The Venetian

[Produced by The Alchemist]

[Intro: NIKO IS & Ab-Soul]

Ay yo, we like 39,000 feet up in the air and shit like that

Just ride the wave

Niko, what's up

[Verse 1: NIKO IS]

I do this shit cause I want

Man, don't need no reason

Started out at the Bodega

Now we at the Venetian

So Brazilian, but the clothes Parisian

I just do my thing and write like a king man I'm Stephen

These rappers Mr. Fantastic to me, they be reachin'

They poetically describing their gats

That they never squeezin' (pow)

Pardon me I'm starting to see it

Jobs is misleading

Even a snake infiltrated the garden of Eden

Boy stay around the time

It like Martin to Gina

They diggin' meaner than a Spartan's demeanour (Yo, keep it 3 hunnid)

Just spark it and park it

The valet be parking the beamer

Sharper than a ?

That orange indica Ha

You get it for the low

Like Forrest Whittaker's eye

Their vision ?

Don't make up for that counterfeit

Probably with that Alchemist

Free myself then I only see myself like Malcolm

[Hook: NIKO IS]

I do this shit cause I want not cause I need a reason

Started off at the Bodego now we at the Venetian

Started off at the Bodego now we at the Venetian

[Verse 2 : Ab-Soul]

(We need to build to destroy, you know what we about)

I had a dub sac in my bucket, rolling round like fuck it

Now i pull up in a luxurious something

With nothing less than an onion

See I'm the wolf the boys cry about (fibbin')

You lyin in yo lines like the county building

Burning backwoods niggas poppin outta woodwork

Punch told me how this shit would work

That's why i just smirk

Niko let these people know b (let these people know)

While they voted

We was devoted, TDE Javotii

Felt like an activist, bumping Hi-Tek and Kweli

Now the activis gone, we sippin' high tech and Kweli (Quali')

Junius Brutus with the flow like the Ceasar

Just ask Seasick, but don't get sea sick

SOUL

[Verse 3: Talib Kweli]

Let's go

Squadin' up and the crew is tough

Cold and frozen the chosen, like I got Jewish blood

Commited like institutions

I'm married to my music

Women in my life are gettin' jealous, because is my truest love

Get my eyes on the prize

Cause my lyrics are like the Pulitzer

Murderer of verses

I am Like Persus to Medusa brah

Better yet King Louis the Sixteenth

Them angels are falling like Lucifer

How could see coming its disgusting

This neck is gushing with too much blood

Academic fellowship even my mellow shit is super tough

Not the fellowship of the ring with the hobbits and talking junipers

I am a follower of the Freestyle Fellowship, them niggas knew their stuff

I'm a student of Myka 9

Long pieces of Jupiter

Nowadays rappers are stupider

Swearing to God that they blew up

I soon I take the stage

Niggas take the fade like a super cut

Immediately stage my scenery

So I chew it up

And I spit it out like I was puking

That's why you threw it up

[Hook]