Suckers always try to sleep on me cause I...ta wack rappers try to rack their brains ...To feel a style of MC,...peace when I decide to pass this ...f rhymes were food, the main source for liv...I want to break away clean, I...er livin bad enough to take mine ...And I would hate to have a rapper procl...we speak we'll hear the preacher from the deacon first ...e gathered that day to unite no couple up ...e isn't good enough to hang with the master ...I'm the opposite of what yo...me solo, you'd have to bring your crew to ..., I don't recollect the mumble ...It's clear to the ear what I'm sayin,...feel like slaves on the freedom run ...n't place my rhymes amongst mortal men ...n on beats that set the hip-hop trend ...Don't agree to set me free, then y...I earned a name amongst society as lyricall... cause Marley hooks the beat up still ...And if they was to fall down, then the beats would catch i...You don't want to play this?

(Intro: Jeru The Damaja) ...In the time when hip hop w...The Supahuman Klik ruled the land ...The first lieutenant in arms of the Supahuman Klik ...Was the all mighty, all pow...isappeared now that the smoke has cleared ...th inabitions, face to face with fears ... glass eye, I drink to that, say cheers ...And let the fire water wash away the tears, burn like sa...Give birth to these rhymes like a...nnection throughout the galaxy ...Time to switch to reality, make prope...for the souls of fatalities...It's the same for niggas tha...ps me travel around the galaxy ...ets shorter, I'm on the water, run insanity... smoke la, anything to keep my sanity ... they standing next to me, nothing's what it seems to be ...is my bible, when I fall in hip hop sessions...Of the tribal blessings, lessons to be learned ...Respect had to be earned and not g...On the fourth of them but not amongst the men that living ...h minds can't asked to be forgiven ...n't no turning back the hands of time, ...Power of the moon and the force of a sonic bo...like battle wounds, to that shit I'm immun...e come through like the first platoon, into smoke...gic mushrooms, from the womb to the tomb ...I got a meetin in the ladies room, I be b...To strike the deathblow, continue...eads go from C.E.O. to skid row ...See the toxic green flow, i...Words pierced with the sting of a scorpio ...Beats mad bong, to collapse the Walls of Jericho ...'cause this is the same, no matter whi...suckin the diamonds out your e...se devils back with the Code of Hammurabi ...h no remorse, I tap the source and knock yo...es have intercourse to reproduce their first born ...Never sworn not to make the same mistakes as th...Step on first month Capricorn, qu...My niggas strife to perform, I struggle to break the norm ...From hotels to college dorms, keep...irtually impossible to defend against (rep

(Intro: Jeru The Damaja)...In the time when hip hop w...The Supahuman Klik ruled the land...The first lieutenant in arms of the Supahuman Klik...Was the all mighty, all pow...isappeared now that the smoke has cleared...th inabitions, face to face with fears... glass eye, I drink to that, say cheers...And let the fire water wash away the tears, burn like sa...Give birth to these rhymes like a...nnection throughout the galaxy...Time to switch to reality, make prope...for the souls of fatalities...It's the same for niggas tha...ps me travel around the galaxy...ets shorter, I'm on the water, run insanity... smoke la, anything to keep my sanity... they standing next to me, nothing's what it seems to be...is my bible, when I fall in hip hop sessions...Of the tribal blessings, lessons to be learned...Respect had to be earned and not g...On the fourth of them but not amongst the men that living...h minds can't asked to be forgiven...n't no turning back the hands of time, ...Power of the moon and the force of a sonic bo...like battle wounds, to that shit I'm immun...e come through like the first platoon, into smoke...gic mushrooms, from the womb to the tomb...I got a meetin in the ladies room, I be b...To strike the deathblow, continue...eads go from C.E.O. to skid row...See the toxic green flow, i...Words pierced with the sting of a scorpio...Beats mad bong, to collapse the Walls of Jericho...'cause this is the same, no matter whi...suckin the diamonds out your e...se devils back with the Code of Hammurabi...h no remorse, I tap the source and knock yo...es have intercourse to reproduce their first born...Never sworn not to make the same mistakes as th...Step on first month Capricorn, qu...My niggas strife to perform, I struggle to break the norm...From hotels to college dorms, keep...irtually impossible to defend against (rep

Christ on the cross, no more room...Meet on the wire, no more lines...For something real to shake your bones,...To turn you back into ...You sublet the space, cut your cos...For love this real to just pop up,...To fall from trees, to ride on rainstorms...as worth it through the first hit...But back amongst the dirt and spent gras...The empty coffee cups, the green glass...The basement brokering ...The puzzle pieces in the tool shed...as worth it through the first hit)...r lazy eyes aligned to find a purpose, a p

sive examination of the nefarious arcane codex known as The Epsilon ... at last be drawing to a close. ...I feel that perhaps the great discovery whi...ce more have I seen the figures in the night, watching me in silence from the confines of the darkness. ... incoherently about the guardians of the tombs... citing legends from their ancestral past which speak of mysterious travelers who reputedly came down from the stars in great silv...lign and ever deign to lay hold of me in the night. ... at last translated the carvings on the stone fragment I unearthed amidst the ruins of Angkor Wat. To my astonishment, I found that it predated the construction of the temple itself by countless thousands of years, and that it spoke of the same subject as did the hieroglyphs I beheld on the ...Wall of the concealed chamber which I and Lord Blakiston discovered within the Great Pyramid in Eg...ive examinations of the edifices at Giza and Karnak revealed further parallels too precise to be mere coincidence...The pieces of this great cosmic puzzle are finally beginning to fall into place... ...have long felt that the Sumerians of Mesapotamia were among the first peoples to attain elucidation concerning the dread matter I purs...u, and most notably the ziggurats at you're, have revealed truths which subsequent finds at Angkor, Egypt and Sacsahuaman only serve to consolidate. ...I now know that the Olmechs, the Aztecs and the Mayans were also undeniably key tendrils of this grand global web, and the unnerving truth I hitherto felt compelled to deny now seems inex...To point to some grand and terr...seems however, that the closer I come to enlightenment, the greater the danger becomes. ...ce of his departure to suggest that his superstitions had finally compelled him to abandon the party... the man seems simply to have vanished inexplicably into the oppressive, swelter...In light of the disappearance, I opted not to inform the group that during the darkling hours ...peered from my tent to behold what I perceived to be three of the shadowy figures I have previously described moving furtively in the gloom, keeping ever just out of the illuminatory radias...By the time I had brought my rifle to bear, they had melted away into the fathomless shadows of the benighted jungle......The inscriptions on the tablet I discovered seem to be a fragmentary pi...The first section, as far as I can discern, tells of an era thousands of years past when countless great and advanced civilisations, apparently with the legendary Atlantis foremost amongst them, spanned the circumference of the globe. ...The initial passage, se...Of the day, speaks thusly.

When I first met you ...The world's your oyster...Amongst thieves ...For a soul to find ...Diamonds for the taking ...ust have lost it in the fall ...When I first met you

voices calling and the smell of steam ...The King's amongst the commoners ...But someone has to steer ...cannon fire distant to the ear ...Ooh-ooh The drivers leave their...The workmen leave their...And the white ball hangs ...And the red ball falls ...The luck dragon flies t...The last stop on some j...To reach a far off sea...Who will fall in battle? Who will be the first to flee? ...ces here right next to me ...Echoes bouncing off the wall with the meaning bleeding th...Ooh-ooh The drivers leave their...The workmen leave their...And the white ball hangs ...And the red ball falls ...The luck dragon flies t...And the white ball hangs ...And the red ball falls ...The luck dragon flies t...And the white ball hangs ...And the red ball falls ...The luck dragon flies t

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fade blendin with the side burn shades ...ngin like Smokey on the slow beat ...osely as I mosey on the low key ...know me, I swing it to the young-ins and the OG's ...was it? Gritty like the subway tracks ...te like graffiti on the project walls ...On the AWOL, alias Jamal D...Roam through the universe, plans of ...In the meantime, in betwee...Make 'em feel the friction ...ne, mic-phone calms the menopausable hormon...n, we makin, all of the above ...n I run, I hesitate to stomp the come ...Bring water from the brain, nigga, they tried to send me back, but s...st brought me forth to bust mine ...Breathe the Earth, take the head of those and feed 'em to the universe ...try in motion, east to west coastin ...Tryin to eat 'til my mouth gets too full to feed ...cast spells similar to Merlin ...Mergin with the fast lane, stained with the urban ...Word in the street, his work wa...etically weak, make the fans start beef ...They soon fall off, be mentally lo... feet, shootin with the quick release ...The sire, disturbin the peace with see-ciph...Who dare comes amongst and tries to peep it ...The secret of the deadly art, then le...s, leeches surround the righteous ...I link the diversion shot, then slip with the swiftness ...The weaver raindrop, leavin the eye confused ...From the Masta, classical he...The deaf tone rises like the blind and dumb ...Lickin shots at the microphone, Iron Lu...We the first to set off shit, last to run

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lical reaction from the prisoners of the bilnd ...Trying to fight time, it's a battle of the mind ...lical reaction from the prisoners of the blind ...Trying to fight time, it's a battle of the mind ..., talk about paying the ultimate price ...said he's on a road to become a felon ...d his thing and was the king of the ring, undisputed ...oise but they tried to mute it ...For him to make the system look stupid,... rather look you in the face and shoot it ... sweat leaking from the outline of your sol...Don't understand the point that you at ...Or how the hell you came to it? ...Flashback to images of that nigh... when they told him the charge it kind of b...Murder in the first for the champ, we on that a...Could y'all stand the weather? ...ll me that you know the pain ...Could ya'll stand the weather? ...Nobody knows the troubles seen ...The cops, y'all know wh...ifer, a soul he had to fight, ... days, stay up half the night ...Amongst dead man walking, h...eveloping his knack to write ...What he loved on the outside world, deta...You know the cards Blacks get dealt by the system ...This picture proved to be bigger than Blac...ra brought him back to life ...It's amazing to a man what a book c... certain books seem to look for you ...This is the story of a champion's fall and rise ...The story left me wipin...Could y'all stand the weather? ...ll me that you know the pain ...Could you stand the weather? ... can't even explain the pain ...Yes, I am the inescapable, the irresistible, ...The unnegotiable, the unchallenged [who d...asurements, control the elements, ...I hold the evidence, I tell the story [say what?] ... dividends returned to you ...Or attempt to kill me off and hav...Plaintively, I wait to see what history will shape to be, ...ll never die inside the sake of me ...Angel's scribe the page for me, ...full account of all the names for me ...Could you stand the weather? ... can't even explain the pain ...Yo, can't explain the pain with words, kn...The clouds clashed and the heaven's gave birth to star ...aced it in a man on the day he was born ...d for manslaughter, the Hurricane Carter ri...From out the south water, like t...In the ring no opponent es...You can't believe the world we live in's ...Drive him to the point where the mind work mechanica...It was done to all of us, they tap...There's no where to run, no where to hide ...lical reaction from the prisoners of the bilnd ...Trying to fight time, it's a battle of the mind ...lical reaction from the prisoners of the blind ...Trying to fight time, it's a battle of the mind ...Could you stand the weather? ... can't even explain the pain, know'm saying...Could you stand the weather? ...ng me that you know the pain ...lical reaction from the prisoners of the bilnd ...Trying to fight time, it's a battle of the mind ...lical reaction from the prisoners of the blind ...Trying to fight time, it's a battle of the mind

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