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Two Seconds Til Midnight
01:23
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The whole universe is ours
We built this shit and we’ll destroy it if we have to
The whole universe is ours
Geographical hurdles never impede me from dissing the ones you sweat,
who disguise lack of quality with intimidating threats,
Mere specks within a universe infinitely expanding
your perspective’s limited, to five feet from where you’re standing
Now the Lower Life Forms explore, as founding fathers of this ecosystem
with generations of wisdom,
The intrusive extrovert deteriorates souls like sin,
begin inspection, and talk to god through my reflection
Twenty thousand steps per day is my average walk
A & Rs telling that they dig it but at contract talks
They’re perplexed for a marketing strategy and are mad at me
like I did something wrong not thinking ‘bout that when I wrote the song
So they sign one-timers that sound redundant
artistic assimilators, with IQs under a hundred
These things they won’t suffice being placed on ice,
Demolition rises again becoming hip hop’s Christ
Big wigs play dice with artists’ careers as the price
They live life large believing that they’re in charge
But truth and honesty ultimately will rise to power
For this very reason the whole universe is ours
The whole universe is ours
We built this shit and we’ll destroy it if we have to
The whole universe is ours
(“there’s no better feeling, walking around knowing that you can wipe out your whole neighborhood’)
The whole universe is ours
We built this shit and we’ll destroy it if we have to
The whole universe is ours
(“there’s no better feeling, walking around knowing that you can wipe out your whole neighborhood’)
I still conceive countless children with my muse and I used to endure
a number of my babies born premature
But after developing a process of incubation
each birth expands on the realms of human creation
Some are born with super speed and some with X-ray vision
Some will fill your dreamscape with nocturnal emissions
Demolition is the fam, I told you before I’d have descendants like Shem
now you can bear witness to them
We travel the galaxies exposing fallacies
Beyond your own reality, painting pictures with analogies
Possession of artistic power gives me control
over universal properties to alter it as a whole
We all have access through the spiritual through free will
Either use it righteously or use it to commit evil,
We will wield our own on ASR and microphone
Dialtone on Tech twelves, necks swell from constant motion
Life is like the ocean, so earthlings gas my head
or try to counteract the talent instead
with repetitive sedatives that attempt to be stimulants
the masses might dig these invalids but they ain’t see what I’ve seen
While their heroes roam their zone smoking green,
They’re being ripped apart by sharks and being wowed by limousines
Walking into boardrooms needing designated drivers intoxicated,
too faded to see snakes stripping them naked but not I
‘cause they only get high to get over
a mere attempt to meet the level that i’m at when I’m sober
See these devils want my senses dulled to take my power
but never they will, ‘cause the whole universe is ours
these devils want my senses dulled to take my power
but never they will, ‘cause the whole universe is ours
The whole universe is ours
We built this shit and we’ll destroy it if we have to
The whole universe is ours
(“there’s no better feeling, walking around knowing that you can wipe out your whole neighborhood’)
The whole universe is ours
We built this shit and we’ll destroy it if we have to
The whole universe is ours
(“there’s no better feeling, walking around knowing that you can wipe out your whole neighborhood’)
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The Killer
04:04
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Open Invitation
03:41
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My crew and I consider ourselves friendly
until faced with inevitable arrogance and envy of rivals
They come in all shapes and sizes
Liable to ask who Dialtone and Zechariah Wise is
Their behavior pattern’s relatively the same
beginning by questioning ancestry that we claim
Skepticism prompts them to triple dog dare with evil stares
But first fill out this questionnaire
Name three old school DJs who spun in the Bronx
Name New York night spots where hip hop once rocked
Name and year of the first rap album you ever purchased
and the year you started rhyming (ay yo sun they’re getting nervous)
I recall Virginia days of old
when I was ridiculed for love, hugs and hip hop soul
Only a handful of neighborhood kids could dig the mission
together we formed the circle Demolition
But now out from the woodwork comes teams of wishful thinkers like they’re different
Practicing an art in which they’re culturally ignorant
No knowledge of history or proper protocol
their motor stalls at the starting line from curvatures in their spine
But Lower Life Forms spent years kicking a hole in the wall
Not so you rookies could desecrate it all
So bring it on then and happened before and will again
you can use my mic baby the invitation’s open
(we didn’t get in here so you can get in with us, at first you didn’t know us, but now it’s like yo put me down, we didn’t get in here so you can get in with us…)
You can use my mic baby the invitation’s open
Invitations have been extended to wanna be emcees
so let’s see how many of them RSVP
to join their brothers in the land of hip hop banishment
now occupying entry level positions in waste management
But still these children try to catch me off guard
I look out my studio and see them in the backyard
So invite each of them in for their own painful lesson
Until they’re leaving awestruck trying to book themselves a session
My impression was we ridded VA of these artistic hoes
’til the flunkies started ending up at our shows
One tried to battle me on stage and finished so embarrassed
He threw a mic at Dialtone so we threw him off the terrace
I guess defeat can cause psychological torment
case an point this one cat must have been glutton for punishment
After his serving he approached with something to prove
as the only one in the building who thought he didn’t lose
Come on baby you must be kidding or you don’t know the half
I watch the tape of your performance when I need a good laugh
Yet still he insisted that he himself was the victor
so we crushed him again and left him sobbing in his liquor
We spent years chipping a hole in the wall
Not so you rookies could ride our backs and desecrate it all
So bring it on then and happened before and will again
you can use my mic baby the invitation’s open
(we didn’t get in here so you can get in with us, at first you didn’t know us, but now it’s like yo put me down, we didn’t get in here so you can get in with us…)
You can use my mic baby the invitation’s open
Special wake up call to all them sucker, so -called emcees in Northern VA and all the kindergartners trying to get their masters degree… Lower Life Forms… Burke Center representers.
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Conflicts Within
03:43
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Opposite Sides
04:01
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Pathways
03:44
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