Keep on, keep on, keep on doing what I do aiming for number 1 when I use a number 2 coming through on another groove and moving to the tune adding hues and other colors cause I'm soothing with the mood so the view is from the undercover movements of the moon pull you in like loving lovers never truent with the oohs, aahs and other wonders when you're fluent with the moves cause I do it like no other come maneuver with the dude Keep on, keep bringing the beat cause, I'm singing my deep song and keeping the dream going, because, I'm seeking to begone, breathe on, I know I'ma need it for these lungs, to be strong, oxygen, to run and rerun, indicating my syndication for seasons, I'm trying to be on, a level beyond a length of time that surpasses even eons, how could it be wrong, you see I'm trying to... Keep on, keep on, keep o-o-on, keep going, keep going, keep g-g-going, how could I stop now, it's not possible, and if I dropped now, my soul will sing, plucking strings of the heart cause I said I would...

If I could, I'd kick my feet up sip on a nice drink pink lemonade is keeping me cool dip my feet in the pool as I chill the heat steps degrees up now what's the reason for resting because my checks are Gs up hard work has paid off no question we've come from stretching these funds to stretching these funds investments, refunds yes, yes so I guess that we've done the best that we could with less than what the next was blessed with meager heck we've seen some days we didn't think or guess that we'd trump every doubt in our mind suggesting we'd never make it must confess the stress would eat us but now we're extra stress-free with a plethora of successes we've won

Part 1 Gotta be honest with myself there's not a lot of pockets that'll come up outta dollars for a product on the shelf but see that's a problem in itself trying to get a product in a market where the artist is himself and the product is a product of the stress so every track offers common knowledge of the artist and the quest but how often is such an offer a request put you in the margin gotta bargain for a set all the while I play my part in all respects and wonder if my art is gonna garner the respect I think I need for the spark to start to catch so I can throw my heart to the sharks so I can get 10 minutes with someone's daughter I've never met and 5 minutes alone in an apartment I've never left the highlights of a party and I'm the guest signing my signature so awkwardly upon the "x" Part 2 And that's just the way that I imagine it going, when you start talking fractions, contractual service, when it's all about cash and the faster you burn it, when it all hits the fan and you don't actually know it, trying to balance the man, benefactor and poet, cause you always asked: "what if you had every financial answer to you and your fam's upperclassmen appointment?" a responsibility that's part of a black man and his having employment, so of course he'll do what he can to capture the moment, and major distractions seem like a passing annoyance, like the classification of us as athletes and rappers, we know it, and I'm not trying to condone it, as the only option but it's a passion and focus, that we imagine just holding, til we can actually own it, fulfilling the promise of retiring moms, so she don't have to be working, now add that to the perfect picture of crabs in a bucket, and tell me under what circumstances you wouldn't try to have some enjoyment, trying to be who you are and put on an act for the public, steadily trying to captain the boat but you know the minute you let up then it's back to bogus, run of the mill, like none of it's real, and it all feels like you went back on your purpose

C-c-cool out dropping the temperature teeth clicking shivering feeling a little frigid cause I'm s-s-so cold I j-just don't know how to remedy the situation my nose froze because the ozone around my own zone has plummeted much similar to O's zone and shouts to that fella cause he's doing it and learning what to do with it a king on his own throne they say the pen is mightier than the sword if it's anything like Arthur's mine is sweet from chilling in the Coldstone it's such a shame these cats catching brain freeze get ya-get ya coats on hats and gloves mittens and boots sipping the soup that's enough to get you where you've gone wrong thinking that it's one of those days til a nice breeze hits you with icicles and a cold flow Just listen, listen miss me with the friction don't be too foolish to consider the consequences I'm too smooth for the critics and contradictions only a few dudes I consider my competition just so happens that we're on the same team hate me I understand your feelings on our position To the beat is how I do what I can doing my dance who want a chance to move with the pen I mean I do it once they say do it again that's only one imagine if I had two in my hands

Never really took the chance to apologize see I idolize guys that are outta line so their outer lines outline the frame of my thoughts always seen never outta mind role models in my eyes never outta mine but because I was paid with the thoughts of what paved how I walk the pain was the itemized receipt and the change in the dames how we came to be finalized so ashamed now I try to try to regain what I monetized and of course it's never the same when you buy the lies that erase how you played with their hearts then waved to them bye and fly and away you just try to hide hoping one day they forget the games that you tried to lie in bed with them saying things to monopolize their frames and rearrange the boundaries of...of...of... what'll remain when they're outta blind lust for nothing gained and a lot time wasted on a lame who was not the guy that later came to define the odds you weren't even equal so no complaints when they eye-to-eye proclaim their feelings to be true and they stay when the tide is high see there'll come a day you'll be modified by then pray it ain't too late to apologize

Five years from now will I have something to show for four years of college and living just how I want or could it be I'll still be dealing with all the folks and conditions I see in my position where I work and ten years from now settled down will it hurt having kids and making decisions about their growth and now I'm living for more than myself and what I'm worth goes towards me being a pillar for their support and fifteen years now I'll sit these kids down and reminisce with them on how I spit these here out writing my rhymes asking how did it sound how I gotta get found and how I gotta get mine and how I did or I didn't did it contribute to living the life that I envisioned or was it simply a mission that went unfinished forget it there's no point in reliving what it should if it isn't cause it is so I live it

I gets it everyday I split it several ways and if you want some come get it and you don't have to pay just meet me at the crib don't tell anyone we getting lifted unless they with it outsiders just don't get it they witness and wanna question instead of joining the session second hand's not an option inhaling the special essence blesses you with incredible feelings relieving stresses and leaves you needing edible healing so I offer food for thought but who'd have thought this school of thought would rule as art circle up to rap it up and cue the spark get fired up we lit it up you'd like to clutch you might've touched before but this is nicer stuff to get you higher up and open your mind just don't choke or hold it so long cause we hope to get our own moment to find what it's like to leave the place smoking with a lingering notion of the most potent design See noooow I don't smoke cheeba, cheeba but I don't need to, need to for me to write something for you to vote me the leader like a opus so dope they promote me and reefer (refer) their folks to me so please don't choke on me either now most couldn't see that I'm close to the ether as I float through the speaker or coast to the beat playing host to the feature the bar is too high even if you toked you're still not certain to reach it I boast with the teachings of Mos as my teacher so this right this right here is called Def can't hear it when it's spoken in the open no closed captions you gotta focus to peep it now get close so when I blow you can breathe it into your system let it go when you're peaking this is a weeding out process cause it's not about sess just the flow that I'm speaking

When you put your hands on me, my love It's so right It's so right Can you feel me melting at your touch One more time, boy, I can't get enough Can't enough of you When you put your hands on me, my love It's so right It's so right She reminds of everything I've ever loved about every woman that I've ever known it's liked every woman that I've ever loved is balled into a woman one better than they ever were one step above heaven she's ethereal queen so imperial proof so empirical the truth is ridiculed in her presence so never question cause she's the answer and my philosophy so I figure that I oughta be gossiping have you heard I'm so her's like apostrophe it's not hard to see we're in tuned never outta beat brings a rhythm to my blues and I knew she would shoot perfect archery see see see she got me stuttering a fool for her cool and by God I'm loving it

Frustration on the rise once again trying to find the sublime with the pen but as time seems to wind to its end I'm left dying for a dime and a friend like how am I supposed to be fine when I can't seem to get by with all the time that I spend working to make money for those that'll take from me so closer I ain't coming to hoping to make something outta myself lie to myself tell him it'll be all right just follow the steps but where do they lead nevertheless you better be clever when it's time to settle your debts and pay the tuition for learning that dreams never came to fruition from laying in a place where they stay at the wishing well well isn't this conviction fail bail leave it cause it's prison jail sell every sentiment that compels hell grass is always greener on the side with the sprinkler no hydrant so I think I'll cry til they drink it up I'm not high but I "we'd" enough: we'd have done this we'd have done that if we'd have done what we should we'd have blown on the map that's my history speaking as it speaks to me keeping me level-headed on the frequency never headed for the head of lettuce let it cheapen me secretly I'm still bitter but better-bred vis-a-vis weak emcees compared never equal me