Black Thought
Black Thought Similes
Album Navigation:OrganixDo You Want More?!!!??!Illadelph HalflifeThings Fall ApartPhrenologyGame TheoryRising DownHow I Got OverWake Up!UndunStreams of Thought Vol. 1Streams of Thought Vol. 2Streams of Thought Vol. 3"Black Thought Freestyles on Flex | Freestyle #087""Harvard’s Innovation Lab Speaker""Live Intro Performance | 2020 Roots Picnic Virtual Experience"Feature VersesOrganixI lift the party up and y'all get down like a zipper - The Anti-CircleI grab it and snatch it, inspect it like Gadget - The Anti-CircleOn the actual, I swings like I'm Satchel - Good Music PrecludeShit'll split your mind open like a cantaloupe then - Good Music PrecludeRunnin' like a Mex' for the border - Good MusicInto it, it being grits that I gets like a quaker - GritsIn a position to throw lyrics like a shotput - Leonard I-VThought can always make you dance/ Like you got the heebie-jeebies or a hotfoot - Leonard I-VSo while I'm sinning you be spinning like a planet - Leonard I-VBecause I drop art like I was Pablo - Leonard I-VSpeaking of O's, I'm hard to sink like a Cheerio - Leonard I-VConcentrate, it's not be natural as the grass - I'm Out DeahSlips and I drips like butta - I'm Out DeahMelting browns drip like wax - I'm Out DeahAs we grow and expand like the afro - Popcorn RevisitedI shout, move about, turn it out like minister - Popcorn RevisitedMad melanin, chocolate, like a chip that's black man - Popcorn RevisitedDo You Want More?!!!??!Raised in the cellar with the rhythm like Ella
- ProceedI let them play like Donny Hathaway and shake a hand, shake a hand
- ProceedUsed to smash crash parties like I was disturbed
- ProceedAnd like a nerd I can make you say, "He's superb"
- ProceedI move styles like bowels so now you know I'm worth it
- ProceedFrightening, like lightning
- Distortion to StaticThat's makin' tracks fatter, revolve around Saturn like rings and brings swings, when I sings with bass
- Distortion to StaticThen distort up in your face like mace
- Distortion to StaticBustin' your dreams like gats with loaded magazines
- Distortion to StaticI'm on the rap scene, repellin' fellas like a vaccine
- Distortion to StaticWe in effect, Mode like Al B. Sure, for your plea-sure
- Distortion to StaticBust it, La Di Da Di, who likes to party,
Like Slick Rick the Ruler I'm cooler than a ice brick
- Mellow My ManGot soul like those afro picks, with the black fist
- Mellow My ManAnd leave a crowd drippin like John the Baptist
- Mellow My ManThe skits I kick, flows like catfish - Mellow My Manmake Shadrach Offender wanna go like Meshach
- Mellow My ManBlack Thought the nappy cat a bookworm shoot styles like sperm - Mellow My ManCool as Malcolm Little with conch a la perm burn
- Mellow My ManThe herb sticks like wicks, and flips when I slaps the hand
- Mellow My ManAnd my words stampede like herds in the dusk
- I Remain CalmMysterious vibes like I was the phantom
- I Remain CalmThat n***a Thought flows like a river
- I Remain CalmI deliver styles like Dominos - I Remain CalmI whip the cap to the back, I'm laid back like your gramps
- I Remain CalmI make n***as embarrassed like they spendin' food stamps
- I Remain CalmSee, I can have you headin' for the border like a refugee from Haiti - I Remain CalmMy rhymes sedate, I lubricate like Aloe Vera
- I Remain CalmWe blast off like launchers, launchin' off the rockets
- DatskatI proceed, as I give ya what ya need,
Like I'm a medical doctor - Do You Want More?!!!??!Kid, I'm on point like a gat - Do You Want More?!!!??!N***a, take a shot like I'm invincible
- Do You Want More?!!!??!When I visit shorties, I hit it, I'm cool as a blizzard, n***a, what?! - What Goes On Pt. 7The rhythm just sways and like a sorceress I slays
- Swept AwayPoundin' on the drums like King Kong - Swept AwayNow, you're all desert 'cause I'mma serve ya like a tray
- Swept AwayCaramel-complected, body like heaven - Silent TreatmentLike something from out the flicks we been in love ever since - Silent Treatment
"you're in my life, like love, it ain't no way no one can rise above" - Silent TreatmentI stand 5'7", in command of the party and scam like Uncle Sam - The Lesson, Pt. 1I bag solo, like a n***a that boost Polo - The Lesson, Pt. 1Illadelph HalflifeSlow up Ock, before you get dropped and closed like a caption - Respond/ReactSimple as addition and subtraction - Respond/ReactThat's far from hesitant, corrupt like a President - Respond/ReactHittin MC's like an intoxicant, sent to prevent - Respond/ReactShine like nickel heat that blow your mind when I shoot it - SectionBehead like a samurai that'll command the dynasty until he die - SectionThe fifth'll bring it all together like the zipper on a butter leather - SectionI'm crooked like the 'I' on a toxic malt liquor - SectionI put this in your system like lecithin - It Just Don't StopI step, like a shadow on the way to hot concrete - It Just Don't StopWild like a son sold for cash - EpisodesI let the frauds keep frontin and roam like a cellular phone - What They DoAnd my mental thick they hit my head like brick - What They DoTo put it short "I want it made" like Ed, nuff said - What They DoMy poetry is set like a U.F.O - Concerto of The Desperado
Stimulate you like the best sensimilla - Concerto of The DesperadoTreat MC's like the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah - Concerto of The DesperadoLeavin' these n***as open like the box of Pandora - Concerto of The DesperadoThat surrounds you like a peninsula to snatch the pennant - Concerto of The DesperadoYou fold like Japan's futons and fans - Concerto of The DesperadoWhile I design a plan to make a rapper step like a pedestrian - Concerto of The DesperadoThe Fifth aficionado break you up into parts like vibrato - Concerto of The DesperadoI'm deep like the dark of the night - Concerto of The DesperadoThat leave you lost like a tourist inside the chorus - Concerto of The DesperadoI hit you like a steel anvil - U.N.I.Verse At WarI bring hip-hop terror like the Führer - U.N.I.Verse At WarKid, no compromise (yeah, yeah) I'm thinkin' fast like Rama-Dan - U.N.I.Verse At WarI wear your mind away like Alzheimer - U.N.I.Verse At WarHere comes the hot package through your block like traffic - U.N.I.Verse At WarIt's all camouflage like the devil and guns - No AlibiStep up into my crevice and taste the medicine of the champagne
King like Evelyn - No AlibiKnown to vanish in the atmosphere, we up there like the stratus - No AlibiAddicted to her presence like a narcotic - The HypnoticThe Hypnotic That faded like a dream sequence that persuaded - The HypnoticWe on point like decimal, Abstract, now! - Ital (The Universal Side)Things Fall ApartCuttin' through, like attorneys at law that's car chasin' - Table of Contents (Parts 1 & 2)This heavyweight rap shit I'm about to lift
Like, a phyllum lift up it's seed to sunlight - The Next MovementI plug in the mic, draw like a gunfight - The Next MovementI'm like a faucet, monopoly's the object - The Next MovementThere ain't no way to cut this tap, you got ta get wet - The Next MovementYou theatrical as a Broadway play, this ain't Rent - The Next MovementI'm the finalist, shinin like a rugged amethyst - The Next MovementLike an analyst, to see if you can handle this - The Next MovementEyes are crevices, life like a double negative - Step Into The RealmTwo extremes collide like Jekyl and Hyde - Dynamite!Bent like, a boomerang, tryin to maintain - Without a DoubtI slap your sound Out the sky like I'm goaltendin, bring your career - Without a DoubtYour album get split like, a lump sum - Without a DoubtYo, I control the stadium like the law long arm - Without a DoubtI sent a verse in the mail like, a death threat - Without a Doubtmy complex pattern of speech is like sex - Ain't Sayin Nothin' Newlike toast in the oven with government cheese bubbling - Double TroubleWe go back to dollar hoagies and Tahitian Treat or like toast in the oven with government cheese bubbling - Double TroubleMe and Dante like Marvin, The Troublemen travelling - Double TroubleGlobe traveling, throwing your verse like a javelin - 100% DundeeDown low, scope you off the roof like the fiddler - 100% DundeePush pen to paper like Chinua Achebe - 100% DundeeAnd MC's is dressed funny like a leprechaun - AdrenalineI chop rappers up like chicken szechuan - AdrenalineWe hit 'em like the L at 60th and Market - AdrenalineSplit back this like we the therapist - AdrenalineSells a squads off like a slave auction - AdrenalineNow she in my world like hip-hop - You Got MeI've seen people caught in love like whirlwinds - You Got MeIt's over head like Omniverse screen - Don't See UsYo, Okay Computer, Radiohead's knock to the
Future Shock like Curtis - Don't See UsI'm barging in like excuse, I beg your pardon - Act Fore... The End?I hit the block wit hip-hop, it's like oxen stampede wit lyrical heavyweight boxing - Act Fore... The End?To keep the ladies grindin like a slow jam - Act Fore... The End?Y'all know the name, I got game like an Evangelist - Act Fore... The End?I chop joke MC's like choke sandwiches - Act Fore... The End?My melody like Nat King, and MC's is so un-inter-esting - Act Fore... The End?I give it to you like pink champelle and ink bing - Act Fore... The End?PhrenologyI'm like Diddy tryin to sink a slug in Elliots chest - Rock YouListen, I got you phobic off of this like arachnids - SacrificeBut if I go to heaven, would y'all know my name, or would it be the same for you like I was Eric Clapton, huh? - SacrificeI'm precise with it like Faheim with haircuts - SacrificeTransforming the landscape like a sandstorm in the Sahara - Rolling With HeatYou may want to test this product like cane smugglers - Rolling With HeatDis disco shit popping like Crisco hitting your face - Rolling With HeatSpit in your face like pistol shit - Rolling With HeatMy style, wild like wipple whip - Rolling With HeatI go back like a pistol grip - Rolling With HeatI’m a threat like Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms - Rolling With HeatWilly gank, spit the killer dank dialogue pyro-maniac like Dr. Molotov - Rolling With HeatI'll fucking bounty hunt your body like I'm Boba Fett - Rolling With HeatYou barking like I'm a starting to scare you - Rolling With HeatBut speak up like a man n***a so your body guards can hear you - Rolling With HeatMe and Shock up in a black Regal no insurance, we like DEA serving warrants - Thought @ WorkBen Banniker Bay with the Al Morrocan, Black Thought on capitals like the sovereign - Thought @ WorkI'm like Aqua man and Brown Hornet - Thought @ WorkI'm like Imhotep but don't flaunt it - Thought @ WorkN***a talk like you work for the government - Thought @ WorkMy words birthed like Barnes & Noble - Thought @ WorkKisses like Hershey but lips is sealed - Break You OffWe breaking down like we Road dogs pullin' a heist - Break You OffYou making sounds like the vibe got you reaching your heights - Break You OffYou need a new position, somethin' to get you open like its Eucalyptus got you ready to go for your's - Break You OffAnd when I walk the street it's like a pharmacy, they got all type of shit anybody could get - Water (The First Movement)Dumbin, just embracing the dope like it's a woman - Water (The First Movement)Freaks dancin' in a line like Soul Train - Pussy GaloreAnd rhymin like its the end of humanity - Rhymes and AmmoMother fuckers jumpin ship like we came to rob at y'all - Rhymes and AmmoTurn around and tell girls we like family - Rhymes and AmmoThe Tipping PointHip-Hop, it's not pop like Kylie Minogue - Star/PointroKamikaze south splash like it shot from a gauge - Don’t Say Nuthin’Y'all fake n***as not setting a trend, we never listen to them
It's like trying to take a piss in the wind - Don’t Say Nuthin’See me put the system on lock like Camp Hill - Don’t Say Nuthin’Cut the check, and yo it better be as heavy as anvil - Don’t Say Nuthin’We fight like barbarians - Guns Are DrawnThat's why we can't shake it or escape the problem
Its like a game of roulette the barrel revolving - Guns Are DrawnFrom the block where the crooked cops killin' like a villain - Stay CoolI'm like young LL - Webcuz I'm hard as hell - WebMakin' n***as screw face like Gargamel - WebNow I'm all out on my own like Patti LaBelle - WebI'm a big bounty hunter like Boba Fett - WebAnd it ring like shots in the projects New Year's Eve - WebI'm calm collect, sharp like my name Gillette - WebWhile I'm eatin' MCs like a carnivore - WebI'm quick on the draw like Black McGraw - WebSchool 'em on stage like I'm doin' a seminar - WebTalk sharp like a razor blade under the tongue - WebMy twist like a ratchet in an auto shop - Boom!Is course and kind of hoarse and cut, like I'm throwing a thousand knives - Boom!I play 'em out like a game of Monopoly - Boom!Let it speed around the board like an Astro - Boom!Homonyms, synonyms good like M&Ms - Boom!My brain like a factory constantly creating - "Boom!"Poetry full of surprises it's like a game show - "Boom!"Smug, I got game just like a record executive - "Somebody’s Gotta Do It"I flip like my name Turner, that's for certain n***a, Ted Turner, Nat Turner, n***a Ike Turner - "Somebody’s Gotta Do It"I'm somethin' like a threat to y'all space cadets - "Duck Down!"Have your lady lip-synchin' like on Soul Train - "Duck Down!"That old timer holdin' his revolver set to blow, just like a gladiator at whoever stick his head in the door - "Duck Down!"They smile and insult you like you shinin' their loafers - "Why (What’s Goin On?)"Got the writing on the wall so clear that I can taste it, like a kid sniffing glue somewhere trying to escape - "Why (What’s Goin On?)"I won't backslide cause I'd be a failure to mics, rip tight like it's my genitalia - "In Love With The Mic"Game TheoryNow I'm the first out the limo like Charlie Mack - "Game Theory"Night ridin on 'em like my last name Hasselhoff - "Game Theory"My Man rip drums like He ringin the bells - "Game Theory"But it's still coming across like the bridge and tunnel vision - "Don’t Feel Right"Where the dope slangin' keep swangin' like Sonny Liston - "Don’t Feel Right"Freeze your face like botulinum toxin - "Don’t Feel Right"And walk around with heat like Charlton Heston, man - "In the Music"Of course, bro, like crossbow, I bring the force, though - "In the Music"Leaving a trail like trolley tracks - "Baby"Money long like the arms on Alonzo Mourning - "Here I Come"It's elementary like KRS and evidently - "Here I Come"Hit you like vodka, then screech off in a Mazda - "Here I Come"Smooth as Bunny Sigler's soundtrack - "Long Time"With the pen like Willie on top of the hall - "Long Time"Shit the ghetto might as well be the Gaza Strip - "Long Time"Whether sinning or not, my back bending like I'm sendin' salaat - "Clock with No Hands"Yo, I'm like Malcom out the window with the weapon out - "Clock with No Hands"My brother back in rehab, just had another relapse
Within himself, it's been like he's been fighting an inner Jihad - "Clock with No Hands"My man's back in the jam, he like the back of my hand - "Clock with No Hands"With tension runnin deep as the ocean - "Atonement"And then got ghost, like my picture was on a most wanted - "Atonement"Rising DownMy band about seventy strong just like Fela - "Get Busy"Ayo, sicko show like Mike Moore - "Get Busy"slippin' into darkness like war - "Get Busy"Get benched by the coach, like eggs you're poached - "@15"Your boy is heavy treed, I'm feeling merry as a Tyler Perry scene - "75 Bars (Black’s Reconstruction)"Cold smooth like that dude Sean Connery was playing - "75 Bars (Black’s Reconstruction)"When I spit, it's something like a psychology exam - "75 Bars (Black’s Reconstruction)"If you stand where I stood, you could probably understand
How that mic feelin' like a million dollars in my hand - "75 Bars (Black’s Reconstruction)"Y'all n***as is off the wall like Arsenio Hall - "75 Bars (Black’s Reconstruction)"Somebody starvin' like a white girl - "75 Bars (Black’s Reconstruction)"My city like a island where you can't find a boat - "Criminal"I'm like a senior citizen, still living but getting benefits - "Criminal"You can bitch, you can dead it, you can take it there like FedEx - "I Will Not Apologize"I embrace it like I date it but my grandma think I chase it - "I Will Not Apologize"But even she know I'm coming back like an echo - "I Will Not Apologize"Kid holding a weapon, walk like a corpse - "Singing Man"In a war taking heads from men like Charles Taylor - "Singing Man"Yo, it was a cold night, not cold like the winter
Just cold like a energy was in the air - "Unwritten"Who puff garsh Vegas so they gone with the wind like Clark Gable - "Unwritten"Breathin' like Darth Vader, believin' in dark angel - "Lost Desire"Ghetto grills like rims, you stop, they still spin - "Lost Desire"It's chambers revolvin', bustin' like Russian roulette - "Lost Desire"I hit em like Ethiopia hit up Italy - "The Show (Must Go On)"The leather gets tougher, we drive like a trucker - "The Show (Must Go On)"And break it down like it's the walls of Jericho - "The Show (Must Go On)"Swift as the bullet that killed King and Kennedy - "The Show (Must Go On)"We getting paper like John Travolta get it - "Rising Up"We 'bout to dominate the globe like Oprah did it - "Rising Up"How I Got OverWalking like the lost boys of Sierra Leone - "Walk Alone"The trail of tears what they got me like a Cherokee on - "Walk Alone"For working to the bone like my name Robert Guillaume - "Walk Alone"Even though they kind of blew me off like a booty call - "Walk Alone"Forced to face the music like a graduate of Juilliard - "Walk Alone"And why do haters separate us like we siamese? - "Dear God 2.0"I'm going through things; headaches, abdominal pain
Tryna numb it with that Ketel like I'm from the Ukraine - "Radio Daze"Hit me up at black.gov like the government - "Radio Daze"I fuck around, do the right thing like Spike now - "Now or Never"We living in a war zone like Rwanda - "How I Got Over"Living life in these hard streets, where it's like they lost they mind - "How I Got Over"Before I rise and shine like a neon sign - "The Day"And burn the marijuan' like Buju Banton - "The Day"I need a change of scenery like a montage - "The Day"These kids bringing me the noise like the Bomb Squad - "The Day"For getting open off life like a fine wine - "The Day"Checking my breath, take a view from this high rise
Feeling like I'm checking out a game from the sideline - "The Day"A lot of people counting on me kinda like a digit - "Right On"Y'all know I'ma raise the bar though like Brigitte - "Right On"I get into your head and spread like a pandemic - "Right On"I'm well grounded, founded on the same premise
As any man with a hitlist that's about business - "Right On"remix, rising up out of the flames like a phoenix - "Doin’ It Again"Straining to carry the weight of my brain like a genius - "Doin’ It Again"I blast off, then lay 'em out like a Tempurpedic - "Doin’ It Again"Tried to tax and fine me like Ronald Isley - "Doin’ It Again"Doin' it again just like Poitier and Cosby - "Doin’ It Again"Even though they tried to rob me and sabotage the spot
Just like 'Pac when they got him in the lobby - "Doin’ It Again"I'm like Martin Luther King, you like Rodney - "Doin’ It Again"I'm like Martin Luther King, you like Rodney - "Doin’ It Again"Even though I'm late night now like, "Here's Johnny" - "Doin’ It Again"Rock roller, bipolar like Phyllis Hyman - "Doin’ It Again"And start feeling mixed signals like Morse code - "The Fire"Burn like a chariot, learn how to carry it - "The Fire"Feeling torn like they fed me to the lions - "The Fire"Before my time start to wind down like the Mayans - "The Fire"I show 'em how I got the grind down like a science - "The Fire"It sounds like a riot on hush, it's so quiet - "The Fire"Then move like a wise warrior and not a coward - "The Fire"Jam Boy sharp as a tack, we all cactus - "Web 20/20"Get turned to toast like raising your glasses - "Web 20/20"Often nasty like Monster Mashing - "Web 20/20"Kings that pull strings like Dorothy Ashby - "Web 20/20"Jawns keep telling me I'm great like Gatsby - "Web 20/20"Caught like a felony, you can't slide past me - "Web 20/20"Straight calling n***as out like the umpire - "Web 20/20"Sugar be where he wanna, no sweat like a sauna - "Hustla"G, I'm all about the green like tree pines - "Hustla"See I'm tryna get the scratch like a feline - "Hustla"Daughter of a hip-hopper, hustla like her grandpoppa - "Hustla"Wake Up!The city's like the Audubon Ballroom waiting on Malcolm - "Hard Times"'Cause people wanna see my blood flow like fountains
- "Hard Times"Then moms started chasin that base, like Willie Mays - "Little Ghetto Boy"UndunIllegal activity controls my black symphony
Orchestrated like it happened incidentally - "Sleep"And my splaying got me praying like a mantis - "Make My"That soul is in the atmosphere like airplay - "Make My"Yo, I’m never sleeping like I’m on methamphtamines - "Kool On"Move like my enemy ten steps ahead of me - "Kool On"Say my reputation precede me like a pedigree - "Kool On"In hindsight, gold come in bars like a Klondike - "Kool On"The minute before the storm hit is what I’m calm like - "Kool On"Suited and booted for a shooting like it’s prom night - "Kool On"I’ve got 'em waiting on the news like I’m Cronkite - "Kool On"It’s suicide, right? Pursuers tried like
To no avail and a hero's what they died like - "Kool On"Running 'round town spending time like it’s counterfeit - "The OtherSide"Everybody catching hay fever like sinuses - "The OtherSide"Humble head down, low and broke like promises - "The OtherSide"Soaking and broken in a joke like comics is - "The OtherSide"Yeah, let 'em know I’m getting cheese like omeletes is - "The OtherSide"But I’m the toast of the town like Thomas is - "The OtherSide"It’s a wrap like a mummy, undun, I am becoming - "The OtherSide"Just his weak mind scrolled out like a bad sign - "The OtherSide"It reads like a final letter, I’m leaving for my fam - "Stomp"Then roll tactics like a soldier out in the Sudan - "Stomp"And look at the graffiti on the rooftops
Like the same song playing on the jukebox - "I Remember"What’s keeping me from breaking out like Benadryl - "I Remember"That consumes its own dreams like I’m a cannibal - "Tip the Scale"Until then, I’ll be doing dirty jobs like swamp men - "Tip the Scale"Streams of Thought Vol. 1Yo, the big wheel keep turnin' like Ike's and Anna Mae's -"Twofifteen"Casualties, I seen 'em like the French Foreign Legion -"Twofifteen"We knew all the town hitmen in the likes of Sam Christian -"Twofifteen"Continuum, still swingin' like a pendulum-"Twofifteen"Here the women come, sing it like Sarah Vaughan-"Twofifteen"I'm just paintin' a picture like Kerry James Marshall -"Twofifteen"I'm just takin' a picture like Carrie Mae Weems -"Twofifteen"Any flow I got come at you like "dot coms"-"9th vs. Thought"This rapper toss gravitas like a cannonball-"9th vs. Thought"My broad lookin' like she Cinderella at the ball-"9th vs. Thought"Reborn every January like a Capricorn -"9th vs. Thought"Torch rappers like I'm igniting the aerosol -"Dostoyevsky"My pen smoking like a rude boy from Jamaica -"Making a Murderer"Who packing avocado toast like Mario Batali? -"Making a Murderer"That equipment I'm grippin kept where the ammunition at
Soul Makossa like I'm Manu Dibango -"Making a Murderer"Streams of Thought Vol. 2With the esteem of a savant, as smart as a genius - "Fentanyl"Trust me, I'm deadly as the Fentanyl that killed Prince and Tom Petty - "Fentanyl"He's in the zone and stoned like a sarcophagus - "Fentanyl"I got more than a reason to revel like Desus and Mero - "Soundtrack to Confusion"We bare arms like Idris or Venus de Milo - "Soundtrack to Confusion"Seated at the throne, summonin' the ghosts like a seance - "Soundtrack to Confusion"We under pressure like a diamond mine - "Soundtrack to Confusion"And we losin' light like M. Night Shyamalan - "Soundtrack to Confusion"I was born ringing alarms like Tenor Saw - "History Unfolds"I'm the father like Aristotle - "History Unfolds"I'm comin' for the riches you stole like King Leopold - "History Unfolds"Kings who pull strings like a Stradivarius - "The New Grit"I never see my reflection, I’m like a vampire - "The New Grit"His imperial highness is smart as smart appliances - "The New Grit"My ears burn like desert trails and Jezebels - "Long Liveth"My killer instinct is like Orchid - "Long Liveth"I got the game sewn like the tailor of Panama - "Long Liveth"I'm takin' everything that's left like a southpaw - "Streets"And watch the word spread like Tuberculosis - "Streets"I've been in the music scene long as Allen Leeds - "Streets"Streams of Thought Vol. 3Life is like a tree to falls in the woods -"Thought vs. Everybody"Yo, I feel the system failed us like kidneys -"Thought vs. Everybody"The truth is inconvenient as non-believers -"Thought vs. Everybody"You can either stay broke or be wealthy as Jeff Bezos -"Thought vs. Everybody"On my own path, in my own world like Disney's -"Thought vs. Everybody"Like sheep to the slaughter
Everybody's caught up tryin' to find
Something to be a part of -"Nature of the Beast"In every complexion like ice cream flavors -"Nature of the Beast"Whole shit steady, we close-knit and deadly
As a heart attack -"Good Morning""Black Thought Freestyles on Flex | Freestyle #087"I'm not crawlin', I'm a free man like Morgan - "Black Thought Freestyles on Flex | Freestyle #087"I tell a story like fingerprints and blood splatter - "Black Thought Freestyles on Flex | Freestyle #087"You in the trap with us, when the lines is as vivid
As the walls on the graph - "Black Thought Freestyles on Flex | Freestyle #087"I'm on a higher tier with people gettin' money like the financier - "Black Thought Freestyles on Flex | Freestyle #087"How much more CB4 can we afford?
It's like a Shariah Law on "My Cherie Amour" - "Black Thought Freestyles on Flex | Freestyle #087"I'm international, my passport page is like War and Peace - "Black Thought Freestyles on Flex | Freestyle #087"Criminal records like record sales - "Black Thought Freestyles on Flex | Freestyle #087"Makin' heads or tails, we like Henrietta Lacks up in the cells - "Black Thought Freestyles on Flex | Freestyle #087"I’ve been havin' visions of Nat Turner holdin' his master’s head
Like Yorick and Horatio in Hamlet - "Black Thought Freestyles on Flex | Freestyle #087"Smackin' it like a tennis racket, underhanded - "Black Thought Freestyles on Flex | Freestyle #087"I'm all ears like Obama, I wish he had another four years - "Black Thought Freestyles on Flex | Freestyle #087"I spoil rappers rotten like my only offspring - "Black Thought Freestyles on Flex | Freestyle #087"Every time we rock, yo they actin' like it's Mardi Gras - "Black Thought Freestyles on Flex | Freestyle #087"'Til the party stop, skirt off like she that Ferrari drop - "Black Thought Freestyles on Flex | Freestyle #087"Infinite just like Chace is - "Black Thought Freestyles on Flex | Freestyle #087"The beast from the East and I glide like Clyde Drexler - "Black Thought Freestyles on Flex | Freestyle #087""Harvard’s Innovation Lab Speaker"It’s feeling hot as the Fourth of July - "Harvard’s Innovation Lab Speaker"But I don’t give a fuck, so I’m gonna shrug like Atlas - "Harvard’s Innovation Lab Speaker"Black as oblivion - "Harvard’s Innovation Lab Speaker"Black as obsidian - "Harvard’s Innovation Lab Speaker"Black as the sky at midnight ante meridian - "Harvard’s Innovation Lab Speaker"I am black as a portrait with Diddy, 2Pac, and Biggie in - "Harvard’s Innovation Lab Speaker"Then mom started chasing that base like Willie Mays - "Harvard’s Innovation Lab Speaker"Black as the influence on the culture we living in - "Harvard’s Innovation Lab Speaker"Would y’all be disappointed like y’all just got catfished?
It’s cold blooded - "Harvard’s Innovation Lab Speaker"I should be mining my own, like it’s a gold nugget - "Harvard’s Innovation Lab Speaker"In a police state, like your man Michael Winslow - "Harvard’s Innovation Lab Speaker""Live Intro Performance | 2020 Roots Picnic Virtual Experience"And just shine like a treasure taken outta the trash - "Live Intro Performance | 2020 Roots Picnic Virtual Experience"The fine arts is elegant, dark as heaven-sent - "Live Intro Performance | 2020 Roots Picnic Virtual Experience"But dig it, it gets deep like a bass guitar - "Live Intro Performance | 2020 Roots Picnic Virtual Experience"The way I surf to the stage on the crest of the wave
Like a black Pharoah that suckled on a breast of a slave - "Live Intro Performance | 2020 Roots Picnic Virtual Experience"If you place me on a page don't mess up the name
It goes: T-A-R one 'I' like a monocle - "Live Intro Performance | 2020 Roots Picnic Virtual Experience"An audio slave like Morelos - "Live Intro Performance | 2020 Roots Picnic Virtual Experience"Diaspora's Afro peak like Hank Willis - "Live Intro Performance | 2020 Roots Picnic Virtual Experience"Waiting for the big payback like it's a rebait - "Live Intro Performance | 2020 Roots Picnic Virtual Experience"Trying to keep intact like the prince of Wales - "Live Intro Performance | 2020 Roots Picnic Virtual Experience"My chops is like Canada Lee
So yours truly for the Oscar - "Live Intro Performance | 2020 Roots Picnic Virtual Experience"I started smoking weed like a Rasta when we lost Casandra - "Live Intro Performance | 2020 Roots Picnic Virtual Experience"FeaturesA marketing plan like having a Coke and a smile
- "Couldn’t Tell" - Statik SelektahShe placed brick by brick like the China Wall
- "Couldn’t Tell" - Statik SelektahThey said they never seen another head slump so hard
Or seen the people breaking out like the mumps so hard
- "Couldn’t Tell" - Statik SelektahGotta climb out of my skin, just like a reptile
- "Cause I’m Black" - Styles PI got a mind like Malcolm X, how 'bout yours?
- "Cause I’m Black" - Styles PTake, one step forward and do the moonwalk
Back, give me the Peace Prize like Al Gore's
- "Cause I’m Black" - Styles PLivin like Assata, I'm an exile
- "Cause I’m Black" - Styles PMakin' plaques outta they head like dead venison
- "Yah Yah" - EminemI break free like Chesimard
- "Yah Yah" - EminemAnd they cheated, they lie like Amerigo Vespucci
- "Yah Yah" - EminemLive from the Terrordome, loud like a megaphone
- "Yah Yah" - EminemMy sound wave lifting your chin up, like uppercuts
- "Super Lyrical" - Big PunThe Roots bless you with a strong record, long like a epic - "Super Lyrical" - Big PunMy talk stomp like elephants upon every elf
- "Super Lyrical" - Big PunThe coastline cradle your ivory castle on the edge
Like a tassle on a fez, listen
- "Method Man & Black Thought Sway In The Morning Freestyle" - Sway in the MorningWith aerosol, we spray to tattoo the face of the building
Night after night, transcend color like a chameleon
- "Method Man & Black Thought Sway In The Morning Freestyle" - Sway in the MorningI am all day composing classics like Vivaldi
- "Method Man & Black Thought Sway In The Morning Freestyle" - Sway in the MorningI'ma leave these n***as leaking like I'm Julian Assange
- "Method Man & Black Thought Sway In The Morning Freestyle" - Sway in the MorningI'm coming from the southside like the Mexican cartel
- "Method Man & Black Thought Sway In The Morning Freestyle" - Sway in the MorningGot bad grammar, but y'all don't quote me, I keep it bama
Like Thor, and I get lowkey, so keep a hammer
- "Method Man & Black Thought Sway In The Morning Freestyle" - Sway in the MorningThe likeliness of you surviving this brawl is slim
It's like scuba diving with no oxygen
- "Hard Hitters" - Dilated PeoplesJokers is coming in sideways like a sidefill
- "RAGE IS BACK [Freestyle]" - J.PeriodThe grapes of wrath intertwined like a vine still
- "RAGE IS BACK [Freestyle]" - J.PeriodProbably burn like flaming coals on a hot grill
- "RAGE IS BACK [Freestyle]" - J.PeriodBeyond that, my heartbeat is like a drum still
- "RAGE IS BACK [Freestyle]" - J.PeriodIt's like I'm living on the run with the gun still
- "RAGE IS BACK [Freestyle]" - J.PeriodIt's all stuck inside your head like it's ear wax
- "RAGE IS BACK [Freestyle]" - J.PeriodYou hit his whole network, like Mark Zuckerberg
- "RAGE IS BACK [Freestyle]" - J.PeriodI'm emphasized like I'm underlined
- "RAGE IS BACK [Freestyle]" - J.PeriodHave 'em in the middle of the drama like an interlude
- "RAGE IS BACK [Freestyle]" - J.PeriodYou best keep a weapon like a shirt tail, tucked in
- "RAGE IS BACK [Freestyle]" - J.PeriodBecause I'm taking n***as out like Huck Finn
- "RAGE IS BACK [Freestyle]" - J.PeriodWith high hopes like rubber tree, plants and ants
- "Extradite" - Freddie GibbsSwallow forced beliefs like police justice
- "Extradite" - Freddie GibbsYo, my memoirs are like the Anarchist's Cookbook
- "Extradite" - Freddie GibbsI'm all over like a shooter with awful aim
- "Thought Process" - Tony TouchSo gimme dap like the group home of Sharon Jones
- "Thought Process" - Tony TouchBody slam the beat like I'm the killer Chris Jericho
- "Thought Process" - Tony TouchYo, a grain of sand in the king's hand
Could grow into the castle if it spread like a wingspan
- "Hustle Don’t Give" - Apollo Brown & Ché NoirA life begins with sin, transcends, but like a lens
We numb the pain with violins or Vicodins
- "Hustle Don’t Give" - Apollo Brown & Ché NoirFaded like pro cats and pigeons on the power line
- "Hustle Don’t Give" - Apollo Brown & Ché NoirI'm at the orchestra, focused like Randolph and Mortimer
- "Roman Candles" - The AlchemistTalk in broken language like a foreigner
- "Roman Candles" - The AlchemistI'm like ghetto Gastro up in the kitchen
- "Roman Candles" - The AlchemistI broke the internet like an intermission
- "Roman Candles" - The AlchemistRaisin' the bar is like raisin' the partition
- "Roman Candles" - The AlchemistAnother rapper gon' get rocked like Amadeus
- "The Imperial" - Statik SelektahDefeat'll make a n***a get ghost like a seance
- "The Imperial" - Statik SelektahI plan to keep a band like Fela
- "The Imperial" - Statik SelektahUntil when my career's over like A.I
- "The Imperial" - Statik SelektahListen, my callin' card ball hard like armadillos
- "The Imperial" - Statik SelektahRappers too thin to win, like cigarillos
- "The Imperial" - Statik SelektahShakin' their hair back and forth like Willow
- "The Imperial" - Statik SelektahI had a issue with a hater, now it's kinda squashed
Like a slug below the soles of the St. Laurents
- "The Imperial" - Statik SelektahMy response, a steppin' razor like I'm Father Tosh
- "The Imperial" - Statik SelektahExotic fabrics on my blazer like the Maharaja
- "The Imperial" - Statik SelektahBut I roll with heat like I'm Dwayne Wade, Lebron and Bosh
- "The Imperial" - Statik SelektahI keep the paper stacked in layers like baklavas
- "The Imperial" - Statik SelektahEven though they give us ours free, like the Amistad
- "The Imperial" - Statik SelektahGo right the fuck up in your mouth like I'm the orthodontist
- "The Imperial" - Statik SelektahI got weapons manufactured in the Soviet
Now I'm like Future on that "I just won a trophy" shit
- "The Imperial" - Statik SelektahAt the outlier, and start it up like a hotwire, n***a
- "The Imperial" - Statik SelektahBlack is as miraculous as Jesus of Nazareth
- "Rapid Eye Movement" - Pharoahe MonchI bear arms like button-downs without the sleeves
- "Rapid Eye Movement" - Pharoahe MonchManic depressive and possessive like apostrophes
- "Rapid Eye Movement" - Pharoahe MonchWhen I vocalize the crowd rise like Lazarus
- "Rapid Eye Movement" - Pharoahe MonchHollerin' cheeba cheeba like I'm Parkside
- "Rapid Eye Movement" - Pharoahe MonchI'm dope like crack, what I wrote broke ya back
- "Da Jawn" - BahamadiaLivin like Assata, I'm an exile
- "Cause I’m Black" - Styles PGotta climb out of my skin, just like a reptile
- "Cause I’m Black" - Styles PI got a mind like Malcolm X, how 'bout yours?
- "Cause I’m Black" - Styles PI'm like cyanide, creeping through the air ducts
- "Wishin’ II" - PRhymeI was up in Paris like an American werewolf
- "Wishin’ II" - PRhymeI'm an American hero verse evil like deerhoof
- "Wishin’ II" - PRhymeI bear arms like button-downs without the sleeves
- "Rapid Eye Movement" - Pharoahe MonchManic depressive and possessive like apostrophes
- "Rapid Eye Movement" - Pharoahe MonchWhen I vocalize the crowd rise like Lazarus
- "Rapid Eye Movement" - Pharoahe MonchHollerin' cheeba cheeba like I'm Parkside
- "Rapid Eye Movement" - Pharoahe MonchBlack is as miraculous as Jesus of Nazareth
- "Rapid Eye Movement" - Pharoahe MonchI'm astonishing, honestly my future looking promising
As my skin tone and a crystal clean onyx is
- "Bird’s Eye View" - Statik SelektahI'm a stroke of genius like Mickalene Thomas is
- "Bird’s Eye View" - Statik SelektahDarker thoughts let the beats break like a Amish's
- "Bird’s Eye View" - Statik SelektahI'm a stroke of genius like Mickalene Thomas is
- "Bird’s Eye View" - Statik SelektahHaters still smirking like the gators on an Izod
- "Bird’s Eye View" - Statik SelektahYou got me chopped like Miley Cyrus
- "Bird’s Eye View" - Statik SelektahI'm all over like a shooter with awful aim
- "Thought Process" - Tony TouchSo gimme dap like the group home of Sharon Jones
- "Thought Process" - Tony TouchBody slam the beat like I'm the killer Chris Jericho
- "Thought Process" - Tony TouchSee me lickin' rhymes, rappin' like I'm firin' rounds
- "Zen Approach" - DJ KrushTo get you high as a kite is the reason you wanted
- "Zen Approach" - DJ KrushIt's like, a direct flight from freezin' to burnin' hot shit
- "Zen Approach" - DJ KrushHe'll blow ya mind like bustin' the steel
- "Zen Approach" - DJ KrushThis sound got the power to heal
It's like The Green Mile, now I need an hour to chill
- "Zen Approach" - DJ KrushKeeping patient, moving like a secret agent
- "Love Movin’" - J DillaI'm raw like the fury I instill in every booth
- "Love Movin’" - J DillaMic like a ball and chain, a lab calling my name
- "Love Movin’" - J DillaMy little sister bars blast like Kalashnikov - "The Black Renaissance" - Sa-RocJust because heavy bass, dance like Baryshnikov - "The Black Renaissance" - Sa-RocThe sound pierce like bullets and swords - "The Black Renaissance" - Sa-RocFrom a nation under attack like bullets and boards - "The Black Renaissance" - Sa-RocMean and never highly questionable like Bomani Jones - "Ishkabibble’s" - Westside GunnThis coke'll knock the face off the Sphinx like 'Leon - "Ishkabibble’s" - Westside GunnSon, we gotta move smarter like a Carter - "Ishkabibble’s" - Westside GunnAnd stand in purple rain like Prince and Apollonia - "Ishkabibble’s" - Westside GunnPlayin' like Chillean seabass in Patagonia - "Ishkabibble’s" - Westside GunnThe boss that learned to move cautious as Assata - "Mad Nice" - DANGERDOOMCreate the bars, full of information like SIM cards - "Momentum" - RussWhere everybody play they own part like a tooth gap - "Crowns For Kings" - Benny The ButcherYo, when we was hooked in the hood, gettin' booked like literature - "Crowns For Kings" - Benny The ButcherKept us shook, like when the boogieman comin' to get ya - "Crowns For Kings" - Benny The ButcherNow I'm feeling stoned as a gallbladder
"Ng’yekeleni" - Cassper NyovestYo, I hit these emcees with the grip of death like I was a Vulcan
"Guerrilla Monsoon Rap" - Talib KweliEmcee species endangered like dolphins
"Guerrilla Monsoon Rap" - Talib KweliYou get popped like a wheely for saying some old silly shit "Rolling 110 Deep" - DJ Kay Slayscroll to the top