If you don't know me by now I doubt you'll ever know me
I never won a Grammy I won't win a Tony
But I'm not the only MC keepin' it real
When I grab the mic to smash a rapper girls go "Illlll!"
Check the time as I rhyme it's 1995
Whenever I arrive the party gets liver
Flow with the master rhymer, that's to leave behind
The video rapper, you know, the chart climber
Clapper, down goes another rapper
Onto another matter, punch up the data, Blastmaster
Knowledge Reigns Supreme Over Nearly Everybody
Call up KRS, I'm guaranteed to rip a party
Flat top, braids, bald heads or natty dread
There once was a story about a man named Jed
But now Jed is dead, all his kids instead
Want to kick rhymes off the top of they head
Word, what go around come around I figure
Now we got white kids callin' themselves niggas
The tables turned as the crosses burned
Remember You Must Learn
About the styles I flip and how wild I get
I go on like a space age rocket ship
You could be a mack, a pimp, hustler or player
But make sure live you is a dope rhyme sayer

This is what you waited all year for
The hardcore, that's what KRS is here for
Big up Grand Wizard Theodore, gettin' ill
If you see then ya saw I'm in your grill with mad skill
MC's can only battle with rhymes that got punchlines
Let's battle to see who headlines
Instead of flow for flow let's go show for show
Toe for toe, yo, you better act like you know
Too many MC's take that word 'emcee' lightly
They can't Move a Crowd, not even slightly
It might be the fact that they express wackness
Let me show ya whose ass is the blackest
I flip a script a little bit, you ride the tip and shit
Too sick to get with it, admit you bit, your style is counterfeit
Now tone it down a bit
My title you will never get, I'm too intelligent
I'll send your family my sentiments, my style is toxic
When I rock and shock and hip hop it unlock your head, I knock it
It split quick from the lyric
Direct hit, perfect fit, you can't get with it

Some MC's don't like the KRS but they must respect him
Cos they know this kid gets all up in they rectum
Slappin' and selectin' em, checkin' em, disrespectin' em
Just deckin' em, deckin' em, deck-in' em
Who in their right mind can mimic a style like mine?
I design rhyme and get mine all the time
MC's standin' on the sidelines, always dissin'
When I roll up and rush their crew they start bitchin'
I don't burn, I don't freeze, yet some MC's
Believe they could tangle with the likes of these
Cross your t's and dot your i's whenever I arrive
Wide, magnified, live like the ocean tide
You dope, you lied, I reside like artefacts
On the wrong side of the tracks, electrified
Comin' around the mountain, you run and hide
Hopin' your defence mechanism can divert my heat-seeking lyricism
As I spark mad iszm
The 1996 lyrical style's what I give 'em

Very much looking forward to this one - expected this and Braid would be similar/competing - that won't be the case, obviously - but I think this one will be provide hours of entertainment nonetheless.

>> ^EDD:
There are 8 stars hidden carefully throughout the game - odds are at least 99.99% of players don't find one on the first play-through. Also, collecting them is at least five times as difficult as doing all the 'normal' puzzles - but the reward is a 'true game ending' - a more thorough explanation of the storyline metaphor. That's where the atom bomb comes in. Because of this, the ending you're going to see in the epilogue when you finish the game the first time might make little sense.


Found 1 star during regular play and said "wtf is that?" so I looked up location of all 8 stars on gamefaqs, and even knowing where they were, it was quite the challenge to get all 8. The new ending wasn't really worth it, but it was worth it just knowing I could get them.

Side note, since this game is so popular on xbox live, I don't think the video needs the "obscure" tag...

>> ^EDD:
Also,
>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
This game is amazing. They need to crank out a sequel pronto.

Exclusive info about Braid 2!


Hahaha

Didn't find the game very hard though it's an excellent game and a benchmark for quality games, this and games like it are what should be lining our video game stores.

I guess i mean that it's not the difficulty that makes braid a great game.. cos even though i whizzed through it, i enjoyed the atmosphere and the style. I've seen a few comments saying "we need more hard games", and though they may have found it difficult, are you sure you weren't drawn in by the style and mystery with which they were presented rather than the difficulty of the challenge?

Cos in that case, go play "I Wanna Be The Guy!" You'll love it.

Btw, this game doesn't need a sequel.. a sequel would ruin the whole thing.

Also,

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
This game is amazing. They need to crank out a sequel pronto.


Exclusive info about Braid 2!

Honestly, I think we need more challenging games. Too many games nowadays are easy to make them "accessible" for a wider audience. But then, where goes the satisfaction of having accomplished something once you've beaten it? I'm personally glad that Braid was a bit of a challenge.

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>> ^therealblankman:
I tried the demo, add "extremely hard" to the review quotes.


That's the most fun thing about this game. After you've spent about two weeks trying to solve this last puzzle and then you finally figure it out, you feel like you're the smartest person in the world.

Credit's no good for an anvil salesman.

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
Why don't you add to it? You're a music man. Who sells the clarinets to the kids in the town with the big trombones and the rat-a-tat drums, big brass bass, big brass bass, and the piccolo, the piccolo with uniforms, too with a shiny gold braid on the coat and a big red stripe runnin . . .

>> ^kronosposeidon:
Why don't you add to it? You're a music man. Who sells the clarinets to the kids in the town with the big trombones and the rat-a-tat drums, big brass bass, big brass bass, and the piccolo, the piccolo with uniforms, too with a shiny gold braid on the coat and a big red stripe runnin . . .


I don't have a camera.

Why don't you add to it? You're a music man. Who sells the clarinets to the kids in the town with the big trombones and the rat-a-tat drums, big brass bass, big brass bass, and the piccolo, the piccolo with uniforms, too with a shiny gold braid on the coat and a big red stripe runnin . . .

Oooh here's an idea for a sequel to Braid!

This video has been declared a duplicate; transferring votes to the original video and killing this dupe - dupeof declared by thinker247.

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