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Wrath
04:27
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Verse 1
Pre-Historic I've been around and noticed
The Big Bang the blast I quite composed it
I've been described through wrath by many poets
The Stoics they wrote it annihilation or Noah
Watched the Sumerian Babylonian omens
Sodom and Gomorrah the Trojans and greatest Romans
Watched as they took over the globe with a bogus
And I watched them shook to the fall in a moment
Same thing that happened to the pharaohs in the valley
Dynasties of Kush Timbuktu in ashes
Pharaoh to a king to a slave getting lashes
Be the drop to the bondage the cotton fields and massa
Moral of the epic there's an ending for the wise
Hearts to the feathers Anubis to grade their lives
Now, Before Christ and Anno Domini
The balance in the universe I am the time
Verse 2
Allah Jehovah controller for grand design
Holy of holies the glory is I and I
The Amun Ra and overlord of the sky
The power of the trinity Haile Selassie I
Looks to the sky dialogue with the divine
The creator of the clouds the oceans and all its tides
Spiral and the milky way the space and the time
The infinity of energy I've been advancing by
Intriguing is beginning religious and mythic lines
All trying to figure out all looking for the signs
Mind the body and spirit immortalized
Genealogy of Buddha and Judah the 12 tribes
Wrath belongs to I and never to you mortals
Quran and the Surat's I gave Muhammad the codex
Talmud and the Bible I showed them the Magnum Opus
And I drowned Moses enemies show them where journey closes
Verse 3
Positive and negative energy I created
Divinity Infernos the loving and even hatred
Infinity the destiny seven tiers the fate is
A duality in yin and the yang that's been for ages
Twenty six thousand golden phases to darkest
Vicious cycles of jaded men have peaked the harshest
Peaks of enlightenment deep in architecture
Spirituality deep alchemy was invented
Transmutation of base metals to gold vessels
But the wrath brought them down we can call it savage temper
Quest for redemption they started seeking forever
Now I had to dumb them down because they weren't getting better
Bronze age to silver age they kept declining
Deeply rooted the main conclusion was wrath behind it
They kept looking they kept digging they couldn't find it
Now the search for enlightenment had gave them a new assignment
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Pride
04:03
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Verse 1
The first shall be last and the meek will be first
What goes around comes back 7 deep and worse
Handing out the memo politricking alert
All the lies will be backfired the deeds will reverse
We have been to the bottom, turned into stone
We have walked through the fire the higher purpose is known
Deprived and we're misguided right in our surrounding
We was dreaming of a brighter day, day to day grinding
Confused admiration these cats keep faking
Leopard print niggas be faking the funk daily
Jacking all the taxes and having us stay patient
In the name of democracy, they always get away with
We are the lambs who follow the coldest shepherds
Preying on the minds of the ignorant that's their weapon
Heartless, selfish, proud and egocentric
I'm counting on demise of their pride, the epic ending
Verse 2
My problem is they got a problem the problem is getting heated now
All eyes be my witness when I preach it loud
Now that we're marginalised the more the king is proud
Dark skies and loud cries we got a misty cloud
Anthem for end of the world annihilation
We're trying to fashion the future their trying to break it
Boxed and we're chained the pain kit is the maze which
Trapped us locked up boxed up in these cages
Locked in the prison of consciousness for ages
The pain from the chains is making us impatient
Now with the panic they take advantage in doing such
Ballot or the bullet the movement to try to bully us
Their mission is to let their laughter come to be
As we pose in submission like the puppets on a string
Lions in a circus entertaining all their needs
Letting Odds stack against us to even up their greed
Verse 3
Katanga minerals, the rubber and all the ivory
The irony they came in religious and jacking silently
Jacking all the diamonds they strip us naked delightfully
Mining that uranium coltan in bribery
Thugs move in silence tyrants on a mission
And the heist was religious to try to get us submissive
Hooked to the doctrine the 7 tiers to live in
That paradise afterlife painting a flawless image
Big picture something that we never noticed
But the white Jesus in that scripture is what we focused
Jamming to the rhythm that Leopold composes
A classical symphony blind us to what the hoax is
Beit was the bible, Rifles and the whiskey
A perfect combo to get us trapped and dying quickly
Knowing that our leaders are proud and highly greedy
It was chess played perfect in just a matter of minutes
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Lust
03:28
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Verse 1
Fathomless desire fighting decisions
The plot thickens fate fell in hands of the women
The darkness slithers and its Lilith on the darkest of missions
Strange fruition don't fall too far from the wicked
Prediction is the obvious hell or high water
Death and mass slaughter, sons and thy daughters
Disease and the famine enchanted its many vultures
Judgement, balance, blessings and mad torture
You will turn vulgar never change you will suffer
You will have pain giving birth to be mother
Giving birth to Cain and Abel to be the brother
But the hate will run deep they will one another
You will have disease, jealousy and mad hunger
That's the fruit for your lust you will never have abundance
Seeds dread each other kill each other because of colour
Your life and its purpose will be the hardest conundrum
Verse 2
Streams and rivers misleading is Euphrates
Tigris, utopia, origins in the making
Was Ethiopia story be breath taking
Your patience to dig and then finally you will face it
Dust from the earth from dirt they were created
Man and the Woman the Genesis first statement
Eve came along later on as replacement
In Genesis two is how Adam rib was taken
Garden of Eden a lot of food for the vegan
A lot of fruit and a lot of root up in the deepest
But they wanted more deeper knowledge want to eat this
I want to know what poppa knows I'm a feast this
Unleashed was deceive them tap the deepest secret
Eve breaking bread with Lilith the Androgynous
Half of the Adam the first madam to eat it
And that's when the Eve made a stance for the weakness
Verse 3
Falling for Lust blood calls in the dust
Ashes you lost your luck punishment was to be just
Wise strive for pious the fire is not a fuss
I'm a God of my word so the burning is a must
Laughter and chatter or soak in disaster
The judgement and balance the path to get to afters
Reach for the answers sparked by piggy's glasses
Above so below so watch when picking masters
I eaves drop every time I think about it
Tears in my eye every time I look around it
Pits and the furnace eternity you'll be burning
You're a victim of choice, free will and higher learning
Tainted by sins of the mothers and now you suffer
Pain and the sorrow your shoulders will now harbour
Harder is infinity, afterlife, forever
So, the covenant with me is now completely severed
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Gluttony
03:28
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Verse 1
The haves and have nots tipping scale of money
Deprived of the luxury bottom line we're hungry
Imagine with the famine were starving its empty tummies
In a country that's a third world look how the income is
Misplaced was the anger, I got a new purpose
Found a new culprit, the glutton man on pulpits
Politicians, the Bank nigga it's a huge circus
And we're tired of the comedy truth hurts their nervous
Sick and were tired of being sick were tired
Toe to toe with these foes fighting fire with fire
Warm heart of Africa heroes never admired
But we still push the buttons to the day of the triumph
Ending is the same a battle we never win
All is fair in love and war the chances remain slim
Nails to the coffin another fall like autumn
Another clown another fraud running for office
Verse 2
The voice of the poet malnourished and weary eyed
Struggle to inherit the earth, I've been deprived
Immune to the pain the struggle to be alive
Because my hope is not strategy, but faith in the maker
Keeping sabbath holy the hope is to curse the traitors
Glory is in hope for the karma to those who break us
Action meets reaction in balance and zero favours
Because we're trapped and addicted, fact is we are victims
Locked in a path distracting us from victors
Moving out of sight, out of mind and out of wisdom
I don't hate the fact of having their self-agendas
As long as it doesn't leave the rest in dilemma
Blinded to the fact that we chose our own democracy
And hoping that the system will be based on pure honesty
Game is quite dirty, fraudulent, hypocrisy
It's never going to change no stop to this poverty
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Greed
04:29
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Vere 1
The narrative begins twins in Rebekah's womb
It's the tale of two brothers' story of niggas and Jews
Battle in the womb marks as the first in clue
Starts in an epic mood dominance was on the move
The first was a strong cat hard working hunter
The other was the lazy cat chilling with his mother
Mastering the patterns and planning to hurt his brother
Accurate was Jacob timing the birth right and the hunger
Lost love lost blessings all in a second
And later in the story the older was never mentioned
Erased out of history lineage goes to Jacob
And his name later changed to the father of the nation
The story goes till it gets to time of David
Solomon's his child who is the wisest of ages
A queen out of Africa comes and she will mate with
The king and the wisest, everything was changing
Verse 2
Now we could run it back all the way to the beginning
How it all got started how it had to do with women
Greed overcame Cain mans got to win it
So, its man in abundance so the woman is the limit
Osiris and Set battle is to get the sister
Battle of the two brothers' story of villains and victors
Hunted and hunters' enemies were once niggas
But the greed overcame breeding workers and the thinkers
The Swastika's and pan African niggas
The Stone Hinges, the sphinx and pharaoh niggas
The greed runs deep it's the greatest tribal epic
It's the 400 years it's the snatch for the blessings
Blocks for the pyramids the weight on the shoulders
Crossing the ocean 40 years of atonement
The cycle is vicious ice age it was niggas
Now abandon the bastard's survival of the fittest
Verse 3
Its not coincidence the elite and the ignorant
The one percent masters ninety-nine get the little things
Scrambling for scraps in panic to get the Benjamin's
Crabs in a bucket the luck is a far fetching thing
Game is deeper than rap deeper than colour
Jacob and Esau, Cain and Abel, the brothers
The game is in numbers whose tribe going under
These greedy blood suckers keep you all in a slumber
Plug to the wackness chant the mass hypnosis
Time for redemption the moment of that atonement
Calling for you black to attack the opponent
Be heroic you'll be noticed unfold it be first to show it
Open up your minds decolonize from oppressors
Plan with your intellect violence is never better
Greed is a virus it multiplies its leverage
Eventually it takes over the minds of the blessed
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Sloth
03:39
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Verse 1
Every moment every convo we broke bread
Hang around pops was an upgrade know the ledge
Know the path, know the truth, focus to be wise
And he was a man of his word, I saw it in his eyes
And he always spoke the truth even when he lied
Even when he smiled, it was love going deep inside
All he wanted from me was a better man
An outstanding African rising out of neverland
Just to break these chains in atrocity
For me to be the guy that will rise and accomplish it
It didn't matter if the path was my artistry
As long as the grades from my class came promising
And he never really doubted on me
I know he's looking down happy and he's smiling on me
Smiling at his boy and he knows am smiling back
Pop guardian angel always got my back
Verse 2
I was arrogant and ignorant, but he never gave up
And he still stood by my side and never said much
He knew that I would grow to dad same stuff
Same comedy my young boy to be acting up
Show him like he taught me when I'm holding up to show him
How to be a man when the rough gets going
Tough gets going heads up eyes open
Ears wide open when the time really gets hopeless
To be the man of the moment
The leader of the family to always have focus
Always have a plan that is something I should grow with
And now that he's gone it's a wrap and I'm hopeless
But bygones are bygones
We still got a legacy that I should carry on
Carry on the mission, carry on tradition
Young black and gifted and hopefully forgiveness
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Envy
02:47
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Verse 1
Arm, Leg, Leg, Arm, Head the compassionate
The merciful giving wisdom before it happens yet
Giving birds eye overlook all your past mistakes
Enemies the Brutus and Judas and where the darkness sets
That's the west rests those that are envious
The popes in the Vatican Bankers and all the dangerous
Let's take a walk in the sands you're my lamb
I'll be the good shepherd show you how to overstand
You are my atoms I moulded you into children
To be the master's overlord of the buildings
I gave you bright light, tunnel vision, gave you wisdom
I gave you insight so you can jam to my rhythm
In harmony with universe the psalms of my kingdom
In harmony with stars my creation that twinkles
Distracted you from serpents the morning stars that crystal
They once got jealous they thought it was that simple
Verse 2
United States of Africa, neutralize and balance
Central Bank to stand and backed by the gold standard
Restructure education, politics and native language
Be Agrarian change be modern man ending famine
Abolish all the English constitutions and their charters
Timbuktu to be the centre for your scholars
Carry on tradition and proceed from what was started
Your martyrs were the Garvey's, Biko's and Sankara's
Unplug from the monsters, they divide and conquer
Open up your eyelids activate your chakras
Realise your purpose, visualize the earth is
Yours for the taking and you are not the worthless
You are not the serpent carnal minded human
Democracy is not free, greatest time illusion
Break free from religion, call it Freedomental
Mind liberation and that's the novice level
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