| Watch me grab my patterns of thought
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| In permanent ink on slabs of bark
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| A train riding through the middle of your mind
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| Planted down in my spinal tappin your body
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| Mappin with vinyl life
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| (turntables) illuminate
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| (the finer things) spinnin underground casin
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| Things will never just be the same old thing
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| Forever revolutionizing the scene, a poet
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| You know it, when I flow it get your action on appeal
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| (like a top quarterback)
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| Attend your line with a hard ass mind and a hype that’s rhyme
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| Feel me, writing the book of my life
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| With a bypass surgical heart implant
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| Where the art is kept
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| Swept, get, past the front door
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| Where the mass minister, sinister
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| Never that priest, east to west we blast and meet ya
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| With hands to me to expand the legacy
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| That will hype and chill where the gates at
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| It’s amazing to elevate, allocate, final truncate
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| With the feature to play back
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| My fate chose to follow me this far
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| A shadow came with every step as life revealed the dark
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| A guardian, a hell’s angel, tested my fate
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| And they be, unsure of every move that I would make
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| And I ignore, sometimes listen
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| On every mission we explore, the outs and ins
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| Just like sailors on the shore
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| A poet riding the wave of metaphors
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| Stop to dock by the bay and write an editorial
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| Life wasn’t easy, tribe unique we are soul survivors
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| I done seen things, eyes of a deep sea diver
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| Mister mystery missin a word to describe, i’m
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| Sittin patiently waitin for earth to enlighten my
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| My destiny inspired every quote
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| It met me at this crossroad just tryin to let me know
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| It’s more to grow
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| Mean what I said in chan eleven flow
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| And always check for signals, internet has the info
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| (captain of the poets)
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| Maybe the legacy i-n check
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| Will be the impression I leave on the people who listen to music I make
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| Take it or leave it believe it or not
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| Got my man on the side to prove this point
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| Forges strong in the family tree
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| Roots are stronger than enemy’s hate
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| So relate to me if you can’t
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| Pledge your thoughts in a garden with freedom of speech
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| To each his own, metrinome
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| Childrens grow to know the world
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| Even home with the young mind
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| Looking for answers in the truth
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| My music will guide you through time
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| Used to be that kid on the bench in the park writin to figure out life
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| Now I’m a man on the mic who’s doin his mark, thinking of kids and a wife
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| It’s important to me to know my days on earth mean something more
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| Than a couple songs I made that played in basement stereos galore
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| Aerial views of crews I knew and memory bank that hourglass
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| Thinking of lessons learned as tables turned another hour pass
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| Legacy’s left while pen strokes enlightenment from a future class
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| So many young and talented broke livin l.a. |
| life with a bus pass
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| Travelling to the open mic spots anywhere they can bust at
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| (captain of the poets)
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| It’s hard to keep the peace without dealing with the war
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| It’s hard to feel you’ve got it all when you can get more
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| But just think back, way back when when you had none
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| And wanted some, and we were hungry as they come
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| Just dumb and young, and young and dumb and we had fun
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| In lemmard park, and harvard park and leffard park
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| Specific start, was 84 I was only nine
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| Been writin rhymes and in these times eligh
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| I see why people quit, they don’t see the benefits
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| Only in it to get rich, hit it big or forfeit
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| And off course is the politics
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| Collegeship went on the back burner
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| Didn’t get a scholarship even though I was a fast learner
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| Searchin for the undisputed truth
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| Experience, I’ve had more data for the proof
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| And here he is just have again, back in the loot
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| Buried in the books but he’s weary of their roots
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| (captain of the poets, so listen) |