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Poet Laureate II
Canibus

[Sampled Intro: same outro from Poet Laureate]
Uhh I dont understand how a writer could ever get writer's block, so called
My problem is having too much.. and being unable to get it down...

[Canibus]
Yo, why is the ripper so ill?
That would be a unpardonable breach of confidence for me to reveal!
He said one day all eyes would be on me
when they look up in the sky and see the neon 'C'
Rhymes inscribed on a nickel disk encased
in a glass with an ion beam for longevity
For more then 10 centuries, impressions and memories
the first time-machine inventor will mention me
Canibus was a visionary indeed
he believed light could travel in multiples of c
The organic supercomputer that solved the mysteries
of Klein-Kaluza with 2 blue metric rulers
Liked Cool J, but thought Stephen Jay Gould was cooler
and he never liked to propagate rumors
Smoked Canary Island cigars
liked American luxury cars and beautiful Asian broads
He had a strong mind, he used to philosophize
about rhymes while he was pruning his Bonsai
He claimed that he had written the greatest rhyme of all time
but he would never take it out his archives
He wrote 2 songs per day
and was constantly experimenting with his wordplay
In his youth he did a report on the Sloan Digital Sky survey
he got an F but he deserved an A
I followed his career from the first day
it seemed the lack of support contributed to his inert ways
I seen him put in 24 hour workdays
with deferred pay, undeterred by the word shame
Public humiliation was the worst pain
he was spinnin out of control like a class 5 hurricane
He said he wouldn't want another emcee to suffer the same
especially when there's nothing to gain
He was the illest alive but nobody would face it
he spit till his tongue was too torched to taste, it
properly funded corporations carbon-dated his latest creations
to extract the information
They found it utterly amazing
they claimed the body of his work was the same thing as a priceless painting
Never mattered to him, the art galleries hated him
cause Thomas Kinkade called, said he would take 10
Complete enigmas wrapped in puzzles encrypted in language
with sound but without shape or signature
Kept files in his garage, on MS-DOS
in a fire-proof pod, we thought it was odd
Outside there was a shed with an Oppenheimer lock
he apparently kept more wax then Madame Tussaud's
We were in total awe, cause it blew our minds
so many rhymes that were intricately designed
He WAS Poet Laureate of his time
and if you don't mind, I'd like to share some of his rhymes

[*beat switches*]

Alone in my room, looking through the 32X telescope zoom
adjusting the focus of the moon
One should not assume the philosophy of David Hume
is nothing more then a subjective conclusion
What is the maximum field rate application?
the run away glaciation surrounding the ocean basin
affects the population fluctuation
on a continuous basis but that's just the basics
The juxtaposition of Canibus' position
the precision something no other has written
Way above and beyond what was intended
the unparalleled malleable enunciation of a sentence
You didn't go to college obviously
I can tell by your ungodly unintelligible terminology
A remarkable odyssey, the rhymes of modern speeds
when the brain orders the body not to breathe
Your competency is not up to speed, you not in my league
you couldn't possibly be hotter than me
Or oppositely you're minus 25 degrees, you'd squeeze
but the condensation makes rifle barrels freeze
Allow me to speak figuratively, nigga please
my intellectual properties are about the size of Greece
Your counselor advised you not to speak
my counselor advised me to keep rhymin until they stopped the beat
In the words of Joseph Heller, I learned how to write better
even though it sort of irked me
He said he didn't understand the process of the imagination
but he felt he was at its mercy
Which exploits my point perfectly and certainly reinforces
the reason why nobody's probably ever heard of me
Couldn't understand what I mean by ill
unless you try to translate what I print to film
This is the line of will, the circle of time
the cycle of eternity, the emergence of 1 mind
Academic phonetics render critics tongue-tied
Ive personified dry humor of cum-laude alumni
A wise man sees failure as progress
a fool divorces his knowledge and misses the logic
And loses his soul in the process
obsessed with nonsense with a caricature that has no content
My style is masterful, multi-lateral
I could battle a fool and be naturally cruel
Words of scourn are a disastrous tool
from an existentialist view, I'm a better rapper then you
Grab the mic and rip your physical fabric in 2
my attitude is fucked up but admirable
Different methods interpreted into different forms
from entirely different perceptions and seen from different norms
Not just spittin a poem there's much more involved
there's much more pieces of the puzzle for you to solve
48 orders of mechanical laws
and rays of creational cause, enhance the cadence of my bars
Maybe I am self-absorbed
but that's the effect, to find the cause you should ask my A&R
Today is what it is, but only because yesterday was what it was
permitting you heard of Beelzebub
A tale of demons and drugs, pissy drunk in the club
with the DJ doing the needle rub
Chances are you'll never see me son
yeah I know my names Canibus but I cant help you if you need a dub

[*beat switches*]

I came to holla at some big booty bitches
and listen to the speakers thump, where you get conceited from?
I'm so nice on the mic, they wanna beat me up
its deep as fuck, I ain't seen it all but I've seen enough
Really unbelievable stuff
there's a lot of times where I wanna speak but I'm stuck
I should leave this rap shit alone
and kick my incredible rhymes in the privacy of my own home
My imagination is my own
the liberty to speak freely, lyrically on the microphone
Wit a pen in my hand, I bring motion to the enneagram
and become Cani-millenium man
Engrave my back with the emperor's stamp
been spittin scientific rap since the 17th century began
Tryna' escape the wicked empire of Def Jam
and the land where lyrics are bland and heretics hang
Every warrior has an axe to bury
but he has to learn to discern between enemy and adversary
I said to myself, Germaine this is insane
its suicide its controlled flight into terrain
I fought to regain, control of the plain, but went up in a ball of flames
and got banned from the hip hop hall of fame
For 2 bars I kept hearin in my head
over and over again, it cost me everything

[*beat changes back to the original beat*]

I'm convinced now that more then truth is at stake
Where people create language that pretends to communicate
Euphemisms are misunderstood as mistakes
but its a bi-product of the ghetto music we make
From an extroverted point of view I think its too late
Hip Hop has never been the same since '88
Since it became a lucrative profession there's a misconception
that a movement in any direction is progression
Even though of the potency of it lessens
big money industries writing checks to suppress the question
And nobody gives a fuck no more, no one goes to the book store
ever since the confluence of Moore's Law
But I stay in the lab, like Niels Bohr
and his son Aage, Edward Lorenz and Leo Szilard
Lyrically I took rap music and turned the knob
to the right full throttle and added panache
Why would I argue with my own conscience over the truth?
that's like me telling myself don't tell me what to do
Dialysis and analysis of battle emcees
sometimes I say things I myself can't believe
My lyrical is so skillfully elliptical
I can understand how it makes you miserable
You wonder why I never let you play your beats for me
or why I keep my studio enshrouded in secrecy
You wonder what's my infatuation with Alicia Keys
Canibus why don't you speak to me?
Yo, I meant it when I said no one can shine on a song that features me
that's why I said it so vehemently
You need to place the hate with respect
I'm probably the best yet, Poet Laureate!!!

[Sampled outro]
Generally I take.. I go with the given..
ya know with what comes to me .. over the celestial wireless ..
whenever it comes, you're lucky when you get it..


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RIP The Jacker]   Blakmilc Want Freedom   Box Cutta' Blade Runna   Box Cutta' Bladerunna'   Box Cutter   Boyz 2 Men   Broke Ass   Buckingham Palace   C Scrolls   C Section   C True Hollywood Stories   C.T.H.S.   Can't Stop The Shining   Canibus Man   Captn Cold Crush   Cemantics   Cenior Studies 02   Cenoir Studies 02   Channel Zero   Chaos   Cingularity Point   Clear & Present Danger [Feat. Krs One]   Collecting Taxes   Cptn Cold Crush   Crisis Music   Curriculum 101   Cypher Of Five Mics   Cypher Of Steel   Cypher With Self   Da Paycut   Da' Facelift   Dead By Design   Dear Academy   Def Con Zero   Desperados   Die Slow   Die Slow (ft. Journalist)   Do It Live!   Do This [Feat. Bekay & Chino Xl]   Doomsday News   Dr C Phd   Dr. C Ph. D   Draft Me   Draft Me (ft. C4)   Drafted   Drama A/T   Drama A/T [feat. Luminati]   Drama AT (ft. Luminati)   Dreamzzzzz   Dyson's Fear of Spheres   Falster Ego   Father Author, Poor Pauper   For Whom The Beat Tolls   Fraternity Of The Impoverished   Free Words   Genabis   Get Off Ya Knees   Get Off Yakneez   Get Retarded   Give It More   God$Les$ America   Gold & Bronze Magik   Gold And Bronze Magik   Golden Terra Of Rap   Golden Terra Of Rap (IM Remix)   Gone In 60 Seconds   Gone Till November   Good Equals Evil   Got Bitches?   Gotta Get That Doe   Gotta Get That Doe (ft. Pakman)   Gybaotc   Gybaotic   Harbinger Of Light   Hate U 2   Hate U 2 (ft. Pakman)   Hell   Here 4 Free   Hip-Hop Black Ops   Hip-Hop Body Rock   Hiphop.MP3.com Exclusive   Historic [Feat. Ras Kass, Tragedy Khadafi, Kurupt ...   Horsemen   Horsemen Enforcements   Horsementality   Horsementality (ft. 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Journalist)   Liquid Wordz   Live Dublin Freestyle   Lost @ "C"   Lost @ C   Lullaby Of Champions   Lullabye Of Champions   Lunar Deluge   Luv U 2   Luv U 2 (ft. Pakman)   Lyrical Law Introduction   Lyrical Noir   M Sea Cresy   M-Sea-Cresy   Magnum Innominandum   Majestic Mic Masters [Feat. Phoenix Orion]   Make A Name For Ourselves   Master Thesis   Melatonin Magik   Melatonin Magik (Intro)   Merchant Of Mataphors   Mic Club Intro   Mic Club Mascot   Mic Club Outro   Mic-Nificent   Microphone Meticulousness   Mind Control   Music Makes Me High   My Home Atlanta   Natural Born Skilla [Bis Verse]   Nigganometry   Niggonometry   No Airplay   No Return   Nobody   Not 4 Play   One Ought Not To Think   Only Slaves D.R.E.A.M.   Patriots   Patriots Remix   Pay Mein Gold   Phuk U   Pine Comb Poem   Poet Laureate   Poet Laureate Infinity   Poet Laureate Infinity V003   Poet Laureate Infinity V004   Poet Laureate Infinity Vocal 1   Poet Laureate Infinity Vocal 2   Poet Laureate Infinity Vocal 3   Poet Laureate Infinity Vocal 4   Poet Laureate Infinity Vocal 5   Post Traumatic Warlab Stress   Priesthood   Protect Ya Neck Freestyle   Psych Evaluation   Psyh Evaluation   Punch Lines   R U Lyrically Fit (ft. Luminati)   R U Lyrically Fit?   Real Shit   Reebok Commercial Part 1   Reebok Commercial Part 2   Right Now   Rip Is Alive   Rip Iz Alive   Rip Rock   Rip The Jacker   Rip Vs Poet Laureate Snippet   Rip Vs Poet Laurette   Rip Vs. Poet Laureate   Ripperland   Salute   Say It Ain't So   Second Round K.O.   Second Round Knockout   Second Round Knockout (Extended Version)   Secrets Amongst Cosmonauts   Sharpshootaz Blastin' Caps   Shogun   Shout Out to Lost Boyz   Shove This Jay - Oh - Bee   Shove This Jay-Oh-Bee   Showtime at the Gallow   Showtime At TheGallow   Sinflation   So Into You   Some Shit   Spartibus   Stan Lives! (Skit)   Stomp On Ya Brain   Stop Smokin   Stupid Producers   Take 'Dat   Talk The Talk   The Art Of Yo   The C-Quel   The Cypher Of Agartha   The Cypher Of Bread & Butter   The Dragon Of Judah   The Dungeon   The Emerald Cypher   The Fusion Centre   The Ghost Of Hip Hops Past   The Goetia   The Golden Cypher   The Last Christians   The Messenger's Message   The Mic Disease   The Primary Axiom   The Principle of Equivalence   The Rip Off   The Rude Boy Oscars   There Has He Been   This Ain't the Movies   Title 17 USMC   U Didn't Care   U Don't Cee   U Know Who   Uni - 4 - Orm   Uni-4-Orm   Vitruvian Canman   Watch Who U Beef Wit   Watch Who You Beef Wid   Watch Who You Beef Wit   What's Going On   Who Owns You?   Who Stopped Ya?   Worthlessness Purpose   Wreck Room   Ya Teef Iz Yellow   Ya Teef iz Yellow (ft. Pakman)   Ya Teef Iz Yellow (Skit)   Yeng Meng   You Can't Fuck With The Canibus Man

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