Powers That Be

They say I'm like Bruce Willis, Unbreakable, Die Hard True sickness with this mic on the tripod But I'm not Chow Yun Fat Dig, I'm still a pillar of stone Flows enter your skulls Mash on your whole militia like I'm Hannibal Imagine you the antelope and I'm the king of the jungle Animal instinct, phenominal stamina Just think about a man on the brink of insanity And it's me You not a rapper, you a movie star checkin' who we are Be the coup d'état, molotov cocktail Check and you'll get scarred and schooled regardless I'm marvelous majestic, no retarded shit All my power harnessin' My spoken word like a Voltron sword And these palms pulse the arsenic Every medley deadly Come and spark with us When the instrumental begins The timid, they wince They know when it's gonna commence We 'bout to crush 'em Reach out and touch 'em Before they scream out We gonna pull these things out and bust 'em Rub 'em out like dry erase Thug it out like the United Snakes It's us against the world Fuck popular opinion They scoff cause we was different But we did it all for independence Now we gon' off 'em with a vengeance Hand on they heads Paint the landscape ruby red With the nerve and will of a bunch of determined killers Who always make their marks, and never hesitate to spark Strike first, take their hearts with the right verse Cause confusion Never underestimate the power of illusion we usin' Start a whole revolution of music, man, we do this Shit, it's all we know The powers that be It's in you It's in me An emcee That's all we know The powers that be It's in you It's in me An emcee That's all we know The powers that be It's in you It's in me An emcee That's all we know The powers that be It's in you It's in me An emcee That's all we know Whatever, I don't know why you even play yourself to that degree You laugh at me? Like I won't slap the teeth out your grill That's how I feel You out of order You about a quarter inch away from fist in face Your distant gaze makes me think your brain drifts away To a land of wonder, only to awaken by the sound of cannon thunder All of those damn assumptions You a sad sack, mad wack Straight up and down ass-crack And that's that Get a load of Del, I devise words well I be spittin globe Let the mission unfold You're just a pretty centerfold Hate to diss ya ho, but you're fictional I'm just kinda different, yo, what I say is thought provoking Not for joking See, I know things they told kings While your hos cling to whatever the dough brings The powers that be It's in you It's in me An emcee That's all we know Hieroglyphics came triumphant reign, uncontained Runnin' through the plains of some hunted slaves Emperors who were meant to be entered into the end of the world As we spin to the heat of the sun's temperature, hot Distance measure how many flows I got Persistent pressure as we get this cheddar For the business and the betterment of my folks All my green stars mount up Ready, let's go We sustain out of Earth cause we came outta her The devils get slain when I sling slang Hotter then a lot of lava from the bay to the Bahamas All the way to Kapa Kapa We parlé'in, clockin' dollars like good fellas Suckas get jealous cause we make lettuce and we still rebellious And the industry could never jail us All my niggas free to be ourselves and our record still sell This is hip hop Olympics Hieroglyphics, the dream team Rappers livin' outta they means, tryin to bling bling Get your fat chain stole Get your whole crew exposed We done had them hos, dog I'm magical and when I grab these flows Out the hat, it blows 'em back to the last three rows We mashin, massive action-packed shit Hit 'em with a passion and that's it The powers that be It's in you It's in me An emcee That's all we know The powers that be It's in you It's in me An emcee That's all we know The powers that be It's in you It's in me An emcee That's all we know The powers that be It's in you It's in me An emcee That's all we know