Just lyrically, who can f#ck with canibus?

[pinkydapimp]

If you havent heard Poet Laureate Infinity, it is probably the most impressive rhyme i have ever heard. its pieces of work like that which put him in a category all by himself. Dude isnt great at making albums. he isnt great at making songs and he isnt great at picking beats. but the dude can spit and he is a lyricist.

As he explains Poet Laureate Infinity:
"There are 1,000 bars in that track and due to the way it's layered, it's an infinite rhyme. When you mix it and spread it throughout five channels, [you have the ability] to mix the track differently every time. Because when you hear the mix, whichever one you hear, you are only listening to one layer at a time. But there are four other layers there. You are only going to be hearing 200 bars per record. But at any moment and every moment, there are 800 bars that you're not listening to. So I've created something that's never been done before. Every time it's mixed, you'll hear a different song."
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*Basically,**you can listen to 5 -*200 bar verses. each 200 bars is like 11 mins.* Only one verse or layer at a time. But, you can also switch between the different layers or verses at any given time throughout the track and the verse will still rhyme! Which means you can make an infinite combination of the one verse. CRAZY.*

You can still access it here: http://www.canibus-central.com/site/media/pli_mixing_board/

 

[pinkydapimp]

Oh and if you think that he just uses big word that dont make sense, take a gander at this lyrical breakdown of his song Leviticus.

Leviticus: Hebrew Wayiqra ' (And He Called), the third book of the Latin Vulgate Bible, the name of which designates its contents as a book (or manual) primarily concerned with the priests and their duties. Although Leviticus is basically a book of laws, it also contains some narrative.

I harness the power of the chakra[1]
Remote-viewing[2] into darkness describing what I see in the process
Is stone statues surrounded by neo-lithic objects[3], geoglyphs[4] on the Pampa[5]
A dose of Ptolemy[6] makes you feel like a dream
The Dream State[7] is the playground for the supreme
Critics attempt to follow a trend
Today they call me a charlatan[8], but tomorrow I will be the god of men
To create a universe all I need is one thousand trillion, trillion degrees[9]
Sodium 22[10], betatrons[11] and a cloud chamber[12]
Keep the noise down so I don't arouse my neighbors
Got a message from a falcon and a snowman[13] , and left a note in a Coca-Cola can[14]
Show the whole planet coded program
Encrypted by a pro-scan[15] modem with a low-band[16], hold up let me load it in.

I was created by an intelligent design[17], you are merely a descendant of the immodified[18]
You diss me out of pride,
But when you’re finished talking about money and bitches you simply out of rhymes
Even my worst album was sublime
If I don't slow down I'll distort the timeline
Back through the time, turn to a hundred bars again
A master like the honorable Earl of Carnarvon[19]
The Grand Architect[20]
Used to be a partisan[21] to the Marcus theory[22a] but I lost the bet[22b]
No regrets, you live and you learn
I'm through giving advice, I just give concerns
Sterilize my hands to prevent catching the germs
And try to rebuild all the bridges I burned
I prefer modesty over controversy
But what am I to do when these jerks keep bothering me
Jealous cause they can't rhyme like me
And they never had a scientific mind like me

I'm above average with verbal semantics[23]
The Aurora Borealis[24] in the form of a rap ballad
They look at me like "poor bastard"
Why can't you manipulate billboards with all your metaphor magic?
No matter how I hard I practice
Every microphone I saw I grabbed it
Obviously that's the wrong tactic
I went through a long period of mourning and sadness when I wrote that Stan shit
But if you want to hear some hardcore Canibus just say so
Then I come out the eggroll[25] with 7 dead scrolls[26]
If you could find a better flow
Then I can find a dinosaur on the Galapagos archipelago[27]
Hey, you shouldn't fall for the naïveté[28]
Lyrically I'm the illest when my beats is ok
Food for thought, nutrition for the whole brain[29]
Keep your neurotransmitters[30] warm on a cold day
I'm ahead of my time, or so they say
I guess that's why I already feel old and gray
Ok, that's enough knowledge for today, I'm killing them
You better not forget it cause this is Levitibus

1. Chakra: One of the seven centers of spiritual energy in the human body according to yoga philosophy.

2. Remote viewing is a controlled and trainable mental process involving psi or psychic ability. Remote viewers use one of more of these styles to psychically gather descriptive data relating to a "target," which is usually some place or event at some point in time.

3. Neolithic: Of or relating to the cultural period of the Stone Age beginning around 10,000 B.C. in the Middle East and later elsewhere, characterized by the development of agriculture and the making of polished stone implements. The Neolithic era includes the latter half of the ``Stone age;'' the human relics which belong to it are associated with the remains of animals not yet extinct.

4. The Ancients of the Nazca Plains breathed life into the parched Peruvian wasteland with incredible indelible artworks created across hundreds of square miles of the desert surface. Their canvas called the Pampa Colorada meaning Red Plain for the reddish-brown stones that characterize its surface, is a plateau 37 miles long and l5 miles wide - a huge chalkboard. On it is etched works of monumental proportion, a montage of geometric formations called “geoglyphs”

5. Pampa: An extensive treeless grassland area, as found in southern South America.
See Pampa Colorado above.

6. One of the most influential Greek astronomers and geographers of his time, Ptolemy propounded the geocentric theory in a form that prevailed for 1400 years. However, of all the ancient Greek mathematicians, it is fair to say that his work has generated more discussion and argument than any other. We shall discuss the arguments below for, depending on which are correct, they portray Ptolemy in very different lights. The arguments of some historians show that Ptolemy was a mathematician of the very top rank, arguments of others show that he was no more than a superb expositor, but far worse, some even claim that he committed a crime against his fellow scientists by betraying the ethics and integrity of his profession.

7. a. Sigmund Freud noted as the Father of modern Psychology, believed that the function of dreaming was to allow the release of repressed instinctual impulses in a way that would preserve the ability to sleep, and that the instigating force causing dreams to occur was always a repressed thought or wish…

b. Bardo of the Dream State (Yoga) Dreams are a continuation of the lifetime of habitual patterns that one dreams even while
awake. This bardo is referred to as being double-deluded. It is deluded in the sense that it arises within the previous bardo, which is deluded, and because itself is deluded. In the dream state we also reflect on our collective delusions. When trying to meditate we experience all sorts of distraction. The same thing occurs to us while sleeping, but this is only a problem if you think they are real.

The Bardo of the Dream State is similar to that when we die except that its duration is different. The six senses withdraw into the central alaya - the basis of all - and one's senses become dull, etc. Most beings then withdraw into a state of unawareness but if you are able to remain conscious you are able to make good use of this time. One's six senses still work at this time and objects still appear to them.

8. Charlatan: A person who makes elaborate, fraudulent, and often voluble claims to skill or knowledge; a fraud.

9. About 10-34 seconds after the creation (of the universe), when the temperature was perhaps one thousand trillion trillion degrees, a bubble no more than 10-24 cm might have undergone an expansion by a factor of maybe 1050! At about 10-32 seconds this hyper-expansion stopped, leaving the bubble 1026cm across (that is, 100 million light years). However, the bit of the universe we can observe would have been, at that early time, only a few centimeters across! After 10-32 seconds the normal big bang evolution takes over.

10. Sodium 22: A radioactive isotope of sodium, atomic mass 22, having a half-life of 2.60 years and decaying by positron emission (0.545, 1.83 MeV) with electron capture and emission of gamma rays (1.275 MeV). It has been used in the determination of body sodium space and total exchangeable sodium.

11. Betatron: A magnetic induction electron accelerator capable of accelerating electrons to energies of several hundred million electron volts.

Use in particle accelerator: When electrons are accelerated, they undergo a large increase in mass at a relatively low energy. At 1 MeV energy, an electron weighs two and one-half times as much as an electron at rest. Synchrocyclotrons cannot be adapted to make allowance for such large increases in mass. Therefore, another type of cyclic accelerator, the betatron, is employed to accelerate electrons.

12. Cloud Chamber: Apparatus that detects high-energy particles passing through a supersaturated vapor; each particle ionizes molecules along its path and small droplets condense on them to produce a visible track.

10, 11, 12: A phycicist named Michio Kaku built a particle accelerator (A device, such as a cyclotron or linear accelerator, that accelerates charged subatomic particles or nuclei to high energies) in his garage. First he bought Sodium-22 and made a cloud chamber. He then scavenged junkyards for large pieces of steel to build a betatron. Finally Kaku wound 22 miles of copper wire to complete his particle accelerator. “I was gratified that the machine successfully produced a magnetic field 20,000 times more powerful than the earth’s magnetic field, which is necessary to accelerate a beam of electrons.” – Kaku

The importance of particle accelerators: “The high energy ones are crucial for the understanding of the origin of our Universe and of the formation of heavy nuclei, without which the Earth could not exist. Moreover they give the information needed to falsify any new 'theory of everything'.”

Eventually, this accelerator technology could mean particle colliders with higher efficiencies, lower operation costs and greater collision energies. Physicists could explore in greater detail the forces and particles inside atoms, reproducing in the laboratory the very fires of creation.

 

[pinkydapimp]

13. Nicknames for legendary American spies Daulton Lee and Charles Boyce active during the seventies. Also the title of an eighties movie about the two spies.

“Likely the most difficult pair of agents (spies) the Russians worked with in this period were two young, American walk-ins, Christopher Boyce and Andrew Daulton Lee. Boyce, as noted before, was the son of an FBI agent and used his father's connections to secure a job with the Southern California Aerospace firm that made satellites for the CIA. When he became disenchanted with the American foreign policy and his colleagues at work, Boyce approached his childhood friend Lee, who'd by then grown into an ambitious drug-smuggler. The two were altar boys together at St. John Fisher. Daulton, as he preferred to be called, had been running cocaine and marijuana since high school and, at 23, had recently moved into the more lucrative business of smuggling Mexican heroin. The two devised a scheme by which Boyce would steal classified material from work, and Lee would use his experience in the drug-trade to get it to Mexico for sale to the Russians-squeezing them for maximum profit.

From April 1975 to late 1976 Boyce and Lee sold operating manuals and detailed technical data for some of America's most sophisticated satellites to the KGB residency in Mexico City. They made tens of thousands of dollars between them, which Lee then turned into several times that by re-investing it in the drug trade. Though less prolific than Prime and Walker, Boyce and Lee deserve mention for the cold-blooded efficiency of their operation. Lee, in effect, had the KGB bankrolling his drug business.
Yet despite their moral (and in some cases intellectual) poverty, these men were used by the Soviets to steal some of the most-guarded secrets of American and British intelligence in the 1970s and 80s.”

14. Coca –Cola can reference (only material found): [X comments on the difficulty of keeping military secrets in a BlackNet
environment.]

Yes, which is why I always used to use "B-2 Stealth Bomber blueprints for
sale" as my canonical example of a BlackNet ad. Hundreds of folks at
Northrup had access to various levels of B-2 secrets. The "problem" for them
was that military intelligence (Defense Intelligence Agency, Office of Naval
Intelligence, CIA, NDA, etc.) was watching them (and they knew this) and
monitoring the local bars and after-work hangouts. Read "The Falcon and the
Snowman," or rent the movie, for some details on this.
Anonymous markets completely change the equation!
(By the way, many other "tradecraft" aspects of espionage are similarly
changed forever....and probably already have been changed. Gone will be the messages left in coke cans by the side of the road, the so-called "dead
drops" so favored by spies for communicating microfilm, microdots, and coded
messages. What I call "digital dead drops" already allow nearly untraceable, unrestricted information.

15. “Promoter Scan” BioInformatics & Molecular Analysis. Predicts Promoter regions based on scoring homologies with putative eukaryotic Pol II promoter sequences. (Analyzes nucleic acid sequences)
http://www-bimas.cit.nih.gov/molbio/proscan/

16. Why a Modem/What's a Modem

The voice frequency channels of the general switched telephone network have been used extensively for the transmission of digital data.To use these channels,the data must be put in a form that can be sent over a limited bandwidth line. In voice grade telephonenetworks,transformers,carrier systems and loaded lines attenuate all signals below 300 Hz and above 3400 Hz.

While the bandwidth from 300 Hz and above 3400 Hz. is fine for voice transmission,it is not possible for transmission of digital data because the data has many frequency components above this range. To transmit data through phone lines,it is necessary to convert digital data into the signal that is totally within the frequency range.This function is performed by MODEM(MOdulatorDEmodulator)

In full duplex data transmission-the simultaneous sending and receiving of data-Frequency Division Multiplexing(FDM) can be used for data rates up to 2400 bits per second. In FDM, the voice channel is divided into upper and lower bands(called the high band and thelow band);one is used for sending and the other is for receiving data. The originating terminals transmits in the low band and receives in the high band, while the answering terminal transmits in the high band and receives in the low band.

In low speed modems(300bps transmission rate), the modulation technique commonly employed is called Frequency Shift Keying(FSK). In FSK modems, four separate frequencies are used;1070 Hz for a zero(also called a space)in the low band,1270 Hz for a one(a mark)in the low band,2025Hz for a zero in the high band and 2225Hzfor a one in the high band .The transmitting modem takes the digital ones and zeros from the terminal and converts them into proper tones which are sent over the phone line. The receiving modem takes the tones and converts them back to ones and zeros and sends them to the receiving terminal. Since four frequencies are used ,simultaneously transmitting and receiving data can be accomplished.

17. In searching for writings on Natural Theology, I found a very interesting essay by a scientist from the Harvard Smithonian Center for Astrophysics. Dr. Owen Gingerich makes a convincing argument that the universe was created by Intelligent Design because the physical constants had to be so finely tuned for the universe to exist today, and even more finely tuned for life to exist, that only an intelligent being could do so.

"…it looks as if the entire universe has been tuned-shall I say designed?-for the emergence of intelligent life. And these facts have not escaped notice. The evidence of design appeared so striking that cosmologists even gave it a name: the anthropic principle. The initial energy balance of the universe and many other details were so extraordinarily right that it seemed the universe had been expressly designed to produce intelligent, sentient beings. Such was the original context that led to the anthropic principle.”

18. (Doesn’t seem to be a word, make what you will of this usage I found. Perhaps it has meaning amongst psychologists) Freud, who does not agree with the linearity of the historiography of Enlightenment, with its idea of progress, introduces a dimension of counter-time where end and beginning are joined.
Even while he is replacing the sacred dimension of prophecy with the profane dimension of hermeneutic science, Freud denies what he seems to be advocating, a complete laicization of history. In a sense, the past prefigures the future, but this does not happen by prolonging its trajectories in a Cartesian perspective. As the trauma at the basis of hysteria demonstrates, there is no cause-effect consequentiality in the unconscious. It is rather the atemporal element of time, the resistance to motion, the immodified aspect of experience, the unthought of in thought that we can predict will return in the unintentional form of the repetition compulsion.

19. Henry Herbert had the title of ‘Earl of Carnarvon’ bestowed upon him by George III in 1780 for his diplomacy and courage when handling a difficult political situation at the time of the Gordon Riots, and this title has been carried through the line of succession to the present day. It was the 3rd Earl who demanded that his home should reflect the wealth and importance of his status, and he commissioned Barry to create an ostentatious, country gentleman’s home. The elaborate stone carvings, and the numerous ‘gothic’ pinnacles are an unmistakable trademark of the Victorian era, when everything tended to be exaggerated almost to the point of saturation. Barry, renowned for his reconstruction of the Houses of Parliament in the late Perpendicular style, apparently preferred the ‘Anglo-Italian’ style of architecture he created for Highclere.

20. A Mason belief in the existence of God as The Grand Architect of the Universe.

Masonry expressly denies it is a religion.

Freemasonry is a non-Christian occult religion that teaches a different way to salvation and considers Jesus, Buddha, Confucius, and all spiritual leaders to be only messengers of " The Grand Architect of the Universe". The Grand Architect is not just another term for Jehovah. Freemasonry teaches that there are two basic Gods: Adonay, the god of the Christians, a god of evil and Lucifer, a separate god of good. Freemasonry considers the religious scriptures of all religions to be equally valid.

 

[pinkydapimp]

21. Partisan: A firm adherent to a party, faction, cause, or person; especially: one exhibiting blind, prejudiced, and unreasoning allegiance.

22. [22a] Professor Rudolph A. Marcus is being rewarded (the Nobel Peace Prize) for his theoretical work on electron transfer - work which has greatly stimulated experimental developments in chemistry. The processes Marcus has studied, the transfer of electrons between molecules in solution, underlie a number of exceptionally important chemical phenomena, and the practical consequences of his theory extend over all areas of chemistry. The Marcus theory describes, and makes predictions concerning, such widely differing phenomena as the fixation of light energy by green plants, photochemical production of fuel, chemiluminescence ("cold light"), the conductivity of electrically conducting polymers, corrosion, the methodology of electrochemical synthesis and analysis, and more.

[22b] Back electron transfer (BET) is slower than charge separation by up to 2 orders of magnitude in these systems. The BET rate is slower in nonpolar than in polar solvents, indicating that BET occurs in the Marcus inverted region, where the rate decreases as the thermodynamic driving force for BET increases.

Analysis of the BET data using Marcus theory gives reorganization energies for these systems between 0.6 and 0.8 eV and electronic coupling matrix elements between 4.8 and 5.6 cm-1.

23. However, there is no independent evidence for the existence of such a route (see Howard Franklin, 1988). A second explanation (e.g. Beauvois, 1982) is that semantics is not a unitary entity, but is separated into visual and verbal components. Visual input can only directly access visual semantics, and naming can only be based on verbal semantics. Visual object naming requires communication from ....

After discussing and comparing some decompositional approaches to verbal semantics, we develop requirements for semantic representations. These argue for an object-oriented approach to verbal semantics.

24. Aurora Borealis: An aurora that occurs in northern regions of the earth. Also called northern lights.

The northern lights occur when charged particles emitted by the sun strike the Earth's atmosphere. The resulting visual displays can be beautiful and dramatic.

25. …

26. During the middle years of the twentieth century two important but very different collections of ancient religious texts were unearthed in Palestine and Egypt: The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Library. Visitors to the Gnostic Society Library often do not understand the distinction between these two discoveries. Since our Library collection contains a vast amount of material related specifically to the Nag Hammadi texts (including complete translations), a brief description of the two discoveries might be useful.

What are popularly called The Dead Sea Scrolls consist of a very large number of scrolls – most poorly preserved and many surviving only as tiny scraps – discovered in a series of eleven caves near Qumran and the Dead Sea beginning around 1947. Over 800 separate texts of several divergent types are now recognized among this find. The scrolls date from the "intertestamental period" – a period ranging from about 250 BCE to 100 CE, the epoch after textual formation of the "Old Testament" but still before the formation of Christianity and rabbinical Judaism.
(Very interesting, click the following link to browse some of the text found in the scrolls http://www.gnosis.org/library/scroll.htm )

A table of events related to the Dead Sea Scroll Discovery, and the debates surrounding their publication and interpretation:
1949 -- [Feb.] Harding authorizes Roland de Vaux of French Dominican l'Ecole Biblique to survey Cave 1 where the first 7 scrolls had been discovered. Many more fragments recovered, including original Hebrew versions of Jubilees & the Testament of Levi.

27. The Galapagos Archipelago is a cluster of some 13 volcanic islands and associated islets and rocks located just under the equator, about 800 kilometers west of the Ecuadorian coast and directly on the equator. The archipelago encompasses over 50 islands of volcanic origin that are spread out over an area of about 4,500 square kilometers. The volcanic Galapagos platform originated probably not more than 15 million years ago and the oldest island not more than 2.4 million years ago.

Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction, about 65 million years ago – extinction of all Dinosaurs.

28. Naïveté: An artless, credulous, or uncritical statement or act.

29. Biochemical deficiencies or imbalances in the brain are a major factor in compulsive disorders such as craving for alcohol, drugs, or food. They can be caused by genetic deficiencies or by environment. By improving brain nutrition, we can help to correct these imbalances, opening the way to recovery.
Sufficient improvement in brain nutrition can rarely, if ever, be brought about by diet alone. You can take in bananas and milk for an increase in tryptophan or serotonin; eggs or other protein for phenylalanine or dopamine; and cheese for tyrosine or norepinephrine, and it will help, but probably not enough.
To materially affect brain nutrition, certain amino acids must be used in amounts high enough to make specific changes in the supply and balance of neurotransmitters and enzymes.

Research findings in the last four decades strongly suggest that when the brain has adequate supplies of amino acids, the building blocks for brain chemicals, behavior tends to be normal. Inadequate or imbalanced supplies of these building blocks lead to deficits or imbalances in neurotransmitters and neuromodulators, causing abnormal and uncontrollable behavior such as the craving for, and addiction to, substances such as alcohol, drugs, or food.

30. Hormones regulate numerous body functions. Neurotransmitters regulate processes in the brain. They determine your mood, appetite, emotions, memory, sex-drive etc. If metabolism of hormones is impaired, malfunctions in the body will occur. (Too little estrogen causes osteoporosis and infertility; too much can cause cancer). If metabolism of neurotransmitters is impaired, you may experience memory lapses, cravings, depressions, or become obsessive, anxious, sexually disturbed etc. Many neurotransmitters may be involved in central regulation of body temperature in normothermia, during heat and cold stress, in fever, and in exercise. Together with other body mechanisms, these neurotransmitters direct such functions as appetite, attention and blood pressure.

 

[dj expanium]

Keep it coming, y'all!!!!

 

[weezyfgarbage]

you should see the reason, whenever Canibus drop a new song. the whole board start praising him like he a lightning god or some shit

this is completely unrelated to the topic but you're stupid as fuck LOL

 

[Yungin T. Jeezie]

this is completely unrelated to the topic but you're stupid as fuck LOL

offended related canibus worshiper

 

[thedesolateone]

merchant of metaphors is my new favorite canibus song.

amazing!

 

[Ajax McJones]

Young Jeezy is a lot better than canibus

Lyrically nobody can fuck with jeezy.

 

[icame4wo]

no one can. it's sort of weird and all but it's the truth. ps, the ENTIRE music industry knows.

 

[BEAM]

If you havent heard Poet Laureate Infinity, it is probably the most impressive rhyme i have ever heard. its pieces of work like that which put him in a category all by himself. Dude isnt great at making albums. he isnt great at making songs and he isnt great at picking beats. but the dude can spit and he is a lyricist.

As he explains Poet Laureate Infinity:

"There are 1,000 bars in that track and due to the way it's layered, it's an infinite rhyme. When you mix it and spread it throughout five channels, [you have the ability] to mix the track differently every time. Because when you hear the mix, whichever one you hear, you are only listening to one layer at a time. But there are four other layers there. You are only going to be hearing 200 bars per record. But at any moment and every moment, there are 800 bars that you're not listening to. So I've created something that's never been done before. Every time it's mixed, you'll hear a different song."

*

*

*Basically,**you can listen to 5 -*200 bar verses. each 200 bars is like 11 mins.* Only one verse or layer at a time. But, you can also switch between the different layers or verses at any given time throughout the track and the verse will still rhyme! Which means you can make an infinite combination of the one verse. CRAZY.*

You can still access it here: http://www.canibus-central.com/site/media/pli_mixing_board/

You're amazed by this?

It does nothing but speak to his non-cohesive methods.

Like I said, dude's more focused on rhyming, and intrigues people by his inclusion of deep concepts, but does nothing to lace those concepts together in order to accomplish anything, other than rhyming.

 

[pinkydapimp]

You're amazed by this?
It does nothing but speak to his non-cohesive methods.

Like I said, dude's more focused on rhyming, and intrigues people by his inclusion of deep concepts, but does nothing to lace those concepts together in order to accomplish anything, other than rhyming.

yes i am impressed by this because he is doing something DIFFERENT! which is something that is missing in hiphop these days. Im sorry, but anyone that can make 5 different 200 bar verses that are semi cohesive and rhyme at all times when you switch between them is impressive to me. And your right, in this song, he isnt accomplishing much more then rhyming. but its a fuckin impressive rhyme done in a way that noone else has done before and may not ever accomplish. and in the end, the most basic principal of hip hop is RHYMING! So as long as he does that well, hes dope in my book.

 

[Mvpbrodie93]

changes by tupac? Well duh!!

I don't think you see the importance of thris thread. Of Course tupac is a better All around mc then canibus.

Changes > Canibus' entire discography.

He said nothing of even partial importance there. Since when is bragging about how smart you are a display of lyricism? That verse is completely shallow and pedantic.

Worse, is saying Shakespeare would envy that?

LMFAO

Shakespeare actually said stuff when he wrote 14 bar sonnets. He expressed affection to a loved one. He spoke of tragedy. He spoke of humour.

Canibus, is bar for bar, is terrible. He says nothing. Big vocabulary, good flow, terrible subject matter. With every song he makes, he reaches Lil B's level.

 

[runningwolf1980]

Changes > Canibus' entire discography.

He said nothing of even partial importance there. Since when is bragging about how smart you are a display of lyricism? That verse is completely shallow and pedantic.

Worse, is saying Shakespeare would envy that?

LMFAO

Shakespeare actually said stuff when he wrote 14 bar sonnets. He expressed affection to a loved one. He spoke of tragedy. He spoke of humour.

Canibus, is bar for bar, is terrible. He says nothing. Big vocabulary, good flow, terrible subject matter. With every song he makes, he reaches Lil B's level.

goddam! what canibus do to you?

 

[thedesolateone]

Pay attention, Ensign
I need a jet stream pattern assessment, go get it
And tell me the direction that the fuel tank is headed
Scram jet packs straps attached to my back
Rocket exhaust melt skin off like wet wax
Call sign Tom Cat, master ace of aerial combat
I double-time out to the tarmac
Fog covers the launch pad
Order ATC to fall back, but maintain visual contacts
Switch to radar, innovation navigational star map
I won't need to travel beyond that
My jet contrails so long that,
It can be seen in time zones eight hours apart by NORAD
Bow waves are made when I sweep my arms back
To fast track to the lunar surface's dark patch
The darkest part of the Moon where ISS2 was parked at
Inside onyx black alien artifacts
Well guarded in the event of a chartered attack
The outpost is nothing more than a trap
The red planet approach close, I know perigee and impact
Phobos is controlled by the Dracs
Deimos is the most underrated of the pack
It decimates NEA's more than double its mass
A solar max melts polar caps
I notice that think tanks with closed minds miss unknown facts
Satellites track and match the stats, statistics start to stack
I'm a man of science, not rap
With actionable impulse to act when I can’t relax
I work hard but play harder in fact
My rose garden attracts rats,
I sit back and listen to jazz and smoke hash in a mineral bath
I meditate, slightly awake, the moon rays interpermeate my physical state
I gaze into space
The light waves race and shift shape, colors escape
I concentrate on eight frequency rates
The body begins to numb as the spirit elevates
But wait, I’m interrupted by a buzzer at my front gate
Closed circuit surveillance showed me a face
How entertaining, special agents came to visit my estate
“Miss Moneypenny, bring me a plate, a cup of tea, and my terry-cloth robe,
Then show them in to me, I’ll wait”
He walked in with a blank face, I calmly remarked, “You’re late”
He responded with a strong handshake
Miss Moneypenny returned with eggs and pancakes
I offered them a seat, standing up, looked so out of place
He kindly obliged, but the other two continued to stand
Folded their hands, and gave me the nod
The silence was so profound, that even soft sound seems loud
With ambient music in the background
I slurped when I sipped my tea, it was hot
I chomped when I chewed my chow, it was not
In slow motion the silence was broken, you could hear a pin drop
He said, “You cannot save Hip Hop”
I said why not? I sold mixtapes to buy stock
I’ve been researching and developing a spitbox
Rap is deeply rooted in the music generation
I can prove it, but it doesn’t constitute publication
I swear the Great Bear entered the Dragon’s Lair
I was there in the center of St. Petersburg Square
Assigned as a silent observer, but I witnessed a murder
Took a picture of the body and a burner
Circa the time, you called me from Burma
In Port Charlotte Florida, say you were in a coastal corridor
And that’s what you call help?
Eight months of Camp Kill Ya’ Self couldn’t rehabilitate what I felt
And now, here you are, in my backyard
Accusing me for being an outlaw for my bars?
I ain’t got nothing for ya, I’ll call my controller,
You call your employers, they can talk to my lawyers
He got up, and turned his back on me and said, “I’ll be back homie”
I said you better bring an army
He said, “You don’t want war”
I called Moneypenny on the intercom and said, “Baby, show them to the door”
To be continued, stay tuned for more
Secret dialogue from the Merchant of Metaphors…

 

[runningwolf1980]

Yo sometimes the road to the truth is

So elusive its confusin

And reality becomes illusion

If I showed the masses where we was at or where we was goin

Id shout at the social palace of the world as we know it

Im talkin bout the grand deception

Of nineteen forty-seven

When our souls were sold to the heavens

For technologically advanced weapons

Crystal enhanced, brain implants and mind control methods

MJ-12 is not majestic

In the focal point of our promise on this planet is not domestic

You can accept it or be stupid and be a skeptic

Or fail to recognize the secret societys deathwish

Ninety-seven percent of our presidents were masons

Responsible for launderin trillions of dollars from the nation

For the construction of underground military installations

Abductions and coward mutilations

Experiments on human patients

Can take place in several subterrainean bases

A hundred and fifty stories below a basement

With knowledge of genetic information

You need to fear science not Satan

Cause through the manipulation of certain biological agents

They create strange creations

Top secret special operations

Low frequency sounds and lasers

People like call sayin they didnt believe in the drake equation

Were tryin to keep western civilization on the need-to-know basis

Well you need to know that this is a game

And we being betrayed and played in the worst way

Tune in to channel zero

Yo the holy scripts from Genesis 126

Says let us make man in our image under our likeness

First of all whos they?

You see if God was truly a single entity thats not what he would say

We as the L-Oheam

Gods and goddesses

Possess a marvelous remonsterous subconscience

Lifeforms that speak in very high pitched sounds and squeaks

Shorts likhado clicks and beeps

A highly advanced form of speech

Even though to us it seems like they only chatterin they teeth

They used to swim deep in the oceans beneath

Till they fins transformed into limbs and they started to creep

Then they evolved into mammals with feet

And walked right from the shorelines onto the beach

They used gravity

Cuz this actually the only force around

They could slow time and the speed of light down

The energy grid network

Open the gateway from earth

To any point in the universe

Livin organisms and various

Geomagnetic gravitational

Phoenomally areas

Space expedition teams in the lunar regions

Reported seeing dissapyramids and tetrahedrons

Liquid filled shoes, is what they used

To walk across the moon without leavin a clue

Of where they been for the past twenty three billion years

Before life on the surface even appeared

I hope you become aware what Im spittin in ya ear

Was intended to stimulate your left brains hemisphere

I know it sounds weird

All these mothafuckin answers to questions to the grand deception

 

[thedesolateone]

I woke up into a dream, a dream that was more real than it seemed
With no animation or green screen
Human beings need special specs provided by special request
To see the spectacular special effects
If you can see what I saw or hear what I heard
Your ears will not need to hear the sound of my words
My thoughts follow my feelings that is how I think
The sceptics are rarely convinced, their feelings are exempt
What is the point of thought if you can not control the result
What is it worth if anything at all?
Where do we exist from? What do we exist for?
We were intelligently designed to be a resource
How can there be free will without the freedom to feel?
We pursue an illusion that isn't real
P-12 psychics taking red pills to produce thrills
Than predicting a coin toss a hundred times to prove skill
Telekinetic electro-genetic psyonic weapon
With extra-sensory perception of precognitive method
That's why I can rhyme with consistence
Indisputable evidence repeatable on the street or in studio session
I am sorry if you feel I am refusing your questions
That's not my intention, my mind is in a higher dimension
At these levels I have much higher attention
Ascension into a level of rhyme that's defined as divine intervention
My intent to present the most intensive lung splitting
Tongue twisting sentence ever historically recorded to present
But that is not the point of this lesson
I will continue this poetic expression, you must listen to make the connection
I will slow down
Now take a deep breath and try to get with the flow now, this is it,
Back to the beginning when the Milky Way first started spinning
Sound was the only thing living
The Universe was singing, signals were pinging
Life began to emerge from one light blinking
The sound stabilized it
The color spectrum was immediately divided by levels of brightness
The speed of the spin began rising
Gravity was created and forever affected by this
And thus, the elements were created in a cradle
Smashing against one another like balls on a pool table
We like to label so we give things names
I shook your hand and told you mine was Germaine
In my dream I was hoisted into a plane with a space-age frame by a giant gantry crane
My code name was SpitBoss, T-minus 2 seconds 'til liftoff
Let me tell you what Canibus saw:
I saw a world in deluge, fighting over fossil fuels and food
Like a bunch of god damn fools

 

[thedesolateone]

In the beginning I discovered wordplay
I experimented with some syllables from the first to the third day
On the fourth I searched for the words to say
How to compress complex verbiage in the least amount of space
I was perfect at it and mastered the tactics
On the fifth day I decided I would combine it with mathematics
On the sixth day I became a fanatic and I couldnt kick the habit
I would just look in the mirror and practice
On the seventh cycle, I had to take the day off
I was exhausted I guessed my work would never pay off
But if it happened to him, it could happen to me
And if it happened to me, it was destined to be

 

[thedesolateone]

the answer to the question:no one thus far

 

[Punisher__]

I think Jean Grae could give Canibus tha bidness, though.