2000 Seasons (Mixed)

[Intro]

Yeah, Hi-Tek, watch me

For whom do we aspire to reflect our own people’s death?

For whose entertainment shall we sing our agony? In what hopes?

That the destroyers, aspiring to extinguish us

Suffer remorse at the sight of their own fantastic success?

The last imbecile to dream such dreams is dead

Killed by the saviors of his dreams

Armah, Two Thousand Seasons

[Verse 1]

I'm not a human being getting on some spiritual shit

A spiritual being manifested as a human, that's it

Whеn I spit, I spray thoughts that's representing my lifе

Yo, I step into the spot, leave niggas open like mics

Take on 'em on a tour, explore psychologies of war

Things you can't imagine if you've never seen 'em before

Shorties come back raw, straight out the C-74

I welcome them back to the world they think is run by law

The world is run by men who use laws for tools

But I come through, war tactics like Shaka Zulu

MCs is soft like Play-Doh, I shape 'em, smash 'em to pieces

Volunteer slaves crave the words I'm painting, the masterpieces

You hear 'em on the radio babbling

But he truth is traveling with the word I sent flying through the air like a javelin

Unraveling like a verdict, pound it in your chest like a gavel in

The highest court in Babylon, let's travel on

If the world is foul and you thinkin' foul is how you got to live

Then from the get your ass was foul and foul just is how you is

No excuses see, life's dilemmas are set up like a mirror

Just to show you all your faces, now your understanding is clearer

You had your chance for revolution, you let it pass you by

That's why I'm dissing wack MCs until the day that I die

Reflection getting you high, we stand our ground with the believers

The leaning tower of Pisa and the Pyramids of Giza

No comparison, the way I flip it is embarrassing

'Tis the season, ain't no caroling

[Verse 2]

All knowing, flowing like spring water in the desert

Balling through the barren land where niggas take a stand

Like castles made of sand free falling for anything

Nothing but a plan to fail for they selves

No sense of delf, needed daily affirmations of self help

Yo, it's right in front your grill, stop looking everywhere else

Speaking of planning, hustling and scheming and looking for hookups

It took up too much time, you like a fiend for rocks that got cooked up

God bless the child that got his own shit, I got my team's

So the fiends now become opponents, they the opposition

Stronger from competition, shining like a golden shower

Your face I'm pissing in, completing a genocide mission like the Warren commission

Like fathers was supposed to be missing

While our sisters were supposed to be whoring

Savin' for a rainy day, money is pouring

Under grey clouds, black butterflies still be soaring

Flying in the friendly skies, we classifying the highs

Blood be flowing through the streets like crimson tide in my eyes

The Thai be having me drowsy, but I get mellow with the chronic

Intellectuals embarrassed 'cause we discussing Ebonics

I'm on a roll like Sonic in an age that the plague got bubonic proportions

Yo, I call it reparations, but they call it extortion

Whatever, just give me mine

But caution, you've been warned for the very last time

I'm not telling you again, so relay it to your crew

You gotta actually to do, forget the drive in, drive-by and drive-through

You've got to get out the car

Humble yourself, tilt your head back and look at the stars

Shining over someplace very far from where you standing

When the night is clear, you understanding just who put them there

What you know about the space you get lost in?

Your peoples can't hear you in the distortion, the desert is absorption

You sucked in and you stuck in off America freezing for like 2,000 seasons

And upon your return from raping and crossbreeding

Your own people accuse you of deceiving and misleading

Causing mass confusion, drug abusing

Now you all caught up in institutions

At this time you've got to break it down and be showing and proving

An A&R told me that I use too many catch phrases

True, I'm trying to catch all my people in all different stages

All different phases

[Outro]

Like that, y'all

It's like this, y'all

Ya don't stop

Keep it goin', y'all

Reflection, y'all

We freak it like this

Ya don't stop

Here we go, y'all

Homeskillet, y'all

Wanna battle, y'all

Ya don't stop

Brother Rich, y'all

Brooklyn, y'all

Cincinnati, y'all

We don't quit

We don't stop, y'all

Hi-Tek, y'all

It's the Reflection, y'all

We don't stop, y'all

Hi-Tek, y'all

Kweli, y'all

Kweli, y'all

Kweli, y'all

Kweli, y'all

Kweli, y'all

Hi-Tek, y'all

Yeah, yeah

Here we go, y'all

Uh, uh

It's the— It's the—

It's the— It's the—

It's the Reflection