The Craft

The Craft - Blackalicious

This Craft this beat this rhyme this vibe

This style they say music gives new life

From a source inside that is forever flowin'

This stage this mic this crowd this show

This life I've been given a gift tonight

And for that I vow to be a vessel

I didn't have to be given the gift to rip

I'll never master me I know that it's from him

Or her or it dimensions that sit waitin' to sift through me

I fall short still it hits me swift

I didn't have to see I coulda hit the lick

I coulda drifted it quick I coulda quit so quick

It's really a trip I guess I was picked

I don't know what I did to deserve a ride like this damn

I didn't have to eat I coulda been so thin

I didn't have to be quoting these sentences

I didn't have to reap the work put in but then

Even the work in itself was such a blessin'

I didn't have to see the planet tip to tip

I didn't have to make a livin' writ to writ

I didn't have to dream and then begin to live it

And for that I vow to be a vessel

This Craft this beat this rhyme this vibe

This style they say music gives new life

From a source inside that is forever flowin'

This stage this mic this crowd this show

This life I've been given a gift tonight

And for that I vow to be a vessel

I give thanks for my rhymin' ability

I don't front like it's not a responsibility

I can open a mind if the youth will listen to me

I'm not goin' to front like I'm on some killin' spree

And as hard as the times are God is livin' through beats

That come not from minds but that travel through spiritual reasons

Some of the time I feel like it's not even me

No money can buy gateways to infinity

Still I'm hungry to shine when I know I should let it be

And I want but I have every single thing that I need

So help me align self with soul and then I'll be free

To sculpt and design verbal styles and experience freedom

This Craft this beat this rhyme this vibe

This style they say music gives new life

From a source inside that is forever flowin'

This stage this mic this crowd this show

This life I've been given a gift tonight

And for that I vow to be a vessel

Let go do what's in front of you

Then let go then do what's in front of you

This ain't leisure although it feels

It is a duty a way to live another way to give

Another way to just have communion with the source

Of the sun and moon and a way to pay the bills

Displayin' skills I take it real serious

The vibe's so mysterious not just one more day to kill

And I could lose my connection

If I do not respect it enough fade away it will

Day to day it gives energies

That replenish me if I believe and I say it will

And act on it 'cause action is the key to freedom

Only way to be a leader lead by the way you live

This Craft this beat this rhyme this vibe

This style they say music gives new life

From a source inside that is forever flowin'

This stage this mic this crowd this show

This life I've been given a gift tonight

And for that I vow to be a vessel

This Craft this beat this rhyme this vibe

This style they say music gives new life

From a source inside that is forever flowin'

This stage this mic this crowd this show

This life I've been given a gift tonight

And for that I vow to be a vessel

This Craft this beat this rhyme this vibe

This style they say music gives new life

From a source inside that is forever flowin'

This stage this mic this crowd this show

This life I've been given a gift tonight

And for that I vow to be a vessel