G.O.D.'s Network: Reb7rth

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Rakim

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I love my family^✦ since Toy story^✦ came out back pack of stress on my back like Andy/^✦

Rollerblades for hands when I roll through the dusty^✦ streets on a winning^✦ streak/

A role model^✦ like Jesus^✦ with no followers I’m different/^✦

So I do the best I can with what I know/

Going to the big man upstairs on his office^✦ after^✦ hours/

A slacker never^✦ a power^✦ pressure^✦ I’m more precise^✦ and clever^✦ on futuristic endeavors/

Talk about^✦ my problems^✦ share them like an Alcoholics Anonymous^✦ meeting/

I learn that you get out what you put in/

Full strength with my musical^✦ prodigy and attain^✦ a network/

My head hurts thank god I can be myself^✦ around^✦ my father^✦ and mother^✦ I ain’t a sucker^✦ l/

Volunteer^✦ for free when I perform I’m in the rear even^✦ though I’m mad I make it I’m clear/

Dam the end is near no fear I’m here flip it hot chef pan seared/^✦

Pops a rolling stone and mother^✦ an angel^✦ in movies^✦ like Angela^✦ Bassett/

People in life go by what they see not by what they know/

When they die I can not bring them back extend^✦ them god fearing^✦ genius^✦ deep verses^✦ on my track/

Manic^✦ depressive^✦ on my room days paintbrush strokes^✦ Van Gogh pieces/^✦

Or days filled^✦ up robust^✦ drinks squeeze energy^✦ out on a plate/

Humorous^✦ times^✦ I don’t think about^✦ bad feelings and wanna^✦ be drugs dealings/^✦

Insanity^✦ Einstein spotted me out leprosy too much jealousy^✦ embedded in me/

Different^✦ moods make make me behave^✦ different^✦ I’m engraved in my conscious^✦ phase/

What I think or did never^✦ kept me sober^✦ the theme is in the literature/^✦

No intentions^✦ of getting^✦ mad over^✦ mere matters/

God give him the glory^✦ that is deserved/

Greetings earthlings I put my glasses^✦ on so I don’t face the hardship/

At what cost do risk it all to stand amid^✦ the odds/

Tears in my eyes fears in my mind da Vinci^✦ is on my heart/

I listen^✦ I listen^✦ to my surrounding^✦ spider^✦ man senses’^✦ tingling^✦ /

Then I met my match let me light the devil^✦ up I spit fire around^✦ my kangol^✦ hat /

Wise men listen^✦ and laugh while fools talk/

Stepped up to the base the hit the ball/

Chutes^✦ and ladders candy-land mixed^✦ with a chess players pose/

Articulating^✦ my thoughts on paper^✦ in plain sight I aim for the high life /

Teaching me a new lesson^✦ I’m on a quest for new message/^✦

Forget^✦ the crazy^✦ people that want to hate cause in the end they won’t be around^✦ to what class celebrate/^✦

My life is tolerable^✦ and valuable^✦ every^✦ move I made was fresh and calculable/^✦

You can’t be a kid forever^✦ you have to grow up someday/^✦

I exhale^✦ the bullshit I don’t want it to fester/^✦

Sequestering^✦ these maddening^✦ circumstances/^✦

I want love honor^✦ respect and morality^✦ ingrained/^✦

Left out the side off the doors in this crazy^✦ works like Jim Morrison/

Kind of scary^✦ when we pass away^✦ over^✦ the casket^✦ look at the mask what do you see Jim Carrey/^✦

Wisdom^✦ and knowledge^✦ is better^✦ than mans riches^✦ why because^✦ it vanishes one day/

Life is serious^✦ and you cannot^✦ get your time by/

I’m here for the duration^✦ I wait patient remain^✦ humble I’m bold and confident^✦ in the rumble/

Aiming^✦ to rid you of Goliath effects I’m a play in an accordion^✦ spot on strike of a scorpion^✦ shot let the stings of life mettle in and be tight like a Gordian’s^✦ knot/

We are in love family^✦ romantic I speak my three languages/^✦

Gauge the show I prep my operas^✦ no need for phantom/

Robin^✦ Hood and King argthur bars I’m a legend^✦ in the making^✦ my errands are painstaking^✦ /

You can run from yourself^✦ but you can’t hide your true self/

In the end my family^✦ is all I got so I seek my help...family/^✦

I’m you it’s mike the angel^✦ (Tetris^✦ theme)

Big the old soul you a genius^✦ fir this one

Keyboards on deck here we goooo

Chorus^✦

I’m not a doctor^✦ not a preacher^✦ not a teacher/^✦

Going back deep in my mind like I’m having^✦ a seizure/^✦

I search the world for worth and debate^✦ my own motto/^✦

Somebody^✦ said yo Jim your a modern day Aristotle /

V-1

I’m an old soul trapped^✦ in a twenty^✦ fiver^✦ year old body/^✦

What happened to the thinkers from way back when/

People dumbed^✦ down selling^✦ themselves short oh no/

In the sky I’m deemed^✦ a star check out my astrology^✦ and astronomy/

Catch me a buzz like a bumble bee when I’m on set/

Land of the free home of the brave/

You can dial into^✦ my vibe you can ride my wave/

I hope and pray the walls don’t close in to what you say/

Insight^✦ gives^✦ you something^✦ to ponder^✦ in yonder^✦ I humbly^✦ stand/

Authority^✦ is only^✦ dictated^✦ by superiority^✦ pouting out inferiority^✦ and fear/

You can’t be serious^✦ my grammar up to par not below^✦ average/^✦

I’m able to drink part twenty^✦ but I’m not a savage/^✦

I’m a cool nerd trying to get my ones^✦ right then blow up big like Michael Bloomberg/

Interacting with the common^✦ day man reaming messages^✦ putting^✦ out intellectual^✦ acuity/^✦

Rumor^✦ has it I’m not doing what I am supposed to yes/

Coming^✦ to my senses^✦ I’m almost^✦ but not where I want to be yet

Chorus^✦ 3x

V-2

In your circle creating^✦ chemistry in our relationship/

You know it’s going to be logical^✦ to physical/^✦

My lifestyle in my eyelids depicted as mystical/^✦

But you know my conversation^✦ is far from typical/^✦

Let me waltz to your brain going to the back of your mind like Psychology/^✦

Just do your duty^✦ and simply^✦ try to honor^✦ me/

Don’t end my life cause I passed^✦ Biology^✦ along^✦ time ago/^✦

Now they want the classic^✦ villain to replace the hero^✦ but I say hell no/

Repping^✦ my own stepping^✦ to my throne accepting the stones^✦ thrown/

Jaded^✦ and disgusted^✦ remorseful^✦ punishments I make clear adjustments/

Yo my ideology^✦ is nestled in my heart carrying^✦ this vivid^✦ doctrine/^✦

A marvelous^✦ rap edited^✦ jester^✦ led lines^✦ I concocted/

Let my angels^✦ in and shun the devil^✦ out/

Pupils I know we can make it if we just try/

Reconcile^✦ hate speeches and effortlessly^✦ put our differences^✦ to the side/

It’s a brash statement but you know it’s true/

Chorus^✦

V-3

In a seat I foresee a paining of gracious^✦ victory/^✦

A reincarnated^✦ professor when I die restored in Athens school literally^✦ /

Who would have thought Big Jim Would be etched^✦ in history/^✦

The news media^✦ lambasts us and serrated^✦ our views to small pieces/^✦

You been hotter^✦ than the sun I’m good keep with the puns/

I got my own Philosophy somebody^✦ better^✦ put on the instrumental^✦ from KRS one/

I’m so blessed^✦ I can give a new toddler 75 years of info^✦ coming^✦ out his tongue/

They can hate you know but try to shake your hand and thank you later^✦ /

Hi haters^✦ I’m here for that edification^✦ surrealism^✦ embalmed in mathematical^✦ triangular prisms/

I’m a bout to bounce back from my cave three days later^✦ they say Jesus^✦ risen/^✦

No it’s just me Big Jim a little ominous^✦ with my right hand keyboard the Angel^✦ fish/

But I’m about^✦ to slow it down for you to understand/^✦

I’m on top I came from nothing^✦ to prepare^✦ something^✦ restaurant style/

Judge jury^✦ and execution/^✦

One the mic I grace it’s relevance^✦ on a plateau of elegance/^✦

I want my message^✦ carried^✦ out the speaker box at a loud concert playing evanescence/^✦

Chorus^✦

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Chorus^✦ song 3

You can’t beat me I keep a hammer^✦ in my palm like King Dede/

Rocking^✦ out taking^✦ it back to baggy^✦ clothes^✦ Enyce/^✦

I’m close by no long distance^✦ so my friends can reach me/

All real in the battlefield you see my scars there’s^✦ no fakin/^✦

Big Jim a masterful rhymed^✦ in the makin/^✦

Was

I love my life so I would never^✦ commit^✦ suicide/^✦

In the skin I’m in I love it so I would admit^✦ genocide/^✦

With the pen strokes^✦ it provides me from a gift from god/

I know today^✦ the world is going crazy^✦ like the eighties^✦ babies/^✦

I’m hooked^✦ on phonics not chronic^✦ an atheist in a church that’s ironic/^✦

Everything^✦ I spit in the main source becomes^✦ catatonic/^✦

Did you know I had crack in my genes^✦ before^✦ I was thought of like Reganomics/

Sir at the end of bank notes^✦ I want a couple zeros/^✦

Cause I’m the game of life you going to need money^✦ to be a hero/^✦

Let me hit you up Luigi^✦ as I ride my mushroom/

I hired^✦ gourmet chefs to cook five star dinners/^✦

I take my lovely^✦ lady^✦ on a shopping

Spree you what I mean/

Big Jim the marvelous^✦ musical^✦ rhyme enchanter mutiny^✦ haters^✦ that produced negative^✦ banter/^✦

I’m not crooked like a deer antler^✦ but I see my farm on my continent^✦ call me Black Panther/

My ex I could not understand^✦ her and my rights reprimanded^✦ on my aisle stranded/^✦

The present^✦ is a must my past is not my debt I trust/

Chorus^✦

V-2

Money^✦ fluctuates^✦ on point with a line my exclamation^✦ point floats and punctuates/^✦

I’m doing straight whether^✦ in I’m rich in stormy^✦ weather or in sunny^✦ skies in section^✦ 8/

Let the beat enervate^✦ marinate^✦ and elevate^✦ my mood/

Be careful^✦ for what you wish for cause you know it could be true/

Mowing^✦ my errors^✦ away^✦ when I fester^✦ my position/^✦

This delicate^✦ blend of sentimental^✦ tunes^✦ logging out/

Mind boggling questions^✦ being asked^✦ all the time on my side/

I’m a crime solver^✦ and the world is my revolver/

Let me sign your book cause I’m your favorite^✦ author/^✦

Drug free school zone I keep it clean no habits/^✦

Mellow^✦ out a yellow^✦ skin fellow^✦ on a cello^✦ playing his soul out/

I’m about^✦ to swarm in rounding^✦ up a thousand^✦ submissive^✦ Mormons and make conversation^✦ that’s important/

Give me the loot I have a million^✦ genius^✦ ideas^✦ that will pay for more rent/

I don’t know where I’m going but I know where I’m heading/^✦

You kids is always^✦ into^✦ something^✦ you have no business^✦ meddling/

I keep quiet but you keep on stressing^✦ me and telling/^✦

Chorus^✦

V-3

God can’t give me nothing^✦ thing I can’t manage/^✦

I’m pristine^✦ in a real form so I can appear^✦ and not vanish/^✦

I’m using^✦ all these dealings^✦ and weak links around^✦ me to my advantage/^✦

The master^✦ is here raw and potent^✦ one hand under^✦ my chin like I’m Rodin/^✦

Few Made it out the war but got scars to prove they faced^✦ battles/

Moving^✦ around^✦ me like some Roman^✦ chatter and cattle/

Distorted view points on various^✦ nefarious^✦ topics^✦ and signs of Aquarius nights/

Take this back to when I would have riled^✦ my kingdom King Darius^✦ rights/

My stunt double ready^✦ to get in sync for the action^✦ about^✦ to occur/^✦

En Vogue my robe ripped^✦ Sargent I went rogue the shoes on my feet brogue/

Monopoly man hand out I’m broke but classically^✦ trained^✦ baroque/^✦

I got my flow from my pops and smile from my moms thanks for old folks/

Into^✦ this for a limited^✦ time only^✦ big Jim praying for a shot in the game without being holy/^✦

Totally^✦ submerged in immense^✦ curtains of detailed descriptions^✦ of immense^✦ success/^✦

Electrified^✦ studio^✦ sessions^✦ expected the worst when you brought me the best/

The master^✦ is here, ending^✦ careers, and wishing for better^✦ day as I wipe tears/

Chorus^✦ 2x

Ahah^✦

Late to class

Chorus^✦

I keep my eye on the prize/

My eyes set on the goal to acquire^✦ gold/

They put my hopes^✦ on the shelf when it came to pass/

They wonder^✦ I why I’m always^✦ late to class/

V-1

I’m paid attention^✦ but could not afford^✦ the tuition/^✦

Teachers^✦ raised^✦ eyebrows and concerns for my suspicions/^✦

I knew what I wanted^✦ but didn’t know how to get it/

You see I already^✦ laugh at the bs in the system/^✦

It sickens me we all to endure^✦ this life when it tears ya apart/^✦

The teachers^✦ all get paid regardless but they say go to college^✦ its the key/

Well if it’s the key why I ain’t I found the door to unlock^✦ it yet/

In the back room listening^✦ to instrumentals from lord finesse and the large professors/

Wondering^✦ if there is a heaven^✦ for a G after^✦ all like PAC said/

But I’m alive^✦ not said I’m a legend^✦ in the making^✦ Big Jim/

When you know more than they know they hate you for it/

I’m trying to be an admired president^✦ residing in front of my residence/^✦

Dancing down the dismal^✦ streets full of characters and iridescent lights/

I capture^✦ these factors from actors^✦ that get divided up like bone fractures/^✦

Let me forklift my rhymes^✦ with practice^✦

Echoing my voice I’m a civil^✦ rights activist/

Leave you amazed^✦ distraught and tactless/

Chorus^✦

V-2

Drugs and drinks I can’t do they leave you paralyzed and wrapped^✦ up like a Hindu/^✦

On the menu^✦ I’m drinking^✦ wines^✦ in Italy^✦ on exquisite^✦ venues/^✦

I continue^✦ to show hospitality^✦ in the hospital^✦ cheering^✦ up my peers faces/^✦

Let me spit a Genius^✦ Bar for the ages/^✦

Turn the pages^✦ work with animals out of cages/^✦

Forming an award^✦ winning^✦ long tempering^✦ movie to be played/

Don’t shame me cause I’m young I’m stunned/^✦

Wait up cause I’m tuned^✦ out and bored^✦ with the subject/

Where’s^✦ the substance^✦ in these metaphorical^✦ and simile^✦ lyrics/^✦

I’m striking numerous^✦ thoughts on various^✦ charts/

Look at my cart inside^✦ my art/

I’m smart cause I know laughter is the music^✦ of the heart/

I dine in nice food spots dealing with loan sharks/

I got dreams like the other^✦ students in my class/

But I know to make it you can’t fake it/

In the fall moneys^✦ comes^✦ time to rake in/

Chorus^✦

V-3

Alright so my path has some road blocks/

Thought I was the shit in the wrong spot/

Diamonds rubies^✦ sapphire^✦ and emerald /

But I’m just a way from being ephemeral/

The hell with you when I tell you I’m reasonable/^✦

No more patience^✦ in this American^✦ Dream I see it’s a scheme waist George Carlin^✦ said/

I’m well read I should have been a novelist/

Instead^✦ I made my meal putting^✦ sauce on my noodles/

The waitress asked^✦ me what do I want I said the usual/^✦

Ok that would me a pinch of stupid^✦ ignorant fools equipped with issues^✦ that are miserable/^✦

Damon^✦ you got it down on point sounds reasonable/^✦

Father^✦ Time passes^✦ by my notes^✦ are full of splendid spliced up limericks/

Go ahead^✦ shoot your shot I’ll let you get one come to the court home of the New York Knicks/

Take your pick your such a good prospect and a sport when channel^✦ your hobby/^✦

This ain’t world star Instagram face book clad tv or anything^✦ of that nature/^✦

I been naughty before^✦ they had all then features/^✦

So you can why I’m not into^✦ go to class cause it’s just boring^✦ listening^✦ to the teachers/^✦

Chorus^✦ 2x ( I see the fire in your storm Jim whirlpool rapper)^✦

Chorus^✦

Yo Jim yo Jim I see it in your face /

You already^✦ know I’m thinking^✦ Forbes^✦ 500 ceo my future^✦ face/

V-1

I want to be on Forbes^✦ 500 making^✦ hits with the best from that list/

My topic^✦ is of no more fervent discussion^✦ unless^✦ my insurance^✦ is background percussion/^✦

I’m in that top five even^✦ if I’m not alive/^✦

Yeah this my be a problem so I are a turn left if o don’t feel right/

Like bananas when they peel back I do the same to mics/

Coming^✦ to grasp from a break in reality/^✦

The mind of an aspie god blessed^✦ me/

Big Jim looking^✦ at the time on my smart watch the band a thousand^✦ dollars alone^✦ Black and white like I’m one of the Watchmen Rorschach/

I seen too many^✦ babbling traveling^✦ clothes^✦ unraveling^✦ whores^✦ on my block/

They didn’t have a plan standing next to pimps who did a plethora of bids/

I want to be a winner^✦ in life so I create my own path/

I can picture^✦ me I a skinny^✦ slim fit suit wearing^✦ some argyle^✦ socks/

Big Jim your so dapper^✦ they madder^✦ than the hatter^✦ go see Lewis^✦ Carroll/

My beliefs are invested^✦ others^✦ so my karma^✦ is sown figuratively/^✦

Tired^✦ of being decked^✦ in by this trickery/^✦

Wicked^✦ wizardry casted^✦ upon^✦ me from my the depths of hades^✦ instantly/

Cause God wanted^✦ to make sure I gave back so I wouldn’t be greedy/^✦

Chorus^✦

V-2

Believe^✦ me we get a lot but we don’t cherish it just get embarrassed quick/

Fancy^✦ dinners^✦ politicking^✦ around^✦ candlelight’s showing^✦ I can handle types/^✦

I won’t let you haters^✦ and naysayers^✦ dismantle fights for justice^✦ /

When I bust this I must not be up for sell like auctioneer/^✦

Exhausted^✦ when the spotlight is one for this production^✦ of flare/

Great game coach but I’m going to set this one out/

Why player? I said because^✦ that’s not the play I’m about/(no doubt)/

Slipping into^✦ something^✦ comfortable^✦ before^✦ the music^✦ turns on/

My bank account^✦ just deposited^✦ money^✦ I see my flow like the egg yolk sunny/^✦

Just took my woman^✦ out for a pedicure^✦ and a manicure/^✦

And I’m buying myself^✦ a ranch house augmenting a tennis^✦ court/

I feel like I’ve been here before^✦ /

Maybe I wast in a past life I don’t know for sure/

About^✦ to carve my name James^✦ on a reservation^✦ where the Indians^✦ be at/

So I can buy it out give to them and watch their chief relapse/

After^✦ my talent^✦ show coming^✦ to the booth to bring more dough/

Chorus^✦

V-3

Steve Martin^✦ Will Smith Bill Gates^✦ Warren^✦ Buffet/^✦

I’m trying to make those lyrical^✦ numerical^✦ digits^✦ no errors^✦ in my flow when my account^✦ stuffs it/

You see my vision^✦ is envision^✦ with wits delivery^✦ and pension/^✦

Cause I made the cut like try outs so go get him a band aid/

This is from my brain and yes it is man made/

Counting down the number^✦ line so I’m going to have to shine on a ski resort^✦ alpine/^✦

Your in for a treat I’m bringing the cake back/

All the elites^✦ at the round table getting^✦ money^✦ and wisdom^✦ for a change/

Pull up out front see I’m the ultimate^✦ renaissance^✦ man/

I cut bars using^✦ my own pen as a knife before^✦ I wed my wife I learned^✦ to prep bars my instructions^✦ come from The Book of Life/

Yeah it might be shady^✦ how I go from big to slim but I’m still me Big Jim flowing^✦ like Rakim/^✦

I got a taste of the rich and famous^✦ I’m ready^✦ for the Vegas^✦ nights at the mirage/^✦

Morning^✦ breakfasts all you can eat let them serve us/

My purpose is to get in not thrown out like a piece of junk/

So I place all my money^✦ on this horse race /

Damn if I win it all I want to be the number^✦ one out five hundred on Fortune Forbes^✦ 500 page/ damnnnn

Chorus^✦

Chorus^✦ 6

I’m a prudent^✦ student^✦ a talent^✦ scouted^✦ out for his youth/

Every^✦ time I enter^✦ the room my force becomes^✦ centrifugal/

The love of my life I’m being quite difficult/

A life long learner I’m a scholar of this game we call life /

V-1

Put my phone number^✦ in your phone let me know/

I’m a soaring^✦ super^✦ intellectual^✦ like a graduated^✦ from Harvard in Boston/^✦

Top it off in the cake baby^✦ your iced^✦ frosting/

Get the game in order^✦ upscale dishes^✦ parallel with French or derives/^✦

More or less I want it all I’m hungry^✦ for success^✦ like I’m Winnie the Pooh/

My journey^✦ is a disorder so I stay in my groove/

Rules^✦ of the game don’t snitch and turn on your family^✦ /

Unless^✦ the price is right I’m bob barker/^✦

Enlighten by the juice in this firewater/^✦

The working man is the real hustler/^✦

A Bronx tale in the new 24-7 hustler/^✦

People change just as the leaves^✦ on the trees/

I can make your bars soft chocolate^✦ chips or make them hard like the attitude on Eve/

I’m plugged into^✦ the game same as a woman’s^✦ hair piece/

Let the bass hit you from the front and the back/

Going to see my doctor^✦ he’s loco^✦ nick name him quack/

Munching^✦ on the meals and punching^✦ the clock even^✦ if I did not have skills/

Chorus^✦

V-2

I’m staying my lane when I ride fast and I’m staying focus/^✦

My worst work is better^✦ than your best opus/^✦

Thing one or thing two/

We’re always^✦ together^✦ our covalent bond nice/

Put you onto^✦ new game so left my old valence/^✦

I’m down in the dumps hopefully^✦ someone^✦ gives^✦ me s face lift/

High up on my side you see the four letter^✦ word NASA^✦ on my space ship/

Currently my currency is in a current sea looking^✦ at my re occurring dream/

Try to beat me delete^✦ me cheat me/

While your girls was a fiend for me I was their tutor^✦ boy meets world I’m Mr. Feeny/^✦

I’m like them larger^✦ than life so they can cover^✦ the bases^✦ never^✦ tiny/^✦

Oh my I’m an urban^✦ legend^✦ I’m may be related^✦ to T.i./

Tighter^✦ than an African^✦ braid special^✦ ed I got it made velvet^✦ suede looser^✦ than paper^✦ machete/

Different^✦ looks with different^✦ crooks off the books our mob deep I’m not shook/

Survival of the fittest and my idols^✦ become^✦ rivals^✦ amongst the wittiest/

Chorus^✦

V-3

Open^✦ a new book I’m onto^✦ the next chapter/

A lot of heartache and laughters/

After^✦ this service^✦ they going to call me baby^✦ Obama^✦ mixed^✦ up next to a Sunday^✦ pastor/^✦

Put some oil on my anointed forehead^✦ so I get rid of the wrinkles lines/^✦

I’m a skate of old amber^✦ stone frozen^✦ in time/

Dust off the pet dander^✦ and spit poetical^✦ flows just like Michelle Alexander/

Luckily^✦ I’m on my seventh^✦ line by designed saved^✦ in heaven^✦ on my eleventh^✦ rhyme/

I can’t body^✦ anybody^✦ and stand the test of time/

Please stay over^✦ there and don’t acknowledge^✦ me/

Swallow your pride and be a gentleman like Styles^✦ P/

Snake eyes roll one up the pass it out were beyond a pair of dice/

The world is a small place inside^✦ swimming around^✦ fish inside^✦ a clear vase/

They never^✦ grow up they still a bunch of school children/

On this ship I’m a voyeur adventures^✦ like Tom Sawyer/^✦

Or do you want a neurotic lawyer^✦ before^✦ you leave your last employer/

Next inauguration^✦ I’m running up for rejection^✦ so pave the way for my new direction/^✦

Chorus^✦

Seven^✦ song

Chorus^✦ trade spaces^✦

Officer of the law these rules^✦ are not in my hands/

Around^✦ the globe I see many^✦ aging^✦ faces^✦ and people I recognize not being nameless/^✦

Far from being rich and famous/^✦

Now it’s time for changing and trading^✦ spaces/^✦

V-1

We got pulled^✦ over^✦ I’m not into^✦ drugs or drinking^✦ I’m still sober/^✦

Never^✦ ever^✦ bought a Range Rover^✦ I’m still a fall baby^✦ call me Red October/

When the shoe is in the other^✦ foot they treat you another^✦ way/

No mans an island^✦ I’m captivated^✦ by the red white and blue siren/^✦

Maybe I should be on the Ringling^✦ Bros who knows/

I stay with a basket^✦ full of school supplies/^✦

I’m making^✦ my own recipe^✦ to search for my own destiny my offspring take my legacy^✦ and take home a new dynasty/

Could have been a common^✦ pusher^✦ except^✦ I make good music/^✦

Instead^✦ I went to college^✦ and reinvented my avatar/^✦

My name is James^✦ that’s the title of my first cd/

If your mouth is dry get something^✦ to drink from geysers and water^✦ springs I know your thirsty/

The hospital^✦ made me sick quick this cat ain’t slick/

Yo break it down so I can get my fix/

I’m on everyone’s track they featuring^✦ me on their remix/^✦

Take your pick cause I roll up with all types^✦ of cliques/

My flare shoots up so gamble now take your pick/

V-2

Tomorrow^✦ is not promised^✦ so be thankful for your specific gift:

I know you ain’t a killer^✦ here’s^✦ the bullets^✦ you purposely^✦ dropped/

I unfold^✦ my on my desktop at my kids rehearsal/

Want the glove to spin my picture^✦ is universal /

Let me stick my hand out in a street fight call me Vega/^✦

And don’t forget^✦ the meds come get three omegas^✦ please/

It’s a shame that I got a go through all this just to get a check/

On the land of the blind ombré one eye man is king/

Let the pharaohs come you hear the symphony playing when they sing/

Due me a favor^✦ before^✦ you sue me or shoot me make sure first you introduce^✦ me/

Play the hand your dealt switch up when get a second/^✦

I learned^✦ from my oppression^✦ this estranged^✦ aggression^✦ in my way no mind suppression/^✦

I need rehab^✦ and motivation^✦ for my the gentle sonnets I engrave/

I don’t need to push hard I’m in deep water^✦ donkey^✦ Kong strength I’m enguarde (on guard)/

Look hard in my tracks my footprints misrepresent^✦ the sketchy road I walked/^✦

No lead detective^✦ change this channel^✦ before^✦ you see my next episode/

Chorus^✦

V-3

Praying for more wisdom^✦ then fools that bear gold/

Why cause it’s scary^✦ when you commence^✦ to climb the totem^✦ pole/

Fold them roles^✦ and hold them up slow/

I’m far ahead^✦ of my time living^✦ in Maui on a beach looking^✦ at nice seniorita/

Put a toothpick in her hair from the brew I drunk/

It’s all a mad rat trap my whole life flashes before^✦ me I’m in this quarry/^✦

Bounded^✦ and confounded^✦ in forestry me weed comes^✦ from another^✦ galaxy/^✦

Surrounded^✦ in ounces^✦ of love by the pound you see my aura/^✦

I’m dizzy^✦ from all the drama^✦ I need to get some insight^✦ from my mama/^✦

I laugh at you cats im Cheshire/^✦

On the bike I’m leaving^✦ a car crash found in cigar^✦ ash and I can’t help I played it well see n road rash/

Time goes by fast I slow the metronome^✦ on the telephone/^✦

I admit^✦ it I’m vulgar^✦ I could produce^✦ an ulcer/^✦

This scene is hilarious^✦ bride of chucky^✦ I won’t marry^✦ ya/

Represent^✦ my lyrical^✦ sensation^✦ I’m on the avenue^✦ of restoration/^✦

A bridge of life I cross it to make my angelic destination/^✦

Chorus^✦ 2x

Song 8

Chorus^✦

This is a chess game against checker players/

A humble knight prepares to be a dragon^✦ slayer/

My god I put my good foot down like James^✦ brown/

Idiots^✦ not thinking^✦ their next move so I rearrange my angles^✦ through/

V-1

I’m on a business^✦ trip bright lights and expensive^✦ chicks/

Listening^✦ to HOV wearing^✦ a 3 pc suit watching^✦ boxin^✦ flicks/

Am I me at all times^✦ I do think so/

A couple mill from a couple pickles when I eat my deal/

Chill back on my beige recliner^✦ reruns^✦ on the television^✦ of Hotel^✦ Rwanda/^✦

Jealousy^✦ only^✦ makes^✦ me want to step my game up/

KRS one approach when you step into^✦ my world/

Big Jim similar to a third world regime^✦ from here to Beijing/

I’m always^✦ an extreme case cause I can go from sociopathic to holographic/

Count my money^✦ where’s^✦ Mos Def someone^✦ drop some mathematics/

I carry^✦ all this worry^✦ on my shouldered outside^✦ lookers see the atlas/^✦

I’m pragmatic^✦ generous^✦ giving^✦ to poor people is automatic/^✦

How you going to help me when in go platinum?/

When you have no arms trying to shoot me with your magnum/

Like the government^✦ royalties^✦ coming^✦ in I have to tax them/

Let my kinfolk relax^✦ then a pair of aces^✦ I’m out kid/

Chorus^✦

V-2

I’m in my green one door speed boat/

You cracked me up using^✦ some old jokes/^✦

Potpourris blend in the misty^✦ swift delicate^✦ breeze/

Intoxicating^✦ smells make me chilled and drop to my knees/

I pray to Jesus^✦ cause he saved^✦ from a lot of misery/^✦

Come close or slice us in half my other^✦ fits perfectly see the symmetry/

A wild defense^✦ mechanism^✦ utilizing^✦ mimicry/

Open^✦ up the Bible reading^✦ scriptures^✦ turning sorrows to triumphs/

I’ve been here to clarify^✦ my past lines^✦ to identify^✦ complex rhymes/^✦

You know I what all the green clean and fresh call me st. Ives/^✦

Even^✦ saints fall short of the grace and glory^✦ of god in they lives/^✦

Make the most of your darken^✦ troubles and your problems^✦ have roots Alex^✦ Haley/^✦

I love cougars to sear their is no court case Kevin^✦ Spacey/^✦

Isolate^✦ me in a cell and determine^✦ my outcome/^✦

I keep my ex close by she’s vicious^✦ fighter^✦ like Malcolm/

Moves^✦ have to be made modestly at any^✦ given^✦ cost/

Chorus^✦

V-3

If crime pays bills I simply^✦ take rain checks/

Its a no brainer^✦ my rhyme skills hit hard and sprain necks/

I can’t believe^✦ I tried to trade my essence^✦ for a new beginning/^✦

Loser^✦ or win I’m making^✦ up my mind now I’m in the dressing^✦ room stage one act 4/

Good morning^✦ ladies^✦ I’m up nice and early/^✦

God is always^✦ god we a tag yeah duo like Laverne and Shirley/^✦

This game is bungled up see my hair it’s real curly/^✦

Big Jim come to the fifth floor to speak to your big brother/^✦

Out the window^✦ I saw a droid airborne in the sky/

They wonder^✦ why dislike the government^✦ in our issues/^✦

Here you go my darling take this plain tissue/

Don’t mind that curvy^✦ body^✦ I had to jog pass you/

An imbalance^✦ in my head not drinking^✦ more booze/

Swear to take the chess piece I plant it on the Queen/

She can go all over.^✦ If you know what I mean/

Figuring^✦ out this plot and gathering^✦ up my clues feeling^✦ blue/

Song 9

Chorus^✦

I’m not up to it today^✦ faxing^✦ all this illness in world gone astray/^✦

Let me my heart out like a cig on an ashtray/^✦

Coming^✦ for me your too late to save me from my fate/

I changed^✦ courses to seek help cause I’m not in the mood today/^✦

V-1

My brain hurts my Heart hurts/

Thoughts written down have slight aneurisms/

Audience^✦ applauded me for exhibiting decent^✦ vocal^✦ mannerisms/

My family^✦ mourns a relatives^✦ passing while celebrating^✦ a birth of an organism^✦ /

Sanity^✦ is lost and stability^✦ is found/

Gather^✦ up all my utensils so I create my own David^✦ of Pieta/^✦

When I’m on TV one day ill cheer you up in Spain doing a fiesta/^✦

At the moment^✦ I’m heartbroken sending^✦ my condolences^✦ To all the victims/

Seems to me rap is no longer^✦ an art form well im here to restore it back to its form/

McCob and morose^✦ attitudes over^✦ a table conversation^✦ time to make a toast/

Never^✦ put butter^✦ on it it might clog your arteries^✦ so pardon^✦ me/

Big Jim in the limelight again^✦ resurrecting

The dead/

Redeeming my soul before^✦ my face becomes^✦ red/

The alleyway^✦ I see my best friend tommy^✦ shoot craps/

911 came around^✦ 12 shot some bullets^✦ the neighborhood just snap/

I see my old buddy^✦ breathing hard taking^✦ his last nap/

Chorus^✦

V-2

Life is too short for long melodies^✦ and fierce tragedies/^✦

Go ahead^✦ send some shade my glasses^✦ on before^✦ I fade/

Out in the front yard where the dogs bark in a rage/

And I’m here for the same reason^✦ you are mate/

I want success^✦ money^✦ cars clothes^✦ women^✦ and the power/^✦

But today^✦ I can’t run from own ways I see it about^✦ to pour depression/^✦

Some days are better^✦ than others^✦ I will benefit/

Some people try to get Better^✦ and others^✦ change on you like Clark Kent/

Notoriously known a for having^✦ a silver^✦ tongue flow/

Hip hop music^✦ poisons the minds of youth ruthlessly/^✦

It’s not even^✦ close or can fathom^✦ from where it used^✦ to be/

Time to unwind^✦ from the family^✦ grind put some classic^✦ as I’m in my lair/

Say a prayer while I’m in my rocking^✦ chair

For the mayor/

I dare anyone^✦ to stop there unwrapping my pink cold eclair/^✦

The engine^✦ transmission^✦ is rumbling in to the atmosphere sending^✦ high vibrations/^✦

This is one of those days to me Big Jim living^✦ in his prison^✦ of manipulation/^✦

Chorus^✦

V-3

I could have been a servant for you but lied/

I don’t want to sell my freedom for coins/

I rather^✦ die a man than live a coward/^✦

My bars bring hope back to life like a Jesus/^✦

I need you dear more than forever^✦ now/

By the way it amazes^✦ me on your hardest days you still be positive/^✦

Let me thrown on one of my evergreen brims/

Some love the pain others^✦ watch with grief/

I keep all the extra^✦ official^✦ documents locked^✦ in my case to keep it brief/

I’m not even^✦ shocked or in disbelief/

One day I will attain^✦ status^✦ in an apparatus being lavish^✦ in a tan Jeep/

Keep it simple I believe^✦ it’s in you/

A sad disposition^✦ the frown gesture/^✦

I’m up at night kicking^✦ your butt Carmen^✦ Electra/

We have to keep it balance^✦ like your doing problems^✦ in algebra/

I’m not in the mood today^✦ so so if you kill me my outer^✦ shell will blow up Galaga/^✦

Song 10

Chorus^✦

If you don’t use the you lose it/

Don’t come here if you going to abuse^✦ it/

My gift from good is priceless^✦ so I duel it/

Tomorrow^✦ ain’t promised^✦ so why you up for stupid?/^✦

V-1

Yo I sweat profusely^✦ looking^✦ around^✦ hearing^✦ clandestine^✦ rumors/^✦

Vacuuming up pieces^✦ of exploded parts from new caprices/

Big Jim the I want to put my name on a vermillion^✦ plaque/

Let me extend^✦ a handshake^✦ my only^✦ wish is my first hit to earthquake^✦ and Ground break/

Immoral actions^✦ only^✦ get you described as arrested/^✦

Tested^✦ my character because^✦ I know it counts/

My eyes see green dollar^✦ signs inside^✦ of loaded^✦ amounts/

Not into^✦ drugs never^✦ even^✦ had to scale or toted^✦ an ounce/

Bubbling on the stove it must be some country bacon/^✦

The smell woke up me out a nightmare/^✦

I was drowning in my own conscious^✦ feeling^✦ guilty^✦ and pitiful/

Of how I was living^✦ with the people I was around^✦ Les Miserables/

In my lab yearning for more ingenuity/^✦

Building you up beautifully^✦ a class act leaving^✦ out some promiscuity/^✦

I keep an eye on my money^✦ like mall security/^✦

Pin point my location^✦ this master^✦ is ardent^✦ in his versatile^✦ acuity/^✦

Chorus^✦

V-2

Laser^✦ scenes^✦ in the sky I see quasars pulsars and ray beams/

A star fell out the sky and landed^✦ on its zone/

I can hear you on through the grape vine on my headphone/^✦

If I dudes^✦ wanna^✦ see my reputation^✦ in shambles let them attempt/

But if they go amiss^✦ this will be the last time they give their kids a goodnight kiss/

I’m out for me in life a vandal^✦ a rogue a wild west desperado/

You ain’t a man yet you still a boy on the strings of Gepetto/

I’m so blind to your tricks this that they make mad/

Hello^✦ to the new artists who want to throw away^✦ their ideas/^✦

Put it all together^✦ supercontinent^✦ from Pangea/^✦

Then their sugar^✦ levels^✦ spike out their pancreas/

Don’t be upset^✦ you will thank me for this/

Put on you big wig and get emotional like Madea/^✦

Lose yourself^✦ for the moment^✦ then zoom out and then save it soon/

I heard my aunt the infirmary abs she.Won’t make through/

A coupe of steps back I see the bigger^✦ moral^✦ point/

Now or never^✦ it’s your choice how do you deploy?/^✦

Chorus^✦

V-2

Miracles are just spouted^✦ out in my walk with Christ/

A higher^✦ power^✦ gives^✦ me his blessings as

Act nice/

In the front I stand to eat so I get no back bites/^✦

Big Jim gonna^✦ put it on like big l did/

I stay underwater^✦ with spongebob catching^✦ delicious^✦ squid/

Hit you on the radio^✦ and then turn my doorknob/

I punch beats and put fruit in my glass/

The goal was to get a bout a million^✦ in lyrical^✦ imperialism^✦ to get the finest^✦ denim’s/^✦

I’m on a great hunt I’ll be back in 8 months/

I may show to the Emmy’s^✦ on Intergalactic trunk/

You want to pay homage^✦ I’ll make you vomit/^✦

A plus report^✦ I’m long so I can’t be short/

In school I was deemed^✦ a dork but know I do me kick ass like Bloodsport/

Off the road I race dramatically/^✦

Actually^✦ I’m strategizing^✦ to get wealthier^✦ and by me a yellow^✦ pit bull terrier/^✦

I’m taking^✦ off from the weed I seen an airplane carrier/^✦

Chorus^✦

V-3

More the merrier^✦ sharing^✦ is caring^✦ /

I had enough^✦ of rappers talk about^✦ sex and bling/

Instead^✦ I leave a quite when I sing/

No one can do everything^✦ but everyone^✦ can do something/^✦

Brash reactions^✦ when get no cash advances/^✦

Damn the devil^✦ on my level^✦ wins and parleys again/^✦

Feed my ego^✦ to this noticeable^✦ sequel/^✦

I can’t help she gonna^✦ tell it/

Wrap it up in a sub sandwich /

Her beauty^✦ mark is adorable/^✦

Our president^✦ present^✦ behavior is deplorable/^✦

Low income^✦ to heavily^✦ rich is crazy^✦ /

Women^✦ in the mirror^✦ she looks too hazy/^✦

Breaking^✦ demons around^✦ me so I can tread/

Out the oven^✦ let gather^✦ my fajitas to enjoy/^✦

Moving^✦ slow some amoebas and retarded divas/^✦

Near the vault open^✦ it up safe wait my fault on my occult^✦ you ain’t going on pause/

Chorus^✦

V-3

Trepidation^✦ over^✦ the use of words exaggeration/^✦

I’m going to stellar stepping^✦ to new heights/

Grazing the fields and gazing^✦ the sights/

Grading^✦ my paperwork kind of busy^✦ thinking^✦ about^✦ life bug off jerk/

Hustle hard and smart keep your circle small/

Grab my rock so I feel I’m walking tall/

Small talkers get mauled^✦ and get one of my dogs huge paws/

I’m a bourgeoise^✦ threat fucking up the set like Nathan/^✦

Hi I can’t seem to cool down/

Making^✦ fun of me ahaha^✦ are you clowns?/

I’m at the club having^✦ a great time just being in the moment/^✦

The toll needs to be paid that’s a large price to pay/

Bypass^✦ dying people on the side of the street uttering^✦ getting^✦ shunned^✦ and suffering/^✦

I black and white I’m your living^✦ domino/^✦

We pull out raps like when your tonsils gone/

This is my last creation^✦ the reaper^✦ came to dredge my life/

Chorus^✦

Technical Breakdown

7.7

Multisyllabic Rhymes9.5

Complexity of rhyme schemes (data-driven)

Internal Rhymes9.5

Rhymes within a line (data-driven)

Wordplay / Double Entendres4.5

Clever language, metaphors, punchlines

Cadence / Rhythm10.0

Flow variation and timing (data-driven)

Vocabulary Complexity8.0

Range and depth of words used (data-driven)

Delivery / Breath Control4.0

Performance and control

Computed Score7.66

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Critic Analysis

RAPLEDGER BAROMETER™

The verse demonstrates a sincere, stream-of-consciousness approach to autobiography, but lacks the intricate structural discipline and rhythmic locking typical of Rakim's foundational technique, resulting in a loosely organized flow.

B+

9.5

Multisyllabic

9.5

Internal Rhymes

Cadence / Flow

Vocabulary

4.5

Wordplay

Delivery

Simile-heavy narrative constructionStream of consciousness imageryInternal slant rhymingAutobiographical thematic arc

Rhyme Architecture: Predominantly end-stopped lines with irregular internal rhyming patterns that shift between mono-syllabic and multi-syllabic clusters, lacking a consistent meter.

Verified Doubles & Entendres

"back pack of stress on my back like Andy"

① A literal reference to the character Andy from Toy Story carrying his toys in a backpack.② A metaphor for the emotional burden and responsibility the narrator carries.

"Pops a rolling stone"

① A reference to the idiom regarding a person who does not settle down.② A nod to the cultural legacy of the band or the literal motion of movement.

"flip it hot chef pan seared"

① A culinary description of cooking a meal.② A metaphor for the emcee's ability to manipulate flows and bars with high-intensity execution.

Vulnerable and honest thematic exploration

Strong use of pop-culture metaphors (Toy Story, Van Gogh)

Genuine emotional resonance

Erratic pacing and breath control issues

Lack of rhythmic locking on the snare

Over-reliance on literal statements over figurative nuance

Weak structural transitions between disparate topics

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