Long Liveth - Black Thought, Salaam Remi

Greetings and salutations, I’m runnin' outta patience

So everything in moderation, even moderation

Check every single allegation for re-calibration

Call that the big pay back, it’s debt consolidation

The credit fell, what the hell, too much béchamel

Well, F-M-L, they desecrated the decibel

Go check the mail then let me know if it’s heads or tails

My ears burn like desert trails and Jezebels

Uh, somebody must be talkin' 'bout me

For carryin' a big stick and walkin' loudly

Articles in the Times and the New Yorker 'bout me

My killer instinct is like Orchid, probably

I’m a Pulitzer Prize Fighter how I vaporize writers

Shut 'em down at one time, synchronize silence

Make the audience forget you, call it Alzheimer’s

Child rhymers don’t come at the old timers

Whether your fan base is lil' mommas or Obamas

How you claim to have somethin' in check with no commas?

You and Mary got the same request, it’s No Drama

I’m the pinnacle of language, yes, the Dalai Lama

Who the clown talkin' down to the twenty-one pound?

I gotta send him some rounds to simmer him down

'Cause you’re not worthy to even touch the hem of the gown

The brim of the crown, motherfucker, remember the sound

It’s like

Hey, yo

Yo

Since the second grade I been gainfully employed

Hustlin' for change everyday from three to four

When other kids was into playin' games and bein' bored

Goin' against the grain’s what I painfully enjoyed

When they was into race cars, trains, TV and toys

I was thinkin' fat gold chains and freakazoids

Fillin' the deeper void, listenin' to that Indecent Noise

People used to tell me, «Boy, your brain gon' be destroyed»

Left hand to the law, right hand to Allah

Both hands to applaud who brought sand to the shore

Confessin' all your sins to the dope man through a door

I seen a preacher man sniffin' cocaine through a straw

We almost had it all, just one more cannon ball

And two more Geritol with one more Adderall

I got the game sewn like the tailor of Panama

Now I go by the name of an untamed animal

Wonderin' how I can evolve to prestigious and less vicious

A more visceral individual, best wishes

Just on principle, I been answerin' death wishes

What the Lord giveth is a king, long liveth