Yo, why is the so ill? // That would be an unpardonable breech of confidence for me to // He said, One of days all eyes will be on me // they look up in the sky and see the neon C // Rhymes inscribed on a disk encased in a glass with an ion beam for longevity // For more than ten centuries, and memories // The time-machine inventor will mention me // Canibus was a indeed // He believed light travel in multiples of c // The organic supercomputer that solved the mysteries of Klein-Kaluza two blue metric rulers // Cool J but thought Steven Jay Gould was cooler // And he never liked to propagate // Canary Island cigars // Liked luxury cars and beautiful Asian broads // He had a strong // He used to about rhymes while he was pruning his bonsais // He claimed that he had written the rhyme of all time // But he would never it out of his archives // He wrote two per day // And was constantly experimenting his wordplay // In his youth he did a on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey // He got a F but he an A // I followed his from the first day // It seemed the lack of contributed to his inert ways // Ive seen him put in hour workdays // With deferred pay, undeterred by the worst // Public humiliation was the worst // He was spinning out of like a class five hurricane // He said he wouldnt want emcee to suffer the same // Especially theres nothing to gain // He was the alive but nobody would face it // He spit til his tongue was too to taste it // Properly funded corporations his latest creations // To extract the information, they found it amazing // They claimed the body of his work was the same thing as a priceless // Never to him the art galleries hated him // Thomas Kinkade called and said he would take ten // Complete enigmas wrapped in puzzles in language // With sound but shape or signature // files in his garage on MS-DOS in a fireproof pod, we thought it was odd // Outside there was a shed with an lock // He apparently more wax than Madame Tussaud // We in total awe cause it blew our minds // So many rhymes that intricately designed // He WAS poet laureate of his // And if you dont mind Id like to some of his rhymes // Alone in my looking through the thirty-two X telescope zoom // Adjusting the of the moon // One should not assume the philosophy of David Hume is nothing more a subjective conclusion // is the maximum field rate application? // The glaciation surrounding the ocean basin // Affects the population on a continuous basis but thats just the basics // The juxtaposition of Can-I-Buss // The of something no other has written // Way above and what was intended // The unparalleled malleable of a sentence // You didnt go to college, // I can tell by your ungodly unintelligible // Your odyssey // The at modest 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 oppositely at minus degrees // Youll squeeze but the condensation rifle barrels freeze // Allow me to speak figuratively, please // My intellectual propertys about the of Greece // Your counselor advised you not to // My counselor advised me to keep rhyming they stopped the beat // In the words of Joseph Heller, I learned how to write better, even it sort of irked me // He said he didnt understand the process of the imagination but he he was at its mercy // exploits my point perfectly // And certainly reinforces the reason why probably ever heard of me // Couldnt understand what I by ill // Lest you try to translate what I to film // This is the of will, the circle of time, the cycle of eternity, the emergence of one line // Academic phonetics render tongue-tied // The personified dry of cum laude alumni // A wise man failure as progress // A fool divorces his knowledge and misses the // And loses his soul in the process obsessed with nonsense with a caricature has no content // My style is masterful, multilateral, I could battle a and be naturally cruel // Words of scorn are a disastrous tool, from an existentialists view Im a better than you // Grab the mic and rip physical fabric in two, my attitude is fucked up but admirable // Different interpreted into different forms // entirely different perceptions and seen from different norms // Not just a poem, theres much more involved // Theres much pieces of the puzzle for you to solve // Forty-eight orders of mechanical // And rays of cause enhance the cadence of my bars // I am self-absorbed // But thats the effect, to find the you should ask my A&R // Today is what it is but because yesterday was what it was // Permitting heard of Beelzebub // A tale of demons and drugs, pissy in the club // With the DJ doing the needle rub, chances are youd see me, son // Yeah, I my names Canibus but I cant help you if you need a dub // I came to holler at some big booty bitches and to the speakers thump // Whered you get conceited Im so nice on the mic they want to beat me up // Its deep as fuck, I aint it all but Ive seen enough, really unbelievable stuff // Theres a lot of times when I want to but Im stuck // I should this rap shit alone and kick my incredible rhymes in the privacy of my own home // My imagination is my own, the to speak freely lyrically on the microphone // a pen in my hand I bring motion to the Enneagram and become Can-I-Millennium Man // Engrave my back the Emperors Stamp // Been spitting scientific rap since the century began // to escape the wicked empire 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 into terrain // I to regain control the plane but went up in a ball of flames // And got banned the Hip-Hop Hall of Fame // For two bars I hearing in my head over and over again // It cost me // Im convinced now that than the truth is at stake // people create language that pretends to communicate // Euphemisms are as mistakes // But its a of the ghetto music we make // From an point of view, I think its too late // has never been the same since eighty-eight // Since it became a lucrative profession a misconception // That a in any direction is progression // Even the potency of it lessens // Big money industries writing checks to suppress the // And nobody gives a fuck no // No one goes to the bookstore 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 turned the // To the right full-throttle and panache // Why would I argue my own conscience over the truth // Thats like me telling myself, Dont me what to do // and analyses of battle emcees, sometimes I say things I myself cant believe // My lyrical is so skillfully elliptical, I can understand how it you miserable // You wonder why I never let you play your for me? // And why I keep my studio enshrouded in // You wonder whats my infatuation Alicia Keys? // Canibus, why you speak 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 the hate with respect, Im probably the best yet // Laureate! //