off 'cause yo, I'm not the herb","","And I can't stop with the body rock","I don't think I'm slick nor do I play like I'm hard","Tho moog with the funk for your derriere","And when M.C.S come in my face, I'm like mace","Because she's the cheese and I'm the macaroni","","I've got the timbos on the toes and this is how it goes","","Nobody's getting any bigger than this","So why all the fight and why all the fuss","Ma Bell, I've got the ill communications","So Q-Tip, what you on the mic for","Get it together","The rhymes that we bust on the topic on lust","Listen to the ladies come on and let me spawn","Yea, you know I'm getting silly","","Oh, one two, oh my God","Yea, M.C.A., your shit be cooking","Listen to the shit because we kick it until dawn","","Never, ever, ever smoking crack, never, ever, ever fucking wack","And my moms is not butt","Well, I'm long gone, word is born","See I've got heart like John Starks, hitting mad sparks","Ma Bell, I've got the ill communications","And I've working on my game because life is taxing","On the lyric and the noun and the verb","I go one two like my name was Biz Mark","Phone is ringing, oh my God","Spacing, zoning, talkin' on the phone and","Get it together","Ma Bell, I've got the ill communications","","Well, I'm a funky skull and I'm a Scorpio","Yes, I get funky and I'm shooting all my jism","","","","Praying mantis on the court and I can't be beat","See what's happening","Well, it's not the herb but the spice with the flavor to spare","Gonna get it together Ma Bell","Get it together","One two, oh my God, I've got some shit","So, yo tip, what's up with the boot on your feet","Because I had to talk about the times when I rhyme","Listen to me now, don't listen to me later","Listen to the abstract got it going on","Talking lots of shit, a little tweaking on the weekend","","","Get it together","Don't need a mother fucking fool telling me right from wrong","I've got the Kung Fu grip behind my green trap kit","Keep it on and on","","Listen to the shit 'cause I'm the ill figure","When it comes to boning I'm representing","Now, I'm Ad Rock and I shock and I tick and I tock","Gonna get it together, watch it","Because I back them off with the quills","But I shall drive the lane like I was Evan Bernhard","1, 2, 1, 2, keep it on","Got to get it together and see what's happening","Got to do it like this, like Chachi and Joanie","I eat the fuckin' pineapple now & laters","","I'm the M to the C to the A and it's a must","","Nigger 'cause I tell you, nigger 'cause I'll keep you under prills","Get it together","My brain is roaming and I don't know where it's going","","See what's happening","Get it","While we're on that topic, yes I'd like to mention","Fuck it 'cause I know I didn't make it fuckin' rhyme for real","Get it together","","And when I get my flow I'm Dr on the go","But I'm from Manhattan M.C.A.'s from Brooklyn","Well, I freak a funky beat like the shit was in a blender","I do the Patty Duke in case you don't remember","I'm like Ma Bell, I've got the ill communications","I've got a Grand Royalprez and I'm also a member","","Listen to the shit because both of them is boney","Resting on nine one one sixteenth ave off the Farmes Boulevard","All your eggs then you you go up the river","Because I ain't got no dust","","But fuck it, let me get down to the rhythm"]
Performed by: Beastie Boys Written by: John Davis; Michael Diamond; Adam Horovitz; Adam Nathaniel Yauch
Credits: Davis, John (Songwriter); Diamond, Michael (Songwriter); Horovitz, Adam (Songwriter); Yauch, Adam Nathaniel (Songwriter); BROOKLYN DUST MUSIC (Publisher); POLYGRAM INT. PUBL., INC. (Publisher)
