Toast To The Death

Here's a toast to the dead

If you don't drink, smoke to the head

For the freedom fighters killed by the feds

For those who died hard in the streets, soaking in red

And died slow asleep in a dream, choking in bed

Here's a toast to the dead

For my enemies that have gone

I'm not a coward

So celebrating that would be wrong

I pray to god that your soul will come back again

So i can see you in the next life and finish it then

A toast to the dead

For criminals burning in hell

I wonder how many presidents

Are burning as well

Emperors, popes, senators, generals

Amputees still are lucky

Until they see the vegetables

A toast to the dead

For those who are forgotten

Written out of history

By the corrupted and rotten

Black saints whitewashed during la reconquista

Thousands of indios spaniards used to conquer the incas

Fuck a moment of silence

I need a moment of violence!

Like the nineteenth century caribbean islands

Long live those who came before that paved the way for me

The warriors and scientists that came before slavery

And if that last lyric was predictable

Take your clairvoyance and apply it to life in the physical

Presumptuous, half-hearted homunculus

Self-destruction is the power

Without knowing what the function is

Here's a toast to the dead

For all of my fam

I will never let an idea die with a man

My rhymes are like nazca lines designed to give a view of this

J dilla's still alive as long as his music is

A toast to the dead

For rap legends and pioneers

Your legacy won't be forsaken as long as i am here

Knowledge of the past and wisdom of the present

I teach and leave in the hands of a worthy lieutenant

A toast to the dead

For children with cancer and aids

A cure exists and you probably could have been saved

Sad to see medicine divorce morality

Corporate homewreckers pimping up the salary

A toast to the dead

For those that'll die today

The victims and those exonerated by dna

The only thing worse than giving freedom to the guilty

Is killing the innocent and leaving your soul filthy

Immortal technique, remember me when i'm gone

I encrypted my lyrics to stay alive in a song

So you'll always keep a piece of my spirit inside

When you struggle to complete what i started before i died

But some of you won't survive the changes the earth makes

Swallowed by tsunamis, hurricanes, and earthquakes

And that's just the first stage if you cannot reverse ways

And realize that we are one regardless of our birthplace