Street Diction

1. Evolve from high bred intellectuals who slept on park bench

Topple you off pedestal

Thrive at any level

Find it hard to settle

Traverse habitat that tests a man's meddle

Fist grip the neck of devils

Barely time to revel

They fencing off the ghettos

Most heads I know never even seen a meadow

Son of concrete given birth and death on same street

We got no time to weep

2. And what the steel don't dead, rots away with disease

Gettin' carried by six is our only release

Time has come to pull sword from sheath

Raise the meek...

I love these beats!

See shifty eyes like they never held heat

Walk 50 miles, and we never retreat

Re-read every scroll cause I barely do sleep

Hope to reach my apex like Kerouac at his peak!

Chorus:

Best you don't speak, just listen

Bound to choke the life out your chest like these mics that I'm grippin'

20/20 through eyes with ambition

Here to redefine the street diction

(2x)

3. Vent frustration over underground airwaves

Displayed traits that convey my conviction

Fall between the cracks of this system

Systematically act erratic to emphasize position

Post-apocolyptic landscape creates vivid image

Struggle ain't made for the timid

In these Bricks one mistake leave you rigid

Ain't here for the gimmicks

Hip-Hop is how you live it

Check the verbal rhythm

Reduced to head nods when you feel'em

The fortunate connect, the rest get the serum

Poisonous ideas infect like snakes venom

Vernacular adapts to express what's in them

Masses organized once again pose threat

"Chickens home to roost" is what a wise man said

Since he spit truth they made sure he bled

It's been much too long that we been misled

Chorus:

Best you don't speak, just listen

Bound to choke the life out your chest like these mics that I'm grippin'

20/20 through eyes with ambition

Here to redefine the street diction

(4x)