Brother Ali - Greatest That Never Lived lyrics

My heart submerged 'fore my
Tongue started surfing
Concerning how one person birth
Words worth unearthing
Two-verse sermon perched up in a 44 membar
A 20 bar memoir of a whirling dervish
Steel sharpen steel but my
Sword grow the firmest
In the burning furnace of
My sojourn for purpose
Every step's a pilgrimage
Special ed who never read the syllabus
Still got it made and getting paid
Off how real it is
Have you ever witnessed man with
Sure hope in his glance
Short cordless in his hand, eyes closed
Wide open with lines quoted from his inner
Scripture in militant chant?
Illustrate an image in an instant
Spit a gram
I'm highly acclaimed without a claim
Inquire about my name
Never short status, crack a higher plain
Why complain? What type of chain, trophy
Or walk of fame can they grant me?
I spit it so grammy that
My mimics win their Grammys understand me
I'd rather be Kinged on
The balcony than Abernathy
John Kennedy in the lap of Jackie
I pen a sentence, spin English
Make my critics skittish
Board a plane in the final
Minutes like a photo finish
The beads clack, tap the pads
Beats in beast mode
Murdering they ego just by
Murmuring the cheat code
La ilaha illa allah
Imagine what a killer saw
Trapped behind a prison wall
Knowing that within his heart's
A syrum that could cure us all
The devil got sentence laws sent me letters
And I read 'em scribbled in my scars
I don't have a soul
I am a soul that got a body
Flesh-clad like human being is what I'm
Dressed as at a costume party
I decide to go with the half-blind albino
Eyes red rhinestones, odd choice
Y'already know that ain't the topic though
Greatest that never lived
Uh, uh, debating get your head split
Uh, uh, uh, shouldn't have said shit
Uh, uh, you shouldn't have said sh-
Greatest that never lived
Greatest that never lived
You shouldn't have said sh-