所属专辑:The Offering
歌手: Killah Priest
时长: 06:43
Essential - Killah Priest[00:00:00]
The night's a dark lord,[00:00:33]
Well dressed, inducing our Sun[00:00:34]
Upon the dawning of a full day[00:00:35]
He usually will come[00:00:37]
Galloping upon his winged horse[00:00:38]
Leaving trails of Stars across the planet,[00:00:40]
Night scene of New York[00:00:42]
Comes to life with lights, pubs,[00:00:43]
Clubs with thugs[00:00:45]
Mobsters, gangsters, criminals,[00:00:46]
Dealers with drugs[00:00:48]
Loud music, crowds are moving,[00:00:49]
Up and down blocks[00:00:51]
In and out of spots,[00:00:52]
Cops watch for a foul shooting[00:00:53]
So how're we moving?[00:00:55]
My soul scour through the clouds[00:00:56]
Where the moon'll sit[00:00:58]
Like the wise Owl searching[00:00:59]
Through a gloomy mist[00:01:00]
Six, or bring a casket down to his tomb[00:01:01]
Another child gets pushed[00:01:04]
Through the uterus[00:01:06]
From the womb we're intuitive,[00:01:07]
Eternal peace or damnation?[00:01:09]
Depending what we do with it,[00:01:11]
A genius or a lunatic?[00:01:12]
A general or a fugitive? It's 'Essential'[00:01:14]
Word!, it's 'Essential' to be a man[00:01:17]
Of your words[00:01:21]
Take care of your seeds,[00:01:23]
To the young kids,[00:01:25]
Honour your mother[00:01:26]
The greedy night is full[00:01:28]
Of demon's smiles[00:01:29]
And every hustler wear horns[00:01:30]
And every fiend comes from the ground[00:01:31]
The FBI got satellite radar[00:01:33]
Screening our child[00:01:35]
Jacking off to our chaos,[00:01:36]
The Beast get aroused[00:01:38]
There's another world with under bosses,[00:01:39]
Rich not into flossing[00:01:41]
Put hits on certain lawman,[00:01:42]
Who pick or run for office[00:01:44]
If they switch then[00:01:45]
The guns are brought in[00:01:46]
Who parted with professional ballplayers[00:01:47]
With big endorsements[00:01:49]
Who love to trick a hoe[00:01:50]
That sniff blowing bathroom toilets[00:01:51]
They're alcoholics,[00:01:53]
Going through mad divorces[00:01:54]
See their wives in the papers[00:01:56]
With half their fortune[00:01:57]
Then there's the Mob - leaving tips,[00:01:59]
A hundred bucks at the bar[00:02:01]
Big spenders, around the dealer,[00:02:02]
Shuffling cards[00:02:04]
Evil laughter, puffing cigars,[00:02:05]
In a room full of goons[00:02:07]
Tats cover their bullet wounds,[00:02:09]
Rats are pulled from the Lagoons[00:02:10]
Mexican mob doing shots of tequila,[00:02:12]
Live niggaz[00:02:14]
Throwing up knots in their pictures[00:02:15]
With gang signs[00:02:17]
At the same time, if crack was a wars[00:02:18]
And you can frame nines[00:02:21]
You would have plaques of coke scales[00:02:22]
Of money stacks[00:02:24]
But there is another party with Presidents,[00:02:25]
CIA Intelligence[00:02:27]
The Federal Defense,[00:02:29]
Executives with the Aliens[00:02:30]
Iraqi's and Israelians[00:02:32]
And by the time of my demise[00:02:34]
The one who talked to Cane should rise[00:02:36]
The second time while[00:02:37]
Abel blood rain from the skies[00:02:38]
And who knows where my soul will fly?[00:02:40]
I'm in the cemetery[00:02:42]
On top of a dark hillside[00:02:43]
It's 'Essential'...[00:02:45]
Everything's 'Essential',[00:02:46]
To the single black mothers[00:02:48]
Who's handling business,[00:02:49]
Always about their paper[00:02:51]
And doing their numbers[00:02:52]
It's 'Essential', nah'mean?[00:02:54]
(It's Essential)[00:02:56]
To the youth out there - be a soldier[00:02:57]
Take care of yours, keep it health;[00:03:00]
Always keep a clear mind[00:03:03]
Look at the world in front of you,[00:03:05]
You know?[00:03:07]
Snow fills the night air as the wind[00:03:07]
Throws her thick white hair[00:03:09]
Across her face, icicles appear,[00:03:10]
Fall from space[00:03:12]
Like tears, white frosts like flakes[00:03:13]
I'm with my peers, remorse at the wake[00:03:16]
So many cats I know I lost this way[00:03:18]
Sprayed up by bullets,[00:03:20]
I'm in my woolrich[00:03:21]
We crossed them graves[00:03:22]
My man spoke mad hoarse from pain[00:03:24]
He said "Yo Priest, just think of[00:03:26]
What we've lost today"[00:03:28]
The city lights are like the ice[00:03:29]
Around the rich mans wrist[00:03:30]
Where every hustler, big dreamer,[00:03:32]
Praiser, grants or wish[00:03:33]
By myself, right off the Belt 'til[00:03:35]
I hit the Van Wyk[00:03:36]
Cruising, jigsaw my thoughts,[00:03:37]
I need a plan to exist[00:03:38]
Should I get on like them[00:03:40]
Cuban guerrillas?[00:03:41]
Fly to their country make a truce[00:03:42]
With their killers?[00:03:43]
Move in a Villa, come[00:03:44]
With few of my niggaz[00:03:46]
They come with theirs; we politic[00:03:46]
On struggle and social affairs[00:03:48]
While toasting beers,[00:03:50]
My man had cunning ideas to get[00:03:51]
Rich with mobsters[00:03:53]
But what if it didn't prosper?[00:03:54]
Look what they did to Hoffa[00:03:55]
My feet buried in the sands[00:03:56]
Out in Nicaragua[00:03:58]
Or on a cruise out to Venezuela[00:03:59]
On a ship with a pool,[00:04:01]
Designer clothes and expensive tailors[00:04:03]
Sipping cappuccino[00:04:05]
Favourite flavour French vanilla[00:04:06]
Exotic foods, catching shrimp,[00:04:08]
No more minutes failure[00:04:09]
The Offering's the movie;[00:04:10]
My other albums are just trailers[00:04:12]
I can't hardly sit through the news,[00:04:13]
Watching this fictional tune[00:04:15]
Political view,[00:04:17]
The sky's dark as the Original Jews[00:04:18]
Subliminal clues left in the hieroglyphs[00:04:20]
Where the ancient empires exist[00:04:22]
Walk inside the cliffs of Cairo,[00:04:24]
Read the papyruses[00:04:26]
On the wall feel the Gaul[00:04:27]
Off Judas the Disciple's kiss[00:04:29]
At the Last Supper nowadays[00:04:30]
Is a microchip[00:04:32]
End of skull, my survival[00:04:33]
Kit is a rifle clip[00:04:34]
This is 'Essential'...[00:04:35]
It's Essential to lookout our family[00:04:38]
Stay strong, yo Ebo man?[00:04:42]
You know man?[00:04:45]
This is Essential[00:04:46]
Got me zoning out right now,[00:04:48]
But look at the world[00:04:51]
The entire art, you know what I mean?[00:04:53]
The mind, body and soul[00:04:55]
Yo, I just wanna give a shout out[00:04:56]
I wanna give a shout out to[00:04:58]
The whole world man[00:04:59]
Everything's Essential,[00:05:00]
You know what I mean?[00:05:01]
To the hoods and everybody,[00:05:02]
You'know'what'I'mean?[00:05:04]
Become your own Government man,[00:05:04]
Become your own[00:05:06]
Live, you gotta live strong,[00:05:06]
You'know'what'I'mean?[00:05:08]
It's Essential, food, clothe and health[00:05:09]
All that, you'know'what'I'mean?[00:05:12]
I wanna give a shout out to[00:05:13]
The whole Brooklyn[00:05:14]
Gates Ave. where I'm from,[00:05:16]
You'know'what'I'mean?[00:05:17]
Brownsville, where I'm from,[00:05:18]
You'know'what'I'mean?[00:05:20]
For Whole Brooklyn,[00:05:20]
Big up to Red Hook[00:05:21]
Yeah, whatup Shabazz the Disciple man?[00:05:23]
I'ma shout you out,[00:05:25]
That's my ni**a right there[00:05:26]
Word up! Yo, for everybody[00:05:28]
Who helped me on the album[00:05:30]
You'know'what'I'mean?[00:05:31]
Since you came through[00:05:33]
Fo'real, it's no life that's[00:05:35]
Essential man[00:05:37]
Shout out everybody out there man[00:05:38]
Live long or live strong,[00:05:41]
You'know'what'I'mean?[00:05:44]
This goes out to DJ Huggy man[00:05:46]
Good looking on this track right here,[00:05:49]
Fo'real[00:05:51]
Just live long[00:05:52]
(Pittsburgh; light born I see you)[00:05:53]
(Uh, Essential[00:05:57]
You'know'what'I'mean?,[00:06:01]
Stand up man, stand up like a man)[00:06:02]
(I'm ready, I'm ready for the war man,[00:06:04]
I'm ready yall, I'm ready[00:06:08]
(Priest is ready man,[00:06:11]
Aka putting in work, uh)[00:06:12]