A great friend of mine, Michael Chavarria, introduced me to J Dilla... the very last words he ever said to me was... "You are ready." [Ronald Reagan speech sample:] "You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We'll preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we'll sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness." I overheard n***as sayin' Jay was on the verge He could make Rumsfeld resign with rhymes he never heard Commune with the birds And could manipulate matter with the usage of words While you was blowin' X amount of dollars on a bracelet The sovereign nation of France was opening their files on the UFO phenomenon I.E., spaceships It's just the facts, Jack, may as well face it Every rhyme I write a seal get cracked from the chapter of Revelations A atom get cracked in the blackness of meditation Mysterious sh** Call me Jay Dogon, I'm on some serious sh** Scholars wonder "Why do he bust?" Allah blessed me with the Midas-y touch Everything I lay hands turn to Ethiopian gold, shiny and buffed I got a firm understanding on the minus and plus So I ain't got time to argue with a rapper 'bout how he ain't got rhymes that's f**in' with mine I'm trying to k** Lucifer So if I have to break cause a rapper in my face tellin' me that he's the great You can bet a shiny nickel I'll blast his muthaf**in' a** way past Jupiter Couldn't be stupider f**in' with the nuclear Mayan, Aztec lion, Asiatic black man from Zion Quetzalcoatl supreme, lettin' off steam Dimethyltryptamine make a man dream But y'all would much rather hear me rappin' 'bout trash The size of Erykah's a** Blunts and cash We need saving Minds are consumed with swine We need bathing Go home, fast for three days, and reflect ... [Ronald Reagan speech sample:] "You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We'll preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we'll sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness."