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Universal (feat. Black Thought, Pharoahe Monch, and Jay Electronica)

  1. (VERSE 1: THEORY)
  2. I'm rockin the jams, back by demand, not brand
  3. fans throw hands in the air, the man of the year stands
  4. expand my knowledge through my views, ocular growth
  5. in the hood politicking, getting the popular vote
  6. we die inside for every time, every Glock that we tote
  7. the game is full of tricks like a box of the smokes
  8. it's truth, I spit equal facts like I handle credit scores
  9. exposing fake emcees with similes and metaphors
  10. smoking medical weed, burn towns down, marijuana
  11. Americana, on the hunt like searching for Sarah Connor
  12. I'm spreading the seed like a vulture or the sparrow
  13. the pharaoh, send blazing arrows, rock ghetto apparel
  14. my concertos I drop science be complex as mathematics
  15. emcees are history cause I'm top of the line, crack addicts
  16. the way I murder beats and kill tracks is a bad habit
  17. mutilate the hi hat, destroy the bass and attract static
  18. like leather, heat up the track and add speed, black magic
  19. and voodoo powers are nothing, the magician's back at it
  20. spreading the word like butter, spectacular vernacular
  21. under the tongue razor flows, swords of warlords in Africa
  22. back in the game, spit knowledge, need some acknowledgement
  23. the game's deprived with no heirs, no more breathing with oxygen
  24. corporate handouts around your throat, reading the documents
  25. forcing you into schemes because their species is dominant
  26.  
  27. (VERSE 2: BLACK THOUGHT)
  28. They said he's busy, hold the line please
  29. Call me crazy, I thought maybe he could mind read
  30. Who does the blind lead? Show me a sign please
  31. If everything is made in China, are we Chinese?
  32. And why do haters separate us like we Siamese?
  33. Technology turning the planet into zombies
  34. Everybody all in everybody's dirty laundry
  35. Acid rain, earthquakes, hurricane, tsunamis
  36. Terrorists, crime sprees, assaults and robberies
  37. Cops yelling "stop freeze," shoot him before he try to leave
  38. Air quality so foul, I gotta try to breathe
  39. Endangered species, and we running out of trees
  40. If I could hold the world in the palm of these hands
  41. I would probably do away with these anomalies
  42. Everybody checking for the new award nominees
  43. Wars and atrocities, look at all the poverty
  44. Ignoring the prophecies, more beef than broccoli
  45. Corporate monopoly, weak world economy
  46. Stock market toppling, mad marijuana
  47. Oxycontin and Klonopin, everybody out of it
  48. Lord, forgive me for my shortcomings
  49. For going on tour and ignoring the court summons
  50. All I'm trying to do is live life to the fullest
  51. They sent my daddy to you in a barrage of bullets
  52.  
  53. (VERSE 3: JAY ELECTRONICA)
  54. You could check my name on the books
  55. I Earth, Wind, and Fire’d the verse, then rained on the hook
  56. The legend of Dorothy Flowers proclaimed from the roof
  57. The tale of a magnificent king who came from the nooks
  58. Of the wild magnolia, mother of many soldiers
  59. We live by every single word she ever told us
  60. Watch over your shoulders
  61. And keep a tin of beans for when the weather turns the coldest
  62. The Lord is our shepherd, so our cup runneth over
  63. Put your trust in the Lord but tether your Chevy Nova
  64. I’m spittin' this shit for closure
  65. And God is my witness, so you could get it from Hova
  66. To all you magicians that’s fidgeting with the cobra
  67. I’m solid as a rock, ‘cause I came from a rock
  68. That’s why I came with the rock, then signed my name on the Roc
  69. Draw a line around some Earth, then put my name on the plot
  70. Cause I endured a lot of pain for everything that I got
  71. The eyelashes like umbrellas when it rains from the heart
  72. And the tissue is like an angel kissin' you in the dark
  73. You go from blind sight to hindsight, passion of the Christ
  74. Right, to baskin' in the limelight, it take time to get your mind right
  75. Jay Electricity, PBS mysteries
  76. In a lofty place, tangling with Satan over history
  77. You can’t say shit to me Alhamdulillah
  78. It’s strictly by faith that we made it this far
  79.  
  80. (VERSE 4: PHAROAHE MONCH)
  81. My think tank's like a piranha tank think, multiple bites figure
  82. Mega, reality, tera, giga
  83. Grand Theft Auto, modern day Mickey and Mallory Small
  84. But I'm sick enough to walk into an art gallery and piss on a Picasso
  85. Crack statues, rub my balls on a Banksy shit on it and throw it at you
  86. So when the beat intensifies
  87. I become emotionally desensitized
  88. Like, once I slapped a rapper with mace
  89. Then I spit acid in his face, after he rinsed his eyes, no wait
  90. I actually grew five times my size grabbed Ma$e by the thigh and slapped a rapper with him
  91. Now that's practicing sacrilegious activism
  92. Attack is for battle, and practical rap with wisdom
  93. Actually, it's pragmatic capitalism for actors that crack under pressure and collapse when I get 'em
  94. Monch is medicinal man made medical marijuana
  95. With a phase plasma rifle like I'm searchin' for Sarah Conner
  96. And shorty's got brains, shorty not playin'
  97. From 40 blocks I'm a killa with 40 watt range
  98. With an arrangement of bullets that I've arranged
  99. Encrypted in scriptures specific individual names
  100. That shall remain anonymous
  101. Me and the ammunition's in a relationship that's monogamous
  102. It's like I'm married to the silencer
  103. Until I file for divorce and release my ex calibers
  104. Do art with your arteries, place that for my adversaries
  105. Push your snap back cap back, cap your capillaries like
  106.  
  107. (VERSE 5: RAKIM)
  108. Just when things seemed the same, and the whole scene is lame
  109. I come and reign with the unexplained for the brains 'til things change
  110. They strain to sling slang, I'm trained to bring game
  111. History that I arranged been regained by King James
  112. Go to practice, with tactics, when the track hits, theatrics
  113. Women that look like actress the status of Cleopatra's
  114. Stacks of mathematics to feed yo asiatics
  115. As I find out, what the facts is, for geographic
  116. No time to sip Mo's with hostess, never mind what the total gross is
  117. I rip shows, stay focused, and split cheese, with soldiers
  118. While you hit trees and coast I spit flows that be ferocious
  119. And with these explosives, I split seas for Moses
  120. Shine permanently only my mind's concernin me
  121. Fire burns in me eternally time's eternity
  122. Followers turn on me they'll be in a mental infirmary
  123. Determinely advance technology better than Germany
  124. Since the first days you know of, till the last days is over
  125. I was always the flow er, I made waves for Noah
  126. From a compound, to the anatomy, to the breakdown of a atom
  127. Some of my rap patterns, still surround Saturn
  128. From the ancient hieroglyphics, to graffiti painted pictures
  129. I study I know the scriptures but nowaday ain't it vicious
  130. Date back I go beyond, check the holy Qu'ran
  131. To speeches at the autobahn, now we get our party on
  132.  
  133. (VERSE 6: KOOL G RAP)
  134. Welcome to my world, danger and hazards
  135. Gang of bastards, bangin they ratchets
  136. King and the Jacker, slangin in traffic
  137. Claimin they cabbage, obtain half, they aimin for stackage
  138. Get brains from the addict, keep blingin with karats
  139. Cops aiming the 'matics, then let ya dame have it, flames to the attic
  140. The stains on ya fabric, the paint in the graphic
  141. Canibus and G Rap, bangin a classic
  142. And if that beef on the street hate you enough
  143. Blow out ya brain in ya casket
  144. Don't you love this drug element?
  145. Where slugs crush ya melon and dome
  146. Chrome that's known to break bones in an elephant
  147. Shotgun pellets and, gunsmoke; smell the scent
  148. Big bullets, wiggle ya guts like gelatin
  149. Cut through ya skeleton, knock out ya intelligence
  150. Ride, stand, and bite the dust
  151. Jake wanna be like a Russian cuffed on that Riker bus
  152. We raised in the slums, with haze in our lungs
  153. Raisin the guns, knowin;
  154. My day'll come, razors under the tongue
  155. Clips in the steel, bricks in the wheels
  156. Chips in the field of fortune
  157. Dead men walkin with hits on the grills
  158. Late night at the spot, posted with goons, dope and balloons
  159. Coke and the doom, scheme; I'll leave you open with wounds nigga
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