| These are the motions that the messengers spoke of | 
| The makers are the owners, in control of their culture | 
| It’s all love and peace—keep your gun and a toaster | 
| B-boy, b-girls, move like you’re supposed ta | 
| The melodies and harmonies stick to your ribs like | 
| Hominy grits in the winter, you dig? | 
| I’ll offer what I alter as my life on a bridge | 
| My style stay halal, never fuck with the pigs | 
| The lesson that you getting isn’t off my rib, and if | 
| Shorty reflecting, I’m reborn through my kids | 
| The only thing is I don’t want to pass ‘em down my sins | 
| Have ‘em have to walk a mile in my Timbs | 
| It’s hard to ignore the allure of Shayṭān and his | 
| Jinns when your stomach’s on E with no ends | 
| So you could consider this the rebirth of the cool, calm | 
| And collected—mama didn’t raise no fool. | 
| Drop | 
| Jewels and golden rules that they left out of school | 
| When I dropped out of school, landed in a cesspool, see? | 
| All the lies that the teachers tell us | 
| All these rhymes about the bullshit the TV sell us | 
| We are the lost tribe in the wilderness of the West | 
| Stolen from the best part, now they’re scorching the flesh | 
| Blood run through the Nile, she too sore to caress | 
| Newborns taste the sickness when they sip from a breast | 
| Bad food and false knowledge, that’s a lot to digest | 
| So I guess that’s we hide our lows and get high | 
| Spend what little we got to go out and get fly | 
| ‘Cause it’s easier to get high than get by | 
| So we try to keep our minds in the sky ‘til we try to supply | 
| Valentine, I could do that when I die | 
| Sleep is for the weak, and my life been stoned. | 
| The North | 
| Light, I shine like that’s the prose in the poem | 
| A lot of people want to know what trip I’m on, but it’s | 
| The Underground Railroad taking us on—come on. | 
| A lot of | 
| People want to know what trip I’m on, but it’s | 
| The Underground Railroad taking us on—come on | 
| These are the motions that the messengers spoke of | 
| The makers are the owners, in control of their culture | 
| It’s all love and peace—keep your gun and a toaster | 
| B-boy, b-girls, move like you’re supposed ta | 
| I’ll move with the music, groove to the basics | 
| Bass hits boom in your system. | 
| Let’s move like | 
| It’s fluent language, change it to spitting | 
| Do as the loosest, bang in the whip when | 
| You’re cruising, meditate. | 
| Let me set it straight: | 
| You’re forever fake ‘cause you choose to be stupid | 
| I was a criminal, it’s typical shit | 
| Pitiful, so I’m losing that mental state | 
| Fuck it. | 
| There’s no use for it anyway | 
| Every day, I’m chasing the dream of paper and cream | 
| Bread to break for my team, placed it in a safe, escaped | 
| From the scene to a place where my face isn’t seen | 
| Away from haters and snakes, I’m changing my fate | 
| But running away wasn’t the way. | 
| I’m able | 
| To see, confront it. | 
| Love it or hate it, take it | 
| For what it is. | 
| It’s crazy, you see? | 
| I switched from | 
| Guns to hands, ones to grands from | 
| Hands to guns, grands back to ones—damn! | 
| It’s a trap like maximum, but I | 
| Gotta be a man ‘til I’m done in my casket wall | 
| These are the motions that the messengers spoke of | 
| The makers are the owners, in control of their culture | 
| It’s all love and peace—keep your gun and a toaster | 
| B-boy, b-girls, move like you’re supposed ta | 
| So many asked me how I keep going | 
| Keep flowing, keep showing that I’m | 
| A forced to be reckoned with, not to be ignored | 
| Hated by most, a few do adore | 
| Watched downfall, then they saw me | 
| Rise to occasion, fix situation | 
| Change occupation, become master builder | 
| Look at blueprints, redesign nation | 
| Come test me? | 
| What give ‘em that notion? | 
| Foes be clumsy, swing in slow motion | 
| Look at ‘em breathing hard as I’m coasting | 
| Wanna keep me down in Hell and stay roasting | 
| It’s my time for me to make a change | 
| I’m not happy, not satisfied | 
| How could I be when most my people died? | 
| Blacks are confused and eating freedom fries | 
| Will we continue to lose our self? | 
| Will we ever realize that we are the wealth? | 
| When we feel the whole hood, I’m still «For the Kids» | 
| If I die alone tomorrow, I’m still dual-lift | 
| Patrick Ewing degrees, I’m showing it | 
| Nothing’s new under the Sun. | 
| What hovers over it? | 
| I’m a slave to the rhythms—for masters, I’m owning it | 
| Merchandising? | 
| Owning it. | 
| Publishing? | 
| Owning it | 
| Percy Carey’s a free man, so I’m patrolling it | 
| Destiny is in my hands, and I’m controlling it | 
| These are the motions that the messengers spoke of | 
| The makers are the owners, in control of their culture | 
| It’s all love and peace—keep your gun and a toaster | 
| B-boy, b-girls, move like you’re supposed ta |