Universe At War

When you and I verse at war, mother****er

We gonna do this Chi-town style (verse at war)

Illadelph, you know how we get down

You know the business

Illadelph, Illinois

Bringin' it straight to your chest

Comin' thru with the ill convoy

Yes, sir, hah!

Lieutenant with the Com'

Yeah, break it down, one-two

We about to drop the bomb, check it!

Hook x2: Black Thought

When you & I verse at war

And your verse at core for what you thought before

Steppin' up into a zone you should never explore

The next step or level of the whole concept or

Rappers, get on the mic talkin' about cars and clothes

Soundin' like hoes

Ain't been exposed to the foes, the most disciples

I'm from the state that is Ill

The rap son of man rotated down to Phil'

To say what I feel, get it off my bird chest, my word becomes flesh

War, goin' on between the West and the East

Of the lands, n****s don't own a piece

Grease is the word, Murray slides some pimp oil to me

My lady friend sneaks my beer in the movie

Throw your hands in the air, if you the true and livin'

Beware — The New World Order, the devil's new religion

Sent my homie to the number two division

Sellin' bootlegged movies, got my VCR on a oove' smoove'

Be at Fat Tuesday's, drinkin' tropical and just sittin'

At a table with sophisticated b*****s

Nah, that ain't nothin' I would call my mother

Nor do I call every n***a my brother

Gotta have Black Thought, it sorta B like Malik

So, don't Question a Brother, to The Roots, I get deep

Yo! Enter the last era

Your scholarship into the world of politics and mascara

We operate within this artificial op-era

I bring hip-hop terror like the Führer

The Ace Ventura into the horror

Laboratory labor-er, venture beyond the border

I'll struc-ture a style, destroy your whole aura

Plus, your a-drenalin'll rise before your eyes

Immortalize my image in the skies

Deceive the devil in disguise

My music I parenthesize, represent the wise

Through this be how we enterprise

Kid, no compromise (Yeah, yeah)

I'm thinkin' fast like Rama-dan, I wear your mind away like Alzheimer

I pull a mic up out my mama, big up to Bahama-dia

A-yo, this year we leavin' 'em in trauma

Then after me, I plan to leave behind the legacy

Or history of the family — the Fifth Dynasty

For humanity to bear witness to this Del-Val' sylla-ble stylist

You know the time, kid

Hook x2: Black Thought

When you & I verse at war

And your verse at core for what you thought before

Steppin' up into a zone you should never explore

The next step or level of the whole concept or

Yo, the general flows, kids compose on tablets

Expose how they was average and they thoughts not rapid

Here comes the hot package through your block like traffic

The rock was type graphic, now watch the mic blast it

Shootin' at the stars with emphatic rap static

See the mirror shatter from thoughts, I'm bustin' back at it

The Lieuten-ant, the eleph-ant, sippin' automatic

Mic rippin' Asiatic, architects out to have it

The turn of the century

The planet's like a penitentiary exaggerated

N****s is livin' highly medicated

I Used To Love H.E.R., now she violated

Hip-hop holocausts and camps, old champs are concentrated

They outdated and incarcerated

Loved and appreciated, hated and very debated

For every career created, one's eliminated

And that's the way the balance of Yin and Yang is related, for real!

Every block is divine, n****s swing on in a safari

Wild n****s, like I'm high on latari

Some let the block block they mind, if they could see what I see

Get out the city for a sec, be at the places I be

Hey! I'mma be back on the deck

Openin' businesses in places, for you to cash yo' check

My neck of the woods ain't all good, ain't all bad

You can live in the 'burbs, and still get had!

The sad part about it — n****s had houses on the lake

They tryin' to move us out, the land we ain't appreciate

For peace we skate, crackers be rollerbladin' on hate

Call each other "Cuz" 'cause of how we relate

I seen weight turn into Cadillacs with dopeman plates

Through the wind and blow-ups is how n****s communicate

Harmonizin' through beepers and reefer

The city got my peoples in a sleeper, talk is gettin' cheaper

Hook x4: Black Thought

When you & I verse at war

And your verse at core for what you thought before

Steppin' up into a zone you should never explore

The next step or level of the whole concept or