Powers That Be - Hieroglyphics

They say I'm like Bruce Willis, Unbreakable, Die Hard

Ture Sickness with this mic on the tripod

But I'm not Chow Yun Fat, dig I'm still a pillar of stone

Flows enter your skulls

Mash on your whole militia like I'm Hannibal

Imagine you the antelope and I'm the king of the jungle

Animal instinct, phenomenal stamina

Just think about a man on the brink of insanity and it's me

You not a rapper, you a movie star checkin' who we are

Be the coup , Molotov cocktail

Check and you'll get scarred and schooled regardless

I'm marvelous majestic, no retarded sh*t

All my power harnessin' my spoken word

Like a voltron sword and these palms

Pulse the arsenic, every medley deadly

Come and spark with us

When the instrumental begins, the timid, they wince

They know when it's gonna commence, we 'bout to crush 'em

Reach out and touch 'em before they scream out

We gonna pull these things out and bust 'em

Rub 'em out like dry erase

Thug it out like the united snakes

It's us against the world, f**k popular opinion

They scoff cause we was different

But we did it all for independence

Now we gon' off 'em with a vengeance

Hand on they heads, paint the landscape ruby red

With the nerve and will of a bunch of determined killers

Who always make their marks and never hesitate to spark

Strike first, take their hearts with the right verse, cause confusion

Never underestimate the power of illusion we usin'

Start a whole revolution of music, man we do this, sh*t it's all we know

The powers that be, it's in you, it's in me

An emcee, that's all we know

The powers that be, it's in you, it's in me

An emcee, that's all we know

The powers that be, it's in you, it's in me

An emcee, that's all we know

The powers that be, it's in you, it's in me

An emcee, that's all we know

Whatever, I don't know why you even play yourself

To that degree, you laugh at me?

Like I won't slap the teeth out your grill

That's how I feel, you out of order

You about a quarter inch away from fist in face, your distant gaze

Makes me think your brain drifts away to a land of wonder

Only to awaken by the sound of cannon thunder

All of those damn assumptions

You a sad sack, mad wack, straight up and down a**-crack

And that's that, get a load of Del, I devise words well

I be spittin' globe, let the mission unfold

You're just a pretty centerfold

Hate to diss ya ho but you're fictional

I'm just kinda different yo, what I say is thought provoking

Not for joking, see I know things they told kings

While your ho's cling to whatever the dough brings

The powers that be, it's in you, it's in me

An emcee, that's all we know

Hieroglyphics came triumphant reign, uncontained

Runnin' through the plains of some hunted slaves

Emperors who were meant to be entered into the end of the world

As we spin to the heat of the sun's temperature, hot

Distance measure how many flows I got

Persistent pressure as we get this cheddar

For the business and the betterment of my folks

All my green stars mount up, ready let's go

We sustain out of Earth 'cause we came outta her

The devils get slain when I sling slang

Hotter then a lot of lava from Barbeta to Bahamas

All the way to

We , clockin' dollars like good fellas

Suckas get jealous 'cause we make lettuce

And we still rebellious and the industry could never jail us

All my niggaz free to be ourselves and our record still sell

This is hip hop Olympics, Hieroglyphics the Dream Team

Rappers livin' outta they means, tryin' to bling bling

Get your fat chain stole!, get your whole crew exposed

We done had them ho's, dog

I'm magical and when I grab these flows

Out the hat it blows 'em back to the last 3 rows

We mashin', massive action-packed sh*t

Hit 'em with a passion and that's it

The powers that be, it's in you, it's in me

An emcee, that's all we know

The powers that be, it's in you, it's in me

An emcee, that's all we know

The powers that be, it's in you, it's in me

An emcee, that's all we know

The powers that be, it's in you, it's in me

An emcee, that's all we know