Looking in my bookcase for inspiration

I’m an Outlier way that I be pulling information

Invisible Man you only hear but can’t see

When Their Eyes Were Watching God know they really watching me

Crack the code of Da Vinci I battle Angels and Demons

Between The World And Me don’t even have to read Four Agreements

I live it, they want us Forty Million Dollar Slaves

We Were Eight Years in Power tried to take it all away

Notes of a Native Son but I Am Not Your Negro

Unbothered as Assata bringing power to the people

I be All About Love for Salvation,

Wretched of the Earth Decoded how they stole nations

How you want it Guns, Germs or Steel?

The Miseducation of the Negro have you living out the Art of War for real

Waves like The Water Dancer but my Soul On Ice

Curious Mind I could crack a book and go all night

Why we learn Hitler but not Leopold in the Congo

Both had millions of victims but what do I know

I’m Talking to Strangers for a living, Bucking the system

Searching for The Alchemist in the mirror I couldn’t miss him,

None Blood but got Brothers regardless,

Nobody Knows My Name all they know is the artist

One book for each day of the month

That’s 28 in one verse this Black History as plain as it come

1 way to pay the bills many ways to get paid

2 hands touching everything I ever made

3 my favorite number Iverson Dwayne Wade

When my forehead sweating take 5 in the shade

6 million faces mean 6 million stories in the city where I lay my head

Lucky as 7 every day that I avoid the lead

Cuz there’s 8 million ways I could end up dead

Still I don’t keep the 9 on me, lethal mind since 91

Been loading ammunition since the second life begun,

Among the talented 10 across the globe

De boys can’t touch me a crisis like 11th of September

For the competition they always remember

Better avoid 12 like the cold of December

Or 13 that’s a bad omen but don’t freak

Verse put you on notice it don’t take two weeks

14 days I’m in it more than 15 minutes

If you counting spit 16 but not finished

Insane as 17 lighting up the Garden

Went to the college 18 then I changed targets

Made the major journalism I was thinking sportscasting

By 19 two projects deep with the rapping,

Done a lot but could forever do more

I stop at 20 just to settle the score