The Cypher (with Mos Def, and Black Thought)

[Verse 1: Mos Def]

For sinners saints and scramblers and gamblers

And dirty money handlers, dignitaries and champions, narcotic traffickers

Talented number runners and racketers

Stars of stage, page and cameras, slang swingers and swaggerers

Double barrels and Derringers, automatics and miracles

Europe Asia and Africa, all the time in America

Atlantic, Ashland, Alblemarle to Albany

Bridge into Baltic, Bedford Ave, Bergen Street

Clinton to Cadman, Church Ave to Clarendon

Road to Central Avenue, Cooper House, Cypress

And live from Bedford-Stuyvesant

The livest high flyingest pilot bombardier from Pyrrhus

Stationed live and direct, Medina mastermind set

Ya can't lock my set now lock off, cool

Peace to the nation of the Gods and the Earths

And the Sun, Moon and stars, Furthermore born knowledge go hard

[Verse 2: Black Thought]

Remix, rising up outta the flames like a phoenix

Training to carry the weight of my brain like a genius

Knowing I'm sowing them seeds let's see whose thumb is the greenest

If I said it I mean it and did it because I need it

Eat sleep it and eat it, write it down and then read it

Asphalt to the cement, your trash talk is deleted

Blastoff, I lay them out like a Tempurpedic

Black Thought, I told you I'mma win eventually

This unsung, underrated, under appreciated

The one them underachievers had underestimated

Finally graduated from something that's so hated

To one of the most sacred, nobody gonna take it

Face it, I keep doing it well, doing it (?)

Is do it yourself, doing it below the radar

We doing it stealth, doing it again

For Illadelph and who else? But check it out

Y'all see him on a job, see my eyes focused where the prize be

I'm like Martin Luther King you like Rodney

The difference is I give it everything inside me

Dear Diary, my fans still swear by me

Even though I'm late night now like here's Johnny

Swimming with them big whites now is where you'll find me

Funny how it break right down but never mind me

I'm forever grimy, guess it's just Philly shining

Rock rolla bi-polar like Phyllis Hyman

[Verse 3: Eminem]

Like a dope fiend opening up a bottle of dopamine

You're just hoping you don't get roped for your throat get choked anything

Oh and just think how dope he could be if he smoked anything

Oh, there goes the bell, the sound of the opening ding

I hit you as hard as barbiturates in the ribs with a switch

And stitch you a the same time before you can flinch to it

My dick is so big, if I add another inch to it

You would swear when I raped you that you was actually into it

I'm not a baller but you can bet your fuckin' bottom dollar

That I remember when I was without a dollar bill in my wallet

Now watch me kill a koala while I maul a chihuahua

Bum a pill off of Paula like let me holler at you mama

It's like I'm off the bomba when I bring the fuckin' drama

Used to bomb ya like Saddam but now that I'm a little calmer

I'm a fuckin' cross between Osama Dahmer Obama and Dalai Lama

So Miley I'm a knight in shining armor

Mail a gift to Taylor Swift's trailer a picture

Of my genitalia with a note saying bitch I can't wait to nail ya

Drug paraphernalia beware the werewolf will kill ya

That's him in the sheep's clothes, he just shaved his hair off Cecilia