Monumental (Radio)

Lyrics

The Last Emperor - "Monumental" [Emcee(s): The Last Emperor] [Producer(s): Megahertz] [Verse 1: The Last Emperor] Being righteous is my career, and conflict is just a job risk No stopping this when I build rhymes like an Egyptian obelisk Watch me get down in your province, town, or populace And my life-rhyme is Prime, possess the matrix like Optimus Now you'll get framed like a diploma in your spiritual coma I'm a black Moor like Othello, but I won't die for Desdemona, own a Diamond-studded mic, walk on a stage of solid marble Leave the flyest emcees startled and yell "Shazam!" like Captain Marvel Are you aware of the fact that I left mankind devastated? And they still look for the blueprints of the monuments that I've created See, the god's live. Don't compare my hard drive to your floppy disk Chicago to Gotham City, New York to Metropolis From city streets to Athens, Greece, from the pyramids to the Acropolis My final resting place will be a solid gold sarcophagus, but What I can't understand is how these foolish humans use the mic To their advantage and get lost like the City of Atlantis You're a long way from Kansas, and this is more than just black chrome You gotta be fresh, yes, and never talk in no wack tone 'Cause once I got you in my attack zone, you could click Your heels three times like Dorothy and couldn't get back home, so Drop the mic and save those wack rhymes for later 'Cause my battles leave more Broken Arrows than Christian Slater. May the Force be with you. It's true nothing in life is Coincidental. The Emperor is monumental [Hook: The Last Emperor] ("Monumental") For mortal men who pretend they never knew me ("Monumental") For these emcees thinking that they can do me ("Monumental") For the simple things in life that soothe me The dead ancestors that speak through me ("Monumental") For mortal men who pretend they never knew me ("Monumental") For these emcees thinking that they can do me ("Monumental") For the simple things in life that soothe me The dead ancestors that speak through me ("Monumental") [Verse 2: The Last Emperor] Breaker One-Niner, it's the democratic, socialist rhymer. On stage I keep out invaders like the Great Wall of China My style transcends where the divine starts and man ends Understand friends, colleagues, comrades, companions Los campañeros erect stone temples like pharaohs Central-American Zapatista, rough Bandolero The empire-builders must construct societies—that's The difference between my spirit and the man that deceives The individual to the masses, imperialists and fascists Titanium and plastics, alkalines and acids From the cradle to the casket, fantastic stories are told Stolen maps are sold, leading to hidden cities of gold Hold your ancient art form sacred, let not the 85 forsake it Hitler's armies saw it in 1945 and tried to take it Infiltrate it and break it, no substitutes nor replacements I've got a Stargate leading to other dimensions in my basement Harness the energies of the mind to design thought-powered spaceships My crew builds on political science and international relations Feed off sunlight when the Earth grows void of vegetation Attack the U.N. like the Klingons did the United Federation Fully operational, mobile, global, and interconti- -nental, The Emperor is truly monumental [Hook: The Last Emperor] ("Monumental") For mortal men who pretend they never knew me ("Monumental") For these emcees thinking that they can do me ("Monumental") For the simple things in life that soothe me The dead ancestors that speak through me ("Monumental") For mortal men who pretend they never knew me ("Monumental") For these emcees thinking that they can do me ("Monumental") For the simple things in life that soothe me The dead ancestors that speak through me ("Monumental") [Verse 3: The Last Emperor] When worlds Collide and are destroyed by earthquakes and tremors What I build serves as a culture for generations to remember From the cold-hearted to the tender, any ethnicity or gender Slaves to a higher power, you gain freedom when you surrender Bend your steelo, save that gangster talk for Quentin Tarantino I gets deeper than those 20,000 Leagues on Captain Nemo's, so Abort the mission or get played out of position Never let technology override this oral tradition I'm a rather odd man, here to carry out the God's plan While you try to be large, I stay camouflaged like Zartan I don't rhyme just to cash checks but to create new aspects Blacks and Latinos are really Kemites and Aztecs Some voices got treble, some voices got bass The Emperor's got the voice that be all up in your face Now some emcees drop one single and vanish without a trace Call me Lord Vader, the baddest black man in outer space Mechanically rhyme-prone, any emcee or time zone Hard-rock get broken up into small pieces of limestone To put it plainly, modern forms of psychology can't Explain me, there's no man-made religion that can contain me See, I realized in the mind is where each man must build his holy Temple—now that's the true meaning of monumental [Hook: The Last Emperor] ("Monumental") For mortal men who pretend they never knew me ("Monumental") For these emcees thinking that they can do me ("Monumental") For the simple things in life that soothe me The dead ancestors that speak through me ("Monumental") For mortal men who pretend they never knew me ("Monumental") For these emcees thinking that they can do me ("Monumental") For the simple things in life that soothe me The dead ancestors that speak through me ("Monumental")