Freestyle from Before Infamous Accident

Now what if Michael Jordan
Decided to stick to
Baseball and Jay-Z decided to stick to crack
Just Blaze decided to stick to engineering
And Kanye never decided to rap?
What if a nigga from the Chi that was ill
Got a deal on the hottest rap label around?
But he wasn't talking about coke and birds
It was more like spoken word
'Cept the nigga's really putting it down
And he explained the story about
How blacks came from glory
And what we need to do in the game
But kept in mind as long as
Folks and niggas is dead broke
Some things they gone never change
But it ain't them folks
It's the white folks that brought us over
Here with boats and tight ropes
But don't forget it was niggas cause
The kings got rid of us
They selling a crackhead soap now follow me
Sometimes I feel like dream is subtitles
Say things that mean things but
Hide them in club titles
So you'll hear something real but
Think that it's meaningless like, "Damn
I know I feel but I don't
Know what the meaning is!"
See that there's what make it so ingenious
And that's why Kweli never was lenient
Cause he know what I got
Know I was making it hot
'Fore I was making a lot
'fore I made it to the Roc