Rap Genius Intro-Royce Da 5'9"

[00:00.00]This poetry is though-provoking [00:01.98]And there's though behind it [00:03.40]And there's great writing in rap as well [00:06.54]You know you never hear [00:07.85]Rappers being compared for [00:09.63]Like the greatest writers of all time [00:11.70]You know you hear Bob Dylan it was [00:13.69]So was Biggie Smalls [00:14.86]You know some of the things that Biggie Wrote [00:17.45]Excuse me, flows just grow through me [00:19.68]Like trees to branches, cliffs to avalanches [00:22.35]It's the praying mantis [00:23.69]Deep like the mind of Farrakhan [00:25.93]Rakim, I mean listen to some of the things he wrote [00:29.18]Classical too intelligent to be radical [00:31.51]Masterful, never irrelevant: mathematical [00:33.78]I mean you take those lyrics [00:35.63]And you pull 'em away from the music [00:37.50]And you put 'em up on the wall somewhere [00:39.32]And someone had to look at 'em [00:40.45]They would say "this is genius!" [00:43.11]"This is genius work!"