Fiend (feat. Infinite, Tommy Soulati Shepherd, Keith Pinto, Dan Wolf & Gennessee)

It's been in my bloodstream since J Dilla's MPC sampled the Beasties / Rest in peace to the deceased /

Since Fab Five met Blondie /

It dripped into my vein / hit me so hard / I shouted / no one here can stop me

Yo MTV Raps / captivated / fascinated / my imagination / more underground than diamond plated / In my situation

I went to work studied the history

Student became teacher /

All your criticism misses me /

Its written deep in the skin the systems venomous /

So I rely the skill the rhythm living in my penmanship

To do my menacing

dose on like I was medicine

Looking for some sage advice

The white the flight the fight I'm in

The sentence never settles in

Wrinkles stead of creases

Live in a lab filled with vinyl and it keeps releasing

12'' of religion

A poet for life

Just here to put the needle down

Never giving up the fight

I went 3 feet high only to find the theory of the low end

down roads to riches from cuttin records and mic controllin

Every great adventure has some slick wolves in sheeps clothin

but it would take a nation of millions to hold back the chosen

It was strictly biz to mark the wax then goin off on it

By all means necessary they would boogie down bronx it

the main ingredient that Amerikkkans most wanted

comin straight out of Compton

The chronic

I been a fiend/development was a little seized (Lil Cease)

that mean arrested no Biggie my people killer bees/

these Ali G's (allergies) get the gas mask antihistamines

punch drunk off that Ras Kass sip n lean/

needle in the arm Master Flash for the record /that's why i scratch tracks & why i apply the pressure/

Ms Hill she my heroine/no pill to compare it with/third eye vision cover/hieroglyphics under pyramids/

Enter the 36 for critical beatdowns

Derelicts of dialect all eyes on me now

illmatic how it was written this ill communication

Literal livin proof these are daily operations

now a days in the underground everything's digital

We comin to bus the business never personal

Don't sweat the technique when emcees holdin court

Better get in where you fit in cause life is just too short

For those with long-standing emotional problems like me

With a history of trauma or chronic pain like me

Or a disadvantaged lifestyle like me

The risk of addiction to hiphop should be harrowing

It's so

Intravenous metamorphosis it's the feeling when

You sorta hate it and love it cuz she can do you in

and in a instant you be back in love again

letting the tables turn steel turntablin

Without the microphone the shit so turbulent

Put the needle to the tracks gotta feed the itch a bit

Just a little to scribble and scr-scratch the surface

The hawks are circling

 And guess who's first in

The dose was working since they saw street lighting and decided Thass where they're plugging the bounce systems in

And since I detox thru beatbox

The exhale Should be proof of the

scales that I've haled-in