| [00:03.55] | Just sent this email to myself |
| [00:07.83] | I'm gonna read it off of my phone now |
| [00:10.65] | |
| [00:11.49] | Once again, south Oakland veteran, open letter sendin' |
| [00:15.67] | Hopin' you get it |
| [00:16.50] | Totally shreddin' |
| [00:17.65] | Yeah I said it a second time - Jazz |
| [00:19.74] | Second line, second world problem child |
| [00:22.36] | No style, All-Star, a lot of styles |
| [00:24.45] | Pro style, go wild a lot of nights |
| [00:26.43] | Look at the city that's a lot of lights |
| [00:28.63] | Young culture worker, the role reverser |
| [00:30.71] | The holy churcher, the folding furniture |
| [00:33.01] | The golden purse herder, the hearse hurdler |
| [00:35.21] | The turf surfer, A.D. that's adios to a lot of you haters |
| [00:39.39] | Ladies love the cool lottery vapors |
| [00:41.37] | But the only Ls I take is two tobacco leaf papers |
| [00:45.03] | Mediate truths like a lot of newspapers |
| [00:47.02] | |
| [00:58.82] | Kool childish, pop pop weasel schreech yo |
| [01:01.33] | Look how many years I have been living without a job |
| [01:03.94] | Like for real though |
| [01:05.09] | Y ma' o meno todo legal |
| [01:07.18] | And still got hella love for todo lo people |
| [01:10.42] | Labor for love, the kid signify |
| [01:12.30] | You don’t like it then spit in my eye |
| [01:14.39] | End of the day I still live in the sky |
| [01:16.48] | If you living with I then |
| [01:18.05] | I and I no kidding will visibly fly |
| [01:20.24] | And shine indivisibly in victory |
| [01:22.54] | Yous against can't do shit to me |
| [01:24.32] | Physically, lyrically, hypothetically, realistically |
| [01:26.83] | I'm the epitome of TOMA! |
| [01:29.86] | Catch you in the MoMA café |
| [01:32.26] | Laughing powder on the cold cuts |
| [01:34.45] | Black Shakespearian, never read Othello though |
| [01:36.75] | They say yo yo to my half Japanese with the cello though (Weezer) |
| [01:40.72] | Make it jiggle like it’s fresh like out the jello mold |
| [01:43.54] | Kool water ice cubes sprinkle game hella cold |
| [01:46.37] | Oh hella no, no, no, I didn't but I did though |
| [01:50.02] | Said it hella times in hella ryhmes but it’s still new to some |
| [01:53.47] | Don’t bust if you new to guns |
| [01:55.25] | But don’t trust when Babylon tell you what to do with guns |
| [01:58.28] | Understand that truths is both true to daughters and true to sons |
| [02:02.14] | And see the oldest truths are the newest ones and vice versa |
| [02:05.38] | I style like the Yin-Yang Twins, I might have told ya |
| [02:08.52] | I’m ODB plus Mariah the iron soldier |
| [02:11.76] | White checks in whiter folders |
| [02:13.22] | Stack steady in small minimum tables and move to higher rollers |
| [02:17.40] | Some men and women are steel but see the fire fold us |
| [02:20.74] | Some tend to children for real, |
| [02:22.21] | some lend the children to higher shoulders to sit on and steal all the lighter tropes they get on |
| [02:27.95] | And discard the lesser ones and leave them as lessons |
| [02:31.51] | For the clever dumb I’ll do you one better son |
| [02:33.70] | When your ears listen to fears |
| [02:36.10] | And your eyes brim up with tears |
| [02:37.77] | You're better never having shed a one |
| [02:39.66] | Cause you still couldn't drink that water if you shed a ton |
| [02:42.69] | Fist fight, get a knife |
| [02:44.36] | Knife fight, get a gun |
| [02:45.51] | Gun fight, get a few, son |
| [02:46.87] | I'm telling you if I got to tell you to get a bomb |
| [02:49.90] | You better get your mom |
| [02:50.94] | Tell her to send a nickel to the no bombs telethon |
| [02:53.76] | Half you actresses be acting like you at the banana smell-a-thon |
| [02:57.63] | Hella wrong |
| [02:58.57] | Let's get ready to rumble, let's get it on |
| [03:00.66] | Let's get it, let's get rich, let's get paid |
| [03:02.12] | Let's get that bitch, let's let that rip |
| [03:03.90] | You better step back, kid |
| [03:06.51] | Yo, I rock from Buena Vista out to maybe like, LeFrak kid |
| [03:12.67] | Throat to the neck don't waste that |
| [03:14.76] | Pass this sobrinito |
| [03:17.38] | Take it as a prophecy from Tio Cleo |
| [03:19.36] | Call me Tito Jackson in a head wrap |
| [03:21.76] | Alhamdulillah, yeah I said that too |
| [03:24.80] | Numbers in a red black blue and other colors |
| [03:27.30] | But my favorite hue is cool |
| [03:28.66] | Yo that's a shade of grey |
| [03:30.44] | The only times I paid to play |
| [03:31.69] | Were the times I had paper to give away |
| [03:33.78] | Like you gonna get a tip today |
| [03:36.50] | It's a damn shame the way the champagne sip away |
| [03:39.11] | The ice might melt and drip away |
| [03:41.51] | But picture yourself rolling in a Lincoln |
| [03:43.39] | Seeing pawnshops slink in your peripheral vision |
| [03:45.69] | And drift away it's just me bullshitting |
| [03:49.14] | Eh I ain't got shit to say |
| [03:50.50] | It's just Vic, a swift kid from the A-L-A-M-E-D-A |
| [03:54.05] | A simple game you ought to see me play |
| [03:56.46] | Amaze 88 done did it again (Ocho Ocho) |
| [03:59.17] | Bless the kid with a little more heat today (Ocho Ocho) |
| [04:02.41] | Listen to the beat, it's way more complex than |
| [04:04.81] | You might want to give it credit for |
| [04:06.49] | A lot of y'all lettuce green you need to edit more |
| [04:09.10] | And listen back and think about the reasons that you said it for |
| [04:11.61] | And understand that all language is metaphor |
| [04:13.91] | And if you headed for a wall, you better set a course to a door |
| [04:16.41] | And if there's no door, you better get a door |
| [04:18.40] | And if not, just look and see what you saw |
| [04:20.49] | And with that saw cut yourself in half |
| [04:22.89] | And two halves make a whole so climb through that |
| [04:25.29] | I climb through raps to worlds untouched |
| [04:27.59] | And unsullied by human language |
| [04:29.16] | My wine dutty cutty |
| [04:30.73] | My Cuban Spanglish |
| [04:31.77] | Sip my sugar water Tangish, Tangesque, Tangy |
| [04:39.61] | Kool A.D. best rapper in the world |
| [00:03.55] | Just sent this email to myself |
| [00:07.83] | I' m gonna read it off of my phone now |
| [00:10.65] | |
| [00:11.49] | Once again, south Oakland veteran, open letter sendin' |
| [00:15.67] | Hopin' you get it |
| [00:16.50] | Totally shreddin' |
| [00:17.65] | Yeah I said it a second time Jazz |
| [00:19.74] | Second line, second world problem child |
| [00:22.36] | No style, AllStar, a lot of styles |
| [00:24.45] | Pro style, go wild a lot of nights |
| [00:26.43] | Look at the city that' s a lot of lights |
| [00:28.63] | Young culture worker, the role reverser |
| [00:30.71] | The holy churcher, the folding furniture |
| [00:33.01] | The golden purse herder, the hearse hurdler |
| [00:35.21] | The turf surfer, A. D. that' s adios to a lot of you haters |
| [00:39.39] | Ladies love the cool lottery vapors |
| [00:41.37] | But the only Ls I take is two tobacco leaf papers |
| [00:45.03] | Mediate truths like a lot of newspapers |
| [00:47.02] | |
| [00:58.82] | Kool childish, pop pop weasel schreech yo |
| [01:01.33] | Look how many years I have been living without a job |
| [01:03.94] | Like for real though |
| [01:05.09] | Y ma' o meno todo legal |
| [01:07.18] | And still got hella love for todo lo people |
| [01:10.42] | Labor for love, the kid signify |
| [01:12.30] | You don' t like it then spit in my eye |
| [01:14.39] | End of the day I still live in the sky |
| [01:16.48] | If you living with I then |
| [01:18.05] | I and I no kidding will visibly fly |
| [01:20.24] | And shine indivisibly in victory |
| [01:22.54] | Yous against can' t do shit to me |
| [01:24.32] | Physically, lyrically, hypothetically, realistically |
| [01:26.83] | I' m the epitome of TOMA! |
| [01:29.86] | Catch you in the MoMA cafe |
| [01:32.26] | Laughing powder on the cold cuts |
| [01:34.45] | Black Shakespearian, never read Othello though |
| [01:36.75] | They say yo yo to my half Japanese with the cello though Weezer |
| [01:40.72] | Make it jiggle like it' s fresh like out the jello mold |
| [01:43.54] | Kool water ice cubes sprinkle game hella cold |
| [01:46.37] | Oh hella no, no, no, I didn' t but I did though |
| [01:50.02] | Said it hella times in hella ryhmes but it' s still new to some |
| [01:53.47] | Don' t bust if you new to guns |
| [01:55.25] | But don' t trust when Babylon tell you what to do with guns |
| [01:58.28] | Understand that truths is both true to daughters and true to sons |
| [02:02.14] | And see the oldest truths are the newest ones and vice versa |
| [02:05.38] | I style like the YinYang Twins, I might have told ya |
| [02:08.52] | I' m ODB plus Mariah the iron soldier |
| [02:11.76] | White checks in whiter folders |
| [02:13.22] | Stack steady in small minimum tables and move to higher rollers |
| [02:17.40] | Some men and women are steel but see the fire fold us |
| [02:20.74] | Some tend to children for real, |
| [02:22.21] | some lend the children to higher shoulders to sit on and steal all the lighter tropes they get on |
| [02:27.95] | And discard the lesser ones and leave them as lessons |
| [02:31.51] | For the clever dumb I' ll do you one better son |
| [02:33.70] | When your ears listen to fears |
| [02:36.10] | And your eyes brim up with tears |
| [02:37.77] | You' re better never having shed a one |
| [02:39.66] | Cause you still couldn' t drink that water if you shed a ton |
| [02:42.69] | Fist fight, get a knife |
| [02:44.36] | Knife fight, get a gun |
| [02:45.51] | Gun fight, get a few, son |
| [02:46.87] | I' m telling you if I got to tell you to get a bomb |
| [02:49.90] | You better get your mom |
| [02:50.94] | Tell her to send a nickel to the no bombs telethon |
| [02:53.76] | Half you actresses be acting like you at the banana smellathon |
| [02:57.63] | Hella wrong |
| [02:58.57] | Let' s get ready to rumble, let' s get it on |
| [03:00.66] | Let' s get it, let' s get rich, let' s get paid |
| [03:02.12] | Let' s get that bitch, let' s let that rip |
| [03:03.90] | You better step back, kid |
| [03:06.51] | Yo, I rock from Buena Vista out to maybe like, LeFrak kid |
| [03:12.67] | Throat to the neck don' t waste that |
| [03:14.76] | Pass this sobrinito |
| [03:17.38] | Take it as a prophecy from Tio Cleo |
| [03:19.36] | Call me Tito Jackson in a head wrap |
| [03:21.76] | Alhamdulillah, yeah I said that too |
| [03:24.80] | Numbers in a red black blue and other colors |
| [03:27.30] | But my favorite hue is cool |
| [03:28.66] | Yo that' s a shade of grey |
| [03:30.44] | The only times I paid to play |
| [03:31.69] | Were the times I had paper to give away |
| [03:33.78] | Like you gonna get a tip today |
| [03:36.50] | It' s a damn shame the way the champagne sip away |
| [03:39.11] | The ice might melt and drip away |
| [03:41.51] | But picture yourself rolling in a Lincoln |
| [03:43.39] | Seeing pawnshops slink in your peripheral vision |
| [03:45.69] | And drift away it' s just me bullshitting |
| [03:49.14] | Eh I ain' t got shit to say |
| [03:50.50] | It' s just Vic, a swift kid from the ALAMEDA |
| [03:54.05] | A simple game you ought to see me play |
| [03:56.46] | Amaze 88 done did it again Ocho Ocho |
| [03:59.17] | Bless the kid with a little more heat today Ocho Ocho |
| [04:02.41] | Listen to the beat, it' s way more complex than |
| [04:04.81] | You might want to give it credit for |
| [04:06.49] | A lot of y' all lettuce green you need to edit more |
| [04:09.10] | And listen back and think about the reasons that you said it for |
| [04:11.61] | And understand that all language is metaphor |
| [04:13.91] | And if you headed for a wall, you better set a course to a door |
| [04:16.41] | And if there' s no door, you better get a door |
| [04:18.40] | And if not, just look and see what you saw |
| [04:20.49] | And with that saw cut yourself in half |
| [04:22.89] | And two halves make a whole so climb through that |
| [04:25.29] | I climb through raps to worlds untouched |
| [04:27.59] | And unsullied by human language |
| [04:29.16] | My wine dutty cutty |
| [04:30.73] | My Cuban Spanglish |
| [04:31.77] | Sip my sugar water Tangish, Tangesque, Tangy |
| [04:39.61] | Kool A. D. best rapper in the world |
| [00:03.55] | Just sent this email to myself |
| [00:07.83] | I' m gonna read it off of my phone now |
| [00:10.65] | |
| [00:11.49] | Once again, south Oakland veteran, open letter sendin' |
| [00:15.67] | Hopin' you get it |
| [00:16.50] | Totally shreddin' |
| [00:17.65] | Yeah I said it a second time Jazz |
| [00:19.74] | Second line, second world problem child |
| [00:22.36] | No style, AllStar, a lot of styles |
| [00:24.45] | Pro style, go wild a lot of nights |
| [00:26.43] | Look at the city that' s a lot of lights |
| [00:28.63] | Young culture worker, the role reverser |
| [00:30.71] | The holy churcher, the folding furniture |
| [00:33.01] | The golden purse herder, the hearse hurdler |
| [00:35.21] | The turf surfer, A. D. that' s adios to a lot of you haters |
| [00:39.39] | Ladies love the cool lottery vapors |
| [00:41.37] | But the only Ls I take is two tobacco leaf papers |
| [00:45.03] | Mediate truths like a lot of newspapers |
| [00:47.02] | |
| [00:58.82] | Kool childish, pop pop weasel schreech yo |
| [01:01.33] | Look how many years I have been living without a job |
| [01:03.94] | Like for real though |
| [01:05.09] | Y ma' o meno todo legal |
| [01:07.18] | And still got hella love for todo lo people |
| [01:10.42] | Labor for love, the kid signify |
| [01:12.30] | You don' t like it then spit in my eye |
| [01:14.39] | End of the day I still live in the sky |
| [01:16.48] | If you living with I then |
| [01:18.05] | I and I no kidding will visibly fly |
| [01:20.24] | And shine indivisibly in victory |
| [01:22.54] | Yous against can' t do shit to me |
| [01:24.32] | Physically, lyrically, hypothetically, realistically |
| [01:26.83] | I' m the epitome of TOMA! |
| [01:29.86] | Catch you in the MoMA café |
| [01:32.26] | Laughing powder on the cold cuts |
| [01:34.45] | Black Shakespearian, never read Othello though |
| [01:36.75] | They say yo yo to my half Japanese with the cello though Weezer |
| [01:40.72] | Make it jiggle like it' s fresh like out the jello mold |
| [01:43.54] | Kool water ice cubes sprinkle game hella cold |
| [01:46.37] | Oh hella no, no, no, I didn' t but I did though |
| [01:50.02] | Said it hella times in hella ryhmes but it' s still new to some |
| [01:53.47] | Don' t bust if you new to guns |
| [01:55.25] | But don' t trust when Babylon tell you what to do with guns |
| [01:58.28] | Understand that truths is both true to daughters and true to sons |
| [02:02.14] | And see the oldest truths are the newest ones and vice versa |
| [02:05.38] | I style like the YinYang Twins, I might have told ya |
| [02:08.52] | I' m ODB plus Mariah the iron soldier |
| [02:11.76] | White checks in whiter folders |
| [02:13.22] | Stack steady in small minimum tables and move to higher rollers |
| [02:17.40] | Some men and women are steel but see the fire fold us |
| [02:20.74] | Some tend to children for real, |
| [02:22.21] | some lend the children to higher shoulders to sit on and steal all the lighter tropes they get on |
| [02:27.95] | And discard the lesser ones and leave them as lessons |
| [02:31.51] | For the clever dumb I' ll do you one better son |
| [02:33.70] | When your ears listen to fears |
| [02:36.10] | And your eyes brim up with tears |
| [02:37.77] | You' re better never having shed a one |
| [02:39.66] | Cause you still couldn' t drink that water if you shed a ton |
| [02:42.69] | Fist fight, get a knife |
| [02:44.36] | Knife fight, get a gun |
| [02:45.51] | Gun fight, get a few, son |
| [02:46.87] | I' m telling you if I got to tell you to get a bomb |
| [02:49.90] | You better get your mom |
| [02:50.94] | Tell her to send a nickel to the no bombs telethon |
| [02:53.76] | Half you actresses be acting like you at the banana smellathon |
| [02:57.63] | Hella wrong |
| [02:58.57] | Let' s get ready to rumble, let' s get it on |
| [03:00.66] | Let' s get it, let' s get rich, let' s get paid |
| [03:02.12] | Let' s get that bitch, let' s let that rip |
| [03:03.90] | You better step back, kid |
| [03:06.51] | Yo, I rock from Buena Vista out to maybe like, LeFrak kid |
| [03:12.67] | Throat to the neck don' t waste that |
| [03:14.76] | Pass this sobrinito |
| [03:17.38] | Take it as a prophecy from Tio Cleo |
| [03:19.36] | Call me Tito Jackson in a head wrap |
| [03:21.76] | Alhamdulillah, yeah I said that too |
| [03:24.80] | Numbers in a red black blue and other colors |
| [03:27.30] | But my favorite hue is cool |
| [03:28.66] | Yo that' s a shade of grey |
| [03:30.44] | The only times I paid to play |
| [03:31.69] | Were the times I had paper to give away |
| [03:33.78] | Like you gonna get a tip today |
| [03:36.50] | It' s a damn shame the way the champagne sip away |
| [03:39.11] | The ice might melt and drip away |
| [03:41.51] | But picture yourself rolling in a Lincoln |
| [03:43.39] | Seeing pawnshops slink in your peripheral vision |
| [03:45.69] | And drift away it' s just me bullshitting |
| [03:49.14] | Eh I ain' t got shit to say |
| [03:50.50] | It' s just Vic, a swift kid from the ALAMEDA |
| [03:54.05] | A simple game you ought to see me play |
| [03:56.46] | Amaze 88 done did it again Ocho Ocho |
| [03:59.17] | Bless the kid with a little more heat today Ocho Ocho |
| [04:02.41] | Listen to the beat, it' s way more complex than |
| [04:04.81] | You might want to give it credit for |
| [04:06.49] | A lot of y' all lettuce green you need to edit more |
| [04:09.10] | And listen back and think about the reasons that you said it for |
| [04:11.61] | And understand that all language is metaphor |
| [04:13.91] | And if you headed for a wall, you better set a course to a door |
| [04:16.41] | And if there' s no door, you better get a door |
| [04:18.40] | And if not, just look and see what you saw |
| [04:20.49] | And with that saw cut yourself in half |
| [04:22.89] | And two halves make a whole so climb through that |
| [04:25.29] | I climb through raps to worlds untouched |
| [04:27.59] | And unsullied by human language |
| [04:29.16] | My wine dutty cutty |
| [04:30.73] | My Cuban Spanglish |
| [04:31.77] | Sip my sugar water Tangish, Tangesque, Tangy |
| [04:39.61] | Kool A. D. best rapper in the world |
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