We have one more speaker… Al Basics, can you come to the mic? (claps) I'm not the man you think I am, no I'm not the one I'm not the emcee or the poet with the golden tongue I'm born of blood and sweat inside a New York City slum This is for Shakespeare, BIG, Pac, Kurt Cobain and Donne The gangster dude, the college grad, their sisters, girlfriends, mom and dad The silver spoons, the hustlers, the ones who've never had I sing the song that must be sung for the old and for the young My pen is key, my thoughts are doors, my memories come from before I see my dreams they see me too, we've never met there's no need to Be Hollywood, make love to stars who birth a Sun with seven scars I've never failed but barely pass recalling lies from the past We aren't free, it costs too much To feel our pain you must lose touch I sing the song of faded dreams, corrupted hearts built by machines Nomadic minds no place to go The youth too young, why can't they grow? We've censored truth, broke up with hope, we've lost our souls to not be broke But in the end we'll energize, our values won't be jeopardized This revolution’s televised, leaving history mesmerized…

I am a creature of revulsion and despair Aware I inhale the destruction in the air My pen writes instructions to be shared, without the right ears my music seems impaired I am a poet of frustration and desire The only way I feel sensation is through fire Real calm only impatient with the liars I'm pacing embracing waiting to be higher I am a lover who will ever love me? Gotta get beat down to feel upbeat I don't care I'm attracted to the ugly It must be that beauty’s never learned to trust me I'm grumpy feeling unlucky Monthly it seems like someone’s there to hush me I’ll never slip despite all the struggles I might breakdown but I'll never ever crumble I am a scholar what will I learn next? Life’s about swimming right near a vortex I hate to sleep and I secretly adore stress Death knocks so hard I wake up with a sore chest I’m motivated, failure doesn’t like me Wisely I just want to make success Wifey, But she’s pricey, always untimely Mess with her psyche, being nice as I be I’m just using my confusion as an outlet to poetic fusion Who hears my screams in seclusion? Who finds my pain so amusing? I’m just cruising, to the music, hope when I find myself I lose it Who sees me struggle with coolness? Who finds my pain so amusing? I’m obsessed. I think I’m finally losing it I hear voices in my head When I’m sleeping, I still here the music I think about life, and I think about death A voice in this primary battle My lyrics are known to excite the feds Stealing from the library of Babel My words have made my wife Miss Read Imaginary jungle, real words in them I don’t care if I might be wrong I think in lyrics, my soul likes to sing them Just let me sing my own song I don’t know where I’m going from here I guess that’s what life’s about Submit to patience and conquer my fears Until I eliminate my doubt. I’m just using my confusion as an outlet to poetic fusion Who hears my screams in seclusion? Who finds my pain so amusing? I’m just cruising, to the music, hope when I find myself I lose it Who sees me struggle with coolness? Who finds my pain so amusing?

Give my heart away, leave it to the other girls to play Give me a reason to love you I think about your eyes whenever I want to see the future Your breath gives me liberty, your soul gives me Goosebumps You’ve been a little misguided, but baby shed them tears don’t hide it The last think I need is us to be quiet I’ll give you patience, profound dedication Let our sound hit if you’re down for sensation I’m waiting, hoping we can get passed time’s complications Give me a reason to love you Give me a reason to be I asked my boys how to talk and be smooth with it They told me “dress the part and be rude with it” Don’t act smart, or I’ll kill the mood spirit All this to have a nice future with you in it I decided to man up and take a chance Now a scholar walk from my b-boy stance Hoping maybe we could start a romance Me and you forever in a truthful dance Give me a reason to love you Give me a reason to be I can’t let you go I can’t let you go Seeing you leave is messing up my mental I can’t let you go I can’t let you go So I’m trying to find ways to make you feel special Lets make everyone jealous to be us See us traveling the world I’ll be your foundation, you just be my girl I can be your student, your life be my lessons Your essence I devour In time all of this might be ours My hand be the minutes, yours can be the hours All I ask for is your power… Gone Give me a reason to love you Give me a reason to be Give me a reason to love you Give me a reason to be

I've told myself to not give in to you And I've told myself I can't afford to lose But here we are again Looking, wishing for some truth I told myself I didn't need you, but that's a lie I’m a pantomime when you start to tantalize It’s hard to analyze your absence makes me agonize I feel alive when I stare in your phantom eyes The only feat is to try to shake the hands of time Before my wall of life became vandalized I remember all those times that I needed you Blinded by beauty made it hard to see the truth And if I'm PO'ed I really can't read the cues Failed then maybe now I can succeed with you If I proceed to view you again can you change Back to the same dame that left me in sane Not this deranged untamed hoe after pain I feel strange whenever I shed some tears I didn't lose you I deliberately ran in fear All I can think about is finding how to have you here I've told myself to not give in to you And I've told myself I can't afford to lose But here we are again Looking, wishing for some truth I told myself to hate you but that's hard to do Hard to see the light when I crave the dark in you My hearts confused weeping as it parts in two The art infused me to speak the hardest truths I miss dancing to the silent music Miss traveling with you to hide the bruises Miss holding your hand when I feel useless Just come back and make everything lucid I don't care that you're my addiction Unauthorized love prescription My first real life contradiction I'm wishing me and you can go somewhere distant Away from the hate and the lames Where no one ever knows our real names Until then ill be sitting here patiently Wait and see I know you'll fill my vacancy I've told myself to not give in to you And I've told myself I can't afford to lose But here we are again Looking, wishing for some truth And I told myself not to give in to you As I begin to view I get more into you The inner you I feel so miniscule Trying to feel the win but the breeze whispers he gone lose Heartbreak is part of the procedure A moral seizure from a mortal speaker I feel eager to feel ya but it’s hard to please ya When you expect me to be Caesar The first minute of solitude is so long I wrote this whole song thinking you might hold on To the memories of how love should be Not what it could be, you never understood me Stuck at home was my greatest escape Writing poetry was the way I felt safe I was ok with eternity in hells gates All I wanted was to have you as a cellmate I've told myself to not give in to you And I've told myself I can't afford to lose But here we are again Looking, wishing for some truth

Calling life from a cell phone waiting for it to answer. Writing love letters in poetic stanzas. I can't help but want to stay dreaming, envisioning my own little Eden. I got success in my mind with no ransom. What I’ll trade it for man you can't fathom. I can't help but want to stay dreaming, envisioning my own little Eden. Feel the wrath from the scepter of my passion. Melancholy detectors when I'm rapping. On a new road with limited distractions. Broke up with abstractions for constantly flashing. Feel the weight of the shadows when I'm laughing. Ambition receptors begin asking Where I'm going? What I'm doing? Why I'm average? Where I've learned to speak forbidden language? I just tell them I'm a scholar with diplomas A hoodlum with aggression, multiple personas. Quotable for grown ups noble and a learner. Notable to loners closure for the posers. Feel the waves from my brain when I'm thinking. All the crazy thoughts then I begin sinking Language shifting can you hear my wishing. To be distant with my soul slowly drifting. Calling life from a cell phone waiting for it to answer. Writing love letters in poetic stanzas. I can't help but want to stay dreaming, envisioning my own little Eden. I got success in my mind with no ransom. What I’ll trade it for man you can't fathom. I can't help but want to stay dreaming, envisioning my own little Eden. Follow the movement of my souls choreography. Dishonor me if I'm an honoree. Loading their armory threaten to bring harm to me. I'm hard to read like setting your font to three. Follow the music I sold to the scholarly. It ought to be audibly a nominee. Instead I live modestly as a prodigy. Its prophecy ill embark on this odyssey. I just keep to myself I’m a loner. I only go on roads I don't know of. Think outside the box I'm never cornered. Look at me I find delight in disorder. Follow my thoughts as they travel with no passport. Speed reader looking forward to a crash course. Anarchist with his very own task force. Humble mind what else could I ask for Cell phone waiting for it to answer. Writing love letters in poetic stanzas. I can't help but want to stay dreaming, envisioning my own little Eden. I got success in my mind with no ransom. What I’ll trade it for man you can't fathom. I can't help but want to stay dreaming, envisioning my own little Eden. Calling life from a cell phone waiting for it to answer. Writing love letters in poetic stanzas. I can't help but want to stay dreaming, envisioning my own little Eden. I got success in my mind with no ransom. What I’ll trade it for man you can't fathom. I can't help but want to stay dreaming, envisioning my own little Eden.

So let us write and make no noise after Ask the right questions, get the wrong answers Sent here to eliminate the glamour Hip-Hop, time to reinstate the anthem Queens in the building, I’ve arrived Straight lyrics for those deprived You know I can’t be timed DOOMED DOOMED ENTERPRISE All they want is my demise I see thru their disguise You know I can’t be timed DOOMED DOOMED ENTERPRISE You know that I’m a writer Writing is what I do Here’s to my fellow writers This song is here for you You know that I’m a writer Writing is what I do Here’s to my fellow writers This song is here for you Metaphors and similes Symphonies through imagery Overthrow the industry DOOMED DOOMED ENTERPRISE We rebel brilliantly Poetic infantry Overthrow the industry DOOMED DOOMED ENTERPRISE So lets rebel and then enjoy laughter For successfully adding a whole new chapter Sent here to eliminate the rappers Hip-Hop behold a lyrical master Queens in the building, I’ve arrived Straight lyrics for those deprived You know I can’t be timed DOOMED DOOMED ENTERPRISE All they want is my demise I see thru their disguise You know I can’t be timed DOOMED DOOMED ENTERPRISE You know that I’m a writer Writing is what I do Here’s to my fellow writers This song is here for you You know that I’m a writer Writing is what I do Here’s to my fellow writers This song is here for you

How could they ever trust me with another pen? My thoughts ignite all the seeds into blossoming. Orphaned to this world by mother nature, so it’s natural my attributes calm strangers now, my inks causing danger, getting too close to the brains of my anger. If there's a cost to be a boss, pay with food stamps. While you clench your fist I walk with loose hands. This is for the people who don't have much. This is the sound to help you understand us. I'm the voice of what was and where to go, my mind’s the sun listen if you dare to grow. Welcome to the city of Immortals. Sunshine and silence from border to border. Right where hatred ends and praise starts. I'm here to bring soul to the brave hearts. A kid from Queens searching for mainstream, raging against the machine. Hold your breath, no hold your tongue. Realize we no longer need the sun to see clearly so here's the real me. Really, I just want to see us live freely. From the Henny sippers to the semi listeners, from the petty wishers to the friendly sinners. My life, revolves around pain. I try my hardest not to complain. I'm the passion of what was, what needs to be, my words are eyes painting the scenery If you ever lose your mind, tell your heart find it. In darkness, you are your best guidance. Try to listen hard during silence, you might hear the whispers of Homers sirens. Together we can bring down the tyrants, fight with the lions help forget titans. I'm in search of what is most highest, not what's brightest, I guess I'm bias. Try to shine without the jewelry speak the truth but speak it fluently. Sing the song the deaf must hear. Get in the way so they can see clear. Start the army and friend all the people. Fight the state and end all its evil. I'm the truth of what was some time ago. My rhymes are doors open as the night unfolds

Welcome to the darkness of my mind It’s the only place where my true artist shines Memories: interior design And my thoughts build one word at a time… uh I swim laps in a sea of confusion Run marathons down roads of illusions I drive cars with no wheels I stab hearts so I can feel I tell the truth even when I’m lying. My loudest riots are when I’m real quiet I feel cold when the sun is beaming Went evil angel searching with some real nice demons. My mind is an enchanting thing A ballroom where thoughts like to dance and sing My mind is an open sea of poetry And I swim vocally My mind is an enchanting thing A ballroom where thoughts like to dance and sing My mind is an open sea of poetry And I swim vocally Woke up and I began dreaming About restaurants with signs “No Eating” I feel odd if I try to get even I feel crazy searching for reason I wish I controlled the weather I’d make it rain everyday to feel better They always be leaving when I enter Thoughts out the box, somehow I feel centered Body’s secluded, thoughts go on ventures Overlooked by sensors that try to censor Never really been all that social Although I hope my vocals go global Rather be noble than Hip-Hop mogul Not that I’m boastful, just lyrically soulful Through my words I plan to withstand time Watch your step you’re walking near a land mind. My mind is an enchanting thing A ballroom where thoughts like to dance and sing My mind is an open sea of poetry And I swim vocally My mind is an enchanting thing A ballroom where thoughts like to dance and sing My mind is an open sea of poetry And I swim vocally

I walk slow, can't get my thoughts in order Was I born to be alone, this is torture. I'm an emcee I sure didn't want it though. Born to flow, graduated on the honor roll. I should know this road aint easy. Oxymoronic I spit bars freely. I'm just trying to reach the needy deeply. I rather look sleepy than dreamy. So many visions in my mind I can't paint well. Study the game so much, man I can't fail. Steady hands hoping that I aim well. Can't find a job so I'm writing as the pain swells. I just feel like I've used all my energy. The type to put what I love in jeopardy. Memento, need to write down my memories. Leave me alone I'm in a zone of reverie. I walk slow can't get my thoughts in order. I take way less than I seem to offer. I'm an honest soul working to pay my bills. Fake the will to play for real so haters chill. I just want to make enough so my mom can rest. I can be a dad, and help pops beat the stress. It seems like no matter what I can't prosper though. I gots to know who can help me as an artist so. I can reach all the masses with classics. Nothing drastic, I'm way too passive. More like tragic, I'm hoping I can grasp it. A Hispanic who has it but lives average. And that's it I don't care for a mansion Rather trade every last cent for more passion. And Then I’ll trade attraction for compassion. Forget lights and cameras, all I want is the action.

I can't handle the constant admiration, Rhymes start becoming more like obligations Rap about cars I won't ever drive Talk about money I've never seen Say fine women want to spend the night Tough talk to boost my self esteem It seems if I don't then imma quitter Gotta learn to follow my dreams on twitter Yea retweet that I guess I'm just out of it Born renegade rebel against politics I'm just a modest spic living with the oddest wit A novelist trying hard to be an optimist But how can I be when rap is a fallacy I show apathy naturally I'm half asleep I live fantasies far away galaxies casually it fathoms me am I the one in agony If my voice shines out right now ill just hear it in my mind If my voice shines out right now ill just hear it in my mind (Talk-Sik) Heat, sweating like I'm punkin’ a youngin’ But when u spit heat they say ice comes in the dozens I'm on a trip to relapse station, But if I think back days, then, there no relaxation! Stick and move, spitting out the Wocka Flocka Flames Off the top my brain, better even dropping off some shame I'm a realist, so Mr Talk-sik is not for chains Laughing at half-assed clowns, talking bout some change Man, its time to get the facts straight Daily I lyricise to a bigger size, but I don't rap great But just cuz I twist up my words to sound like it’s a fast rate Doesn't mean I'm not lyricising, fans wait have faith I'm down a road with a raft and a paddle Ditch it like classes to rap in a battle Everyone has passion but babbles Thinking this Hip-Hop craft they can handle Well this isn't some Easy Mac and Cheese Thinking "that's the steez" when u hear Yeezy rap with ease? Believe me that's the least it has me thinking past the streak I'm giving easy rap defeats when homies bringing back the beat If my voice shines out right now ill just hear it in my mind If my voice shines out right now ill just hear it in my mind Heat in a world where everything is digital Its pivotal the pitiful stop being so visible I'm miserable from hearing the same syllables From despicable typical fictional criminals Ah look at me I'm stepping off the edge Swearing I'm misread for declaring I'm best dead So instead of blending with the rest I'm sweating off the stress somehow now settling for less Ah tell me you can't feel the energy Passions my specialty I'm asking you sensibly Do you think that the average can mess with me? Panic my destiny attack me with melodies I can't seem to fathom the enemy That’ll come down and try to challenge my weaponry I know that he'd be valiant but terribly Mistaken for thinking he can match up my legacy Maybe my expedition isn't healthy My missions to make entry dismissing those that tempt me I wanna quit my ambition wouldn't let me Not crazy just definitions of an emcee If my voice shines out right now ill just hear it in my mind If my voice shines out right now ill just hear it in my mind

Now tell me what's an emcee to do When you get a stage you barely can use Fans are blinded they can't see the real I just do it for tunes not for the wheel Been told spit what you feel Keep it true to you real soon you'll appeal I do it so all of Queens can hear me Sincerely trying bring back rap theory Flow is tight, vocab’s official Y'all wouldn't know the talent if it hit you Pass the Mic, the fight must go on Lyrical warrior here til my souls gone Now that I've got your attention Let's try to build a Hip-Hop connection You be the fan with your hands in the sky I’ll be the man who rocks the Mic right Born from a slum where the smart go dumb Ready for the throne, though I might seem young Kamerata’s the crew coming out of the blue Pay attention if you want a sound of the truth I'm bound for fame the way I'm pacin’ Without pyramids or joining freemasons If you getting money more power to you I'm gaining wisdom the powers neutral Every step I take becomes crucial Follow my lead to feel more useful Pass the Mic, the fight must go on Lyrical warrior here til my souls gone Pain is temporary, pride is forever Winners always remain cool under pressure Cash rules everything around all the stressors I'm just bringing that sound that progresses Whoever wears the crown gets depressive Living a life with bad incentives So me I just wanna teach how lead And see all my enemies succeed Cuz we'd do more if we stampede With ease, gain respect for emcees So I write my goals with an ultimatum Make my fans recite in verbatim I represent hip hop to the core Promise to use my words as a force Pass the Mic, the fight must go on Lyrical warrior here til my souls gone

Throw away your maps Move forward through memories Asked patience for a loan to the new school of thought Become invisible to mirrors Overthrow the government of your eyes Pray for guidance and survival Wage war on mumbling voices Listen before you speak Speak before you act Act before you die Die after you’ve lived… freely Now when I flow I just wanna spit gold Pacifist time don't wanna hit old ripped soul like my best pair of kicks broke Blissful as I shoot lyrical pistols Sinful married to a sibyl Who's skillful at decoding the symbols Teach values, thoughts become taboo No one can match you Rebels into statues Ill pass through real real fast too Dreams never slept on become factual Only words spoken become valuable Tears into ink to rewrite the manual So all I gotta do is stay true to me Physically there but my thoughts remain mutiny Enrolled to the new school just for truancy but who will be the fool to see? I can't hold this state anymore I can’t hold this

I grabbed a stone and threw it at a window. Even though I felt lost, still had the win though. I'm bumping new Em cold as the wind blows, all the sins go stain the name of my kin folk. I don't pray but every bar let's me sing hope. Been broke so I never go for the bling yo. And I begin slow, letting all the town know, thanks for accepting me and watching as my sound grows. Now that I said that, see how my crown glows. With every download all the haters brown nose. I use to hound hoes, now I write renown prose. Figuring out where every single noun goes. And on my spare time, catch me at a bookstore studying geniuses and analyzing crooks cores. What I look for is honesty and sapience. I found lies and I haven't been happy since. Writing hard to serve life’s calling once again. Sometimes it feels like there’s a gun placed up against my head. Pushing up against the glass I feel the sentiment. I let go of the pain and fall into the rain and I threw a stone and no I didn't mean that. Seeing hope shatter made my mind start to relapse. Hard to relax the devil says that he's back. And I'm just a spawn with keys to help me seize rap. So now I need facts, Chris bring the beat back. I need to breathe tracks to help me spit free acts. I'm not a rapper, just a poet who rhymes well. In the wrong decade, a prisoner of times hell. I heard life’s a rollercoaster, but you gotta be mature to get on. I appreciate all the love I'm telling you. This aint a spectacle, I'm really trying to better you. I work hard is what I say in every interview. I take interludes to dismiss views of sinner dudes. So while most are money, cars, hoes. Ill stay forever with wisdom, bars, flows. Writing hard to serve life’s calling once again. Sometimes it feels like there’s a gun placed up against my head. Pushing up against the glass I feel the sentiment. I let go of the pain and fall into the rain You know the money feuds, swag talk and dumb searching. Keeps me focused but leaves the young hurting. Heated flows keeps my tongue scorching. Cold thoughts keeps my lungs frozen. I'm done lurking, I'm right here in the slums cursing watching myself become certain as I write cursive. This old man told me la suertes loca. So I'm cautious when I approach her. I want no beef just a place among the legends. With my essence, I’ll inspire adolescents. Motivated by the doubt, inspired by the love. I do this for the scholars and the thugs. I don't care for the money or the benefits, it makes me a better fit with proper etiquette. I grab Hip-Hop she's delicate. I promise to never let her slip I'm too ahead of it. Writing hard to serve life’s calling once again. Sometimes it feels like there’s a gun placed up against my head. Pushing up against the glass I feel the sentiment. I let go of the pain and fall into the rain

(Talk-Sik) The lights cut out, twisting the ties up now The ties that bond me to what life’s about It might come down to being a battle Strong and their weak as I’m beating the sheep in the cattle To the truth of Jesus’ gabble In the court of death there’s more to set More to the tank that is guarded, there’s more than a quarter left So there’s more to go in this war of vets War of rookies, fight of all people unborn and dead, the warnings set Uh, on a come up like the thousands of fish Coming down hard on the game like blackbirds pounding my fist, Demanded respect since 2006 And put out just as much passion my skills allowed me to spit Word, Truthbtold, revolutionary holocaust I’m the toxic with fiery passion Molotov Cause off the top, I’m hot headed and calling on All you drama-dons, to battle the illest phenomenon (Cryptic Wisdom) It’s my hustle, never will I sink You were falling off the edges, I was steady on the brink Never let em sleep, all I’m harboring the best Fuck Branding, Make Music, I just want it off my chest A sharp guess, and I terrorize beats, I’m a merit of embarrassment to anybodies beef The centerpiece and your off to the side I stay true you flaunt with an awful disguise It’s a façade, and I’m just letting em know It’s all about being authentic with a veteran flow It’s so inevitable, seeing em jump They want a piece of the game fame easy of bucks But what they don’t know is the sacrifices Have to be made actively half the nights you spend alone Up in the zone, you wanna ball? Then you gotta pay your dues and prove u want it all The ceremony has begun Close the door so no one can escape til I'm done. I represent the voice of the slums Bringing you the light from the sun Look next time that I'm feeling low I'll remember sometimes I bleed to grow I don't care what the universe plans for me When it all falls down let it land on me Ahhh I'm feelin so frustrated Used to feel upgraded Now my soul is just jaded Found beauty but I had to let her go My painful memories give my rhymes a better flow If I ever find the muse imma let her know She brought me to my knees every night when she censored hope I've had enough of this wackness that's it No more passes rappers get to classes Ill be home reading classics then figuring out how to speak it to the masses That's what I would call purpose Won't stop til I leave earth or get wordless Don't feel bad, you can't hurt this Don't take it as a threat, consider it a service Trying to see what the worst is Hoping I have the strength to face urges I told Brinez get these rappers out my way feed me dope beats let's see who keeps pace Like I thought, no one dare try me I'm climbing to the top, just please don't mind me Real leaders learn to move silently Words and wisdom right where the violence be Us and ignorance in rivalry Bustin lyrics rebuilding dynasties

It’s hard for me to speak of peace, without promoting war I can't believe my inner beast when he tells me explore I see the death, and hear the fears the others can ignore I'm feeling doomed my thoughts in tune I'm using song as force I cry at night where no one sees My potency's in poetry Pro solitude but socially I'm awkward Doomed Enterprise Who can recite? I choose to refuse the muse in the night Doomed Enterprise Losing the fight I've misplaced my thoughts, excuse me tonight Doomed Enterprise Accuse me of spite For saying I deserve more if I write Covered in sound Its hard to feel the drops of silence Was this what I was to become? A prisoner of words left undone