VERSE 1
Hip hop post revision
Narrative future beginning
Belittled spinner
Saw the big picture to them
Pieces weren’t fitting
Seek to enlist you
Tricked, masked, and camoflauged
Used to play bad at pogs
In college the napped
Abstract vagabond
Can’t stand the ground you’re
Standing on/ Man of gods
Moratorium on meritocracy
I weave in cypher/ raise discourse
Higher like Socrates/ get off
The wheel/ can’t mold clay
Hegemonic pottery/ fertile
Learning ground/ No lobotomy
Beyond molded

CHORUS
Vetted for bets/ settling threats
Used to call me concept
Peddled to settled like chess
Melanin blessed/ unfettered in nets
Like he ain’t measuring death
Caught his breath/ dreamt of Malcolm X
Interrupted institutionalized so called
Non-partisan artifice/ either remain
A narcissist/ or unplug and run
All the risk/ pictured addiction
As a mindless subscription to
An unknown mission/ audition
Of sadistic vision/ refracted
Through space time
Are they certain the skirmish
Was finished? I’m Gladwell
Said the big pond ain’t the litmus

VERSE 2
Uprock bottle rockets and comets
Vocab locks in like a comic
Emcees make comments/ decomposed sonnets
Writing back in the office/ soliloquies
Of warring entity/ whole not sum like symphony
Dripping in epiphany/ infantry
Assembly lined and automated
Seated on train operated by
Fractle doppelgänger
Lineage linear/ racial paradigm
Unphased/ who is unnamed?
Still in the crosshairs of the mundane

CHORUS
Vetted for bets/ settling threats
Used to call me concept
Peddled to settled like chess
Melanin blessed/ unfettered in nets
Like he ain’t measuring death
Caught his breath/ dreamt of Malcolm X
Interrupted institutionalized so called
Non-partisan artiface/ either remain
A narcissist/ or unplug and run
All the risk/ pictured addiction
As a mindless subscription to
An unknown mission/ audition
Of sadistic vision/ refracted
Through space time
Are they certain the skirmish
Was finished?

VERSE 2
Vetted for bets/ settling threats
Used to call me concept
Peddled to settled like chess
Melanin blessed/ unfettered in nets
Like he ain’t measuring death
Caught his breath/ dreamt of Malcolm X
Interrupted institutionalized so called
Non-partisan artiface/ either remain
A narcissist/ or unplug and run
All the risk/ pictured addiction
As a mindless subscription to
An unknown mission/ audition
Of sadistic vision/ refracted
Through space time
Are they certain the skirmish
Was finished?

CHORUS
Vetted for bets/ settling threats
Used to call me concept
Peddled to settled like chess
Melanin blessed/ unfettered in nets
Like he ain’t measuring death
Caught his breath/ dreamt of Malcolm X
Interrupted institutionalized so called
Non-partisan artiface/ either remain
A narcissist/ or unplug and run
All the risk/ pictured addiction
As a mindless subscription to
An unknown mission/ audition
Of sadistic vision/ refracted
Through space time
Are they certain the skirmish
Was finished?

VERSE 3
Experiential visions/ in front of mirror
Rendered invisible/ tossed to own drum
Epistemic step in ecstatic lyrics
Mural of many miracles
How are we to deconstruct
What he has thunk?
If I uppercut this subtle
Racist fuck/ I may get cuffed
Still spiraling/ used to pop
Prescription solution recycling
It will ruin the environment
Realize you were piloting
A depersonalized campaign

OUTRO
Were they certain the skirmish
Was finished?
I’m Gladwell/ said the big pond
Ain’t the litmus/ minuscule individuals
Taught to internalize oppress
Unlearn, untuck
Accentuate new mental gate
Share narrative/ liberation loaded
Beloved communities/ buried seeds
Open/ rise up unapologeticly