Light over the city bright ...Philly guts through the cats of silly sluts...straight fakers and the pick pocket ...s too late for them to stop it ...Sheeq with the star cheek ...Navigate through city streets ... for those who want to spar ...Meet up with the caravan ...From Flatbush Ave. to Pickadilly Circuit ...rk this double edge to split the head of serpents ...To the finish which is my ...I'm on a quest for the answer to this ...Before the seas swallow the continents and we cease to exist ...The crown jewel what I ...In my heart the emerald four star general flips the art ...March through your city at night with torch...March through your city at night with torch...March through your city at night with torch...March through your city at night with torch...3 wishes granted by the genie in the bottle ...nd a field of green to blaze ...Last wish to be immortal ...Won't diss the classic ...In the attic pure static ...I stand within' the depths of the sand of the Sudan ...Shabaam put the mic in my hand ...wels fool I drop on the street ...Way to eat for my fleet tryin' to make ends meet ...liminate critics on the didick ...omposure puffin' on the scommas ...Marvelous sound of the charge of the burgade ...Dues to pay ...hts on camels start the journey through the desert ...Clash Of The Titans ...Verbally sword fightin' ...Enter the gates of the birth city called Pelon ...I leave the cypher with split l...Call the specialist ...ever double S bless the apparatus (echo)

soldier walkin' in the path of the Math ...after the aftermath i'm a sti...look at it through the wrath of a universa... soldier walkin' in the path of the Math ...well i scrapes the neighbourhoods look... it be dependin' on the who what why's and the whereabouts ...d i'm a nigger that the world don't care ab...use the guide to open up your mind a...movin' from place to place all a nigger ...working on the docks wearin' a smo...that you could put a bullet in my head...nd lead me straight to the grave ... you don't know how to behave but you're b...and the load ain't gettin' ...en though i'm in it to win it i'm still a ...well back in the days they told me h...savage (* referring to Crips and Bloods ...DJ-in' was bringin' the cabbage ...lking hella late in the game ...o Menace no Boys In The Hood no Juice ...i found out you got to choose your path i ...the blackness is true ...that's when the practice grew and i...i wanted to be a rapper so simp...from Los Angeles city of the big bang theory ...as i tell you about the unwanted man who go...from city to city and town to town ...und like he's about to blow the world up ...ur psyche is likely to be spilled ...l be sailin' across the seas like Magellan ... (?let me?) give it to you in layman's ter...i paid the piper i'm gon' pick the tune ...but i don't listen to music like that ...and i transfer the answer from w/in ...i strain and i gain the strength to bust a blood vessel...say praise the lord as i raise the sword and revolted ...logical warfare for the holy ...i'm the idealistic realistic mystic from the past ...lved don't know how the world revolves and ...now why's the black man dyin'? it...cause i paid the piper ...i'm gon' pick the tune ...but i don't listen to music like that

nathon Aaron Steel, to the parents of William ...m a Leo, born under the sign of the lion and I was rais...the name stuck. So when...uld have known from the first time when I ... just didn't fit in to my ...And as I grew older the constant comparison...ittle doubt who was the image of perfection...father's eye. To him, my brother could do no wrong and I became The ...Invisible Boy, the proverbial 'black s...nd black don't mix. The beatings I received...frequent to the point where I would ask my father "Am I the orphaned son ...enough I worshipped the ground my father ...ing back, it's hard to imagine we came from the same parents. I ... wondered if we had the same father, but I ... my father as well, to ever even ...ties tried his best to encourage me. For I... said "You shall be the ...I had no idea what 'The one' was, but as I grew older I began to ...derstand. Most boys put their mother on a p...the Virgin Mary but wit...the good. She was opini...to religion was over-zealous to say the least. A mind boggl...in bewilderment and the women I sought afte...othing like her. In the pain of youth, the misery of my neglec...nality would become the guiding force of my...ything I did or was to become. I shall exp...later in the story about them wh...The mirror, the great plaything for man's vanity. The mirror was to ...y greatness. It was the ...ne place I could go to see inside myself, to find love, in an ot...anyone I wanted to be - one hundred pe...ts precious secret. The mirror lives, it br...the wishes you could ev...s my 14th birthday, the day that changed my...Michael, the one person who was ...t even bring myself to go to his funeral. My ago... couldn't come face to face with him that one last time. My failure to ... on, nothing seemed to matter, especially ... his death I roamed the streets in a fog ba...town city street in one of my...music shop and in the window stood the instrument, the fiery tool that ...would become the object of my new found desire. The instrument of my ...sion, my obsession, the blood-red six strin...the thing all my life. ...I soon found it was the only way I could tr...way to vent all my frustra... found myself going to the mirror for counsel ...his my songs seemed to write themselves an...sic but I was going to have to get out of this ...if I was ever going to succeed. I was 16 g...nowhere and the only thing my paren...ctly what was going to happen to me - I was gonna ...die. So I ran away to the big city with the lights, excitement ...and a chance for me to finally live and do my music without the ...g. I hitchhiked all the way with a ...nd and my guitar in the other and as I stood at the edge ...of the city the magic of the place was incredibly intense. It was to be my ...new home the place I would call the 'Arena Of Pleasure'...struggled in the arena for two years trying to get a break in musi...over more people in the recording industry ...t of law and he was the president of one of the biggest record ...companies in the world. The music business to Charlie was nothing... a sacrificial lamb to be led to slaughter and the weapon of choice ...wield like a mighty sword. The great tool ...ould lovingly refer to as 'The Chainsaw'. The morgue, Charlie sai...was the music business where everyone sells out. Where all the artists ...ly whore themselves to commercialism, the place where the ...music comes to die. And through him I learned everything I needed to know ...about the music business and even things I didn't want to know. He said he ...e me a star, one of the biggest things the world had ever seen...The big time was calling and I was on my way. He introduced me to an ...together we took on the whole ...kicked it square in the ass. ...Just before the release of my first album I was sitting on the steps in ...more than happy to say yes. She reveal...to tell me of my past in which she went into great detail about the pain ...struggle to succeed and fulfill...topped and I wanted to know of my future ...and pleaded for her to go on and finally s...lth and fame and in the cards she saw a fal...for the face of death wears the mask of the King of Mercy". I a

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Put it on ...ownload gigolo with the illest flow ...t stomping on these city streets ...Fuck that turn the other cheek ...ory, so no need for the bleeps ...I hit the street, I feel good...Mark my name, on the clipboard, I gets r... that's when I used to rip for it ...icket, hopping over the candle stick ...Doing my thing, put in work, ain't noth...bring it from front to back, white to black ...Shoe to hat, use clues I'm ...Rhyme skills the dopest, the lyrical style I spi...You feel the beat in the streets and get close to this ...Caress the mic like a baby to make your head bang...Rhyme skills the dopest, the lyrical style I spi...Feel the beat in the streets and get close to this ...The quintessential ment...And if I have to cut you with my gon...r-face, trippin' on the dance floor ...ch hypocrisy, up in the market, be ...ent, it's all about the currency ...opus, addicted plus the dopest ...atus but can't work the apparatus ...Rhyme skills the dopest, the lyrical style I spi...Feel the beat in the streets and get close to this ...Caress the mic like a baby to make your head bang...Rhyme skills the dopest, the lyrical style I spi...Feel the beat in the streets and get close to this ...'cause I don't want to riddle you ...I'm tryin' to black out, 'cause I...ce, but you call me The Count ...ther names is under the mattress ...From trying to get your diss on ...ngin' a storm, from the night until the early morn' ...many styles, forget the grape with wine ...Life Force on the mic, an' 'bout to put it on ...Rhyme skills the dopest, the lyrical style I spi...Feel the beat in the streets and get close to this ...Caress the mic like a baby to make your head bang...Rhyme skills the dopest, the lyrical style I spi...Feel the beat in the streets and get close to this

o back down go back the way you came ...Can't you see the flash of fire ten times brighter than the day ...And behold the mighty city broken in the dust again ...Oh God the pride of man broken in the dust again ...o back down go back the way you came ...Babylon is laid to waste Egypt's burie...men are beaten down the kings are fallen in the ways ...Oh God the pride of man broken in the dust again ...o back down go back the way you came ...on everyside though the leaders are dismaye...Those who put their faith in fire...Oh God the pride of man broken in the dust again ...o back down go back the way you came ...Shout a warning to the nations that the sword of god is raised ...Babylon that mighty city rich in treasure wi...ll cause thy towers to fall and make it be...Oh God the pride of man broken in the dust again ...Oh God the pride of man broken in the dust again ...d only God can lead the people back into the faith again

do I do next?" said the bishop to the priest, ...ting, preparing for the feast, ...The king of heathen Saracen has seized the holy cross;" ...Then the priest said "Oh my bishop, we must put them to the sword, ...For the noblemen and sinner...Who will be the Lord's Crusader, send word through all the land, ..."Tell me what to do", said the king upon his thron..."but speak to me in whispers for ...erusalem has fallen to the hand, ...then who has seized the Holy Land;" ...Then the chamberlain said "L... France and Germany to end our bitter wars... one and gather for the fight, ...their leader, begin the battle cry, ... high on a hill, in the town of Jerusalem, ...here stood Saladin, the king of the Saracens, ...Secure in the knowledge that he had won the day; ..."The Christians are coming!" he said, "I have seen their cross in the west," ...y quarrel too much, the Christians could ne...am invincible, I am the king, ...Closer they came, the army of Richard the Lionheart, ...And when the Crusaders came over the mountain and they s...They fell to their knees and pra...They started the battle at dawn, taking the city by storm, ...They broke through the city walls, ...The Heathens were flyin...And the Christian swords we... invincible, God is the king, ... do I do now?" said the wise man to the fool, ...ole life searching, to find the Golden Rule, ...s have disappeared, the memory still remain...Then the fool said "Oh you w...d searching through the past, ...y greed and evil in the men who fight today...The song of the Crusader has long s

I command you to let lose the last of the Titans ...It's time to strike! ...Let the rain pour down from...With the blood of my blade, no love, begin the flood ...Open the gates, let the battle begin, where...Sound the horns, prepare for war, begin the storm ...The flaming arrows hitt...With the uniform of my sworn...Feel the sword of the warrior's wrath, the path you take ...Can lead to the math that the master's break ...The clash of the titans, are you fri...Fighting with the cause to free, you and yours...Look in the stars, aligned with...The soul of the master's elements, ...aster, transmitting the broadcaster ...The blade swings, slash...The vision's on the mission, seeking the note ...Dropping the bomb, by remote ...Load up the cavalry's, no salaries, the keys ...The life's memories, strife bringing the thieves ...Cut the heads off, hide in the loft, don't even co...Or breath, pay the cost, moving your l...Let the spirit reunite, wit...Hear the sound of the warriors stepping into the night ...The eye in the sky, looking to punish ya, never hi...No cover to shelter your life, the souls begin to rise ...And to clash ...mies, fall in upon, the knees crawling ...Beheading the dead souls, who run...Behold, the white horse, remorse, never the case ...Every corner of the world, the battle is taking pl...Let the war drum set the pace, you face fire...Resume, from the Temple of Boom, and...live, or maybe not, the blade's hot ... for battle, die on the spot ...one shot, one whole city becomes rocked ...The clash rages on, peo...Good, bad, all in the balance, you going ...ll, heaven or hell, the blood shed ...u can't run, sit in the cell ...When the war's over, the light will shine, covering the spell ...Celebrate now, put the blades to rest ...No wickedness, only the blessed will hold d...hen people stare at the scene like a machine of the team ...ead or took on into the search of your own ...Coming from ghetto the g'ero the heart in the metal ...passing you fast in the pedal ...Head to the floor and the horror is starting to pour ...Why did you try to forget it I said it to FUCK OFF!! ... I'm making you try to do laws ... sucker I'm pushing the bomb. ...nt do what you need the hardcore ...Breaking the law the new seed yes they w...ve it up oh yes and the hard stuff ...Excess of the zes make it sound r...bodies are found in the lake ...Only the victims its pass yo...Pockets all over the cash now that you'r...ipping its clicking the trigger ...Only the strong will survive hoping to keep 'em alive ...s defy so I keep up the withdrawal ...Join fucking with the pace your just a wa...Even the lemo the rebel bringing the metal in temple ...Under the heavens we representing directions of flesh and feeling the heat ...The tension now dissin'...Life is a battle to the cattle you gonna di...And go up the chain the pages keep turning ...The rage is concerning the day is becoming dis...e simple delinquent to try to get what the sick is ...So leave the hard is to limp it and only the thrill will we get ...blasting at last at the weak!

On the half shell they're the heroes four. ...The crime wave is high ...use they can't find the source of this leth...p. There's no time to waste. ...help like quick, on the double. ...Have pity on the city man it's in trouble...We need heroes like the Lone Ranger when ...reporter was hot on the trail, ...determined to put these crooks in jai...She spied the bad guys and saw wh...she fell in the trap and got caught...d, they called 'em "the foot." ...and they'd mug the people who needed p...Then from out of the dark came an awesom...bun-ga" as they hit the ground. ...From the field of weeds the heroes rescued the flower ...and find the strength to do what's right, th...Heroes on the half shell, they're...here's a battle got the enemy wishing that ...Splinter's the teacher so they are the students. ...d Donatello make up the team ...He's the leader of the group, transformed from the norm by the nuclear goop. ...Pizza's the food that's sure to please. ...Back to the story, it's not hard to find. ...Ninjas not just of the body but of the mind. ...Those were the words that the Master instructed ...That was the last straw. Spring ...Step on "the foot" now they're g...en willin' and able to defeat the sneak, ...protect the walk, fight for rights and your freedom to speak. ...Now the villian is chillin'...Back to the wall, put your sword in your hand. ...Remember the words of your teach...Try to rely on your Turtle

I got nothing to lose, I'm going all...The deuce never stop, I refuse to play by the rules ...n you stepping into the night, right ...ming up and shining the bright light ...Nothing better to do, than fuck with the pride ...All the fuss and the locs is rushing in ...Let me lay it on the table, forget stabl...reak niggas, coming to slay to the label ...You got nothing to lose, come on choos...With the wealth or the chance to stay in good health...Sword blade swinging you ...And the track off the real, straight off the Hill ...What the deal motherfucker? ...I got nothing to lose (I'm going all...Nothing to lose (You gonna fal...ng all out) nothing to lose (I'm going all...Lighting the fuse to the bomb (better run ou...Nothing to lose (I'm going all...Nothing to lose (You gonna fal...ng all out) nothing to lose (I'm going all...Lighting the fuse to the bomb (better run ou...this pencil, across the brain ... stopping there til the rhymes all drained ...Put em out one day and see, who want to diss em ...Y'all get the picture, just call ...Coming with the thunder and lightni...So I keep the writing, down for the fighting ...Cold with the flows, they both qu...ing all out, before the raise up ...ng all out, nothing to lose, you better ro...In the present smell the prescence of what y...esson ain't missing the point blessing ...Expression, feeling the tension over the session ...The question, filling y...Don't mention the profession, keep ad...The real motherfuckers in the crowd pay attention...I'm goin the fuck out, Smith and...Only the strong will ever be setting the pace ... million stories in the city of furies ...Don't get the twist, you listen or get the fist ...I got nothing to lose so I gat fools...Coming to your record shop ...aby, from now until the new millennium

my nigga, Sin, fin to put this shit down like...(We off to the ghetto, ghetto, ghe...nd and say we tried to steal your ...Style. Come on to funky town, that's where we gets the rawest, ..., so they know when to unload. So, when th...p me, gon' be ready to roll [ready to ...c, see, we just out to get paid, but, oh ...No, niggas heard the flow and wanted a piece of the cake. It ...'m from the Land where every niggas plan and schemin' for the money, ... these Mo Thug roll the sword from the front and ...ck, don't stop, but the Double Glock they d...your troops is down to get loose, bitch, s...Cause the niggas be down for the count, and the first ...still gon' do it in the see-Town, arrest me...On the rebound. It's the P to the O to the D from the T to the H to ...The you to the G. You hoes ain't g...leedin', but here's the reason for the season's on my moth...ctin' strange? Boom to bangs, ...Nigga insanes, out to rearrange this muth... and you don't want to see fade ...'em all with the blood heater, stree...Rip quick to kill ya, fill ya, a...call war, ready for the cause, clones get the ...Peeps to flip in and vote an...n' from feds, ? all the disrespect but I wo... me bloody get with the ? and roll but I ha...Aw, shit! Nowhere to run; here come judg... uh-huh. I'm off in the midst, and ...you know I got ends to spend, top ten ?, c...Hits, try to keep all my people safe and outta the way. And you know I...stin', everlastin'--the #l Assassin.