| Every time I kick a verse, every single word of it
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| Is timeless, ageless, evergreen, permanent
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| I don’t mess with any newfangled slang
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| But I do make that old school language bang
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| YOLO was a flash in the pan
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| Swag? |
| It’s already trash in the can
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| But man, my flow is so hot
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| When I pull that mic from the stand
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| It gets scorched black in my hand
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| And turns to ashes like a match lit
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| Burnt from the fire that Zach spit
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| Every word is a classic
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| More than I can say for «cray,» «twerk» or «ratchet»
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| But look, I’m no hater who wants to dis
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| That is not what I wish to do with this
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| Give me your attention. |
| Hark to the plan
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| Hear and obey as I bark a command
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| You’re coming with me through a wormhole
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| On a journey through time to reach the eternal
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| Word to your mother, here we go
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| Back to fifteen thousand years ago
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| So this study came out with a list of words
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| That are «ultraconserved,» read down the page
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| These are words that «have been retained
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| In related forms since the end of the last ice age»
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| Their sounds and meanings have remained |
| Remarkably similar for fifteen thousand years
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| And all of them appeared in that verse that you heard
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| And that you’re going to hear again right here
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| Double time
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| (Old)
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| Vocab words that go backwards in time?
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| I got plenty, chum
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| (Old)
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| Specifically these twenty-some
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| Stretching across many a millennium
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| (Old)
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| No newfangled slang, but dang
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| I can sure make that old school language bang
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| And how great is it that «old»
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| Is one of the words that’s incredibly old?
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| It’s perfect |