The night's a dark lord well dressed seducing our sunUpon the dawning of her full day he usually would comeGalloping upon his winged horseLeaving trails of stars across the planet the night scene of New YorkComes to life with lights pubs clubs with thugsMobsters gangsters criminals dealers with drugsLoud music crowds are moving up and down blocksIn and out of spots cops watch for a foul shootingSo how we moving my soul scour through the cloudsWhere the moon ah sitLike the wise owl searching through a gloomy mist6 will bring a casket down to it's tombAnother child gets pushed through the uterusFrom the womb we're intuitiveEternal peace or damnation depending what we do with itA genius or a lunaticA general or a fugitive it's essential...[Hook:]IT'S ESSENTIAL[Talking:]WordIT'S ESSENTIAL to be a man of your wordTake care of your seedsTo the young kids honor your motherThe greedy night is full of demon smilesAnd every hustler wear hornsAnd every fiend comes from the groundThe FBI got satellite radars screening our childJacking off to our chaos the beast get arousedThere's another world with under bosses rich not into flossingPut hits on certain lawmenWho pick who runs for officeIf they switch then the guns are brought inWho parted with professional ball players with big endorsementsWho love to trick on hoes that sniff blow in bathroom toiletsThey alcoholics go through mad divorcesSee their wives in the papers with half their fortuneThen there's the mob leaving tips a hundred bucks at the barBig spenders around the dealers shuffling cardsEvil laughter puffing cigarsIn a room full of goons tats cover their bullet woundsRats are pulled from lagoonsMexican mob doing shots of tequila live niggasThrowing up knots in their picturesWith gang signs at the same timeIf crack was awards and could frame 9sYou would have plaques and coke scale and money stacksBut there's another party with Presidents CIA intelligenceThe federal defense Executives with the Aliens Iraqis and IsraeliansAnd by the time of my demise the one who talk to Cain shall riseThe second time while Abel blood rains from the skiesAnd who knows where my soul will fly I'm near a cemeteryOn top of a dark hillside it's essential...[Hook:]IT'S ESSENTIAL[Talking:]Everything's ESSENTIALTo the single black mothers who handling businessAlways about their paper and doing their numbersIT'S ESSENTIALKnowwhatimean?To the youth out there...Be a soldierTake care of yoursKeep it healthAlways keep a clear mindLook at the world in front of youKnowSnow fills the night air, as the wind throws her thick white hairAcross her face icicles appear fall from spaceLike tears white frost light flakesI'm with my peers remorse at the wakesSo many cats I know I lost his waySprayed up by bullets I'm in my WoolrichWe cross them graves my man spoke mad hoarse from pain he said"Yo Priest, just think of what lost today"The city lights look like the ice around a rich man's wristWhere every hustler big dreamer prays it grants them a wishBy myself right off the belt till hit the Van WyckCruising jigsaw my thoughts I need a plan to existShould I get on it like them Cuban Guerillas?Fly to their country make a truce with their killersMove in a villaI come with few of my niggas they come with theirsWe politic on struggle and social affairs while toasting beersMy man had cunning ideas to get rich with mobstersBut what if it didn't prosper?Look what they did to HoffaMy feet buried in the sand out in NicaraguaOr on a cruise out to VenezuelaOn a ship with a pool designer clothes and expensive tailorsSipping cappuccino favorite flavor is French vanillaExotic foods catching shrimps no more menace failureThe Offering is the movie my others albums were just trailersI can't hardly sit through the news watching fictional toolPolitical views the sky is dark as the original JewsSubliminal clues left in the hieroglyphsWhere the ancient empires existWalk inside the cliffs in Cairo read papyrusesOn a wall full of gaul of Judas the disciple's kissAt the last supper nowadays it's the microchip in the skullMy survival kit is a rifle clip[Hook:]IT'S ESSENTIAL
