This cat has gotta be one of the most underrated emcees in the game. Style not for everyone but he's dropped some of the most jaw dropping verses I can remember in the last 10 years. Got that rare gift of addressing serious topics without sounding boring and/or preachy.
Sad that he doesn't get more recognition.
Random verse from super chron days - amazing
Ask me no questions-- In front the velvet ropes it's all bright lights and banging acoustics Follow me backstage, behind the music Under the masquerade, bitter old burnt quart masked by dutches of haze You see? It's more than the words on the page Dialectic slaves ever in the rack So when he says he never loves a bitch I see a little boy ashamed his mom's on that shit, on that strip And even when she was real sick daddy ain't ever call Ask your favorite trapper slash rapper The one who keep working the streets, the one who ball The merciless gun clapper who's team runs deep like a marathon Gangsta all day long but let police get at 'em Mouth open like the Amazon When them crackers got you laying there ain't no rap song It's a lonely biz - farewell to friends, tears from mom And the hardness of eyeing your kids Live by the gun? Trust me that Uzi weigh a ton Play it again Sam, only this time make it look like you having fun The great pretenders - ice grill - new blackface So long as those teeth showing Big spenders with mills in the briefcase, cocktails by the ocean Models legs open The American dream written in stifling tenements by flicking florescent lights Desperately hoping to escape this life The words spoken into crackling mics B.M.W. sitting on the biggest kicks Every black man's wish personified escape the pain playing nightsticks In the dark, searching for that light switch It's just a mask we wearing Well, cause round here you either cry or you laugh And we laughing