Lyrics:

The song samples Patrice Rushen- Didn’t You Know
at 0:54 and 1:45
This same sample is used by Large Professor in ‘Dancing Girl’.
('You never knew...')
'It's like that and, uh... (Uh, Hieroglyphics, yeah!)'
('Didn't you know?')
'It's like that and, uh... (Uh, Hieroglyphics, yeah!)'
('You never knew...')
'It's like that and, uh... (Uh, Hieroglyphics, yeah!)'
('Didn't you know?')
'It's like that and, uh... (Uh, Hieroglyphics, yeah!)'
'It's like...' ('You never knew...')
'It's like that and, uh... (Uh, Hieroglyphics, yeah!)'
('Didn't you know?')
'It's like that and, uh... (Uh, Hieroglyphics, yeah!)'

(Hiero, y'all!) It's not a wrong thing
To be addicted to the microphone like a heron fiend
I'll tell you one thing — you'll never catch me frontin'
As I proceed to give the people what they wantin'
(You're makin' some green) But not for glamour or fashion
I'm stackin' cash until I can get moms a mansion
(All from rappin'??) Nah, man!
There's many plans, like investin' in land
It started all from impressin' the fans
With brand new flows, and you know
All the way from gangsta clones to weirdos, fools used those
But we ain't trippin', give respect when you see this, you need us!
Or your rhymes' underdeveloped like a fetus

Those that know-not doze, and it shows
When we broke out the knock, hoes hopped out they clothes
That's positive feedback
Yep! The Prose — are poised, we never pose, you'll never know
From '93 'Til Infinity, we've been inventive
Creatin' the bump is our only incentive
And it's been a long time since I feel I've been felt
But the only thing I fear is fear itself
So you know what we gots to do (What?)
Maybe could we keep it within the crew? Like it should be
Never givin' out, we livin' out our dreams
If there's somethin' I can't live without, that's my team
You never knew...

Hieroglyphics, hip-hop is vintage
Underground like silos, launchin' long-range ballistics
World-renowned, we groundbreakin'
Musical boundaries
Runnin' circles around MC's

('You never knew...')
'It's like that and, uh... (Uh, Hieroglyphics, yeah!)'
('Didn't you know?')
'It's like that and, uh... (Uh, Hieroglyphics, yeah!)'
('You never knew...')
'It's like that and, uh... (Uh, Hieroglyphics, yeah!)'
('Didn't you know?')
'It's like that and, uh... (Uh, Hieroglyphics, yeah!)'
'It's like...'

Del — been rhymin' for more than a decade
Onto the next stage, while MC's need aid
Stay paid, I'm still grade-A
None of that tomfoolery
As you can see, this shit ain't nothin' new to me
Utterly hoverin' over other things material
You're stuck in the here and now
Plus you're sweatin' profusely, here's a towel
Your fears are now reality, when I take yo' dream states
And elaborate on how your team's fake (Phonies)
Like phony ID's, but sometimes I feel like
Only I see through the charade you've made
In today, but hey! Tomorrow, it's played
And then they got a new fool in yo' place to be okay

Huh! Hieroglyphics
Hip-hop is vintage, invented in days back
Rekindlin' ways that many thought was lost
In this contemporary maze of methods to floss
We findin' trees and trails to blaze, boundaries to cross
We can be found beyond the bounds of reason
Or earthbound, heatin' up the Coliseum

They rushed the stage full-throttle in Chicago
Our brains interlocked
Where fakin' MC's get caught with the 40 bottle
Or get their chains snatched pronto!
We unstoppable, droppin' flows in Toronto
Maneuverin' through Vancouver and
On to Japan, where they put major grands in my hand
Follow...

Straight from the heart, we set apart from the rest and
Our perfection on the microphone was predestined
World-renowned, we groundbreakin'
Musical boundaries
Runnin' circles around MC's

('You never knew...')
'It's like that and, uh... (Uh, Hieroglyphics, yeah!)'
('Didn't you know?')
'It's like that and, uh... (Uh, Hieroglyphics, yeah!)'
('You never knew...')
'It's like that and, uh... (Uh, Hieroglyphics, yeah!)'
('Didn't you know?')
'It's like that and, uh... (Uh, Hieroglyphics, yeah!)'
'It's like...' ('You never knew...')
'It's like that and, uh... (Uh, Hieroglyphics, yeah!)'
('Didn't you know?')
'It's like that and, uh... (Uh, Hieroglyphics, yeah!)'
'It's like...' ('You never knew...')
'It's like that and, uh... (Uh, Hieroglyphics, yeah!)'
('Didn't you know?')
'It's like that and, uh... (Uh, Hieroglyphics, yeah!)'
'It's like...'

'It's like that and, uh... (Uh, Hieroglyphics, yeah!)'
'It's like that and, uh... (Uh, Hieroglyphics, yeah!)'
'It's like...'
'It's like that and, uh... (Uh, Hieroglyphics, yeah!)'
'It's like that ––' '(Uh, Hieroglyphics, yeah!)'
'It's like...'
'(Uh, Hieroglyphics, yeah!)'
'It's like...'