[00:00.00](Intro, imitating the owl from the "Tootsie Pop" commercials)[00:00.00]One ... two ... three...[00:05.15](Chomping sound) ... three![00:09.62]Yo, in linear terms, my thirty-three degree, and a third[00:13.62]Words will give you thirty-third degree burns[00:15.82]First I write thirty-three lines to a verse[00:19.42]About how I created the Earth out of thirty-three quirks[00:22.92]Thirty-three of my peers never thought it would work[00:26.52]For thirty-three days, I started my relentless research[00:30.12]And I figured, if Jigga could do, '22 2's'[00:34.92]As an mc, then I could do, thirty-three three's[00:38.22]Suddenly it occurred, at three-thirty, on March third[00:42.52]It came to me like God's word[00:44.72]I started to load my thirty-three caliber Mossberg[00:48.72]Went to the top of the Empire State, on thirty-third[00:52.22]Thirty-three gunshots was heard[00:55.72]Thirty-three pedestrians lay wounded or dead, on the curb[00:59.32]Thirty-three squad cars rushed to the scene[01:02.82]As soon as they heard some mad-man had gone berserk[01:06.42]I demanded thirty-three million[01:10.02]Or I was going to kill thirty-three of the women and children in the building[01:14.52]I gave them thirty-three minutes to respond[01:18.22]Then I proceeded to arm, a backpack nuclear bomb[01:22.02]I set the timer for three hours, and three minutes long[01:25.72]Told them not to try nothing funny or I'd kill them all[01:29.22]They still never responded[01:32.42]Until I saw thirty-three of the S.W.A.T. team jump out of three helicopters[01:37.32]I told them for the third and final time[01:40.92]If they crossed the line again, I'd take, thirty-three lives[01:44.72]Three of the hostages started crying[01:48.32]Three of them started wilding, and convinced, three more to start an uprising[01:52.72]Three of them stood to their feet and started freestyling[01:56.32]I didn't know what to do, so I started rhyming[01:59.82]I tried to kick three-hundred bars[02:03.42]But I got picked off by a sniper from thirty-three yards[02:07.42]The bullet hit me but it got lodged, and ricocheted off[02:11.72]Three organs three inches away from my heart[02:15.32]My name went down in history, as the illest MC[02:19.42]Rewind it and count it, thirty-three threes