The Quickening

[Lateef]
 Solesides
 Alright, alright, alright
 Let's get one thing clear right now
 Lot of emcees out here claiming that they got styles
 And that they tight, huh
 But I don't give a damn about none of them
 Cause, see me
 [Verse One]
 See, I'm gon' be alright, live my life as long as I'm alive
 I ride on five-eighty, but I'm not an eighty-fiver
 Usually exit high enough to fly like Egyptian gliders
 Bringing the message to the black man like Elijah
 Honourable, did I mention, ain't no dissent amongst the strivers
 No tension or fights, there just be lessons in life
 I'm a subscriber to the Call that's Final
 Fiend for the knowledge like my DJ fiends for vinyl
 Hold the microphone like a habitual user, like winos
 Clutch wine bottles, in my death grotto
 Until my skin gets mottled, don't expect to get coddled
 Cause see me, patna
 I wasn't raised in no family that got up to pops reading stocks
 It was more like he was down the block
 At my uncles' rolling up chops, getting off knocks
 Had the whole damn neighbourhood on lock
 Back before the game was hard like rocks
 Yet lightweight like glocks, and this shit don't stop
 It's as frightening as the idea of a million black men
 Marching on Washington might have been to some people
 But then only if we're not equal
 As shoulders get colder, individuals get older and bolder
 I ain't buying what they sold ya, I'm a soldier
 The Warriors first round number one pick like Joe Smith
 Thought I told ya
 I ain't average, I manage to move my mandible rapidly to scold ya
 Got a powerful role as flamby as the average nigga's plan B
 Ought to be running shit in '96 ala Marcus Camby
 Can be, can he do it? All night until the early morning
 Break of dawn light, I flow like fluid out your spigot
 Rough and wicked when I kick it
 [Hook]
 Yes, righteous and I might just never even quit
 Because it's only to the will of Allah that I submit
 Righteous and I might just never ever quit
 Because it's only to the will of Jah that I submit like that
 [Verse Two]
 The name's Lateef and if you've got beef
 You'll get cut up by the butcher's cut, see
 I'll sink my teeth into your neck like a mastiff
 Fool, you're weak, I got five on your cheek
 I'll crash the boards and glass, slam that ass as fast
 As Shareef-Abdul Raheem, clean the glass
 I'mma school that, degrees that keep the shitstem up
 Victims for pickings, royal stickings, stick with poli-tricks
 And politicians acting like they on a hell-bent mission
 For the annihilation and decimation of the human nation
 Brother, listen cause they're testing my faith
 What I'm feeling is the wreckoning, the quickening
 Expression of the manifestation of victory
 Regardless of societies that sneak around in secrecy
 You see it gets deep, deep as history
 Creeps like time since 4000 BC, it's not a mystery
 Lord knows, revealed to my soul and it shows
 I drop flows that'll rock past the 21st century
 They trying to keep it real, but compared to what
 When there ain't even no backing to their passing buck
 When you shift from the material shit they get stuck
 Trip, they gone slip, they're up the creek, in the clutch
 All because they really just don't give a fuck
 [Hook]
 Yet I'm righteous and I might just never even quit
 Because it's only to the will of Allah that I submit
 Righteous and I might just never ever quit
 Because it's only to the will of Jah that I submit like that