{"id":3512,"date":"2014-04-18T19:49:58","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T19:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/?p=3512"},"modified":"2026-03-24T22:46:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T22:46:45","slug":"blackalicious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/?p=3512","title":{"rendered":"Gift of Gab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The gift of the gab, they have:<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/blackalicious.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BLACKALICIOUS<\/a>,<\/strong>\u00a0an American hip hop duo from Sacramento, California made up of rapper <strong>Gift of Gab<\/strong> and DJ\/producer <strong>Chief Xcel<\/strong>. They are noted for Gift of Gab&#8217;s often \u00abtongue-twisting\u00bb, multisyllabic, complex rhymes and Chief Xcel&#8217;s \u00abclassic\u00bb beats.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2022\u2192<a href=\"http:\/\/genius.com\/search?q=gift+of+gab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/genius.com=<strong>gift+of+gab<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u21d0 \/\u00a0<\/strong>\u2022\u2192<a href=\"http:\/\/genius.com\/search?q=blackalicious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/genius.com=<strong>blackalicious<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u21d0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u25ca \u00a0&#8216;A \u00a0to \u00a0G&#8217;<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5-L1dVPHCNY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<address><strong>&#8212;We&#8217;re going to learn to hear words with vowel \u00abA\u00bb sound&#8230;.Listen with care<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>[Gift of Gab]<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>I be the analog arsonist, aimin at your arteries<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>All-seeing abstract, analyze everything<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>Adding on, absolutely abolishing<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>Average amateur&#8217;s arsenal just astonishing<\/strong><\/address><address>\u00a0<\/address><address><strong>&#8212;Next, we&#8217;ll learn words that begin with letter \u00abB\u00bb<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>I be the big, bad body rockin Bombay to boulevard bully BACK<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>Better bring a bomb to the battlefield<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>Bloody black beats bringing bottoms that boom<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>Basically build barriers bewilder buffoons<\/strong><\/address><address>\u00a0<\/address><address><strong>&#8212;Listen now to words that begin with letter \u00abC\u00bb<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>Crazy character, constantly creating concontions<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>Catalyst, a cannabalistic rhymes conqueror<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>Correctly connecting, craniums crumble down<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>Consistent capacity<\/strong><\/address><address>\u00a0<\/address><address><strong>&#8212;Next we&#8217;ll hear words that start with letter \u00abD\u00bb\u00a0<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>Done did that done did this diddle don<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>Domination don&#8217;t dignify diction<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>Doin&#8217; it deep down dialect daring<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>Doomsday dut devastate during the duration<\/strong><\/address><address>\u00a0<\/address><address><strong>&#8212;Listen to our song for vowel \u00abE\u00bb<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>Extraterrestrial electrical, effortless<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>Eons of energy, everyone affected<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>Efficiently epitomize excellent<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>Extravagant elevate where the essence is<\/strong><\/address><address>\u00a0<\/address><address><strong>&#8212;\u00abF\u00bb is the letter with which these words begin<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>Blackalicious got funk for the future filling up fiends finally<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>Fabulous, furious, fatness, follow me<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>Niggers fall frequently, fact<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>Verbal felon fired up federally foundation fadin&#8217; all of this wack shit<\/strong><\/address><address>\u00a0<\/address><address><strong>&#8212; You will listen carefully again to words with sounds for letter \u00abG\u00bb\u00a0<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>[scratched]<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>-I be the Gift of Gab<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>-The man with the given gift of gab man with the gift of gab<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>-I possess the gift of gab<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>-Gift of gab, gab<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>-I use my gift of gab to boast and brag in every rhyme I<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>-Got the gift of gab<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>-When I shoot the gift, I shoot<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>-I use the gift of gab like a harpoon<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>-On the serious tip, I&#8217;m equipped with a gift<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>-The gift of gab, it don&#8217;t waiver<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>-Yo man you gotta &#8212; Grab the mic to show you got the gift of gab<\/strong><\/address><address>\u00a0<\/address><address><strong>&#8212;These are the letters B, C, D, and F, and then comes the letter G.<\/strong><\/address><address>\u2022 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u2022<\/address>\n<h5>\u25ca\u2192 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8D5iyKXZcUQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;Alphabet aerobics&#8217;\u00a0<\/a> \u21d0<\/h5>\n<address><strong>(Now it&#8217;s time for our wrap up<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>Let&#8217;s give it everything we&#8217;ve got<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>Ready? Begin)\u00a0<\/strong><\/address><address>\u00a0<\/address><address><strong>Artificial amateurs, aren&#8217;t at all amazing<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>Analytically, I assault, animate things<\/strong><\/address><address>\u00a0<\/address><address><strong>Broken barriers bounded by the bomb beat<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>Buildings are broken, basically I&#8217;m bombarding<\/strong><\/address><address>\u00a0<\/address><address><strong>Casually create catastrophes, casualties<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>Cancelling cats got their canopies collapsing<\/strong><\/address><address>\u00a0<\/address><address><strong>Detonate a dime of dank daily doin dough<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>Demonstrations, Don Dada on the down low<\/strong><\/address><address>\u00a0<\/address><address><strong>Eatin other editors with each and every energetic<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>Epileptic episode, elevated etiquette<\/strong><\/address><address>\u00a0<\/address><address><strong>Furious fat fabulous fantastic<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>Flurries of funk felt feeding the fanatics<\/strong><\/address><address>\u00a0<\/address><address><strong>Gift got great global goods gone glorious<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>Gettin godly in his game with the goriest<\/strong><\/address><address>\u00a0<\/address><address><strong>Hit em high, hella height, historical<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>Hey holocaust hints hear &#8216;em holler at your homeboy<\/strong><\/address><address>\u00a0<\/address><address><strong>Imitators idolize, I intimidate<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>In a instant, I&#8217;ll rise in a irate state<\/strong><\/address><address>\u00a0<\/address><address><strong>Juiced on my jams like jheri curls jockin joints<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>Justly, it&#8217;s just me, writin my journals<\/strong><\/address><address>\u00a0<\/address><address><strong>Kindly I&#8217;m kindling all kinds of ink on<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>Karate kick type brits in my kingdom<\/strong><\/address><address>\u00a0<\/address><address><strong>Let me live a long life, lyrically lessons is<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>Learned lame louses just lose to my livery<\/strong><\/address><address>\u00a0<\/address><address><strong>My mind makes marvelous moves, masses<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>Marvel and move, many mock what I&#8217;ve mastered<\/strong><\/address><address>\u00a0<\/address><address><strong>Niggas nap knowin I&#8217;m nice naturally<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>Knack, never lack, make noise nationally<\/strong><\/address><address>\u00a0<\/address><address><strong>Operation, opposition, off, not optional<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>Out of sight, out of mind, wide beaming opticals<\/strong><\/address><address>\u00a0<\/address><address><strong>Perfected poem, powerful punchlines<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>Pummelling petty powder puffs in my prime<\/strong><\/address><address>\u00a0<\/address><address><strong>Quite quaint quotes keep quiet it&#8217;s Quannum<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>Quarrelers ain&#8217;t got a quarter of what we got uh<\/strong><\/address><address>\u00a0<\/address><address><strong>Really raw raps, risin up rapidly<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>Riding the rushing radioactivity<\/strong><\/address><address>\u00a0<\/address><address><strong>Super scientifical sound search sought<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>Silencing super fire saps that are soft<\/strong><\/address><address>\u00a0<\/address><address><strong>Tales ten times talented, too tough<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>Take that, challengers, get a tune up<\/strong><\/address><address>\u00a0<\/address><address><strong>Universal, unique untouched<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>Unadulterated, the raw uncut<\/strong><\/address><address>\u00a0<\/address><address><strong>Verb vice lord victorious valid<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>Violate vibes that are vain make em vanished<\/strong><\/address><address>\u00a0<\/address><address><strong>? well would a wise wordsmith just<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>Weaving up words weeded up, I&#8217;m a workshift<\/strong><\/address><address>\u00a0<\/address><address><strong>Xerox, my X-ray-diation holes extra large<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>X-height letters, and xylophone tones<\/strong><\/address><address>\u00a0<\/address><address><strong>Yellow back, yak mouth, young ones yaws<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>Yesterday&#8217;s lawn yards sell our (yawn?)<\/strong><\/address><address>\u00a0<\/address><address><strong>Zig zag zombies, zoomin to the zenith<\/strong><\/address><address><strong>Zero in zen thoughts, overzealous rhyme ZEA-LOTS!&#8230;.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/address><address>\u00a0<\/address><address><strong>(good&#8230;.can you say it faster?)<\/strong><\/address><address>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/address>\n<h6>\u2022\u2192<a href=\"http:\/\/rap.genius.com\/Blackalicious-make-you-feel-that-way-lyrics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8216;Make You Feel That Way&#8217;<\/a>\u21d0 \u00a0 \/ \u00a0\u00a0\u2022\u2192<a href=\"http:\/\/rap.genius.com\/Gift-of-gab-way-of-the-light-lyrics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8216;Way of the Light&#8217;<\/a>\u21d0<\/h6>\n<h6 id=\"watch-headline-title\" class=\"yt\" style=\"font-weight: normal; color: #222222; text-align: right;\"><strong><span id=\"eow-title\" class=\"watch-title long-title yt-uix-expander-head\" dir=\"ltr\" title=\"DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World (Gift Of Gab Mix)\">\u2666 \u00a0DJ Shadow \u00a0 \u21d3 \u00a0 &#8216;Midnight In A Perfect World&#8217; (Gift Of Gab Mix)<\/span><\/strong><\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5mdhwMVaUyQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Peep through the door<br \/>It seems as though the grass was much greener before<br \/>The dead life has been washed upon the sea shore<br \/>Money and greed deluded what is truly pure<br \/>And yet our flesh keeps screeching out for more<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Now you&#8217;re trapped<br \/>A hole in the ozone about to make the world collapse<br \/>Pollution fills the air and minds with bullet twisted facts<br \/>Midnight is now upon us people righteous laws are coming back<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Don&#8217;t turn your head away cause you can&#8217;t get away<br \/>Your mind is lost because your spirit has been led astray<br \/>Don&#8217;t ever say you gave it all if you ain&#8217;t gave it all<br \/>Just fade it in the hazy purple twilight<br \/>No more time I tried to warn you all it&#8217;s now approaching midnight<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Panic&#8217;s in the air<br \/>Some jumping out of buildings others on their knees in prayer<br \/>Some cry out to the sky and yell they aren&#8217;t quite prepared<br \/>You looked god in the face and said forgive me all he did was stare.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Now you can run,<br \/>But where you gonna hide from all the power of the sun?<br \/>The cosmic repercussions of what human kind has done<br \/>No understanding of the fullness everything is simply one<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Soon to be none again so that new life can come again<br \/>Illusions rule the mind your soul is never gonna end<br \/>So don&#8217;t pretend you gave it all if you ain&#8217;t gave it all<br \/>Just fade it in the hazy purple twilight<br \/>No more time I tried to warn you all it&#8217;s now approaching midnight<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So I bid farewell.<br \/>No more good times or bad times, no more heaven no more hell.<br \/>Now brace yourself for impact it&#8217;s a half hour to twelve<br \/>Complete in total darkness empty space is where you&#8217;re left to dwell.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And all you had to do was live today for your tomorrow<br \/>But now it&#8217;s over and you&#8217;re drowning deep inside your sorrow<br \/>You could&#8217;ve led but instead you confirmed and chose to follow<br \/>So once again I bid farewell<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">There&#8217;s only seconds left you&#8217;d like to second guess<br \/>But through your foolish ways you&#8217;ve literally beckoned death<br \/>So just don&#8217;t say you gave it all if you ain&#8217;t gave it all<br \/>Just fade it in the hazy purple twilight<br \/>No more time I tried to warn you all it&#8217;s now approaching midnight<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"watch-headline-title\">\u25ca \u00a0Blackalicious\u00a0\u00a0\u2193 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/rap.genius.com\/Blackalicious-world-of-vibrations-lyrics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8216;World of Vibrations&#8217;<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OGsZXnUGfsQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h6 id=\"watch-headline-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2207\u00a0 \u00a0 &#8216;If I may&#8217;\u00a0 \u21d3\u00a0 \u00a0[\u00abNia\u00bb_1999]<\/h6>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Aapn5ZwPo00\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><i>[Erinn Anova (Chorus)]<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Come along and reap<br \/>I need my song<br \/>We&#8217;re climbin&#8217; over<br \/>Beneath the sea<br \/>March on<br \/>Time is almost gone<br \/>It&#8217;s all in me<br \/>No maybe<\/p>\n<p><i>[Gift Of Gab]<\/i><br \/>Here we go again<br \/>Slip into my conscience, come along an take in<br \/>A story bout a battle, in this corner, Satan<br \/>Cunning, baffling, and jumping into half the drink<br \/>And suddenly disasters and catastrophe<br \/>And acting unrationally<br \/>Reacting savagely<br \/>To passionately<br \/>Bask in everlasting like escapes from just what its creating<br \/>Jeopardizin&#8217; love<br \/>Look at all the people that you took advantage of<br \/>See your hypnotized<br \/>Rom be gone, take another cup<br \/>In consequences lurk<br \/>While the reaper got your shirt size<br \/>Nigga wack up<br \/>Times overdue for the birth of a power that the universe grew from<\/p>\n<p><i>[Chorus 2X]<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>[Gift Of Gab]<\/i><br \/>You search for the answers outside<br \/>Refocus causin&#8217; time and time again, backslide<br \/>You&#8217;ve noticed times before the presence of that \u00abI\u00bb<br \/>But never did submit to it and let it apply<br \/>Whatever be his will in this present life time<br \/>Or essence like mine<br \/>Know the blessings you might find<br \/>If you let your higher power inside<br \/>Emerge and apply to every single thing in your balance<br \/>You will truly find<br \/>Who you really are<br \/>Die and become reborn<br \/>When God is present in your life than you can come reap on<br \/>And ain&#8217;t a storm that you can&#8217;t weather<br \/>You got a purpose you was born to create<br \/>Destiny is waitin&#8217; for you<br \/>Arms open, take with ya<br \/>Knowledge bestowed by the great giver<br \/>Lakes, rivers<br \/>Mountains and steams<br \/>Now reality&#8217;s the dream wraitha<br \/>No more searchin&#8217; for truth that was always wit&#8217; cha<br \/>It had to hit ya through the struggle and the turmoil<br \/>Ya soul was planted and it sprouted out above soil<br \/>And let the sun shine freely down<br \/>At times it looked like it wouldn&#8217;t<br \/>But the plant came to flourish<br \/>Now it&#8217;s standin&#8217; on solid ground<\/p>\n<p><i>[Chorus 2X]<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>[Lateef]<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Sun rises like water up in my eyes<br \/>I&#8217;m watchin&#8217; changing times but like a changing tide<br \/>Tryna to keep my head above the ed if I could be<\/p>\n<p><i>[Lateef &amp; Erinn Anova]<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The sun rises like water up in my eyes<br \/>I&#8217;m watchin&#8217; changing times but like a changing tide<br \/>Tryna to keep my head up<br \/>Above the ed if I could be<br \/>Least<br \/>If I may<\/p>\n<p><i>[Chorus 4X]<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The gift of the gab, they have: BLACKALICIOUS, an American hip hop duo from Sacramento, California made up of rapper Gift of Gab and 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