The Healing

[Intro]

Statik Selektah

[Verse: Black Thought]

Ayo, I seen crooked cops aimin' to please

They'll pop brothers in their backs after they freeze

Innocent people stomped like they in stampedes

They choke out queens and call 'em chimpanzees

Anybody could get it, what's honor to thieves?

And you ain't even gotta see this shit to believe

They'll call about the way them things happen in threes

Never any better to make then to receive

It's greazy and livin' ain't easy, ain't a Porgy and Bess

And the story get stretched, as long as any glory is quest

It's purely a test, the moral is the more we invest

The more the return, when excellence is all we accept

Respect that I earned is testament that surely I'm blessed

Never stress, that's a prerequisite to earlier death

Redemption is mine, exactly what I'm here to collect

If I leave, then I'ma exit with a serious rep'

And the one relation of 'Riq is a motivational speaker

No vacationin' either, my dedication is eager

'Nother notch on the belt, it's another lace in the sneaker

I been feelin' myself since I felt the bass in the speaker

I been healin' myself, that's another way to get equal

I'm revealin' myself as another face of the people

All my greatest achievements prevail in the face of evil

All my brothers and sisters, keep willin' so they can see you