H2O

[Sample]

Memories, like the corners of my mind

Misty watered colored memories

Of the way...

[Intro]

The good old days

Reflect with me

You know what I'm sayin'

We just sittin' on the porch

In Watts

Helicopter flyin' overhead

Lil niggas in the street throwin' dirt rocks

Feel me

[Verse 1: Ras Kass]

Archaeological logic, discovered Van Gogh's fossils

To paint a perfect picture

Twelve years a slave, twenty years a spitter

Thirty seven years a nigga

Hopin' to see ninety bein' a strong black figure

As I stand and deliver

Breathe fire in Japan, Godzilla

By popular demand till the fans see that God got iller

I'm like Cornel West with scales on my chest

You superman thugs, caught Kryptonite to the flesh

See the hood got me stressed, takin fists to the neck

Multiple arrest then I discovered KRS

Let us begin, what, where, how or why

Will all be explained and if not, fam we die

Losin' granny was the hardest

Good women I fucked and left broken hearted

Turned up being retarded

Transformation to activist from an artist

Like young Malala who the Taliban would target

Shot in the head just cause she wanted to read

Till every person sex trafficed is free, we gotta bleed

(Turned down for what?)

Cause niggas tell on themselves nowadays

Film it on Vine then wonder why crime don't pay

Candid outlandish, the dirty pistol I brandishe

Glad they didn't have camera phones when I was young doin' bad shit

Yeah, I just dated myself

I'm no spring chicken but why you hate on yourself?

For five minutes of fame

Find yourself like Kat Stacks, knocked out the frame

Locked in a cage

And bitchin' it's true, you backwards hustlin' homie, you snitchin' on you

I'm on my Descartes, Diop, Be-Bop, Aristotle

Prehistoric talons twist the top off the bottle

My era is classic Tyrannosaurus Rex in the lab shit

Leimert Park so I pass it Jurassic

[Chorus: Rakaa Iriscience]

I can think back but life goes on so keep livin'

Can't take a thing back but life goes on so keep livin'

There are couple things, that maybe I would if I could

Forgive myself for, I'm unforgiving

Yeah, I throw this drink back but life goes on so keep livin'

[Verse 2: Pharoahe Monch]

In order to recollect exceptional memories

I developed a way to transform brainwaves into binary code from energy

Translate algorithms, converted the information to digital

Uploaded compiled files of wisdom

Then projected them on a screen, vivid beautiful scenes

Extract orchestrated symphonies and heavenly dreams

The alchemist

In kindergarten when kids was asking about alphabets

I was immaculate with astronomy, mastering calculus

Seized from my parents during a scene when I was seven

They experimented on my brain up until I was age eleven

And at age thirteen I learned to literally stream

Molecules and teleport molecular structures with the beam

These are my memories, soak them in with a notion

To fast forward the bad and play the good in slow motion

Now I astral project

Analyze Guam

Study Agent Orange bring back secrets from 'Nam

The government asked me to track the locals on Islam

They asked me the whereabouts of Boko Haram

And cracked my brain for catastrophic chatter that's insane

To extract data from satellites on missin' Malaysian planes

My memories, my memories, my memories

Although from only just a week ago

My memories, my memories, my memories

[Chorus: Rakaa Iriscience]

I can think back but life goes on so keep livin'

Can't take a thing back but life goes on so keep livin'

There are couple things, that maybe I would if I could

Forgive myself for, I'm unforgiving

Yeah, I throw this drink back but life goes on so keep livin'