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Live Intro Performance | 2020 Roots Picnic Virtual Experience
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Black Thought
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Uh-huh! Two fifteen, twenty-one pound I said, memory banks too strong to try and jog with I'd probably fry your omelette on some com sh*t Long fire-arms holder would I write a song with Right or wrong, moving right along It's a higher form of convo with the gods, I'm in dialogue with I hear the voice of the announcer signing off, Rachmaninoff Through a Molotov on your doorstep A bullet from a Glock tore through your cortex, Monarch of melanin They all relishing the way I'm Ralph McDaniels meets Ralph Ellison The fine arts is elegant, dark as heaven-sent Official intelligence presented to you by the stopper Tell them cops it's too late to talk to me proper Them South Philly boys is who offed Jimmy Hoffa What hangs in the balance to the Talented Mr. Trotter And the two-fifteen my savant crew What can kill you in five words? That's not a haiku What's the most powerful book? That's not the Bible They say; "Do as I say do, but not as I do" It's about time we held history liable For survival of the most fit, let them quote this Get the people more than only hope for the hopeless Knowing the police headquarters is the culprit Slugs spiral outta the four-fifth and don't miss I give a f**k about confederate flags? I got a heart more darker than America's past My bars is part Chris Parker, part Malik Shabazz And just shine like a treasure taken outta the trash But dig it, it gets deep like a bass guitar The fiends never say the taste is off The CDC, done trace the cough back To where your faith was lost at and press 69 to call back When the Jakes provide bricks, what would you call that? Some freemason type sh*t, what would you call crack? Now we can swan dive into this or we can just fall back I faced time with the victims, they was just all black I'm like, what does it give to the man who's got everything? Freedom is above and beyond duPont's Registry You ain't racing with the baton, you're not getting me Where you rotate in is not the proximity Look, it's been about more than just the flesh It's so ill, I can still never catch my breath It's so real in the field, so protect your neck Like you was in the Seventh Seal playing chess with death I figure, I'll be a sage for the rest of my days The way I surf to the stage on the crest of the wave Like a black Pharoah that suckled on a breast of a slave If you place me on a page don't mess up the name It goes: T-A-R one 'I' like a monocle The last astronomical master of the chronicle True spelling of it is with a K and not a Q I break it down to particles and molecules Dark or melo, slick McArthur fellow, prophet of rage An audio slave like Morello I was raised in my formative stage Right, in the ghetto where they made me not be afraid nor to settle I'm a one and only son of young lieutenant Thomas X Knowledge, wisdom, common sense, never mind the rest Trying to find honour where there's absolutely honorless There's spooks right at the door, devil behind the desk I'm thankful that I'm wide awake for this Diaspora's Afro pick like Hank Willis Any activism is bad for bank business America's always been safe for straight killers Yo, the trail was tailor-made for me to fail The kill or be killed all end with me in jail It's funny how the new Mark Twain could be Chapelle And we shut down the starving trend if we prevail I won't be reduced to simply a trope It proves everything that I wrote's a slippery slope It's hard to cope and still push the envelope When your mind is far beyond this kaleidoscope Ayo, the way they cutthroat a brother, do we not bleed? And from the shots, do we not run in top speed? Whether black, blue, brown, bow-legged or knock-kneed? Every weapon is not made by Martin and Lockheed Are we detained if they say that we cannot leave? Am I insane if I tell you I cannot breathe? Messages written in languages they cannot read Public Enemy's, Chuck D's and Hank Shocklee's Stick with your preposterous beliefs They pull up and park and let the block perish in peace And this speech could be the last words of the deceased That makes my next mixtapes a posthumous release But listen, spilling a black man's blood so iconic I go hard today because tomorrow's not promised Do the knowledge, you could be crowned king Tutankhamun God forbid, go back to packs of Top Ramen The overlook effect's an astronaut problem Let's count down in seconds till NASA start calling As for Black Thought, I'm a master Probably never be captured, Method with the last report Sorrow is the debate, the statements and everything I create The negative's not relative, they don't relate That's cool, it is what it is, can I be great? Waiting for the big payback like it's a rebate To elevate to the V12 from the V8 A whip so fast that it's impossible to be late And it's all love, but it's impossible if we hate It deflates the wind from against our sails Trying to keep in check like the prince of Wales Toss any infidels against the rails Heavy metal Mötley Crüe no Vincent Neil I'm in channel but still go against the grain If you talking about my life, it's probably a movie Who'd play me and my wife? Taraji and Chewy Back in the day, maybe a young Ossie and Ruby My chops is like Canada Lee So yours truly for the Oscar I started smoking weed like a Rasta when we lost Cassandra That was hard to ponder But I refuse to break down or stay somber While history repeats itself like a mantra I got too much more to live for The demon and the Lord out here in a turf war It's the way that the whole world is worse for Probably with the wildlife reclaiming the earth for Yo, Philly stand up, two-fifteen
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