
Step back, son
This ain’t no Danny Rasmussen shit
I’m talking about hitting you with something
That’s gonna make your toes curl
Working the ‘chives like my name was Braudeleezy
Setting up paradigms like I was Freddy Jack
Turning your screws with some post-post-mo
Dropping interventions so hard whole continental plates crack
Hofstadter?
Shit, kin
Fool never set foot in the tombs
I’m running this joint like C Viggle Wiggle
Working harder than you, thinking larger than you
I got whole Presidential Libraries on my external hard drive
So many interviews on tape your girl calls me big SOHPpa
Running microfilm ten machines at a time
My CV so swole
The departmental webpage needs its own server
Publications so deep
Billy the Barbarian’s all, “take it slow, save something for later”
E Foney phoning me
For a Reconstruction chapter in the New New American History
I got research for books
That I’ll just leave for the archives
So your grand kids can ride my coattails
All the way to Research 1 jobs
So don’t say I didn’t warn you
When I’m turning down offers from Ivys
Collecting book prizes like they were Ken Griffey rated rookies
Sending you grad students that just don’t cut it
Naming my own chair with a 1-0-0 load
Cause I’m gunning for that OAH spot
And you’re gonna want to say you know me

