《Abolition Of ManCHILD (Raw Material Album Version)》歌词

[00:00:00] Double down stroke pound my head on concrete 'til it cracks

[00:00:03] Double take doubled over from this double cross on my back

[00:00:05] Doubled my pleasure and pain with the quickest double timing

[00:00:08] On the double single out these cats that's having trouble rhyming

[00:00:11] Triple threat vet set it straight while rookies muddle through

[00:00:13] Just call me the 23rd letter because I double you

[00:00:16] Knuckle through other crews with jabs hooks uppercuts and combinations

[00:00:19] Patience you can't get inside the levelheaded throroughbred

[00:00:22] The one who sets the foundation for movement like a riverbed

[00:00:24] Don't subscribe to gun talk so I give a what what your trigger said

[00:00:27] Spit leaded graphite keep my heart in my hand so that I can grasp life

[00:00:31] Police the depths of my soul with a billy club and flashlight

[00:00:34] That's right the underworld has numbered my days

[00:00:36] The track plays as I stumble across the stage

[00:00:38] And rage against my rage in the sight of fleeting time

[00:00:41] Because it's not the grapes of wrath that produce the sweetest wine

[00:00:43] I bleed rhymes when I'm wounded seems to happen more and more

[00:00:46] Lie face down in a puddle of my own metaphors on the floor

[00:00:49] And my heart pumps the art so what will happen if I pass on

[00:00:52] They could never last long so the band plays my sad song

[00:01:16] Soul Heir the manCHILD 2001 dead on arrival

[00:01:19] Skin beneath his fingernails points to a struggle for survival

[00:01:22] Clutching doubles of his vinyl with rigamortous in his throat

[00:01:24] In his mouth we found the words for the greatest song he never wrote

[00:01:27] He was stabbed choked hung burned drowned

[00:01:29] Strapped to the ground forced to listen to thug rap gagged and bound

[00:01:33] This manCHILD took hip hop where no one else could take her

[00:01:35] For that he was dragged for 40 blocks behind a Lincoln Navigator

[00:01:38] Until it crashed into a pacer flipped and landed on his neck

[00:01:41] Blasting Gloria Gaynor's I will Survive from the tape deck

[00:01:43] A blank check inside his pocket because you can't cash respect

[00:01:46] In a word his dental records spun at 33 13

[00:01:49] Keeping his word through pain and death through static and distortion

[00:01:51] Defeated 333 emcees post mortem

[00:01:54] So check your local listings to see his body on display

[00:01:57] Soul Heir the manCHILD survived by his family and his DJ

[00:02:07] Look through the eyes of a manCHILDless world so I can see

[00:02:25] I don't like the way my beloved artform looks without me

[00:02:27] A barren wasteland artists afraid to face fans

[00:02:30] Where they seek and destroy b boys forbidding them to breakdance

[00:02:33] Where no one takes a chance because the patterns stand in place

[00:02:35] Follow the formula play the part and you'll get more than you can take

[00:02:38] Where they raise hell to be a man and no man searches for the answers

[00:02:41] Without me it's all just hype men dat tapes and back up dancers

[00:02:44] Hold my banner for knowledge wisdom and understand integrity

[00:02:46] Every city Mars I'll goes I leave another piece of my legacy

[00:02:49] And if I thought ya'll would benefit I'd paint manCHILD out of the picture

[00:02:51] They fall and keep it to themselves so I'll stand and deliver

[00:02:54] Consider this I understand this game is hit or miss

[00:02:57] Whether graf writer b boy turntablist or lyricist

[00:03:00] This is serious like water to a flame able to cain

[00:03:02] If you stopped doing what you do today would hip hop stay the same

[00:03:05] If your name never graced a marquis what are we losing

[00:03:08] If nothing changes in that world then tell me what's your contribution

[00:03:11] Do you emancipate enslaved minds or you just want to feel free

[00:03:13] It's not easy but manCHILD's here because you need me