Powers That Be - Hieroglyphics

They say I’m like Bruce Willis: Unbreakable, Die Hard

True sickness with this mic on the tripod

But I’m not Chow Yun-fat

Dig, I’m still a pillar of stone

Flows enter your skulls

Mash on your whole militia like I’m Hannibal

Imagine: you the antelope and I’m the king of the jungle

Animal instinct, phenomenal stamina

Just think about a man on the brink of insanity

And it’s me

You not a rapper, you a movie star

Checkin' who we are

Be the coup d'état, molotov cocktail

Charred and you’ll get scarred and schooled regardless

I’m marvelous majestic;

no retarded shit

All my power harnessin'

My spoken-word like a Voltron sword

And these poems pulse the arsenic

Every medley: deadly

Come and spar with us

When the instrumental begins

The timid: they wince

They know when it’s gonna commence

We 'bout to crush 'em

Reach out and touch 'em

Before they scream out

We gonna pull these things out and bust 'em

Rub 'em out like dry erase

Thug it out like the United Snakes (sssss)

It’s us against the world

Fuck popular opinion!

They scoff, cause we was different

But we did it all for independence

Now we gon' off 'em with a vengeance

Hand 'em they heads

Paint the landscape ruby red

With the nerve and will of a bunch of determined killers

Who always make their marks, and never hesitate to spark

Strike first, take their hearts

With the right verse

Cause confusion

Never underestimate the power of illusion we usin'

Start a whole revolution of music, man, we do this

Shit, it’s all we know

The powers that be

It’s in you

It’s in me

An emcee

That’s all we know

Whatever, I don’t know why you even play yourself to that degree

You laugh at me?

Like I won’t slap the teeth out your grill

That’s how I feel

You out of order

You about a quarter inch away from fist in face

Your distant gaze makes me think your brain drifts away

To a land of wonder

Only to awaken by the sound of cannon thunder

All of those damn assumptions

You a sad sack, mad wack

Straight up and down ass-crack

And that’s that!

Get a load of Del, I devise words well

I be spittin' globe

Let the mission unfold

Your tits are printed centerfold

Hate to diss ya, ho, but you’re fictional

I’m just kinda different, yo;

what I say is thought provoking

Not for joking

See, I know things they told kings

While your hoes cling to whatever the dough brings

The powers that be

It’s in you

It’s in me

An emcee

That’s all we know

Hieroglyphics came triumphant, reign, uncontained

Runnin' through the plains of some hunted slaves

Emperors who were meant to be entered into the end of the world

As we spin to the heat of the sun’s temperature;

hot!

Distance measure how many flows I got

Persistent pressure as we get this cheddar

For the business and the betterment of my folks

All my green stars mount up

Ready let’s go!

We sustained out of Earth cause we came outta her

The devils get slain when I sling slang

Hotter than a lot of lava from the Bay to the Bahamas

All the way to Cabo coppa

We parlé'in, clockin' dollars like Goodfellas

Suckas get jealous cause we make lettuce and we still rebelious

And the industry could never jail us

All my niggas free to be ourselves and our records still sell

This is hip-hop Olympics

Hieroglyphics, the Dream Team

Rappers livin' outta they means, tryin' to bling-bling

Get your fat chain stole

Get your whole crew exposed

We done had them hoes, dog

I’m magical and when I grab these flows

Out the hat, it blows 'em back to the last three rows

We mashin', massive action-packed shit

Hit 'em with a passion and that’s it!

The powers that be

It’s in you

It’s in me

An emcee

That’s all we know