Blackalicious

[Erinn Anova] (Chorus)

Come along and reap
I need my song
We're climbin' over
Beneath the sea
March on
Time is almost gone
It's all in me
No maybe

[Gift Of Gab]
Here we go again
Slip into my conscience, come along an take in
A story bout a battle, in this corner, Satan
Cunning, baffling, and jumping into half the drink
And suddenly disasters and catastrophe
And acting unrationally
Reacting savagely
To passionately
Bask in everlasting like escapes from just what its creating
Jeopardizin' love
Look at all the people that you took advantage of
See your hypnotized
Rom be gone, take another cup
In consequences lurk
While the reaper got your shirt size
Nigga wack up
Times overdue for the birth of a power that the universe grew from

(Chorus 2X)

[Gift Of Gab]
You search for the answers outside
Refocus causin' time and time again, backslide
You've noticed times before the presence of that "I"
But never did submit to it and let it apply
Whatever be his will in this present life time
Or essence like mine
Know the blessings you might find
If you let your higher power inside
Emerge and apply to every single thing in your balance
You will truly find
Who you really are
Die and become reborn
When God is present in your life than you can come reap on
And ain't a storm that you can't weather
You got a purpose you was born to create
Destiny is waitin' for you
Arms open, take with ya
Knowledge bestowed by the great giver
Lakes, rivers
Mountains and steams
Now reality's the dream wraitha
No more searchin' for truth that was always wit' cha
It had to hit ya through the struggle and the turmoil
Ya soul was planted and it sprouted out above soil
And let the sun shine freely down
At times it looked like it wouldn't
But the plant came to flourish
Now it's standin' on solid ground

(Chorus 2X)

[Lateef]

Sun rises like water up in my eyes
I'm watchin' changing times but like a changing tide
Tryna to keep my head above the ed if I could be

[Lateef & Erinn Anova]

The sun rises like water up in my eyes
I'm watchin' changing times but like a changing tide
Tryna to keep my head up
Above the ed if I could be
Least
If I may

(Chorus 4X)

--We're going to learn to hear words with vowel "A" sound....Listen with care
지금부터 모음 'A'의 소리를 듣는 법을 배우겠다.. 잘 들어봐

(Gift of Gab)
(언어의 재능)

I be the analog arsonist, aimin at your arteries
난 아날로그 방화범, 너의 동맥을 겨냥해

All-seeing abstract, analyze everything
만물을 내다보는, 추상적인, 모든 것을 분석하는 나

Adding on, absolutely abolishing
거기다가, 절대적으로 비정상이지

Average amateur's arsenal just astonishing
보통 아마추어의 무기고, 정말 놀라운 일이야

--Next, we'll learn words that begin with letter "B"
다음, B로 시작하는 단어에 대해서 배워보자

I be the big, bad body rockin Bombay to boulevard bully BACK
나는 크고, 나쁜 놈으로 Bombay에서 거리까지 통하지

Better bring a bomb to the battlefield
전장으로 폭탄을 가져오는게 좋아

Bloody black beats bringing bottoms that boom
피에 묻은 흑인의 비트가 폭탄을 밑바닥부터 가져와

Basically build barriers bewilder buffoons
기본적 방어막을 지어, 광대들을 혼란시켜

--Listen now to words that begin with letter "C"
C로 시작하는 단어를 한 번 들어봐

Crazy character, constantly creating concoctions
미친듯한 개성, 계속해서 혼합물을 만들어내

Catalyst, a cannibalistic rhymes conqueror
촉매, 식인종같은 라임을 쓰는 정복자

Correctly connecting, craniums crumble down
정확한 연결고리, 두개골은 부서져

Consistent capacity
변함없는 수용력

--Next we'll hear words that start with letter "D"
다음은 D로 시작하는 단어를 들어보자

Done did that done did this diddle don
이것도 하고 그것도 하고, 속여봤어

Domination don't dignify diction
지배는 말투를 위엄있게 하지 않아

Doin' it deep down dialect daring
방언으로 덤비는 일을 깊이 해

Doomsday dut devastate during the duration
계속되는 시간 속에서 절망의 날이 모두 부숴버린다

--Listen to our song for vowel "E"
모음 E를 이용한 우리의 노래를 들어봐

Extraterrestrial electrical, effortless
지구를 벗어난 듯한 전자적인, 노력이 필요없는

Eons of energy, everyone affected
오래된 에너지, 모두들 영향을 받았어

Efficiently epitomize excellent
유능하게 걸작을 요약해

Extravagant elevate where the essence is
본질이 있는 곳으로 사치스럽게 발전해

--"F" is the letter with which these words begin
F로 시작하는 단어들은 다음과 같아

Blackalicious got funk for the future filling up fiends finally
Blackalicious에겐 모두가 드디어 미래를 채울 수 있게 하는 펑크를 가졌어

Fabulous, furious, fatness, follow me
엄청난, 광폭한, 대단함, 나를 따라와

Niggers fall frequently, fact
모두들 자주 넘어져, 사실이지

Verbal felon fired up federally foundation fadin' all of this wack shit
언어의 중죄인이 총을 쏘아 우리 연합 재단은 가짜를 쳐부순다

-- You will listen carefully again to words with sounds for letter "G"
조심해서 G로 시작하는 다음 단어들을 한 번 들어봐

(scratched)
-I be the Gift of Gab
내가 Gift of Gab

-The man with the given gift of gab
언어의 재능을 받은 남자

man with the gift of gab
언어의 재능을 받은 남자

-I possess the gift of gab
내겐 언어의 재능이 있어

-Gift of gab, gab
언어의 재능, 재능

-I use my gift of gab to boast and brag in every rhyme I
난 내 언어의 재능을 사용해서 모든 라임에서 자랑을 해

-Got the gift of gab
내겐 언어의 재능이 있어

-When I shoot the gift, I shoot
네게 재능을 보여줄게, 보여줄게

-I use the gift of gab like a harpoon
마치 작살처럼 언어의 재능을 사용해

-On the serious tip, I'm equipped with a gift
팁 하나 주자면, 난 재능으로 무장했어

-The gift of gab, it don't waver
언어의 재능, 흔들리지 않아

-Yo man you gotta -- Grab the mic to show you got the gift of gab
이봐 넌 -- 마이크를 잡고 보여줘야 해, 너에겐 언어의 재능이 있어

--These are the letters B, C, D, and F, and then comes the letter G.
이 단어들이 B, C, D 그리고 F, 그다음 G야

(Sleep)

(chorus)
The hazy days go to nights returning on and on
The eye in the sky that don't lie be watching all y'all
The troublesome time filled anxieties just keep crawling on
And a dream world line up in your mind just keep on calling y'all

The shining lights of stages after the show are faded
The crowd is gone away, and now the dawning day
Gives way to creatures lurking, can hear the crickets chirping
Only the owls can see for this is when they start their prey
The homeless ask for quarters for shelter and some water
Say "sorry not today" and turn and walk away
The busy street is empty whistling winds are blowing gently
Listening intently to all of the things they have to say
A day of work completed a night of rest is needed
Almost done read a book but eyelids to heavy to read it
The fireplace is kindling, snug with your queen and building
About the victories tomorrow's gonna bring your way

(chorus)

(I hope that what I have written will be of some assistance)

Gazing outside the window the sunny skies dwindle
And now it's full of stars a hurling comet soars
While during the body slumber the soul begins to wander
To dream dimensions see the inner conscious doesn't pause
Keeps moving where it's bound to say now I lay me down to
After that stretch and yawn energy left and gone
The sandman's on your shoulder whispering in your ear he told you
Let all your problems go tonight I'm rapping hear my song
A day of work completed a night of rest is needed
Almost done read a book but eyelids to heavy to read it
The fireplace is kindling snug with your queen and building
About the victories tomorrow's gonna bring your way

(chorus x2)

(Sleep)

"Now, I thought I would talk about today
For your consideration, as the world turns
As the world turns, you read in all these scriptures
About the world, find out that the world does turn!"

As the world keeps spinning, we live these days
Dollar bill done drove the whole world crazy
While sitting on the porch letting ganja blaze
Never hesitate a moment to enhance my phrase
Since I needed that escape I take my pull
Seen the thugs on the corner trying to act all cool
Pretty much out of character
I look right through, their transparent exterior
You in my book getting written and I'm the derriere
Thought you was peeping me but I was aware of ya
You peep my ill expressions, how I just glare about
Trying to trace my inner world and my whereabouts
Well try on, try on
I'm watching everything that's going down
And it ain't nothing that I ain't been around
The same ghetto but a different town
Weeell, I remember growing up in the P-a-c
It was a whole lot of love in my family
I had clothes on my back and shoes on my feet
Times we didn't have a lot but that was fine with me
In good times and even bad times
Whether rainy, grey sky or the sunshine
Life was so much simpler, I didn't realise it then
But time has definitely made me a wiser man

[Chorus 2x: Erinn Anova]
The world keeps turning round
And time just keeps on moving

Sunday morning in the church just singing a song
Mama gave much praise cause her soul was strong
When I was young I used to do lots of thangs was wrong
I never thought about till one day she was gone
Now my daddy passed on about a year before
Reminiscing as I glance at the fishing pole
But these things gotta happen so we all can grow
And now they spirits much freer than they was befo'
So fly on, fly on, fly on, fly on, fly on, fly on, fly on
Cause there's angels in the midst
And they're guiding and watching me every day
And even though at times I let it get to me
Just a little and I go astray
We keep marching on and on
Young militants will watch and now we're growing
With kids of their own, as it all unfolds
As the world keeps turning on, the world keeps turning on

[Chorus 4x]

This one goes out to family, y'all come first
G-A-B, Chief Xcel, Blackalicious, out

Chorus:
We keep embellishing upon the new unchartered path
Expressing what we see and how we comprehend the math
So there's enough for everyone we gotta make it last
We gotta make it last

As I embark on life's journey from the point where im at
Piece to everyone I know and who I go way back with
Every pimp, every mack
Every gangstar, the Jack
Every hustler feeding babies
Anybody pro-black
Every sister raising kids without the help of a dad
Wanting for they're children all the things that they never had
All the brothers handling businesses, I know shit's hard
Wakin up at 5 a.m. holding down 3 jobs
All my Rasta bretheren getting insight from trees
To my brothers up in college getting PHD's
Or any other degree
Even if you just reading for mental health
Feed your conscious so that your mind is free
All my people locked down for your past mistakes
Mentally and spiritually dwelling past the gates
You can change your ways
Elevate today
To all recovered alcoholics chillin up in AA
Every black-owned business keep doin for self
Helpin out the community and spreadin the wealth
Understanding help aint gonna come from nowhere else
Revolutionary's fakin me and just get dealt
With head on black people got to lead the task
Educate keep learnin', got to question, ask
And let your light keep shinin and remember the past
By any means necessary you'll be free at least

Chorus

As I embark on life's journey from the point where I'm at
Peace to everybody strivin to live right and exact
Even though anxieties try to pull you down
See your troubles as a blessing and you're homeward bound
Everybody gotta struggle, that's the way of the world
Can't develop biceps if you don't do curls
Can't achieve a garden if you never water your crops
If you never pay your dues then you don't get props
Can't eat a proper meal without cooking it first
Can't receive a paycheck if you don't do work
If it wasn't for the rain then the trees won't grow
When the spring came 'round what a site to bestow
When you face adversities, dark cloud won't last
If you never study how do you expect to pass?
The grasshoppers laid around while the ants did chores
When the winter came around he was left outdoors
See the cycle keeps moving like a big machine
Evolution of the mind, soul, body and being
God'll never put up on you more than you can take
Sometimes you even gotta learn from other people's mistakes
With head on black people got to lead the task
Educate keep learnin', got to question, ask
And let your light keep shinin and remember the past
By any meeans necessary you'll be free at least

Chorus

gab:
yeah yeah (2x)

lateef:
blackalicious
lateef the truth speaker

gab: a little somethin

Together:
now if you want some you best come with a gun
you cant fuck with the tongue or the way the song is sung
by lateef and blackalicious we keep it fat, delicious
complete and grant your wishes
so peep the rap and listen
you cant be idle you best come trifle
but even with a rifle your stylell get stifled

lateef: quick

gab:
lateef and blackalicious we coming for that dough to get
the lyrics that we wrote again
are sounding rather vicous beyond scientific
I'll snap like a doberman I'm unable to hold it in
I really hope you feel it, check it out
droppin the topic and me apocaplypse
hip hop metroplis we stalkin mcs
dont stop this marvelous three partners
this bottomless beat has opened wideness
invitin us inside of its deep rhythmic enviroment
a labryinth its violent beings just won't be silent
and higher, and higher means to a world (?)
where all I need is prez
and that is my rent
just by fatting the rest
who wont admire it
wont rule as a tyrant
dont condone viloence
till the next man trys it
dont tax no pirate
just watch as I begin to shape your world
all mcs in the land spanked and baked and broiled
charred and seasoned in a pan - damn
awakened world stagnant even though they always been there
laggin about exposing it to the hearing impaired establishment
raw energy they cant be compared
tag em then we drag them then we finshed - yeah

together:
Now if you want some you best come with a gun
you cant fuck with the tongue or the way the song is sung
by lateef and blackalicious we keep it fat; delicious
complete and grant your wishes
so peep the rap and listen
you cant be idle you best come trifle
but even with a rilfe your stylell get stifled

lateef: quick

let it hit them
the suffocation begins your soul it gets engulfed in
the sound like its emotion it works just like a potion
it hurts just like thats only motion gotta think about some rules
see it cant just all be coastin
get to get the spectrum of the wave
whenever you know its flowin
got a notion and its deep keep it growing like the ocean dont get salty
its just me get a dose thats instantaneous essential constantly
fits like a constellation glowing natrually in facts you see the past
the future marches on triumphantly defiantly relentlessly
if it aint one thing its somethin something else
the instrumental that contributes to your mental health
as for most mcs we moving like a ninja that is killin ya stealthily
handle your bizness candidly fool we gigantic globally locally
and organically aint nothing you gonna do thats gonna damage me
in this currency its tragedy we value beyond champion originality
is this shit thats happen
we trigger an emotional response causes you to react violently
yeah we trigger an emotional response causes you to react violently

together:
Now if you want some you best come with a gun
you cant fuck with the tongue or the way the song is sung
by lateef and blackalicious we keep it fat; delicious
complete and grant your wishes
so peep the rap and listen
you cant be idle you best come trifle
but even with a rifle your stylell get stifled

lateef: quick

together:
lateef and blackalicious is coming for that dough to get
the lyrics that we wrote again are sounding rather vicious
Now if you want some you better come with a gun
you cant fuck with the tongue
or your ass'll get stung by lateef and blackalicious
we keep it fat, delicious
complete and grant your wishes we move just like eclipses
you cant be idle cause even with a title
and even with a rifle your styell get stifled - yeah

sample: The king is going home to get his throne
from the root to the flute that's where everything started at...
...(echo)

{mc's are in..} x2

ripping you to shitzo
get you on your tiptoes
I'm a drama dropper stomping all up in your zipcode
schizophrenic your panniced running from my epilogue
rap is like an insect crushed that I be steppin on
lethal weapon armed deafen all yall heads
up to the point of where your nervous smoking pall mall grits
I'm coming at ya busting at ya like a sawed off bit
you feel the horror of the slaughter
then your halued off wrecked
I'm breaking all yall necks in half flex
know the mathmatic formulas of fury
hey lets go the path of the terror dome zone dwellar
never goin gold
nigga better phone home
tell them mail a chrome tombstone
head up on a pedastal
a medical attention couldnt ever make it better from the metaphor of lynching
now get up out the kitchen before you burn from the diction
with your head up in this bitch until you learn with conviction
I'm addicted to inflicting you with your self-doubt
sticking the key to the ignition and I blow men down
facillities belittle mc's
we killen 'em
squeeze the mental trigger when i enter
spittin venom with ease
bring it

{mc's are in..} x2

faster than a speeding bullet power of a BART train
naturally the coolest when I'm rolling with my thought train
fill me up with octane
mentally are my brains coming down the chimeny slipping gifts up in your stocking
I came to win not just to play because I got game
niggas playing hard and cant identify with my pain
clean the hemoglobin off your sweater after I stain
fit condition lyracisim like jack lalanne
my main point is to show you i'm the jizoint
rappers never captitvate i d rather hear a pig oink
pin point precision impairin yalls vision
a lyrical wizzical microphone magician
pull a rabit out a hat and send him back to his habitat
your buried in the pages of my rhyme flow avalanche
put your smak down on your candy ass critics
the extravagant battle cat totallin your cadillac
matter factly blackalicious in your factory
fatter raps be bustin puss out your acne
planned a wack scheme to attack me
shattered that dream at a rapid ass speed black
bring it back trouble

{mc's are in trouble} x3

We getting' ready, to start the set

It's clockwork, got work
Put it in like doctors with awkwardness
Mopped your whole flock up
And walked toward ya
Scattered all up on the chalkboard
Socrates self is thoughtless
From farmers to Metropolis
I get these process all twisted
Form mental visual optics
My job description rock wiz
Clock ticks
I'm toxic giving oxygen to the thoughtless
intoxicant knocking the planet off it's axis
like oxes chappin(?)
Boxing compin (?) it up out though
Peepin it loose
Seeped in to you
Begin in to the outro

MC is what I be about though
The freshest widow without though
I can outflow
Any little doubt
Your little mouth throw out so
Take it out though
So I'm a gardener
I'm a chef eatin all you carnivores
I'm an ancient Zen master philosophic thought
comin like the Art of War
Handyman with lyrical hardware
And my house ain't made a ginger
But its made of an array of pages that'll slay ya like a ninja
Unemployed, no, I got work
And my job description
A rap technician
From sun up to sun down
And it's clockwork

Can you understand?
Every beat be made with sucker DJ's plus scissors and tape

Can you understand?
Lyrics that I write will put you in sound out of sight

Can you understand?
Master of scratching yes is he the one slippin
or is he the real captain?

Can you understand?
The way we rock keep runnin for a record around the clock

Grabbin the mic and unravelin with
The force of a javelin hit
Travelin Gift of Gab and I'm it
MC's are havin a fit
A man and a myth with a hat of magical tricks stored in my cabina-net,
Jamming and rippin the average listener cramming in it like a sandwich
A bit at a time
This critical rhyming individual will shine your pitiful kind
It's little so little that I will belittle your mind
Nigero tearin yo ego and spiritual flows
Divine imperial
Signed and delivered
So take time rewind and give it all
Your undivided attention
Divide is in division
Subtraction in addition
See I'm like a mathematician
Egyptologist wisdom
Hip-hop holy man submerging you all in my baptism
Security guard of the rap prison
Slap rhythms into newborns
and birth rap ism into blunts from sacks hittin,
get em off and make fat dividends
Now that's livin
See I got work
And my job description
A rap technician
From sun up to sun down
And it's clockwork

Can you understand?
Every beat be made with sucker DJ's plus scissors and tape

Can you understand?
Lyrics that I write will put you in sound out of sight

Can you understand?
Master of scratching yes is he the one slippin
or is he the real captain?

Can you understand?
The way we rock keep runnin for a record around the clock

One-two, one-two
This is my mic, my rhyme, my beat and my crowd

Do I have to give up my signature?
To get ya to figure it out
I'm walking the path that Allah had planted
or Jah, whoever you give your shout to
If your doubts
Rip you out your physical watch your spiritual drift up out
Floatin up on your way to infinity
Kiss the clouds
Just about
When you get to the point where the alien ships are out
Tell em I sent you to help ya and give ya directions
wherever you're going so that you don't miss the route
See, I send you traveling far
Unadulterated cleverness
And you'll never catch a flaw
I'm a hip-hop astrologist
And my raps a shooting star
I'm a bartender all into your mental
sittin at the bar ventures force injure
more injure pretenders the inventor of plenty other dullage (?)
your loving buzzin at your door like Jehovah witnesses is in the fall
If I was your landlord you wouldn't need to pay the rent at all
Just give me applause whenever I floss that'll be the only cost
See my occupation
A rap technician
From sun up to sun down
And it's clockwork and it don't stop

Can you understand?
Every beat be made with sucker DJ's plus scissors and tape

Can you understand?
Lyrics that I write will put you in sound out of sight

Can you understand?
Master of scratching yes is he the one slippin
or is he the real captain?

Can you understand?
The way we rock keep runnin for a record around the block

I just keep moving on... (moving on...)
I just keep moving on... (moving on...)

time and time, a brother asks why
the rhyme is not laced with a gangsta touch
I said "Simply because I don't live that way
still kickin' them rhymes rugged and rough"
"But that won't sell,
cause you gotta keep it real
so that we can feel
where you're coming from
Because these streets is ill so if you ain't
killing niggas in rhymes
your whole sound's just bubble gum"
I said "I won't contribute to genocide;
I'd rather try to cultivate the inner side
and try to evolve the frustrated ghetto mind
The devil and his army never been a friend of mine"
"But niggas don't wanna hear that shit" said the brother
who was obviously totally misled and yelled out
"murder murder, kill, murder" instilled in the influential (walks ?)
of our kids' heads


shallow days, you never wanna
let a brother be a brother
fully inner to the outer
caught up in all them hollow nights
can't escape cause everywhere that I look
people front, and it just ain't right
(repeat)


I said "Don't you know the powers that be
are using people as pawns, devouring we
until they see us all gone and outta the scene"
and as I passed the chronic, he said "look at where I be,
I tried to get a job for real,
but all the homies (hit licks?) and rob and steal
and keep fat pockets caught in a rut to catch ground
this way's in, plus who could you trust?"
I said "I'm all about protecting mine,
but neglecting minds for getting left behind.
Why don't you change your environment?"
He said "This is all I know,
plus my fam's all that I got, I can't go"
I said "You gotta make it for the fams"
"Damn," he said "I didn't make the ghetto,
The ghetto made the man"
I said "You're more than just that,"
shook his hand, said "Damn, you gotta find a way
to break the devil's master plan, peace"


shallow days, you never wanna
let a brother be a brother
fully inner to the outer
caught up in all them hollow nights
can't escape cause everywhere that I look
people front, and it just ain't right
(repeat)

The word "peace" is just an expression
used to say bye when it's time to jet
and them red black and green medallions
was all just part of the trend, I guess
Hardly ever them around brothers' necks no more
Instead of that gold (gats ?)
inspiring gangstas and macks
who at the young age of four
be seeing more drama than war veterans
instead of learning God's laws
and hip-hop is ((all the ways ?) till we enlist that ??)
to express how we be feeling about this and that
but music does reflect life
and kids look up to what you're portraying
and mimic what you act like
It's time for a new day
an era in rap, conscious styles,
makin' them aware of the happenings
but their ears seem more steered towards
self-annihilation so then they might laugh
and write this off, like I'm out here just
blowing wind, maybe label us soft or unreal,
something they just can't feel, while they yell
"murder murder murder, kill kill kill"

I just keep movin' on (moving on ...)
I just keep movin' on (moving on ...)

shallow days / hollow nights
(repeat)

"Whole house freeze!"

It was a Thursday I stepped to the club, there she was
Draped in a burgundy dress, silhouetted superbly
Curved indeed, she started staring in my direction
Luring and urging seductively, body language instructing me
I offered her a drink instead she took a cup of tea
And then I lied about my luxury lifestyle
I said "So who you be? You looking kind of tight, gal
I would love to see you in a nightgown"
She said "They call me the Dragon Queen and I come from Tibet
I'm calm in the face of pressure and you'll never see me sweat
I've come to your country in search of a lost Scroll
That contains directions to a hidden village comprised of gold"
I looked at her confused and said "But why have you told me this?"
She said the description that I fit
Was that of the Chosen One who'd go beyond
Then slipped a concoction in my drink
Immediately set my consciousness adrift?
Now I'm in that zone dwelling, I woke in a warehouse tied to a chair
With an abundance of flair surrounding me in a circular angle
Glared up at the Dragon Queen's lair, wasn't imagining a thing
Her steps on the stairs had a magic Gleam, glowed brightly
To prepare me for my journey a Sword was hovering towards me
Plus garlic from the Keepers of the Gate who bore all the secrets and take
Care of trespassers, but at last it's prophesied that I would gain
Access to a cultural dynasty buried and seize and capture the Scroll
Massive helicopters patrolled the rooftops, strapped in
Began travelling into the darkness, knew not of what awaited
Thought of a way to get out of it, just then the bottom gave way
I began falling and gave it ten seconds, pulled the cord on my parachute
Landed surrounded by a herd of wild barracudas, lions
The sounds of the wild kingdom piercing like a siren
Was I entering near the mere mortal life span's end?
Defiantly I stood boldly as they began closing in
And time seemed to be moving rapidly just then?
"Whole house freeze!"

Just then I pulled the Sword and somehow
It affected all the creatures as they stepped back and bowed
And the same Glow that I seen in the Sword I seen in the eyes of the Lion
Who began leading me in a specific direction as if trying to tell me something
Just over the horizon, the same creatures who had been described
Appeared in statue form but their eyes scoped
And as I approached the gate they began to break open and cried
"AFTER YEARS WE HAVE FINALLY BEEN AWAKENED!"
The assault was on, I got knocked to the ground by one
Shocked in an unorthodox form boxing
Throwing an abnormal proportion of body blows, karate chops
And drop kicks, plunged struggling deeper into the swamp
Then I grabbed my Sword, the garlic put it around my neck
Saw that it was draining all of their energy and then with a swing
Off with their heads!
The gates slowly and mysteriously opened
So curiously I moseyed in with intensity focusing on my objective
Spider webs the size of king-size beds
Fell into a secret passage not knowing to where it lead
Just then the same Light beamed brightly and in the distance
At that instance, lo and behold, the hidden Scroll!
And just as I thought my mission was over
I could feel the Dragon Queen breathing heavily over my shoulder

As she began to transform and metamorphosise
She took on an assortment of legs, arms, heads and eyes
And sprouted two horns and began to breathe fire
So once again I grabbed my trusty Sword but to my astonishment
She burned it to a crisp turned and grasped the Scroll
And exited much faster than secreted gas, I'm gasping
Clasp full of flames cast in my direction
I saw my whole life flash and the possibility of death
And a casket passed into the ground, pound for pound, astounding
How could I survive and last another round inside this madness?

"Whole house freeze!"

--We're going to learn to hear words with vowel "A" sound....Listen with care
지금부터 모음 'A'의 소리를 듣는 법을 배우겠다.. 잘 들어봐

(Gift of Gab)
(언어의 재능)

I be the analog arsonist, aimin at your arteries
난 아날로그 방화범, 너의 동맥을 겨냥해

All-seeing abstract, analyze everything
만물을 내다보는, 추상적인, 모든 것을 분석하는 나

Adding on, absolutely abolishing
거기다가, 절대적으로 비정상이지

Average amateur's arsenal just astonishing
보통 아마추어의 무기고, 정말 놀라운 일이야

--Next, we'll learn words that begin with letter "B"
다음, B로 시작하는 단어에 대해서 배워보자

I be the big, bad body rockin Bombay to boulevard bully BACK
나는 크고, 나쁜 놈으로 Bombay에서 거리까지 통하지

Better bring a bomb to the battlefield
전장으로 폭탄을 가져오는게 좋아

Bloody black beats bringing bottoms that boom
피에 묻은 흑인의 비트가 폭탄을 밑바닥부터 가져와

Basically build barriers bewilder buffoons
기본적 방어막을 지어, 광대들을 혼란시켜

--Listen now to words that begin with letter "C"
C로 시작하는 단어를 한 번 들어봐

Crazy character, constantly creating concoctions
미친듯한 개성, 계속해서 혼합물을 만들어내

Catalyst, a cannibalistic rhymes conqueror
촉매, 식인종같은 라임을 쓰는 정복자

Correctly connecting, craniums crumble down
정확한 연결고리, 두개골은 부서져

Consistent capacity
변함없는 수용력

--Next we'll hear words that start with letter "D"
다음은 D로 시작하는 단어를 들어보자

Done did that done did this diddle don
이것도 하고 그것도 하고, 속여봤어

Domination don't dignify diction
지배는 말투를 위엄있게 하지 않아

Doin' it deep down dialect daring
방언으로 덤비는 일을 깊이 해

Doomsday dut devastate during the duration
계속되는 시간 속에서 절망의 날이 모두 부숴버린다

--Listen to our song for vowel "E"
모음 E를 이용한 우리의 노래를 들어봐

Extraterrestrial electrical, effortless
지구를 벗어난 듯한 전자적인, 노력이 필요없는

Eons of energy, everyone affected
오래된 에너지, 모두들 영향을 받았어

Efficiently epitomize excellent
유능하게 걸작을 요약해

Extravagant elevate where the essence is
본질이 있는 곳으로 사치스럽게 발전해

--"F" is the letter with which these words begin
F로 시작하는 단어들은 다음과 같아

Blackalicious got funk for the future filling up fiends finally
Blackalicious에겐 모두가 드디어 미래를 채울 수 있게 하는 펑크를 가졌어

Fabulous, furious, fatness, follow me
엄청난, 광폭한, 대단함, 나를 따라와

Niggers fall frequently, fact
모두들 자주 넘어져, 사실이지

Verbal felon fired up federally foundation fadin' all of this wack shit
언어의 중죄인이 총을 쏘아 우리 연합 재단은 가짜를 쳐부순다

-- You will listen carefully again to words with sounds for letter "G"
조심해서 G로 시작하는 다음 단어들을 한 번 들어봐

(scratched)
-I be the Gift of Gab
내가 Gift of Gab

-The man with the given gift of gab
언어의 재능을 받은 남자

man with the gift of gab
언어의 재능을 받은 남자

-I possess the gift of gab
내겐 언어의 재능이 있어

-Gift of gab, gab
언어의 재능, 재능

-I use my gift of gab to boast and brag in every rhyme I
난 내 언어의 재능을 사용해서 모든 라임에서 자랑을 해

-Got the gift of gab
내겐 언어의 재능이 있어

-When I shoot the gift, I shoot
네게 재능을 보여줄게, 보여줄게

-I use the gift of gab like a harpoon
마치 작살처럼 언어의 재능을 사용해

-On the serious tip, I'm equipped with a gift
팁 하나 주자면, 난 재능으로 무장했어

-The gift of gab, it don't waver
언어의 재능, 흔들리지 않아

-Yo man you gotta -- Grab the mic to show you got the gift of gab
이봐 넌 -- 마이크를 잡고 보여줘야 해, 너에겐 언어의 재능이 있어

--These are the letters B, C, D, and F, and then comes the letter G.
이 단어들이 B, C, D 그리고 F, 그다음 G야

Gift of Gab]
Don't let money change ya!

Laaaaah, di-dah, da-da-dee-dah
Lah-di-dah, da-da-dee-dah (4X)

[Gift of Gab]
This is a story of a kid his name is Cisko (Cisko)
Who made more money than the Count of Monte Crisco (Crisco)
He lived a lavish style of life, fast money women cars
and he liked to frequent bars pubs and discos (discos)
Made his living as a world famous rap star (rap star)
When he first started mic respect's what he was af-ter (AF-ter)
And so he got inside his mind, day and night, and he'd write
constantly his art and craft he'd try to mas-ter (MAS-ter)
Started winnin local battles and his rep grew (rep grew)
Gave his crew a reputation as the best crew (best crew)
And what life would do to him, all the cards that was hard
pen and ped, stress relief would be his refuge (RE-fuge)
Paid his dues, doing shows, now he's on track (ON track)
In the lab, pumping demos, makin songs fat (SONGS fat)
Then he quit his nine to five, finally his time arrived
when he signed a major label record contract

Don't let money change ya!

Laaaaah, di-dah, da-da-dee-dah
Lah-di-dah, da-da-dee-dah (4X)

[Gift of Gab]
His first single was a overnight success hit (success hit)
And now he went from wearing rags to the best fits (best fits)
All his new acquitances, gassed his head, takin it
to the point where he lost proper perspective ('spective)
Started cuttin off the people he came up wit (up wit)
Ego blown like his soul had been ab-ducted (ab-ducted)
Though his heart was once real, now material has filled
up his world, and he couldn't get enough of it (get ENOUGH of it)
Used to wanna be the best of the rap dons (rap dons)
Now his only one concern is goin plati-NUM (plati-NUM)
And his skills has since decreased, and the inner hunger ceased
Now content, just as long as fame and cash come (CASH come)
He's a Big Willie now, rappin bout cars (bout cars)
Thousand dollar shoppin sprees, hangin out with stars (out with stars)
I mean just a year ago, he was broke, bummin money
Drinkin out the 40 bottle, livin outdoors

Don't let money change ya!

Laaaaah, di-dah, da-da-dee-dah
Lah-di-dah, da-da-dee-dah (4X)

[Gift of Gab]
Second LP, my rap changes fast (changes fast)
Here today, gone tomorrow, now his label passed (label passed)
Now the new poster boy, with the hip now sound
second time around everything isn't stable as (stable as)
It once was, now he's lookin for the same hit (SAME hit)
But his sound is played, he forget to change wit (CHANGE wit)
Them old hit rhymes, no one feelin him, his rhymes ain't appealin
anymore, and his records ain't sellin shit (ain't sellin SHIT)
Now he's dropped from his label, and he's goin broke (goin broke)
Tried the underground return, ghetto pass revoked (pass reVOKED)
And the same faces that he dissed, on his way, to the top
laughed as they watched him do the downstroke (DOWNstroke)
Now the moral of the story is that some go (some go)
Why would money make the inner vision crumble? (crumble)
So if you're blessed with the talent, utilize it to the fullest
be true to yourself and stay humble

Don't let money change ya!

Laaaaah, di-dah, da-da-dee-dah
Lah-di-dah, da-da-dee-dah (4X)

Don't let money change ya!

Laaaaah, di-dah, da-da-dee-dah
Lah-di-dah, da-da-dee-dah (2X)

Don't let money change ya!

Laaaaah, di-dah, da-da-dee-dah
Lah-di-dah, da-da-dee-dah (2X)

Don't let money change ya!

Laaaaah, di-dah, da-da-dee-dah
Lah-di-dah, da-da-dee-dah (2X to fade)

I be the first ever Asian astronaut
Blastin' off, castin' off
The ties that bind like a smashed guitar
Rode a mastodon out Jurassic Park
Chased by a fan in a Tyrannosaur mask
Travel the traffic cop
Past the spot
Where the ostrich got across for the ocelot
What I couldn't of bought
Cos they wouldn't a popped y'all
Just for me to cop it one

So I had to be up
I'm going gradually up
Into the galaxy bus
Until I can't feel my lungs
I pass the family up
I see an enemy's bus
Saw the anatomy up
I catch the ballerinas

Now I was walkin' down this one block
Didn't hear a gun shot
Smellin' hell or nature
Pickin' fruit off of a kumquat
Tree another day up in this life under the sunspot
Light upon my innervision searchin' for an answer
Heredetory, man-in-glory, days of the missle fury inventory took
And while I raise
Rain began to fall from the verbal dance I did amaze all the natives
And the ladies said "You're crazy - would you love to have my baby?"
And I plays with the chief of the Mohicans and the Sheikh
And travelled everywhere from Delaware way up to Mozambique
Was givin' praise with the Deacon at the steeple
Spirit-seekin'on the weekend with a tea can and a pair of old shades

It's such a beautiful thing
This musical thing
When I can do it my way
And shootin' no blanks
I just refute what you think
A quite unusual thing
Yes it's a mutual thing
Cos it's the root of all things, and we aims to be

The venomist, instrumentalist, syllabal-mystic man traveller
Skippin' through the brakes on a Wednesday into a city plaza
Tryin' to make it 20 out of 15 pennies on the after
The cold-hearted world creepin' on my destiny like salamanders
Enchanters, cos I run their goose and I be the gander
Cleanin' out the digestive tract of hip-hop like cranberries
Shinin' like amber
All of the children told me "Damn you're an
Answer to our ears and deadly threat that's posed by cancer"
On Prancer, on Comet, on Cupid, I'm Santa
Got more flow than Flo Jo, while I laugh Ho Ho Ho, got jo jo dancer
Punchlines, I'm a Crunchtime Casper, and a one-time champion for it
A hundred lifetimes in the hereafter, and for the reincarnation tranform
What the heck I'll come back for it
Gotta handle chores now, and discuss all of that with God afterwards

We goin' bobsled off the Himalayas
With the bottle of bobs ?
In a big ol' box full of the latest compilations
And then we won't stop til we hit the Appalachians
To the Bulletts Bargain Basement
Then 'cross the Baltic ocean basin
The ride 'cross that Oakland night bridge
A drop deposit in the drop embankment
Makin' cakes that taste like Tecrine
Bakin' ex-potatoes, raisins, plaintains, M&M's, peanuts, grape juice
I'm savin' my pay checks to get my plane fixed why's that
We goin' fly all night - stop the propellors and
Jump out of the side with umberellas and
Let's make them all night the caterpillars that
Take us to the top the Himalayas

It's such a beautiful thing
This musical thing
When I can do it my way
And shootin' no blanks
I just refute what you think
A quite unusual thing
Yes it's a mutual thing
Cos it's the root of all things, and we aims

A lot of people follow ? and tolerate indeed
About to lead 'em all to battle upon the bottom of the beat
And plant a seed of thought that sproutin'
Like a balance like a teeter-totter
Seen a lot of freedom ? the feat amount to beat the drama

He began to dis
Until the nurse, the passengers had grabbed his shirts
And nothin' happened assured the captain and the person
But the pressure had expanded, and inertia burst, the cabin burst
And all 'em burgers, blankets, rations, animals and drinks
They flew out

Fleeds a lots of man ?
Climb upon the wall like Peter Parker
Meeter of the creed of darker regions
Darker seasons
These are not the reasons for the grief
And now proceed to outer-reaches
How to keep styles from seepin' outta me

They flew out
The fusilage
Had blew in time
It stupid to have
The attitude
When you would dive
Into the ground
(Now) if you'd have thought
Of suicide
If you would try
But you would tie
A parachute
Onto a slide
And took a dive
Now who's alive?

It's such a beautiful thing
This musical thing
When I can do it my way
And shootin' no blanks
I just refute what you think
A quite unusual thing
Yes it's a mutual thing
Cos it's the root of all things, and we end

Super fabulous the patterns have been uplifted
smoke a chalice with the maddest and the most spliffted
turn the alphabet to calculus and flow swiftly
see the matter of the fact is that I'm so gifted
due payer you do say-a
behead a terra formin in a toupee
a true player who moves layers of earth
showin you are officially ridin with the crusaders
check it
i go hawaiian on an island in a phat tepee
then down in colin for some dining in a black three piece
im intertwining and aliging with a mack thesis
the tongue of iron rule the lion of the rap species
i go abominable all up in you snow igloo
clockin the dollas goin all across the globe tourin
all over the followers of doubters I'll be cold doin
the diabolical infallible that's most cruel and

in come the fabulous ones make way for the fabulous ones x2

super fabulous the patterns have been updated
wanna battle youll be baffled at the stuff stated
drowning in the shallow waters of the rough raging
verbal canoe with no paddle heading up state
i got a home made of chrome got an iron maiden
etchin poems in the stone with a wire cable
im the lone wolf who dont condone violatin
and when its on im leavin domes steady vibrating
in come the fabulos ones make way for the fabulous ones x2
i love waitin for rappers to arrive baked
is my nature so smile now and die later
cause yall fakers is nothing but some cry babies
that's why im writing out your citations
check it
im riding shottie doing gotti dirty work spiffy
in an impaly with a dolly and her skirts skimpy
the verbal scholly make you holla you get hurt simply
cause the holocaust end all across the earths empty

in come the fabulous ones make way for the fabulous ones x2

super fabulous the patterns have been upgraded
triple stamina commando get your hut raided
couldnt handle it you panicked and your luck faded
keep on yappin out your trap and ima duck tape it
see we been doing this since you was in a wet diaper
confusing as a rubix cube to the dense cipher
intuitive just like confusious in your next life
or a new addition of a ludricriuosly vexed sniper
pursuin moving units influence the next writers
student you ruin because you're truant before your test biter
bloomin and movin on in unison
consuming the consumer
and you and your crew'll be implented as 'west siders'

in come the fabulous ones make way for the fabulous ones x4

sample: welcome to a new kind of listening experience

(scratch out)