Back To The Essence Lyrics - A2g Ep - Blackalicious

When I'm on the mic, I stand tall with gall 

Style worth more than anything you goin' find in mall 

The treasure of the mutiny is what keeps you all enthralled 

I lively up the people with the yes, yes, y'all 

Create, wait, watch and let the fake fall 

Employ my strategy like checkmate 

Call your bluff in that destruction, of all previous discussion 

When I hit like a concussion, your heart rate stall 

Recorders all stall, you jaw'll go slack 

I deliver makin' quivers and shivers all down your back 

Like a river flow the beat 

Bounces in Cadillacs, bumpin' that vicious Blackalicious 

Kick drum, that keeps punchin' through that speaker 

Countinously, meticoulously, etchin out the spaces in time 

For miles affecting rhymes that changing minds permanently 

Like mescaline, giving your whole perception, perspective 

A new design that wreck that misconception 

Now, we seeing, eye to eye yet? 

Can the MC speak? The suckas stay quiet 

The crowd can get rowdy like the party was a riot 

Try it and the ladies will, who ride your ass up out the spotlite 

"You crazy, don't you know that fool Lateef'll set it on you? 

He better than you", she telling you the truth due 

I give you the proof due 

Step you, end up getting cut up by the cornerstone's edge 

Down back, by the end I say, Don't get contrary 

'Cause baby, I'm very highly motivated 

I'm trying to do that play and ownership thing like Isiah did 

Hope your vision ain't impaired 

But my prayers, you can hear what I'm saying to you 

Now, if you fakin' it, may sound strange to you 

Like some way under my breath, maybe I'm playing 

But I only do that murder rap shit, for those whose the cap fit 

As for the rest, I'm trying to you all, back to the essence 

Back to the essence, when we in the house feel the almighty presence 

Making MC's act humble like peasants 

Smoking the mic and leaving nothing but resin 

Making the spots, pop like pots full of wesson 

Making it hot cooking, your goose and your pheasant 

Taking your props leaving your ass, butt naked 

Soul exposed, no material protection 

Low and behold, we going back to the essence 

I be that G I to the F, when I get def up on that mic 

I swing that lefty, no discrepancy and effortlessly 

And in the right frame of mind 

Electricity combined with mind, soul and the way I flex the agility 

Focus, ability makes some heads quite restless in this vicinty 

Trying to fill me out but they just jesters in my vicinty stuck in my art 

Trying to feather my energy, I bless plenty of enemies 

Hittin' me with expressions that would, so would like to get rid of me 

In my quest to be the epitome, it'll be cold in hell 

'Fore I feel stress from any of these illiterate 

Insecure about, they little insignificant contributions 

Infinitely I'm mocking yes and don't, whenever the gift put out a fly quote 

Yes, I'm doing my thing and leaving a cloud of cess smoke 

Wherever I go, whether I'm balling, whether I'm flat, dead, broke 

I'm heeding my call and leaving a ball of rappers with heads roast 

And bringing that universal dopeness to the East and West Coast 

And really no one the best, though is God 

Allowing you to harness the energy, within whoever feels the most 

At the moment, takes it the farthest 

So thank Him 'cause it's through you that he manifest artistry 

Like a painting with an infinite, beyond lifetime warranty 

And Satan is a wack diseased, that needs to be quarantined 

And caged in, I'm riding a boat of dopeness, come on aboard with me 

And engage in a tale of musical invention 

An MC lynchin', convention GA 

Lyrical fifth dimension miracles, all up in your system 

Back to the essence, when we in the house feel the almighty presence 

Making MC's act humble like peasants 

Smoking the mic and leaving nothing but resin 

Making the spots, pop like pots full of wesson 

Making it hot cooking, your goose and your pheasant 

Taking your props leaving your ass, butt naked 

Soul exposed, no material protection 

Low and behold, we going back to the essence