[00:03.55]Just sent this email to myself
[00:07.83]I'm gonna read it off of my phone now
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[00:11.49]Once again, south Oakland veteran, open letter sendin'
[00:15.67]Hopin' you get it
[00:16.50]Totally shreddin'
[00:17.65]Yeah I said it a second time - Jazz
[00:19.74]Second line, second world problem child
[00:22.36]No style, All-Star, a lot of styles
[00:24.45]Pro style, go wild a lot of nights
[00:26.43]Look at the city that's a lot of lights
[00:28.63]Young culture worker, the role reverser
[00:30.71]The holy churcher, the folding furniture
[00:33.01]The golden purse herder, the hearse hurdler
[00:35.21]The turf surfer, A.D. that's adios to a lot of you haters
[00:39.39]Ladies love the cool lottery vapors
[00:41.37]But the only Ls I take is two tobacco leaf papers
[00:45.03]Mediate truths like a lot of newspapers
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[00:58.82]Kool childish, pop pop weasel schreech yo
[01:01.33]Look how many years I have been living without a job
[01:03.94]Like for real though
[01:05.09]Y ma' o meno todo legal
[01:07.18]And still got hella love for todo lo people
[01:10.42]Labor for love, the kid signify
[01:12.30]You don’t like it then spit in my eye
[01:14.39]End of the day I still live in the sky
[01:16.48]If you living with I then
[01:18.05]I and I no kidding will visibly fly
[01:20.24]And shine indivisibly in victory
[01:22.54]Yous against can't do shit to me
[01:24.32]Physically, lyrically, hypothetically, realistically
[01:26.83]I'm the epitome of TOMA!
[01:29.86]Catch you in the MoMA café
[01:32.26]Laughing powder on the cold cuts
[01:34.45]Black Shakespearian, never read Othello though
[01:36.75]They say yo yo to my half Japanese with the cello though (Weezer)
[01:40.72]Make it jiggle like it’s fresh like out the jello mold
[01:43.54]Kool water ice cubes sprinkle game hella cold
[01:46.37]Oh hella no, no, no, I didn't but I did though
[01:50.02]Said it hella times in hella ryhmes but it’s still new to some
[01:53.47]Don’t bust if you new to guns
[01:55.25]But don’t trust when Babylon tell you what to do with guns
[01:58.28]Understand that truths is both true to daughters and true to sons
[02:02.14]And see the oldest truths are the newest ones and vice versa
[02:05.38]I style like the Yin-Yang Twins, I might have told ya
[02:08.52]I’m ODB plus Mariah the iron soldier
[02:11.76]White checks in whiter folders
[02:13.22]Stack steady in small minimum tables and move to higher rollers
[02:17.40]Some men and women are steel but see the fire fold us
[02:20.74]Some tend to children for real,
[02:22.21]some lend the children to higher shoulders to sit on and steal all the lighter tropes they get on
[02:27.95]And discard the lesser ones and leave them as lessons
[02:31.51]For the clever dumb I’ll do you one better son
[02:33.70]When your ears listen to fears
[02:36.10]And your eyes brim up with tears
[02:37.77]You're better never having shed a one
[02:39.66]Cause you still couldn't drink that water if you shed a ton
[02:42.69]Fist fight, get a knife
[02:44.36]Knife fight, get a gun
[02:45.51]Gun fight, get a few, son
[02:46.87]I'm telling you if I got to tell you to get a bomb
[02:49.90]You better get your mom
[02:50.94]Tell her to send a nickel to the no bombs telethon
[02:53.76]Half you actresses be acting like you at the banana smell-a-thon
[02:57.63]Hella wrong
[02:58.57]Let's get ready to rumble, let's get it on
[03:00.66]Let's get it, let's get rich, let's get paid
[03:02.12]Let's get that bitch, let's let that rip
[03:03.90]You better step back, kid
[03:06.51]Yo, I rock from Buena Vista out to maybe like, LeFrak kid
[03:12.67]Throat to the neck don't waste that
[03:14.76]Pass this sobrinito
[03:17.38]Take it as a prophecy from Tio Cleo
[03:19.36]Call me Tito Jackson in a head wrap
[03:21.76]Alhamdulillah, yeah I said that too
[03:24.80]Numbers in a red black blue and other colors
[03:27.30]But my favorite hue is cool
[03:28.66]Yo that's a shade of grey
[03:30.44]The only times I paid to play
[03:31.69]Were the times I had paper to give away
[03:33.78]Like you gonna get a tip today
[03:36.50]It's a damn shame the way the champagne sip away
[03:39.11]The ice might melt and drip away
[03:41.51]But picture yourself rolling in a Lincoln
[03:43.39]Seeing pawnshops slink in your peripheral vision
[03:45.69]And drift away it's just me bullshitting
[03:49.14]Eh I ain't got shit to say
[03:50.50]It's just Vic, a swift kid from the A-L-A-M-E-D-A
[03:54.05]A simple game you ought to see me play
[03:56.46]Amaze 88 done did it again (Ocho Ocho)
[03:59.17]Bless the kid with a little more heat today (Ocho Ocho)
[04:02.41]Listen to the beat, it's way more complex than
[04:04.81]You might want to give it credit for
[04:06.49]A lot of y'all lettuce green you need to edit more
[04:09.10]And listen back and think about the reasons that you said it for
[04:11.61]And understand that all language is metaphor
[04:13.91]And if you headed for a wall, you better set a course to a door
[04:16.41]And if there's no door, you better get a door
[04:18.40]And if not, just look and see what you saw
[04:20.49]And with that saw cut yourself in half
[04:22.89]And two halves make a whole so climb through that
[04:25.29]I climb through raps to worlds untouched
[04:27.59]And unsullied by human language
[04:29.16]My wine dutty cutty
[04:30.73]My Cuban Spanglish
[04:31.77]Sip my sugar water Tangish, Tangesque, Tangy
[04:39.61]Kool A.D. best rapper in the world