The drum is the enemy of the pen But when I'm meeting mentally with and melody then One of me can into ten of me If there's ten of me, tell me how many heavenly similes can we Like women and men would fall with no a rose would fall with no stem Like folks follow trends Os follow LMNs That's how well I know life flows the elements As sunrise an evening As die and a night sky is grieving As man what he has when it's leaving You gone is as to breathing That's how much I need you in my I'm never gonna ever you in my lifetime Cause every time I hear that shows me I'm not alone it's saving me Cause I know that a lifeline Like minds—this is our home and they won't it easily Cause the wolf is gonna blow until blue in the cheek And me and you and the crew can go take a snooze in the And the bulldozer can come on our feet We never let em We'll build a the river's level Steady the flood and with a pebble Lend me one Come if ready to shovel Run if you're But I know today is not my Waterloo
You've made a place I'm welcome And although I give voice to it Know I you Nobody's you And if you love someone then you tell
day the planet's losing IQ points But people still bumping Ice joints So got hope And every day I'm seeking my true voice
and looking up at a bright new everybody's got a hustle and everyone's trying to push it It's tricky to find the kush up a mountain of bullshit And there's another of bullshit next to it littered with glitter, money And strippers they're selling as shit It's nothing new up at the core same as it's always been only more so Of course so same token, while life there is truth While there's truth it demands to be And gonna speak it It's really
not a You just to search it You need
to seek it And though we like to worship a genius
in a We forget that there's prophets among us walking And I because I hear em when I am
in the clouds And I got my up and jamming it loud And dammit whatever I am or could ever I'm positive that I will be a fan in the crowd So gimme gimme and Biggy Hit me with Jimi, Emily Dickinson, Eminem, Niki Giovanni Lennon, Kendrick, Gambino, Rafa, Chinaka, Dahlak and Missy,
Saul and Beau and Paul and Kweli, Chali 2na and Chance and
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You've made a where I'm welcome And although I voice to it seldom I love you Nobody's you And if you someone then you tell them
So if blocking the future I wanna to walk toward Suit yourself we're lock swords But it's a wash if you're saying "Watsky
I could rock withcha if you talk Like some nails on a I can tell, that really on your dope writer tip But you'll if you don't try to fit Maybe you can it if you ghostwrite a hit And sell it to who can ghostride
a whip" I say no sirree I can smell the weak through the potpourri So I'm gonna do what I do You take a or two and Google "Tim and Magoo" I love the that life I even if it ain't plush I'm too glad complain I'm in the lab in a world While these fuckers dab and do and I dab on my pad with my paintbrush This is for the whipping up some home-cooked Spitting 86 bars, no hook Lying in the Passion their And a pressed in their notebook to me, this is for the word Looking
so fine
I'm rubbing coconut oil up in the crack of
dat This is for the I'm reminded my mind isn't mine alone if for the poems and the lines (And the in em)
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You've made a place where I'm And although I give voice to it I love you Nobody's you And if you love someone you tell them