Common - Pyramids Lyrics
[Common:]
A nigga told me he only rhyme for 19-year-olds
Nigga, you should rhyme wherever the spirit goes
Here it goes, lyrical miracles
These are pyramids from the imperial
It's sound boy burial drove me to classic material
Aerial nights blew my mind out of stereotypes
For ethereal heights, I write like Pritchard
Invisible man, pictured below with the hieroglyphicable
Prolifical flow, on the walls where the mystics of Kemet would go
Supreme wisdom in my system is the kick in the door
I don't rhyme for the sake of riddlin' though
This is a ritual for those depicted as low
Now I passed life like I've been here before
The reincarnation of It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold
For me the globe is like a culdesac
Around the world in a day, find forever and I stay
I'm from the weather where they spray
There's gotta be a better way, people dying everyday
Wonder what would heaven say? Devils need to get away
From Chevrolet to Escalade, from evergreen to the everglades
I kneel where the rebels pray
Seen fifty gray, but they need better shades
Niggas rhymin' like their whole style in retrograde
The escapade I'm on is like when the sun, moon and stars was born
It's hard to explain how these pyramids formed
[Sample - Ol' Dirty Bastard:]
Talent that I got will riz-ock the spot
MCs I'll be burning, burning hot
Talent that I got will riz-ock the spot
MCs I'll be burning, burning hot
Talent that I got will riz-ock the spot
MCs I'll burn, I'll burn, and I will burn, burn, burn
[Common:]
I arrived on the planet, never took the Southside for granted
Smoke a little, keep a high standard
The Roots are my niggas so I gotta fly bandwith
Son of the sit-ins, you know who I stand with
Dude said I was a hero, I ain't nothing but a sandwich
A gluten-free one at that, close my eyes see my raps
My bio is feedback from what we need rap
On some Marshawn Lynch, let me run it back
And come with that new black spiritual
Every rap's a miracle, condition now critical
Game lack lyrical, we need black generals
Holy war, tap into you like Savion
But I'm a orator, the corduroy boy
Came the door-to-door name down the corridor of fame
I walk like an Egyptian on a mission to listen to conditions
Envision a vision of what we wishing
I've been commissioned to deprison the prism of your mind
Spit the wisdom of the one devine
Close encounter of the wonder kind, front a line
Shift the paradigm with a pair of rhymes
Style Bonnie Caylor, in the sweep with Caroline
Getting dressed up under pressure, Alabama shakes on Incense rising from the dresser, child of a fresher god
Influenced by the life of the former, Joanne Chesimard
Assata Shakur, I gotta do more
The light-skinned spook who got in the door
I gotta hit four, same thing Cassius Clay uses pottery for
I'm on a world tour with Muhammad the prophet, my man
And where we land the pyramids stand
[Sample - Ol' Dirty Bastard:]
Talent that I got will riz-ock the spot
MCs I'll be burning, burning hot
Talent that I got will riz-ock the spot
MCs I'll be burning, burning hot
Talent that I got will riz-ock the spot
MCs I'll burn, I'll burn, and I will burn, burn, burn
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Common Pyramids Comments
Enjoyed just as much as the first ODB "collab" - Nuthin to do
Milk and honey, shit is real
I don’t give a fuck about what nobody say. Common Top 5 of all time. There really know one who gives it up like Common, Nobody! 🔊💯
Straight from the Brooklyn Zoo!
More black people should be listening to this shit.
RIP ODB
loving the video game vibes
Black Thought wrote this. At least that last verse.
Black thought had nothing to do with this. Check the album notes. Comm wrote this himself. He writes his own raps other than the collab with Rhymefest. Thought is one of my faves but too many hugging his nuts too tight these days.
You go really hard in here Com, bless.
Whoever disliked is a dickhead
Top 10 Common song of time
he spazzed on this!
Peace & Blessing God, Pen game still SUPREME!! Thanks for this Track & for still making Poems & Miracles in 2019. Don't trip on views, its still some real Hip-Hop heads around! Da new Freestyle & Hercules is Fire! Keep teaching Fam. Amun #hiphoplives #ODB da God
I don't wanna know....
Yooo common spazzed on this!
R.I.P. Ol' Dirty Bastard
This is....🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
This track speaks PUBLIC ENEMY all day!! Changed his life but never forgot where he came from. This shit go hard common VERY underrated from the beat to the lyrics!! Shit make niggaz open books. Much respect common!!
Common sense is the G.O.A.T!!
literally the only artist I ALWAYS have to bob my head to. mos def, talib, etc. are good too but I can listen to them without getting too into it, but with common the way he flows it's like he wants you to bob your head with him lol
@Lisa Fan Dont Sleep on Black Thought!
Common still teaching 🔥🔥🔥
RIP ODB 🔥
You my MF nigga common stay dropping that real shit 💯
Only 266 views this world sucks
Zay Dinero ikr I love this song and the whole album.
Hey if it makes you feel any better I listened to this track around 266 times 😁
It's on 15k now but I'm still not satisfied
Talent that I got, that will rock da spot, Emcees, I burn, I burn em hot, Ohhh whoa, whoa, whooooaaaa!!!
"Rizock" can't forget that😉
@nunyafa yup 👍🏾
SUN WARRIOR well edit it then and fix your mistakes my boy
I burn em burn em Hot!