I want to craft a rap verse
(But when I start composing,
I suppose the beat gets much worse)
I want to kill the track with my rhymes, that be sick
(Well, I guess I did just that, bars with SARS went and did the trick)
Fickle is my mind that be brewing up some hot lines
(Cause I be running late with the rhythm and my book fines)
Paying out my pocket for the shit I could avoid
Even buying instrumentals just to make some fucking noise
But be poise when you’re rapping please
All these rappers acting pleased
Voices like some Buddhist monks
Meditating on some weed
I cannot control the hole that spews out all this pushed-down soul
(That turns this legalized adult into a fucking nine-year old)
And then I stop, drop the beat
Tension rising from my speech
Make the aftermath sound cool
(More than it needs to be)
Place a killer ending line defending this mix
And I swear I’m not asthmatic, (I just suck at breathing in)

Can’t find that hook that hooks me in
It needs that hook to hook me in
We need a hook to lift us up
We need a hook to hook us in x4
Please

I want to be poetic with my words
Master literary hurdles; I can be a better nerd
Do not settle for Katan, trading grains and farmer herds
I want to come in first, (but I know I’ll come in third
Speech is slurred)
Sir, I present to you with this product I’ve created
The writing is not plagiarized, from me, originated
(Delivery is sloppy, and production rushed a bit
And the feeling that I’m left is constipated)
If I read more Hemingway, Angelou, and Seuss
Shakespeare sonnets, I peruse
Take the road less traveled, one with gravel (scared I might unravel)
Maybe I can piece together
Poetry and damn good measures
Carry something great, a good mixtape, (scared I'll make a mistake)
Wait, you do this for the fun and the love
Take all the pressure/anxiety and give it a shrug
You’ve gotten through the hard part
(Writing down the lyrics)
And look on the bright side
(No one will ever hear it)

Can’t find that hook that hooks me in
It needs that hook to hook me in
We need a hook to lift us up
We need a hook to hook us in x4
Please let me be satisfied with this