Album Cover Mantis

Mantis

RZA

4

featuring Masta Killa Tekitha

[martial arts movie sample]

The technique depends mainly

on arm and finger strength

Once you've that then the next step

is to learn how to pierce stone

Well you might as well start practicing now

Do you Do you Do you Do you

Do you know mantis legends?

How it was it all started?

It was fighting off this blackbird

Although it was only a tenth of the bird's size

it was a very valiant insect

And that's why the technique, needs a brave man

And a strong one, who isn't afraid of birds

[Bobby Digital]

Welcome back to the temple of hip-hop and Sword Kem'po

Lyrical rhyme nympho, b-boy Bob Digital

Diamond crystal ring solid gold bone rituals

We be the humble most calmest individuals

Hard to spot microdots, we Sasquatch

Stomp MC's, third eye Cyclops lazer beam shots

being fired once the father get raised up

We John Blaze up, abrasive heat, from the phaser gun

Never left for a stun Dunn, Atilla the Hun

type Killa Park Hilla, eighteen wheeler Mack's

in the truck lanes, from the rugged grains

of Shaolin soil, the red wolves be prowlin

Howlin over the shit that got the whole world bowin

We spoiled, one thousand swordsmen

One thousand recordings, one thousand Wu stores and

One thousand rap tours and global insurance

Not your everyday occurance

My rhyme torments MC's with the fear of God

You'll be cursed like Farad, and struck by the iron rod

Tchka-tchka-tchka-tchka-tchka-tchka-POW

Chorus: Tekitha

Hell's Wind Staff, the wrath of Black Titans

Niggaz battlin, sword swingin

Cutthroat women, whirlwind given save the children

Escape the poverty for li