Hatchet Job - Armand Hammer

These the beats they play for ghost detainees

Weeks with no sleep I’m living the dream

Crabs/hit em with the Old Bay Chesapeake

Steam

At high heat/repeat/red, gold and green

Marcus Garvey/crumbled fronta/Jamaican Rizla

Spanishtown/back to basics, the Spanish Prisoner

Kicking kitchen spanish looking like Sizzla

London Blitz airhorns

He spit that Stalin vs Hitler

(Elucid)

So goth i was born black

Son trapped within a crux that endorsed crack

Dirt nap before 21 be the forecast

Flown flag half mast

Crass paths ventured

Lucky if you just got stabbed

Limp ginger, flesh wounds still tender

Picking scabs

Block too hot, triage care intensive

Post grad, head of my class expensive

Sessions extended

Reality bites butjakes pinching

Old co defendant, new solo mission

Head spinning

Short glimpses

All city

(Woods)

Staged shooting/Praise God they missed me

Unsolved mysteries/started from the upper middle

Closed the gap quickly

Sold soul to the devil replete with hidden fees

You fucking with a gypsy

White man handshake/twinkle in eye

You caught a bad break

Two half-truths but not one lie

The new guy got my spidey sense in overdrive

Dog, in the grand scheme I was just a cog

Lawyer said forget about getting off

It’s about damage control/ so hot he stop drop & roll

Yet the pack was sold before he copped

King of All Blacks/the new Pac

Had to cut ‘em off, I ain’t have no option

They the type to come back with the choppers choppin'

(Elucid)

From apprentice to kingpin

Basshead pipe dreams fenced in

Pinched tims, ends scampi, barely noon reek of cheap brandy

Baggy suit church food pantry

Assembly line, hand to hand

Worst fears, out here a grown man selling candy

Teddy grahams

Rubber band reup

Astronomical scale flipper

Make that fetti fan

Fifty fluttered fitters

Fuck a fair one

Full frontal flared

Banned from tv scanned discreetly

Unseemly means, justified extremes

(Woods)

Nosy neighbors/Rear Window

Rodney Little played by Delroy Lindo

Memories fade like Memento

When someone threatening your kinfolk

Played out/ Super Nintendo

Shylock how he weighed out the super endo

Keep it 100 like loosies

Fishscale raw/ Bolivian sushi

Bargains driven harder than hoopties

Pillar of the community/Kente cloth on the kufi

Liberal white friend played by Donald Sutherland in the movie

Hit Cannes with tanned groupie

Palme d’Or!

Exuberant applause

But I still came back for my money like Mookie