So I guess it must have started way back when when I came to this earth like lightening or else I wouldn't even be here still writing down the thoughts to break the world down, how frightening the way fate twists your arms to make you come face to face with your people in need of a voice and you must make a choice to heed the call or you drop the ball I didn't want to be the latter, of course the former therefore I transformed to become, one with the sun the son of a salary man now off to a path of salvaging men from Babylonia I walk on the streets of California yeah bless an accent that's our slang Asiatic and Pacifica Islander twang from the main land to the archipelago volcanic ashes to the desert blow no matter how harsh, nomadic in nature nocturnal senses razor sharp like a ninja I camouflage with society, never mean to assimilate more like assassinate and dissipate, no need to medicate I levitate like when I mediate, let it marinate (kensho) From the town of civil rights and protests where young men and women strived to protect our freedom of speech some died in process know it's a priveledge took time to progress my past projects are tips of the iceberg even if I get filthy rich off these tight words still can't buy, or save with cash what my people lost since the A-bomb blast dead shoguns and warlords killed by the blowguns and short swords, who paved the path send me these deep verses, lost identities keep searchin' don't ever behave or act like no fashion mag Ken Kuma's reincarnated ronin, where other replacements at? clubs to basements packed of course I'm wilden' sippin' kirins chillin' with women from foreign islands V-O-L-S stay on the current like electric volts speak without fear with selected quotes from the U.S. to A-S-I-A yes I, volunteer working night and day V-O-L-S Kensho Kuma here to serve the masses Shing02 represent the classes (kensho) In this game, pay yo dues and yo tuition no man could ever take my use of intuition I gained through drug abuse and institution this music, help youth with they confusion the truth is, only few men are ruthless to influence a kid like ken, who's in pursuit of improvement? true skills ain't amusment, it's gruesome we be lootin' like a viking, manuever through the deep ruins the tombs and monuments prove that war is an ill artform and the battles of the past were real hardcore to fight today why I keep my skills sharp for my life's worth more then a sealed barcode more then any amount of cash or Louis Vuitton more then the fattest ass on groupies seen on dance floors in the 'Sco, Berkeley, to Shinjuku I feel soooo worthy I've been through crews but haters still hate lookin' hard at my shows ladies be like 'you gotta charmin' tight flow far as life goes did harm to right folks the bars that I wrote reverse karmic cycle Jovian's beats knock, I'm ready for deep thought get our remedies from medical weed spot pay our dues, we got elected to speak up! (shing02) While y'all downloading that digital junk I'm up uploading that critical funk I got the hopes of a nation of a hundred mil' plus when I bust on stage I reflect the will like a giant mirror ball pure crystalline I'm a breath of fresh air mean lysterine front row get a dose of some extra spit flow over any riddm and I got to split 'cause I found the kit that will fix the glitch in a code full of bugs and some dirty script try flipping on the tube another what? old news a whole generation feels confused I see clear now that the war is on legally any land is a military zone, gotta hold my own firing off on-point lyrics from the clip on me microphone V-O-L-S stay on the current like electric volts speak without fear with selected quotes from the U.S. to A-S-I-A yes I, volunteer working night and day V-O-L-S Kensho Kuma here to serve the masses Shing02 represent the classes