A quarter a day keeps the reporters away I'm just saying, I'm all about affordable change Rockstar like Rodman politicking at Korean Bar-B-Ques Room 111, you should see my views But though in Seoul my "soul" says "go home" Out here alone in the rain as it danced on my phone The light flickers, the pictures we captured last winter ain't enough to give me life I'm mad bitter (I'm mad bitter) Mahogany ain't calling Clementine is silent and those wanting to be "just friends" are just liars I find it funny how my mind works Reminiscing on the tears on her sweatshirt, let's work They fear technology and not the psychological trauma that these student's dealing with like stigmata They got demons, I've seen 'em All the trauma they spoke about from Natomas to the coldest tip of Plymouth Rock It landed on us not to be political but everything that they preach ain't really that biblical You say religion but still use hate as the vehicle To drive everyone away politician's hypocritical Like Pac, I've been hesitant to re-appear Been away for years holding back Amnesia Tears… Prince died alone, his whole life chasing the image of Vanity and that is why I wonder when will you and I have the opportunity to disregard? Listen, I don't mean to be specific But, frankly, the words that you're serving really ain't religious No gimmick, I give it all in the halls of your religion 1111, I'm forsaken never forgiven My wishes on images of us walking side by side Two sets of the footprints that you wish to hide and lie We met in the pulpit where we always try to find an image of Heaven in Churchill Arms we'll be fine (we'll be fine) A Ghostwriter documenting the paranormal activity upsetting How she stay Ghost but, of course, it's all good I'm putting this energy towards changing her mood All ice dropped a comet on that raptors heart The snow in Shanghai lingered after dark In January, I forgot who I was but that month reminded me of my three loves

Let me tell you how it should be done let me tell you how you should be fun let me tell you how to change your shoes let me tell you what you should not do let me tell you that I ain't the truth let me tell you what you should not do let me tell you that I can't be trusted And in the end all the paths were rustic Skip the particular vernacular of many There is fear and hate No cheese on the spaghetti So we always will do what the seldom will do Speaking truth to the power to those who have no clue Just cause they want to tell you that your truth ain't the real truth...so what we do... Is we search in the skies to see what we can find... I ain't bred to utilize the prominent lines from those ahead of my time My mind's too weak to speak the art of my ancestors defined But in these sign of the times I seek the truth while the blind stay reclined Kaepernick's actions got you pissed, huh What the hell's up with this, listen Streets lights are frozen The homeless are broken and all the while your child dreams death as a fortune All the while this Black man's trying to keep your child alive I'm trying to save your child's life Just cause they want to tell me that my truth ain't the real truth...so what we do... Is we search in the skies to see what we can find... Accolades are a masquerade For far too long I've felt this rage For far too long I've felt this cage The opposite of Pink Lemonade The designs I'm taught are a hand grenade to destroy my views of the Heaven made But I say to you that my travels made me appreciate the love she saved... So, which side will you choose? What do you got to lose? What do you got to... Got to... Got to... Got to lose... You got to lose... You got to lose... You got to lose... Tony always told me that root of life's an untold story uncontrollin' though some homies acting like they more than phony downin' 40's those who know me know that some can not control me tell me what your fragrance is tell me what the placement is least restrictive be specific goals in life cannot be measured Professor Soda would just bubble over her reference letter thrown together gumbo pot laundry filled with jumbo socks Drinks we spilled so Mazel Tov I talk a lot since you forgot open up like codependents strugglin' not sober parents rules and regulations though the district was just overzealous What I'm sayin's we made it What I'm sayin's we made it What I'm sayin's we made it What I'm sayin's we made it After all...

Welcome this a new introduction Lustin' for unforgettable luncheons Stuntin' saw the glory in her doorway Foreplay Apollonia will you stay? The Beautiful Ones Always snap my picture Unsuitable nuns always catch the zippers Instead of happy meals They rather half a mill Back when Kari wore daisies with them daffodil Drinkin' Hennessey Some say it's just too sweet I roll with a Kliq that's involved in complex linguistical speech That means I'm an oddity offerin' up Anita Baker apologies As I'm crying out photography Topography of memory and treachery's persistence I thought you could keep up with this Hell no, see... I go Bankai on hollow bottles Hitsaguia when I ice the Belgian Waffles Follow me, Medusa stone cold stunner Smokin' Skulls crumble the ring turns asunder Red lights, Red dress the glory lies in wonder Always alive your story eyes my hunger I've been Allen Poe with a few pages Trainin' in zone of silence third eye needed Lasik You be basic What's your placement Good ol' boys mad cause their lady ride the spaceship Spaceships, bracelets sit atop the laces Hate it, I know, your parents never loved my beige lips On your fragrance I wrote poetry Sorry, Clementine I should've wrote you three I hold you like grudges I mold you with touches I told you to trusted and sold you with rubbish I know that you loved it I bring you the ruckus I sing you the luscious Like Harriet Tubman My instincts to fight the public Suffrage Left this out for the spoils you oil my sugar and I'll slap you with the Royale with cheese I'm just sayin' I'm rebel scum I’m invitin' you Porgs for dinner on the bund Captivating clogging up the capillaries of these Capulets talkin' bout last January’s avalanche If water is life of course we stay wet I'm up by 50 and my starters haven't played yet Better make your payments cause the only thing that's cheap is "free doom" like Gil said Some wanna replace Lady Liberties torch with a fire arm... the definition of freedom by force is a life of harm… If you need advice on your love life You better listen to this song twice... I said, if you need advice on your love life You better listen to this song twice...

Reporting live from Shanghai Everything you believed in was always in your eyes and mine From Shanghai to the Chi I see images of the Autumn Leaves floating Frozen, still in time The image of you that wasn't mine Because the other side of your coin did not include me Foolish me listening to the toxic masculinity of mentors who were twice the ages of me They told me to chase the pages of stories but what good are the stories when they're filled with heartache Yes, I've grown but if only I had known That being alone does not include glorious tales of success A Hero's Journey is not worth all of this stress I still reminisce about your dress I still reminisce about your caress I still reminisce about everything that was the best kept secret about us Love is a foolish fallacy the adage of everything that is full of calamity and tragedy But if given one more opportunity I know you and me could reach divinity No more toxic masculinity comes from my throat or my voice or my hopes

Considerations of home I know I’ve just started traveling the globe but the thought of getting old alone doesn’t appeal to me, so I know the family needs me The eyes of proud Black man who never showed weakness asking his son to “come home” leaves the son speechless Things were altered two September’s ago Never mind that October Clementine told me never come over anymore I find myself at a cross roads wondering why in the hell would I ever want to go home To a place where Foxes hound with Fake News My pigment black licorice to those who hate hues similar to mine or darker The image of a daughter with Clementine had me in the Halls of Arden waiting in line to view rings of engagement Never mind the racists who claimed religion was the drug that saved them But due to them I settled for a bracelet instead Indigo Elephants traveled up her arms I wish I could hate her but I still wish her no harm because I love her still... If I can go home I know I can be strong not just for the family but for you, Yoshi, word is bond “Honorable” judges arrive an hour late Making me sick acting like they really care and can relate Y’all Dollar Store steak acting like you full and vital but in reality imitation that’s why y’all reviled Shoutouts to AMG It’s your brother remember me Trust, I need you more than you need me I’m sorry I wasn’t there for you and Yoshi too busy “doin’ me” like Clementine told me But, Lord willing, I’ll be there for you and the family Clementine, I hope your friends tell you how the tragedies in my life made me the man you wish I was Though, truth is, I wasn’t the type you thought was up in the club But it’s all love I needed to understand you better I read the “Milk & Honey” can’t you please visit in your sweater I’m better off with the kids in Sac. asking me to kick poetic raps that might not even put me on the map with Camps of Mahogany Like Baldwin home is calling me and what happens after that only the Lord knows, philosophy But I know people overreacting to Kaepernick are really not prepared for the Lord’s final judgement I stay blessed I’m not getting political Like I said before this is strictly the biblical Or any of the major scriptures that you say you co-sign My religion encompasses all the sacred text you find Where all the mistakes are mine Toxic masculinity blinded my sight to divinity I wonder if you really getting me To Chicago’s Very Own And my family in Shanghai I got much love so in the end this isn’t goodbye But I’m going home Family, I’m coming home It was y’all all along And I’m sorry it took so long To find myself...again

Hey, it's me again Sorry I'm offending Breaking conduct with what I'm sending Breaking conduct with what I mention I'm a young fool dumbfounded by the rearview Truest blessings image of the past I'm your hall won't you please make your pass Nonsensical intellectual drop my weapon slow "Don't shoot!" we in cahoots with the digital They say the things you are passionate about is your calling Well, I'm passionate about you but you ain't calling Not stalling like the world non-revolving Some profess love but only for attention The Heartbreak Hotel though the staff showed affection Imaginary friends will peep my travels I kick game in the stories I Unraveled Up in Shanghai sippin’ Mai Tais Korean Baseball with Joel and Patty as the score's tied It's never "goodbye" if we truly care The skyline sings songs like Lumineers Planetary Love Affair in the same space I'd give up all my riches and my name plate If I could see her face once more Even in a mirage or a folklore Reading Rupi and Rumi to soothe me Like Emma Watson, you're magic, the beauty I was like Marshawn a beast, to the choir To all the non-believers yo, my Jets fly higher A simple rhyme from my non-simple mind Thinking Bacardi and Diet tastes divine with a lime Divine…In the Meanwhile…Let in Break Fade away like MJ every single day Faded like MJ every single day Early "retirement" they'll say it's a "mistake" It's okay we all gotta find our way So, in that sense, I'll never fade away In the Meanwhile... I'll follow home wherever that goes only God knows... So, go ahead and send a postcard or something A balla on a budget but I stay stuntin’ Like, Granddaddy taught me... Who knows if I'll see her again Yes, "her," who I still see as more than a friend Memories never truly fade away So, I write rhymes that will always stay… In the Meanwhile…In the Meantime... Please don't fade away...

I went from talent shows in the 6th grade Dancing and singing with all the power that I had Some teachers were mad cause they thought me offensive by being the only figment of pigment in their oppressive lessons But Still I Rise, and though I got love from an audience of peers and even educators the one I sought love from didn't show me any favor So, here I am 21 years later at the age of 33 still having the same shit happening to me The stage has changed and audience, as well in both sizes and topics I address solo, hell I still get props from peers and educators It's alright, but not from the one I want to see again tonight, for life... The ones saying "live for the moment" are sometimes the most scared of the future Jupiter withstanding, the StarJuice dripped from the Lunar Back in the day when we poured sugar on them cougars I had Comcast with no RAM All I gotta say is "HOT DAMN!" keep your podcasts I rather slow jams Let me spell it out dyslexic A mixed message blended from my memory segments Not associating with the functions of execs with chips on their shoulders that's why they always try to question "NOT NOW!" The percentiles you define are always outside your curved, blurred lines For Whom the Bell Tolls blew up bridges like Segovia Hemmingway plays made from the travels that I gauged I parley 1-2-3 San-Er-Yi No matter the language you can count on me Beginning-to-End we stay exquisite Marty McFly when I kick the retro futuristic I'm on a world tour my travels made songs Mixing StarJuice from the Wet Market, strong So, can we get along? So, can we get along? Tennessee Honey Whiskey...strong...

I'm your imaginary friend you can tell me your secrets tell me again So, let's pretend that you're the paper I'm the pen Let's make a story greater You and only you can see me at all Also including your favorite doll Of a model you got the look If I'm the movie then you're the book You're the book Take a look A million one stories in the land of crooks While I reside in the land of Make Believe and Honey Shanghai Delights ain't a damn thing funny Except these bummy nose runny type of hataz They just spectators while I'm Gale Sayers While you say prayers you can fall back You spent your whole life running from the mouse trap Or the rat race Why the sad face Now you wanna love me when you didn't in the first place A little too late like a soufflé that you overcooked watching Wonder Years on a Tuesday Don't invite me to the Bar-B-Ques, uh but in the end it won't bother you, uh I know with you you neglect No Tea House Lover so, I show respect, yes... Tea. House. Lovers. I'm your imaginary friend you can tell me your secrets tell me again So, let's pretend that you're the paper I'm the pen Let's make a story greater You and only you can see me at all Also including your favorite doll Of a model you got the look If I'm the movie then you're the book I told y'all during Issue 150 that I'm nifty Don't forget me Coda Soda Strawberry feel Sushi rolls off the tongue like the Whip Appeal Babyface with the milkshake bass Now, tell me once again how I have no "taste" Why wait to contemplate Everything I'm telling you is about my faith The scope and the sequence the Pope and the Priestess Like Goku and Chi-Chi or Brock with the Misty We go together like art Baked Ziti A beautiful disaster splashed with graffiti Do you need me I need you more I'm telling you everything that is hard ignore Forever more let's explore the premium views regardless of the shores I told my optometrist the other day that I had visions of opulence on display In my 3rd Eye but I still find life's a complex like a good, good, good wine Or a Tennessee Honey Whiskey I wonder if she really miss me Spent my whole life chasing Tea House Lovers Damn, what a life of regret and wonders

Am I woke or am I pretending to be Someone deeper than all the leaves of The Giving Tree The times we facing leaves us shaken Vodka pressed with depression I'm guessing that we are always waiting I'm saying, you probably got your jollies being a rancher Herding jewels watermelon everything that they answered Electronic dancers with the moves that are robotic The irony of it all as you fear the technologic I was so Daft when it came to my Punky Brewster Less stylish than I but he seems to be a better suitor Though world renowned all I ever get from you is frowns Just want you to know that, in the end, I'm still down In this GhostTown, yes, I'm still down Love is Love and we could still capture Pet Sounds I'm just flowing, annoying I'm just glowing and showing the necessary components that leaves a moment's notice A moment's notice we can't control it I wrote this in the middle of Chicago's winter coldness Alone, I stare at a temple transformed to retail A woman yells "Yi Bai Kuai" for whatever she sells Drinking at The Monk my local watershed Facebook helps me know my imaginary friends are all up in my head Institutionalized due to my Beautiful Mind I really hope that my replacement is a suitable find We become artifact by accident As I abandon ship with the manuscript My gift to you is the poems that he could never write The Glamorous Life the dance night under Neon lights I got your email in May but I think that you're running away That's moving on for some that's why I gotta pray That's why I gotta stay positive and respectful I have nothing to lose when you see my image as resentful These were our winter days These were my sinner ways These were our dinner dates Hamburgers with the parfaits I'm giving up the money and the Shanghai nights for the family tree and the hope to back you up in my life No backups in this life disappearing without a notice Though short-lived our moments like you were gorgeous You told me "Live My Dreams," well, all I dream is about "U" For All Your Forevers until January Blooms When January Blooms... Maybe, I'll find you again... Can we at least be friends... As expected, there's only silence... And I accept it... I accept it... But I'm still dreaming...

Where were you during the trying times The crying times The lying times without dandelions The frightening times The dying times with no alibis The Ironside where we find everything we dined This life's electrified LED's on the side of the building gives a Goblin like me electric feelings I'm just killing time like I’m already serving time It's hard to find what wear out of my Dirty Mind I cut close like Keith Sweat Castor Troy listening to Changing Faces in my tape deck Payless brown shoes and a sweater vest is how Baby G~Mile used to stay fresh, yes Gadzooks, I'm in a room Full of Nincompoops Heated like Gumbo this boy's cooking up his roots I've traveled the distance to find salvation from credit debt I better let the homies know I wish them the best Congratulations on your proposals, pregnancies, and new borns Where I reside in my life those things have yet formed Can't force Magic unless "Splish Splash" like the 80's Lakers I used to sow my Cinnamon Royal Oats like a baker Handful of Yummy Yums take my words for what you think Like the Green Ranger I wanted to kiss on the Pink one Who shared the 1st name of my beloved...yes, who shared the 1st name of my beloved... In cinema rooms cinnamon blooms as I reminisce My mind streams images of you, forget the Hulu flicks The voodoo mixed with the drinks I had in the N.O. last June Pistola Pete whenever I'm making moves With daiquiris in hand I also step in the City of Van Rocking Adidas my poetry ain't the heavy hand Steady man as if I'm spending Five Nights at Freddie's Chipper as the Gipper with a handful of Jelly Belly’s A handful of Jelly Belly’s the artistic flick of the wrist is to shoot my shot and go swish I write this line while sipping wine from the stewardess who looks at me funny as if the life ain't the tourniquet Squeezing the last ounce out of your childhood wonder These are my dreams as I slumber Here's my secret I wanna manifest new dreams, kid The courage to live them in real time... Can I Live??? I've given so much but they still question my values So, before Breakin' Bad with prescriptions of Valium I'll be going home no telling what the weather holds Stay tuned to find out on the Next Episode...

What's real, what's made up I'm laid up in the squared circle In a business where gimmicks are really just physics just to hurt you Invert you and flip you off and on with disbelief Heavy is the Hart in Montreal that has to leave Unscripted fiction I break character in front of folks as my catchphrases are now all they quote But they don't know that controversy hurt me down to my circuitry and everything you see standing here is just me It's just me All you see is really who I am All you see is really who I am It's just me All you see is really who I am All you see is really who I am It's just me over your YouTube screen, quick Talking about how confidence is stripped like championships Courage to live my dreams as home became nightmares Image of her bawling keeps me from “Still Balling” here Where 4th walls become a steel cage Hell in a Cell, son, the heart break, kid, is pain I say to mankind that gender is never scripted and those they praise are not really that gifted, yes I've seen the machoest of men become Quakers when faced in front of the pall bearers and undertakers So weak, unable to break cane cracked Life's a Survivor Series until we're faced with that casket match It's just me All you see is really who I am All you see is really who I am It's just me All you see is really who I am All you see is really who I am Damn, it's just me...Damn, it's just me...don't you see... Damn, I would stare at the Shanghai lights like Titantrons coming on before heavyweight fights Intercontinental delights until the places we feel become unreal Hard to tell who's a face or heel In this war that raw, a curtain call where real life situations can cause a pause in manipulation Diamond Dallas Page we got a lot in common we both lost a woman with her name It's stone cold this rock bottom Fans clamor for your downfall but then act like it's all jokes during curtain calls Well, this is my curtain call for this Ironman match went on too long now the show stops I've lost my smile...

I know the power of a name brand Will you ever be the same, damn That's what they calling a name brand It makes people wanna say "damn!" How you got that power in your hand IPhone X unlimited data plans I know the power of a name brand Will I ever be the same damn Why they love me for a TED talk Never checked on me for my thoughts Tried to suggest that I wasn't well Giving Hong Baos just to pay the bail What's the power of a brand name All it ever does is cause pain Y'all like my pictures in a suit but when it comes to my music you don't really give a hoot Look at me like another nincompoop Lost in the World “Scoop tee Whoop Whoopty whoop” That's the power of a brand name Have your idols suicidal over damn fame Have your idols in denial over history Shaking hands of the vultures of the tyranny That's the power of a name brand Catch me rocking knock offs like the lames can At the Pearl Market money changed hands I'm just trying to be cool like a name brand TED talk pic got more "likes" than my album, shit Heartbreak Kid coming out of retirement I know the power of a name brand Traveled the world to ball louder than the Space Jam But now I'm Space Ghost to the ones who wrote "Thinking of your family" but will change like InstaPost A brand name won't get her to want to have my daughter but it might find love in Jakarta I'm drinking Indonesian java in the land that molded Young Obama He was global without a silver spoon I'm worried about student loans as January Blooms Yet, people got the nerve to sit in your damn chair and lecture you about the rumors that enflamed their hair From Shanghai-to-the-Chi I know the power of a name brand All that Versace can't protect the body from the pain, damn Million-dollar home falling to pieces… All around you...

Letter 2 U who I've not seen since July Gavels fly and judgements bind Two families throughout time no alibis because if there was maybe our times would be fine Well, I know we'll see each other in due time This Letter is 2 U who will still shine This Letter is 2 U for the love remains constant We'll grow old together sipping drinks non-alcoholic In comfortable chairs as I share these stories from Shanghai-to-the-Chi on the chase for the glory I'll hold the family down 'till the end of days Trying to change God's mind every time I pray Because what's been written has been transposed on tablets made of stone and never an iPhone This Letter 2 U is straight from the heart From Begining-2-End though we're worlds apart This is life...this is life...precious life...this is life…so, just hold on… Letter 2 U who I've not seen since July When we sat crisscross applesauce In that apartment of mine where the song cried as we held hands and reminisced, Clementine 2 U, who now shows rejection I want U to know this serves as acceptance For toxic masculinity I used to do Though the majority of our time was the love, rouge Was our love rude or misconstrued A product of the demons who were jealous of our moves Either way, I let U know that love is constant No matter what the future may hold, regardless Because what's been written has been transposed on tablets made of stone and never an iPhone This Letter 2 U is straight from the heart From Begining-2-End though we're worlds apart This is life...this is life...precious life...this is life... so, just hold on…