Essential

Lyrics

[Intro] Peace, God Yo I was just saying what a beautiful life is You ever look at the dark side Glimpse of it (I can see the light) Word is bond (I can see the light) Yeah [Verse 1] The night's a dark lord, well dressed, seducing our sun Upon the dawning of a full day, he usually would come Galloping upon his winged horse Leaving trails of stars across the planet, night scene of New York Comes to life with lights, pubs, clubs with thugs Mobsters, gangsters, criminals, dealers with drugs Loud music crowds are moving up and down blocks In and out of spots, cops watch for a foul shooting So how we moving, my soul scour through the clouds where the Moon'll sit Like the wise owl searching through a gloomy mist Six, I bring a casket down to his tomb Another child gets pushed through the uterus From the womb we're intuitive Eternal peace or damnation depending what we do with it A genius or a lunatic A general or a fugitive, it's essential... [Break] Word It's essential to be a man of your word Take care of your seeds To the young kids, honor your mother [Verse 2] The greedy night is full of demon smiles And every hustler wear horns and every fiend comes from the ground The FBI got satellite radars screening our child Jacking off to our chaos, the beast get aroused There's another world with underbosses, rich not into flossing Put hits on certain lawmen who pick who runs for office If they switch then the guns are brought in Who parted with professional ball players with big endorsement Who love to trick on hoes that sniff blow in bathroom toilets They alcoholics, go through mad divorces See their wives in the papers with half their fortune Then there's the mob leaving tips a hundred bucks at the bar Big spenders around the dealers shuffling cards Evil laughter, puffing cigars In a room full of goons, tats cover their bullet wounds Rats are pulled from lagoons Mexican mob doing shots of tequila, live niggas Throwing up knots in their pictures With gang signs at the same time If crack was awards and could frame nines You would have plaques and coke scale and money stacks But there's another party with Presidents, CIA intelligence The federal defense executives with the aliens Iraqis and Israelians And by the time of my demise, the one who talk to Cain shall rise The second time while Abel blood rains from the skies And who knows where my soul will fly I'm near a cemetery on top of a dark hillside, it's essential... [Break] Everything's essential To the single black mothers who handle their business Always about their paper and doing their numbers It's essential, know what I mean? It's essential To the youth out there, be a soldier Take care of yours Keep your health Always keep a clear mind Look at the world in front of you, y'know [Verse 3] Snow fills the night air as the wind throws her thick white hair Across her face, icicles appear, fall from space Like tears, white frost, light flakes I'm with my peers, remorse at the wake So many cats I know are lost this way Sprayed up by bullets, I'm in my Woolrich, we cross them graves My man spoke, mad hoarse from pain He said, "Yo, Priest, just think of what we lost today" The city lights are like the ice around a rich man's wrist Where every hustler, big dreamer, prays it grants them a wish By myself, right off the belt 'til hit the Van Wyck Cruising, jigsaw my thoughts, I need a plan to exist Should I get on it like them Cuban Guerillas? Fly to their country, make a truce with their killers, move in a villa I come with few of my niggas they come with theirs We politic on struggle and social affairs while toasting beers My man had cunning ideas to get rich with mobsters But what if it didn't prosper? Look what they did to Hoffa My feet buried in the sand out in Nicaragua Or on a cruise out to Venezuela On a ship with a pool designer clothes and expensive tailors Sipping cappuccino, favorite flavor, French vanilla Exotic foods, catching shrimps, no more menace failure The Offering's the movie, my others albums just trailers I can't hardly sit through the news, watching fictional tool Political views, the sky is dark as the original Jews Subliminal clues left in the hieroglyphs Where the ancient empires exist Walk inside the cliffs in Cairo, read papyruses On a wall it's full of gaul or Judas the Disciple's kiss At the Last Supper, nowadays is the microchip in the skull My survival kit is a rifle clip (It's essential) [Outro] It's essential to look out for our family Stay strong Yo, Epo, man, I don't even know, man (It's essential) Got me zoning out right now Look at the world Be into your heart, you know what I mean? The mind, body and soul I just want to give a shout-out I wanna give a shout-out to the whole world, man (The world) Everything's essential, you know what I mean? To the hoods and everybody (The whole world) Become your own government, man, become your own Live.. you gotta live strong, you know what I mean? It's essential, food, clothing, health, all that, you know what I mean? I wanna give a shout-out to the whole Brooklyn Gates Avenue, where I'm from, nah mean Brownsville, where I'm from, you know what I mean? For the whole Brooklyn Big up to Red Hook, yeah What up to Shabazz the Disciple, man I'ma shout you out, that's my nigga right there Word up, yo For anybody who helped me on the album (West Coast), nah mean You came through, for real (Everybody in the world) A slow life is essential Shout out everybody there, man Live long and live strong, uh, nah mean (Prelude to the apocalypse) This goes out or DJ Huggy, man Good lookin' on this track right here, for real Just live long It's essential Nah mean, stand up, man, stand up like a man I'm ready, I'm ready for the war, man Ready y'all, ready Priest is ready, man, a.k.a. putting in work, uh