This thing that I’m always enveying about, about ego, is, I think, very true. We are, um, so similar that any one of us could stand in for any of the other of us. So this thing we spend our entire life creating called “my unique personality”, is a yuppy indulgence. Nobody is really special. Intelligence is special when compared to stupidity but noone holds the patent.

Intro It’s the mass wake, the fare cuz everything at stake/ Mass wake, never fold n die/ Rise together fly aint no difference you or I/ This the mass wake -yuh/ Al2One: Manuscripture flawed -religion mostly fraud/ Division means we losin vision -livin this fasade/ Killin one another runnin rampant like a pit/ Think u livin golden but you stuck within the pit/ Lazarus ta Genesis -history Onna loop/ Tryna feed um Gumbo but they satisfied w Soup/ Watered down divided -atoms stay collidin/ Still beliefs are sided -see it’s split -Poseidon/ This one for the mass -gotta wake before we crumble/ All our roots connected in soil thru the rubble/ Subtle ain't the answer -come as one n rumble/ Soon as we’re enlightened -they label us the trouble/ I aint w all that -regardless it’s a fact/ The Agency aint wit it when the Masses come in tact/ I cant change the world but I’ll try before I’m flat/ Tryna see the wake for the level of the mass/(So I ask) Hook Whats the difference between us/ Qauran n Jesus Pieces/ Tora or the pigment in us/ Rulers call the segment in us/ Whats the difference between us/ Qauran n Jesus Pieces/ Tora or the pigment in us/ Rulers call the segment in us/ B~Style: --Excuse me, I got kill the beat tendencies/ These athletes call that shit muscle memory/ Soliloquy of a Poet that got you wide open/ -No distortion I throw these thoughts the farthest/ Like Brett Favre with footballs high off endorphins/ --Shit, my youngins jumpin off porches with knowledge of self/ Honor is felt -even if the environments Hell/ Gotta prevail -in these last days/ Keep that thingy always/ –I aint ever trippin keepin knots like shoe laces/ Runnin up the steps kept me runnin up the checks/ Stiff arm in your neck if you comin incorrect/ If Society is Chess, I won’t ever have to move/ Always had the juice, throw your Bishop off the roof/ 21 Gun Salute ---and that carry hella weight/ -1 question for I break is it Mass Wake, or Mass -Wake/ Hook Whats the difference between us/ Qauran n Jesus Pieces/ Tora or the pigment in us/ Rulers call the segment in us/ Whats the difference between us/ Qauran n Jesus Pieces/ Tora or the pigment in us/ Rulers call the segment in us/

Intro ----Toll of a Poet -yuh this the Toll of a Poet/ Lived so many lives so many times i never showed it/ ----Toll of a Poet -yuh ----This the Toll of a Poet/ Verse 1 We ain't even choose it -least it what it feels like/ Still it's movin fluid thru the bloodline ---hard times / We been raised above it still we feel the evil brewin/ Feelin like its everyday -gotta pay ta prove it/ Do shit, move shit, little bit aint good enough/ Gotta hit the block w everything you gotta run it up/ Word ta Tezzo movin, Mook be out here shakin/ I been payin dues since the County tried ta break me/ Sacrifice is everything the OGs tried ta tell me/ Put it on the wood -don't ever let me fail me/ Kailey jus don't get it, her Daddy like a Mobster/ Try ta teach her everything her Ma think imma Monster/ All a that it comes wit - i'm fully aware/ Fully in the belly livin life in despair/ Aint a thing ta me tho -the toll is what comes wit it/ The choice ta be Poet don't get roses till it’s written// Hook -How u sposed to get it if you never lived it --never knew/ — This the Toll of a poet —sacrifice up everything in search of finer things in 2s/ —This the Toll of a Poet Verse 2 Alcohol n pills had me tryna get but kept me slippin/ I refuse ta be the dude that lose his roots n become a statistic/ Right imma misfit but it’s where I fit in/ I fully understand the risks of the world that I’m in/ —Tryna beat the odds, tryna be the boss/ Many times I ask myself I want it all but at what cost am I tryna pay/ -Life or death -every breath -I take it day by day/ —I’m tryna make it/(breathe heavy adlib) Ain’t we all, want it all -up against it all/ Pink Floyd tried tuh tell us when they wrote it on the wall/ -The Toll of Poet just a part of the game/ The money ain’t my aim just remember my name/ N when it comes to comin up/ Tell the youth tuh get it/ Focus on the mission, never lose your vision/ Always be explicit in your moves n go the distance/ N always understand every role has its position/ Hook -How u sposed to get it if you never lived it --never knew/ — This the Toll of a poet —sacrifice up everything in search of finer things in 2s/ —This the Toll of a Poet

Verse 1 Sacrifices everyday tryna keep from losin/ Tryna earn a livin aint so easy get to boostin/ I aint with the thievery but eden all inclusive/ Never show your hand unless you ready for the juke-in/ Ruthless, Ruth Chris/ Many flaunt the luxury but few know what they doin/ Losin -ain’t never part the recipe/ Heckle me Dr. Hyde and Jekyll me/ Imma keep it NeverFold - u deep cover/ Imma burn yuh -imma earner/ Streets is always hot -keep a burner/ Like L-Burna -Thugs in Harmony/ Army green I salute the Soldiers and the lost ones/ Grime One, 2One you kno how we do dat/ Flip it bring it back never show the Stack/ Keep it under wraps even thru the rap/ Onna Renaissance -told y’all once this that Boom Bap/ Hook Protect the Recipe -never let the lesson lead to bleeding/ Never let the stressin make you cease/ Be reprieve for those that need it/ Hope depleted/ Never be the one that stays jus because you need it/ Verse 2 The cook book forever sacred/ Only share with fam-i-ly even when it’s iffy/ The recipe was passed down to a couple chosen/ Never leak the knowledge -like the book of romans/ Now everybody kno -only some can be enlightened/ -Only few contain the lightnin/ Try ta catch it inna bottle keep it tightened/ Move w Kings n Titans who are righteous/ Priceless is the Risen that we gain as we grow/ Try ta break the frame out the mold/ Move like it’s hooves thru the snow/ Choose Whatchu do n never stoop to the low/ Prove without a doubt I’m in the know/ Food feed body music feel the soul/ Ruse take your mind from the goal leave yuh crippled/ Rules keep it simple -stay protected/ Always watch your neck n keep on chefin many blessins/ Yuh ---many blessins Hook Protect the Recipe -never let the lesson lead to bleeding/ Never let the stressin make you cease/ Be reprieve for those that need it/ Hope depleted/ Never be the one that stays jus because you need it/

Verse 1 Everyday decisions nothin given gotta take it tho/ Battle for my honor but my ego gotta let it go/ Other side a me kno it's a thin line ta disaster/ Constant battles thru my head disheveled like the Packard/ Plant the seed ta let it grow at least it's what they tellin us/ Soil toxic heavy still its gems within the devils dust/ Copperfield get out the chains supremacy still hauntin us/ Oath is taken everyday -each direction follows us/ -Hollow snubs, Church ta club, people lose the ones they love/ Idolizing paper like its sacred scripture written up/ Still it's bloody in the streets -hard ta keep a level head/ Somewhere in the middle see myself between the good n bad/ Ying n yang, school or bang welcome to reality/ Sacrifices in the game -playin w mortality/ Lay it on the wood or keep yuh ass off on the sideline/ Alchemy duality determine how your time fly/ Hook Angels and it’s Demons -both in Detroit/ Legal n sum schemin -both in Detroit/ Grind to make whatever -all in Detroit/ We weather any weather thru whatever this Detroit/ Verse 2 It’s do sum dirt, put it down -hold it by yuh lonely/ Drugs n money paranoid an everybody phony/ Least what I think, at least when I drink/ Maybe it's the truth word ta proof we all linked/ Thinkin homicide cuz i thought they were my homies/ I aint from the Chi but it's Do or Die ta roll me/ Blow me, then its Coney/ She wanna chili fry, i oblige who am i ta stop a tenderoni/ So me, ta be all over the place sum see it scattered/ I alone encompass -frequencies of rapture/ Hard to capture -make sure you follow tho/ Keep the bars laced like a hot pack -piranha flow/ Vamanos - aidos - Heaven, Hell - i seen um both/ Try ta keep it holy but sometimes i lose the holy ghost/ Painted perfect pictures aint perfection it's just what it show/ I done dealt w both on my soul it's just how it go/ Hook Angels and it’s Demons -both in Detroit/ Legal n sum schemin -both in Detroit/ Grind to make whatever -all in Detroit/ We weather any weather thru whatever this Detroit-troit/

Verse 1 Swear imma soldier -I done seen an did it/ Never overseas but the battle still got meaning/ Ego trippin maybe -still I’m down to earth/ Reach up towards the Heaven -planted on this turf/ Still I stay evolving revolving round the sun/ Some may think it’s fire but to me it’s jus the one/ Maybe I’m just crazy, maybe I’m insane/ OWE me this or that -to me it’s all the same/ Blunted since a youngin I was in an outta jail/ Nah it wasn’t prison still I’m stuck within a cell/ Kinda like it’s DNA twisted how I’m livin/ Shorted like a chromosome still I swear I’m gifted/ Maybe it’s my head -someone keeps on knockin/ Tryna drown um down - still they up there boxin/ I’m jus tryna understand why it’s me I’m fightin/ Maybe me my enemy maybe me I’m dodgin/ Hook Own worst enemy/ In my head I tend tuh be/ Stuck off in these thoughts/ I swear they tryna bring an end tuh me/ Own worst enemy/ In my head I tend tuh be/ Stuck off in these thoughts/ I swear they tryna bring an end tuh me/ Verse 2 Al you gotta wake up, u gotta get it right/ Why you fuckin up, n playin w your life/ Why you outta focus homie why you losin sight/ Leave the shit behind n raise up outta strife/ Still you ain’t 100, you never tryna listen/ I am but a thought but you manifest the vision/ We are solely one -man, the myth, the legend/ You can be all 3 but you gotta leave the vengeance/(alone) All them times you fell -you got up out the mud/ Still you yell at me like you’re never good enough/ Trekin thru the snow n rain ta show up for the bus/ They don’t kno your pain you ain’t them n they ain’t us/ Everything you carry gunna bury you soon/ Leave it now forever no more sparing your -doom/ Marshall cleaned a closet need to empty your room/ -you kno, your right homie -hand me a broom/ Hook Own worst enemy/ In my head I tend tuh be/ Stuck off in these thoughts/ I swear They tryna bring an end tuh me/ Own worst enemy/ In my head I tend tuh be/ Stuck off in these thoughts/ I swear they tryna bring an end tuh me/