It's a Small Wonder, like Vicki,
why I'm picky
These niggas suck like hickies
And still get to slip they
shit in like Mickies
I'm sick of the hater- players,
bring on the regulators
With the flavors like a farm team
fucking with the majors
Like a river how I run through it,
I do it so cold
Freezin' up your bodily fluids,
your style is old
You runnin' your mouth,
but don't really know what you be talkin about
You should retire,
get that complimentary watch, be out!
Yo, with the quickness,
so swift you miss this lyrical fitness
Now get this, these emcees wanna test me like litmus,
bear witness
I'm like shot clocks, interstate cops,
and blood clots
My point is,
your flow gets stopped
By all means, you need more practice,
take that ass home
Everybody lookin at you,
fish tank syndrome
In full effect,
I stay catchin' lyrical rep
And keep it blacker than
the back of your neck
What you expect, emcees hollerin'
Cause we developin'
the followin'
Gettin' played like stone love
tapes and dollar vans
Order reverse your universe
so your demise is first
Before your rise it gets worse
You need a night nurse like Gregory
Beggin' me, stop it hurts,
is what you say to me
Like that's supposed to mean
somethin?
You the one I seen frontin' in the club
Your act I don't buy it, I got the dub
Come on everybody,
come on just show your love
Visions occupy my synaptic space
Command and shape,
to illustrate my mind's landscape
The tall grass, the low plains,
the mountainous ridges
Thickets among the forests,
rivers beneath the bridges
Presence of hilltops,
lit up with tree tops
Eavesdrop, and hear the incline of sunshine,
nine
Stones in orbit, refuse to forfeit
They all form a cipher,
and they came to absorb it
I follow suit, and face it, embrace it
Shinin' bright,
but still I'm careful not to waste it
Destined to rise,
because I'm basement adjacent
Spirit is still so just chill and
be patient
Some heads approach like I'm
the one to base with
Clowns about to scream
and shout but don't say shh
I ain't your student so I ain't to
be tested
I'm majestic,
I represent my strength without effort
My, method is unorthodox,
but of course it rocks
My serious synopsis will drop kick,
my topics
Run the gauntlets and galvanize
the audience
I must represent,
I don't come off with no corniness
It's all luminary,
despite commentary
Some people say,
Mos how you get so?
My sign will make you jump
around like calypso
And, murmur to yourself
like a schizo
There ain't no bottom on the
Come on, come on, come on
Here we go, Blackstar, hop on
the Blackstar line
We bout to take y'all home
You know what I mean? Here we go
We got all markets on lock
From meat to stock
Black Star, what,
throwin' like Kid Rock in bars
Men flock to where we are,
cause its the place to be
I grab my paint,
jump on stage and deface emcees
We sell our souls like Spawn and
come for the throne I sit upon
Freestyle or written songs,
shit we can get it on!
Going back and forth, forth and back,
all across the track
Passin' the mics like quarterbacks
Of course its phat, get off of that
Reverse psychology got 'em scared
to say when shit is whack
Out of fear of being called a hater,
imagine that!
We ain't havin' that reachin' past
the star status that you grabbin' at
My battle raps blast your ass back
to your natural habitat
So floss, cause what it costs
ain't worth it to me
Cause I'm the one these Spice
Girl emcees Wannabe
But they can't, ain't no points for effort,
so why bother?
Cause your girl calls my name
out like Clarence Carter
Clarence Carter,
Clarence Carter!
(I be strokin',
that's what I be doin)
Ayo, as we rock harder
And always drop the bona- fide
head nodders
Ayo, later for the hater- players
Yo- yo, yo- yo,
later for these hater- players
Black Star keeps shining
Mos Def
