lately i've been wonderin', comin' up with gansta rap lines
flippin' thru old records past my generation, my time
try to exhaust my mind with exhausted punchlines
used to be my favorite past time, and it was all fine
till i've grown up, i'm too old for that posthumous shit
too old for innocent craniums, i've got lost humours, shit
readin' too deep, too shallow, and then old rhymes go
composin' two rows for two doughs, reposin' this soul
forbidded this flow, burning sensations sensational
clashin' civilizations, space and time critical
so maybe we writing historical is kinda comical
but i'ma break the frame that says 'no idea's original'
i first listened to that jay z shit back in J-C-two
four years later, still twenty two two's at age twenty two
feelin' like, damn, age is startin' to catch up wit me
but the fact i'm in this paper chase, chasin' slowly
like there's a link; good grades equals living successfully
like asians are only good for modern day peasantry
"but fuck that 'cause that's a low life motto"
even though you can't shoot down the sun with broken arrows
we still try to separate the medium from shadows
still try to take down life lessons in our little memos
every single commodity that stamps patented info
we rip away the soul, strip away the gold, then follow