[CHORUS:] Ready Or NotHere I ComeYou Can t Hide Gonna Find You and Take it Slowly Ready Or NotHere I ComeYou Can t Hide Gonna Find You and Make you want me.
[CLEF:] Now that I escapesleepwalker awake Those who could relate know the world ain t cake Jail bars ain t golden gates Those who fakethey break When they meet their 400 pound mate If I could rule the world Everyone would have a gun in the ghetto of course When giddyupin on their horse I Kick a rhyme drinkin moonshine I pour a sip on the concretefor the deceased But no don t weepWyclef s in a state of sleep Thinkin bout the robbery that I did last week.
Money in the bagbanker looked like a drag I want to play with pelicans from here to Baghdad Gun blastthink fastI think I m hit My girl pinched my hips to see if I still exist.
I think notI ll send a letter to my friends A born again hooligan only to be king again.
[LAURYN:] I play my enemies like a game of chesswhere I rest No stress If you don t smoke sesslest.
I must confessmy destiny s manifest In some Goretex and sweats I make treks like I m homeless Rap with Porgy and Bess Capture your bounty like Elliot NessYES Bless you if you represent the Fu But I ll hex you with some witch s brew if you re Doo Doo Voo Doo I can do what you doeasyBELIEVE ME Frontin niggas give me hee-bee-gee-bees So while you re imitating Al Capone I ll be Nina Simone And defacating on your microphone.
[Chorus:] Ready Or NotHere I ComeYou Can t Hide Gonna Find You and Take it Slowly [LAURYN S INTERLUDE] You can t run away From these styles I gotoh babyhey baby Cause I got a lotoh yeah And anywhere you go My whole crew s gonna know You can t hide from the blockoh no.
[PRAZ:] Ready or notrefugees takin over The Buffalo soldierdread-lock rhasta On the twelfth hourfly by in my bomber Crews run for covernow they re under pushin up flowers Superfly true liesdo or die Toss me high - only puff la With my crew from lock high I refugee from Guantanamo Bay Dance around the border like I m Cassius Clay [Chorus (Lauryn) REPEAT 3X:] Ready Or NotHere I ComeYou Can t Hide Gonna Find You and Take it Slowly Ready Or NotHere I ComeYou Can t Hide Gonna Find You and Make You Want Me

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