Rhythm's Last Stand

[Verse 1:]

I heard the sounds pistol clicks and cockings

I heard the noise of whisperings and plotting

I could've sworn I heard the walls talk

Before I knew it shots echoed in the hall block

I see the poets who are trading in God for Gotti

Christ and Gandhi for 44's, nines and shotties

I keep talking, I keep on rocking

Alive and spitting. That's why I keep on hawking

Naw no one ever tried to pop me

I guess that's the reason no one's trying to cop me

But if I'm hittin' up rappers on a radio hot feed

The CNN ticker will say that somebody shot me

It's raining blood in Queens, Jamaica projects

Crimson hue floods the skies of Compton

But with all these words I'm dropping

Even with a bullet in the head I ain't stoppin'

[Chorus:]

I ain't runnin' from no pistol man

I'll be coming from a distant land

I'll be gunnin with a fisted hand

This is rhythm last stand

I ain't running from no pistol man

I'll be coming from a distant land

I'll be gunning with a fisted hand

This is rhythm's last stand

[Verse 2:]

I crack enigmas, break the stigma of the death of rhyming

I swear to God with every single breath I'm trying

I was told you can't avoid the tempting whore of diamonds

But I crush dirty lies with this relentless verbal violence

If there are answers how come I can't seem to find them?

I'm searching for the ring to bring these hip hop kings and bind them

The stalwart God of truth said never stop till the shells stop flying

Now all I have is rap to keep me from dying

[Chorus]

I came to the Game to put in my fifty cents

Came to this madness with the gift of sense

Came to give the defense my best offense

Came to jump the ideological electric fence

When they murk one another they degrade us all

Now everything created will fall

I shed tears for those who spent years

Slave to spread the music while y'all spread fear

Take that, rewind it back

To the time when they only popped shots on tracks

Herc, DMC, Moe Dee. I'm sorry

Rakim, Eric B, Chuck D. I'm sorry

The Jay-Nas feud didn't amount to violence

So why are these cats turning sound to silence?

(Pause) Who turned off the music?

Like this track too loud in your sub, you blew it

[Chorus]