Greatest That Never Lived

My heart submerged 'fore my tongue started surfing Concerning how one person birth words worth unearthing Two-verse sermon perched up in a four-four membar A twenty-bar memoir of a whirling dervish Steel sharpen steel but my sword grow the firmest In the burning furnace of my sojourn for purpose Every step's a pilgrimage Special Ed who never read the syllabus Still got it made and getting paid off how real it is Have you ever witnessed man with sure hope in his glance Short cordless in his hand, eyes closed, wide open Lines quoted from his inner scripture in militant chant Illustrate an image in an instant, spit a gram I'm highly acclaimed without a claim Inquire about my name Never short status, crack a higher plain Why complain? What type of chain, trophy, or walk of fame can they grant me? I spit it so grammy that my mimics win their Grammys Understand me, I'd rather be Kinged on the bal-cony than Abernathy John Kennedy in the lap of Jackie I pen a sentence, spin English, make my critics skittish Board a plane in the final minutes like a photo finish The beads clack, tap the pads, beats in beast mode Murdering their ego just by murmuring the cheat code La ilaha illa allah Imagine what a killer saw Trapped behind a prison wall Knowing that within his heart's the serum that could cure us all The devil got sentence laws Sent me letters, and I read 'em scribbled in my scars I don't have a soul I am a soul that got a body Flesh-clad, like human being is what I'm dressed as at a costume party I decide to go with the half-blind albino Eyes red rhinestones, I choice, ya a'ready know That ain't the topic though, greatest that never lived Uh uh, debating get your head split Uh uh uh, shouldn't a said shit Uh uh, you shouldn't a said sh Greatest that never lived Greatest that never lived You shouldn't a said sh- --- Greatest That Never Lived - Brother Ali