[00:36.62]That was me in BK on Atlantic
[00:39.14]Never looked both ways, ran in traffic
[00:41.19]Pops went away but I stayed, vagrant
[00:43.51]Placed where the steel and cement became nature
[00:45.55]Love what you did with the place, it looks gorgeous
[00:48.01]Cityscape where the blood of good men courses
[00:50.31]And the dreamers are bull trapped in porcelain
[00:52.60]Take a knee to the gods and get horse shit
[00:54.95]Wanna live for the thrill? They'll arrange it
[00:57.00]Got a bevy of imps to spit hatred
[00:59.43]Shit'll get in your head and cause panic
[01:01.69]Have you desperately begging to get famous
[01:03.98]Get your dignity dirty and left orphaned
[01:06.18]Sanity on the fringe of distorted
[01:08.39]Who are they to just take shit and hoard it?
[01:10.68]Who am I that I don't get my portion?
[01:13.58]The most impressionable minds
[01:14.60]Get molested and informed by manipulating forces
[01:17.65]Don't fret little man, don't cry
[01:19.30]They can never take the energy inside you were born with
[01:22.07]Knowing that, understand you could never be poor
[01:23.98]You already won the war, you were born rich
[01:26.64]You can only take the energy you had
[01:28.28]Going back to the realm or the home where your lord is
[01:31.08]Whoever, whatever that lord is
[01:32.98]Couldn't give a fuck if you ever made fortunes
[01:35.58]Fuck anyone ever tryin' to run that punk shit
[01:38.03]Send 'em to the flames where the orcs live
[01:40.04]Them and the lost minds thinking they're smarter than us
[01:42.49]Don't understand love's importance
[01:44.33]And we can weaponize that, bring 'em back to the truth
[01:46.81]Where the ashes and dust got formed in
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[02:06.51]The beat breaks and your teeth break
[02:08.52]Keep your canines embedded in my knuckles as a keepsake
[02:11.23]It would seem your veneers just mere souvenirs
[02:13.52]Falling out your mouth and on to the landscape
[02:15.97]Me and El-P do the secret handshake
[02:18.18]Then I pummel punch a pumpkin head punk in his pimple face
[02:20.58]'Til he's punch drunk 'cause he's sweet as a pound cake
[02:23.11](Ain't he pussy, Mike?) Yeah, El, I'll say
[02:25.27]Into the wild, wild style ghetto child running wild
[02:28.44]Where the lions and the owls stay
[02:29.89]The powers that be even offered up reprieves
[02:31.93]Told us they ain't take us out if we bow to our knees
[02:34.28]But they can give that to the kings and the queens
[02:36.38]And the worshipers of idols and followers of things
[02:38.78]'Cause I would rather be in the jungle with the savages
[02:40.79]It's kill or be killed, and I'm working with the averages
[02:44.15]My professor emeritus
[02:45.65]Say we been cursed being brought to the AmeriKKKas
[02:48.81]How you raise a whole human single parent
[02:50.50]No marriages, no sense of heritage?
[02:52.21]Planned Parenthood helping plan miscarriages
[02:54.45]But I'm lucky mommy already had a narrative
[02:56.66]Product of a teenage love, my arrogance
[02:58.98]Derives from the pride in the job my parents did
[03:01.50]Named Mike, I was told it was godlike
[03:03.65]Even danced with the devil, came out alright
[03:06.36]OK, honor y'all? No way
[03:08.41]Still spell AmeriKKKa with the triple K
[03:10.77]Word up to Spice 1 and O'Shea
[03:12.96]And any MC peeping what I go through
[03:15.32]Real rap, my last line's so true
[03:17.48]Rest in peace to Pimp C and Camu, too
[03:19.55]We do it for you