Don't wanna be the one to say it No Christmas this Christmas, kitchen frigid Space heater in the room, Chinese delivered Watched the Knicks, every shot missed Like airplane bottles out mini-fridges I washed dishes, I'm an isthmus My arm's length is quite the distance Once distant future now day to day existence My ex-wife is my mistress Your woman on a pedestal but this Ruby Ridge shit Put your life on a grid, let niggas see how you did Look close kids, you can see where a nigga just barely slid in Under a microscope it's clear somethin' had to give Words glib, dress 'em up, put 'em on the track, see what you can get Verses turnin' tricks, pacin' the telly sick Still took the money, I'm a piece of shit Prodigal, blew the gift, it was a hell of a trip But I'm back, rap with ya lapels in my fists They jacked ya style, stripped it for parts Woulda copped the carburetor, but ya mans wanted 2 large Road to the riches lookin' like Empire Boulevard... Black Cop, inna The Hour of Chaos, Took the day off Summoned the ancestors with crack rock at the seance Landrace sativas from the banks of the Mekong Face like Madiba at Liliesleaf Farm TSA swab my palms Grapefruit notes, whiff of tarragon Obama incense, ten percent the proceed go to Farrakhan It's the long con, long rifle, get the damn kids off the lawn Tryna stop time, Taliban, tryna stop time like a movie bomb DA on my Android party-line like I run Iran It doesn't seem like they are thinking very far ahead in terms of their own interests. And he says, "Are you kidding?" You know, these people are looking at quarterly reports. And if they're in the red for two quarters, they're out. But, basically, they're looking at very short term profits, of their corporations, in competition with other corporations. Their job is to get that next quarterly report into the black and the shares up