Now before you go and ask yo what up with the mask ya better know that I’m hella old; way back before the bronx and Bambaataa was on me and my peeps sing a song long gone and yet present I believe they call ‘em Medicine Men and Women enter the place with the paint on they face Say a chant get a vision, drum hittin, and dance wisdom unwritten In the mask of the past I force-fitted my form you know me But you forgot It’s time to brainstorm cuz the story is not contained by any retail store machine lords starting to rust, Metal sword, get it and bust A double-edged tongue, 7-star fisticuffs I ain’t civilized nor born sick with the lust for demon money Raw honey in my tea my tongue light a fire spark like a zippo lighter Apart band, a martian invader beta-wave rider a dope writer A four-fold ripper a storm flipper the five-dimensional DZA A mischievous spirit-world-walkin critter Once again it’s the man with the magical mask Medicine Man and I think (ya betta recognize) I remember days in the dark The scar, the mark, the black dragon heart coal carbon convert martyr verse beyond market I curse never My worst weather is wet go in the sweat lodge for the dreaming we get From red to black skin, everything in the center, I haven’t quite figured out what up with the uhhh... Still I forgive ‘em I won’t gestate lead for revenge but if ya can’t recognize and respect ya gotta go to ya own zone Ride till the tires is blown Unified field, every place is my home, every face, my own Crack a smile homie, 
it won’t hurt, I promise Try it, it work This work shit is the worst shit evil master plan The boss class can go terraform another planet and live in your gated community there We don’t care but We don’t want ya fuckin it up for us, we got rhymes to bust dutches to roll Clutchin a cold brew like it got the antidote in it crash the bottle upon the wall when it finished (hook) Like Mabel McKay and Black E.L.K. I’m medicinal, curing civilization disease, a healer A freestyle speakin-in-tongues keeper of secrets I say ‘em plain out brain about a level beyond Dip in a pond of the sacred song and bomb on the mic rockin they can’t stop it Ey yo they would if they could So have no delusions of who the real enemy be psychic machine institution of dream grids they use and abuse humans A fuel battery, I come unplugged somethin is up with the dude Monkey be rude a savage by-hand-eater Etiquette is only good to smash clear out the pieces of Babylon from my dreams flam-blaze magazines Toss any piece of fiction with a cop in it off the bat I ain’t about domination fantasy rape so Officer McClane You can take a smooch on my whole booty I got a duty for human recruiting cuz without our belief the evil disappear and leave beauty

What do you see? What do you see in the streets of the city? I see the citygod Here in the zone of depletion, city streets see the tire screech Leaving streaks on the concrete skin of the citygod Innionoa See the name in the neon and the spray can tags of the G’s and B’s Trees stand in a row, measured and even Pigeons and birds in ‘em word, bigger than life given to feed the beast Cut my skin and I bleed Here come the police, freeze but the citygod teach how to be invisible to bad guys and the eyes in the sky, word The earth is my church, come and take a little ride where the powerlines turn sky into grid Gates, stray felines and videomind kids barb wire Fire get big when they riot but the drum of justice stay quiet (hook) What do you see in the heiroglyph written on the wall can ya holla at the dude in the low-down cap? Ya’ll listen, a free-mind kid kick a rap Pele play, giving it back, attack buddha hand clap Pap, pap, pappity, pap Go the shots for the wrong one on the wrong block high-sock predators Red in the life bled as saints and images of gods look on: Naruto, and Virgin de Guadalupe, honda civic, scooby doo, clear channel, zeus and jesus Celebrity photoshop block chopped to pieces by laws and policies Just the giggle of the citygod kids, listen what it’s like: An alien psychic virus spread by intelligent minds, They wanna jet into space and colonize Mickey D’s arch satellite in the night sky (hook) Shiver shiver in the membrane, feel it in the hair on ya skin, When I speak, the gods listening Who they be? The crowd, acolytes and disciples of this music, cloud-dwellers and muses, day-dreaming women and dudes, I don’t see a lot of men The Babylon evil seem to murder them all turn ‘em into bullies and broad-hollerin monster patriarchal Beast Get thee behind me, I’m given power over demons I speak and they wanna brawl The false idols of the city desire to feed upon blood they wanna see us depleted Plugged in the machine dream but us and the citygod got a mystical bond We give it songs it give us the power to go beyond borders Another city, different name, same basic brain same communication: the glyph, the dance, the hit-drum, and the visions induced by the mystical spit Five-elementalist mental science of rhyme lines, spiral it up (W)rapped and delivered and lived on the streets of the city

Let’s take a little walk talk what it mean, autonomy: My body is my sovereign line drawn at the point of my flesh Do not press or touch without my permission It is the most basic meaning of respect so I’m confident that you’ll get what I’m saying When I say that what happen in my body is my biz (what happen in MY body is MY biz) My kid or not my life to live or not And no, you don’t get a vote No debate If mines is the flesh that gestate life So please, stop baloney call a pony a pony Ya wanna control me That’s fine so long as you know that I’m sharpening up my sword to cross yours And my defense is on point We could all die tonight, and the moon look beautiful illuminating your true position My decision, my body so don’t pass no laws to do what I wouldn’t let you do with your paws They say that they pro-life But they Pro-Control (my Autonomy) What do we got here? Another dude-voice speaking I apologize, but this is the only one I got they listen to the DZA but get this wisdom in ya It ain’t my body on the choppin block it ain’t the way I was raised to be subjugated Got privilege being born with the parts in charge of the card house You know the ones I’m talkin ‘bout all they do is deliver just a piece of the code In case ya didn’t know: the egg choose the one to admit I admit I’ve pushed to much to be trusted any more than any other man, That’s to say not much So I stay in my own suit, celibacy What they call me? The Neo Ascetic get my spirit elevated a bit gettin a buzz without taking a hit Get in the club without paying for it ain’t much, to be the one getting busted up Check the statistics on domestic abuse so no matter how ya look, respect is a given That’s my word, sun and I live it (hook) I don’t play the blame the victim game and I don’t tell nobody what to do with they own life but I got advice The ones under the knife is the ones that need defense but the ones holding the knife, That’s you, dude, it’s hella past time to drop it, Stop Let it go, fade away, One Ring of control nobody hold you from release if you the one with the weapon Spittin about sex calling it ‘hittin’ is insane A slanguizm training how to dominate you if you born with a uterus, maybe removed Doctorz hella quick to put a blade in you for cosmetic Nobody got no signs to wave on TV for that if they did I wouldn’t know unless you told me so So keep speakin the voice, sun, Choice D for Destroy or Divine and I’m the only one that make it for me (and I’m the only one that make it for me) If you got a problem with this, you can see me hands-free Otherwise, I might get nervous

Vampire Slayer Vampires, I hate ‘em any way they come I don’t care about they story unless it telling me how they got slain by the sunlight Um, right I’m really not trying to know about they undead life What they spittin is trife Sucking up all the life Ya mighta seen ‘em with ya eyes open and ya still didn’t know still got blown away when eventually they came showing them fangs Come bite Destroying ya life getcha spirit in an unrested state I guess this weight is upon the shoulders of warriors grin, metal teeth rip ya ‘part eat ya heart You know the kind I’m talkin about! Oh, ya don’t? I can tell ya you ain’t tryin to know ain’t tryin to getcha mind blown when I open my lips and spit this sun fusion I’m using Infusing these patterns to scatter they brain matter of fact I’m a sun god jack in the box pop up when you least expect to see me gleaming I shine breathe flame Then I’m off on my duty, got stuff to do Layin these fools out ya wanna call me maybe Vampire Slayer the truth and the light of DZA can save ‘em maybe or maybe not Burn ‘em up with the hot Make ‘em ashy from classy, combustin ‘em bust one silver tongue spitter Lycan-skull splitter Mind-carver, hard enough to be soft Fluid I flow, wave medicine glow My lines wrap, choke-holdin ‘em I’m the moon and the solar-lunar sun-wind blowin See by three-eye set five-dimensional mirror reflect check the DZA on the next level Used to get down hella crude with the stake and hammer But now I barely st-st-stammer and they run cannot abide in the sunlight Melanin skin, charge it up Clark with my glasses off, blast ‘em off of the earth I’ma tell ya, fang-fetish is sick in the mind Twilight of civilization in decline Yeah, I hear the coffin call But cross this line, I’m destroying you all Atomic flow bombin these words convert resurrect undead, but the process hurt Skeleton collectors, yo, time to end if not we’ll fry ‘em up again and again Crispy black, yeah that’s the god move paleface drain get cut the fuck off like melanoma I’m talkin Geronimo shit wicked with the silver-tip bow, flick of the wrist I’m sayin this a list you don’t wanna get on So knock it off already with the feeding attempt Ya temptation is deluded hedonism and this dude is immune Two-legged predators who stalk and seduce, listen up, vampires: Sun is coming for you

Zapatismo For my latin peeps, black mask hella deep Indeed the D glow, Zapatismo So silky smooth the ink flow link minds together Any time, any weather Playita beach, seeing the vision of Lakota Sistah Soulja voice talk Bear tribes swear by hibernation wake up, then it’s time to eat time to keep porcupine spine sharp Tip of the dart with a little bit of poison on the lips Tecate sip, thinking indigenous thoughts like how to get rid of all these evil robots First ya gotta see ‘em what they are elemental, five star, for the kids of the citygod Graf, beat, dance, rap, summon thunderclap Kachina flap wing storm medicine bringer ya ears ringing My relatives all participate in the song from those with no legs to the ones that got a whole lot Machines talk about microchips and rocks but in the speech of silicon that I know It take nine million millennium to say “hi” Nine-millimeter throwaway in the belt of a man dealt an invisible hand They dug in the dirt to get the metal to merc us Zapatismo! Black fuel power, the bones of my dead relatives Blood sacrifice, city starve the kids Men rape women on a worldwide norm, a form of resistance is a necessity We got word weapons and we (Ready to Die!) We stay living tied to the earth Family tree, seven branches up the trunk plan If you don’t wanna come, here, six-shooter, Only got one shot My target is the heart of the beast keeping control over we sovereignty with democratical lies Suit and tie dudes, elite crumb-leavers want us down on our knees to give thanks for the little bit of cake that they break off Surveilling us all so I won’t take the mask off until this system crash and burn Tasked to flow masterful learn as I go, is how I formulated Life Equation they cannot stand to see brown human expand mental dimensions I take the sword tip, draw a line in the sand I catch a threat early If I was you, I’d get my Celie’s Revenge, too stab and dash on wife-beater mash cleaver They don’t like it when ya talk as a human that walk tall So keep on walkin, sun Zapatismo! We walked the land ‘fore it was known by the name shown by dominators in they libraries of lies Money flag fly high One eye to homogenize and they dare to call it globalization This gynocide, ecocide, genocide I had to cover my face for them to see me MD, I stay dreamtime riding but I never sleep on they brain-rotting disease Machine with a pale green face of death tri-angle eyes with the gaze of a vampire hungry for the blood of us, and by “us” I mean the whole damn life tree from the plants to the apes to the black, red, white, and chinese We got support from the whole four corners of the globe I’ll have you know, this Zapatismo got a whole lotta appeal for those of us oppressed and crushed I even seen bald eagles with a mask of black fabricating attack plan, this claw crush and rip machine guts Magnus magnificent technique my kung fu run you bots off the block Rock ‘em and sock ‘em with the iron palm, buddhaful calm, flap steady me wing Ask butterfly what cocoon bring Zapatismo!

Dreaming of You I walked a few good miles in my time made some moves that was the opposite of wise time, and time again I return to the eyes, When I see smile in ‘em heart beat hella miles a minute I confess I’m afraid of what it might mean, Undress in a dream, you can see my soul take hold and let go flow balance, and no magic can put square peg in the round Sound, Voices resound a chorus of whispers, Kiss and touch much of the path walked tracks together Pass the days as the weather changes Cycle in moods stay infused with love Only one you for me and I know you when I see you in my dreams at night I’m dreaming of you We know how to lean stay steady, support Foundation of respect is basic Take step, history unfolding herstory too, Gold is soft and a diamond has been known to scratch So I melted the ring Pyroclast and I keep the force of my four corners metaphorical Wisdom imbedded, effect is evident How many heads together make love medicine? That’s a trick question Answer: none, cuz it come from the chest Bump in the night, nah, It’s only me, didn’t want to wake you But I would take you for a ride on the moon tonight That’s if you would like to I’m dreaming of you Coast in the sand brushing hands Talking deep, take step and communicate true It don’t feel too good sometimes, But peace come from following through, sun up and down, just chillin around the home pad perhaps have a cruise in a newborn sun Star process elements of fusion, fission to split and reunite Words touch a good nerve Skin prickle up, shivering talk We could walk from mountain peak to sea bottom Lava converted by time into soil to grow the green, You in my dreams Come grow with me if so you will, I know you will, cuz I been dreaming of you

Chinatown! L.A., hey! Yeah, sun, they all know my ape face concrete tastes gritty I take a good lick on the chopstick, pick it up off of the ground, and take another one Pack the car thick, Wisdom, Innalect, Marlene, Cat Don’t Sleep, and Keisha Harvey NoCanDo on my civic radio That’s for the Blowdian cats is ill DZA is a casper blacktop ghost in and out with a pocket full of story to tell Floors get sweeped by these wave feet like a leg in Karate Kid, crunch a bone munching on a chicken shwarma (You gonna send that back?) Hell nah, I ain’t sending it back The citygod don’t abide by that Might get the spit, or the armpit scratch and mix The level of funk I flip is high Brown thighs, purple eyes blown off a bat, outta the park, crack Four in a circle f’in ta hit a home run four-inch heels on the dance floor try to run and can’t, damn This feminism shit is for real I’ma tell ya, sun If you can’t escape, you ain’t free Drinks on me or even better, the house Get swept up, let the sweat come let’s have a little less bullshit, please Getting dissed by old ladies in chinese my mandarin is rusty I left the black dragon attack days behind Sipping box wine in the Rosemead heat talk deep, cross hands with a ex-marine Doorman at the Grand Star, he hooked it up then come a ninja flipping bottles up Tossing them jewels, giving gifts to the city mask hella pretty got Zapatismo, Chisme, I got some: dude is awesome Superhero walk day, plain as night up First Street from Daikokuya, right on Broadway, 943 Tell ‘em that you came to see MD