Check the Blueprints

Slowly and steadily MC's are fallin' off like leprosy

Instead build immunity and spread insight throughout community

These fundamentals form the crux of longevity

When melodies are looped and vocals harmonize in unity

Now it's '99 and ain't a damn thing changed

Some seek to find fame as wealth manipulates the brain

Let me paint this picture, your mind's the canvas

Many claim they're real and later flake like dandruff

'Cause one out of ten stick to their words

The other nine stick to my Nikes and get rubbed out on the curb

Let's be real, we're paper chasin' for financial backing

But there's a line defined by greed many are passing

Known as crossing over for exposure some embark

For cars, jewels and things that won't exist when we depart

Crews, don't snooze, or both eyes become bruised

This goes out to those that slept through the deal or were confused

Check the blueprint

Yeah

Come on

Yo, so MC's, take it back to lyricism

Producers, pour out your heart to the rhythm

DJ's, pay bills, develop skills

And respect the architect as we begin to build

And check the blueprint to keep the culture alive

And check the blueprint, so as an artist, you can survive

And check the blueprint, I speak these words without frills

(Respect the architect as I begin to build)

Clutchin' my pen right strugglin' to portray the right depiction

I'm punchin' the wall of writer's block hoping for recognition

Nowadays you're not heard unless you're posing an image

With watered down lyrics that appeal to most who listen

Instead I'll water the roots so branches will replenish

Expanding elements that pioneers started building

Hip hop houses, many free loading MC's

I feel there's only a few tenants paying their fees

Three-sixty degrees what goes around comes back

I'm smoking mics, I inhale lies and exhale facts

Unfold the blueprint, plans for improvement

Bridging gaps between the mind, ball point pen and the clueless

Innovation is useless once you forget the essence

So respect the architect

Pick up your pens and start sketchin'

Pick up your pens and start sketchin'

So MC's, take it back to lyricism

Producers, pour out your heart to the rhythm

DJ's, pay bills, develop skills

And respect the architect as we begin to build

And check the blueprint to keep the culture alive

And check the blueprint, so as an artist, you can survive

And check the blueprint, I speak these words without frills

(Respect the architect as I begin to build)

As I open my slanty eyes to this place called Earth

I contemplate how music has lost artistic worth

And I'm shriveled up in my niche like a scrotum when it's freezing

With bags under my eyes on account of too much sleeping

Because of these lies in rap that I can't feel

Leaving me dazed with the phrase, I keep it real

How many times have you heard this fed through your ears

I'd rather be fed in the mouth to shit it out from the rear

Claiming they're underground but under water they're wrinklin'

And me like water buoys, that level, I'm never sinkin'

Sink your teeth into my words hard enough to be lispin'

When your finished biting them, find your front teeth missin'

I see em sippin' fine wines in spas 'cause that's their image

It's a gimmick, I flap my jaws and their squad's diminished

I don't mess with Glocks but metaphorically in speech

I'd like to pump 'em with more shots than diabetics receive

Then in a better place may they peacefully rest

In hopes that next time the blueprints they'll manifest

Check the blueprint

Uh, and check the blueprint

So MC's, take it back to lyricism

Producers, pour out your heart to the rhythm

DJ's, pay bills, develop skills

And respect the architect as we begin to build

And check the blueprint to keep the culture alive

And check the blueprint, so as an artist, you can survive

And check the blueprint, I speak these words without frills

(Respect the architect as I begin to build)

Yeah

Take 'em out y'all

It's like this

Yeah, uh

It's Kero One in the place, y'all

Signin' off