What If?

[L-Fudge]

The likes of me, F-U-D-G-E brains compete

With CP0-3's intelligence

Accompanied by Mike Z-double-O-T

Shabaam Sahdeeq, Skam, Kweli, and Spinna permanently

Deading the neglegence

[Mike Zoot]

I buy trees all the time, twenties and dimes

You see it in my rhymes frequently, when every other line

There's the reference, the understood preference is that I'm biased

To black shh, black shh to keep me more hype

Seasoned trees get minus disposed right there

Mixed it with the ten piece, divide my share

Amongst niggas to overrun it, it's a long climb to the summit

On the lazy afternoon, on the boom oh how I love it

So I does it but imagine if I wasn't, fascinated

With the sense of heat that stressin me, fled to frustrated

Ticked off, pissed off, tryna get my dick off

I'm savin a little money, twenty dollars ain't shit

I'm still hungry, and thirsty, you haven't seen the worst of me yet

Since we met it's back to back cigarettes

All my breath hurt, my chest nervous wreckin the session

Imagine Mike Zoot, my brain off drugs, any questions? (yes, yes)

"What" (25x)

[Talib Kweli]

We bring it back to science, wit the finest of Medina

Imagine all the people livin in, maybe I'm just a dreamer

Non-believers microscopic like amoebas

Runnin out of phony acts, be at the underground spots when you need us

Defeat the purpose of the circus, guess who the animals (guess who)

They over-work us and jerk us till we ain't thinkin clearly (come one)

Cuz the history we stay weary of various theories

Question evolution and use to pass this lesson through revolution

Ask what not to do (yes), without firepower how is you militant? (yes)

That type shit we don't forget like elephants (never forget)

We stompin black holes in space

If you tore this wicked system down, what would you build in its place?

You gotta plan then we rollin (come on), don't waste my time (please)

There is land that is stolen which is rightfully mine

What if slavery never happened and we was never colonized?

What if governments never lied and white folks apologized?

Or if the environment didn't create the context for the art

When niggas celebrate the death and breakin black mommas hearts

What part, would a MC like me play wit my positive talents play

If there was no negativity to keep the balance?

[Shabaam Sahdeeq]

What if '87 never happened?

No innovative hip-hop, no crack kingpin, no park hand-clappin

Damn, one to his chest, the tool jam

He tried to flash a black casket, his son's a bastard

What if the guns was gone soon as your sons was born?

Back to the fisticuffs, only the snakes get bust

From greed to lust, I seen em all fall face first

Rapidly tappin the frequency and get dissed by chemist

I be exposin the scandalous

Sahdeeq, maniscription is the beef shit

What if the sky fell into the sea? apocalypse now

Crushin the globe on a quest for your long lost souls

What if I catch the red-eye flight to J-A

And build wit the knotty's on the hill all day?

What if I smacked the grin off your chin

When you say, that the cats on this track don't have nuttin to spray?

"What" (17x)

[Skam2]

What if old world disorder straight up exist?

You wouldn't witness the diabolic-ness that'll twist

Your head off, and suck the juice out your neck like a sports bottle

Rip a rhyme full throttle, put the sun in a clutch

If you confused you can use your bad luck for a crutch

So what you if tried to spit my brain's a pit, throw em in

Shake a wasp nest up and stitch his lips to the opening

I'm hoping above average becomes the new average

Some mediocre rappers are flipped to sub-standard

Demanded, the day da county dazzlely degenerate

Three-oh-five representative the slang that scam

Deep thought wit Shadow Man in Miami we do things

Like sellin rap nigga's hoes to y'all for weddin rings

Wit more mysteries than conspiracies wit change links

We're strangely spittin thoughts by my lonely

After all this close contact you still don't know me

[L-Fudge]

What if? to me is the same question I've asked myself

Exactly twenty years I just blew the penitentiary

Imagine if disease, prejudice didn't exist

Materialistic dreams of purchasing that Lexus would be deaded

What if we remained primative depended on natural resources?

To live and didn't have technology to abort our kids

How about if there was no rated-R flicks to corrupt our minds?

Or if world wars ain't take place and didn't interrupt our times?

What if this free world shit didn't have us hypnotized?

Or cannibalism was a permanent state of mind?

The death rate, grows faster than we can produce yellow tape

The main suspect is society for committing this mistake

Categorizing everything, I sit back and dig up some more "what if's"

Hand em the drama that any bring

Black and blues ain't results to some of em being mad at you

Egos are devils sittin on shoulders, trickin em to blast at you word

"What" (to end)