K-Rino - The Maven (Track 1 on The Maven ) lyrics

Tonight, on lyrical masterpiece theater
I will be reading one of my great works
"The Maven"

After years of mindless content
And frivolous crap
A man became dissatisfied with
The condition of Rap
The powers dumbed the lyrics down
And made the listeners adapt
Soon this mental plague became a
Blinding mist on the map
But his vision was never phased because
His eyes had been raised over time
He came of age and then grew wise in his ways
He reflected on the great artists
And summoned the gall
Then he envisioned hearing one writer
Who encompassed them all
To overcome this ignorance
Nothing was stalled in his thirst
He spent hours collecting, reading
Studying all of their works
Travelled all over the planet where
Great thoughts were bestowed
Sat with priests
Scepters and sages from all
Parts of the globe
Read relentlessly for weeks before
Deciding to speak
He mastered every vocal tone
And every writing technique
A scholarly product with a
Self made prodigy conscience
He memorized past
Present and future bodies of knowledge
Organizing, knowing the solution soon
To be born his next step
Compile it all into a humanly form
Though he was eloquent and delivered
Words with intricate timing
And possessed lyrical skill
He had no interest in rhyming
So he ventured down to his lab
Which had been his escape
And after working for 20 days straight
An image was shaped
He deposited all his wisdom
Every infinite trait and when he finished
He rendered what he had invented was great
His creation laid on the gurney
Once summoned it rose
And instantly began to compose
The most dominant flows
Every hour of the day
A different style he'd create
And when he spoke, every man
Woman and child could relate
Just when it seemed the population might
Be hurled to it's grave
The man smiled because he thought now
That the world would be saved
And soon the sky is where
The mental surface would be
He had successfully manufactured
The perfect MC
The intellect that passed through his brain
The masses obtained
And within days the nature of
The game had drastically changed
Through his sovereign will
Deep marvellous thoughts were revealed
And those who held on to the madness
Got slaughtered with skill
Lyrical prototype who wrote words
For the love, not wages
And the greatness of his rap pages
Would pass through the ages the motivation
To make meaningful songs was contagious
Each writer evolved daily through
His creative stages
The negative ideologies of life were uprooted
The first 365 day cycle concluded
But on the 366th day it was strange
The creation the man had brought to
Life was starting to change
Accolades under his name
And international fame
Until totally uncontrollable he slowly became
Intoxicated by his own flames
So arrogance reigned
The insane notion of world
Dominance mastered his brain
Exploitation of the game
Through the skill that he used
He had evolved into the same thing
He was built to remove
Trained and ingrained in his
Memory was unmatchable ability
Natural skill indeed
But he was lacking in humility
The builder watched his dream
Disappearing in haste
With tears in his face
His creation was clearly a waste
The mistake that he made in making
A rapper of that caliber
He focused on talent and knowledge
But added no character
Now it's racking the streets
With a savage mystique
Deadly havoc he wreaks with every
Paragraph he would speak
So the man searched, travelling roads
Famished and cold
Looking for a mechanical load
In tyrannical mode since he designed him
He felt it mandatory to find him
The goal was to catch him, deactivate
Then realign him
As he searched and explored
He saw things were worse than before
Heard a murderous roar
Followed up by verses of war
He ran up to a door
Where a stranger took him the key
Once inside the voice straight ahead said
"Looking for me?" and there he was
With a smile as if he
Liked that he'd found him
His mic was astounding
Plus he had disciples around him
As the man approached he
Heard these three words, "I dare you!"
He said, "You're not yourself, come
Back to the lab, i'll repair you
I can't have you killing rap
So come with me I implore it"
He said, "Your existence versus mine
I'll battle for you it"
He thought and said, "Oh no
I want no parts of a flow
Why would you turn against a man who
Taught you all that you know?"
That's when he laughed and said
"I'm the one that you should kneel to"
He said, "You stupid fool
You didn't build me I built you
Programmed you to be like me
I propelled this confusion
Every detail of our history's
A spell of delusion
When I tried to teach you my
Plan you rebelled on the movement
So I banished you and held
You in a hellish seclusion
My craziest deeds
You were just unable to heed
So the idea that you created me
I made you believe"
The man said, "I worked on this for years
It's lies that you speak"
He said, "I made it to appear as years
It's only been weeks
I'm the architect of you and
Every bar that was formed
Raise your right sleeve
I'm sure you've seen that scar on your arm
How I assembled you is too
Complex to try to describe
But if you peel that scar
You'll notice several wires inside
You were my greatest masterpiece
Top of the line of my clones
But I developed you so well you
Gained a mind of your own
And started spreading conscious
Thought, east, west, south to the north
So I drew you out of
Solitude to finish you off
And though it's definite
You possess several lyrical elements
You're scared of expressing it
That's why you're vocally hesitant"
Discouraged, the man dropped his
Head and said, "It's no use"
Looked at the wires in his arm
And slowly pulled them a loose
Then both good and bad
Ideologies mentally flashed
The conscious forces and the
Wicked forces instantly clashed
And everybody in the room
Vaporized in a flame
‘til eventually the two men
Were all who remain
The anarchy that ensued caused
The world to divide
And the followers of both
Sides began to collide
And then the ceiling opened up and
They both looked in the sky
There they saw the the giant silhouette
Of a much bigger guy
He commanded everything to stop
And nobody move he said
"This war is over right now
And both of you lose
You lose because you took the
Talent that you possessed
And got obsessed with power and used
It to conquer the rest
See you were blessed with the best
Given the lyrical rod
You didn't build this man
That was a deceptive façade"
The other man said, "I knew it but, sir
How did I lose?" the giant said, "You had
The skill to challenge, but you refused"
He said "I came to fix him back
So this fight I'd avoid"
He said, "Some things can never be fixed
They must be destroyed
And though you tried to reason with him
Don't believe you succeeded
Many were lost because they didn't
Have the wisdom they needed
See you deleted all your hard work
Your moment was here
But you failed because your power
Wasn't strong as your fear
This test is completed" They said
"Who are you?" Then I spoke and said
"My name is K-Rino and I created you both"
(Ha ha ha)