Canibus - "Poet Laureate II" Produced by Stoupe of Jedi Mind Tricks [Official Audio]
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I make no joke when I say this. This might actually be the greatest rap song ever created
One of definitely
CANIBUS FOREVER❗️
easily top 10
agreed
argument 🔥
"alone in my room.... looking through the 32x telescope zoom... adjusting the focus of the moon".... then he just spazzes lol
I always felt that Canibus shoulda gotten a lifetime achievement award for this song alone.
Yeah man. He is a fucking legend.
amazing to rhyme for that long with that type of lyrics.
True
T R U E . . . 🦊 ♚
YAS.
"Since rap become a lucrative profession, there's a misconception that a movement in any direction is progression" damn
Even though the potency of it lessens
So good that brother 🔥
Call me corny, weird, goofy or a nerd but this song brought tears in my eyes when I listened to it!!!!! I have never heard bars spit with so much precision, purpose, focus, and passion in my life!!!!! This is in my opinion a masterpiece!!! Why this man isn’t getting recognized not for record sells but for being a lyrical genius is beyond ridiculous!!!!! Praise him while he’s here!
you're not alone
Brother, with all love to Canibus the whole reason he never really caught on is because he specifically lacked purpose. There is never any point to a Canibus track. I love what the man does, but the reason it never took off isn't a whole mystery or anything. His work is all form no content.
@@emperorxenu519wrong he didn't have the popularity like ll or em
He's like if DMX went to MIT
The Blackball is real fam...They won't even say his name...Peep " Dead by Design "
No joke, this whole album is a major contributing factor to me currently having a university degree in physics. Thanks for being a big inspiration to my 19-year old self back in the day, Bis.
Respect
Awesome to hear! Me too! I actually failed calculus when I was younger. Listening to this album back in the day significantly motivated me to get back to them books. I went back a few years later and graduated with a degree in Astrophysics with Honors. Bis too it to a whole new level with this album and the world just wasn't ready for it. twitter.com/EvenPrime43
but his physics was wrong. he mistakenly used protons instead of photons
What kind of physics?
o yeahhh !!! me too
Stoupe. Y'all better give that man his flowers... He produced the entire album impeccably!!!
W/o Canibus as well... Stoupe made this album with only the vocals.
No doubt Stoupe the enemy of mankind is a Production genius
No doubt, god knew we needed a break. Being a fan of canibus wasnt easy when C Tru Hollywood Stories was his most recent :D I like the beats on can-i-bus and 2000bc tho.
@@RipTheJackR Mic Club came out before this and that album was amazing.
No MAN wants “flowers”….wtf is with this EFFEMINATE bs? Brainwashed clowns
"A wise man sees failure as progress.
A fool divorces his knowledge and misses the logic"
💯
Sheesh
"misses " as opposed to Mrs/Missus (divorce)... Wordplay
Wtf is with you clowns parroting one another constantly with STUPID ASS terms like “sheesh”…wtf is that new “slang” now? Shits beyond douche chilling…especially grown ass men who go around regurgitating dumb shit like “gaslighting….vibes….chefs kiss”….it’s weird as hell…hive mind, monkey see monkey do HORSE SHIT…”it’s a vibe brah”…IS IT? Is it a “vibe”?! Deserve to be drawn and quartered @@gocpng4699
I forgot this line and this was one of my fav songs. I got laid off recently and was struggling with my mental health...now this quote lit some sort of hope in me. Amazing
"@6:13 Since it became a lucrative profession, there's a misconception that a movement in any direction is progression; even though the potency of it lessens..."
Bruh. o.O
WeAreN1nja "Even if the potency of it lessens." 😵
Yes. Bruh!
Exactly. People calling this new age rap "progression". Its ridiculous. Bis tried to warn us.
@Agent Smith Never wasn't
@Agent Smith not really
17 February 2024. Still here 💥
“He got an ‘F’ but he deserved and ‘A’.”
So true! Bitterly unfair! 😔
The point he was trying to make
Exemplification of disciple in art.
@Frank Lee lmfao. Yeah I come by this again too regularly to care about years. I'm listening always in 2000-now
@@forgetfulfunctor1 This album released in 2003 sooooo...
2019
Still Rockin'
Free Ninja was but now 2019 to infinity ♾. P2TG
2019?
Almost 20 years I wrote a university paper analyzing this song (as a poem) and got an A+ on the paper and in the class. When the subject matter itself is of such high quality, the work of analyzing it is too.
I need to read this paper!
I second on needing to read this paper!
I third I need to read this paper!
Id like to read that paper
I fifth on needing to read this paper!
“And nobody gives a fuck no more, no one goes to the book store
Ever since the confluence of Moore's Law“
I'll defend and support Bis till the end. Man is a genius and never gets the credit he deserves.
"He was the illest alive, but nobody would face it, he spit 'till his tongue was too torched to taste it. Properly funded corporations carbon dated his latest creations to extract the information . They found it utterly amazing, they claimed the body of his work was the same thing as a priceless painting."~Canibus...
Privately funded*, but YES
Miguel Esco pure genius
Pure Poetry.
never mattered to him the art galleries hated him
🤕🤕🤕
Canibus is like Vincent Van Gogh (not Divinci, woops!). Under appreciated during his time, but in the future, people will look back on this and consider this art priceless.
glad im appreciating him when he is still alive.
Somehow many artists are only appreciated once there dead.
Masterful
He is still putting out masterpieces
@@deathrager2404 same
Someone give this man the Nobel Prize for this one.
this is disgustingly outstanding.
👍
Use a better word like amazingly bcuz disgustingly doesn't suit this track it's too dope you filthy dude.
@@shahnawazsooba7904 i thought it was perfect. This track is so perfect, it's sickening a little bit. sometimes maybe you get that feeling when you meet someone irl whose just too goddamn smart
@@shahnawazsooba7904
Boundless rhymes
@@shahnawazsooba7904
Canibus is Thanos of the rap game
"...what is the maximum field rate application, the runaway glacian surrounding the ocean basin, affects the population's fluctuations on a continuous basis but that's just the basics"... Aaaay yooo🔥🔥🔥
What does this mean?
"A wise man sees failure as progress... A fool divorces his knowledge and misses the logic.
And loses his soul in the process, obsessed with nonsense, with a character that has no content."
This line was so dope that Stoupe had to stop the beat in order to allow the words to shine!
Here's my wisdom... lol 🤣
WISDOM
___________
I'm Bout That Weed And Indo
And Getting In Though
With More Game Than Nintendo
pasta fettuccine alfredo
Homemade, Not Prego
Never Frozen
Let It Go
Wanna Build A Snow Man,
Van Gogh?
Tripple Six
Goddamn It Son Of A Bitch
2 Balls And A Dick
Come To The Future
You Aight Shit
Mirrors, Errors, And Scissors
Oh My
Can't You Hear Satan Cry?
And You Thought He Was The Father Of Lies
Here's Some Words Of Advice
You Need To Study The Wise
The Who The What The How And The Why
Father, Son, Holy Ghost It's No Lie
In A Blink Of An Eye
If Your Seduced By Suicide
But Wait There's More
Jesus Christ And The Crown Of Thorns
Into This Life Were Born
Wanting To Sleep
And Dream Some More
Trying To Pay Reason A Chance
Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth(BIBLE)
Is What I Packed...
_______
Writer
Ryan K Pendley
Best lyrics/wisdom I think I've ever heard
@ascetic sceptic.."Caricature"..no dis my man!
Thank you for life my brother cos I’ve been listening to this song for like I can’t explain how many years and decided to myself I’m going to decipher this song properly today and not mumble skip lines durning karaoke sessions 💨💨💨🔥🤣🔥🤣🔥once and for all every time it gets to the part of this song I feel it too the T... and spit the words like I know it only because I’m doing market research the Lord🙏🏾himself told me to look in the comments thank you
"Every warrior has an axe to bury
But he has to learn to discern between enemy and adversary"
💯💯💯
Now imagine walking around people trying to get them to understand this
Most advanced rap song of all time. He went way ahead of his peers here
Javier Irizarry The funny part about this is, you can hear glimpses of the direction he took when you listen to Mic Club. On there, he surpassed his former style for good, which was already way ahead of his peers. He was only beating himself at that point which he proves in Bis vs Rip.
Mural is a bit better but yeah it’s up there
@@mrcrackdonald_1 mural is outrageous
@@mrcrackdonald_1 Nah, maybe in how many entendre it can fit, but Poet Laureate II is lyrically and structurally beter
@@SuperBearNeo how is lyrically better? Mind making a valid point? Mural from Lupe goes beyond entendres, wordplays, similes and metaphors. Pay attention! No song from Canibus is lyrically better than Mural, and I say this as a fan of both. Actually, I got into Bis when Lupe praised him and said that he almost lost his will to do rap when he heard Bis when he was young. I'm a listener of both, but, I have yet to see a valid point as why Poet Laureate II is better than Mural.
There's no album out there that has spoken to me like Rip the Jacker.
the mozart of rhymes,,,,this track is from another galaxy
the beat switch at 2:24 is masterful
Bro that shit
I love the one at 6:00
Cassidy just did an interview with vlad and vlad asked who inspired him. Cass casually and quickly named a few of the greats but then he stopped for a moment and said "Canibus" and started talking about Canibus' lyrical ability for the rest of the entire answer to the question. I'm not gonna lie, I never knew that and also never thought I would hear Cassidy explain Canibus' greatness. Very dope moment.
you don't cassidy to explain bis greatness. bis greatness stands on it's own merits.
What interview was this?
@@Harry64278 th-cam.com/video/CpQ8P5yaero/w-d-xo.htmlsi=Utp97SzKI725F8eQ
alone in my room lookin thru the 32x telescope zoom adjusting the focus of the moon
That beat change and lyrics are so perfect there, my favorite part of the song. Bis the GOAT!
" a wiseman sees failure as progress"
Every line in this song is a quotable
Is it because his lyrical is so skillfully elliptical?
The Ultimate Rage yes, you nerd.
Did you not realize that I was quoting this song? lol
And my music list is amazing; fuck you talm bout? haha
The Ultimate Rage yes, you nerd.
We are living up to our agreement with Mic Club Music.
Elite production by Stoupe.
Gabe Stafford he sampled nine sisters from the avalon soundtrack
It's even my favorite Stoupe album as well. I would pay whatever for another Stoupe Canibus album.
This song alone is needed to consider canibus as one of the greatest ever..
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"MY ATTITUDE IS F🤬🤬🤬ED UP AND ADMIRABLE..."...
Not the biggest Canibus fan in the world, but damn this track is crazy.
If you like this listen to robot dreams he goes off. Or listen to da face lift
Same
Me neither but I love this one
@@techhead57 da facelift is fuckin goat.
Listen to life liquid from him then come back
Most people don't even know who David Hume is 🔥🔥🔥
Still bumping in 2023
wether or not you like canibus, this is the greatest hip hop track of all time.
+Don Demarco LOL. You wanna see how Canibus raps? It's not that impressive. Just put in a bunch of big words using 5 dollar words in an unnecessary way and brag.
I'll write one right now:
My rhyme schemes encapsule Darwinian terminology
Reaching complexities of unprecedented molecular biology
Microscopes cannot capture the observations of Ptolemy
His genius escapes most minds, but my flow shines as its calling me
Matching the radiance of an intergalactic quasar
And like a titanium condensed asteroid from another dimension- I came far
From where I originated, but the black hole that is my mind is where I place bars
My polarity mimics the orientation of the magnetic energy of play darts.
This shit took me like 5 minutes. If you think this shit is actually deep then smh LOL
+Jor Zap
sitting alone in my room,
staring through a 32x telescope zoom
adjusting the focus on the moon
one should not assume
the philosophies of david hume
to be nothing more than subjective conclusions
do you even get that shit? david hume's entire philosophy was that both everything and nothing exist within an infinite realm of possibilities. ie, his whole philosophy is a contradiction, and biz manages to rhyme that into a double negative, the ultimate contradiction of the english language.
you couldnt write one rhyme like that if i gave you your whole life to do it. smh you probably think james joyce was just a useless drunk
+Don Demarco Yeah, yeah I rap geniused this song & it has a few gems, but
1. he is not consistently contextualize all his references
and
2. He raps in a very straightforward manner. There is no density in a lot of his lines
Second, if by "greatest", you mean most lyrical song of all time, then I have to say that it's not even close. That title belongs to "Failure" by Lupe Fiasco.
Btw, I'm a rapper myself. These 2 bars that I wrote now are more clever than that pseudo-intellectual bs.
When I rap and write this with my hand of Midas
And my punches piling, I am Pac and Arum/packing aurum
Jor Zap the fact you think you're better than biz is the evidence that you're trash. there was a time when every single MC alive was scared of biz. a wise man knows that he never knows enough. its the greatest track because it was the first to combine incredibly deep lyricism with various literary devices such as splitting into 2 personalities. its the first ever track where somebody pondered how he could change the narrative tone of hip hop. its the innovation you have to appreciate. you would never have been rapping like that if not for dudes like biz and rass kass
Don Demarco "Failure" shits on this song. End of argument.
This whole album is a masterpiece!!!
I told people when I die, i want this album on my chest.
Totally agree with that statement.
100th like
Stoupe + Canibus = TREASURE
I think this is his greatest album.
Canibus is the greatest i dont care what anyone says.
yes
He's in my top 10 for sure!
My top 5 for sure
True indeed!
Bis is the GOAT
Those first two minutes were better than two years of most MC’d careers!
Canibus at his best. His best track of all time right here.
Stoupe doesn’t get the respect he deserves for this beat
This is pinnacle of hip hop music. This is rap in its highest form, this is the gold standard. This song is a demonstration of a master elevating a craft into a timless, once in a generation display of ability. EVERYTHING about this song is flawless perfection and I can promise you I'll never hear a more impressive use of the English language. He's the Miyamoto Musashi of the rap game
Can you please explain what makes it the highest form? I can hear it but I can’t put it into words.
@@manomantax you want the long version or the short version?
@@trav-the-sav long lol
@@manomantaxlegend says he’s still writing to this day
@@lowtgod he’s gunna die and have an artificial intelligence write bars for the rest of eternity lol
"you need to replace the hate with respect, i'm probably the best yet, poet laureate"
Who else listening to this in 2021? President Bis sent me back to welcome yall
We need some new Bis like this
@@dg6845 my G...Full Spectrum Dominance and Matrix Theory. He released them as like, multiple LPs, but basically they are two albums...both came out recently!
one of my favorite songs of all time
easily ! i can listen to this song over years and come back to it listening to it 100 times in a row
@@meepsheep3655 I'm with you!!!
Stoupes beats complement the profound lyrics perfectly
Twenty years old and this song is still a masterpiece. God-level production from Stoupe. Masterful breath control, lyricism and delivery from Canibus. A higher peak than most rappers' entire careers, including Eminem.
I'm still listening 16 years later 😎
thats becuase ur a nim rod
you should only listen to 2pac the greatest
disagree with me again and i will hunt you down tough mAN
I love the fact that it's physically difficult to rap this album. This song there are points where you practically have to gasp for air to keep up with his flow.
lol, if you listen real close you can hear where he does gasp now and then, you can hear his tonsils as he inhales sometimes.
Tom Kerr If you listen reeeeeaaaly closely, you can tell where he punched in on some parts. Obviously the entire song isn't rapped straight through. Gotta have a trained ear to know the punch ins-outs
@@donnyten2041 that's because he sent the vocals in and stoupe built the beats around his verses. Insane.
Why would I argue with my own conscious over the truth? That's like me telling myself "Don't tell me what to do!" dayum, dayum, dayum
Best Rapper alive!!!!
Blackballed by the WHOLE industry!!!
This is the shit the youth should be reciting...Not the Zombie Drug Rap
Russ Niles 💯
📠
Not even close
Crazy how in high school I was spitting nothing but this and Jedi mind Apathy and Celph
@@romancer1j1and Louis Logic
TOP 5 BEST RAPPERS:
1. Canibus
2. Rip The Jacker
3. Poet Laureate
4. Bis
5. Germaine Williams
6. The ripper
7. Saint Germaine
8. Captain Cold Crush ;D
How could you leave out, Javelin Fangs! The microphone assassin, spit boss 😎
#7 The Spit Boss!!!
scary thing is how he's telling you he's holding back on a song that is already perfect...
I think this is the song.
I always wondered why I couldn't get the words out like him, while reciting this. If you listen really close in the beginning you can hear him doing this breathing technique for deepsea divers
Sometimes I feel like the stuff he’s saying is tongue twisters over and over that rhyme. I still can’t understand how he’s rhyming and speaking and changing the patterns, but in some tracks, it seems nothing he can write doesn’t flow. He can say any sentence in a certain way in his style and it somehow rhymes. Has
Anybody explained his style? Because I still can’t figure it out.
Y'all amateurs 😂😂 he just got good breathing control plus he wrote it...easy for him
Bis one the 🐐s. Lifetime achievement that I got a song with the legend who was the greatest on the planet at one time. Stoupe one my favorites of all time. The man should be doin the soundtrack for the marvel universe.
Never mattered to him, at galleries hated him!
one of the greatest pieces of music ever recorded
My favorite line in this whole masterpiece: "I'm convinced now that more than the truth is at stake, when people create language that pretends to communicate."
For this describes modern internet slang at it's core.
Canibus is unmatched LYRICALLY!!!!!!
"One should not assume the philosophy of David Hume, it's nothing more than a subjective conclusion."
Encyclopedia bars
poet laureate part one was
great.
poet laureate part two was
awsome.
poet laureate infinity was on a level that will leave a genius using 99.9% of their
brain baffled.
The greatest rapper of all time
Deal with it
I recall listening to this whole album on repeat all the time... I then remember performing this song with him as his hype man and was in awe. It is masterful.
No one could touch bis honestly and he was black balled by main stream rap
He may have ruined a bit of his credibility with the whole Dizaster thing, but regardless of that, this is still a bonafide Hip Hop masterpiece. This song perfectly exemplifies him in his prime, and with the perfect production to match.
His 1997 - 2003 era is almost untouched by anyone. Especially this album.
all diz was say how he got beat by ll and em...ewww me n u could of did that......the crowd was laughing hard as fuck at bis.....theres just to many dickriders nowadayz...
all he did was kill him in battle rap, dizaster will never make anything as musically impressive as this album and it all would have been impossible without Stoupe
fuhwihme Stoupe is one of the best producers of all time, he is the reason AOTP and JMT were as untouchable as they were too.
***** I half agree. Canibus only did that notepad thing for his fans anyway but in the context of the battle it really backfired on him and made him seem like something else.
People gotta realize that people make mistakes. So Bis took a credibility hit when he battled Dizaster, but Jay took a hit when Em killed him on his own track and Em took a hit for doing songs in weird accents and Nas took a hit for letting people down with It Was Written and Ice-T took a hit for playing a cop on TV and Dre took a hit for being against weed and then being a huge stoner (I'll stop here, clearly I could go on)
.I bet if guys like Pac and Pun and Biggie lived long enough they'd have made a mistake or two. Going through an entire career lasting decades without making a single mistake is reserved for the best of the best. Rakim and G Rap come to mind, even KRS-1 regrets using violent imagery on his first album. The gods of rap are human!!!
This is amazing. Canibus is criminally under rated. Rip the Jacker and Mic Club albums are classics.
So lyrical this guy actually gives me shivers
This is a Masterpiece.................a work of Art.
Official Lex Montero I subbed to u
Yo, why is the Ripper so ill?
That would be an unpardonable breach of confidence for me to reveal
He said, "One of these days, all eyes would be on me
When they look up in the sky and see the neon C"
Rhymes inscribed on a nickel disk encased
In glass with an ion beam for longevity
For more than ten centuries, impressions and memories
The first time-machine inventor will mention me
Canibus was a visionary indeed
He believed light could travel in multiples of C
The organic supercomputer that solved the mysteries of
Klein Kaluza with two blue metric rulers
Liked Cool J, but thought Stephen Jay Gould was cooler
And he never liked to propagate rumors
Smoked Canary Island cigars
Liked American luxury cars and beautiful Asian broads
He had a strong mind, he used to philosophize
About rhymes while he was pruning his bonsai
He claimed that he had written the greatest rhyme of all time
But he would never take it out his archives
He wrote two songs per day
And was constantly experimenting with his wordplay
In his youth he did a report on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
He got an F but he deserved an A
I followed his career from the first day
It seemed a lack of support contributed to his inert ways
I seen him pull in twenty-four hour workdays
With deferred pay, undeterred by the word "shame"
Public humiliation was the worst pain
He was spinning out of control like a Class 5 hurricane
He said he wouldn't want another MC to suffer the same
Especially when there's nothing to gain
He was the illest alive but nobody would face it
He spit till his tongue was too torched to taste it
Properly funded corporations carbon dated his latest creations
To extract the information
They found it utterly amazing
They claimed the body of his work was the same thing as a priceless painting
Never mattered to him that art galleries hated him
'Cause Thomas Kinkade called and said he would take ten
Complete enigmas wrapped in puzzles encrypted in language
With sound but without shape or signature
Kept files in his garage on MS-DOS
In a fire-proof pod, we thought it was odd
Outside there was a shed with an Oppenheimer lock
He apparently kept more wax than Madame Tussaud's
We were in total awe 'cause it blew our minds
So many rhymes that were intricately designed
He was Poet Laureate of his time
And if you don't mind, I'd like to share some of his rhymes
Alone in my room looking through the 32X telescope zoom
Adjusting the focus of the moon
One should not assume the philosophy of David Hume
Is nothing more then a subjective conclusion
What is the maximum field rate application?
The runaway glaciation surrounding the ocean basin
Affects the population fluctuation
On a continuous basis but that's just the basics
The juxtaposition of Canibus' position
The precision of something no other has written
Way above and beyond what was intended
The unparalleled malleable enunciation of a sentence
You didn't go to college obviously
I can tell by your ungodly unintelligible terminology
A remarkable odyssey, the rhymes of modern speeds
When the brain orders the body not to breathe
Your competency is not up to speed, you're not in my league
You couldn't possibly be hotter then me
Or oppositely your minus twenty-five degrees
You'd squeeze but the condensation makes rifle barrels freeze
Allow me to speak figuratively, nigga please
My intellectual properties are about the size of Greece
Your counselor advised you not to speak
My counselor advised me to keep rhyming until they stopped the beat
In the words of Joseph Heller, "I learned how to write better"
Even though it sort of irked me
He said he didn't understand the process of the imagination
But he felt he was at its mercy
Which explains my point perfectly and certainly reinforces
The reason why nobody's probably ever heard of me
Couldn't understand what I mean by ill
Unless you try to translate what I print to film
This is the line of reel, the circle of time
The cycle of eternity, the emergence of one line
Academic phonetics render critics tongue-tied
I've personified dry humor of cum laude alumni
A wise man sees failure as progress
A fool divorces his knowledge and misses the logic
And loses his soul in the process
Obsessed with nonsense with a caricature that has no content
My style is masterful, multilateral
I could battle a fool and be naturally cruel
Words of scorn are a disastrous tool
From an existentialist's view I'm a better rapper than you
Grab the mic and rip your physical fabric in two
My attitude is fucked up but admirable
Different methods interpreted into different forms
From entirely different perceptions and seen from different norms
Not just spitting a poem, there’s much more involved
There's much more pieces of the puzzle for you to solve
Forty-eight orders of mechanical laws
And rays of creational cause enhance the cadence of my bars
Maybe I am self-absorbed
But that's the effect, to find the cause you should ask my A&R
Today is what it is, but only because yesterday was what it was
Permitting you heard of Beelzebub
A tale of demons and drugs, pissy drunk in the club
With the DJ doing the needle rub
Chances are you'll never see me son
Yeah I know my name's Canibus but I can't help you if you need a dub
I came to holla at some big booty bitches and listen to the speakers thump
Where you get conceited from?
I'm so nice on the mic they wanna beat me up
It's deep as fuck, I ain't seen it all but I've seen enough
Really unbelievable stuff
There's a lot of times when I want to speak but I'm stuck
I should leave this rap shit alone
And kick my incredible rhymes in the privacy of my own home
My imagination is my own
The liberty to speak to freely lyrically on the microphone
With a pen in my hand, I bring motion to the Enneagram
And become "Can-I Millenium Man"
Engrave my back with the emperor's stamp
Been spitting scientific rap since the 17th century began
Trying to escape the wicked empire of Def Jam
And the land where lyrics are bland and heretics hang
Every warrior has an axe to bury
But he has to learn to discern between enemy and adversary
I said to myself, "Germaine, this is insane
It's suicide, it's controlled flight into terrain"
I fought to regain control of the plane, but went up in a ball of flames
And got banned from the Hip-Hop hall of fame
For two bars I kept hearing in my head
Over and over again, it cost me everything
I'm convinced now that more than the truth is at stake
Where people create language that pretends to communicate
Euphemisms are misunderstood as mistakes
But its a byproduct of the ghetto music we make
From an extroverted point of view I think its too late
Hip Hop has never been the same since '88
Since it became a lucrative profession
There's a misconception that a movement in any direction is progression
Even though the potency of it lessens
Big money industries writing checks to suppress the question
And nobody gives a fuck no more, no one goes to the book store
Ever since the confluence of Moore's Law
But I stay in the lab like Niels Bohr and his son Aage
Edward Lorenz and Leo Szilard
Lyrically I took rap music and turned the knob
To the right full throttle and added panache
Why would I argue with my own conscience over the truth?
That's like me telling myself, "Don't tell me what to do"
Dialyses and analyses of battle MCs
Sometimes I say things I myself can't believe
My lyrical is so skillfully elliptical
I can understand how it makes you miserable
You wonder why I never let you play your beats for me
Or why I keep my studio enshrouded in secrecy
You wonder what's my infatuation with Alicia Keys
"Canibus why don't you speak to me?"
Yo, I meant it when I said no one can shine on a song that features me
That's why I said it so vehemently
You need to replace the hate with respect
I'm probably the best yet, Poet Laureate
More to you 🙌
yes...now i should play the instrumental & practice the whole lyrics.
Amazing bro... If his cat ain't in your top 10, don't reply.
Congrun Wang Canibus was never from here! I knew dude was an Alien! 👽 GOAT!!!
@@hip-hopkid Amen
If Dizaster would've battled THIS Canibus, he would've died.
Michael Franks The problem with battle rap is half the motherfuckers would have been bored due to lack of petty insults. Thats all that shit is these days.
Battles are worthless do you see poets battling? Lol. Winning a battle doesn't mean you are a writer and or artist or means though can think quick with wit.
sinkiy
"do you see poets battling"
poetry slam.
Doesn't matter canibus is not some cheap battle MC. I call them clowny mc's. Where is dizasters materiel? Those battle rappers are not artists, canibus is a artist and a very good one. Battles are 90's bullshit before we started to wake up and see what real hiphop is and it's not battles i'm sry...
+sinkiy Straight up. And back then, Battle rappers eventually became artists. Not anymore, battle rappers create a box for themselves.
The number of peoples heads this song went over back in the day is uncountable. This is so sohisticated. It literally took more than a decade to understand and appreciate songs like this of his.
Eloquently put
True!
One of the best sophisticated museoum worthy rap songs ever made
"Complete enigmas wrapped in puzzles encrypted in language
With sound but without shape or signature
Kept files in his garage on MS-DOS
In a fire-proof pod, we thought it was odd
Outside there was a shed with an Oppenheimer lock
He apparently kept more wax than Madame Tussaud's" ❗❗
I hope y'all know that 'Madame Tussaud's (now 'Tussauds') is a Wax Museum in London
A wise man sees failure as progress a fool that forces his knowledge then misses the logic then lose his soul in the process obsessed with nonsense with a caricature that has no content.......Damm thats the sickest line of all time
I thought the line was "a fool divorces his knowledge. ..
Edward Walker You might be right lol....incredible lone nonetheless
You're righ, it's " a fool divorces his knowledge and misses the logic"
That line alone always stuck with me to the point im thinking of getting it tatted..not the whole thing just up to "logic"
I think he says "i obesses with nonsense "
Lyrical Genius.
This song gave me mad knowledge from all the info I had to research
"A wise man sees failure as progress
A fool divorces its knowledge and misses the logic
Losing his soul in the process
Obsessed with nonsense with a character that has no content"
Fav line?
"The organic supercomputer that solved the mysteries of Klein and Kaluza with two blue metric rulers."
^^One of the greatest single lines in the history of hip-hop. Klein and Kaluza are credited with the earliest serious research into hyperdimensional theory, which formed the backbone of modern superstring theory.
Can you explain that line to me? I read a book on superstring theory, not convinced.
@@Ocelotl1491 Superstring theory is notorious complex and has spawned the creation of numerous mathematical concepts necessary to advance it (membranes, D-brains, etc.). Bis is suggesting his mind is so advanced that he solved its foundational mysteries (i.e. those of Kaluza-Klein theory) using only a pair of rulers.
@@danielholley2495 Gotcha. Is that possible? To solve the foundational mysteries of the Kaluza-Klein theory with two rulers?
@@danielholley2495 And about superstring theory, is there any evidence that it's real? Besides mathematical concepts?
@@Ocelotl1491 it's not possible to solve with two rulers...
A complete genius. A complete visionary.
absolutely beyond this universe.........
This is some upper level, out of everyone league type of of Jam. He was in an untouchable zone when he created this one...
Somebody really needs to get in contact with Mike now(Mike Tyson) And give him a copy of this album. Mike nowadays is more of a philosopher and I guarantee he would appreciate this album!
I'm pretty sure Mike Tyson knows Canibus' work 😂
Canibus big pun dmx red man my favorite rappers
this song will be 20 years deep next year in 2023!!!
Just some of the most incredible lyricism here. What a legend Canibus is.
Ikr?! Too bad he got banned from the hip-hop hall of fame for 2 bars he kept hearin' in his head over and over again. It cost him everythang........
The Ultimate Rage+ You implying that Canibus isn't a legend because the
Industry wouldn't recognize him? If so you can catch these hands
Nah man I was just reciting his verse man; Canibus is one of my favs and was my number one until the Dizaster battle happened. He's still unquestionably one of the illest lyricsts ever imho
The Ultimate Rage+ Oh my bad bro. Yea the Dizaster battle hurt him but besides that yeah he should be more respected in Hip Hop
best rapper of all time. so intelligent
+Immortal Technique what about Lupe Fiasco? Dumb it down, Murals and Adoration of the magi are some next level tracks.
Lupe fiasco isnt anywhere close to canibus... canibus is litterally in his own class of his own
Aesop is way up there lyrically
Aesop Rock Vs Canibus ?
Aesop Rock vs Canibus vs K-Rino vs. GZA?
This is one of the few Canibus songs where he totall goes off and spits some all-time shit but I'm not even listening to what he's saying cuz this beat is off the charts... probably the best use of the Nautilus sample ever
He gotta be one of the most lyrical emcees I've ever heard, damn Canibus
It kinda makes sense why so many rappers today gave up on writing lyrics. They prob listened to Bis and were like "you know what, i think im just going to mumble".
Canibus is the most underrated rapper and this song is proof. He needs more recognition for shit like this.
every word that comes outta his mouth in this song is quotable
Canibus took lyricism to another level
Eminem and every super lyrical miracle studied this dude. Joe Budden, Royce, Tech 9, Vinnie Paz, etc. Canibus is arguably the most underrated.
they were all his original stans
Best lyrical track of all time
Saw him live last summer Epic he still performs. Go see him before he stops touring!
If this isn't one of the greatest pieces of art ever written,,,I don't know what it..