Canibus - Poet Laureate II lyrics
[Canibus - Poet Laureate II lyrics]
Uh, I don’t understand how a writer
Would ever get writer’s block
So-called my problem is having too much and
Being unable to get it down
Yo, why is the Ripper so ill?
That would be an unpardonable breach of
Confidence for me to reveal
He said, "One of these days
All eyes would be on me
When they look up in the sky
And see the neon C"
Rhymes inscribed on a nickel disk encased
In glass with an ion beam for longevity
For more than ten centuries
Impressions and memories
The first time machine inventor
Will mention me
Canibus was a visionary indeed
He believed light could travel
In multiples of c
The organic supercomputer that solved
The mysteries of
Klein Kaluza with two blue metric rulers
Liked Cool J
But thought Stephen Jay Gould was cooler
And he never liked to propagate rumors
Smoked Canary Island cigars
Liked American luxury cars and
Beautiful Asian broads
He had a strong mind, he used to philosophize
About rhymes while he was pruning his bonsai
He claimed that he had written the
Greatest rhyme of all time
But he would never take it out his archives
He wrote two songs per day
And was constantly experimenting
With his wordplay
In his youth he did a report
On the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
He got an F but he deserved an A
I followed his career from the first day
It seemed a lack of support
Contributed to his inert ways
I seen him pull in twenty-four hour workdays
With deferred pay
Undeterred by the word "shame"
Public humiliation was the worst pain
He was spinning out of control
Like a Class 5 hurricane
He said he wouldn't want another
MC to suffer the same
Especially when there's nothing to gain
He was the illest alive but
Nobody would face it
He spit till his tongue was
Too torched to taste it
Privately funded corporations carbon dated
His latest creations
To extract the information
They found it utterly amazing
They claimed the body of his work was
The same thing as a priceless painting
Never mattered to him that
Art galleries hated him
'Cause Thomas Kinkade called and said
He would take ten
Complete enigmas wrapped in puzzles
Encrypted in language
With sound but without shape or signature
Kept files in his garage on MS-DOS
In a fire-proof pod, we thought it was odd
Outside there was a shed
With an Oppenheimer lock
He apparently kept more wax
Than Madame Tussaud's
We were in total awe 'cause it blew our minds
So many rhymes that were intricately designed
He was Poet Laureate of his time
And if you don't mind
I'd like to share some of his rhymes
Alone in my room looking through
The 32X telescope zoom
Adjusting the focus of the moon
One should not assume the
Philosophy of David Hume
Is nothing more then a subjective conclusion
What is the maximum field rate application?
The runaway glaciation surrounding
The ocean basin
Affects the population fluctuation
On a continuous basis but
That's just the basics
The juxtaposition of Canibus' position
The precision of something no
Other has written
Way above and beyond what was intended
The unparalleled malleable enunciation
Of a sentence
You didn't go to college obviously
I can tell by your
Ungodly unintelligible terminology
A remarkable odyssey
The rhymes of modern speeds
When the brain orders the body not to breathe
Your competency is not up to speed
You're not in my league
You couldn't possibly be hotter then me
Or oppositely your minus twenty-five degrees
You'd squeeze but the condensation
Makes rifle barrels freeze
Allow me to speak figuratively, nigga please
My intellectual properties are about
The size of Greece
Your counselor advised you not to speak
My counselor advised me to keep rhyming
Until they stopped the beat
In the words of Joseph Heller
"I learned how to write better
Even though it sort of irked me"
He said he didn't understand the
Process of the imagination
But he felt he was at it's mercy
Which explains my point perfectly
And certainly reinforces
The reason why nobody's probably
Ever heard of me
Couldn't understand what I mean by ill
Unless you try to translate what
I print to film this is the line, the reel
The circle of time the cycle of eternity
The emergence of one line
Academic phonetics render critics tongue-tied
And personifies dry humor of cum laude alumni
A wise man sees failure as progress
A fool divorces his knowledge
And misses the logic
And loses his soul in the process
Obsessed with nonsense with a caricature
That has no content
My style is masterful, multilateral
I could battle a fool and be naturally cruel
Words of scorn are a disastrous tool
From an existentialist's view I'm a
Better rapper than you
Grab the mic and rip your
Physical fabric in two
My attitude is fucked up but admirable
Different methods interpreted into
Different forms
From entirely different perceptions and
Seen from different norms
Not just spitting a poem
There’s much more involved
There's much more pieces of the
Puzzle for you to solve
Forty-eight orders of mechanical laws
And rays of creational cause enhance
The cadence of my bars
Maybe I am self-absorbed
But that's the effect
To find the cause you should ask my A&R
Today is what it is
But only because yesterday was what it was
Permitting you heard of Beelzebub
A tale of demons and drugs
Pissy drunk in the club
With the DJ doing the needle rub
Chances are you'll never see me son
Yeah I know my name's Canibus but I can't
Help you if you need a dub
I came to holla at some big booty
Bitches and listen to the speakers thump
Where you get conceited from?
I'm so nice on the mic they wanna beat me up
It's deep as fuck
I ain't seen it all but I've seen enough
Really unbelievable stuff
There's a lot of times when I
Want to speak but I'm stuck
I should leave this rap shit alone
And kick my incredible rhymes in the
Privacy of my own home
My imagination is my own
The liberty to speak to freely
Lyrically on the microphone
With a pen in my hand
I bring motion to the Enneagram
And become "Can-I Millenium Man"
Engrave my back with the emperor's stamp
Been spitting scientific rap since
The 17th century began
Trying to escape the wicked empire of Def Jam
And the land where lyrics are
Bland and heretics hang
Every warrior has an axe to bury
But he has to learn to
Discern between enemy and adversary
I said to myself, "Germaine, this is insane
It's suicide
It's controlled flight into terrain"
I fought to regain control of the plane
But went up in a ball of flames
And got banned from the Hip-Hop hall of fame
For two bars I kept hearing in my head
Over and over again, it cost me everything
I'm convinced now that more than
The truth is at stake
Where people create language that
Pretends to communicate
Euphemisms are misunderstood as mistakes
But, it's a byproduct of the
Ghetto music we make
From an extroverted point of view
I think it's too late
Hip Hop has never been the same since '88
Since it became a lucrative profession
There's a misconception that a movement
In any direction is progression
Even though the potency of it lessens
Big money industries writing checks
To suppress the question
And nobody gives a fuck no more
No one goes to the book store
Ever since the confluence of Moore's Law
But, I stay in the lab like
Niels Bohr and his son Aage
Edward Lorenz and Leo Szilard
Lyrically I took rap music
And turned the knob
To the right full throttle and added panache
Why would I argue with my
Own conscience over the truth?
That's like me telling myself
"Don't tell me what to do"
Dialyses and analyses of battle MCs
Sometimes I say things I myself can't believe
My lyrical is so skillfully elliptical
I can understand how it makes you miserable
You wonder why I never let you
Play your beats for me
Or why I keep my studio enshrouded in secrecy
You wonder what's my infatuation
With Alicia Keys
"Canibus why don't you speak to me?"
Yo, I meant it when I said no one
Can shine on a song that features me
That's why I said it so vehemently
You need to replace the hate with respect
I'm probably the best yet, Poet Laureate
Generally I take… I go with the given, you
Know, with what comes ta me over
The celestial wireless… Whenever
It comes you’re lucky when you get it
Would ever get writer’s block
So-called my problem is having too much and
Being unable to get it down
Yo, why is the Ripper so ill?
That would be an unpardonable breach of
Confidence for me to reveal
He said, "One of these days
All eyes would be on me
When they look up in the sky
And see the neon C"
Rhymes inscribed on a nickel disk encased
In glass with an ion beam for longevity
For more than ten centuries
Impressions and memories
The first time machine inventor
Will mention me
Canibus was a visionary indeed
He believed light could travel
In multiples of c
The organic supercomputer that solved
The mysteries of
Klein Kaluza with two blue metric rulers
Liked Cool J
But thought Stephen Jay Gould was cooler
And he never liked to propagate rumors
Smoked Canary Island cigars
Liked American luxury cars and
Beautiful Asian broads
He had a strong mind, he used to philosophize
About rhymes while he was pruning his bonsai
He claimed that he had written the
Greatest rhyme of all time
But he would never take it out his archives
He wrote two songs per day
And was constantly experimenting
With his wordplay
In his youth he did a report
On the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
He got an F but he deserved an A
I followed his career from the first day
It seemed a lack of support
Contributed to his inert ways
I seen him pull in twenty-four hour workdays
With deferred pay
Undeterred by the word "shame"
Public humiliation was the worst pain
He was spinning out of control
Like a Class 5 hurricane
He said he wouldn't want another
MC to suffer the same
Especially when there's nothing to gain
He was the illest alive but
Nobody would face it
He spit till his tongue was
Too torched to taste it
Privately funded corporations carbon dated
His latest creations
To extract the information
They found it utterly amazing
They claimed the body of his work was
The same thing as a priceless painting
Never mattered to him that
Art galleries hated him
'Cause Thomas Kinkade called and said
He would take ten
Complete enigmas wrapped in puzzles
Encrypted in language
With sound but without shape or signature
Kept files in his garage on MS-DOS
In a fire-proof pod, we thought it was odd
Outside there was a shed
With an Oppenheimer lock
He apparently kept more wax
Than Madame Tussaud's
We were in total awe 'cause it blew our minds
So many rhymes that were intricately designed
He was Poet Laureate of his time
And if you don't mind
I'd like to share some of his rhymes
Alone in my room looking through
The 32X telescope zoom
Adjusting the focus of the moon
One should not assume the
Philosophy of David Hume
Is nothing more then a subjective conclusion
What is the maximum field rate application?
The runaway glaciation surrounding
The ocean basin
Affects the population fluctuation
On a continuous basis but
That's just the basics
The juxtaposition of Canibus' position
The precision of something no
Other has written
Way above and beyond what was intended
The unparalleled malleable enunciation
Of a sentence
You didn't go to college obviously
I can tell by your
Ungodly unintelligible terminology
A remarkable odyssey
The rhymes of modern speeds
When the brain orders the body not to breathe
Your competency is not up to speed
You're not in my league
You couldn't possibly be hotter then me
Or oppositely your minus twenty-five degrees
You'd squeeze but the condensation
Makes rifle barrels freeze
Allow me to speak figuratively, nigga please
My intellectual properties are about
The size of Greece
Your counselor advised you not to speak
My counselor advised me to keep rhyming
Until they stopped the beat
In the words of Joseph Heller
"I learned how to write better
Even though it sort of irked me"
He said he didn't understand the
Process of the imagination
But he felt he was at it's mercy
Which explains my point perfectly
And certainly reinforces
The reason why nobody's probably
Ever heard of me
Couldn't understand what I mean by ill
Unless you try to translate what
I print to film this is the line, the reel
The circle of time the cycle of eternity
The emergence of one line
Academic phonetics render critics tongue-tied
And personifies dry humor of cum laude alumni
A wise man sees failure as progress
A fool divorces his knowledge
And misses the logic
And loses his soul in the process
Obsessed with nonsense with a caricature
That has no content
My style is masterful, multilateral
I could battle a fool and be naturally cruel
Words of scorn are a disastrous tool
From an existentialist's view I'm a
Better rapper than you
Grab the mic and rip your
Physical fabric in two
My attitude is fucked up but admirable
Different methods interpreted into
Different forms
From entirely different perceptions and
Seen from different norms
Not just spitting a poem
There’s much more involved
There's much more pieces of the
Puzzle for you to solve
Forty-eight orders of mechanical laws
And rays of creational cause enhance
The cadence of my bars
Maybe I am self-absorbed
But that's the effect
To find the cause you should ask my A&R
Today is what it is
But only because yesterday was what it was
Permitting you heard of Beelzebub
A tale of demons and drugs
Pissy drunk in the club
With the DJ doing the needle rub
Chances are you'll never see me son
Yeah I know my name's Canibus but I can't
Help you if you need a dub
I came to holla at some big booty
Bitches and listen to the speakers thump
Where you get conceited from?
I'm so nice on the mic they wanna beat me up
It's deep as fuck
I ain't seen it all but I've seen enough
Really unbelievable stuff
There's a lot of times when I
Want to speak but I'm stuck
I should leave this rap shit alone
And kick my incredible rhymes in the
Privacy of my own home
My imagination is my own
The liberty to speak to freely
Lyrically on the microphone
With a pen in my hand
I bring motion to the Enneagram
And become "Can-I Millenium Man"
Engrave my back with the emperor's stamp
Been spitting scientific rap since
The 17th century began
Trying to escape the wicked empire of Def Jam
And the land where lyrics are
Bland and heretics hang
Every warrior has an axe to bury
But he has to learn to
Discern between enemy and adversary
I said to myself, "Germaine, this is insane
It's suicide
It's controlled flight into terrain"
I fought to regain control of the plane
But went up in a ball of flames
And got banned from the Hip-Hop hall of fame
For two bars I kept hearing in my head
Over and over again, it cost me everything
I'm convinced now that more than
The truth is at stake
Where people create language that
Pretends to communicate
Euphemisms are misunderstood as mistakes
But, it's a byproduct of the
Ghetto music we make
From an extroverted point of view
I think it's too late
Hip Hop has never been the same since '88
Since it became a lucrative profession
There's a misconception that a movement
In any direction is progression
Even though the potency of it lessens
Big money industries writing checks
To suppress the question
And nobody gives a fuck no more
No one goes to the book store
Ever since the confluence of Moore's Law
But, I stay in the lab like
Niels Bohr and his son Aage
Edward Lorenz and Leo Szilard
Lyrically I took rap music
And turned the knob
To the right full throttle and added panache
Why would I argue with my
Own conscience over the truth?
That's like me telling myself
"Don't tell me what to do"
Dialyses and analyses of battle MCs
Sometimes I say things I myself can't believe
My lyrical is so skillfully elliptical
I can understand how it makes you miserable
You wonder why I never let you
Play your beats for me
Or why I keep my studio enshrouded in secrecy
You wonder what's my infatuation
With Alicia Keys
"Canibus why don't you speak to me?"
Yo, I meant it when I said no one
Can shine on a song that features me
That's why I said it so vehemently
You need to replace the hate with respect
I'm probably the best yet, Poet Laureate
Generally I take… I go with the given, you
Know, with what comes ta me over
The celestial wireless… Whenever
It comes you’re lucky when you get it