Renaissance

Sitting at the lakefront working on my next LP
 At 55th and LSD and you will see
 You see something about the water man, it soothes the soul
 Rinses, cleanses, and keeps us all
 I swear without nature I'd go insane
 On these concrete streets, I can't maintain
 Woke up this morning in a vile ass mood
 So I came to the lake to change my attitude
 And my altitude, with a blackened mind
 I'm wondering what made Malcolm smile
 In the midst of hate, and ostracism
 How do people maintain in the optimism?
 Sometimes I think I'm losing mine
 If I ain't writing or producing, I'm one step from losing my mind
 I gotta loosen up and find a way to unwind without no weed and wine
 I'm peeping out the people as they pass me by
 I see a thieving fly flavor and I'm asking for a sign
 Staring at the skyscrapers, scratching the sky
 Blocking out the sunshine, got me asking why
 It don't matter where you at if you don't know the time
 If you need a lift, hold tight, you 'bout to climb
 Keep the elevation for your soul, body, and mind
 The renaissance, the renaissance
 It don't matter where you at if you don't know the time
 Wise words I heard as a youth still in my mind
 Feeling divine, revealing the sign, for healing the blind
 Cause too many cats have been locked or killed in the crime
 Where I live stick-up-kids concealing the nine
 They stealing your shine, front how I live spilling your spine
 Chicken-heads is a dime a dozen willing to grind
 Mad kids, no husbands, there's a million fine
 Through out my area code, it's mass hysteria mode
 Shaken got us feeling like inferior foes
 But no (?) myself, my interior grows
 Makes it felt when I deliver my exterior blows
 What did you think? I want my pockets full
 Very possible, because this world is filled with lots of jewels
 The best one is the one that last forever
 Cause it's the one you treasure, the principle of pleasure
 Through the eyes of the wise, let me paint a picture
 Sands without the Rawls, like the J without the mixer
 We spit the scripts so hot, your ears blister
 That's why you cop a fixture of the all natural elixir
 Combined with The Catalysts makes it hazardous
 To those who think not and want to test the fabulous
 I take you out, then bring you back like Lazarus
 J Sands, Capital D, the strategists
 We using music as an answer to this inner city cancer
 I guess I'm blessed with my chance to advance the
 Hip-hop art, and add my add spark
 The catechist to the catalysts spreading light on the dark
 So we embark on a journey from here to win
 From the land of three rivers to the city of wind
 With the pen, we ascend on air like The Nonce
 With my fellow confidants, continue in the renaissance