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1200 Pieces of People

by Swords of I-Ching

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1.
I am the master of my own destiny I am the leader of my own troop I am the last person you want to put here my eye is aimed and I came to shoot when the mountain would not move I moved the mountain when the wind would not breathe I gave it breath when the tears that fall as rain wept upon my face I sat and wiped what was left but I can't forget, I can't forget the pain they have left me to remind the world of I will not leave them yet I will not leave them lonely, or forgotten, or deaf or set to be stolen, or broken, and left to be loaned and left all alone in a hole that was dug to the depths of your soul but I will still love you, if love's what you want if hate's all you've got then I'll strip it out and speak through your mouth the words you should be saying now are words that were left a million years ago by those who did not speak words and I am not Martin and I am not Luther but I am the author of my own future and I will not rest no sleep will I accept the tyranny taught to our children is hard to digest but I ate, and I taste the hate that flows through your mind every time that you speak out you reach out to hurt by design and I will not take this not one more time, not one more thought and I will still bring this 'cuz I will not stop and I will not drop, 'cuz I will be fought and I will not leave you to rot no! the world is my home and I will not leave it to blow in the wind and the hatred of those in the wind and the hatred of those of those, of those, opposed to truth if you, you don't understand I am not some man who needs to be led to food just to be fed 'cuz I will contend with all that I've given from all that I've taken as I have been livin' [lying down]
2.
Slave Name 02:17
you can't put me in your little box get a grip I'm not a contortionist I wouldn't fit I don't follow the guidelines that guide you to be godless don't give a fuck about your justice just me being honest repurcussions, I'm accustomed I'm used to it now in this soap opera world we do what pleases the crowd what pleases me is seein' people actin' civil but here the way to grow is just to crush the little took kunta kinte gave him a slave name now motherfuckers wanna do me the same way maybe you'll see me but I'm wonderin' don't know my name but you know what my number is break me, break me and I'm up again break me, break me and I run again take me, make me what you've given me double oh five seven four six triple three to cash your checks they gotta check your identity but gov'ment papers ain't my I.D. the banks are whips in the new plantation database scans are the chains on the nation it's just a number and numbers don't matter it's fatter they climbin' that ladder to get to corporate success but y'all are just wet behind the ears y'all are just a bunch of years away from your death and I don't give a fuck what's left you've earned it but you didn't earn shit get ready to die 'cuz this ain't a ride this is life and y'all about to fall by the wayside right! took kunta kinte gave him a slave name now motherfuckers wanna do me the same way maybe you'll see me but I'm wonderin' don't know my name but you know what my number is break me, break me and I'm up again break me, break me and I run again take me, make me what you've given me double oh five seven four six triple three you all sold your soul but I won't sell mine, no [can't take me, cannot take me] you all sold your soul you all sold your soul, nah! [can't take me, cannot take me] took kunta kinte gave him a slave name now motherfuckers wanna do me the same way maybe you'll see me but I'm wonderin' don't know my name but you know what my number is break me, break me and I'm up again break me, break me and I run again take me, make me what you've given me double oh five seven four six triple three
3.
Under My Bed 02:15
racin' mind, racin' mind racin' mind ninty-miles-an-hour and risin' contemplating secrets on a mountain with wise men devisin' surprisin' prophetical diamonds visualisin' california separate into islands my eyes bend I see the sights of Nostadamus bombarding bombs collosal craters made by comets my wisdom born in the torn form of seven sonnets I promise, to put an end to every Doubting Thomas beyond this, I sank into a greater calmness the evil in me started having battles with my conscience the war waged saved - I found myself astonished the evil just released the things that good had first abolished I overheard Hitler being raped by Jack the Ripper and Salinger was taking notes to paint the hellish picture and on his flaming throne sat Dahmer's lone aquitter with a ghastly voice Satan did proclaim himself the victor in my head when I was young I hid from monsters underneath my bed but now I know the demons come from deep inside my head I gotta get away from this hell but I can't get away from myself when I was young I hid from monsters underneath my bed but now I know the demons come from deep inside my head I gotta get away from this hell but I can't get away from myself it's so demonic, I've gone psychotic somebody stop it the pain in my brain like a train on my body the mental burnin' it's re-occurin' no reassurin' no way to know if I'll be here in the mornin' I lay me down to sleep pray to God for relief and fear to be released is to be deceased I'm mentally obese I never cease to increase so when I go may I rest in peace please? when I was young I hid from monsters underneath my bed but now I know the demons come from deep inside my head I gotta get away from this hell but I can't get away from myself
4.
Hourglass (free) 02:44
yo, yo I'm a live this track like a time machine rewind it back to when I conceived in the moment I wrote this, I believed I could somehow hold this time for me in a place and a state where my mind could meet with a pen and a sheet and a timely beat and it's then I pretend I had finally beat back time but instead I would find defeat all I got is my memories one moment in time will never be that long, it keeps movin' on but I still got time for a song all I got is my memories one moment in time will never be that long, it keeps movin' on so I locked my time in a song you can't pause the sand in the glass like you've got both hands in a cast you might detain one grain from it's path but it will slip by and you can't get it back it's gone, you can't hold on to the last the next one's comin' and it's comin' in fast it's blessed, stretched by the shadow it casts but ticks don't ever get measured by a mass all I got is my memories one moment in time will never be that long, it keeps movin' on but I still got time for a song all I've got is my memories one moment in time will never be that long, it keeps movin' on so I locked my time in a song the future's fantastic past is a pageant present is a gift like it's magick wrap it up, after one moment it passes you only get one chance to grasp it clutch tight to the clock, the watch, whatever the hands make plans for the flock but never stop shifting in constant movement the tock's reminiscent of a liquid it's fluid, it's hot, it's hold, it's so consistent it's not controlled by those resistant to change and claim to name the difference between two moments in time an instant for instance, this little song I've written probably only goes three minutes or so and so I'm a flow to the finish and know that I didn't just listen I lived it all I got is my memories one moment in time will never be that long, it keeps movin' on but I still got time for a song all I got is my memories one moment in time will never be that long, it keeps movin' on so I locked my time in a song
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Sardinia 03:11
die you and I die this is how we die we decimate supply it resonates in the rate we created lives but we don't wanna go we wanna beat it out the population grows it never evens out so we speak about a greener way to live and people come to believe that's the way it is but this is how it's been we overpopulated 'cuz human animals are obsessed with copulatin' remember what you heard it wasn't just rumors our only place is to generate new consumers baby boomers, the vein of our economy the kids who became a strain on our economy and yeah, it's complicated as it convolesces the conversation has redirected our objectives the elected officials of our collective are stuck sifting through the mess they were left with [what is the ultimate science can offer?] [we have been given continuous life, perpetual life] die this is how we die we decimate supply it resonates in the way that we stay alive 'cuz we don't wanna go we wanna beat it out the population grows it never evens out so we speak about a cleaner way to live and people's faith gets replaced by its medicine when all it really is, even at its best is a high-priced liable educated guess it may be viable, it may be over-rated but its reliablity has been overstated and its deniablity has been demonstrated 'til the caution for the cause gets elevated then we celebrate it we honor the survivors even though in the end they will die to spite it I don't try to hide it even if it's awkward it's so absurd y'all are prayin' to a doctor [what is the ultimate science can offer?] [we have been given continuous life, perpetual life] die you can live it up and you can live it out or you can give it up and you can live without or can suck it up and you can stick it out or you can think enough to try to figure out how to make it better how to fix the problem my suggestion is there's only two options stop makin' babies or let people die I say a little of both but I'll let you decide
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Hexagram 00:56
and he said "what does it mean to be a Sword of I-Ching?" and I said: it means that the truth shall follow my sword stroke down the line, through the mind and the hypocricy shall fall where it may until those who are hypocrites are left with nothing left to yell swords! [swordsmen we are] [swordsmen we are, yeah!]
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Snowglobe 03:11
war! it ain't black versus white there ain't no black side there ain't no backside 'cuz there ain't no backin' out now fight the white world fight it with grey much to their dismay ha! welcome to the white world this is how it goes say the right things wear the right clothes strike a right pose a few years later plop down eighty-grand for a piece of paper drop your real friends chase the industry say goodbye to your culture and history say hello to a system of synergy pray to the god of a cold-cash ministry you feelin' me? it goes like: those who don't know where they came from are snow white I don't care if you black, man you so white anybody that knows, knows I'm so right y'all are so snowed in that you frost-bitten got you so closed in that you not livin' y'all are so frozen that you've lost vision there's a blizzard outside and you lost in it you don't like that? you can fight back take your blinders off get your sight back gettin' pushed 'round? push right back put your snowplow down push white back you don't like that? you can fight back take all of they crap and give it right back find the right track of mind to spite that think about it for a minute get your life back welcome to the white world now what the tell? I shouldn't say this shit but what they hell young girls don't try 'cuz you might as well wait for a guy to come save you from yourselves no offense meant 'cuz some of y'all are strong but even strong women sometimes play along and maybe it's a game that y'all are tryin' to win but either way y'all are so snowed in medicine's a mythical scientifical crapshoot based in a peripheral outlined in attitude laced with some stereotypically placed latitude hastened by some educational platitudes laws get made by popularity contests far more often than by an act of congress concepts creep constantly closer to compress people's minds enter the box but it's all nonsense you don't like that? you can fight back take your blinders off get your sight back gettin' pushed 'round? push right back put your snowplow down push white back you don't like that? you can fight back take all of they crap and give it right back find the right track of mind to spite that think about it for a minute get your life back it's a snowglobe it's so cold keepin' people from a past that they don't know folks livin' they lives with the lights off not a question in they minds 'cuz they white washed it's a snowglobe it's so cold keepin' people from a past that they don't know folks livin' they lives with the lights off not a question in they minds 'cuz they white washed
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King Wen 00:44
the sword cuts souls in half [cut 'em up, cut 'em up] swords! [sword, sword]
9.
all along we singin' the same song we knew that it was wrong still we passin' them traits on [do as I say, not as I do] [how 'bout "do as I do"?] all along we singin' the same song we knew that it was wrong still we passin' them traits on well he was born prematurely by a month and in one week his body shook 'cuz he needed crack in his blood stream and some seemed to think that it was only a phase but most figured it would take him straight to the grave and so they ho'd him to the system and told him he was a victim and sold him on how they fixin' 'bout puttin' him on prescriptions and lo-and-behold the plot thickens 'cuz all that they could give him was another addiction and I don't have the words to express the hurt that burned in his chest the terms pressed to his pursed lips were worthless from birth he flirted with a certain duress depression clung to him tighter than a shirt when it's wet and now he's just another gritty kiddy livin' obsessed with drugs, alcohol, firearms, women and sex and some would suggest life's only a test but he was so convinced that this was just as good as it gets all along we singin' the same song we knew that it was wrong still we passin' them traits on all along we singin' the same song we knew that it was wrong still we passin' them traits [word] young girl dreamin' of bein' set free mom was alcoholic and her dad was a deadbeat and step-daddy's grabby hands were lookin' for fresh meat but a ten-year-old girl's body oughta be left be she ran away, hopin' she could find some solution but wound up workin' a line of prostitution the money that she made was the money that paid for drugs to bury all the memories she couldn't escape she spiraled down into the cycle of self-loathing and even though she wanted to die it kept goin' her belly started growin' got clean for a while she was determined she could make a better life for her child now she's just a mother tryin' to keep her child in her sight to him she's just a mother worried tryin' to stiffle his rights and he is just another warrior disciple tonight and this is just another story in the cycle of life all along we singin' the same song we knew that it was wrong still we passin' them traits on
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Provocation 02:23
think think think think about it get it right some think I'm Mr. Maine some think I'm Mr. Hope some think I'm Mr. Change some think I'm Mr. Broke some think I missed the plane some think I missed the boat some think it's just a game some think I'm just a joke some think I'm Mr. Lame some think I'm Mr. Cool some think I'm Mr. Strange some think I'm just a fool some think it's just a name some think it's just an act some think I think I'm black yeah, imagine that create a counter-culture that counters the counter-culture's creative account of culture you can't account for culture think think think think about it get it right some think I'm Mr. Hick some think I'm Mr. Hopeless some think I'm just a prick some think I'm firmly focused some of 'em hardly notice personified dopeness some think it don't exist some think that I'm the closest some think that I'm the coldest some think I'm Mr. Ice some think I'm warm as shit some think I'm Mr. Nice some think I'm on a mission some think I'm on the brink but all I ever really wanted was for y'all to think some people said that they seen it just like they said it is some people shook it and swallowed it like a sedative some people got it and gave it so they could get to give some people leave it and love it so they could let it live some people follow they forefathers as ediface some of 'em sever their sorrows so they can set with it some of 'em simply don't suffer and kept it seperate some of 'em don't wanna bother so they accepted it create a counter-culture that counters the counter-culture's creative account of culture you can't account for culture
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Plantation 02:12
what it is, what it is, what it is what it is, what it is, what it is what it is, what it is, what it is what it is, what it is, what it is two bald boys in a trailer park it's just two bald boys in a trailer park just two bald boys in a trailer park just two bald boys in a trailer park the soul feels old but it looks much younger break-fast like I just left slumber heave load 'cuz I can't stop hunger know what I know but I can't stop wonder seen what it is dreamed what it should be live as I live 'cuz I know what I could be fight the good fight humble 'em all still I might stumble and fall but I get back up 'cuz I just can't cave even if I never really get what I gave it's a two-way street and it goes both ways so I sow my seeds while I dig my grave dig my soil pick my brain flood this field like I slit my vein yup, bust 'til I reap my grain y'all oughta hush 'til you reach my plane gotta lotta dreams but they don't come true gotta lotta schemes but they all fall through seen what you see but you don't know truth, man they gotta trees but they don't bear fruit gotta lotta trees but they don't bear fruit gotta lotta trees but they don't bear fruit seen what you see but they don't know truth, man they gotta lotta trees but they don't bear fruit [it is what it is, it is what it is] two bald boys in a trailer park it's just two bald boys in a trailer park it's just two bald boys in a trailer park it's just two bald boys in a trailer park lives so young but he still gets older dressed in the clothes of a vet or a soldier vexed if he lets y'all step any closer set to accept all the rest of the loners set to collect 'cuz he knows he knows right set to invest 'cuz he owns his own life oh, so he goes his own way stressed when he is but he knows he's okay alright, life moves on still feel like I gotta right these wrongs still feel like I gotta fight these throngs like, when I gotta write this song built - on a beat made by Timms my words hang like fruit on the limbs of a tree from a seed he planted I just hope y'all cats understand it gotta lotta dreams but they don't come true gotta lotta schemes but they all fall through seen what you see but you don't know truth, man they gotta trees but they don't bear fruit gotta lotta trees but they don't bear fruit gotta lotta trees but they don't bear fruit seen what you see but they don't know truth, man they gotta lotta trees but they don't bear fruit [it is what it is, it is what it is] two bald boys in a trailer park
12.
[swing low, I know] [swing low] ha! allies bringing all surprises disguises, cover up I shut 'em up I cut 'em up put 'em up I got my six-guns blazin' ragin', ridin' shotgun on the stages pages of paragraphs rhymes for the ages Sheriff Tom face lock enemies in cages can you keep up? no, your teams that are lost intermittantly verbal that's how the Jewels come across learn a lesson I'm stressin' don't be steppin' to Boss catchin' vertigo balance is challenge, yeah fallin' off Crown caravan comin' I crush - competition demolish the demolition derivin' the premonition I calculate I penetrate regenerate I demonstrate I devastate the magistrate I moderate liable pinnacle pliable reliable rebel many mental maniacle conniving conniption description is pliable the rival competitors find my pension desirable insurmountable bountiful indescribably powerful indescretion profession you find yourself unaccountable the murderous tourist you lay your life on the curass I put my words first I'm a hip-hop purist unsung hero engaged at ground zero I rage like a bull of Robby Deniro or like Robert Shapiro I've got a race card you can't erase god you can't displace god 'cause if you disgrace god you'll have to face god [swing low, I know]
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you can change your style change your taste change your smile change your face pick your clothes pick your friends you can fix yourself but you can't fix them you can fix that drawl fix that accent hide your flaws highlight your assets hide your past if you can't get past it start from scratch if you get too drastic augment your breast size augment your dress size still not pleased? there is always a next time maybe the next time you'll get the best advice then you'll get it done right live your dreams chase that star even if the means take it way too far even if it seems like it's way too hard you must believe in the way you are I am a rock I am a solid beware the gasses they passin' as knowledge they got the polish I got the shoes they got the facts but I got the truth they got the seed but I got the fruit they got the greed but I got the juice they are the seas and they will induce me to erode but I won't be moved waste your years waste your youth waste your tears waste your loot waste your time waste your chance waste your mind with a whole lotta can'ts so face your fears face your demons chase them clear with a little bit of reason stay sincere don't stop dreamin' everybody needs a little somethin' to believe in it could be change it could be progress it could be sane it could be nonsense it could be concepts it could be objects it could be natural or chemical or cosmic it could be nothin' to everybody else it's just that somethin' you keep for yourself but if you feel like this world just ain't letting you be remember you've always got me I am a rock I am a constant remain the same never changin' my content we ain't to blame we weren't there from the onset we just became who we are through the conflict I am a rock
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Mistaken 02:57
hate the world love's the cure when I hate the world love's the cure when I hate the world rest assured that when I hate the world it loves me more what!? y'all got it all backwards really you couldn't explain God even if you had words it's sad 'cuz some of y'all are supposed to be pastors I just think it's stupid really it's stupid, it's silly, it's simply numb you would stone me to death if I don't digress yet still won't accept what you guilty of but a sin is a sin and it will be judged just not by you and your filthy mug so pull your eyes back drop your blinds back where your mind at? not with love man I hate the world love's the cure when I hate the world love's the cure when I hate the world rest assured that when I hate the world it loves me more y'all got it all twisted up you stuck in a system of Christian bluffs I'm sittin' here wishin' you'd listen up but y'all don't act very Christian much much, meaning often on a regular basis your statements exists to judge and your placement is hastened to this because old school myths are a bitch to budge but stop, remember who your savior was focus on the overall behavior of Jesus to lead us, to save a love otherwise who is he the savior of? not us, it must be a different species unless she see something other than we see 'cuz me see steadily dissolving rep or maybe we just aren't done evolving yet so take the whole world shake it up scrape the top six layers of rust just lock the hatch man start from scratch, then when you done you can wake me up take the whole world rake it up flood it or some shit bake it up make it colder and start over then when you done you can wake me up man I hate the world love's the cure when I hate the world love's the cure when I hate the world rest assured that when I hate the world it loves me more y'all got it upside down y'all lookin' for the upside now patience and trust in God will find you a way it really ain't that hard love your neighbor like self meaning, not just the guy nextdoor when he's grieving but, each and every last person you're meeting should feel your love even after you're leaving you were taught you were saved by believing yes, but not in the man, in the teachings put your life mission in the right light stop acting Christian, act Christ like
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I generalize skies fall before they rise collide with swollen tides we wise, divide and conquer the many lives take sides as death arrives the strong survive be hypnotized no longer the heads of mankind combine their contribution nuclear suicide demise is no solution surprised both sides allied in revolution the evolution soothsayers retribution you lie in liberty you lie in death I can't forget can't forgive my live and let live just up and left the subjects can't suppress their souls as of yet not lost in a bet got sold to pay your debt admonished, adopted conflict my mouth agape went to college for knowledge now wonder: why are we so great? did fate tie our hands behind our back with a rack? exporting guns at the same time we import crack oh say can you see the whites of they eyes? take an enemy by surprise still mystified by your manner your lies and your candor disguised in your star spangled banter I started screamin' at where my people at swing medieval axe split your fat mellon and tell 'em all the logistic facts one great nation under God never wrong we can all get along if we sing the same song sound of sirens domestic violence statistic heightens as the right and wrong is ridiculed in sickly syphon the rumbled wreckage of Roman ruin is doin' nothin' collective cohesive demons completely blunted and runnin' reckless the roughage rambled the signal scrambled the million pictures on the mantle can't hold a candle to all we lost in the lesson so get the message our last string strung out on anti-depressants the Lord God beckons us we answer thus we scandalous my Jesus deconstruct our ediface we climb mountains toting flags then we brag but in every other it's a rag oh say can you see the whites of they eyes? take an enemy by surprise still mystified by your manner your lies and your candor disguised in your star spangled banter time shifts in the glass new fads reflect the past surpass the generation as sons turn into dad the many morals had get trashed, exchanged for cash never outlast the liable trial of good and bad left your homeland hungry, thirsty, poor, and dirty now we purly worldly no longer worthy once tyrants pushed us 'til our palms were purple and then we rose up but now we've come full circle the government sets the mold takes control our limitless inhibitions our rotted souls fortold the fallen curtain rise before my eyes and destiny's legacy is finally realized from Kennedy to King to Lenin to armeggedon the leader of the pack gets wacked now where we headed? justice for all has stalled I follow through forgive them Lord for they know not what they do oh say can you see the whites of they eyes? take an enemy by surprise still mystified by your manner your lies and your candor disguised in your star spangled banter
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in the darkest times you can let the light in when you are in the darkness shine, shine let the light in you can hide in the shadow of man 'til the light brings you in resurrect! let your new life begin what I was doesn't make what I am, what I am resurrect! let your new life begin it's not what it seems everything gleems and shines we get fitted with blinds to block the out from the inside nine lies, nine lives ravage the mind's eye life goes by and you sit on the sidelines guidelines evil man's relevant foes he claims to know truth but it's only a pose examine all else man gathers in droves examine yourself and your mind'll explode let go, behold watch a man turn cold while the word from the Father stays under exposed stay blind Young Tom as you ruin the proof and the light in my eyes is just darkness to you no more sleep walkin' no wakin' and goin' forth no more just talkin' I'm takin' a new course I preach and teach and plant seeds as I breathe I'll never concede 'til the whole world believes you can hide in the shadow of man 'til the light brings you in resurrect! let your new life begin what I was doesn't make what I am, what I am resurrect! let your new life begin you can hide in the shadow of man 'til the light brings you in resurrect! let your new life begin what I was doesn't make what I am, what I am resurrect! let your new life begin I can't sleep at night I'm feelin' hunted and haunted fifty-Gs for my life number four most wanted I can't win so I'm constantly runnin' paranoia sets in 'cuz I'm constantly blunted my girl at my hand feelin' totally lethal stole the money from the man gave it back to the people did it once, twice a third time, we made it the fourth time we tried they had authorities waitin' so now we on the lam no plan, had to get by then I realize, damn I'm preparing to die so she started to cry and I started to cry and so we sat and smoked up our entire supply and as the sun went down the moon came up my girl bent down and we both went buck they found us, they shot us no shootout, no worry I died with a smile that's it, end of story you can hide in the shadow of man 'til the light brings you in resurrect! let your new life begin what I was doesn't make what I am, what I am resurrect! let your new life begin you can hide in the shadow of man 'til the light brings you in resurrect! let your new life begin what I was doesn't make what I am, what I am resurrect! let your new life begin reduce the enemy let loose the revelry of a remedy crucify seperately any who keep the memory mentally, sendin' our messages through telepathy quietly, silently hiding me in Gethsemane eventually leadin' the last charge for God's cause currently watchin' the world dodge at all costs knock knock head on the block and chop you thought who's there? nobody cared declare new law fightin' for your life don't matter then what you here for once more righting a wrong you shed a tear for hardcore starting to sense immense cheer for seesaw sit on the fence commence world war start toward lettin' the light in you might win stifflin' charges of marksmen for heartless frightenin' evil and lightnin' your life then go forth warning the world of the darkness you can hide in the shadow of man 'til the light brings you in resurrect! let your new life begin what I was doesn't make what I am, what I am resurrect! let your new life begin
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Words 03:56
B.O.S.S. guess what? Boss is back B.O.S.S. guess what? Boss is back it's like things ain't good no more they just hot things ain't good no more they just hot things ain't good no more they just hot things ain't good no more the type to drop mad intellectual words to fill your mind ten times in a half of a verse I disperse undisputed undeniable facts and diagram 'em out like a topographical map I learned that material things ain't precious B.O.S.S. never gonna drive a Lexus if I ever get rich, I'll drive a cheap whip so I won't get pissed when I drive it in a ditch who's a bitch? runnin 'round flashin' your ones who's a bitch? comin' 'round here flashin' a gun talkin' mad shit, pressin' 'bout where you come from considering amputatin' your tongue, son it's all good, 'til your chops are soft you on top 'til someone else knocks you off straight out the blocks it's Boss under one condition understand we the type to entice submission got you wishin' you'd listen before you started dissin' now your brain's locked up in the fetal position I'm driven by a force, the source is beats y'all cats just lookin' for a plate to eat my game on point when I smoke trees roll Gracia Vegas with the green leaves if not, then I'm hot to a different degree your game's so thin that it's swingin' in the breeze the B to the O to the S get doubled hang for a while and I'm bound to roll a couple if you're cool with me, then I'm cool with you whatcha do to me, I might do to you eh yo, fuck my roots, I'm flyin' the coop what's the point if nobody else knows the truth? you should never judge a book by its cover and you should never judge a man by his color 'cuz what shade over time that the sun has made over time inside will fade away it ain't a black and white place in the world today 'cuz everybody I'm with is a shade of grey eh yo, I got a dream, but it seem a little hollow intelligent rap should come back outta the shadow people love crap and it just persists but if you never did that shit, it wouldn't exist words was the reason for the beats to break and words was the reason that the beats was made things ain't good no more, they just hot and when the words don't mean a damn thing, that's pop words was the reason for the beats to break and words was the reason that the beats was made eh yo, things ain't good no more, they just hot and when the words don't mean a damn thing, that's pop things ain't good no more, they just hot things ain't good no more, they just hot things ain't good no more, they just hot things ain't good no more y'all stay workin' hard, tryin' to make hits wrote sixty-bars but you didn't say shit if you got a catchy hook, then you gonna get on and spend about thirty seconds on the rest of the song you put the C in rap, tryin' to make a livin' 'cuz of you these parents don't want the kids to listen I'm givin' you advice, go ahead stay frontin' with your blah blibbedy blah, I'm tryin' to say somethin' I'm deep in the past and you best believe the greatest artist ever lived was a Wonder named Steve some of y'all see, but some of y'all need to get a little lesson 'bout fuckin' with greed I bleed on the track, sweat and tears too I love good music, how about you? callin' me out so we face to face and you's a little real son, but a fake's a fake what's it take to make a man stand apart? everything that he speaks comes right from heart take a match and spark, the whole damn chart and work to elevate the level of my art I'm a peaceful man, out for war you's a hip hop whore, just out to score gave all I got, straight left it on the floor from jump, I didn't want none of y'all awards words was the reason for the beats to break and words was the reason that the beats was made things ain't good no more, they just hot and when the words don't mean a damn thing, that's pop words was the reason for the beats to break and words was the reason that the beats was made things ain't good no more, they just hot and when the words don't mean a damn thing, that's pop things ain't good no more, they just hot things ain't good no more, they just hot things ain't good no more, they just hot things ain't good no more, they just... uh!

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released January 20, 2010

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