Yo, why is the so ill? // That be an unpardonable breech of confidence for me to reveal // He said, One of days all eyes will be on me // they look up in the sky and see the neon C // Rhymes on a nickel disk encased in a glass with an ion beam for longevity // For more than ten centuries, impressions and // The first time-machine inventor will me // Canibus was a visionary // He believed light travel in multiples of c // The organic supercomputer that the mysteries of Klein-Kaluza with two blue metric rulers // Liked Cool J but Steven Jay Gould was cooler // And he never liked to rumors // Smoked Island cigars // Liked American luxury cars and Asian broads // He had a mind // He used to about rhymes while he was pruning his bonsais // He claimed that he had written the greatest of all time // But he would never it out of his archives // He two songs per day // And was experimenting with his wordplay // In his youth he did a report on the Digital Sky Survey // He got a F but he an A // I his career from the first day // It seemed the lack of contributed to his inert ways // Ive him put in twenty-four hour workdays // With deferred pay, undeterred by the worst // Public humiliation was the worst // He was spinning out of control a class five hurricane // He said he wouldnt want another emcee to suffer the // when theres nothing to gain // He was the illest alive but nobody would it // He til his tongue was too torched to taste it // Properly funded corporations Carbon-dated his latest // To the information, they found it utterly amazing // They claimed the body of his work was the same as a priceless painting // Never mattered to him the art galleries him // Cause Thomas called and said he would take ten // Complete enigmas wrapped in puzzles encrypted in // With but without shape or signature // Kept files in his garage on MS-DOS in a fireproof pod, we it was odd // Outside there was a with an Oppenheimer lock // He apparently kept more wax Madame Tussaud // We were in awe cause it blew our minds // So many rhymes that were intricately // He WAS laureate of his time // And if you dont mind Id like to share some of his // in my room looking through the thirty-two X telescope zoom // Adjusting the of the moon // One not assume the philosophy of David Hume is nothing more than a subjective conclusion // is the maximum field rate application? // The runaway glaciation surrounding the basin // Affects the population on a continuous basis but thats just the basics // The juxtaposition of position // The precision of no other has written // Way above and what was intended // The malleable enunciation of a sentence // You go to college, obviously // I can tell by your unintelligible terminology // remarkable odyssey // The rhymes at modest when the brain orders the body not to breathe // Your competency is not up to speed, youre not in my // You couldnt possibly be than me // Or at minus twenty-five degrees // Youll squeeze but the condensation makes barrels freeze // Allow me to speak figuratively, please // My intellectual propertys about the of Greece // Your counselor advised you not to // My counselor advised me to keep until they stopped the beat // In the words of Joseph Heller, I learned how to write better, even though it sort of me // He said he didnt understand the process of the imagination but he felt he was at its // Which my point perfectly // And certainly reinforces the reason why nobodys ever heard of me // Couldnt understand what I by ill // Lest you try to translate what I print to // This is the of will, the circle of time, the cycle of eternity, the emergence of one line // Academic phonetics critics tongue-tied // The dry humor of cum laude alumni // A man sees failure as progress // A fool divorces his and misses the logic // And loses his in the process obsessed with nonsense with a caricature that has no content // My style is masterful, multilateral, I could battle a fool and be cruel // of scorn are a disastrous tool, from an existentialists view Im a better rapper than you // Grab the mic and rip your physical in two, my attitude is fucked up but admirable // Different methods interpreted into different // From entirely different perceptions and seen different norms // Not just spitting a poem, theres much more // Theres much pieces of the puzzle for you to solve // Forty-eight of mechanical laws // And of creational cause enhance the cadence of my bars // I am self-absorbed // But thats the effect, to find the you should ask my A&R // Today is what it is but only yesterday was what it was // Permitting youve of Beelzebub // A tale of demons and drugs, pissy drunk in the // With the DJ doing the needle rub, chances are youd see me, son // Yeah, I my names Canibus but I cant help you if you need a dub // I came to holler at some big bitches and listen to the speakers thump // Whered you get conceited from? Im so nice on the mic want to beat me up // Its deep as fuck, I seen it all but Ive seen enough, really unbelievable stuff // Theres a lot of times when I want to but Im stuck // I should leave this rap alone and kick my incredible rhymes in the privacy of my own home // My is my own, the liberty to speak freely lyrically on the microphone // With a pen in my hand I bring motion to the Enneagram and become Man // Engrave my with the Emperors Stamp // Been spitting scientific rap since the seventeenth began // Trying to escape the empire of Def Jam in the land where lyrics are bland and heretics hang // Every warrior has an ax to bury, but he has to to discern between enemy and adversary // I said to myself, Germaine, is insane, its suicide, its controlled flight into terrain // I fought to regain control the plane but went up in a of flames // And got banned the Hip-Hop Hall of Fame // For two bars I kept hearing in my head over and over // It cost me // Im convinced now that more than the truth is at // Where people create that pretends to communicate // Euphemisms are misunderstood as // But its a byproduct of the ghetto we make // an extroverted point of view, I think its too late // Hip-Hop has never been the since eighty-eight // Since it a lucrative profession theres a misconception // That a in any direction is progression // though the potency of it lessens // Big money industries writing checks to the question // And gives a fuck no more // No one to the bookstore ever since the confluence of Moores Law // But I stay in the lab like Niels Bohr, his son Aage, Edward Lorenz and Leo // I took rap music and turned the knob // To the right full-throttle and added // Why would I with my own conscience over the truth // like me telling myself, Dont tell me what to do // Dialyses and analyses of battle emcees, sometimes I say things I cant believe // My lyrical is so skillfully elliptical, I can understand how it makes you // You wonder why I never let you play beats for me? // And why I keep my studio enshrouded in // You wonder whats my infatuation Alicia Keys? // Canibus, why you speak to me? // Yo, I meant it when I no one can shine on a song that features me // Thats why I said it so // You need to replace the hate with respect, Im probably the yet // Laureate! //