Yo, Houston to Earth, watch the Ripper crucify you with verse
My urethra to your uvula quenches your thirst
Put your flames out with dry desert dirt where leopards lurk
Lock your soul down with an esoteric weapons search
Strap a bomb to one of your label's record clerks
And activate it as soon as they get to work
Ring the alarm, red alert nigga it gets worse
Bypass security networks with select words
Megahertz make nebulas reverse 'til your head bursts
Call the press first and ask them who has the best verse
Give me the respect I deserve
If you are what you eat, it's obvious I can't eat what I'm worth
Y'all niggas eat pussy and burp
The other half of y'all suck dick 'til your jaws and your neck hurt
When you address me nigga, end your sentence with 'Sir'
Critics went berserk, they haven't even heard my best work
See I broke into their mind by
Quietly going by their eardrum walls and hot-wired their skulls
Yeah, I earned the name Canibus but what did it cost?
Battle rap is nothing but a serendipitous whore
Niggas probably like, "What the fuck he dissing him for?"
Yeah, he dissed me first, but you were never informed
I'm one of the top five nigga, my shit is tight nigga
You heard it right nigga, I rock mics nigga
But the limelight isn't where I belong
The top four don't even look in the mirror no more
If they did, I'd be in the mirror looking back at them
Ready to grab them, kidnap them and put them on my album
I rip jackers, rip the time-space fabric
Loop the future with the past tense, looking for patterns
Eradicate Africans that sold Africans to Saxons
And forced black men to pay taxes
Attack a wack bitch with counter-tactics
Split your bullet proof chassis in half with a rapid Gatling
Keep firing at you 'til you're trapped in
Non-combatants scramble for helicopter extraction
While I'm back at Fort Bragg, bragging
How I tortured them faggots and stabbed them with Rip the Jacker daggers
Slay dragons with old passages from black magic manuscripts
I found in the cabinet written in Arabic
Translate the characters one by one like Arafat's tarot card suggests
I make terrorist's threats through your stereo set
Various anthrax carriers sending sarin to the press
With an imaginary address, Cani's the best
Untraceable, your picture's unpaintable canvas is wet
Let me dry you off with some of this fire I spit
Twenty six years old, nigga look how I spit
Microphone fiend, since I was like fourteen
My Cuban uncle used to sell cocaine, Okay?
I'm reloaded, you're fucking with the wrong MC
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease to the whole industry
Potent as Hennessey that was distilled in Tennessee
One shot scrambles your memory indefinitely
Nowadays a hundred bars ain't impressive to me
You stepping to me, nigga do it intelligently
You want to battle? Or do you want to fucking wrestle with me
You ain't better than me, you just have an obsession with me
Canibus hybrid, the cake icing of rhyming
As I grow old I get colder like the declining climate
On Earth's environment, entirely tireless
Rhymes come from a higherness of wireless dialect
Scientists from Sirius B designed my specs
Astrally project during heightened sex
Chakras connect, doctors inspect what they can't possibly interpret yet
That's why they revert to threats
They curse and throw fits
They're like immature Earth cadets looking like Captain Kirk in a dress
Lyrically I'll step on you, Rip on you
Then I'll defecate what I just digested on you
I'm better than you, I'm better than you, I'm better than you
Just to get the checkered flag I'll put the pressure on you
Put the extra effort on you
Write a motherfucking letter to you and your editors too, threatening you
Detectives check your mail and your Messenger too
You can take this verbal slashing that I left as a clue
Execute the type of wickedness the Devil approves
Which basically means I can do whatever with you
I'm a rap music mutant with a cool name
Misconstrued fame but I spit butane
Blue flames out of giant CO2 tanks
Demagnetized memory banks, enhanced, advanced
One of a kind, like modern man's retina scans
Quick as a glance and flickers from kerosene lamps
What do you want me to break first? Your jaw or your grill
What type of spit do you want from me? Sparkling or still
Studied law at Yale, draw up my own deals
So the longer they resist me the stronger I feel
Spread your ganglia from Tanzania to Flats of East Anglia
Give up, you can't keep up
The man eater in a wife beater spreading typhoid fever
Through mic receivers with light reverb
Type in the right keywords, I might emerge
It takes a really nice nigga to excite these nerds
Niggas want to see the gully in me, keep fucking with me
Never under pressure, I keep the pressure under me
Burn the weed, drop a freestyle on the Internet
Then watch niggas burn the CD
Upload a picture of your mom getting DP'd
I'm one size away from thirteen, believe it she peed
I'm the illest and it's going to be that way forever
Word of mouth is good, but a mouth with words is better
Nigga, nobody gets sicker than the Ripper
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