The Shape of Things to Come

"Ay yes y`all"<br><br>[Iriscience]<br>The only thing constant is change<br>with that....its the shape of things to come<br><br>Yo I`m the open-est emotions<br>I`m a river in straight<br>A crystal clean lake<br>Yo the essence of skin<br>The form of a luminescent bright light flourescent<br>[Aceyalone]You got light?<br>[Iriscience]<br>Don`t wait `till it`s dark to ask questions<br>I been sparking in sections<br>And blessing mics with my prescence<br>Since many were pre-pubescent<br>Puberty adolescent<br>Perhaps you need a lesson in<br>Addressing with respect an`<br>Too many feel inadequate without their little weapon<br><br>[Aceyalone]<br>It`s like I got the whole world against me<br>Need to get intensely<br>A head full of headaches<br>And a hand full of sissies<br>Them so flimsy so why there one MC<br>There wasn`t one before hasn`t one since me<br>A gangster of love<br>I come from up above<br>I give the mic a tug<br>I give the world a hug<br>I give skies a kiss<br>I give suckers a kiss<br>Some people like my old styles better than this but<br><br>[Iriscience]<br>Yo I`m Spacey like Kevin<br>And some do knowledge of seven<br>Praise Jesus and Jah Buddah Allah or just Heaven<br><br>[Aceyalone]<br>Yeah and some like it moderate<br>Some like a lot of it<br>Whichevery way I go we got something<br>To get you move up out of it<br><br>[Iriscience]<br>Some will be statistics<br>Some will be reverends<br>Dimes become pennies like dimes become eleven<br><br>[Aceyalone]<br>To some we kind of thought of it<br>As teaching the dumb<br>Ace-One and Dilated<br>The shape of things to come<br><br>[Chorus][Iriscience]<br>I catch rec and<br>Tangle in circles with squares<br>Triangles to test if indeed you`re prepared<br>This is the shape of things to come<br>This is the shape of things to come<br><br>[Chorus][Evidence]<br><br>[Aceyalone]<br>I wax `em I tax `em<br>Here`s Iriscience - ask him<br>From Arkansas to Aspen<br>The futuristic jazzmen<br>I`m telepathic<br>Moving through hella traffic<br>I know my demographics<br>See how this was crafted and drafted<br>There`s precision in the incision<br>I`m not christian or<br>Catholic or any other religion<br>I`m just man<br>With a steel in his hand<br>I shoot the gift from blessed to spark where it land<br><br>[Iriscience]<br>And it landed in the sand<br>Where the pyramids blaze<br>And this is how the dictionary defines such a place<br>A polyhedron with a polygonal base<br>Median and common vertex<br>Triangular face<br>Who came in the home and<br>Ripped the cats stole<br>Stripped the limestone<br>To line they fine home<br>I cram to understand<br>Their dirty deeds in song<br>While we bringing you the shape of things to come<br><br>[Chorus][Aceyalone]<br><br>[Chorus][Evidence]<br><br>[Iriscience]<br>Aiyyo I center punch punchlines<br>Shine when it`s crunchtime<br>I back to beatbox, rap battles at lunchtime<br>I sketch a piece and fill it in with design<br>Ooh no, Aceyalone<br>Raw bright like sunshine<br>Platform squad standing on the brink<br>Yo I touch the world<br>Got three but two blink<br>Rakaa aka Iriscience lenscrafters<br>And blend with hash the self defense master<br><br>[Aceyalone]<br>Yeah its too bad we control fire, wind<br>I know that you bad you batted a thousands<br>I remember who`s the baddest with the apparatus tell me again<br>Take ahold of your heart without penetrating the skin<br>See I didn`t invent it I just perfected it<br>I never intended to really connect with it<br>But once I got in it I redirected it<br>Now I change the world and get respect with it and a check with it<br>It ain`t nothin` new under the sun<br>Fool I ain`t afraid of the size of your gun<br>The flesh is weak plus they speak foul tongue<br>Take the breath from their lungs as they swung<br>And they hung and they sunk<br><br>[Chorus][Iriscience, Aceyalone and Evidence]<br><br>Babu scratches "Ay yes y`all"<br><br>Y`all ready to bounce for us?<br>It`s that shit<br>It`s that LA shit