City Playgrounds

Yeah
What we have here
Is the alpha and the omega of spittin'
Bear witness to the greatest and the latest
They try to hate us

Witness the evolution of spittin', it's wicked and it's decadent
Revolutions per minute every time the record spin
Retribution for cynics like a stick-up kid with weapons
In Brooklyn they say I'm runnin', the nattiest, check it in
No matter the terminology, blood splatter artistically
It's lookin' like a Jackson Pollock paintin', it's a mystery

We really should be brothers united against the industry
The African diaspora scattered with shattered history

The game missin' me, rappers so repetitive
Although I ain't your blood or your cuz, it's all relative
I got a gang of rhymes and Tone's beats is bangin'
We movin' through the streets like we slangin' dimes
It's magical how the track so classical
The cats who got gassed tucked in they sweats like Plaxico
I'm back from my sabbatical, voice of the future black radical
Keepin' all the damages collateral

Listenin' to instrumentals
Thinkin' 'bout all the things I've been through
The music just a beacon to my life as a window
It's so high tech yet it's all so simple
Even if I'm knocked down I don't stay down
Even if I get down I don't lay down
Hotter than the tar on the city playground
Hotter than the tar on the city playground

Ayo, I'm takin' all bets, I'm settlin' all debts
A giant leap for man began with the small steps
From a sword to a set to my people on the pickin' line
Who's sick of gettin' treated like them aliens in District 9
I juxtapose my business mind with my spirit
What, I'm just supposed to keep you comfortable with the lyrics?

No, the flow disturbin', I know for certain
Just because you know all about the
Artist don't mean you know the person

You don't know me, I run labels

These unstable rappers so phony
I try to listen but they borin' as missionary positions
So I'm shittin' on these niggas like dysentery conditions
I'm sittin' on a throne, you dreamin' that it's empty soon
Nobody feelin' you, you screamin' in an empty room
How the tree that fall in the forest
Nobody hearin' you even though you're full of artists
Don't get me started

Listenin' to instrumentals
Thinkin' 'bout all the things I've been through
The music just a beacon to my life as a window
It's so high tech yet it's all so simple
Even if I'm knocked down I don't stay down
Even if I get down I don't lay down
Hotter than the tar on the city playground
Hotter than the tar on the city playground

Yo, I'm buildin' my defenses when I'm left to my devices
Time gets suspended more than DMX's driver's license
My music steady, not affected by the higher prices
People havin' sex in the streets like Dionysus

You know what my advice is? Fuck my advice
Live your life, stop trippin' like everything a minor crisis
I'm makin' sacrifices, my history as black as Isis
I don't think that I can trust you if you lackin' vices
I never miss a beat, the liquor make me slur
They take my words, try to twist '
Em like a Swisher Sweet with sticky herb

American history, extra teeth will hit the curb
It's easy 'cause I'm ill with the wordplay
I still flip the bird like Jeezy
We stripped it down, now it's exposed
I suppose my flow's the emperor's new clothes

Although I'm always by myself, I never ride alone
The music on and I'm right at home, zone

Listenin' to instrumentals
Thinkin' 'bout all the things I've been through
The music just a beacon to my life as a window
It's so high tech yet it's all so simple
Even if I'm knocked down I don't stay down
Even if I get down I don't lay down
Hotter than the tar on the city playground
Hotter than the tar on the city playground

Yeah

It's pavement
Word is bond
Don't be scared to think, man
Don't be scared

I know what's in your brain
It's scary, man
You're only usin' like ten percent
The other ninety percent is scary, man
But don't be scared
Scary-ass niggas
Ayy