[Killah Priest] My mind designed like a Mayan pyramid When you climb up the steps you could get where the emerald is I left witnesses for those who didn't believe Show the depths of sentences, y'all forbidden to leave Alphabets become images you listen and see How to breath other lyricist who breathe 3-D Trapped in each bar gets deep with the God Like the 5 Pillars that they teach at the Mosque Trying to define killing you seek a mirage Terrified thriller have you reach in your heart Priest 'fenna get dark, dark as he can get Dark as the first nine Pharaohs who ruled Egypt Dark as the moon casts its shadows across eclipse Dark as the ladies with the tarots telling your secrets Dark as the gun barrel right before you squeeze it I enter you mind like a auditorium Your picture was distorted but I restored your film Now you see clearer my pen has a lens Like I'm sitting in the theatre coming back again Remind you of Rakim but I'm not him Though we one and the same; the second coming of Kane I'm like Kool G Rap put the Uzi in rap Or KRS-One said "It was cool to be black" For Slick Rick pronounced that the Ruler was back Back in the days where gold jewelry fat Before Wu or Biggie, Nas, Jigga or Fifty That was new yeti, they ruled the city On the West-coast it was run by Death Row 'Pac gave Thug Life but I just hug mics The grip of the Python, the strength of my right palm Will crush a competitor's life-form
[Chorus: 2X] +How Many+ emcees must I defeat? +How Many+ rhymes must I show a technique? +How Many+ metaphors? +How Many+ letters in all? +How Many+ times must I show that I am better than y'all?
[Killah Priest] Rhymes after rhymes, metaphors are lined Since '84 I recall the times Left MC's, inside of morgues and shrines Weak technique get absorbed like wine Then I piss 'em back under the trees and vines This rapper, that rapper, I proved I'm better Next month I'm 'bout battle Webster Do you think you can handle my pressure? The way that my thinking when I play with the ink pen Is he old or new school? (Think, I think old school) Nah I'm in a class by myself Plus I drop math and I blast like a Stealth The bars you spit I use for chin-ups Soon as you lay 'em down I press the bench up Then I start spinning like them nunchucks Each paragraph is like the Pharaoh in the past Wide as a dome piece and narrow as the path