This is an ode to the modern man   It’s the ode to the modern man   This is the ode to the modern man   Word up this is the modern man   This is that ode to the modern man   This goes out to that modern man   This is the ode to the modern man   It’s to the modern man lighting blend      Word to the-e   I’m a tad bit to easy on self   And maybe I should keep a closer tab on my health   I suppose that it’s simpler said than completed   Allow me to attack but in fact again retreated   Completed, this word search crumpled it up and ate it   My hunger for my blue collar heaven keeps me sedated   Escaped it last night in a dream   And now I sleep with a flashlight and it seems   To keep the nightmare demons and semen laced portions parallel   And apart like Stevens Avenue and Portland    A much traveled one way   Or a slow residential   If these camels don’t stunt me   Ima grow with my pencil   Once I climb these skulls of this MC graveyard    I’ll see the sun again   I’ll jump and run again   So come on over visit cause I got a lot to say    And tell Stress I ain’t mad cause I got my way   But my man Spawn is here now so I’m gone make it brief   Finish up my coffee gather up my shit and leave   I got a army of peers we fight singlehanded   And I won’t damage your brain till I understand it      You have only one chance to advance to the next stage I’m at    Do you really think that you whup ass?   Do I have to ask you?   Did you see what happened to the last dude?   Tried to compare styles word he got his ass chewed   Now with this in mind    Do you still want to bring your shit and find    Out the hard way    Spawn’s not the one to play   Trade blades with ya might as well slit your own wrists with a razor   It’s best cause I’m crazier   Blazin ya for my own amusement   In tune with your whole body when I slipt ya whole fixta   This is what happens when your on my shit lista   Brains to give a blista   So next time ya call me ser rivista?   It’s the words twist a tongue    Used to make the verbs hit ya   Now do you get the fuckin picture?   Well if ya got a same? Ya better call em   Cause my behavior blows kids away like a tall wind   I take ya’ll in between my jaws for consumption   MC’s and coffee at my luncheon    One or two lumps and some cream    Call the team for the gathering   Bring mics and turntables let’s do our thing      (Ha,) cause it’s an ode to the modern man   This is that ode to the modern man   (Yeah,) this goes out to that modern man   From Minneapolis St. Paul to that modern man   It’s like a dedication to the modern man   This one here this is for that modern man   From Atmosphere going out to that modern man   It’s to that modern man, lighting blend      Now for the umpteenth time we kick rhymes about something   Can’t front I’m frustrated with heads that don’t listen   My position’s offbalance    It’s a constant challenge   Between the talents and the underlying mission   I could fill your heads some more with    Metaphors, some cute catch phrases    Filtered through accessible themes   But if I don’t stay sincere to love and hate   How can I differentiate between chasin cream and chasin dreams   Oh yeah, fuck an Mc in my city    That wants to diss me   If I was to bounce to Atlanta with Shocker ya’ll would miss me   So kiss me smack dab on the asshole while you battle   I’m with your wife sharin’ a Newcastle   Big up to Gene Pool      Cause he’s the modern man   (Word up)   That kid Abuse that kid’s a modern man   To Self One yo that kid’s a modern man   Full Circle you know them kid’s modern men   The Native Ones word up to that modern man   Beyond, Extreme this goes to the modern man   Dynospectrum out to that modern man   From Atmosphere goin’ out that that modern man   Word up, this is the ode to the modern man   It goes like one time for the modern man   This goes out here now to that modern man   It’s to that modern man, it’s to that modern man   Kid yo, this is the ode to the modern man   It goes word up yeah to that modern man   It’s for that modern man, it’s for that modern man, it’s for that modern man   Lightning blend