[Verse 1]
This is twice inna lifetime, once inna blue moon
Half a yellow sun, for Ben Gunn, stranded you maroon
Looney like a ’toon, army black and white, a castle new
Crimson like the darkness of closed eyes on a summer’s afternoon
Brave New Worlds, fame and girls is all I want like you for Christmas
Paradoxes of Yonkers all upon my wish list
Gut fishes with a quickness, slice it with a knife
Longer than Freddy Kruegar’s fingers, like Mike’s is, priceless
Bumps in the night, creaks in the boards, look out for
Me coz I write rhymes while you spend your nights getting hammered like Thor
Spent more time in the liquor store, 4, 3, 2, 1
Draw, this is war, you don’t believe what you saw
Like the Yeti or Nessie, you could never test me, never best me
Your flow is sloppy like Giuseppe, you better learn to crawl
Or I’ll make you fall on your own sword like Saul
In the eye of the storm with your jaw on the floor
Countries torn like Jason Bourne, emptying the full clip
People mourning in the morning living in the Gaza Strip
Kite running in the streets, guilt trips to cleft lips
Stone crypts still filling with bodies of the non-descript
I flip the script like Bennett Smith, I tell you plainly
Raining fire like a dragon on the track if you inflame me
I say like like like, like Stevie and Jamie
But I can mask the way I talk, how I do it so Bane-ly
They try to frame me like art but I break out of the box
A failed Oddjob getting shocked at Fort Knox
I’m harder to read than a hand with no clocks
It’s time to tinker, tamper with the clockwork, is it not?
This is twice inna lifetime, so I’m letting you know
Blackstar, Wordsorth, Punchline and Jane Doe (yo!)
Lyrical com-pete and I emcee
I got the fortified five, exhibit level degree
I shine like a black star, black body radiation
I make people lose their heads living in a zombie nation
Kraft Kern and craft words, and make heads turn
Exercise an exorcism for your raps that infirm
Burn the Magna Carta, piss on the Jack
Economic situations colder than 3 Stacks
Taxing trafficking, like mannequins
Asking them and panicking, the answers been distorted
Contorted and exhorted
Book of Mormon bullshit; don’t believe them it’s a trap
Like Akbar, fast cars, and counter-attacks, fact!
Thrice inna lifetime, once and for all
I’m on the ball like ball boys, while you’re in the stalls
A Hazard to you other rappers like Dow Chemical
Inevitably indispensable, your raps indefensible and expendable
Like Stallone, you know you’re picking the wrong fight, go home
I sold my soul for these skills, Robert Johnson at crossroads
You don’t know, this is half my potential
For your soul and your mental, the applause is torrential
Quintessential, I’m an act of pure class
Unsurpassed, brash, the king’s free at last
The outcast is back, better watch the way you move
Skewer sewer rats fast, leave you bruised and abused
Cork screwed, twisted, blistered and bled
Sweeter and deadlier than the sugars of lead
Treading lighter than the Reaper knocking with a death warrant
Dropping abhorrent verses more common than Cameron bombing the foreign
Rockin’ it like Fours, you got something to say
It’s the North West deft, one and only, Tru K
Clocking out like workers at the end of the day
It’s the North West best, one and only, Tru K
