[00:00:02] Lyrical Gunplay - Thavius Beck/Saul Williams [00:00:11] Begin [00:00:12] Demystify the mummy within [00:00:13] If you ain't hotep then ho step, I'll step to your friend [00:00:16] Parable of the wind [00:00:18] Blew black through to the end [00:00:19] Endless night, kicks [00:00:20] And fights against time and her friends [00:00:22] Slowly day and night blend [00:00:23] Twilight takes form and then [00:00:25] Open sky sprouts an eye: solo, singular, sin [00:00:28] Downward glance, upward grin [00:00:29] Half the women are men [00:00:30] Children born of the morn grow until daylight's end [00:00:33] Children born of the wind [00:00:35] Take the night as their friend [00:00:36] Starlit sky, many-eyed wonder of the within [00:00:39] Fear: original sin [00:00:40] Death: nowhere near the end [00:00:42] Once upon break o'dawn's early Lyte: Paper Thin [00:00:45] Now where my hoes and my pimps at? [00:00:48] I dosie-do heel-toe 'fore I lean back [00:00:51] And all my children who run 'way [00:00:53] And beware of the lyrical gunplay [00:00:57] Now where my hoes and my pimps at? [00:00:59] I dosie-do heel-toe 'fore I lean back [00:01:02] And all my children who run 'way [00:01:04] And beware of the lyrical gunplay [00:01:07] The corner coroner [00:01:09] I smoke for weeks [00:01:10] Dead Pan, like dead man, through chimney peaks [00:01:13] I streak the skyline [00:01:15] I blew through bird [00:01:16] High notes. I space float. I'm lost for words [00:01:19] The storefront preacher [00:01:20] The Sunday best [00:01:21] The dangling cross between legs, on chest [00:01:24] The country farmer [00:01:26] The hoedown champ [00:01:27] The rhythmic armor. The cosmic dance [00:01:30] The buck and gully [00:01:32] The native son [00:01:33] Bigger and Deffer. The freshest one [00:01:35] The sewed-in creases [00:01:37] The flavored twills [00:01:38] The confidence snorted through dollar bills [00:01:41] The "F**k I care for?" [00:01:43] The boldface lie [00:01:44] The been there and done that. The do or die [00:01:47] The dirty dirty [00:01:48] The filthy clean [00:01:50] Thugged out and nerdy. No in between [00:01:53] Now where my hoes and my pimps at? [00:01:55] I dosie-do heel-toe 'fore I lean back [00:01:59] And all my children who run 'way [00:02:01] And beware of the lyrical gunplay [00:02:04] Now where my hoes and my pimps at? [00:02:07] I dosie-do heel-toe 'fore I lean back [00:02:10] And all my children who run 'way [00:02:12] And beware of the lyrical gunplay [00:02:15] The blackest berry [00:02:17] The sweetest juice [00:02:18] That complex NGH born of simple truth [00:02:21] The solar/polar [00:02:22] The chosen side [00:02:24] The black face mammy of the bluest eye [00:02:26] The battered woman [00:02:28] The dream deferred [00:02:29] Now caught up and paid in full, that's my word [00:02:32] The jungle brother [00:02:33] The sly and stone [00:02:35] Rock hard, NGH. Give a dog a bone [00:02:38] The marrow's marrow [00:02:39] The newest breed [00:02:41] The headline merger between word and deed [00:02:43] The search for balance [00:02:45] A quest for peace [00:02:46] A tribe called NGH. NGH WHT, the chief [00:02:49] The distant lover [00:02:50] The close-up clown [00:02:52] The iced-out grill with the screw-face frown [00:02:55] A wealth of violence [00:02:56] A violent wealth [00:02:58] You caught up, NGH, better watch your health [00:03:00] Now where my hoes and my pimps at? [00:03:03] I dosie-do heel-toe 'fore I lean back [00:03:06] And all my children who run 'way [00:03:09] And beware of the lyrical gunplay [00:03:12] Now where my hoes and my pimps at? [00:03:14] I dosie-do heel-toe 'fore I lean back [00:03:18] And all my children who run 'way [00:03:20] And beware of the lyrical gunplay [00:03:34] The beat is d**e though [00:03:36] The junkie nod [00:03:37] The use of breakbeats to beat the odds [00:03:40] The odds are even [00:03:41] I paper rocks [00:03:43] Rocks smash scissors. nghs trigger Glocks [00:03:46] The blackend target [00:03:47] The dick-long chain [00:03:48] Nghs kill nghs in Jesus' name [00:03:51] The blackend target