The Last Emperor - Meditation lyrics

(Verse 1) Deep concentration, mental penetration Hits me off the paranormal psychic information Imagine every b-boy and girl in third world nations Unite become one through pure hip-hop meditation Watch me closely, I separate the spiritual from the ghostly Tap the Emperor get struck down like Obi Wan Kenobi I am hip-hop so hold me, but no one had ever told me That corporate America would attempt to overthrow me Secretly plant and grow me, light me up and then smoke me Got you thinking you're the Godfather like Vito Corleone As an underground artist my days and nights below me Signing a contract like King Solo, now everybody knows me Righteousness oppose me, wicked women don't approach me I am a player-hater so Craig T. Nelson couldn't coach me I flipped Animalistics, and the critics tried to poach me Turned a crew of battle-cats into p**y-cats like Josie Ooh don't play me closely, it's the music that controls me Hip-hop is mother earth and in my infancy she holds me Single parently single handedly shape and hold me When they tried to enslave me she train me how to set my soul free Bounty Hunters capture me, in carbonite they froze me I am the God Odin my two sons are Thor and Ockie In the beginning there was the word and in the sentence hip-hop wrote me If you're brave enough to meditate then come along and show me! (Verse 2) I'm an extra-terrestrial emcee, and I know some are doubting me Like Han Solo fighting style, like awe Millennium Falcon me I change shapes and mind states through the use of mental alchemy I climbed the Tower of Babble and threw rappers of the balcony My culture showers me, the microphone overpowers me Separates me from rappers who use actions that are cowardly That's how it be, hip-hop amazes me worships, praises me Resembles favours me, allows me many ways to freak Seven styles for seven days a week Allows me to transform like soundwave and give up more tapes than Laser Beak The things you see in life hip-hop provides you, over-rides you Let the spirit of hip-hop get up inside you There was a shoulder to lean on, but I had the one to cry to Help me pick up the pieces made me hot enough to fly through Tried to fly through, jacking me for all my faculty Half of these emcees get lost in space like Dr. Zachary I jetted for the goal-line A and R's kept trying to tackle me Sacked me and grappled me, I was too righteous of an athlete At first I was alone now there's a 1000 kids that backing me Finally got a deal and now the CIA is tracking me I didn't mean to do it socialism just came naturally I think it's time to meditate, my sentiments exactly (Verse 3) In the world filled with pestilence and hatred Some say we'll be rescued by spaceships I stay away from crooks and study books by the ancients When the world gets too crazy hip-hop helps me escape it No gravity I am weightless, broke from poverty to greatness I create this and built this, kick back and smell the fragrance One love, One blood I got rhymes buried in my platelets You can state this, grace this, place this with emphasis Now enter this, take shots like Islamic fundamentalists Degenerate rappers I'm smashing attackin' with a pa**ion A-and-R-bashin', ripping lyrics built on fashion Now imagine you just won a trip around my way Full transportation all expenses paid I've never been a player just the one who got played Now my style k**s more kids then Roe versus Wade Don't be afraid to join us on this hip-hop meditation Where you encounter evil spirits, release hip-hop and let it chase them And place them over here, forget the clothes that you be wearing My style is matter free, I'm free but don't you go comparing Your weekly shopping-sprees versus my bargain basement shopping Your religion versus my black magic concoction Taekwondo and boxing, moving soldiers to my locksmith Your biodegradable rhymes to my lethal toxins Rhyming is a gift and not an option I gave birth to more styles then half you emcees got through adoption Be careful of the lyrics and the rhymes that you be dropping Cause while we meditate the whole universe is watching!