Smithzonian Institute of Rhyme

[Gab]

Yeah yeah

Yeah yeah

[Lateef]

Blackalicious

Lateef the Truth Speaker

[Gab]

A little something

[Lateef and Gab]

Now if you want some you best come with a gun

You can't fuck with the tongue or the way the song is sung

By Lateef and Blackalicious we keep it fat, delicious

Complete and grant your wishes

So peep the rap and listen

You can't be idle you best come trifle

But even with a rifle your style'll get stifled

[Lateef]

Quick

[Gift of Gab]

Lateef and Blackalicious we coming for that dough to get

The lyrics that we wrote again

Are sounding rather viscous beyond scientific

I'll snap like a doberman I'm unable to hold it in

I really hope you feel it, check it out

[Gift of Gab]

Drop a little topic and me apocalypse

Hip hop metropolis we stalking mc's

Don't stop this marvelous three partners

This bottomless beat has opened wideness

Inviting us inside of its deep rhythmic environment

A labyrinth, its violent beings just won't be silent

And higher, and higher means to a world (?)

Where all I need is prez

And that is my rent

Just by fating the rest

Who won't admire it

Won't rule as a tyrant

Don't condone violence

Till the next man tries it

Don't tax no pirate

Just watch as I begin to shape your world

All mc's in the land spanked and baked and broiled

Charred and seasoned in a pan

Damn

Awakened world stagnant even though they always been there

Lagging about exposing it to the hearing impaired establishment

Raw energy they can't be compared

Tag em then we drag them then we finished  yeah

[Lateef and Gab]

Now if you want some you best come with a gun

You can't fuck with the tongue or the way the song is sung

By Lateef and Blackalicious we keep it fat, delicious

Complete and grant your wishes

So peep the rap and listen

You can't be idle you best come trifle

But even with a rifle your style'll get stifled

[Lateef]

Quick

[Lateef]

Let it hit them

The suffocation begins your soul it gets engulfed in

The sound like its emotion it works just like a potion

It hurts just like that's only motion gotta think about some rules

See it can't just all be coasting

Get to get the spectrum of the wave

Whenever you know its flowing

Got a notion and its deep keep it growing like the ocean don't get salty

Its just me get a dose that's instantaneous essential constantly

Fits like a constellation glowing naturally in facts you see the past

The future marches on triumphantly defiantly relentlessly

If it ain't one thing its something something else

The instrumental that contributes to your mental health

As for most emcees we moving like a ninja that is killin' ya stealthily

Handle your business candidly fool we gigantic globally locally

And organically ain't nothing you gonna do that's gonna damage me

In this current scene, its tragedy we value beyond championing originality

Is this shit that's happen

We trigger an emotional response causes you to react violently

Yeah we trigger an emotional response causes you to react violently

[Lateef and Gab]

Now if you want some you best come with a gun

You can't fuck with the tongue or the way the song is sung

By Lateef and Blackalicious we keep it fat, delicious

Complete and grant your wishes

So peep the rap and listen

You can't be idle you best come trifle

But even with a rifle your style'll get stifled

[Lateef]

Quick

[Lateef and Gab]

Lateef and Blackalicious is coming for that dough to get

The lyrics that we wrote again are sounding rather vicious

Now if you want some you better come with a gun

You can't fuck with the tongue

Or your ass'll get stung by Lateef and Blackalicious

We keep it fat, delicious

Complete and grant your wishes

We move just like eclipses

You can't be idle cause even with a title

And even with a rifle your style'll get stifled hey

[Sample]

The king is going home to get his throne

From the root to the fruit that's where everything started at

[Sample]