Clear Day

[Verse 1: The Last Emperor] Yeah, you know I'm checking it out I wanna know what it's really about How they exit the party, cold kicking it loud How the man on the right, be motivating the crowd How they only exist at the top of the list For the holiday season I be the popular gift If I can kick it like this with an adventurous twist The Last Emp will get chips without the ice on his wrist I got rhymes you can keep, you can pump in your jeep Or you can kick to your kids when you put em to sleep I am the creature from the deeper [?] to the beat When summoned by the drums I comes from beneath So I pack up my throne, and I'm ready to go Constantly in search of this lost city of gold Somewhere down the road I met a man who was old When I asked for directions, this is what I was told [Refrain: The Peddlers] On a clear day Rise and look around you [Verse 2: The Last Emperor] Cooling in a crib, banging beats in my room I hit the streets and I'm released from my toll And as I walk down the streets, rocking to the beat I get inspired by the lies of the people I meet See someone'll hold me, then try to control me Someone'd like to deep-throat me, but they can't overthrow me Some pretend to be friends, then act like they don't know me Was it a slump until I bumped into a couple of homies [Trugoy the Dove] I made my way through the scariest blocks, and various spots And know the first names of the area's cops I meet Shawna, selling her soul on the street corner Had to run away from her father that beat on her It's sad, but I still got a few of them news clips She ran track, right #1 on a school's list Now she's standing out on the stroll with a bruised wrist And just then my cellphone ringed and opposed this [Masta Ace] After it all sets in, the next time's gonna be a sin I pinched my skin just to see whether I was out (She's not in her dreams anymore) But how was that, clouds and kaleidoscopes (How'd they hide the ropes?) He's using see-through training to swing on the balance Talents have my momma in the air before she bare her child Pedophiles for her optic and identified Admission under raps for the first MC to fly [Refrain] [Verse 3: Masta Ace] They said once I was airborne they'd just shoot me down, in six, five Don't they realize that I was destined to hold joints griptight like arm wrestlers Vessel my flight into airwaves and pain A little bit of frontlaws and all (Suburbian style) Happens like comics, we swing beats for leisure aspects Past this, them dudes we done paid em (We melting the Metropolis quicker than chocolate) [Masta Ace] I got the dunk when these kids start bursting, the world worsen with every shot Hit every person on every block The summers is very hot and not in the forecast Giuliani got more gats with his law pass But now that it's shooting season they hoping for a reason to stop your breathing Straight leaving ya moms grieving Yesterday I got stopped frisk and I got this cause I got this And I'm only alive cause a cop missed [Last Emperor] Now, Masta Ace came to set the party off Trugoy came to set the party off We ain't Tough Tonys, but ain't hardly soft And we rock more shows than sit at Mardi Gras Well, I hope you've come to see, you don't want none of me My observations date back to the electric company To some degree, what I looked for was right in front of me Boys and girls around the world acompan thee Cause they know that, today's show was sponsored by Dove and Ace And the magic number three