OPEN LETTER (PROD. AMAZE 88)-Kool A.D.

[00:03.55]Just sent this email to myself [00:07.83]I'm gonna read it off of my phone now [00:10.65] [00:11.49]Once again, south Oakland veteran, open letter sendin' [00:15.67]Hopin' you get it [00:16.50]Totally shreddin' [00:17.65]Yeah I said it a second time - Jazz [00:19.74]Second line, second world problem child [00:22.36]No style, All-Star, a lot of styles [00:24.45]Pro style, go wild a lot of nights [00:26.43]Look at the city that's a lot of lights [00:28.63]Young culture worker, the role reverser [00:30.71]The holy churcher, the folding furniture [00:33.01]The golden purse herder, the hearse hurdler [00:35.21]The turf surfer, A.D. that's adios to a lot of you haters [00:39.39]Ladies love the cool lottery vapors [00:41.37]But the only Ls I take is two tobacco leaf papers [00:45.03]Mediate truths like a lot of newspapers [00:47.02] [00:58.82]Kool childish, pop pop weasel schreech yo [01:01.33]Look how many years I have been living without a job [01:03.94]Like for real though [01:05.09]Y ma' o meno todo legal [01:07.18]And still got hella love for todo lo people [01:10.42]Labor for love, the kid signify [01:12.30]You don’t like it then spit in my eye [01:14.39]End of the day I still live in the sky [01:16.48]If you living with I then [01:18.05]I and I no kidding will visibly fly [01:20.24]And shine indivisibly in victory [01:22.54]Yous against can't do **** to me [01:24.32]Physically, lyrically, hypothetically, realistically [01:26.83]I'm the epitome of TOMA! [01:29.86]Catch you in the MoMA café [01:32.26]Laughing powder on the cold cuts [01:34.45]Black Shakespearian, never read Othello though [01:36.75]They say yo yo to my half Japanese with the cello though (Weezer) [01:40.72]Make it jiggle like it’s fresh like out the jello mold [01:43.54]Kool water ice cubes sprinkle game hella cold [01:46.37]Oh hella no, no, no, I didn't but I did though [01:50.02]Said it hella times in hella ryhmes but it’s still new to some [01:53.47]Don’t bust if you new to guns [01:55.25]But don’t trust when Babylon tell you what to do with guns [01:58.28]Understand that truths is both true to daughters and true to sons [02:02.14]And see the oldest truths are the newest ones and vice versa [02:05.38]I style like the Yin-Yang Twins, I might have told ya [02:08.52]I’m ODB plus Mariah the iron soldier [02:11.76]White checks in whiter folders [02:13.22]Stack steady in small minimum tables and move to higher rollers [02:17.40]Some men and women are steel but see the fire fold us [02:20.74]Some tend to children for real, [02:22.21]some lend the children to higher shoulders to sit on and steal all the lighter tropes they get on [02:27.95]And discard the lesser ones and leave them as lessons [02:31.51]For the clever dumb I’ll do you one better son [02:33.70]When your ears listen to fears [02:36.10]And your eyes brim up with tears [02:37.77]You're better never having shed a one [02:39.66]Cause you still couldn't drink that water if you shed a ton [02:42.69]Fist fight, get a knife [02:44.36]Knife fight, get a gun [02:45.51]Gun fight, get a few, son [02:46.87]I'm telling you if I got to tell you to get a bomb [02:49.90]You better get your mom [02:50.94]Tell her to send a nickel to the no bombs telethon [02:53.76]Half you actresses be acting like you at the banana smell-a-thon [02:57.63]Hella wrong [02:58.57]Let's get ready to rumble, let's get it on [03:00.66]Let's get it, let's get rich, let's get paid [03:02.12]Let's get that *****, let's let that rip [03:03.90]You better step back, kid [03:06.51]Yo, I rock from Buena Vista out to maybe like, LeFrak kid [03:12.67]Throat to the neck don't waste that [03:14.76]Pass this sobrinito [03:17.38]Take it as a prophecy from Tio Cleo [03:19.36]Call me Tito Jackson in a head wrap [03:21.76]Alhamdulillah, yeah I said that too [03:24.80]Numbers in a red black blue and other colors [03:27.30]But my favorite hue is cool [03:28.66]Yo that's a shade of grey [03:30.44]The only times I paid to play [03:31.69]Were the times I had paper to give away [03:33.78]Like you gonna get a tip today [03:36.50]It's a damn shame the way the champagne sip away [03:39.11]The ice might melt and drip away [03:41.51]But picture yourself rolling in a Lincoln [03:43.39]Seeing pawnshops slink in your peripheral vision [03:45.69]And drift away it's just me bull****ting [03:49.14]Eh I ain't got shit to say [03:50.50]It's just Vic, a swift kid from the A-L-A-M-E-D-A [03:54.05]A simple game you ought to see me play [03:56.46]Amaze 88 done did it again (Ocho Ocho) [03:59.17]Bless the kid with a little more heat today (Ocho Ocho) [04:02.41]Listen to the beat, it's way more complex than [04:04.81]You might want to give it credit for [04:06.49]A lot of y'all lettuce green you need to edit more [04:09.10]And listen back and think about the reasons that you said it for [04:11.61]And understand that all language is metaphor [04:13.91]And if you headed for a wall, you better set a course to a door [04:16.41]And if there's no door, you better get a door [04:18.40]And if not, just look and see what you saw [04:20.49]And with that saw cut yourself in half [04:22.89]And two halves make a whole so climb through that [04:25.29]I climb through raps to worlds untouched [04:27.59]And unsullied by human language [04:29.16]My wine dutty cutty [04:30.73]My Cuban Spanglish [04:31.77]Sip my sugar water Tangish, Tangesque, Tangy [04:39.61]Kool A.D. best rapper in the world