[Hook]
Beyond step one, by the time you begun I'm done
In my cosmology I'm older than the sun
You younger than my son that's still swimming in my sack
And time does not exist in the center of a black . . . .

[Verse 1]
Whole continents shift when I stomp a stage
My concentration strays back into the Bronze Age
Copper wire in my mic transmits the signal
Straight from the pilot of my lyrical dirigible
I be where cars fly without birds smackin' into them
Emcee from the far side of the Gernsback Continuum
Perpetual motion engine, eternal pendulum
Powers the pen that etches these emblems into the vintage vellum
I'll let you bitches tell 'em, how I could sue Harlan Ellison
For infringement if he wasn't such a gifted fella
I visit the Crab Nebula on the regular
Once got the head of Medusa but left it in the bed with her
I told Newton, "pay attention how the apple fell,"
An hour later we were cruising through the asteroid belt
Newton passed the joint and said, "Well
Now that we know what we know we can never, ever tell."

[Hook]

[Verse 2]
I built a clockwork rocketship and spacesuit
Buried it between Milan and Florence, 1482
DaVinci dug it up and fucked it up to study it
But I respected him, so I showed him some other shit
Schooled him on a few things: super-strings
Plutonium, Jupiter's rings, Venusian streams, lucid dreams
Tried describing Hiphop and I couldn't
He said, "Maybe you had to be there," so I took him to Brooklyn
'85, when the flavor was crazy-size live
We got some paisley ties and lived amazing lives
Maybe a decade, maybe nine, either way there came a time
DaVinci wanted to go back to Italy and his prime
So in 1485 he built the first drum machine
Took it to Cordoba, showed it to Al-Qasim
Hiphop had a 500-year head start
That's why where I come from it's the dominant art

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