Lifetime and a Half Ago

(watch out, he's crazy!)

It's been a hot minute since I rocked a flow
When I'm in it, I'm irretractable
I may be an old school savage to you
But when I get the ball, I catapult
Minds into the stratosphere
Like it ain't rocket science baby
I started all these fires baby
To get rid of all your ageist bias maybe
But I'll always be a humble student of human nature
Make sure you're always insatiable with the innovation
What a great job to have
Reinventing all the styles and genres
Never laid fake tracks never baked facts
Never act for the cameras (lay it out!)

Stop me if you ever heard this one before
But I know you haven't
A lot can happen while you're napping
When the ship is very well captained
I'm rat-tat-tat-tapping
Into your amygdala and cerebellum
You gonna tell 'em
How it feels to be totally in awe

This for the age of the Guru and Rakim
We got high just staring at a rim
Mad skills worth more than a ho-o-k
Autotune was not all that it to-o-k

Roll with my flow
From a lifetime and a half ago

(watch out, he's crazy!)

I can flow forward and backwards
On this beat cause I'm a natural
In fact you all
Trap rappers prove the counterfactual
Be wreckin' em all breaking 'em all
While I'm takin' it all easy
Kids wonder what is he
I wanna see what he see
Yeah, that's how I used to roll
But now I'm more of a poet
I can bring it you can sing it
We can ring it through the void
(ringing like steel)
'cause I don't plan to live forever
I'm singin' to the species
Woah, we gotta wash these sheets
Many of us only fling feces

This was a throwback
To simpler times and greater rhymes
And bolder crimes and saner minds
A time that's never been
But I'm bringing it back (yo)
Old boys will relapse in the b-boy fever
The beat's a keeper, the be-bop
Makes you stick a tongue out to the reaper

This for the age of the House and Cypress Hill
When shit went down 'cause gangsters were real
Mad skills worth more than a ho-o-k
Viral memes not all that it to-o-k

Roll with my flow
From a lifetime and a half ago

This for the age of Cool J and Wu Tang
Googling "groove" just wasn't a thang
Mad skills worth more than a ho-o-k
Mumble slang was not all that it to-o-k

Roll with my flow
From a lifetime and a half ago
Roll with my flow
From a lifetime and a half ago