Lyrics:

[ar:LL Cool J]
[ti:Nitro]
[al:Walking With The Panther]


[00:08.08]Check this
[00:08.99]I excel
[00:09.78]they fell
[00:10.27]I said - 'Well, hell'
[00:11.27]L can yell or make 'em melt like gel
[00:13.37]I signed the contracts that builds up stacks
[00:15.30]Play the wall or fall I stand tall you're small in fact
[00:18.04]Step aside
[00:18.60]you might get fried
[00:19.83]by the super technique that the rapper applied
[00:21.89]As a matter of fact
[00:23.01]the impact will distract
[00:24.28]your attention away
[00:25.19]from the rest who say
[00:26.92]they can mess with Cool J
[00:28.14]the best of to-day
[00:28.54]and best cause the rhymes are so funky fresh
[00:31.46]I'm attack smack and make em stand back
[00:33.14]Black strong as cognac
[00:34.88]I got the knack
[00:35.74](uh)
[00:35.77]To rhyme to the rhythm of this, and give em a gift
[00:38.14]that's swift, other rappers are stiff and don't riff with
[00:40.28]Mr. Smith
[00:41.30]'cause that ain't safe
[00:42.56]I get you wide open like an uncut eighth
[00:44.78]I write to fight, don't bite, to reach heights
[00:46.87]The mic makes right
[00:47.97]give me the spotlight
[00:49.36]so I can prove the pen is mightier than the sword
[00:51.22]LL hard as hell
[00:52.66]the lyrical lord (uh)
[00:53.38]The counterfeit misfits that rap had to admit that
[00:56.00]my rhymes are so dangerous, I need a permit to rap solo
[00:59.00]on the microphone
[01:00.03]MC's
[01:01.22]Don't let me catch you alone
[01:02.65]I'm nitro!

[01:05.37]
[01:05.87]Funky
[01:06.43](Word 'em up)

[01:09.31]
[01:09.88]Funky
[01:10.41]Yo,
[01:11.40]I got the kick of a kettle drum
[01:12.77]guaranteed to overcome
[01:13.93]You're just a minimum, messin' with the maximum
[01:15.98]And when I swung my tongue among the high strung
[01:18.45]young MC's, they all got done by the legend
[01:21.22]Every second I'm wreckin'
[01:22.40]not a mistake you'll find
[01:23.50]but you can keep checkin'
[01:24.79]out the sound you'll find
[01:26.14]that it's genuine
[01:27.13]Bet that you'll rewind
[01:28.30]this a thousand times
[01:29.52]You can taste the bass like it's filet-of-sole
[01:31.68]I leave the microphone full of bullet holes
[01:33.68]I drop the bomb like I'm in 'Nam and go beyond
[01:36.03]the normal boundaries of too much harm to MC's
[01:38.68]with these they say please I freeze
[01:40.23]Rhymes like these kill like a disease
[01:42.39]Tried to fill my shoes
[01:43.52]and caught the blues
[01:44.56]because they get bruised by the rhymes I choose
[01:46.84]I kill rappers at random
[01:48.26]I don't understand em
[01:49.16]The ones I didn't get, are on a memorandum
[01:51.74]Lines I recite are spontaneous
[01:53.42]The nursery rhymes you write
[01:55.06]are miscellaneous
[01:56.08]So pass the crown, bow down and give in
[01:58.26]I'm the Prince of Rap, that's how we livin'
[02:00.37]Settin' milestones on the microphone
[02:02.30]Empires are overthrown, and I ain't even baritone
[02:04.78]No joke I spoke then God stroke
[02:06.97]as Job tried to sweat the style and got soaked
[02:09.19]Conquered and killed on the microphone
[02:11.05]MC's
[02:12.11]don't let me catch you alone
[02:13.49]LL's nitro!

[02:16.53]
[02:17.03]Funky
[02:17.89]Nitro!
[02:21.60]Funky

[02:21.96]Yo
[02:22.68]Flammable
[02:23.55]like gasoline
[02:24.93]Threatening
[02:25.69]like a guillotine
[02:26.74]It's like a bad dream when you battle my team
[02:28.92]I go to every extreme to make MC's scream
[02:31.08]I'm clever, I last forever, we can do whatever
[02:34.05]with whoever, whenever, (Uh) I never
[02:35.87]ever got rocked, stopped or dropped
[02:37.90]They got popped, by the hip-hop rock that I (uh) concoct
[02:40.47]I'm so nice yo
[02:41.41]flowin' with the maestro
[02:42.46]Murderin' and hurtin' MC's
[02:43.82]because I'm nitro
[02:45.17]The earthquakes'll kill snakes and fakes
[02:46.78]You can't flake, you made a mistake, give me a break, thanks
[02:49.58]Now that we're straight and that's clear
[02:51.50]watch all the big mouths dissappear
[02:53.61]Disintergrate, deteriorate, fall
[02:56.04]I demonstrate, and devastate you all
[02:57.94]There's no doubt about the fact I turn it out,
[03:00.28]the wack be on the lookout
[03:01.55]LL made a (uh) comeback
[03:02.97]Full of power, I'm a devour
[03:04.59]I stand tall as a tower, I won't allow a
[03:06.89]MC to C-O-M-E, C-L-O-S-E
[03:10.10]Play me long D-I-S-T-A-N-C-E, M-C's
[03:14.08]On the microphone
[03:15.44]Uh I'm nitro!
[03:20.06]Uh Nitro!

[03:23.30]
[03:23.60]Yo
[03:24.04]funky
[03:24.59]Uh
[03:24.96]I daze amaze faze blaze and beat em down
[03:27.01]Nowadays they crave and praise
[03:28.46]the funky sound I pound
[03:29.62]Rhymes I write 'em in
[03:30.44]recite em and then slide 'em in
[03:31.61]Order to slaughter comp that start soon as I begin
[03:34.03]Total domination, across the nation
[03:35.72]Devastation, cut sensation, it's the invasion
[03:38.20]of L the Terrible, devastating rhymin' wiz
[03:40.49]I cut through through do and chew
[03:41.88]you know what time it is (uh)
[03:42.86]Slick, I get off of kicks, vick your flick
[03:44.85]Hard as bricks, rock ya sick over the mix
[03:47.09]The L, L, C, O, O
[03:49.39]L
[03:49.56]J
[03:49.94]Period
[03:50.51]now you know (uh) bro!
[03:51.61]N-I-T-R-O yo go for what you know
[03:54.16]unless you're dumb cause yo I'm
[03:55.49]Nitro
[03:56.18]glycerin listenin' and takin' notes
[03:58.23]Icin' enticin' and slicin' throats (uh)