Verse 1: You know I'm sticking to The Roots spitting this lava I gotta show the world how ta/ conquer their Black Thought like Tariq Trotter/ I came outta New Orleans every day had to be a fighter/ very poetic like I'm a Somali writer come get inspired/ by the true emcee who still takes it much deeper/ now I'm reaching Next Levels like King Geedorah/ I still seek the truth with every breath in my lungs/ real ones they see the obstacles he overcomes/ rappers get rich then spend all their funds/ they don't care about being mentioned with the Pac's, Biggie's, and Pun's/ legends hesitate on passing the torch/ cause they don't see any emcees who could block out the negative force/ never off course notice that he's real/ emcees got no drive so they crash hard like running out of NZT pills/ I'm still ill-matic like the classic/ this generation vocab stuck on fleek and ratchet/ they feed your brain all of the nonsense to stay distracted/ we giving things more power just by the way we reacted/ I build with women who never age like Angela Basset/ share wisdom til we laying in caskets/ breaking down these walls yall barely cracked it/ didn't come this far to say that I failed I rebelled against the system and attacked it 2x

Hook 2x: I've seen many soldiers die in the field/ to be a emcee really does require much skill/ we taking it back to when all the music was real/ taking it back to when the music was real

Verse 2: Spectacular lyricism my mind expands the prism peace to RZA/ dropping science on em like I'm the GZA/ the technique is immortal blend different styles and flavors/ influenced by them influential sounds like the Jazz Liberatorz/ pay homage to the creators of the culture all the elements/ south got bars and here's the evidence/ I mastered every angle on hard level/ I really came up in something rough like it's City of God ghetto/ demanding yall to step up like Carmelo enough is enough/ the architect of these bars I construct/ you never moving up when you just stuck in your ways/ so free your mind or stay in the inextricable maze/ we gotta raise these babies they think it's cool to be disrespecting these ladies/ we bringing something different like Rakim Allah in the 80's with Eric B DJaying/ from an era where lyrically every emcee spraying/ no playing up in this game you better know what your worth is/ don't even speak if you don't know who Kool Herc is/ and other pioneers been doing this here for years/ blood, sweat, and tears now I'm the emcee they fear/ forever one of the nicest on these microphones/ see it's all science I gotta break it down like lysosomes/ and just to think most of these verses was off the dome/ you know I had to take you all Back Home

Hook: I've seen many soldiers die in the field/ to be a emcee really does require much skill/ we taking it back to when all the music was real/ taking it back to when the music was real