Essential-Killah Priest

[ti:Essential] [ar:Killah Priest] [al:The Offering] [offset:0] [00:00.43]Essential - Killah Priest [00:33.12]The night's a dark lord, [00:34.19]Well dressed, inducing our Sun [00:35.87]Upon the dawning of a full day [00:37.62]He usually will come [00:38.82]Galloping upon his winged horse [00:40.55]Leaving trails of Stars across the planet, [00:42.82]Night scene of New York [00:43.95]Comes to life with lights, pubs, [00:45.81]Clubs with thugs [00:46.77]Mobsters, gangsters, criminals, [00:48.34]Dealers with drugs [00:49.65]Loud music, crowds are moving, [00:51.62]Up and down blocks [00:52.68]In and out of spots, [00:53.77]Cops watch for a foul shooting [00:55.50]So how're we moving? [00:56.77]My soul scour through the clouds [00:58.38]Where the moon'll sit [00:59.37]Like the wise Owl searching [01:00.60]Through a gloomy mist [01:01.86]Six, or bring a casket down to his tomb [01:04.66]Another child gets pushed [01:06.30]Through the uterus [01:07.62]From the womb we're intuitive, [01:09.64]Eternal peace or damnation? [01:10.88] [01:11.40]Depending what we do with it, [01:12.81]A genius or a lunatic? [01:14.87]A general or a fugitive? It's 'Essential' [01:17.95]Word!, it's 'Essential' to be a man [01:21.73]Of your words [01:22.49] [01:23.15]Take care of your seeds, [01:24.55] [01:25.22]To the young kids, [01:26.26]Honour your mother [01:27.09] [01:28.03]The greedy night is full [01:29.25]Of demon's smiles [01:30.48]And every hustler wear horns [01:31.97]And every fiend comes from the ground [01:33.69]The FBI got satellite radar [01:35.69]Screening our child [01:36.90]Jacking off to our chaos, [01:38.15]The Beast get aroused [01:39.34]There's another world with under bosses, [01:41.03]Rich not into flossing [01:42.48]Put hits on certain lawman, [01:44.00]Who pick or run for office [01:45.56]If they switch then [01:46.23]The guns are brought in [01:47.53]Who parted with professional ballplayers [01:49.59]With big endorsements [01:50.91]Who love to trick a hoe [01:51.90]That sniff blowing bathroom toilets [01:53.58]They're alcoholics, [01:54.62]Going through mad divorces [01:56.22]See their wives in the papers [01:57.98]With half their fortune [01:59.07]Then there's the Mob - leaving tips, [02:01.01]A hundred bucks at the bar [02:02.37]Big spenders, around the dealer, [02:04.27]Shuffling cards [02:05.22]Evil laughter, puffing cigars, [02:06.94] [02:07.49]In a room full of goons [02:09.30]Tats cover their bullet wounds, [02:10.83]Rats are pulled from the Lagoons [02:12.26]Mexican mob doing shots of tequila, [02:14.15]Live niggaz [02:15.61]Throwing up knots in their pictures [02:17.66]With gang signs [02:18.98]At the same time, if crack was a wars [02:21.41]And you can frame nines [02:22.73]You would have plaques of coke scales [02:24.43]Of money stacks [02:25.50]But there is another party with Presidents, [02:27.86]CIA Intelligence [02:28.98] [02:29.54]The Federal Defense, [02:30.89]Executives with the Aliens [02:32.83]Iraqi's and Israelians [02:34.50]And by the time of my demise [02:36.09]The one who talked to Cane should rise [02:37.86]The second time while [02:38.89]Abel blood rain from the skies [02:40.50]And who knows where my soul will fly? [02:42.66]I'm in the cemetery [02:43.84]On top of a dark hillside [02:45.37]It's 'Essential'... [02:46.55]Everything's 'Essential', [02:47.81] [02:48.48]To the single black mothers [02:49.72]Who's handling business, [02:51.21]Always about their paper [02:52.43]And doing their numbers [02:53.52] [02:54.12]It's 'Essential', nah'mean? [02:56.74](It's Essential) [02:57.27]To the youth out there - be a soldier [02:59.65] [03:00.47]Take care of yours, keep it health; [03:03.83]Always keep a clear mind [03:05.86]Look at the world in front of you, [03:07.29]You know? [03:07.66]Snow fills the night air as the wind [03:09.10]Throws her thick white hair [03:10.25]Across her face, icicles appear, [03:12.46]Fall from space [03:13.72]Like tears, white frosts like flakes [03:16.43]I'm with my peers, remorse at the wake [03:18.54]So many cats I know I lost this way [03:20.75]Sprayed up by bullets, [03:21.99]I'm in my woolrich [03:22.99]We crossed them graves [03:24.10]My man spoke mad hoarse from pain [03:26.30]He said "Yo Priest, just think of [03:28.28]What we've lost today" [03:29.55]The city lights are like the ice [03:30.82]Around the rich mans wrist [03:32.24]Where every hustler, big dreamer, [03:33.82]Praiser, grants or wish [03:35.23]By myself, right off the Belt 'til [03:36.79]I hit the Van Wyk [03:37.92]Cruising, jigsaw my thoughts, [03:38.97]I need a plan to exist [03:40.62]Should I get on like them [03:41.86]Cuban guerrillas? [03:42.55]Fly to their country make a truce [03:43.64]With their killers? [03:44.72]Move in a Villa, come [03:46.16]With few of my niggaz [03:46.94]They come with theirs; we politic [03:48.66]On struggle and social affairs [03:49.72] [03:50.25]While toasting beers, [03:51.49]My man had cunning ideas to get [03:53.29]Rich with mobsters [03:54.41]But what if it didn't prosper? [03:55.62]Look what they did to Hoffa [03:56.93]My feet buried in the sands [03:58.45]Out in Nicaragua [03:59.28]Or on a cruise out to Venezuela [04:01.05] [04:01.90]On a ship with a pool, [04:03.41]Designer clothes and expensive tailors [04:05.50]Sipping cappuccino [04:06.55]Favourite flavour French vanilla [04:08.08]Exotic foods, catching shrimp, [04:09.59]No more minutes failure [04:10.71]The Offering's the movie; [04:12.20]My other albums are just trailers [04:13.89]I can't hardly sit through the news, [04:15.87]Watching this fictional tune [04:17.14]Political view, [04:18.14]The sky's dark as the Original Jews [04:20.20]Subliminal clues left in the hieroglyphs [04:22.51]Where the ancient empires exist [04:24.62]Walk inside the cliffs of Cairo, [04:26.37]Read the papyruses [04:27.73]On the wall feel the Gaul [04:29.06]Off Judas the Disciple's kiss [04:30.99]At the Last Supper nowadays [04:32.37]Is a microchip [04:33.30]End of skull, my survival [04:34.71]Kit is a rifle clip [04:35.73]This is 'Essential'... [04:36.51] [04:38.65]It's Essential to lookout our family [04:40.55] [04:42.33]Stay strong, yo Ebo man? [04:45.60]You know man? [04:46.46]This is Essential [04:47.33] [04:48.25]Got me zoning out right now, [04:49.85] [04:51.24]But look at the world [04:52.24] [04:53.72]The entire art, you know what I mean? [04:55.01]The mind, body and soul [04:56.01]Yo, I just wanna give a shout out [04:57.43] [04:58.30]I wanna give a shout out to [04:59.55]The whole world man [05:00.49]Everything's Essential, [05:01.44]You know what I mean? [05:02.56]To the hoods and everybody, [05:03.71] [05:04.66]You'know'what'I'mean? [05:04.99]Become your own Government man, [05:06.35]Become your own [05:06.99]Live, you gotta live strong, [05:08.23]You'know'what'I'mean? [05:08.83] [05:09.75]It's Essential, food, clothe and health [05:12.36]All that, you'know'what'I'mean? [05:13.88]I wanna give a shout out to [05:14.96]The whole Brooklyn [05:16.25]Gates Ave. where I'm from, [05:17.62]You'know'what'I'mean? [05:18.57]Brownsville, where I'm from, [05:20.15]You'know'what'I'mean? [05:20.34]For Whole Brooklyn, [05:21.82]Big up to Red Hook [05:23.29]Yeah, whatup Shabazz the Disciple man? [05:25.85]I'ma shout you out, [05:26.63]That's my ni**a right there [05:28.03]Word up! Yo, for everybody [05:30.26]Who helped me on the album [05:31.71]You'know'what'I'mean? [05:32.39] [05:33.67]Since you came through [05:34.71] [05:35.25]Fo'real, it's no life that's [05:37.36]Essential man [05:38.77]Shout out everybody out there man [05:40.78] [05:41.46]Live long or live strong, [05:42.72] [05:44.15]You'know'what'I'mean? [05:44.81] [05:46.27]This goes out to DJ Huggy man [05:48.38] [05:49.17]Good looking on this track right here, [05:50.90] [05:51.60]Fo'real [05:52.06] [05:52.64]Just live long [05:53.92](Pittsburgh; light born I see you) [05:55.38] [05:57.25](Uh, Essential [05:59.82] [06:01.10]You'know'what'I'mean?, [06:01.88] [06:02.52]Stand up man, stand up like a man) [06:04.78](I'm ready, I'm ready for the war man, [06:07.95] [06:08.95]I'm ready yall, I'm ready [06:10.07] [06:11.01](Priest is ready man, [06:11.92] [06:12.59]Aka putting in work, uh) [06:15.83]