I Gave You Power

Avatar the Articulate - “I Gave You Power”
[Emcee(s): Avatar the Articulate (AKA Avie Fresh)]
[Producer(s): DJ Premier (Original Instrumental from Nas - “I Gave You Power”)]

[Verse 1: Avatar the Articulate (AKA Avie Fresh)]
I’m on
My Grizzly with a vengeance, but I don’t be selling Knicks. I’ll Cel-
-tics, I carry Rockets when I be going on trips
I’m a Maverick for the cabbage, I ain’t average ever, kid. I like
To bag ‘em up in Nets when I’m catching ‘em like fish ‘cause I’m
A Hornet when I’m on it. When I be feeling a buzz, I click
My Spurs on them herbs, steady peeling on the fuzz, I’m never
Dealing with those drugs, I don’t run with them things. I’ll come
With my Suns ‘cause huns treat us brothers like Kings, and when
I’m in the northwest and I’m Blazing a Trail, we rock
Big Nuggets, carry stones in buckets and pails, and y’all
Be running, y’all frail. I’m with a pack of Timberwolves, your crew
Talk all that Jazz, but we passed and where were you?
I’ll relax with some juice and some tonic and some gin
No ice, I’m Supersonic when I’m nice on the mic
No friends are ever fakers or they ain’t live friends. I treat ‘em
Like scrubs on Lakers, make ‘em ride on the bench, hence

[Hook: Avatar the Articulate (AKA Avie Fresh)]
How you like me now? I bounce around, I
Was used to move crowds, making every ghetto proud
I might have took your first child, bought him Nikes, gave him some style
I gave you power to make the bucks pile
How you like me now? I bounce around, I
Was used to move crowds and I’ll never settle down
I might have shook your first child ankles, broke, crippled his style
I gave you power to make the bucks pile

[Verse 2: Avatar the Articulate (AKA Avie Fresh)]
Her name
Was Charlotte, she made Cats Bob. They Hawk, they be stalking in mobs
So Cavalier, when I appeared, I made her heart throb
Pumping like Pistons, made her cum like it was my job
Louder than Thunder, then she made a blunder. Now I had
To wonder why she’s feeding me bullshit, then honey dip
Pulled out a full switchblade, I was laid up
Couldn’t clap her, then, on my side, she sliced me like a Raptor
I yapped her, couldn’t catch her, then she tried to flee
I picked up my jeans with a burner and a magazine
Man, she was racing. I tried to keep the Pace, her
Fate was sealed—the Warrior with warpaint was
Coming, her D-cups went up and down running
But my Heat Bucks—you hear the sound like it’s drumming
The bitch had to slip up, I 76’d her, I had
To Clip her, then dip like Magic Wizards

[Hook: Avatar the Articulate (AKA Avie Fresh)]
How you like me now? I bounce around, I
Was used to move crowds, making every ghetto proud
I might have took your first child, bought him Nikes, gave him some style
I gave you power to make the bucks pile
How you like me now? I bounce around, I
Was used to move crowds and I’ll never settle down
I might have shook your first child ankles, broke, crippled his style
I gave you power to make the bucks pile