(1st Verse)

Yo
In steps the emcee, E-A-
I got no one to impress, but I strive to be the best
The Undefined neglects any average mediocre
using all these simple rappers as a chauffer
your skills parented
In NC you will receive banishment
Your homeboys are the next candidates
And all my people ran with it
relating to its righteousness, now
we trying to innovate the new styles
Black and Proud
but build with anybody on the same plane
Nothing to lose, Infinity to Gain
The mission, let the people and the music grow
This be the righteous way to go

 [bad word] 

NCson, any season
Edgar with the 9th Wonder of the globe
NCson, every season
this be the righteous way to go

(2nd Verse)

It's a wonderful world 9th
we witnessed battle emcees as half pints
12 years old and mad nice
when the golden age began he didn't have a life
Hip Hop's Fountain of Youth we can't sacrifice
I've heard the illest masterpieces recently
but on a lower level
Those part of the movement, we're here to help you
But in our own circumference, leaving out the dumb [bad word] 
along with fake rappers dramatizing some skit
The real killers staying on the low
and some trying to change
New emcees emerge every time I turn a page
Learning from one of the best in the class
and understanding how to acquire more of the cash
and more of the music, suspicion I refuse it
After this track, we must continue to move it forward
My artform I adore it
You get an F- for your poor performance

 [bad word] x 2)

(Verse 3)

(The Righteous Way To Go) is focus
Concentrating on your craft to keep it potent
That [bad word] is terrible, start over at that moment
Don't get on stage 'til you [bad word] a better showman
(The Righteous Way To Go) is backtrack
Witness Hip Hop at its pinnacle, listen to
everything, notice how hardly nobody sings
showing [bad word] skills is how everyone was trained
(The Righteous Way to Go) is patience
Them wack kats get a deal fast
and quickly tossed on they [bad word] 
contracts with [bad word] math
from afar you see wealth, but your career's a short path
(The Righteous Way To Go) is well-being
physical and mental toughness all seasons
you can't rock a show if you ain't breathing
you looking very elderly, but your brain's teething
(The Righteous Way To Go) is Edgar Allen Floe

(Curtis Mayfield vocal snippet)

I knew I was a good person at heart
and even when I had to hit you with a hard lyric
I knew how to be soft and hard, gentle, easy
and harsh when it was necessary
such is the ways of life)

 [bad word] X 2)