Mind, Body and Soul

[Opio]<br>Yeah, you know my crew is thick<br>Makin chicks go buckwild and act a lunatic<br>I`m not a fugitive, hit me on my voodoo bip<br>On the Hiero bus, smokin out the hookah wit<br>hydro bazooka shit, blowin out your mucus membrane<br>Yeah, you can spit game, but who can explain<br>how your woman in Spain with Miguel?<br>Well his real life don`t match the stories he tell<br>Pedallin propaganda, wearer of the handcuffs<br>In a plastic cell, look straight for the camera<br>From Atlanta to Havana, they broadcastin "Channel Zero"<br>I`m in your ear though, sort of like a black antenna<br>I throw my hand up, body electric<br>Receive God`s blessings how I stay protected<br><br>[cut and scratched]<br>"This is protected!" -> Professor X<br><br>[Opio]<br>Nowadays young boys have to handle the fifth<br>like John Hannibal Smith, put the ammo in the clip<br>Catch you in a alleyway, blam you in the rear<br>Run up in your crib, go gorilla on your family<br>And it ain`t about a rap song, they do it for the cash homes..<br>.. what comes around goes around<br>You might catch one if you own this town<br>And that`s well known so hold it down<br>When you try to blame hip-hop, for who gets shot<br>I point my finger at the President, it`s his fault<br>No amount of Harvard slick talk can pick apart that one<br>Delinquents on the ave know what`s happenin (uh)<br>I throw my hand up, body electric<br>Receive God`s blessings how I stay protected, protected, protected<br><br>[cut and scratched]<br>"This is protected!" -> Professor X<br><br>[Opio]<br>Resistin as a seminal for centuries and evermore<br>Spit it in a metaphor, get it at your record store<br>Let`s make it crystal clear, listen here<br>Blood spilled on the battlefield or shed in a tear<br>Recharge, reshape, then reappear<br>Then reformulate before we commandeer<br>It`s the renaissance, from Port-au-Prince, to in the Bronx<br>And back to Oakland, the wheels in motion<br>We coastin - thunderfoot like a Clydesdale<br>Rumble, young man rumble, I`ll put your lights out<br>Opio be groovin like Manchito and the Afro Cubans<br>And that`s cool then, T. Mass power movin<br>I throw my hand up, body electric<br>Receive God`s blessings how I stay protected, protected, protected<br><br>[cut and scratched]<br>"This is protected!" -> Professor X<br><br>[Opio]<br>I expand like the verbal supercluster, so who could muster<br>the force of impact, from my point of attack<br>Live third rail on the subway track<br>I`m in the tunnel like the Moleman, with mo` plans, to go back<br>to flows that expose "Acknickulous" skill<br>Not mass appeal, or abs of steel<br>Or apple bottom like the ass on Beverly Peel<br>I appreciate celebrity status it`s all real<br>But it`s mo` about the cats in the lab and with no deal<br>Who keep the fully-auto verses single-action ideal<br>Yeah Hiero oh they straight, culture merchants we kill<br>So throw your hands in the air, let the truth be revealed<br>Yeah, body electric, protected, protected<br><br>[cut and scratched]<br>"This is protected!" -> Professor X