[Intro]

Ladies and Gentlemen

On the piano tonight, to my left, your right

Is Jake One

And I am...

[Verse]

Big, bad, body rocking, failure is not an option

I been grinding 9 to 5 like Dolly Parton

Art for talking, make them lean like oxycontin

Not for nothing but the dream sequence kind of vibrant

No, I'm not a prophet nor am I proselytizing

My assignment, to take my little light and shine it

They can not define it so they want to water it down

Got to colonize ground and commodify it

Put you on a diet of this honest pious

Modest live wire writer piping loud enough to start a riot

Heart of a lion, both eyes open wide

Soul in overdrive, you duly notified

Bonafide North Side, alma mater

Yeah, my momma might have got us out of there

Still though my heat is near

Home base Mosque is there, took my Shahada there

When I'm out of here, I swear to God I drop a tear

Nothing is new under the sun

And so I'm doing what's been done

By those who trooped though and proved it can be won

Truth is that these musicians grew me as their son

So you're a philosopher, my uzi weighs a ton

The fluid native tongue, the true creative hum drum

Blessed it in that melting pot, the two became as one

Recognize an old soul with new school influences

Soothing music oozes through him like he blew a kiss

Jinn really do exist, I submit the proof is this

Truth is the broken heart is harder than the human fist

I'm too committed for that superficial foolishness

Got to wear the shoe that fits even if it's a crucifix

Wallace you are truly missed, pardon all your human sins

My douer is you living the garden and it's purely bliss

We still bear the fruit of his Houda that was beauty kissed

Before Gabriel pick up that horn up and play that tune of his

You won't let the humans live, let the humans love

Let us never dictate who is below and who is above

Let he who lives without sin cast the first stone

Most high hung up the phone, hear the dial tone