[Lateef]

Solesides

Alright, alright, alright

Let's get one thing clear right now

Lot of emcees out here claiming that they got styles

And that they tight, huh

But I don't give a damn about none of them

Cause, see me



[Verse One]

See, I'm gon' be alright, live my life as long as I'm alive

I ride on five-eighty, but I'm not an eighty-fiver

Usually exit high enough to fly like Egyptian gliders

Bringing the message to the black man like Elijah

Honourable, did I mention, ain't no dissent amongst the strivers

No tension or fights, there just be lessons in life

I'm a subscriber to the Call that's Final

Fiend for the knowledge like my DJ fiends for vinyl

Hold the microphone like a habitual user, like winos

Clutch wine bottles, in my death grotto

Until my skin gets mottled, don't expect to get coddled

Cause see me, patna

I wasn't raised in no family that got up to pops reading stocks

It was more like he was down the block

At my uncles' rolling up chops, getting off knocks

Had the whole damn neighbourhood on lock

Back before the game was hard like rocks

Yet lightweight like glocks, and this shit don't stop

It's as frightening as the idea of a million black men

Marching on Washington might have been to some people

But then only if we're not equal

As shoulders get colder, individuals get older and bolder

I ain't buying what they sold ya, I'm a soldier

The Warriors first round number one pick like Joe Smith

Thought I told ya

I ain't average, I manage to move my mandible rapidly to scold ya

Got a powerful role as flamby as the average nigga's plan B

Ought to be running shit in ‘96 ala Marcus Camby

Can be, can he do it? All night until the early morning

Break of dawn light, I flow like fluid out your spigot

Rough and wicked when I kick it



[Hook]

Yes, righteous and I might just never even quit

Because it's only to the will of Allah that I submit

Righteous and I might just never ever quit

Because it's only to the will of Jah that I submit like that



[Verse Two]

The name's Lateef and if you've got beef

You'll get cut up by the butcher's cut, see

I'll sink my teeth into your neck like a mastiff

Fool, you're weak, I got five on your cheek

I'll crash the boards and glass, slam that ass as fast

As Shareef-Abdul Raheem, clean the glass

I'mma school that, degrees that keep the shitstem up

Victims for pickings, royal stickings, stick with poli-tricks

And politicians acting like they on a hell-bent mission

For the annihilation and decimation of the human nation

Brother, listen cause they're testing my faith

What I'm feeling is the wreckoning, the quickening

Expression of the manifestation of victory

Regardless of societies that sneak around in secrecy

You see ­ it gets deep, deep as history

Creeps like time since 4000 BC, it's not a mystery

Lord knows, revealed to my soul and it shows

I drop flows that'll rock past the 21st century

They trying to keep it real, but compared to what

When there ain't even no backing to their passing buck

When you shift from the material shit they get stuck

Trip, they gone slip, they're up the creek, in the clutch

All because they really just don't give a fuck



[Hook]

Yet I'm righteous and I might just never even quit

Because it's only to the will of Allah that I submit

Righteous and I might just never ever quit

Because it's only to the will of Jah that I submit like that