[Verse 1: ONE SON] My penmanship makes bloods and crips fellowship and uplift the masses

Across

The atlas they gave us ratchets for this wretched condition can't

Afford tuition so we enroll in the school of hard knocks where the

Origin of a valedictorian is a life sentence that's why teachers

Couldn't reach us I prepared this thesis for the world to grade it to

Get the hood rejuvenated hoping the sleeping giant awaken fighting the

Degradation but this elevation makes your ears pop God grabbed my hand

And say jot so my hip hop elevate the toxins like amoxicillin three

Droplets to open optics what was once microscopic became enlargen in the

Sound garden I water these flows until they grow to unbelievable heights

They can't believe what I write but it's conducted for those who

Suffered and rise above it

When the paint dries on my mental walls you can see it all my nigga see

It all see how I rise and see how I fall but I keep getting back up to

Stand tall when the paint dries on my mental walls you can see it all my

Nigga see it all see how I rise and see how I fall ask me will ask me

Will I quit my reply is hell naw

[Verse 2: ONE SON] Decode the encryption before the shifting of the tectonic plates before

The sea regurgitate swollen primates I navigate to higher ground but

Some drown in my ultra sound so I journey through the birth canal with a

Blessing a life lesson that's destin to save my brethren cause we headed

For extinction like the wholly mammoth to be banished off the planet

It's a must I stroke the canvas some can't interrupt the way I word it

They say it's disturbing it's to urban the hoods too ignorant for higher

Learning might think it's a sermon start turning a deaf ear but the

Ghetto Paul Revier gets beastie with words of harmony therefore

Soothing the savage beast they sit at the table of knowledge and eat

Some say I'm deep well dive in the depths for your listening pleasure

You guaranteed to find the buried treasure

When the paint dries on my mental walls you can see it all my nigga see

It all see how I rise and see how I fall but I keep getting back up to

Stand tall when the paint dries on my mental walls you can see it all my

Nigga see it all see how I rise and see how I fall ask me will ask me

Will I quit my reply is hell naw

[Verse 3: ONE SON] No fallacy in my mental art gallery just the harsh reality of life you

Ask me what's the price for the portrait that left your mind in orbit

And took you on a voyage unknown leaving no stone uncovered made you

Realize you was stalked by buzzard and if the hovering continued you was

Next on the menu what's large is now meniscue so remove the protective

Seal unscrew the top take the pill

When the paint dries on my mental walls you can see it all my nigga see

It all see how I rise and see how I fall but I keep getting back up to

Stand tall when the paint dries on my mental walls you can see it all my

Nigga see it all see

How I rise and see how I fall ask me will ask me will I quit my reply is

Hell naw