Tread Lightly - Armand Hammer

Once it came to first question: «Whatcha gon' do with the time you got?»

Confused, they reiterated like gotta remember it’s not a lot

It’s not a lot

I replied «Just watch» while she administered the eyedrops

Probably redid Illmatic bar for bar, she’s gotta have it shot for shot

Motherfuckers waste a lot of time, akh

Words stolen from neighbors in bodegas when I copped my paper

Now you know where I got my flavor

Like I said, it’s a lot of time wasted, it’s a lot

Sorry, skimmed through your music, found no reason not to approve it

It was all relatively toothless, you’re just a guy

Ruthless how they did Ruth first, I let the package sit overnight

Let it open on the desk, how he live is anybody guess

Poe’s «Telltale Heart» pigs wait patiently for you negros to confess

No rush, the wind through your shed’ll rattle your sheet metal

Pour, the meat pimps peddle

Don’t front like you stupid, you on they level

Pressed, passed a while the mortar and pestle, said «presto»

When they found that .38 special

The wifi name is «Assata is safe here»

The passcode transpose the notation between kick and the snare

For whosoever believe feeling beastie, Paul Revere

It’s all gone square, sand shifting, a brief history

Take cover, tread light, I ain’t got no type

Love is love, y’all

Knowing better don’t mean you doing better

We watch the sky fall

Lit by the moon blush, dip soon come

Blue movies on the tablet like I’m non-respectably ratchet

Rappers politically black halfwit

Pack spliff vegetate halfpipe twilight

Tomorrow’s just another yesterday

Several ways to skin a coon

Magnolia bloom with the blood pool

Lord, who can I run to?

Live feed from slum view

Whole crew kick laces knotted NY power violets

What up family?

Then it shot

She stopped giving bop, adjusted her top

My alarm clock is black children playing in the park

Every nigga’s a star

Crowdfunded constellation burned keloid scar

Oh, he go hard, the young gods bark

The universe is a cardsharp, my new studio’s a smart car

Had a dream I gifted Nardwuar some Carhartt

To spark a heart most toxic, hock spit

Blast my way out, gut full of rock shrimp

With much vigor to the rhythm of bodybag zipper swipes

Never paid the asking price, double down on paradise