Clear Day

[Verse 1: The Last Emperor]

Yeah, you know I'm checking it out

I wanna know what it's really about

How they exit the party, cold kicking it loud

How the man on the right, be motivating the crowd

How they only exist at the top of the list

For the holiday season I be the popular gift

If I can kick it like this with an adventurous twist

The Last Emp will get chips without the ice on his wrist

I got rhymes you can keep, you can pump in your jeep

Or you can kick to your kids when you put em to sleep

I am the creature from the deeper [?] to the beat

When summoned by the drums I comes from beneath

So I pack up my throne, and I'm ready to go

Constantly in search of this lost city of gold

Somewhere down the road I met a man who was old

When I asked for directions, this is what I was told

[Refrain: The Peddlers]

On a clear day

Rise and look around you

[Verse 2: The Last Emperor]

Cooling in a crib, banging beats in my room

I hit the streets and I'm released from my toll

And as I walk down the streets, rocking to the beat

I get inspired by the lies of the people I meet

See someone'll hold me, then try to control me

Someone'd like to de-thrown me, but they can't overthrow me

Some pretend to be friends, then act like they don't know me

Was it a slump until I bumped into a couple of homies

[Masta Ace]

I made my way through the scariest blocks, and various spots

And know the first names of the area's cops

I meet Shawna, selling her soul on the street corner

Had to run away from her father that beat on her

It's sad, but I still got a few of the news clips

She ran track, rank #1 on a school's list

Now she's standing out on the stroll with a bruised wrist

And just then my cellphone ringed and, "Yo, who's this?"

[Trugoy the Dove]

After it all sets in, the next time's gonna be a sin

I pinched my skin just to see whether I was out

(You're not in them dreams anymore)

But how was that, clouds and kaleidoscopes

(How'd they hide the ropes?)

(He's using see-through string men)

No just blame it on the balance

Talents have my momma in the air before she bear a child

Pay your fines for objects unidentified

Missiosn under wraps for the first MC to fly

[Refrain]

[Verse 3:]

They said once I was airborne they'd just shoot me down, in six, five

Don't they realize that I was destined to hold joints griptight like arm wrestlers

Vessel my flight into airwaves and pain

A little bit of frontlaws and all

(Suburbian style)

Happens like comics, we swing beats for leisure aspects

Past this, them dudes we done paid em

(We melting the Metropolis quicker than chocolate)

[Masta Ace]

I got the dunk when these kids start bursting, the world worsen with every shot

Hit every person on every block

The summers is very hot and not in the forecast

Giuliani got more gats with his law pass

But now that it's shooting season they hoping for a reason to stop your breathing

Straight leaving ya moms grieving

Yesterday I got stopped frisk and I got this cause I got this

And I'm only alive cause a cop missed

[Last Emperor]

Now, Masta Ace came to set the party off

Trugoy came to set the party off

We ain't Tough Tonys, but ain't hardly soft

And we rock more shows than sid at Mardi Gras

Well, I hope you've come to see, you don't want none of me

My observations date back to the electric company

To some degree, what I looked for was right in front of me

Boys and girls around the world acompan thee

Cause they know that, today's show was sponsored by Dove and Ace

And the magic number three