Essential - Intellectual

16 on the beats and I lay the verses well, essential personnel

Craig Mack condolences, Sean P

Prodigy praises, we gotta be placing

Our love token bouquets in the hands of our favorites

While they're still able to vase them, Amen

Recording overboard, drowning in the flow, absorbed

Emotions pouring from the bowels of my ocean floor

Water baby wading in brain waves, melanated

The same shade as the stone of my namesake

Spit blacker than brushing with activated charcoal

Shame Al Jolson's masquerading our souls

No ally of mine can shuck and jive

Or run and hide behind lie of being colorblind

Some break their ethics just to gain acceptance, ain't gotta

Take the safest method when you ain't afraid to face rejection

Escape convention, erase the templates

Paving your own lane's a great investment

16 on the beats and I lay the verses well, essential personnel

Unable to guarantee just what will be the first rhyme

Of mine you might blindly find or begrudgingly

Spare your ears to, so carefully prepare jewels

I hand you, like some family heirlooms

Was taught when you get a shot, you're obligated

Say something, like when spotting a suspicious box, so listen

Cock the biscuit, itching to pop, flipping and pitching the rock

Misogynistic, drug addicted hop, that's what this is not

Did a drop with a crew of doers

We picked the lock with shrewd intruder maneuvers

One of the chosen fewer, an older bloomer, might have blown it

Had I broken through the cocoon a moment or so sooner

Was lunacy, presuming I'm due to reap something new

Yet repeating the same routines moves, playing too comfortable

Took the willing assist from Spit to make it major

Rappers, respect and pay your beat makers

16 on the beats and I lay the verses well, essential personnel

Uttering dopeness, if you ain't digging this

Trust, your shovel is broken, pray the Lord

Funnels your ear tunnels to open, doses of

Peroxide rock-slide the rubble, not time for humble, still

Graciously downplay praise or take awkwardly

Often mistaken as fake modesty, but

A Class Act, this is not a disguise

It's JC Penney top of the line, I be fly

Breeze through the dreads, stand mighty before you

And I don't report to, no trapped in the 90's support groups

Nor am I imprisoned by the present, fair weather trending

Too washed for colored Locs and some pleather leggings

Performance art, songs authored with forethought

The most important parts of my persona aren't store bought

A rich flow, slick for the heads like

Black Castor Oil, that's Jasper for you (Word up)

16 on the beats and I lay the verses well, essential personnel