Written word held weight   Now honor at best recessive trait   The sound and shape to come succumbed to Malignant maelstrom   Malformed mentals stained expected outcome   And not to be outdone   Some speak in half phrases   No definition to brush strokes already out of phase with these statements   Raise children off pavement...   Pulse on frauds hasten   When confronted with styles from gutter basements   Set to build like Freemasons, on three angles   All I see are Minstrel MC's on these channels   Perceived battles only held to sell albums   Propagate stereotypes that bleed out us   Our own doubt us   But I remain devout scholar of skills of forefathers   Ignorance was forced on us   Define honest, if we all breath diseased lies   Define the MC if all he spits are weak lines.         Who trades his culture for dollars?   The fool or the scholar?   Griot? Poet? Or White collared?         If my written words slurs   Then my speech correct   Keep my meaning inferred to test your intellect   If you remember HipHop nigga 'nuff respect   Deadverse spoken with broken dalek         Spoken word held meaning   Hostile acts provoked   Formed metaphors   Created urban folklore   Never meant for these upper echelon aurals   That bought and stripped morals   From art that's gift for us   At heart I'm strict purist   Spit thoughts for poorest   5'6'' Honduran sights set on own ruin   Rugged cadence meant to capture essence   Ancestor's wrath festers under surface of uttered sentence.         Who trades his culture for dollars?   The fool or the scholar?   Griot? Poet? Or White collared?         If my written words slurs   Then my speech correct   Keep my meaning inferred to test your intellect   If you remember HipHop nigga 'nuff respect   Deadverse spoken with broken dalek