You Never Knew - Hieroglyphics

It’s not a wrong thing

To be addicted to the microphone like a heron fiend

I’ll tell you one thing:

You’ll never catch me fronting

As I proceed to give the people what they wanting

You’re making some green…

But not for glamour or fashion

I’m stacking cash until I can get Moms a mansion

All from rapping?

Nah, man, there’s many plans

Like investing in land

It started all from impressing the fans

With brand new flows

And you know

All the way from gangsta clones to weirdos

Fools used those

But we ain’t tripping

Give respect when you see this

You need us

Or your rhymes underdeveloped like a fetus

Those that know not doze

And it shows

When we broke out the knock

Hoes hopped out they clothes

That’s positive feedback

Yep, The Prose

I’m poised, we never pose, you’ll never know

From '93 til infinity we’ve been inventive

Creating the bump is our only incentive

And it’s been a long time since I feel I’ve been felt

But the only thing I fear is fear itself

So you know what we gots to do

Maybe could we keep it within the crew

Like it should be?

Never givin' out

We’re livin' out our dreams

If there’s something I can’t live without

That’s my team

You never knew…

Hieroglyphics

Hip-hop is vintage

Underground like silos

Launching long-range ballistics

World-renowned, we ground-breaking

Musical boundaries

Runnin' circles around emcees

(You never knew)

It’s like that and a, a Hieroglyphics, yeah

(And you know)

It’s like that and a, a Hieroglyphics, yeah

(You never knew)

It’s like that and a, a Hieroglyphics, yeah

(And you know)

It’s like that and a, a Hieroglyphics, yeah

It’s like…

Del, been rhyming for more than a decade

Onto the next stage, while emcees need aid

Stay paid, I’m still grade-A

None of that tomfoolery

As you can see this shit ain’t nothing new to me

Utterly hovering over other things material

You’re stuck in the here and now

Plus you’re sweating profusely, here’s a towel

Your fears are now reality

When I take your dream states

And elaborate on how your team’s fake

Like phony IDs, but sometimes I feel like

Only I see through the charade you’ve made

In today, but hey, tomorrow it’s played

And then they got a new fool in your place to be okayed

Hieroglyphics

Hip-hop is vintage

Invented in days back

Rekindling in ways that many thought was lost

In this contemporary maze of methods to floss

We finding trees and trails to blaze

Boundaries to cross

We can be found beyond the bounds of reason

Or earthbound, heatin' up the Coliseum

They rushed the stage full-throttle in Chicago

Our brains interlocked

Where fakin' emcees get caught with the 40-bottle

Or get their chains snatched, pronto

We unstoppable, droppin' flows in Toronto

Maneuverin' through Vancouver and on to Japan

Where they put major grands in my hand

Follow…

Straight from the heart we set apart from the rest an'

Our perfection on the microphone was predestined

World-renowned, we ground-breaking

Musical boundaries

Runnin' circles around emcees

(You never knew)

It’s like that and a, a Hieroglyphics, yeah

(And you know)

It’s like that and a, a Hieroglyphics, yeah

(You never knew)

It’s like that and a, a Hieroglyphics, yeah

(And you know)

It’s like that and a, a Hieroglyphics, yeah

It’s like…

(You never knew)

It’s like that and a, a Hieroglyphics, yeah

(And you know)

It’s like that and a, a Hieroglyphics, yeah

It’s like…

It’s like that and a, a Hieroglyphics, yeah

It’s like that and a, a Hieroglyphics, yeah

It’s like.

It’s like that and a, a Hieroglyphics, yeah

It’s like that, a Hieroglyphics, yeah

It’s like.

A Hieroglyphics, yeah

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