Written word held weight  

Now honor at best recessive trait  

The sound and shape to come succumbed to Malignant maelstrom  

Malformed mentals stained expected outcome   

And not to be outdone  

Some speak in half phrases  

No definition to brush strokes already out of phase with these statements  

Raise children off pavement...  

Pulse on frauds hasten   

When confronted with styles from gutter basements  

Set to build like Freemasons, on three angles  

All I see are Minstrel MC's on these channels  

Perceived battles only held to sell albums  

Propagate stereotypes that bleed out us  

Our own doubt us  

But I remain devout scholar of skills of forefathers  

Ignorance was forced on us  

Define honest, if we all breath diseased lies  

Define the MC if all he spits are weak lines.  

                  

				  

Who trades his culture for dollars?  

The fool or the scholar?  

Griot? Poet? Or White collared?  

                  

				  

If my written words slurs   

Then my speech correct  

Keep my meaning inferred to test your intellect  

If you remember HipHop nigga 'nuff respect  

Deadverse spoken with broken dalek  

				  

				  

Spoken word held meaning   

Hostile acts provoked  

Formed metaphors  

Created urban folklore  

Never meant for these upper echelon aurals   

That bought and stripped morals   

From art that's gift for us  

At heart I'm strict purist   

Spit thoughts for poorest  

5'6'' Honduran sights set on own ruin  

Rugged cadence meant to capture essence   

Ancestor's wrath festers under surface of uttered sentence.  

                

				  

Who trades his culture for dollars?  

The fool or the scholar?  

Griot? Poet? Or White collared?  

                

				  

If my written words slurs   

Then my speech correct  

Keep my meaning inferred to test your intellect  

If you remember HipHop nigga 'nuff respect  

Deadverse spoken with broken dalek