[00:00.000] 作词 : Baldwin, Williams
[00:00.00]"Poet Laureate II"
[00:08.38]Yo, why is the Ripper so ill?
[00:11.43]That would be an unpardonable breech of confidence for me to reveal
[00:14.70]He said, One of these days all eyes will be on me
[00:17.26]When they look up in the sky and see the neon C
[00:19.46]Rhymes inscribed on a nickel disk encased in a glass with an ion beam for longevity
[00:24.48]For more than ten centuries, impressions and memories
[00:27.25]The first time-machine inventor will mention me
[00:30.12]Canibus was a visionary indeed
[00:32.32]He believed light could travel in multiples of c
[00:35.03]The organic supercomputer that solved the mysteries of Klein-Kaluza with two blue metric rulers
[00:40.60]Liked Cool J but thought Steven Jay Gould was cooler
[00:43.06]And he never liked to propagate rumors
[00:45.31]Smoked Canary Island cigars
[00:47.93]Liked American luxury cars and beautiful Asian broads
[00:50.13]He had a strong mind
[00:51.64]He used to philosophize about rhymes while he was pruning his bonsais
[00:55.11]He claimed that he had written the greatest rhyme of all time
[00:58.11]But he would never take it out of his archives
[01:00.52]He wrote two songs per day
[01:02.28]And was constantly experimenting with his wordplay
[01:04.78]In his youth he did a report on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
[01:08.16]He got a F but he deserved an A
[01:10.37]I followed his career from the first day
[01:12.57]It seemed the lack of support contributed to his inert ways
[01:15.42]Ive seen him put in twenty-four hour workdays
[01:18.34]With deferred pay, undeterred by the worst shame
[01:20.45]Public humiliation was the worst pain
[01:22.76]He was spinning out of control like a class five hurricane
[01:25.47]He said he wouldnt want another emcee to suffer the same
[01:28.18]Especially when theres nothing to gain
[01:30.43]He was the illest alive but nobody would face it
[01:33.09]He spit til his tongue was too torched to taste it
[01:35.75]Properly funded corporations Carbon-dated his latest creations
[01:39.07]To extract the information, they found it utterly amazing
[01:42.44]They claimed the body of his work was the same thing as a priceless painting
[01:46.14]Never mattered to him the art galleries hated him
[01:48.50]Cause Thomas Kinkade called and said he would take ten
[01:51.05]Complete enigmas wrapped in puzzles encrypted in language
[01:53.86]With sound but without shape or signature
[01:55.97]Kept files in his garage on MS-DOS in a fireproof pod, we thought it was odd
[02:00.89]Outside there was a shed with an Oppenheimer lock
[02:03.60]He apparently kept more wax than Madame Tussaud
[02:06.20]We were in total awe cause it blew our minds
[02:08.51]So many rhymes that were intricately designed
[02:11.03]He WAS poet laureate of his time
[02:13.54]And if you dont mind Id like to share some of his rhymes
[02:16.30]Alone in my room looking through the thirty-two X telescope zoom
[02:19.90]Adjusting the focus of the moon
[02:21.30]One should not assume the philosophy of David Hume is nothing more than a subjective conclusion
[02:26.53]What is the maximum field rate application?
[02:28.78]The runaway glaciation surrounding the ocean basin
[02:31.55]Affects the population fluctuation on a continuous basis but thats just the basics
[02:37.04]The juxtaposition of Can-I-Buss position
[02:39.59]The precision of something no other has written
[02:42.14]Way above and beyond what was intended
[02:43.65]The unparalleled malleable enunciation of a sentence
[02:47.51]You didnt go to college, obviously
[02:49.42]I can tell by your ungodly unintelligible terminology
[02:52.03]Your remarkable odyssey
[02:53.99]The rhymes at modest speeds when the brain orders the body not to breathe
[02:57.56]Your competency is not up to speed, youre not in my league
[03:00.21]You couldnt possibly be hotter than me
[03:02.31]Or oppositely at minus twenty-five degrees
[03:04.78]Youll squeeze but the condensation makes rifle barrels freeze
[03:07.59]Allow me to speak figuratively, ***** please
[03:10.01]My intellectual propertys about the size of Greece
[03:12.61]Your counselor advised you not to speak
[03:14.47]My counselor advised me to keep rhyming until they stopped the beat
[03:17.42]In the words of Joseph Heller, I learned how to write better, even though it sort of irked me
[03:22.62]He said he didnt understand the process of the imagination but he felt he was at its mercy
[03:27.59]Which exploits my point perfectly
[03:29.04]And certainly reinforces the reason why nobodys probably ever heard of me
[03:33.22]Couldnt understand what I mean by ill
[03:35.82]Lest you try to translate what I print to film
[03:37.83]This is the line of will, the circle of time, the cycle of eternity, the emergence of one line
[03:43.31]Academic phonetics render critics tongue-tied
[03:45.47]The personified dry humor of cum laude alumni
[03:48.18]A wise man sees failure as progress
[03:50.64]A fool divorces his knowledge and misses the logic
[03:53.25]And loses his soul in the process obsessed with nonsense with a caricature that has no content
[03:58.37]My style is masterful, multilateral, I could battle a fool and be naturally cruel
[04:03.18]Words of scorn are a disastrous tool, from an existentialists view Im a better rapper than you
[04:08.05]Grab the mic and rip your physical fabric in two, my attitude is ****** up but admirable
[04:13.16]Different methods interpreted into different forms
[04:15.87]From entirely different perceptions and seen from different norms
[04:18.72]Not just spitting a poem, theres much more involved
[04:21.28]Theres much more pieces of the puzzle for you to solve
[04:23.59]Forty-eight orders of mechanical laws
[04:25.89]And rays of creational cause enhance the cadence of my bars
[04:28.80]Maybe I am self-absorbed
[04:30.41]But thats the effect, to find the cause you should ask my A&R
[04:33.68]Today is what it is but only because yesterday was what it was
[04:37.64]Permitting youve heard of Beelzebub
[04:38.89]A tale of demons and drugs, pissy drunk in the club
[04:41.54]With the DJ doing the needle rub, chances are youd never see me, son
[04:45.66]Yeah, I know my names Canibus but I cant help you if you need a dub
[04:49.31]I came to holler at some big booty ******* and listen to the speakers thump
[04:53.33]Whered you get conceited from? Im so nice on the mic they want to beat me up
[04:57.04]Its deep as ****, I aint seen it all but Ive seen enough, really unbelievable stuff
[05:01.45]Theres a lot of times when I want to speak but Im stuck
[05:03.95]I should leave this rap **** alone and kick my incredible rhymes in the privacy of my own home
[05:09.32]My imagination is my own, the liberty to speak freely lyrically on the microphone
[05:14.03]With a pen in my hand I bring motion to the Enneagram and become Can-I-Millennium Man
[05:19.24]Engrave my back with the Emperors Stamp
[05:23.10]Been spitting scientific rap since the seventeenth century began
[05:24.67]Trying to escape the wicked empire of Def Jam in the land where lyrics are bland and heretics hang
[05:29.47]Every warrior has an ax to bury, but he has to learn to discern between enemy and adversary
[05:35.56]I said to myself, Germaine, this is insane, its suicide, its controlled flight into terrain
[05:39.27]I fought to regain control the plane but went up in a ball of flames
[05:43.63]And got banned from the Hip-Hop Hall of Fame
[05:46.17]For two bars I kept hearing in my head over and over again
[05:49.18]It cost me everything
[05:50.33]Im convinced now that more than the truth is at stake
[05:52.53]Where people create language that pretends to communicate
[05:55.24]Euphemisms are misunderstood as mistakes
[05:58.05]But its a byproduct of the ghetto music we make
[06:00.26]From an extroverted point of view, I think its too late
[06:02.90]Hip-Hop has never been the same since eighty-eight
[06:05.61]Since it became a lucrative profession theres a misconception
[06:08.12]That a movement in any direction is progression
[06:10.58]Even though the potency of it lessens
[06:12.84]Big money industries writing checks to suppress the question
[06:15.59]And nobody gives a **** no more
[06:16.89]No one goes to the bookstore ever since the confluence of Moores Law
[06:20.91]But I stay in the lab like Niels Bohr, his son Aage, Edward Lorenz and Leo Szilard
[06:25.72]Lyrically I took rap music and turned the knob
[06:28.27]To the right full-throttle and added panache
[06:30.78]Why would I argue with my own conscience over the truth
[06:33.18]Thats like me telling myself, Dont tell me what to do
[06:35.84]Dialyses and analyses of battle emcees, sometimes I say things I myself cant believe
[06:38.75]My lyrical is so skillfully elliptical, I can understand how it makes you miserable
[06:46.46]You wonder why I never let you play your beats for me?
[06:48.96]And why I keep my studio enshrouded in secrecy?
[06:51.53]You wonder whats my infatuation with Alicia Keys?
[06:54.27]Canibus, why dont you speak to me?
[06:55.97]Yo, I meant it when I said no one can shine on a song that features me
[06:58.64]Thats why I said it so vehemently
[07:01.64]You need to replace the hate with respect, Im probably the best yet
[07:04.84]Poet Laureate!