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I Ain't No Joke

from Rock Love & Red Lipstick by MY RUIN

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My Ruin recorded this cover of "I Ain't No Joke" by Eric B & Rakim in 2019 after moving from LA to Knoxville. Not for any album, just for fun one night in our home studio.

Being that it's a old school hip hop song, it's a bit of a wild card among all the rock, punk & metal songs on this album but I wanted to include it because I think it's really cool and I love what we did with it.

The original from the album "Paid In Full" is a classic and Rakim is one of my favorite lyricists of all time. A master wordsmith. I have rapped this acapella at many My Ruin soundchecks over the years so I thought it was time to rock it for real. We included a few samples but Mick is playing live drums, guitar & bass on the track. I changed a few of the lyrics up and gave it a feminine energy with a red lipsticked My Ruin kiss when I spit.

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XO TBM

lyrics

I AIN'T NO JOKE
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I ain't no joke, I use to let the mic smoke
Now I slam it when I'm done and make sure it's broke
When I'm gone I wrote this song 'cause I won't let
Nobody press up and mess up to seen I set
I like to stand in a crowd and watch the people wonder damn
Bu think about it then you'll understand
I'm just an addict addicted to music
Maybe it's a habit, I gotta use it
Even if it's jazz or the quiet storm
I hook a beat up convert it in a hip-hop form
Write a rhyme in graffiti in every show you see me in
Deep concentration 'cause I'm no comedian
Jokers are wild if you want to be tame
I treat you like a child then you're gonna be named
Another enemy, not even a friend of me
'cause you'll get fried in the end if you pretend to be
Can be 'cause I just put your mind on pause
And I can beat you when you compare my rhyme wit yours
I wake you up and as I stare in your face you seem stun
Remember me, the one you got your idea from
But soon you start to suffer but you only get rougher
When you start to stutter that's when you had enuff of
Biting it, I make you choke, you can't provoke
You can't cope, you should of broke 'cause I ain't no joke

I got a question, it's serious as cancer
Who can keep the average dancer
Hyper as a heart attack nobody smiling
'Cause you're expressing the rhyme that I'm styling
This is what we all sit down to write
You can't make it so you take it home, break it and bite
Use pieces and bits of all the hip-hop hits
Get the style down pack then it's time to ?swit?
Put my tape on pause and add some more to yours
Then you figure you're ready for the neighborhood chores
The E-M-see-E-E don't even try to be
When you come up to speak, don't even lie to me
You like to exaggerate, dream and imaginate
Then change the rhyme around, that can aggravate me
So when you see me come up, freeze
Or you'll be one of those 7 MC's
They think that I'm a new jack but only if they knew that
They who think wrong are they who can't do that
Style that I'm doing, they might ruin
Patterns of paragraphs based on you and
Your offbeat DJ, if anything he play
Sound familiar, I'll wait til E say
Play 'em, so I'ma have to dis and broke
You could get a smack for this, I ain't no joke

I hold the microphone like a grudge
Be I'll hold the record so the needle don't budge
I hold a conversation 'cause when I invent
I nominated my DJ the presdient
When I'm see I'll, people freestyle, going steadily
So pucker up and whistle my melody
But whatever you do, don't miss one
They'll be another rough rhyme after this one
Before you know it, you're following and fiending
Waiting for the punchline to get the meaning
Like before the middle of my story I'm telling
Nobody beats the are so stop yelling
Save it, put it in your pocket for later
'Cause I'm moving the crowd and be a record fader
No interruptions and the mic is broke
When I'm gone, then you can joke
'Cause everything is real on a serious tip
Keep playing and I varies quick
And take you for a walk through hell
Feed your dome then watch your eyeballs swell
Guide you out of triple stage darkness
When it get dark again then I'ma spark this
Microphone 'cause the heat is on, you see smoke
And I'm finish when the beat is gone, I'm no joke

credits

from Rock Love & Red Lipstick, released February 14, 2020
Produced by Tairrie B. Murphy & Mick Murphy
Engineered by Mick Murphy
Mixed by Mick Murphy
Recorded @ The Magick Room | Knoxville, TN.
Rovena Recordings | Circa 2019

Vocals - Tairrie B.Murphy
Guitar, Bass, Drums & Samples - Mick Murphy
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Written by Eric B & Rakim 1987
Revamped by Tairrie B. Murphy

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