The Platform

[planet asia]
Affiliation like, dilated peoples

"watch your ear drums pop"
"watch your ear drums pop, got this rap shit locked"

"planet asia, ain't a damn thing changed" [planet asia]

[planet asia]
The methods of melodic torture, mic mastery
I'm locally accepted, worldwide respected
So gimmie mines and meet your deathwish
Dead at the throat like floatin wit your neck slit
Be gone, i'm way beyond
My mind shines harder than your necklace
I just violate the streets until i dilate the peoples
Posse cut, kill the track, annihilate the sequel
Trigger-happy, anxious to earn a stripe
Like it was just put on
Initiation means death, burn the mic now meet your escort
If the shot's rusted, hot sauce for all you block busters
Duck it, you're fuckin wit the spot rushers
Bustin wit brand new artillery cocked
Straight out the metal shop, to catch you up close, dead on the spot
There goes your manhood
Mad max, terror your dome for canned goods
Blaze you wit the heat, destroy my conscience
For the backward, easin up ain't in the plans
I leave mc's wit no stands
Ill conventions so deep in thoughts, the fans labeled it trance

"iriscience ya'll" [iriscience]
"mc iriscience" [iriscience]
"rakaa you don't rhyme fair" [iriscience]

[iriscience]
Aiyyo we hit it festivals, and we hit it the nightclubs
We hit it like brad pitt did it to fight club
I love it and live it
If you want it, then come and get it
I'm like show and ag, or alomar how i spit it
It's the highly-developed, well-equipped intelligent
You're a target if you're soft, pastel, or delicate
I'm bold cuz everything goes at pro caliber
A top competitor, a worldclass traveller
Spell-the-name-right.com, check the site
Like they could check the date on a dime from satellites
I move like coltrane, pushin a blue tray
Rakaa's my name, style fatal like hussein
Wit planet asia, defari, and everlast
Phil tha ag and ev deliever the weather fast
Joey chavez, and a butcher named babs
Dilated, now take that shit back to the lab

"man listen" [defari]
"from l.a. and it's finest" [iriscience]
"defari" [defari]

[defari]
They wanna jack who?
Step up and i'll dump
Invade and face the rage of a twelve gauge pump
Yo chump, i'm not that guy, my name's defari
I roll wit the fo' sho' logo, the open eye
Dilated, heavy rotated, golden stated
So many dream of the sound that me and ev created
Everybody wanna be rhymin wit two left feet
That's like a cripple man in lane five at the track meet
You wishin on a star but you lookin at the sun
I be the one who takes it so serious, it's more than fun
Pro sport wit a bottle of crown and quart of guiness
The ink fill up the paper in a matter of minutes
Whether from brooklyn or venice
I travel wit mental fitness
Takin out you suckers and you don't know how i did this
So quit it, quit wit the nonsense, you harmless
Leave the hip hop alone and get your fix from a pharmacy

"everlastin fresh" [defari]
"whitey ford brings the devastating mic control" [everlast]

[everlast]
I read the new testament and gave it up for lent
All the places i went just to pay my rent
Used to keep me bent, on a ritual daily
Cock my hammer, spit a comet like haley
I'll buck a three-eighty on ones that act +shady+
I'm original like grady, check my sanford, son
You know you ain't the one that rep peckerwood status
I'll bust that ass, keep your eyes on the floor
What you comin here for, son you know the law
Let's take it back to the house, slide off your blouse
Lift up your skirt and expose your panties
For the world to see, you can't rep it like me
I'm communist, terrorist, vandalist
Catalyst, scandalous, masacous, never miss battalist
You must be crazy, or just plain dumb
You might catch a beatdown now where i come from
It's like that

"crescent heights, get the name right" [phil]
"you know my mothafuckin name" [phil]

[phil tha agony]
Phil tha agony, a superhero
Creatin miracles, analyze this like robert deniro
Wit your air-tight vaccuum lungs
Got your stupid ass ? ?, chewin gum, bitin your tongue
Bleedin, what is it that you're really needin
Is it fresh air to breathin, a bank account so plenty of cheese in
Take into consideration, wit every situation that you're facin
Analyze the operation
What's the function? who does the label work, who does the paper work?
Who's the president behind the desk, reclinin the best
Too many fake fraudulent artist, ignoramusus
Gettin famous-es, tryin to steal my whole name in this
That's why every move is documented
It's the unprescedented, rhymes that i invented
R-rated, phil tha agony and dilated
Crescent heights, we're stealin your height, violated

"'76 born bomb lyricist" [evidence]
"evidence...got another sound mission" [defari]

[evidence]
Yo ya'll, my shit is timeless
A clock wit no hands, a hourglass wit no sand
My lifespan's been written before anyone cloths or ribbon
I've started their path, but what i've said just passed
The labcat's back, that's why i feel like i've been chose
To rise to occasions wit hits like pete rose
Speak to myself, but once i say when
No mistakes allowed, sketch my letters in pen
Permanent ink, unleaded gas tank ready to drink
Open all flows in perfect border insync
Total chaos, mass confusin
Just entered the playoffs, yo my team's not losin

"platform, ultimate" *repeat to end*

"i annihilate your type if you violate" [malik b] 4x

[evidence]
The beginning, yeah
You know, it's never too late to start over

[iriscience]
Yeah yo yo yo i'm the type to sneak into your dorm and get shit warm
I'm the type to spit on microphones and leave em deformed
Babu cuts into alchemist instrumentals
Gemini, this twin peaks like david lynch do
Or does, bustin off for every place i been though
I'm hard to see through like lodges wit no windows
Sparks the beginning of the end of the dark
See i flood the stage hard, now you swimmin wit sharks
Rappers are cocky, but on the low, i know they watch me
Cuz weapons in my music like i'm el mariachi
Or desperado, pushin at full throttle
Rock till i'm horse/hoarse like broncos from colorado

"i annihilate your type if you violate"
We are the peoples from the crew they call the dilated
*cut and scratched by babu* "i annihilate your type if you violate"
(iriscience, world famous babu)

[evidence]
Aiyyo my weed stays fresh in the jar when the lid's tight
Reminiscing on memories from last midnight
Time constraints why i hate music biz
I counterpunch clocks, pay no attention what time it is
Chop shit, bend notes, clear no samples
Drop my thoughts quick on sony audio handheld
Delve and breaks heat will take it to the streets
Whattup to rhett and carlos, all peeps at fat beats
Street sweep, strip the lock after we rock
The world is in my hand, but i'm in pandora's box
Think the bigger picture is how i write my scripture
(an immediate response) or maybe later it'll hit ya

"i annihilate your type if you violate"
[iriscience] i'm iriscience from the crew they call the dilated
"i annihilate your type if you violate"
[evidence] evidence, i'm from the crew called dilated
"i annihilate your type if you violate"
[both] we are peoples from the crew they call the dilated
*cut and scratched* "i annihilate your type if you violate"

[evidence]
Never test my integrity or doubt i'm learnin lessons
I'm the type of person always be the last to leave the session
It's etched in, stone, i'm mikes/mics wit headphones
My mind's a mini-clock latchin on to tones
My demeanor can't be shattered, i'm followed by the man
I follow through a fully-executed blueprint plan

[iriscience]
I grab a crate for my dj and work wit a can
I rock a break for the people till the girls wanna dance
I don't need jewels to shine, just i bring the flows
Besides, i keep losin all my rings at shows
The way things are lookin, even heaven is crooked
And if your lighter's missing maybe evidence took it

*answering machine*
"this is ev, leave a message....have a good day" *beep*
"have a good day? yo how many lighters you got in your pocket
Right now, man? that shit is wrong, you do this every time"

"i annihilate your type if you violate" *cut and scratched in background*

[evidence] (iriscience)
I annihilate, what if you violate my crew
(dilated yeah yeah that's us, that's how we doin it)
Iriscience uh, evidence, dj babu, uh alchemist
(we rockin the old world, the new)
Everywhere on the map, it's lookin smaller and smaller

{*dj babu scratchs "dilated peoples"*}

Chorus: dilated peoples

I work the angles sharp and precise
Dilated peoples so you better build twice
"act like ya know, not now but right now"
Dilated peoples

"the name is iriscience"

[iriscience]
I go through rivers (what?) so i don't leave a scent
I travel both directions but leave one set of prints
It's just a little trick, of the indigenous
Developing inner visions of what religion is
I caught the understanding and the underhanded
I plan to build my ship and man it to another planet
Under heavy surveillance, many different agents
Some are camouflage, others are very blatant
I study weapon systems and vocal fighting forms
I'm many moves ahead, the thouhgts are highly formed
Like time times time times time is time squared
Went there, sayin "rakaa you don't rhyme fair"
But i never dummy lyrics and they kick it to my people
It's about communication not a rappers ego
Messages i sneak in they seem to seep in
Mixed with alcohol and weed on the weekend
Shared among friends like various sins
One day it clicks it's no longer dim
Time release capsules humble the headstrong
Your thoughts of taking me head on are dead wrong

Chorus

[evidence]
"evidence" the master of aikido
I let go, karate confrontations
Evidence scientist in innovation
I locks on when i travels around planets
Smooth but got a rough edge like wulitzer pianists
Display mucho attack, receive payments for the cadence
A in this, you get fit fowl with flagrance
Free agents on the dotted line more hard to sign
Not easily impressed with gold mines and whole nines
I'm somewhere in-between never rushed and in a hurry
And when i swing my bat i don't think i'll miss like baseball
Fury the jury's hung, from verdict and got no chance
Dilated comes first the rest are second like stu lance
Oh yes it get better everyday
The a-1, is my mind on vintage display?
Unattended in this case
(the ace two steps ahead)
Everyday is mayday and best friends are feds
But i know this that's why they closest
In a crisis situation you negotiate first
I'm perfectly focused
Strategic and in a zone
It was radar detected but my speed was unknown
Anonymity, that's my key to survival
Ev is not for evidence it's for all the dense on trial
Just remember in this game it take two to tango
Don't go to them let them come to you
And work the angles

Chorus

"ah hey, all--"
"attention, ladies and gentlemen" *cut and scratched*

[evidence] (iriscience)
Expand and dilate, so by the end of the night
When we put down the mic
Thinkin d-dilated peoples brings heat
That's guaranteed heat for sure, a pure mix-ture
Some try to do the same but they style ain't pure
(a carbon copy) that's right rak it comes out so sloppy
(plus for from crisp) so i leave you wit this

[evidence]
Yo to me it don't matter how dope you write or look
Mc's without a voice should write a book
You heard me properly, claimin that shit you didn't, oh really?
My crew's more dedicated than rocky training in philly
Put your gloves on, about to get more than can withstand
The comp they left baffled coffee shops in amsterdam
I never got redemption from an honorable mention
So my lyrics hug the beat wit the tightest suspension (watch out)
Don't fear on turns, of course floor the corners
Yo, that's my drive, got tracks like beehives
You can't pass my gate, a great mistake, you paid the cost
You bigger than me? you screaming "shorty no mas"
Yo, some think i'm clever
Others think i'm the one who makes too many references to weather/whether...
Or not i'm feelin this beyond words explain
Yo you set up a battle outdoors and pray for rain

"attention ladies and gentlemen" *cut and scratched*

[evidence] (iriscience)
Expand and dilate, so by the end of the night
When we put down the mic
Thinkin d-dilated peoples brings heat
That's guaranteed heat for sure, a pure mix-ture
Some try to do the same but they style ain't pure
A carbon copy (that's right ev, it comes out so sloppy)
Plus far from crisp (so i leave you wit this)

[iriscience]
Aiyyo you speak like who you hang wit
And piece like who you paint wit
Everything is merging, no matter who you bank wit
Imagery battle hymns, political poetry
Platform show, by now maybe you know
Who don't scheme, but knows more lines than coke fiends
Closing dark plates, it's hot and smoking
Sneaky green slow flow, thought provoking
Leaves mics, turntables and stages broken
Dilated y'all, irisciece y'all wide awake
Babu revolve while rakka rocks the break
Revolution is a cycle to turn, vital to learn
Next time other neighborhoods are liable to burn
Toys meet the same fate steppin in range
Ain't your folks hollering at you 'bout playin wit flame?
Can't be contained, front row's insane
Alchemist load the track, irisci bullet train

"attention ladies and gentlemen"

[evidence] (iriscience)
Expand and dilate, so at the end of the night
When we put down the mic
Thinkin d-dilated peoples brings heat
That's guaranteed heat for sure, a pure mix-ture
Some try to do the same but they style ain't pure
(a carbon copy) that's right rak it comes out so sloppy
Plus far from crisp (babs leave em wit this)

*dj babu scratching*

"can we do it again" 2x
"my goodness" "ladies and gentlemen"
"babu's on one's and two's"
"hey"

[iriscience]
Aiyyo ev (whattup rak?)
There's a lot of cats didn't see this one comin
Lotta cats not gon' understand
Never saw the path that we walked
You run that joint you did on the radio that night
(oh) let people know, do this one for the interviews
Do it for the people, years in the making

[evidence]
Yo, my first verse, from '90 to '94
Mostly peepin cats' styles out and hittin the floor
A little bit, in '91 that's when we got down
Different sides of town, on the bus i made rounds
I was involved in graffiti heavily
My people were self, tau and freck rip
At night i heard beats next door by qd iii
Inspiration, destiny, ev producer/mc
Now at this point, my face wasn't known and unfamilar
And when you look how i do, most cats won't say they feel ya
So i was mostly, humbled by rejection
But in my heart, i knew my shit would always pass inspection
Correction, travel east and hit the inner section
Hip hop shop to rock, blow the spot wit hex and pen one
Also iristyle, a cat who worked there
I said "i wanna bust first" he said "it's all fair"
I went, he went, you can't beat em, join em
I said "as a team in the game, we'll leave em maimed"
He agreed, so we did till '94
Till we had to change our name from the one we had before
Now at this point, we were five years in the making
Previously vain, graffiti oriented, breakin
From cops to shop owners, rack and paint, stealin sketch books
Mad vinyl, designs in corridors
Then it was mics, mixers, tracks, and greenbacks
Kingston, 12 gear and equipment on racks
Imagery battlehymns
Whattup to kendall, swift, and redman
Everyone who helped bounce checks, but not my plan (sorry)
Business and friends, this was my first introduction
How foul it is when it comes to this biz
Of music, 1995 was mad confusin
'6 it cleared up, independent geared up
Peace to ben, 'fari, and alchemist
Third degree type heat, brought on babu to complete the list
Dis the doors, more red but on tours
The territories come, blunts burn our damn floors
Since '98, shit's been lookin more bright
Work the angles round the globe from main events at night
'99 approach millennium, the platform will drop
Evidence, iriscience, babu, the world gets shocked!

[iriscience] (evidence)
Haha! yeah!
We sendin this out to every obstacle that made us stronger
(that's right) uh-huh
Sendin this out to the poison that made the antidote
Dilated wild style
Evidence, that's all you need to know
Years in the making,
(what's goin on, ten years in the making)
Years in the making, how many? (ten)
(almost) ten years in the making
Shit, it's overnight right? (not really) we'll see

*babu cutting up sample*

"the last line of defense"

[evidence]
Feel the pressure...
Yo you better plan ahead, gather your thoughts
I'm not gonna be the one wit no chair when the music stops
The orange agent, has just moved to your block
And gone headhunting, blame herbie hancock
Hard to get at, yo vocally serious
Never stress myself out, treat songs like interludes
Drum patterns are primative
Evidence, the derivitive
Of what the late '80s and early '90s had to give
Dilated peoples, far from tentative
Caress this microphone, stay home and take your sedative
Yo i know our platform is built on strong foundation
My last line of defense, i keep a ace in the hole
On patrol, so balanced with no topic
The weatherman lands at high noon, ready to drop shit
Could freestyle better or maybe rap faster
But soundclash wit us (don't do that)
You flirt with disaster

"evidence of the war" [inspectah deck]
"don't ever lose sight of this fact" [defari]
The last line of defense
"evidence" "when it comes to blood and rap, it's lyrical combat" [defari]

(back up in it)
The sagittarius with flows in various
Types of pipes, and green to keep me hype
At thirty-thousand feet, yo my heart starts poundin
So i rarely fly, intentional grounding
Make my rounds to towns, kill em in order
I'm equipped to blow shows and turn kids out wit corners
(with ease) i flow slow like growth on palm trees
And set trends more than femmes could split ends
I'm makin power moves
In fact, as i speak now
Do my best to re-enforce the motto "milk the cow"
Make that dough for too many's the main concern
I say make the right music, then your money's earned
Share the wealth with babu and iriscience
My death might be a tragedy, my life will be a triumph
Go focus on the star, the man who won the heisman
Trophy would be broken, forget it, credit the linesman

"evidence of the war"
"don't ever lose sight of this fact"
The last line of defense
"when it comes to blood and rap, it's lyrical combat"
The last line of defense
"evidence" "don't ever lose sight of this fact"
The last line of defense
"when it comes to blood and rap, it's lyrical combat"
The last line of defense

Yo critique my mic techniques live, i carthage this
You didn't think i had what it takes in my esophagus?
A cat like you, yo your show sounds hot for real
Of course it does, standin still
Yo i dig your little pace, you're walkin forth at best
At that rate, on tour dates, i hope you never run outta breath
I'm evidence, mike peretta, head commander
Both of my names like gary shandling's larry sanders
When i say now, this will take out in an instant
Wherever i go, my caravan goes/gogh's like vincent
But ev at princeton, they won't follow good
So i shock this microphone and split a tree trunk to hollow wood
The last line of defense, set your prescedence
Set your standard, make it known you own your throne
Yo, the last is when you hit em just enough to leave a gash
In time, the wound will heal, rest assure they'll make it known
Who threw the heat and felt the blast
Who gave the answers and what questions are asked
Are your favorite artists boring you? that shit don't make sense
Call evidence the last line of defense

"evidence of the war"
"don't ever lose sight of this fact"
The last line of defense
"evidence" "when it comes to blood and rap, it's lyrical combat"
The last line of defense
"evidence of the war"
"don't ever lose sight of this fact"
The last line of defense
"when it comes to blood and rap, it's lyrical combat"
The last!