Yo, why is the so ill? // That would be an unpardonable of confidence for me to reveal // He said, One of these days all eyes be on me // they look up in the sky and see the neon C // Rhymes inscribed on a nickel disk in a glass with an ion beam for longevity // For more than ten centuries, impressions and // The time-machine inventor will mention me // Canibus was a indeed // He believed could travel in multiples of c // The organic that solved the mysteries of Klein-Kaluza with two blue metric rulers // Liked Cool J but thought Steven Jay was cooler // And he never liked to rumors // Smoked Canary Island // Liked American luxury and beautiful Asian broads // He had a mind // He used to philosophize rhymes while he was pruning his bonsais // He that he had written the greatest rhyme of all time // But he never take it out of his archives // He two songs per day // And was experimenting with his wordplay // In his youth he did a report on the Sloan Sky Survey // He got a F but he an A // I followed his career from the day // It seemed the lack of support to his inert ways // Ive him put in twenty-four hour workdays // With pay, undeterred by the worst shame // humiliation was the worst pain // He was spinning out of control like a class five // He said he wouldnt want another emcee to suffer the // Especially when theres to gain // He was the alive but nobody would face it // He til his tongue was too torched to taste it // Properly funded corporations Carbon-dated his latest // To extract the information, they it utterly amazing // They claimed the body of his was the same thing as a priceless painting // Never mattered to him the art hated him // Cause Thomas Kinkade called and said he would ten // Complete enigmas wrapped in puzzles encrypted in // With sound but shape or signature // Kept files in his garage on MS-DOS in a pod, we thought it was odd // Outside there was a shed with an lock // He kept more wax than Madame Tussaud // We were in total awe cause it our minds // So many rhymes that were designed // He WAS laureate of his time // And if you dont mind Id like to some of his rhymes // Alone in my room through the thirty-two X telescope zoom // Adjusting the focus of the // One should not assume the philosophy of David Hume is nothing than a subjective conclusion // What is the maximum field application? // The runaway surrounding the ocean basin // Affects the population fluctuation on a basis but thats just the basics // The of Can-I-Buss position // The precision of no other has written // Way above and what was intended // The unparalleled enunciation of a sentence // You go to college, obviously // I can by your ungodly unintelligible terminology // Your remarkable // The rhymes at speeds when the brain orders the body not to breathe // Your competency is not up to speed, youre not in my // You couldnt be hotter than me // Or at minus twenty-five degrees // Youll squeeze but the condensation makes rifle freeze // Allow me to speak figuratively, nigga // My intellectual propertys about the of Greece // Your counselor you not to speak // My counselor advised me to keep rhyming they stopped the beat // In the of Joseph Heller, I learned how to write better, even though it sort of irked me // He said he didnt understand the process of the but he felt he was at its mercy // Which exploits my perfectly // And certainly the reason why nobodys probably ever heard of me // understand what I mean by ill // Lest you try to translate what I to film // This is the line of will, the of time, the cycle of eternity, the emergence of one line // Academic render critics tongue-tied // The personified dry of cum laude alumni // A wise man failure as progress // A fool his knowledge and misses the logic // And loses his soul in the process obsessed with nonsense with a caricature that has no // My style is masterful, multilateral, I could a fool and be naturally cruel // Words of scorn are a tool, from an existentialists view Im a better 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 from different // Not spitting a poem, theres much more involved // Theres much pieces of the puzzle for you to solve // Forty-eight orders of laws // And rays of creational cause the cadence of my bars // I am self-absorbed // But thats the effect, to find the cause you ask my A&R // Today is what it is but only yesterday was what it was // Permitting youve of Beelzebub // A tale of demons and drugs, pissy in the club // the DJ doing the needle rub, chances are youd never see me, son // Yeah, I know my Canibus but I cant help you if you need a dub // I to holler at some big booty bitches and listen to the speakers thump // Whered you get conceited from? Im so nice on the mic they to beat me up // Its deep as fuck, I aint seen it all but Ive seen enough, really unbelievable // Theres a lot of times when I want to speak but Im // I should leave this rap shit alone and kick my incredible rhymes in the of my own home // My imagination is my own, the liberty to speak freely on the microphone // a pen in my hand I bring motion to the Enneagram and become Can-I-Millennium Man // Engrave my back with the Emperors // Been scientific rap since the seventeenth century began // Trying to escape the wicked empire of Def Jam in the where lyrics are bland and heretics hang // Every warrior has an ax to bury, but he has to learn to between enemy and adversary // I to myself, Germaine, this is insane, its suicide, its controlled flight into terrain // I fought to regain control the plane but went up in a of flames // And got banned the Hip-Hop Hall of Fame // For two bars I kept hearing in my over and over again // It cost me // Im now that more than the truth is at stake // people create language that pretends to communicate // Euphemisms are misunderstood as // But its a byproduct of the music we make // an extroverted point of view, I think its too late // Hip-Hop has been the same since eighty-eight // Since it became a lucrative theres a misconception // That a in any direction is progression // Even though the potency of it // Big money industries checks to suppress the question // And nobody gives a fuck no // No one to the bookstore ever since the confluence of Moores Law // But I stay in the lab like Niels Bohr, his son Aage, Edward Lorenz and Leo // Lyrically I took rap music and the knob // To the right full-throttle and added // Why would I argue my own conscience over the truth // Thats like me telling myself, Dont tell me to do // Dialyses and analyses of battle emcees, sometimes I say I myself cant believe // My lyrical is so skillfully elliptical, I can understand how it you miserable // You wonder why I never let you your beats for me? // And why I keep my enshrouded in secrecy? // You wonder whats my infatuation Alicia Keys? // Canibus, why you speak to me? // Yo, I meant it when I said no one can shine on a song features me // Thats why I said it so // You need to replace the hate with respect, Im probably the yet // Laureate! //