EPISODE · Sep 21, 2023 · 1 MIN

The Muse-cian featuring Self Jupiter

from #StoriesAboutSongs · host RedefineHipHop

7X3=21 Punch out, works done, proverbial phone booth I transform to the rhyme writer before you Prefer truth, so how’s about we lay a few facts down I write the part of life that fits exact how the track sounds Good times, bad times, future and past times I maximize every word choice to the last line Scrutinize every detail of these deep tales The beat tells me secrets, I don’t keep it, I unveil Show all my best parts, and times when I do fail The stress and the strech-marks, tipping of each scale Tooth & nail I fought since the days of my youth Took it back to the start, for the burden of proof Certain to lose if I choose to cave to the rules Brave without booze, brazen without making a bruise Aching to use my soul as a payment for dues But never sold, fine line between music and muse, choose… Self Jupiter When the student is truly ready the teacher will disappear I wanna hock a loogie pops some boogers to keep him here To trap him in the classroom optical bathroom My graffiti ain’t so artsy Just a kid with a sharpie And a Locker full of flare guns Crazy Americans You see us how you wanna see us Breakfast of champions I wrote this is in detention Need some gang intervention I banged on the teacher for a musi-cian feature professor of art and science Has a fool for a client Disorderly conduct in the comforts of blood sport The master of many things Is a master of nun The sun of a sharecropper Sequoia tree of grasshoppers Learning all the essentials Equations in differentials Language and breathe control pawn game for celestials Looking at tadpoles in virtual glass bowls If you’re feeling rather frogish Then leap onto this grassy knoll