Verse I

I’m on target like the Howard Johnson roof topper

No big secret, that I don’t oblige the swine coppers

In my company you’ll never find a dime dropper

Nobody liable to speed dial crimestoppers

Crime alarming and snitchin’ never dropped the rate

Really protected me, well then I might cooperate

Capital motivated, all the duties they perform

That’s never gonna change without some radical reform

DJ Waht synthesized it, I memorized it

And walked the continent before the devil terrorized it

No auction price sufficed, (they) obviously underbid

Dealing with the (simple) fact, I came before Columbus did

(When) Van Sertima and others contributed to mental wealth

Had a subtle departure from my former self

Now I paint the picture like an African Picasso

That liberates a mind like Sankara did Burkina Faso

HOOK:

…underground + underexposed + underrated

Maybe indifferent, you could love it, you could hate it

Never outdated, can’t be exterminated

Obstacles and struggles, (they) just keep me motivated

Sybil:

I’ve been up, I’ve been down

I finally found some solid ground

Lookin’ back I’m so glad I made it

Obstacles and struggles only kept me MOTIVATED!

Verse II

Omo Shango…MC means Molotov Concoctor

Chopped these drums of EPMD’s Jane saga

Respectable when spittin’ over juggles holding (on to) microphones

(Cuz) I got offspring with double X chromosomes

This Joseph Technicolor Raincoat, you monochrome

Still choppin’ dusty samples to a clicking metronome

I own the culture so and so misappropriates

When I spit I keep it doper than an opiate

Right now if you’re walking out then you don’t relate

Hail up Oludumare, but still (with) no religious faith

In my backyard they stingy with the compensate

Rodney Dangerfield syndrome, I’m taken outta state

And usually out of context, and though he conscious

And beaucoup marginalized, the man well accomplished!

Avoiding rumors, breathtaking as a body blow

And strive to liberate like Nkrumah Osageyfo

HOOK

This coon ish, with me it don’t digest so well

Tyler Perry, housewives of ATL, I hate to dwell

Evident that bafoonin’ make pockets swell

Shoulda never gave you saggin money, quoting dave Chappelle

I’m motivated by my elders banished to a cell

For emphasis, added the voice of sybill shanell

I’m not alone, although a fixture in the scene

I dedicate this to all emcees in New Orleans

That brother Spitta, Lyrikill, Eles from the GPC

Merc, Jay Elect, Dee-1, also Nesby P

Y’all ‘cross the river, my Uptown Brown Clowns

Mid City, East, Gentilly and my Downtown rounds

Hope you not seated when this come out the DJ crate

Get up like Top mob, elle one, Harsh and EVACuate

Try to ignore it, but I know that you hearing me now

Striving to liberate like Cabral in Guinea Bissau

Chorus