See I’ve been gone for a minute But I’m back like rain to replenish (The game) Been on a dry spell Ever since I've been inside This dry cell Police shook me down (And found my cell) Not on the block I’m in it Still makin sells What’s crazy these lames in here would still go tell (At twelve) Motherfuckas better have my mail Still on a mission and I still got a vision I’m doing better than you And I’m in prison 80 chains on my wrist and my ankles but I’m off the chain But my name ain’t Django Stop cryin’ about your struggles say thank you If some of you haters was here now I shank you Years of gestating in the womb of the beast So my rebirth is near and my release cuz Truth never dies It’s only rediscovered Through your angel, through your demons, through your haters, through your lovers Truth never dies It reach beyond skies like footprints on the moon, it outlive lies Truth never dies It resurrect through scars, absolute burns, it reaches through the bars of Lyric or metal to tap your shoulder, to wake you Truth never dies So how can I be forsaken? Truth never dies (church!) I spit the gospel What I say here today Will outlive fossils Picasso couldn’t paint pictures so clear I’m killin’ em With this swag here And I’m on the inside affecting y’all out there The game cold, but a dollar not fair You need truth to ride with Bently right here History shows it’s truth man fears Years of captivity they read it in my letters My words liberated many, broke they fetters Rose they conscious like wind does feathers I’m the modern day George Jackson Che Guevara I die for my dreams and my visions It’s difference between eagles and pigeons Between us that’s thorough and those who snitchin’ Spirituality is greater than religion cuz Truth never dies It’s only rediscovered Through your angel, through your demons, through your haters, through your lovers Truth never dies It reach beyond skies like footprints on the moon, it outlive lies Truth never dies It resurrect through scars, absolute burns, it reaches through the bars of Lyric or metal to tap your shoulder, to wake you Truth never dies So how can I be forsaken? Yeah, the world thought it was over In ‘99 when I was sentenced to murder From the abyss who would have thought I’d surface? Back revealin’ truth behind curtains Fuckin’ wit me it’s like death you flirtin I got a queen sister Virgo with a hitta’ with a Taurus For years they’ve been waitin’ on the order This injustice done made me a monster I’m OG, but I can never grow old You can’t kill ideas or kill my soul I’m like 10,000 hundred bills I just won’t fold Been round the world standin’ still Y’all too slow The ink of my blood write scriptures Exposin’ you mothafuckas fictitious Like you convicted me like y’all was sure Now I’m back from the dead like I’m Yahshua cuz Truth never dies It’s only rediscovered Through your angel, through your demons, through your haters, through your lovers Truth never dies It reach beyond skies like footprints on the moon, it outlive lies Truth never dies It resurrect through scars, absolute burns, it reaches through the bars of Lyric or metal to tap your shoulder, to wake you Truth never dies So how can I be forsaken? I’m back… Ey the Leon Benson the world once knew was murdered in 1999 Now I’m resurrected Lee Bently 448 In 1-9-9-9 they thought they 6-6-6-ed the 1 Signs and symbols for the conscious mind But we back To reveal truth to everybody To you, to me, everybody Ey today you rediscover me I heard your prayers, but you heard mine Ey you call me back to the people and we got to do what we got to do We got to eliminate this falsehood out there Resurrect the truth In all seven continents, everywhere In your mind, your heart, in your spirit Let’s get it Son of man! Truth never dies. Only rediscovered.

Leon Benson... EL BE... 448… Truth never dies huh? Ey well let me ask you something brother Why everybody in prison say they innocent? Let me guess, you innocent too huh? For the shooting murder of Kasey Schoen I told y’all I was innocent Jury didn't judge the evidence they judged me on my blemishes Past life, who I was, high school I didn't finish it In the War on Drugs a building called Vietnam I was gettin’ it in Drug dealing was my revolution so I was an indigent Bombarded by the social myths of me through media images The west side of Flint is where I'm from and where I scrimmaged in So it should be no surprise for what I started dealing in I'm making no excuses I'm just pointing out your ignorance Especially with your presumptions of Guilty Until Proven Innocent The only thing I murdered the night in question was the oxygen From reefer smoke, me and Tim Dog gone off the intoxicants While sittin’ in the hallway steps I was selling work to the building occupants Heard distant shots my man while dreaming of making it big And never seen the block again, how did I get this murder rap? When I was wrapping 20 bands I was wrapping 20 bands... I told y’all I was innocent Nobody believed in it Got no help no love and affection when I really needed it Screamed my declarations everyday no one was listening Stabbed by the Spear of Destiny but nobody was feelin’ it From day one without me flinching I maintained my innocence I'm innocent, innocent, I swear to god I'm innocent From day one without me flinching I maintained my innocence I'm innocent, innocent, I swear to god I'm innocent Nobody is innocent I'm guilty y’all of plenty thangs Accumulate the work I sold it adds up to plenty thangs I'm guilty of bringing the world a whole lot of drama and pain Wiping down you wannabes Breaking the hearts of many dames Man I still see all their faces but I don't know half they names Guilty of saying I never do it but one day I snorted cane Back in the day on Devil's Night I was the one who lit the flame Done a lot of dumb shit but for the murder I'm not to blame. FYI my OGs Flint 74s and Detroit YBIs Stole change from collection plates Told my mama plenty lies I'm guilty of havin’ swag Stuffin’ bands in the bag Having contempt for loud mouth misses, trollers and you rats Facts are facts and racks are racks So ain't no need in getting mad If you ever say you never done nothing wrong in your life To me it's sad Yahweh is my witness I swear I didn't commit it So I don't deserve to spend a second in they prison. I told y’all I was innocent Nobody believed in it Got no help no love and affection when I really needed it Screamed my declarations everyday no one was listening Stabbed by the Spear of Destiny but nobody was feelin’ it From day one without me flinching I maintained my innocence I'm innocent, innocent, I swear to god I'm innocent From day one without me flinching I maintained my innocence I'm innocent, innocent, I swear to god I'm innocent It's crazy cuz, as I'm sitting here listening to you I see that you really are innocent You did all that time man. It's crazy how it can happen just being in the wrong place at the wrong time. But I can honestly say that I believe you. Innocent...

Kee-kee Ey what it do my baby? Yeah I got it over here for the low, you hear me? This is the American dream, self made millionaire I’m the king on my block Hear ye, hear ye, ha ha! I’ve been gettin’ racks on these lame ass dudes out here for years now Look at my royal jewels the black diamonds draped from my neck like Christmas lights in July My royal chariot? That’s that black Maybach sittin’ over there on the curb Like a watchdog to its master My seeds got everything any child could imagine And my queen got a house she calls a castle With all the flyest of everything Without a care in the world This is the game my baby when you winning! I’m the king of this block Or should I should say the king on this chessboard? Because me and my circle are moving through several squares a week, shiddd… And I don’t even got a high school diploma or an ivy-league education But I’m a certified hustla’ You see these racks? You see these racks right here?? They’re my credentials…

I’m back on the block mane I got what you need From five dollar rocks fool to powder-quarter keys I’m a boss can’t you tell the way I walk the way I floss Everyday I’m hustlin’ but I’m not a Ricky Ross The fiends love my product buy it all when I got it In just a few hours made several thousand dollars And I buy my woman Prada cuz she loves me a lotta My queen lookin’ hotter than a hood version Assata When I’m whippin down the block man everybody holla Cuz they know that I’m a balla and I’m known for solvin’ problems If you broke if you poke if I got it then I got you You wanna bring that heat man the choppers man will match you The 40 will hit you harder than a Reggie White tackle I deal with the hassle cuz I dream of owning castles To one day stack my money higher than liberty statues To wear the ice so cold it’ll frost bite you Welcome to my world Welcome to my block Welcome to my world Welcome to my block Welcome to my world Welcome to my block Welcome to my world Welcome to my block Now from your drug dealin’ Bently look at what it got you A king in the pen future twisted like a pretzel Broke with your hands out for the ones that should’ve had you Come to find out dude they never really liked you Now they run behind your back and down your crown because they spite you You really wasn’t a balla’ cuz the streets said you was king You was just another fool sacrifice’ for the fiends Now you really feel lame cuz you lost all of your cream And to complicate your pain nobody watered your seeds You never killed a soul cuz your gift of gab was gold Drug dealin’ was your trade so no one really knows If you innocent or trill Only thing they seen was the money and the rims And the ones who falsely judged you man cuz you didn’t share with them Cuz you didn’t share with them Now from my past thoughts of having fun out there gettin’ it Quickly ended up in a reality of prison Most of our nightmares come from innocent little dreams Now I do most anything to escape this life of pain Welcome to my world Welcome to my block Welcome to my world Welcome to my block Welcome to my world Welcome to my block Welcome to my world Welcome to my block Welcome to my world Welcome to my block Welcome to my world Welcome to my block Welcome to my world Welcome to my block Welcome to my world Welcome to my block The moral… Look at the cell block I’m in now No one can be in the drug game forever The plan was to get in and get out To make the dough to make some real cake on a legit tip But temptation’s a motherfucker ain’t it? Especially when you started from nothing Ego aside, no hustler owns the streets or prison blocks we grindin’ on or locked away in I guess it’d be politically correct to say welcome to THEY world, welcome to THEY block Who are they? They’re who you the plutocrats Fuck the make believe martian and UFOs Because plutocrats are real people who wield real political power through they wealth They’re the corporations that own the government The rich 1% that the 99% of the Occupy Wall Street movement is finally mad at It’s a hell of a game, but one that these plutocrats have been the kings of While we’ve been they pawns the whole time They lobby for and fund the War on Drugs While at the same time are behind the tons of illicit drugs smuggled into the US each day It’s a win win for them Ask Michelle Alexander about The New Jim Crow or mass incarceration Through drug convictions of mainly people of color Remember the game of power never changes, but the players do

Lavi! Simeon! In my reoccurring dreams I slay capitalist vampires, fascist dragons, racist goblins, Totalitarian goliaths, I was sent here to wake you zombies! Pain my right hand man I mastered darkness, My spear of destiny drawn so my weapon’s the sharpest, I’m Flint rock to the heart so I’m always sparking, To brighten my path to see where I’m walking, Through the valley of death amongst the demons and Seth, Each moment’s a labyrinth to take a breath, While persevering to slay em all Til there’s none left, This is a metaphor battle between spirit and flesh, Because the truest monsters… Is ourself. I could murder the world That’s how I’m feelin’ in this 8 x 8 Accelerated fascinations calculated my fate I’m a victim of social media driven vindictive Give me the AR I do it livestream the victim Colossal explosions when immortal souls collide See the future of your demise when I close my eyes While in a state of abyss you don’t see no sun When I die I be cloned through the blood of my son I hold destiny in my hands when I’m giving it the slugs Premeditatively when I do it, I be wearin’ some gloves When I die asking life’s questions please show me some love Pay homage to my existence when you smokin the herb Antagonized by this world accumulated aggression Pissin’ blood is a sign of internal infections I fed my mind like slug in chamber mental ammunition With a plan way beyond the whole world comprehension The world, the world, the world… I could murder the world… The world, the world, the world… I could murder the world… (Ey man what you thought? You thought I was gonna sit here and just lay down? Man I murder one of you mothafuckas man) I could murder the world (Without peer pressure I could do it alone…) I waited patiently in the darkness Rubbing my chrome I laid dormant like HIV 448 is full blown Fuck the world cuz the world is slowly murdering me I’ve been blind my whole life and I never could see Who to trust Is it the dealers? Or the neighborhood clucks? Is it Donald Trump? Or Putin? Or that thot you cut? Is it the priest? Or the police waiting on me with the cuffs? Was it the judge? Or the jurors who gave me this time? Falsely convicted sent to prison for this bogus crime I trust me and only me cuz I know that I’m thorough But i woke up early in the morning ready to murder the world… The world, the world, the world… I could murder the world… The world, the world, the world… I could murder the world… (I told you man, you keep pushin’ me I’ma come out the corner blastin’ on you mothafuckas man) I could murder the world… That’s how I’m feeling In these days and times Analyzing our so called life of crime As I mediate about it It’s so sublime Of a system tryna kill us ‘fore we reach our prime Time running out for us Living under the sun It’s midnight I see the stars ‘Rades grab your guns My philosophies Would interact with Gs From little Flint Michigan All the way overseas Please believe that world is slowly murdering us It’s a slug in the brains or life-bids with cuffs Outlined the demonstration in your mind with chalk We can live forever when the world just embrace our thought Walk our walk unconsciously it’s speaking our slang Be a leader for the movement nigga fuck the fame I’ma keep it hunnid til the world blow Until then I’m sippin’ Remy blowin’ loud smoke I could murder the world… The world, the world, the world… I could murder the world… The world, the world, the world… I could murder the world… (Ey man you mothafuckas been killin’ me? Been killin’ my kids? Now what’d happen if I come back and kill you? Murder your mothafuckin’ ass?)

I’m in existential purgatory trapped inside the middle A black fallen angel from heaven’s of ghetto Embracin’ freedom tears, cuz she my weepin’ widow But peep the signs and symbols of corrupt judicial systems Many years from my family man you know I miss ‘em They try and come and visit but they turn ‘em from the prison It seem like every second haters diggin’ my grave deeper A black robe in the gavel to me looked like the reaper That in 1999 murdered me Leon Benson AKA Detroit resurrected EL BENTLY This cancer could have been cured with a second of prevention And I wouldn’t have been a victim of another legal lynching The scales of the injustice they weigh heavy on my jury Snatch my freedom like a thief runnin’ with my jewelry But speaking truth to power the system wanna kill me Don’t care about you cowards you could never stop my fury They want me dead like Gaddafi drag my body through a lobby Take pictures on they cell phones to show everybody My trial was a mockery the verdict was hypocrisy Too many years in their prisons where they locked me My voice is still alive so they still can’t stop me I’ma take my freedom back from ‘em Robert Mugabe I’ma take my freedom back from ‘em Robert Mugabe I’ma take my freedom back from ‘em Robert Mugabe I woke up today the feeling was odd Looked in the mirror a tear in my eye Symbolizing all the wars I done survived I mean shot by a system with bullets with lies To been on my deathbed refusing to die Because I worshiped freedom like it was a god The most high is within don’t look in the sky My soul mended like steel from walking through fire Forever ready for my foes God gave me the nod To break out of mental prison it’s all a mirage In between today and destiny what a menage But i’m most faithful to freedom she weigh on my heart My ambitions they turning vicious they barking like dogs Ready to bite my legal issues was never resolved Through the years if you fought for me I send my regards But a middle finger to you haters before I depart They want me dead like Gaddafi drag my body through a lobby Take pictures on they cell phones to show everybody My trial was a mockery the verdict was hypocrisy Too many years in their prisons where they locked me My voice is still alive so they still can’t stop me I’ma take my freedom back from ‘em Robert Mugabe I’ma take my freedom back from ‘em Robert Mugabe I’ma take my freedom back from ‘em Robert Mugabe

Ey whassup this your main mans Lee Bently 448 Ey I wanna dedicate this one right here To all them real down ass queens out there That’s holdin’ they kings down on lockdown Ey this one for you baby I know she love me cuz she with me when I’m doing time She said to leave me down and out would be the real crime The one that I can phone when the call is collect When I hit the world it’s me and you girl love and respect I got her letter the other day it made me feel better Brought sunshine to my prison pain and stormy weather Warmed my heart like a double-knitted blue Coogi sweater Cuz I know this thing we got right here will last forever Her loyalty tickle my soul like an angel feather Smiling knowing no other man out there can get her wetter She like my swag cuz it’s bold but then a little subtle She make tsunami splashes from her tear puddles While she fight for my freedom and for the day we can cuddle She like my intellect but respects my hustle If faith a mustard seed what we got bigger than kernels Not even prison walls can stop us from being a couple No matter how long when I get out man I’m all hers She said my phone sex get her pregnant what a freaky broad But she put on for me, every parole board That’s my queen I’m the king of the chess board I know she love me cuz she with me when I’m doin’ time She said to leave me down and out would be the real crime The one that I can phone when the call is collect When I hit the world it’s me and you girl love and respect I was dead to the world, John Lennon But what kept me alive is a lot of strong women Letters, jpays, pictures, hit me with surprise visits Green Dot, money orders, handling all of my business Keepin’ my stash right, never stealing a penny When lames talked sideways she was quick to defend me Her heart is never empty because she love Lee Bently She wanna see me shining when I’m free up in a Bentley She stand outside the prison make the world sign my petition Sometime she get impatient wanna sneak me through the fences To some we so offensive to us they really jealous Of my ride or die chick my Miss Winnie Mandela My Michelle Obama, my Asha Bandele My number one motivation on the block my Rowland Kelly I never second guess her, her actions show she love me I know she love me cuz she with me when I’m doin’ time She said to leave me down and out would be the real crime The one that I can phone When the call is collect When I hit the world it’s me and you girl love and respect I know she love me cuz she with me when I’m doin’ time She said to leave me down and out would be the real crime The one that I can phone When the call is collect When I hit the world it’s me and you girl love and respect Yeah All them real women out there That’s holdin’ they kings down Ey this one for you Ey no matter what anybody say Ey all them dudes we was runnin’ with when we was out there gettin’ it Ey they ain’t here now But all my number one women out there It’s either your sister, your mother, your auntie Or your queen.