Take It In Blood

Lyrics

Avatar the Articulate - "Take It In Blood" [Emcee(s): Avatar the Articulate (AKA Avie Fresh)] [Producer(s): Live Squad, Lo Ground, and Top General Sounds (Original Instrumental from Nas - "Take It In Blood")] [Verse 1: Avatar the Articulate (AKA Avie Fresh)] Yo, I never Brag how real I keep it because it's no secret Been on the beaches since Freaknik, wilding in The St. Regis, on point like an Egypt Obelisk, never topple it. Chicks? They wobble with Telekinesis shit that ain't head the way they swallow it Psychologist, she marvelous, she tell me what my problems is Avatar holds the whole of the metropolis Fuck popping Chris. I'll pop lock for the populous On stage, I got haze to brave the apocalypse Wasn't on the map, so I clapped the cartographer Was apocrypha, but now I'll buzz the photographers My frees ain't free, but it's cheap what I got 'em for Weed connoisseurs and alkies with the alchemy James Earl Ray sprayed MLK on the balcony The news wanna say terror's new, and that's a fallacy Ooh, they lynched niggas on the tree just for y'all to see And Tim McVeigh was a dope, fucking bomb MC Church bombings? Who could think of a more fouler thing Some of the things that make me plink ice in drinks And sink back, then my think cap might go blank And my crew is strapped, click-clack 'cause psychos link Mentally in a mink, living leisurel Leave a legacy, watch the green increase steadily No Soul Feet Deep, LLC up on Beverley Road So now it's on. Never wasted a slug Time is money—when it comes to mine, take it in blood [Hook: Sample from Kool Keith on Ultramagnetic MC's - "Ease Back"] (x4) I made it like that, I bought it like that, I'm living like that For you wack emcees [Verse 2: Avatar the Articulate (AKA Avie Fresh)] From the urban curbs, I'm serving herbs and thugs alike, this sudden fright I'll hug the mic and narrate, I'll clutch it for my life Sealed indictments had a nigga trife when I was younger Cell 2 was worse than Bellevue, although it made me wonder Why the world's paved with crime and enslavement It's sick to accept it, even sicker to change it The danger's ill though, so I'll rely on lie pillows We're fucked like dildos, I'll watch my people weep like willows Scrubbed out like Brillo. Still, we carry on the legacy I hope we never see digits start falling off like leprosy My man was shot in a night club, doing the pepper seed Hennessey and tight dubs my reminisce recipe Every day's like the last, full gas and no throttle My domiciles filled with Dutch guts and empty bottles My city's hostile, two in the chest, cops will pop you We fit the mold like Play-Doh, though I'm like Aristotle Brooklyn apostle, not the average story. I'll wrap Chicks like falafel, dreams flushed down the lavatory Stories are sordid, make me feel like bruising, morbid Solutions retribution to vindicate your fake illusions Never choosing to follow plans—that's when you're losing See through the system like a hologram, but keep it moving [Hook: Sample from Kool Keith on Ultramagnetic MC's - "Ease Back"] (x4) I made it like that, I bought it like that, I'm living like that For you wack emcees [Verse 3: Avatar the Articulate (AKA Avie Fresh)] Yo, my heart's content with being bent, future's a myth, so I Kuma Sutra chicks when I'm in a fix. I'll Switch like Ellen from a pharaoh to a felon My crimes of the mind navigate Straits like Magellan, I'll find Tunnels of time through .45's revolving Saw these lives dissolving in a hedonistic type trauma I'll play the rhythm quite calm through the night storm My ex set me up and tried to make my life gone Through the years, I lost my place like Musical Chairs I'll cruise through peers like a worm or chicks hungry for sperm, I dare Friends or foes to test it—get the message? The righteous might just be Hippocratic—don't act so blessed Everyone wants to be better, whether cheddar or done good I ain't the average young hood. I'm changing habits like A nun would, integrate styles, stimulate minds Varieties, child, I'll demonstrate while featherweights shine I'll penetrate benign tumors, remove 'em before they spoil Uncoil turmoil, vaporize and steam like royals. Between The soil's where my people go, illegal dough-chasers, you bet Your life's trife. With my life, I can't wager [Hook: Sample from Kool Keith on Ultramagnetic MC's - "Ease Back"] (x4) I made it like that, I bought it like that, I'm living like that For you wack emcees