Back to the Essence-Blackalicious/Lateef The Truth Speaker/Cut Chemist

[ti:Back to the Essence] [ar:Blackalicious/Lateef The Truth Speaker/Cut Chemist] [al:A2G] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Back to the Essence - Blackalicious/Lateef The Truth Speaker/Cut Chemist [00:01.45]When I'm on the mic I stand tall with gall [00:04.02]Style worth more than anything you goin' find in mall [00:07.03]The treasure of the mutiny is what keeps you all enthralled [00:09.92]I lively up the people with the yes yes y'all [00:12.10] [00:12.70]Create wait watch and let the fake fall [00:14.91] [00:15.45]Employ my strategy like checkmate [00:17.81]Call your bluff in that destruction of all previous discussion [00:20.72]When I hit like a concussion your heart rate stall [00:24.03]Recorders all stall you jaw'll go slack [00:26.75]I deliver makin' quivers and shivers all down your back [00:29.37]Like a river flow the beat [00:30.44]Bounces in Cadillacs bumpin' that vicious Blackalicious [00:33.42]Kick drum that keeps punchin' through that speaker [00:35.90]Countinously meticoulously etchin' out the spaces in time [00:39.88]For miles affecting rhymes that changing minds permanently [00:42.60]Like mescaline giving your whole perception perspective [00:45.05]A new design that wreck that misconception [00:47.38]Now we seeing eye to eye yet [00:48.66]Can the MC speak The suckas stay quiet [00:51.21]The crowd can get rowdy like the party was a riot [00:54.45]Try it and the ladies will who ride your a** up out the spotlite [00:57.57]You crazy don't you know that fool Lateef'll set it on you [01:00.24]He better than you she telling you the truth due [01:03.17]I give you the proof due [01:04.53]Step you end up getting cut up by the cornerstone's edge [01:07.56]Down back by the end I say Don't get contrary [01:10.26] [01:10.79]'Cause baby I'm very highly motivated [01:13.78]I'm trying to do that play and ownership thing like Isiah did [01:16.67]Hope your vision ain't impaired [01:18.10]But my prayers you can hear what I'm saying to you [01:20.69]Now if you fakin' it may sound strange to you [01:22.80]Like some way under my breath maybe I'm playing [01:25.37]But I only do that murder rap sh*t for those whose the cap fit [01:28.38]As for the rest I'm trying to you all back to the essence [01:31.35]Back to the essence when we in the house feel the almighty presence [01:35.10]Making MC's act humble like peasants [01:38.21]Smoking the mic and leaving nothing but resin [01:41.01]Making the spots pop like pots full of wesson [01:43.90]Making it hot cooking your goose and your pheasant [01:46.70]Taking your props leaving your a** butt naked [01:48.90] [01:49.61]Soul exposed no material protection [01:51.69] [01:52.32]Low and behold we going back [01:54.24]I be that G I to the F when I get def up on that mic [01:56.85]I swing that lefty no discrepancy and effortlessly [01:59.22]And in the right frame of mind [02:00.75]Electricity combined with mind soul and the way I flex the agility [02:04.14]Focus ability makes some heads quite restless in this vicinty [02:06.61]Trying to fill me out but they just jesters in my vicinty stuck in my art [02:10.28]Trying to feather my energy I bless plenty of enemies [02:13.07]Hittin' me with expressions that would so would like to get rid of me [02:16.85]In my quest to be the epitome it'll be cold in hell [02:19.30]'Fore I feel stress from any of these illiterate [02:21.30]Insecure about they little insignificant contributions [02:24.32]Infinitely I'm mocking yes and don't whenever the gift put out a fly quote [02:28.20]Yes I'm doing my thing and leaving a cloud of cess smoke [02:30.92]Wherever I go whether I'm balling whether I'm flat dead broke [02:33.42]I'm heeding my call and leaving a ball of rappers with heads roast [02:36.38]And bringing that universal dopeness to the East and West Coast [02:39.17]And really no one the best though is God [02:41.34]Allowing you to harness the energy within whoever feels the most [02:43.96]At the moment takes it the farthest [02:46.04]So thank Him 'cause it's through you that he manifest artistry [02:48.63]Like a painting with an infinite beyond lifetime warranty [02:51.38]And Satan is a wack diseased that needs to be quarantined [02:54.29]And caged in I'm riding a boat of dopeness come on aboard with me [02:57.39]And engage in a tale of musical invention [02:59.52]An MC lynchin' convention GA [03:01.01]Lyrical fifth dimension miracles all up in your system [03:03.59] [03:07.41]Back to the essence when we in the house feel the almighty presence [03:11.24]Making MC's act humble like peasants [03:14.13]Smoking the mic and leaving nothing but resin [03:16.46] [03:17.13]Making the spots pop like pots full of wesson [03:19.83]Making it hot cooking your goose and your pheasant [03:22.53]Taking your props leaving your a** butt naked [03:25.30]Soul exposed no material protection [03:28.24]Low and behold we going back to the essence