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Yo 16 on the beats and I lay the verses well, essential personnel 16 on the beats and I lay the verses well, essential personnel 16 on the beats and I lay the verses well, essential personnel 16 on the beats and I lay the verses well, essential personnel Craig Mack condolences, Sean P Prodigy praises, we gotta be placing Our love token bouquets in the hands of our favorites While they're still able to vase them, Amen Recording overboard, drowning in the flow, absorbed Emotions pouring from the bowels of my ocean floor Water baby wading in brain waves, melanated The same shade as the stone of my namesake Spit blacker than brushing with activated charcoal Shame Al Jolson's masquerading our souls No ally of mine can shuck and jive Or run and hide behind lie of being colorblind Some break their ethics just to gain acceptance Ain't gotta take the safest method when you ain't afraid to face rejection Escape convention, erase the templates Paving your own lane's a great investment 16 on the beats and I lay the verses well, essential personnel 16 on the beats and I lay the verses well, essential personnel 16 on the beats and I lay the verses well, essential personnel 16 on the beats and I lay the verses well, essential personnel Unable to guarantee just what will be the first rhyme Of mine you might blindly find or begrudgingly Spare your ears to, so carefully prepare jewels I hand you, like some family heirlooms Was taught when you get a shot, you're obligated Say something, like when spotting a suspicious box, so listen Cock the biscuit, itching to pop, flipping and pitching the rock Misogynistic, drug addicted hop, that's what this is not Did a drop with a crew of doers We picked the lock with shrewd intruder maneuvers One of the chosen fewer, an older bloomer, might have blown it Had I broken through the cocoon a moment or so sooner Was lunacy, presuming I'm due to reap something new Yet repeating the same routines moves, playing too comfortable Took the willing assist from Spit to make it major Rappers, respect and pay your beat makers 16 on the beats and I lay the verses well, essential personnel 16 on the beats and I lay the verses well, essential personnel 16 on the beats and I lay the verses well, essential personnel 16 on the beats and I lay the verses well, essential personnel Uttering dopeness, if you ain't digging this Trust, your shovel is broken, pray the Lord Funnels your ear tunnels to open, doses of Peroxide rock-slide the rubble, not time for humble, still Graciously downplay praise or take awkwardly Often mistaken as fake modesty, but A Class Act, this is not a disguise It's JC Penney top of the line, I be fly Breeze through the dreads, stand mighty before you And I don't report to, no trapped in the 90's support groups Nor am I imprisoned by the present, fair weather trending Too washed for colored Locs and some pleather leggings Performance art, songs authored with forethought The most important parts of my persona aren't store bought A rich flow, slick for the heads like Black Castor Oil, that's Jasper for you (Word up) 16 on the beats and I lay the verses well, essential personnel 16 on the beats and I lay the verses well, essential personnel 16 on the beats and I lay the verses well, essential personnel 16 on the beats and I lay the verses well, essential personnel