# COME TAKE THE THRONE
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[Intro]
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Before you tell me who running this shit...
Tell me who they learned it from.
Melody with the rapid flow?
Yeah.
**COME TAKE THE THRONE!**
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[Hook]
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**COME TAKE THE THRONE!**
If you want it, motherfucker, come take it!
Everybody sound like us,
but don't nobody wanna say it!
**COME TAKE THE THRONE!**
Thirty years, still ain't moved!
You can imitate the style,
**BUT YOU CAN'T REPLACE THE TRUTH!**
Took the melody!
*(We know!)*
Took the flow!
*(We know!)*
Want the crown?
**COME TAKE THE THRONE!**
Can't take it?
**SIT YO' ASS DOWN!**
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[Verse 1]
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Five brothers outta Cleveland changed the whole sound,
Nobody sounded like us when we came around.
**Thuggish Ruggish Bone** made 'em recognize,
**Foe tha Luv of $** with Eazy by our side.
**East 1999**—whole game shook,
We weren't following shit, motherfucker, we wrote the book.
**1st of tha Month** became an anthem,
**Mo Murda**, **No Surrender**—couldn't understand 'em.
Then **Tha Crossroads** hit and the whole world sang,
Grammy came home, but bigger than the fame—
We proved you could harmonize and still spit flames,
Now everybody doing it like it came with the game.
Nah.
Anybody can learn how to double-time flow,
But you can't recreate what comes from the soul.
Thirty years later, turn your radio on—
**Tell me you don't still hear Bone.**
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[Hook]
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**COME TAKE THE THRONE!**
If you want it, motherfucker, come take it!
Everybody sound like us,
but don't nobody wanna say it!
**COME TAKE THE THRONE!**
Thirty years, still ain't moved!
You can imitate the style,
**BUT YOU CAN'T REPLACE THE TRUTH!**
Want the crown?
**COME TAKE THE THRONE!**
Can't take it?
**SIT YO' ASS DOWN!**
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[Verse 2]
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Then Pac came through—
**Thug Luv.**
Biggie jumped in—
**Notorious Thugs.**
Two of the greatest ever stepped inside the Bone pocket,
Now tell me that ain't influence—
Motherfucker, stop it.
Then Mariah came calling—
**Breakdown.**
From street records to pop, still carrying the sound.
**Dayz of Our Lives**, another classic survived,
Different kind of record but the Bone still inside.
That's what these clones never understood:
It wasn't only speed that made the shit good.
It was pain in the harmony, soul in the rhyme,
Five voices locking together perfectly in time.
Now melodic rap everywhere you go,
Singing into double-time over 808 flows.
Do your thing—
But don't rewrite the past.
**We built the fucking lane you're driving on fast.**
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[Bridge]
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Who brought the harmony?
**BONE!**
Who brought the rapid flow?
**BONE!**
Who put 'em together?
**BONE!**
Then quit acting like you don't know!
**COME TAKE THE THRONE!**
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[Verse 3]
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Old school, new school—
Bring whoever you got.
No followers, algorithms, fake streams or bots.
Give us one microphone and a beat that's hot,
Let's see who got a style when the gimmicks stop.
Study **East 1999**, study every flow,
Run **Tha Crossroads** back until you know.
Play **Thuggish Ruggish**, **Mo Murda** again,
Then **Notorious Thugs** and tell me where to begin.
**Thug Luv**, **Breakdown**, **1st of tha Month**,
Hit after hit—
Motherfucker, that's enough.
That's not nostalgia.
**THAT'S EVIDENCE.**
Every generation still showing the influence.
So when another rapper starts singing his flow,
I don't get mad—
That's another seed Bone sowed.
But don't mistake influence for owning the throne.
**YOU BORROWED THE STYLE.
WE BUILT THE HOME.**
I'm still right here.
Mic hot.
Door open.
Want the crown?
**COME TAKE THE MOTHERFUCKING THRONE!**
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[Final Hook]
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**COME TAKE THE THRONE!**
*(Come take it!)*
Think you Number One?
**COME TAKE THE THRONE!**
Think you changed the game?
**COME TAKE THE THRONE!**
Took the melody!
*(WE KNOW!)*
Took the harmony!
*(WE KNOW!)*
Took the rapid flow!
*(WE KNOW!)*
But who they still sound like?
**BONE!**
Who changed the sound?
**BONE!**
Who built the lane?
**BONE!**
You can copy the style—
**CAN'T COPY THE SOUL!**
Want the crown?
**COME TAKE THE THRONE!**
Can't do it?
**SIT YO' ASS DOWN!**
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[Outro]
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Original means there wasn't one before you.
**Bone.**