[00:47.80]This is the scene you been seeing all your life
[00:50.38]The one inside a dream you repeated every night
[00:53.30]For 24 frames every second through the light
[00:56.28]Projected through the screen you been paying for despite
[00:59.17]What you see and what you hear, contrary to your sight
[01:02.27]Everything you ever learned that you never had to live
[01:05.28]Might've heard from a story teller medium
[01:07.58]Pictures, words, scriptures to cinema script
[01:11.37]writing a verse
[01:12.11]From this city emerges a new generation of babies
[01:15.41]Who came out of the womb, glued to the tube
[01:17.94]With plans and aspirations to prove beyond doubt
[01:20.78]We are stars too, even if it's just cartoons
[01:24.12]My animated hands that I got from the
[01:26.51]Genes of my island native fam I could never not be
[01:29.74]I'm here to make them scream like a Hitchcock dame
[01:32.98]Whether analog, dig it all, shit is all the same
[01:36.02]An American tradition, a narrative for fiction
[01:39.09]A Hamilton for tickets, the public is addicted
[01:42.05]Just think for a second how much we've been conditioned
[01:45.04]To root for the Doughboys, the O-Dogs, the Bishops
[01:48.14]Sided with them villains, in spite of all they heeded
[01:51.02]He said she gotta have it, she said she didn't need it
[01:54.06]And even if she see it, she will probably not believe it
[01:56.99]If it ain't bein' projected in a wide screen theatre
[02:00.01]If it spins on a reel, it's gotta be real
[02:03.00]But 'real' in real life just remind us of film
[03:42.07][02:06.05]And now you saying something's like a movie when it's real
[02:08.95]like a film's much realer than anything you feel
[03:53.65][03:50.66][03:48.17][02:17.76][02:14.80][02:11.93]in a Cinemetropolis （in a Cinemetropolis）
[03:56.71][02:20.76]in a Cinemetropolis...
[02:23.79]They try to say we bad kids from the start
[02:25.97]Grandchildren of Marx and Coca-Cola, yet quoting Godard
[02:29.80]And you saying that everything is cinema since
[02:32.54]the moving pictures in the center of your living room telling you shit
[02:35.90]Like you'll never be shit, walk away from all your dreams
[02:38.81]Spark up, drop a lighter on a trail of gasoline
[02:42.08]leading back to the vehicle you crashed before you came
[02:44.73]Never looking back, cut, boom, end of scene
[02:48.10]We've been gunning for that hundred and some change
[02:50.34]The flicks and the flickering flames that been going the same length
[02:53.90]Doing battle with the powers that be
[02:56.11]that'll be no longer in position when the power's getting seized
[02:59.82]So cameras we got redirected from the poor
[03:02.82]I directed for my people, Lino Brocka with the horn
[03:05.84]When the brother yelled action' it wasn't just for his act
[03:08.97]Cause he wanted to see the masses get they asses out the door （get up）
[03:12.92]My marvelous marksmanship is sharp, shit is hard
[03:15.63]but we make it look not, we auteurs
[03:18.09]The Godfather poster on the wall, 14
[03:20.97]with a movie in my head, writing's the next thing
[03:23.86]So we shot y'all 35 millimeter rockstars
[03:27.13]How about some hardcore senior to your sophomores
[03:30.02]Flyer than a Concorde landing on your concourse
[03:33.18]Rolling with the vanguard, burning down your arthouse
[03:36.05]If it's spinning on a reel, it's gotta be real
[03:39.00]But 'real' in real life just remind you of film
[03:44.95]Blade running like a samurai, killing himself
[04:01.22]click.