Universal (feat. Black Thought, ...

(VERSE 1: THEORY)

I'm rockin the jams, back by demand, not brand

fans throw hands in the air, the man of the year stands

expand my knowledge through my views, ocular growth

in the hood politicking, getting the popular vote

we die inside for every time, every Glock that we tote

the game is full of tricks like a box of the smokes

it's truth, I spit equal facts like I handle credit scores

exposing fake emcees with similes and metaphors

smoking medical weed, burn towns down, marijuana

Americana, on the hunt like searching for Sarah Connor

I'm spreading the seed like a vulture or the sparrow

the pharaoh, send blazing arrows, rock ghetto apparel

my concertos I drop science be complex as mathematics

emcees are history cause I'm top of the line, crack addicts

the way I murder beats and kill tracks is a bad habit

mutilate the hi-hat, destroy the bass and attract static

like leather, heat up the track and add speed, black magic

and voodoo powers are nothing, the magician's back at it

spreading the word like butter, spectacular vernacular

under the tongue razor flows, swords of warlords in Africa

back in the game, spit knowledge, need some acknowledgement

the game's deprived with no heirs, no more breathing with oxygen

corporate handouts around your throat, reading the documents

forcing you into schemes because their species is dominant

 

(VERSE 2: BLACK THOUGHT)

They said he's busy, hold the line please

Call me crazy, I thought maybe he could mind read

Who does the blind lead? Show me a sign please

If everything is made in China, are we Chinese?

And why do haters separate us like we Siamese?

Technology turning the planet into zombies

Everybody all in everybody's dirty laundry

Acid rain, earthquakes, hurricane, tsunamis

Terrorists, crime sprees, assaults and robberies

Cops yelling "stop freeze," shoot him before he try to leave

Air quality so foul, I gotta try to breathe

Endangered species, and we running out of trees

If I could hold the world in the palm of these hands

I would probably do away with these anomalies

Everybody checking for the new award nominees

Wars and atrocities, look at all the poverty

Ignoring the prophecies, more beef than broccoli

Corporate monopoly, weak world economy

Stock market toppling, mad marijuana

Oxycontin and Klonopin, everybody out of it

Lord, forgive me for my shortcomings

For going on tour and ignoring the court summons

All I'm trying to do is live life to the fullest

They sent my daddy to you in a barrage of bullets

 

(VERSE 3: JAY ELECTRONICA)

You could check my name on the books

I Earth, Wind, and Fire’d the verse, then rained on the hook

The legend of Dorothy Flowers proclaimed from the roof

The tale of a magnificent king who came from the nooks

Of the wild magnolia, mother of many soldiers

We live by every single word she ever told us

Watch over your shoulders

And keep a tin of beans for when the weather turns the coldest

The Lord is our shepherd, so our cup runneth over

Put your trust in the Lord but tether your Chevy Nova

I’m spittin' this shit for closure

And God is my witness, so you could get it from Hova

To all you magicians that’s fidgeting with the cobra

I’m solid as a rock, ‘cause I came from a rock

That’s why I came with the rock, then signed my name on the Roc

Draw a line around some Earth, then put my name on the plot

Cause I endured a lot of pain for everything that I got

The eyelashes like umbrellas when it rains from the heart

And the tissue is like an angel kissin' you in the dark

You go from blind sight to hindsight, passion of the Christ

Right, to baskin' in the limelight, it take time to get your mind right

Jay Electricity, PBS mysteries

In a lofty place, tangling with Satan over history

You can’t say shit to me - Alhamdulillah

It’s strictly by faith that we made it this far

 

(VERSE 4: PHAROAHE MONCH)

My think tank's like a piranha tank think, multiple bites figure

Mega, reality, tera, giga

Grand Theft Auto, modern day Mickey and Mallory Small

But I'm sick enough to walk into an art gallery and piss on a Picasso

Crack statues, rub my balls on a Banksy shit on it and throw it at you

So when the beat intensifies

I become emotionally desensitized

Like, once I slapped a rapper with mace

Then I spit acid in his face, after he rinsed his eyes, no wait

I actually grew five times my size grabbed Ma$e by the thigh and slapped a rapper with him

Now that's practicing sacrilegious activism

Attack is for battle, and practical rap with wisdom

Actually, it's pragmatic capitalism for actors that crack under pressure and collapse when I get 'em

Monch is medicinal man made medical marijuana

With a phase plasma rifle like I'm searchin' for Sarah Conner

And shorty's got brains, shorty not playin'

From 40 blocks I'm a killa with 40 watt range

With an arrangement of bullets that I've arranged

Encrypted in scriptures specific individual names

That shall remain anonymous

Me and the ammunition's in a relationship that's monogamous

It's like I'm married to the silencer

Until I file for divorce and release my ex-calibers

Do art with your arteries, place that for my adversaries

Push your snap back cap back, cap your capillaries like

 

(VERSE 5: RAKIM)

Just when things seemed the same, and the whole scene is lame

I come and reign with the unexplained for the brains 'til things change

They strain to sling slang, I'm trained to bring game

History that I arranged been regained by King James

Go to practice, with tactics, when the track hits, theatrics

Women that look like actress the status of Cleopatra's

Stacks of mathematics to feed yo-asiatics

As I find out, what the facts is, for geographic

No time to sip Mo's with hostess, never mind what the total gross is

I rip shows, stay focused, and split cheese, with soldiers

While you hit trees and coast I spit flows that be ferocious

And with these explosives, I split seas for Moses

Shine permanently only my mind's concernin me

Fire burns in me eternally time's eternity

Followers turn on me they'll be in a mental infirmary

Determinely advance technology better than Germany

Since the first days you know of, till the last days is over

I was always the flow-er, I made waves for Noah

From a compound, to the anatomy, to the breakdown of a atom

Some of my rap patterns, still surround Saturn

From the ancient hieroglyphics, to graffiti painted pictures

I study I know the scriptures but nowaday ain't it vicious

Date back I go beyond, check the holy Qu'ran

To speeches at the autobahn, now we get our party on

 

(VERSE 6: KOOL G RAP)

Welcome to my world, danger and hazards

Gang of bastards, bangin they ratchets

King and the Jacker, slangin in traffic

Claimin they cabbage, obtain half, they aimin for stackage

Get brains from the addict, keep blingin with karats

Cops aiming the 'matics, then let ya dame have it, flames to the attic

The stains on ya fabric, the paint in the graphic

Canibus and G Rap, bangin a classic

And if that beef on the street - hate you enough

Blow out ya brain in ya casket

Don't you love this drug element?

Where slugs crush ya melon and dome

Chrome that's known to break bones in an elephant

Shotgun pellets and, gunsmoke; smell the scent

Big bullets, wiggle ya guts like gelatin

Cut through ya skeleton, knock out ya intelligence

Ride, stand, and bite the dust

Jake wanna be like a Russian cuffed on that Riker bus

We raised in the slums, with haze in our lungs

Raisin the guns, knowin;

My day'll come, razors under the tongue

Clips in the steel, bricks in the wheels

Chips in the field of fortune

Dead men walkin with hits on the grills

Late night at the spot, posted with goons, dope and balloons

Coke and the doom, scheme; I'll leave you open with wounds nigga