Death Before Genesis
[Verse 1]
You couldn't tell me nothing
I'm dealing cards with the Devil, gambling everything for the shot
At a spot on that mountain top
Off limit minorities they word burn in this Melting Pot
That's after the master's lock they broke open
I'm running low on these tokens if it's all a game
Father if police doesn't bother
You're worrying 'bout that doe not them alter boys that your harbor
Preach to 'em father, have them reciting 'Our Father'
'Long as your secret's safe when they're catching up with their fathers
Amen
Know the younger pretend so you cower and see that barrel as power
Dime bags and then bagging dimes is all that is life
To these villains pulling those triggers
You couldn't trigger emotion but paint it black on that picture
Get the fuck off the shackles
Passed 2012, in a dream a Mayan had told me it's cool
Keep fucking with them, give something to use
So to excuse an action, what happens is people lose
Counting up numbers like suicides on your morning news
And if you ain't paying dues, say goodbye to that school
Take out a loan, graduate, they won't leave you alone
My nigga paying them off, juggling work and two daughters
But he got enough change for a ho to come break him off
Wasn't ever nothing if money's tight brother
For broads you tryna get fly, yeah that's Wright Brother
I enter with Michael Buffer, as lethal as Danny Glover
A pupil set to transcend beyond what your sight covers
If life's wonders weren't enough of a reason to raise him
That raisin in the sun is the reason
Holy water's spraying those inner city sinners with me God
And they're in me spilling these feelings
I'm peeling the skin off the apple Eve and Adam had left me God
[Verse 2]
And I ain't spoke to him in a minute
But I'mma let Mary finish before I plead for forgiveness
With one particular call he kept me on hold for about a decade
Recall the love you let fade when it was at it's highest
Don't overdose on that fuel, critics be Len Biased
Don't overdose in a pool full of your wildest dreams
Indulge in a hidden scheme, dubbed the American Dream
With riches come kerosene for your old acquaintances
"What of me?" Support isn't valued as much as patience is
What is she? But a miss from the start
Misses Kill the Heart and part of me
Missing in the dark, does miss but apart
We remain while at war with ourselves and the arrows grazed me
Knowing she will replay me is getting to she who played me
Getting to point of views that you couldn't reach
Because of his color, you couldn't fathom but still you seek
Because of a mother without a husband, that widow's peak
Was getting that cut from her son following his greatest feat
Those heroes were losing when DC had the answer for Black Panthers
Like Redskins trying to stop Cam Newton
Rooting for pushing towards that goal line
Tell 'em I sold mine for a co-sign
All the while everyone's using
And so get sidetracked on the sidelines by the side that you on
Don't size me up without sizable evidence
I'm surrendering what I grew on
Peddling in reverse through that distance
That I set between you and me back when I had your assistance
I return and in turn I'm internally instilled with how that guilt feel
Tell 'em it's genesis and that's genocide
For any and every rapper practicing with preaching lies
Witness with dirty hands and a shovel that it's alive