Yo, thank the Lord I can recognize a blessing Yeah, I'm grateful I'm grateful, I-I swear I swear, yeah I appreciate it, like clean air Yeah, (one) uh Ya naw mean? Thank the Lord Thank the Lord Yeah Thank the Lord the world effed up Make the common man even fall or step up Stepped in a power vacuum and got my dick sucked In the era where the big wigs say blatant fibs All the real niggas can't shoot straight, they spray the kids In this White man world you got two options Either you Taye Digs or you ain't shit My inner child's in a school to prison pipeline Meanwhile I'm like the key in the forty tied to a kite line Keep it one Benjamin homie, I'm like a zeitgeist I've turned the wave into a sine after the spike died DWYCK in my DNA Free the nipple, eatin pussy right in PETA face Sue me, I need more light on my brand Watch your mouth if your jaw like lightning hit sand Morrey (grateful, yeah grateful) Thank you Lord for everything you've given me (grateful, grateful) Thank you universe for everything you've given me (thank you) (Grateful, grateful) I know what comes with this I'm grateful, thank you Funny thing is they could've just, they could've just left me alone (thank you Lord) In the streets nobody knows my name Google cache, I live in the past Admittedly passe, but they shit for brains Feel like the Moors in Spain Easy come, easy go Nobody tryna hear the poors complain Get you a bag, young boy Proof up the doors on that Range From far away tapes sound like Lebron Flocka James Come closer for that come-to-Jesus-moment Your mouth had dried saliva at the corners Unnerved, I told my White driver keep going Unperturbed, my Somalian ghost writers kept flowin Told Scorsese whatever you do, motherfucker, don't you stop rollin' Chameleons move in stop-motion How do you not know this? No questions asked, nobody wants to know I should know this Post-coital, errything was so focused Initially flattered then suspicious how she only want it backwards Collect seats wages, pay all applicable taxes All stars with the patches on the jackets Please confirm the humanity Please, please confirm the humanity Tongue flickin' the nipple of the motherboard Me not want war no more Send the cyborg instead, if you must Speak but do not tell Look but do not touch My other thousand selves, I sold them off before the flood A negus learn to ride the whale like Jonah in the OT Surface to air, came up too fast made my nose bleed Red dot beam at your crows-feet, chrome dream Tiny hole, slow leak Like hacks for the simulacrum Never introduce yourself as a rapper I own all my masters, even my name Ash and hash on the limbs of my would be assassins Shots of sour mash you up Pretzel structures collapsin' My rhyme pattern taxin', takin' half This Black boy magic not rabbit outta Uncle Sam hat shit Or bootstrap it, make it past my calf Flash, bang, grenade, I'm on yo' ass My craft came of age since the pre-millennium tension This witch face is authentic Skin of tooth, ten trees take flight, root the roof Scatter showers, dope balloon legend of the maroon We real cool