Cypher - Afurakan

June 9, 2006

Afurakan

CYPHER

I stood in a cipher with God

and all he seemed to speak about was rotating planets and stars

I stood in a cipher with God

and all he seemed to speak about was separating light from the dark,

barbeques on the sun and leaving a burning candle on the moon

Thor was his beat-box and Moses was keeping score on 2 four-cornered stones

his accomplice was a four headed shadow which seemed to bump it’s head in every direction

and the spying Ra, listened from a distance in anticipation

he started talking about me and I thought he was dissing

but actually he was explaining the philosophy behind me

see, God is the wizard and I’m his magical bag of tricks

all he needs to is think and I spit

and we don’t need blunts to reach the highest ultimate level of thought

coz we smoke life rolled up in papyrus leaves

blow out smoke rings and let them hang around Saturn planets

then suddenly Thor changed the beat

Thor changed the beat and 21 angels joined in

we opened up the cipher so the rest of hell could move in

flames sparked the cipher from this fiery creature claiming he was a battle cat

he started dissing but God ignored him,

I asked why, he said “nah, I’ll let Gabriel handle that “

he called me the first son of man and kept on repeating that

the Armageddon was only a punch-line away,

the Armageddon was only a punch-line away

but how could it be, he had promised me that we would cipher into eternity

then deciding that he was out of my league,

he brought Moses in to battle me

now Moses was from the old school and was known to battle only with 10 lines

but could simultaneously project his voice to transmit through 10 mics

10 times, now that’s 10 lives

10 mc’s embarrassed and taken out at the same time

the cipher was getting hot and I had to battle back,

so looking at Moses I was like

You are not an m.c

even if I was the red sea and you were a staff

You still couldn’t split me

Don’t even look at me

You need to live another century to be raw enough to battle me

And I’m the prodigal son out of the crowd you misled

And I’m back to make swallow every word you ever said

Even on Noah’s ark you wouldn’t survive regardless

I’ll make you write AFURAKAN as the eleventh commandment

The beat stopped as Thor had swallowed his electrical tongue

and all corners of the universe seemed to fold in

too dumb-struck to react, Moses collapsed face flat

as the 21 angels hung their heads in shame

and fell on my knees at God’s feet

Our father, please forgive me for I have killed one of your sons

Please forgive me for I have killed one of me

My tongue was then imprisoned for 21 reincarnations

only then can I cipher with God again

only then can I truly be me, again