[Billy Woods]
These the beats they play for ghost detainees
Weeks with no sleep I'm living the dream
Crabs/hit em with the Old Bay Chesapeake
Steam
At high heat/repeat/red, gold and green
Marcus Garvey/crumbled fronta/Jamaican Rizla
Spanishtown/back to basics, the Spanish Prisoner
Kicking kitchen spanish looking like Sizzla
London Blitz airhorns
He spit that Stalin vs. Hitler
[Elucid]
So goth I was born black
Son trapped within a crux that endorsed crack
Dirt nap before 21 be the forecast
Flown flag half mast
Cra** paths ventured
Lucky if you just got stabbed
Limp ginger, flesh wounds still tender
Picking scabs
Block too hot, triage care intensive
Post grad, head of my cla** expensive
Sessions extended
Reality bites butjakes pinching
Old co defendant, new solo mission
Head spinning
Short glimpses
All city
[Woods]
Staged shooting/Praise God they missed me
Unsolved mysteries/started from the upper middle
Closed the gap quickly
Sold soul to the devil replete with hidden fees
You f**ing with a gypsy
White man handshake/twinkle in eye
You caught a bad break
Two half-truths but not one lie
The new guy got my spidey sense in overdrive
Dog, in the grand scheme I was just a cog
Lawyer said forget about getting off
It's about damage control/ so hot he stop drop & roll
Yet the pack was sold before he copped
King of All Blacks/the new Pac
[Hook]
Had to cut ‘em off, I ain't have no option
They the type to come back with the choppers choppin'
[Elucid]
From apprentice to kingpin
Ba**head pipe dreams fenced in
Pinched tims, ends scampi, barely noon reek of cheap brandy
Baggy suit church food pantry
Assembly line, hand to hand
Worst fears, out here a grown man selling candy
Teddy grahams
Rubber band reup
Astronomical scale flipper
Make that fetti fan
Fifty fluttered fitters
f** a fair one
Full frontal flared
Banned from tv scanned discreetly
Unseemly means, justified extremes
[Woods]
Nosy neighbors/Rear Window
Rodney Little played by Delroy Lindo
Memories fade like Memento
When someone threatening your kinfolk
Played out/ Super Nintendo
Shylock how he weighed out the super endo
Keep it 100 like loosies
Fishscale raw/ Bolivian sushi
Bargains driven harder than hoopties
Pillar of the community/Kente cloth on the kufi
Liberal white friend played by Donald Sutherland in the movie
Hit Cannes with tanned groupie
Palme d'Or!
Exuberant applause
But I still came back for my money like Mookie