| Ay, yo, I see y’all through these speakers and headphones
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| Bobbin' to the beat, anticipating a poem
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| In the streets and boulevards or parts unknown
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| Your office, warehouse, or restricted zone
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| At your friend’s place or comfort of your own home
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| Whether ya' just arrived or about to get gone
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| Whether ya' eating breakfast or about to bone
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| With your spouse, with your peeps or on your own
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| You see me? |
| Not likely, not on TV
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| Despite that, though, I show you something in 3D
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| It’s not that hard, but it’s not that easy
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| I paint a picture in your mind with each rhyme
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| They say my words write a thousand pictures
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| A thousand scriptures, couldn’t prophesize
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| How the images hit the spot where the best light
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| In the house be, just to show all y’all what I see
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| Some see with the eyes, and some see with the hands
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| I’m hoping you see with your ears, if you understand
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| From the chosen track down to the vocals on it
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| It’s just live thoughts recorded, so that you can own it
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| Some see with the eyes, and some see with the hands
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| I’m hoping you see with your ears, if you understand
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| The type of music people frame up on your wall
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| This is the audio-visual for all of y’all
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| Ay, yo, I see y’all average, C-average rappers
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| Please, pass the mic', cause you barely passed the class
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| I was new school late, I be old school early
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| My classics kicked the head of the class’s ass
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| With all sales final, accepted «as is»
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| It’s no checks written that my rhymes can’t cash
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| Like Cassius Ali, I leave you leaking excuses
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| Like you wouldn’t hit a man with glasses
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| But despite these four eyes
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| I still paint a picture with words that be a sight for sore eyes
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| Sample a cliché to touché hearts and minds
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| If you get the point, you see things my way
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| Not like you need some quote-en-quote Coke bottles
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| You just be rocking a pair, sweating your role model
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| The vocab' chump change I maintain
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| It’s what your mind would hope to obtain if it struck lotto
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| I guess in that way we see things differently
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| We at the same vantage point seeing different things
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| Y’all see yourselves as struggling starving artists
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| I take advantage of the progress the struggle brings
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| Y’all see yourselves as bubbling pop rock stars
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| I’ve see so many bubbles popped, I never got far
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| The only stars I know is in the sky, in a child’s eye
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| That’s why I just try to describe what I see
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| Yo, y’all saw bootleggers stealing music, killing me
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| I saw fans keeping the buzz healing me
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| In fact, I see 'em at the show they feeling me
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| That’s why I’m still in the field, even without a deal
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| These ain’t the last days but they say they soon to be
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| People’s audio-visuals in the name of unity
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| I see poison pushers in they own community
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| Saying «Fuck It» that’s they only opportunity
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| I see grown folks acting just like little kids
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| And little kids thinking that’s what they should grow to be
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| I see herbs outside wishing they were killers
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| And I see killers inside wishing they were free
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| I see gods, and we build on how we see degrees in the light
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| Food for thought like Apple Jacks we eat what we like
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| But hopefully we like what we need
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| And the truth is the light, if it’s right, you could see |