[00:00.000] 作词 : T. Cottrell/T. Greene [00:01.000] 作曲 : T. Cottrell/T. Greene [00:22.591] What we have here is the alpha and the omega, I spit it [00:31.546] Bear witness to the greatest and the latest [00:37.836] They try to hate us, yo [00:40.022] Witness the evolution of spitting, it's wicked and it's decadent [00:43.220] Revolutions per minute every time the record spin [00:46.083] Retribution for cynics like a stick-up kid with weapons [00:48.756] In Brooklyn they say I run it, the 'Natti is checking in [00:51.327] No matter the terminology, blood splatter artistically [00:54.544] It's looking like a Jackson Pollock painting, it's a mystery [00:57.337] Really should be brothers united against the industry [01:00.199] The african diaspora scatter with shattered history [01:02.952] The game missing me, rap is so repetitive [01:05.832] Although I ain't your blood or your cuz, it's all relative [01:08.683] I got a gang of rhymes, and Tone's beats is banging [01:12.028] We moving through the streets like we slanging dimes [01:14.704] It's magical, how the track so classical [01:17.115] To cats who got gats tucked in they sweats like Plaxico [01:19.889] I'm back from my sabbatical, voice of the future [01:22.612] Black radical, keeping all the damage as collateral [01:25.094] Listening to instrumentals [01:27.720] Thinking bout all the things I've been through [01:30.555] The music just a peek into my life as a window [01:33.336] It's so Hi-Tek and it's all so simple [01:36.127] Even if I'm knocked down, I don't stay down [01:39.042] Even if I get down, I don't lay down [01:41.816] Hotter than the tar on the city playground [01:44.708] Hotter than the tar on the city playground [01:47.404] Aiyyo, I'm taking all bets, I'm settling all debts [01:50.857] A giant leap for man begin with the small steps [01:53.735] From a sword to a set, to my people on the picket line [01:56.684] Who sick of getting treated like them aliens in District 9 [02:00.323] I juxtapose my business mind with my spirit [02:02.571] What, I'm just supposed to keep you comfortable with the lyrics? [02:05.364] I know the flow disturbing, I know for certain [02:07.853] Just because you know all about the artist don't mean you know the person [02:11.257] You don't know me, I run labels [02:14.120] These unstable rappers so phony [02:16.261] I try to listen but they as boring as missionary position [02:19.165] So I'm shitting on these niggas like dysentery conditions [02:21.943] I'm sitting on the throne, you dreaming that it's empty soon [02:25.066] Nobody feeling you, you screaming in an empty room [02:28.075] The tree that fall in the forest, nobody hearing you [02:30.709] Even though you fall the hardest, don't get me started [02:33.288] Listening to instrumentals [02:35.538] Thinking bout all the things I've been through [02:38.359] The music just a peek into my life as a window [02:41.092] It's so Hi-Tek and it's all so simple [02:44.032] Even if I'm knocked down, I don't stay down [02:46.897] Even if I get down, I don't lay down [02:49.723] Hotter than the tar on the city playground [02:52.566] Hotter than the tar on the city playground [02:55.216] Yo, I build up my defenses when I'm left to my devices [02:59.067] Time gets suspended more than DMX driver's license [03:01.960] My music's steady, not affected by the higher prices [03:04.651] People having sex in the streets like Dionysus [03:07.626] You know what my advice is? **** my advice, live your life [03:10.634] Stop tripping like everything a minor crisis [03:13.254] I'm making sacrifices, my history is black as Isis [03:16.151] I don't think that I can trust you if you lack in vices [03:18.996] I never miss a beat, the liquor make me slur [03:21.311] They takes my words, try to twist 'em like a Swisher Sweet with sticky herb [03:24.655] American History X, your teeth will hit the curb [03:27.174] It's easy cause I'm ill with the wordplay, I still flip the bird [03:30.050] Like Jeezy, we stripped it down, now it's exposed [03:32.659] I suppose my flow is "The Emperor's New Clothes" [03:35.309] Although I'm always by myself, I never ride alone [03:38.257] The music on, then I'm right at home, zoning [03:40.713] Listening to instrumentals [03:43.450] Thinking bout all the things I've been through [03:46.177] The music just a peek into my life as a window [03:48.825] It's so Hi-Tek and it's all so simple [03:51.918] Even if I'm knocked down, I don't stay down [03:54.643] Even if I get down, I don't lay down [03:57.505] Hotter than the tar on the city playground [04:00.452] Hotter than the tar on the city playground [04:03.956] Yeah, it's the pavement, word is bond [04:09.073] Don't be scared to think man, don't be scared [04:14.592] I know what's in your brain, it's scary man [04:18.857] You're only using like ten per cent [04:20.139] The other ninety per cent is scary man [04:22.060] But don't be scared, scary ass niggas, ay!