Who's All In?

One day all these ill and dread letters
Of regal spray will yield equal pay like Lilly Ledbetter
Until then I'll reveal the evilest ways to play without cheddar!

I heard the wailing behind closed doors in "Safe places".
Caught the message when it was still dripping wet on the walls.
Took the mission from the streets, to the tides, to my soul.

From my feet and survival. To anywhere I ride. I fly my toll.
So whether you cringe, sigh, or peak upon my arrival?
I'll singe your eyes when I speak--spry and cold

Enough to burn new pits from the Hell we're in.
Go confirm that's at least 2 digits below zero Kelvins!
Edutainment from every exaggeration gels jests

From scientific tests whenever I'm dealt in!
I'll prolly never meet this one goal, that's fair by me:
To smoke enough bowls to match the Traveling Wilburies!

But to that I will forever strive and share with any!
So there's the peace, and here's what the Beast has got...

Ooooookay, so first pop?
Don't snap off while you smack talk.
I'm not a first time cat on that track, Hoss!

Sooooo...            ...If your curiosity costs
A "What if..." bop? Just know you'll drop.
Won't be no traps, no locks, no slap box.

I'll grab the source of your chatter,
Gack your knot with a headbutt,
Crack heads with laughter.

Re-set, fuck shut your RAM and after,
I'll play Scrabble with your teeth.
That's how we battle in the streets.

At the right height to get in tight.
Any pinch? Mostly in the clinch in any fight.
So who's all in to lose their sight?

Slamming around, stand my ground
Handle every pound, entangled until I unwound
In brambles I drown. Until my best form
Eats with beats, digests the thorns

And jests them out reborn!
Every bet adorned and wrangled
Songs and sprays manage to don and stray
Every turn of phrase that lands thus

Proves that prose play is lingerie over language!
While other empaths bandage?
I got zen wrath to slam this!
Extend past semantic twists

Tantric bliss, sandwiched!
Tomes from my bones, my dome is a Faraday Cage
Electricity crackles off the page when I blare away my rage
My beast smelled your sin

Feasting fingers felt within gaps and cracks
All your filler. Spill some of that spackle
Drill for ills and infer all that's still magical
My quill is sure for every debacle!

Instills courage to be actual. Like Bill Burr's hackles.
Street psych disturbs and rattles.
Kill tabernacle vernacular
While distilling tactical verse

Tackled unrehearsed, set to bite and drain
Every night I reign. Like Dracula's curse!
Don't approach without realism, rational decision
And overstanding that life's best when free.

If you can't stand testing me?
Don't broach Imperialism, Nationalism and Manifest Destiny!
Let's take this shit back to the Medici's!
Playing every location they've ever been to

Sponsoring invasion, occupation since 1492!
Still feudal, the owners of this country are still dutiful.
Still use each soul, right down to the ones they stole!
What they couldn't eliminate they could re-spin to incarcerate.

War is blood from the poor. Every war is a banker's war.
Remember what you thank the owners for.
Putting the aggressive, impoverished in a controlled place.
Putting the aggressive affluent in a safe, holding the reigns space.

Or do the chips just fall that way, wherever they may be?
Is anyone still following me?
I buy that anomaly like I buy the 6 bounce bullet that pulled up to Governor Connally!
Sometimes otherworldly shit just dawns on me.

Aftermath:

I love to rip from the top for every gutter
Hip Hop is daily rediscovered
I'm rebirthed in every verse I utter

Unrehearsed so it takes me by the bones
Fiendish curse, each tome shakes til I shudder
Reminding me it needs all of us.

More than rhyming and bleeding for injustice?
It's Divine, Singularity of Consciousness, not Just Us.
I used to think only 5%'ers and conspiracy nuts ever gave a fuck about what's up

Until I caught a whiff from a riff...
If all life is a single consciousness experiencing itself subjectively?
Then every line any of us spit is expressively

Resetting the best of what could be.
Mass Unconscious re-wiring what went wrong for sure
It's a big hurdle to palm.

It's why we say "Word is bond", you heard?
Responsibility to every him and her
Commitment of ability to a bigger world

It's far more than Hip Hop songs I learned.

It makes me feel kind of like Starlord finding out his pop was the Beyonder!
That kind of shit is too big to ponder.
Take it in stride and open your arms to take it all on.
But wherever after you wander
It's in your palms, like Starlord's tape of songs.
Too vast and deep

Can't ever go back to sleep
Awake to all I saw. Aching so raw
Staking all from my jaws
Breaking false laws, close cause
Prose claws, no pause
In awe, NAS

Glories of lost Gods. Stories by Boz
Skinny odds, shimmy locks
Vinnie Paz. This world needs mods
Sure of all I forgot. Injustice done
Adjust the sum, Chaos run
KRS-ONE. Clean spray

Mean plays, Jean Grae's TK
Shook every atom of me
Not Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters
I'm talking Brooklyn Academy!

Find a false shriner to call
Get fast and drop a dime or drop a fireball!
Finest scene from The Cat Who Walks Through Walls.
Give Heinlein cred for spotting a false fez

Revolutionary but Gangster like Dead Prez.

For all those who used to sit in the near and clear
Spirited when we were together here, now murky and far away?
I can still picture and sit with y'all, all those rituals back in the day.
All we compelled quick. Wrote into spells

On vellum and handmade paper as well
Folded and used to light incense and candlesticks.
Words blasted into ashes, all over the map
Driving fast, hoping gods would catch it

These days I'll burn 20 capers to practice magic
Turn many into wagers and hatch tricks
It ain't nothing tragic
I had some fine builds and tracked it

Had to find the right stacks to fit,
Like the origins of Divine Mathematics!
But not all I wrote has to stay
I can toke and let it fade. Watch it stray.

Dole out each layer, graphic
Writ on rolling paper, sacrificed to a match stick.
Blaze it away, just to say
"Shit's temporary. Get past it!"