City Playgrounds

[Intro] What we have here is the alpha and the omega, I spit it Bear witness to the greatest and the latest They try to hate us, yo [Verse 1] Witness the evolution of spitting, 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 run it, the 'Natti is checking in No matter the terminology, blood splatter artistically It's looking like a Jackson Pollock painting, it's a mystery Really should be brothers united against the industry The african diaspora scatter with shattered history The game missing me, rap is 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 banging We moving through the streets like we slanging dimes It's magical, how the track so classical To cats who got gats tucked in they sweats like Plaxico I'm back from my sabbatical, voice of the future Black radical, keeping all the damage as collateral [Hook] Listening to instrumentals Thinking bout all the things I've been through The music just a peek into my life as a window It's so Hi-Tek and 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 [Verse 2] Aiyyo, I'm taking all bets, I'm settling all debts A giant leap for man begin with the small steps From a sword to a set, to my people on the picket line Who sick of getting 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? I know the flow disturbing, 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 phoney I try to listen but they as boring as missionary position So I'm shitting on these niggas like dysentery conditions I'm sitting on the throne, you dreaming that it's empty soon Nobody feeling you, you screaming in an empty room The tree that fall in the forest, nobody hearing you Even though you fall the hardest, don't get me started [Hook] [Verse 3] Yo, I build up my defenses when I'm left to my devices Time gets suspended more than DMX driver's license My music's steady, not affected by the higher prices People having sex in the streets like Dionysus You know what my advice is? Fuck my advice, live your life Stop tripping like everything a minor crisis I'm making sacrifices, my history is black as Isis I don't think that I can trust you if you lack in vices I never miss a beat, the liquor make me slur They takes my words, try to twist 'em like a Swisher Sweet with sticky herb American History X, your 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 is "The Emperor's New Clothes" Although I'm always by myself, I never ride alone The music on, then I'm right at home, zoning [Hook] [Outro] Yeah, it's the 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 using like ten per cent The other ninety per cent is scary man But don't be scared, scary ass niggas, ay!