There have been times when I’ve wondered if Black Thought should be in the running for #goat emcee. This video is one of those times.
My friend and colleague, drummer Morgan Childs, actually transcribed these amazing rhymes:
Uh I’m sorry for your loss
it’s somebody dead in a car and it’s probably one of yours
The writin’ all across the window and the walls
Whether it was true or false
We shouldn’t have got involved
Remember
We walked past the teacher take the chalk and laugh
We wrote punishments
“I will not talk in class”
Now it’s pistols punishing people for talking fast
And all these innocent bystanders is haulin’ ass
I hate to say “I told y’all” but I told y’all
Things fall apart when the center to weak to hold y’all
I’m just collecting what you owe to my owe jar
You ‘bout to get swooped down on and stoled on
Fools swear they wise, wise men know they foolish
but we was headed for the web even before computers
I never thought you’d give me a reason to do this
Cain and Abel
Jesus and Judas
Caesar and Brutus I see intruders avert yer eyes
I told you keep out of the hood
Circumcise
How could you sleep, I thought you always was the first to rise
Eyo you heard the line
Errybody plays the fool
Well I be that exception to the rule
The principal that hand deliver lessons to the school
I was makin’ major moves
My dollar déjà vu
My mission when my ambition was brandishin’ the tool
to be an icon
wearin’ slippers made of python
Get mine quicker ‘cause I’m slick as a pipeline
Transportin’ the oil
tribulation and toil
hit the operation
but I’m back in the soil
Got my crown tilted, my gown quilted
silk with cashmere
burn the room down in a minute, built it last year
Newsflash, I dodged the bullet that killed the cashier
My homie told me to come with him to the masthead
Them brothers said don’t go from written bars filled with rage
to prime time television
and your gilded cage
Then forget there’s people in the world
still enslaved
I bar white at my wrist, and let it fill the page
Gunfire and flare
Sirens glare
I’m in an iron chair with people who care
don’t get the lion’s share
When I don’t give a fuck then I ain’t fair
I’m on a higher table people getting’ money like the finest hair
Catch the herald
I’m fresh chopped and beveled
rap on a doctorate level
so F Scott Fitzgerald
Maybe I’m the new Rakim
Maybe I’m Fab Pharoah
Undergarments are armor be my intimate apparel
Pre-Kardashian Kanye
My rhyme play immaculate
Same cadence as D.O.C.
pre-accident
Maybe my acumen is on par with Gucci rappin’ and
gimme the proper respect
motherfucker we back again
For a couple things we lost in a fire
the drive and desire to perform on a higher
plateau
I make that show lost in a mire
Wondering how we got so far from inspired
Look, when photos were sepia toned
and record players were something you would keep in your home
Yo the traveller the meanin’ Tariq he was known
For the exemplary performance, uniquely his own
I made the 21 pound for some a newfound religion
When money’s put down there’s only one sound to make
OGs and young lions equally proud to listen
To seek what amalgam-ism an algorithm
comin’ from
where only kings and crowns permitted to darkness
Where archaeologists found
my image in parchment
rolled into a scroll
holdin’ a message for you
It said the only thing fo sho is taxes death and trouble
The anomaly, sworn solemnly
high snobbery
Freakinomics and war policy dichotomy
That’s Heaven and Hades
Tigris and Euphrates
His highness, the apple of the iris to you ladies
As babies
we went from simolac to infomill
to the internet and fentanyl
when our consent was still against the will
I got that detox for y’all
The microphone doctor black
Deepak Chopra
I’m a griot
that make you want to peacock your arm
every heavy dignitary payin’ me top regards
boy I’m three octaves far
from the bi noc ulars
so the smart money feelin’ get the heat out the car
yo I’m K dot Lamar meets Tupac Shakur
Got profiled by a few cops
too hot to charge, listen
somebody said a price tag was on a rapper’s head
so we gonna see a nice bag
when a rapper dead
the mast black
the flag green black and red
they probably wave a white flag out the prasma shed (?)
no doubt
Yo the Game went they own route
I can’t explain what these lame kids is talmbout
Or how they fit they whole foot into their own mouth
I put a couple bodies in a brown bag
then I’m en route
I’m sneaker shoppin’ with my stuntas size 8
prior to they release, cuz why wait?
Look, in my state I got electrified gates
for these blasé gods hatin’ at a high rate
‘cause I dodged fate then got great
to fly straight
if we ain’t family or friends then we don’t vibrate
and I’m that
Gun in yah face
none of y’all safe
If I catch you at the right time in the wrong place
Slippin’
Sipping on somethin’ with a strong taste
Like whiskey or bootleg bourbon with a corn base
(Malavine?) take resemble a vehicular threat
The mic I spray resemblin’ a sickle of death
It ain’t strenuous to come from a continuous breath
I set fire to the venue
Imma spin you in step
Rinse repeat
You checkin’ for the sound of the beats
I’m the hound
I’m a creep
I get down
Imma eat
Imma keep
sumpin’ and lay a naysayer to sleep
playin’ wit heat
nobody and nothin’ fucking with ‘Riq
yo these weaklings is claiming they cutting up in the streets
Nigga peace
You ain’t workin’ with nuttin’ but the police, listen
you ain’t feelin’ to be nothin’ but the deceased, listen
you in the tournament with a permanent crease
I strike fear in the hearts of rap figures
who mind bears the stigmas of time
no black privilege
From Boom Bap niggas
To trap niggas
you in the trap wit us
When the lines is as
vivid as the walls on that grab all the graph by the law to rap
I reside between the seconds on the chronograph
How much more CB4 can we afford?
It’s like a sharia law
On My Cherie Amour
How much hypocrisy can people possibly adore?
But ain’t nobody workin’ on a cure?
My young boy
Y’all just regular
I’m an apex predator
Brim stay fresh feathered up
etcetera nevertheless
I got a message of love
One day a messenger yo
my pen is Henry Kissinger
Buzz Bissinger, look
My caporegime Mr Noradeen
and my oldest son Amin Saleem
outta New Orleans
Took a golf cart to the baccarat
From the Waldorf
What was on the walls?
That depend on what you call art
Imma say 300 k ain’t even in the ballpark
I charge more just for awkward small talk
So yes
Who’s fuckin’ with it if it’s not the best?
I get the lobby painted fresh upon my request
It’s Kafkaesque
His holiness stop the press
that cobalt blue
Reminiscing on my caress
Lord, we got Padma Lakshmi for you
Let her massage the back with black seed oil
The foundation is firm, the flags need soil
Me, I need royalty because I bleed royal
Go through the veins to the brain
fabulous and strange
My journalistic range is a catalyst for change
They got anybody to listen pissin’ flames
and ‘cause the Hall of Fame got so many missin’ names
I’ll acknowledge the original peoples not Oliver
Y’all will the get the next challenger for Excalibur
Um… more police for my core beliefs
They tried to capture me and brand me on the cheek
with a fleur de lis
that side of my heart’ll be more discrete
I’m international, my passport pages like War and Peace
I’ve always played my part
From the start
Back in Philly where the triggers is mandatory to spark
With the slightest inflammatory remark
I have you in a livin’ a category apart, listen
A grain of salt’ll tip the scales
It never fails
Walk on eggshells
sleep on a bed of nails
Criminal records like record sales
Makin’ heads or tails we like Henrietta (L)acks
Up in the cells
My mother was a working class very loving woman
who struggled, every dinner could have been her last supper (summer?)
I come home
chasin’ good for nothin’ half cousins
and then walk in the crib to the smell of crack cookin’
she was introduced
to that substance abuse
or some of the strongest drugs that the gov’ment produced
look, I even got excused by the principal
My story is out of the dub dub interview
I seen some ice cold summers, hot winters too
I never thought I’d win Grammy awards with the Roots
I never thought I would be getting’ long in the tooth
My OGs told me “boy, you better go and live your truth”
I am a walking affirmation
That imagination and focus and patience
gets you closer
to your aspiration
and just cuz they give you shit don’t mean you have to take it
My words capture greatness
sworn affidavits
Yours truly the celestial being
You stay seein’ pulling up in a fresh European
High steppin out of it dressed to a T
And not another got more soul, unless you Korean (!!!!) I’ve been
Havin’ visions of Nat Turner holdin’ his master’s head
like Yoric and Horatio in Hamlet
Smackin’ it like a tennis racquet underhanded
Send a message to the gram the eagle has landed
Dressed in a military jacket made of canvass
I am no guerilla/gorilla I just make ‘em go bananas
I stand and wear black and green bandanas
cocked hammers
hairs on my chin is outstandings
Can’t manage the weight of the world is just how I ball it
Look, I’ve fallen from the sky to see my calling
I’m not crawling
I’m a free man like Morgan
Seein’ manhood in the hood’s a damn good bargain
If every black man don’t tap dance
and every girl that got a fat booty don’t lap dance
well I guess it’s something wrong, huh
Niggas completely uninformed
I don’t burn bridges, yo, I keep the haters round to fall
I ain’t one of y’all peers
I’m the sum of all fears
Somebody stronger than me, who that?
I mar ears
like Obama
I wish he had another four years
Y’all some jolly good Hollywood squares
I’m like “ahem” approach the author witcha offering
I smoke rappers writin’ like my only offspring
Being his excellency is to be exhausting
You in the residency, you’re the one they call
King Dolla Ali Baba the talented Mr Trotter
Inside of my right palm the marker to stick
My the big papa wig chopper
Enter the Jaffe Jocker mawfucker
I’m stronger than the coffee out in Kaffa
All y’all make his vagina hot
remind me of my kinda pop
I step into the booth
I’m a bull inside a china shop
Mollywhopper washin’ of a cotton pickin body drop
Every time we rock, yo they actin’ like it’s Mardi Gras
Til the party stop
‘sgirl was like she there for rory gel (the fuck?)
So we saw you pumpin’ that Earth Wind and Fire body ya
Cool the Prada Dakar la Merino hard body up
You seen another rapper cleaner, mami prolly not
How it feel to be the best that did it
I’ll admit it
I’m visiting from planet bring these niggas down for minutes
And y’all know I’m exquisite
Wicked as Wilson Pickett
The sickness I exhibit
I’m too legit to quit it
I don’t fake it til I make it, I take it to the limit and break it
Never tentative when I’m bad I represent it
A feeling just like chases
Been a million places
Conversation is how beautiful my face is
People hated on how sophisticated my taste is
Then I pulled up on these motherfuckers in a spaceship
Panther mind
I’m made of elements you can’t combine
I’m at a level of intelligence you can’t define
Einstein, Shakespeare, Voltaire, Tesla
Recording artist slash psychology professor
I preach for the east
Never fold under pressure
The beast from the east and I glide like Clyde Drexler
Eyo my new name is Eighty Five Exes
cause I’m the rap game certified specialist
When I was reckless I was worried ‘bout the guest list
I’m helpin’ rappers everywhere fulfill a death wish
Yo Flex, I’m glad we made contact
My nigga also know, this shit for combat
Brain matta contain too much data
I tell a story like fingerprints and blood splatter
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SIGN UP Hot 97 Freestyle Black Thought HOT 97 FREESTYLE LYRICS [Verse] Uh, I'm sorry for your loss It's a body dead in the car and it's probably one of yours The writing all across the window and the walls Whether it was true or false, we shouldn't have got involved Remember, we walked past the teacher, take the chalk and laugh We wrote punishments: "I will not talk in class" Now it's pistols punishing people for talking fast And all these innocent bystanders is hauling ass I hate to say I told y'all, but I told y'all Things fall apart when the center too weak to hold ya'll I'm just collecting what you owed to my old jawn You 'bout to get swooped down on and stoled on Fools swear they wise, wise men know they foolish Well, we was headed for the web even before computers I never thought you'd give me a reason to do this Cain and Abel, Jesus and Judas Caesar and Brutus, I see intruders, avert your eyes I told you keep out of the hood, circumcise How could you sleep? I thought you always was the first to rise Ay, yo, you heard the line, "Everybody plays the fool"? Well, I'll be that exception to the rule The principal that hand-deliver lessons to the school I was making major moves, my dollar déjà vu My mission was my ambition was brandishing a tool To be a' icon, wearing slippers made of python Get mine quicker 'cause I'm slick as a pipeline Transportin' the oil, tribulation and toil Hit the operation, but I'm back in the soil Got my crown tilted, my gown quilted, silk with cashmere Burning Rome down in a minute, built it last year Newsflash, I dodged the bullet that killed the cashier My homie told me to come with him to the masjid Them brothers said, "Don't go from written bars filled with rage To primetime television and your gilded cage Then forget it's people in the world still enslaved" I barbwired my wrist, and let it fill the page Gun fire n' flares, sirens glare I'm in a iron chair where people who care Don't get the lion's share When I don't give a fuck, then I ain't fair I'm on a higher tier with people gettin' money like the financier Cash the herald I'm fresh chopped, A Bevel Rap on a doctorate level, so F. Scott Fitzgerald Maybe I'm the new Rakim, maybe I'm fat Pharaohe Undergarments or armor be my intimate apparel Pre-Kardashian Kanye, my rhymeplay immaculate Same cadence as D.O.C. pre-accident Maybe, my acumen's on par with Kool G. Rap and them Give me the proper respect, mothafucka', we back again For a couple things we lost in a fire The drive, the desire to perform on a higher plateau I'm at that show, lost in a mire Wondering how we got so far from inspired Look, when photos were sepia-toned And record players were somethin' you would keep in your home Yo, the traveler, the meaning of Tariq, he was known For the exemplary performance, uniquely his own I made the twenty-one pound for some a newfound religion Where money's put down, it's only one sound that make OGs and young lions equally proud to listen The secret amalgamism, a algorithm Coming from where only kings and crowns permitted the darkness Where archaeologists found my image in parchment Rolled into a scroll, holding a message for you It said, "The only thing for sure is taxes, death, and trouble" The anomaly sworn solemnly, high snobbidy Freakonomics and war policy, dichotomy That's Heaven and Hades, Tigris and Euphrates His highness, the apple of the Iris to you ladies As babies, we went from Similac and Enfamil To the internet and Fentanyl When all consent was still against the will I got that detox for y'all The microphone doctor, black Deepak Chopra I'm a griot that make you wanna peacock your arm Every heavy dignitary paying me top, regards Boy, I'm three optics far from your binoculars So, that smart money finna get the heat out the car Yo, I'm K-Dot Lamar meets 2Pac Shakur Got profiled by a few cops, too hot to charge Listen, somebody said a price tag was on a rapper's head So we gon' see a nice bag when the rapper dead The mask black, the flag green, black, and red They'll probably wave a white flag after plasma shed No doubt, yo, the game went they own route I can't explain what these lame kids is talkin' 'bout Or how they fit they whole foot into they own mouth I put a couple bodies in a brown bag, then I'm on route I'm sneaker shoppin' with my son, a size 8 Prior to they release, 'cause why wait? Look, in my estate I got electrified gates For these blasé guys hating at a high rate 'Cause I dodged fate then got great, the fly's straight If we ain't family or friends, then we don't vibrate And I'm that gun in y'all face, none of y'all safe If I catch you at the right time in the wrong place, slippin' Sippin' on something with a strong taste Like Whiskey or bootleg Bourbon with a corn base My Levante resemble a vehicular threat The mic I spray, resemblin' the sickle of death It ain't strenuous to come from a continuous breath I set fire to the venue, I'ma spin you and step Rinse, repeat You checkin' for the sound of the beast I'm the hound, I'ma creep, I get down, I'ma eat I'ma keep somethin' to lay a naysayer to sleep Playin' with heat, nobody and nothin' fucking with 'Riq Yo, these weaklings is claiming they cutting up in the street Nigga, peace, you ain't working with nothin' but the police Listen, you ain't finna be nothing but the deceased Listen, you in a tournament with a permanent crease I strike fear in the hearts of rap figures Who mind bare the stigmas of time, no black privilege From boom bap niggas to trap niggas You in the trap with us, when the lines is as Vivid as the walls on the graph Autographed by the Lord of Wrath I reside between the seconds on the chronograph How much more CB4 can we afford? It's like a Shariah Law on "My Cherie Amour" How much hypocrisy can people possibly endure? But ain't nobody working on a cure, my young boul Y'all just regular, I'm a' apex predator Brim stay fresh, feathered up, etcetera Nevertheless, I got a message and left One dead messenger, yep My pen is Henry Kissinger, Buzz Bissinger Look, my caporegime is to no redeem And my oldest son Ahmir Saleem out of New Orleans Took a golf cart to the Baccarat from the Waldorf What was on the wall? That depend on what you call art I'ma say 300k ain't even in the ballpark I charge more just for awkward small talk So yes, who's fucking with it if it's not the best? I get the lobby painted fresh upon my request It's Kafka-esque, His Holiness, stop the press That Cobalt blue, reminiscent of Makkaresh Lord, we got Padma Lakshmi for you Let her massage your back with black seed oil The foundation is firm, the flags need soil Me? I need Royal Tea because I bleed royal Go through the vein to the brain, fabulous and strange My journalistic range is a catalyst for change It got anybody that listen pissin' flame And 'cause the Hall of Fame got so many missing names I'll acknowledge the original People's not Oliver Y'all will get the next challenger for Excalibur I'm more policed for my core beliefs They tried to capture me and brand me on the cheek With a fleur-de-lis The side of my heart'll be more discreet I'm international, my passport page is like War and Peace I've always played my part from the start Back in Philly where the triggers is mandatory to spark With a slightest inflammatory remark I have you enter living a category apart Listen, a grain of salt'll tip the scales, it never fails Walk on egg shells, sleep on a bed of nails Criminal records like record sales Making heads or tails We like Henrietta Lacks up in the cells My mother was a working class, very loving woman Who struggled, every dinner could've been the last supper I come home, chasing good-for-nothing half-cousins And then walk in the crib to the smell of crack cooking She was introduced to that substance abuse On some of the strongest drugs that the government produced Look, I even got excused by the principal My story is out of the dub dub interview I've seen some ice cold summers, hot winters too I never thought I'd win Grammy Awards with The Roots I never thought I would be getting long in the tooth My OGs told me, ''Boy you better go and live your truth'' I am a walking affirmation, that imagination And focus and patience gets you closer to your aspiration And just 'cause they give you shit don't mean you have to take it My words capture greatness, sworn affidavits Yours truly, the celestial being You stay seeing pulling up in the fresh European High-stepping out of it, dressed to a T And not another got more soul, 'less you Korean I’ve been having visions of Nat Turner holding his master’s head Like Yorick and Horatio in Hamlet Smacking it like a tennis racket, underhanded Send a message through the Gram: ''The Eagle has landed'' Dressed in a military jacket made of canvas I am no gorilla, I just make 'em go bananas Outstanding, red, black, and green bandanas Cocked hammers, hairs on my chin is outstandin' Can't manage the weight of war, they're just out ballin' Look, I'll fall up from the sky to see my calling I'm not crawling, I'm a free man like Morgan Seeing manhood in the hood is a damn good bargain If a black man don't tap dance And every girl that got a fat booty don't lapdance Well, I guess it's somethin' wrong, huh? Niggas completely uninformed I don't burn bridges, yo, I keep the haters' runnin' for em' I ain't one of y'all peers, I'm the sum of all fears Somebody stronger than me? Who that? I'm all ears Like Obama, I wish he had another four years Y'all some jolly good Hollywood Squares I'm like, ahem, approach the altar with your offering I spoil rappers rotten like my only offspring Being His Excellency gets to be exhausting You in the residency of the one they call King Dada, Ali Baba, the talented Mr. Trotter Inside of my right palm, the mark of the stigmata Big Poppa, wig chopper, emperor Jaffe Joffer, mufucka' I'm stronger than the coffee out in Kafa All y'all niggas vagina hop, remind me of Icona Pop I step in the booth, I'm a bull inside a China shop, mollywhoppin' Watch another cotton pickin' body drop Every time we rock, yo, they acting like it's Mardi Gras 'Til the party stop, skirt off like she that Ferrari drop Soul Cycle pumping that Earth, Wind and Fire ba-di-ah Coolin' 'pon the dock, à la marina, hard body yacht You seen another rapper cleaner, mami? Probably not How it feel to be the best that did it, I admit it I'm visiting from planet Bring-These-Niggas-Death-In-Minutes And y'all know I'm exquisite, wicked as Wilson Pickett The sickness I exhibit, I'm too legit to quit it I don't fake it 'til I make it, I take it to the limit and break it Never timid, what I'm about, I represent it Infinite just like Chace is, been a million places Conversation is how beautiful my face is People hated on how sophisticated my taste is Then I pulled up on these mothafuckas in a spaceship Panther mind, I'm made of elements you can't combine I'm at a level of intelligence you can't define Einstein, Shakespeare, Voltaire, Tesla Recording artist slash psychology professor I preach for the East, never fold under pressure The beast from the East and I glide like Clyde Drexler Ay, yo, my new name is eighty five X's 'Cause I'm the rap game certified specialist When I was reckless I was worried 'bout the guest list I'm helping rappers everywhere fulfill a death wish Yo Flex, I'm glad we made contact My nigga also know this shit for Combat Brain matter contain too much data I tell a story like fingerprints and blood splatta' WATCH MORE BELOW https://youtu.be/tiRPlCguqEc
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