Yo, why is the so ill? // That would be an unpardonable breech of for me to reveal // He said, One of these 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 than ten centuries, impressions and memories // The first time-machine inventor will me // Canibus was a indeed // He believed could travel in multiples of c // The organic supercomputer that solved the of Klein-Kaluza with two blue metric rulers // Cool J but thought Steven Jay Gould was cooler // And he liked to propagate rumors // Canary Island cigars // Liked luxury cars and beautiful Asian broads // He had a mind // He used to philosophize about rhymes while he was pruning his // He that he had written the greatest rhyme of all time // But he never take it out of his archives // He wrote two per day // And was constantly with his wordplay // In his he did a report on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey // He got a F but he an A // I followed his career the first day // It seemed the of support contributed to his inert ways // Ive him put in twenty-four hour workdays // deferred pay, undeterred by the worst shame // Public was the worst pain // He was spinning out of like a class five hurricane // He said he wouldnt want another emcee to suffer the // when theres nothing to gain // He was the illest but nobody would face it // He spit til his tongue was too torched to it // Properly funded corporations his latest creations // To extract the information, they found it amazing // claimed the body of his work was the same thing as a priceless painting // Never mattered to him the art hated him // Cause Thomas Kinkade called and he would take ten // Complete wrapped in puzzles encrypted in language // With sound but shape or signature // Kept files in his garage on in a fireproof pod, we thought it was odd // Outside there was a shed with an lock // He apparently kept wax than Madame Tussaud // We in total awe cause it blew our minds // So many rhymes were intricately designed // He WAS laureate of his time // And if you dont mind Id like to share some of his // Alone in my room looking through the thirty-two X zoom // the focus of the moon // One should not the philosophy of David Hume is nothing more than a subjective conclusion // What is the maximum rate application? // The runaway glaciation the ocean basin // Affects the population fluctuation on a continuous but thats just the basics // The juxtaposition of Can-I-Buss // The precision of something no has written // Way and beyond what was intended // The unparalleled enunciation of a sentence // You didnt go to college, // I can tell by ungodly unintelligible terminology // Your odyssey // The at modest speeds when the brain orders the body not to breathe // Your competency is not up to speed, not in my league // You couldnt possibly be hotter me // Or oppositely at minus degrees // Youll squeeze but the condensation rifle barrels freeze // Allow me to figuratively, nigga please // My intellectual about the size of Greece // counselor advised you not to speak // My counselor advised me to keep rhyming they stopped the beat // In the words of Joseph Heller, I learned how to better, even though it sort of irked me // He said he didnt understand the process of the imagination but he he was at its mercy // Which exploits my perfectly // And certainly reinforces the reason why probably ever heard of me // Couldnt what I mean by ill // Lest you try to translate what I print to // is the line of will, the circle of time, the cycle of eternity, the emergence of one line // Academic render critics tongue-tied // The personified dry humor of cum laude // A wise man sees as progress // A fool divorces his knowledge and the logic // And loses his soul in the process obsessed with with a caricature that has no content // My style is masterful, multilateral, I battle a fool and be naturally cruel // Words of scorn are a disastrous tool, from an existentialists view Im a 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 a poem, theres much more involved // Theres much pieces of the puzzle for you to solve // Forty-eight of mechanical laws // And rays of creational cause the cadence of my bars // Maybe I am // But the effect, to find the cause you should ask my A&R // Today is what it is but because yesterday was what it was // Permitting youve heard of // A tale of demons and drugs, pissy drunk in the // With the DJ doing the needle rub, are youd never see me, son // Yeah, I know my Canibus but I cant help you if you need a dub // I came to holler at some big booty bitches and listen to the speakers // Whered you get conceited from? Im so nice on the mic they to beat me up // Its deep as fuck, I seen it all but Ive seen enough, really unbelievable stuff // a lot of times when I want to speak but Im stuck // I should leave this rap shit alone and kick my incredible in the privacy of my own home // My imagination is my own, the liberty to freely lyrically on the microphone // With a pen in my hand I bring motion to the and become Can-I-Millennium Man // Engrave my back the Emperors Stamp // Been spitting scientific rap the seventeenth century began // Trying to escape the wicked of Def Jam in the land where lyrics are bland and heretics hang // Every has an ax to bury, but he has to learn to discern between enemy and adversary // I said to myself, Germaine, this is insane, its suicide, its controlled flight terrain // I fought to regain control the plane but went up in a ball of // And got banned the Hip-Hop Hall of Fame // For two bars I kept hearing in my head and over again // 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 music we make // From an extroverted of view, I think its too late // Hip-Hop has never been the since eighty-eight // it became a lucrative profession theres a misconception // That a movement in any is progression // Even though the of it lessens // Big industries writing checks to suppress the question // And nobody gives a no more // No one goes to the ever since the confluence of Moores Law // But I stay in the lab like Niels Bohr, his son Aage, Edward and Leo Szilard // Lyrically I took rap and turned the knob // To the right full-throttle and added // Why would I argue with my own over the truth // Thats like me telling myself, Dont tell me to do // and analyses of battle emcees, sometimes I say things I myself cant believe // My lyrical is so elliptical, I can understand how it makes you miserable // You why I never let you play your beats for me? // And why I keep my studio enshrouded in // You wonder whats my infatuation with Keys? // Canibus, why dont you to me? // Yo, I it when I said no one can shine on a song that features me // why I said it so vehemently // You need to replace the hate with respect, Im the best yet // Laureate! //