[Intro: Quote from Franz Fanon]

Mastery of language affords remarkable power

Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand

[Verse]

Determined this sermon is concernin a learned man

I yearn for a turn to stand and furnish these earnest plans

Jams gestate so they echo across the landscape

Quickening is coming the catalyst for enhanced rates

Equipped with weaponized sound to combat the malfeasance

My style’s breathin, reachin for miles while you crowd pleasin

Virtuous, assertive our motto is never bend or break

We resonate respect you won’t give us, we intend to take

Establishment won’t offer support until it’s posthumous

Yall peddlin amphetamine i’m tryna push some proper sense

I keep the penance pure, griot or soothsayer

No army but generally they rankin my moves major

Want this text to physically greet you like facsimiles

Ahead of my breadth gotta cope swiggin Black Hennessy

But I follow in their steps, know that they have been through there

So my Ode to the Iconoclasts resembles hymnal prayer

[Bridge: Quote from Aime Cesaire]

A civilization that chooses to close its eyes to its most crucial problems is a stricken civilization

A civilization that uses its principles for trickery and deceit is a dying civilization

[Verse]

Lay my hands on mics and they call it marvels of medicine

This midwestern mastiff is after dogged development

Steady carvin an edifice, deadly bars in my rhetoric

Ready, every scrawl that you saw is all for this leverage

Reversin polarity maybe I can still change the tides

Far from holy man but I know that these tracks are sanctified

Immortal it’s important, I live longer than Saint Germain

Cortical acrylic each sentence aimin to paint ya brain

Good intentions lead to perdition but not stoppin me

I learned that true wealth is in self or the vox populi

Cogent with my word so i’ll contribute to the negritude

Even if it’s only observed by a nascent few

Now i’m thinking bout Frantz, Aime, and Malcolm

We see these efforts elite now will they finally announce em?

But I follow in their steps, know that they have been through there

So my Ode to the Iconoclasts resembles hymnal prayer

[Outro: Quote from Malcolm X]

I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they’ll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action