Canibus - "Poet Laureate II" Produced by Stoupe of Jedi Mind Tricks [Official Audio] 

Canibus truly is the silent hero of rap music. he's like the dark knight or some shit lmfao

"Since rap become a lucrative profession, there's a misconception that a movement in any direction is progression" damn

I always felt that Canibus shoulda gotten a lifetime achievement award for this song alone.

I make no joke when I say this. This might actually be the greatest rap song ever created

"alone in my room.... looking through the 32x telescope zoom... adjusting the focus of the moon".... then he just spazzes lol

"A wise man sees failure as progress. A fool divorces his knowledge and misses the logic" 💯

Stoupe. Y'all better give that man his flowers... He produced the entire album impeccably!!!

I'll defend and support Bis till the end. Man is a genius and never gets the credit he deserves.

No joke, this whole album is a major contributing factor to me currently having a university degree in physics. Thanks for being a big inspiration to my 19-year old self back in the day, Bis.

the mozart of rhymes,,,,this track is from another galaxy

17 February 2024. Still here 💥

Call me corny, weird, goofy or a nerd but this song brought tears in my eyes when I listened to it!!!!! I have never heard bars spit with so much precision, purpose, focus, and passion in my life!!!!! This is in my opinion a masterpiece!!! Why this man isn’t getting recognized not for record sells but for being a lyrical genius is beyond ridiculous!!!!! Praise him while he’s here!

Someone give this man the Nobel Prize for this one.

"@6:13 Since it became a lucrative profession, there's a misconception that a movement in any direction is progression; even though the potency of it lessens..." Bruh. o.O

Almost 20 years I wrote a university paper analyzing this song (as a poem) and got an A+ on the paper and in the class. When the subject matter itself is of such high quality, the work of analyzing it is too.

"Every warrior has an axe to bury But he has to learn to discern between enemy and adversary" 💯💯💯

“He got an ‘F’ but he deserved and ‘A’.”

Canibus is like Vincent Van Gogh (not Divinci, woops!). Under appreciated during his time, but in the future, people will look back on this and consider this art priceless.

this is disgustingly outstanding.

"...what is the maximum field rate application, the runaway glacian surrounding the ocean basin, affects the population's fluctuations on a continuous basis but that's just the basics"... Aaaay yooo🔥🔥🔥

This song alone is needed to consider canibus as one of the greatest ever..

"He was the illest alive, but nobody would face it, he spit 'till his tongue was too torched to taste it. Properly funded corporations carbon dated his latest creations to extract the information . They found it utterly amazing, they claimed the body of his work was the same thing as a priceless painting."~Canibus...

Now imagine walking around people trying to get them to understand this

the beat switch at 2:24 is masterful

Canibus at his best. His best track of all time right here.

"A wise man sees failure as progress... A fool divorces his knowledge and misses the logic. And loses his soul in the process, obsessed with nonsense, with a character that has no content." This line was so dope that Stoupe had to stop the beat in order to allow the words to shine!

Most advanced rap song of all time. He went way ahead of his peers here

I'm still listening 16 years later 😎

Every line in this song is a quotable

There's no album out there that has spoken to me like Rip the Jacker.

" a wiseman sees failure as progress"

This whole album is a masterpiece!!!

"MY ATTITUDE IS F🤬🤬🤬ED UP AND ADMIRABLE..."...

alone in my room lookin thru the 32x telescope zoom adjusting the focus of the moon

“And nobody gives a fuck no more, no one goes to the book store Ever since the confluence of Moore's Law“

"you need to replace the hate with respect, i'm probably the best yet, poet laureate"

Canibus is unmatched LYRICALLY!!!!!!

Those first two minutes were better than two years of most MC’d careers!

Cassidy just did an interview with vlad and vlad asked who inspired him. Cass casually and quickly named a few of the greats but then he stopped for a moment and said "Canibus" and started talking about Canibus' lyrical ability for the rest of the entire answer to the question. I'm not gonna lie, I never knew that and also never thought I would hear Cassidy explain Canibus' greatness. Very dope moment.

Twenty years old and this song is still a masterpiece. God-level production from Stoupe. Masterful breath control, lyricism and delivery from Canibus. A higher peak than most rappers' entire careers, including Eminem.

"One should not assume the philosophy of David Hume, it's nothing more than a subjective conclusion."

This is pinnacle of hip hop music. This is rap in its highest form, this is the gold standard. This song is a demonstration of a master elevating a craft into a timless, once in a generation display of ability. EVERYTHING about this song is flawless perfection and I can promise you I'll never hear a more impressive use of the English language. He's the Miyamoto Musashi of the rap game

Who else listening to this in 2021? President Bis sent me back to welcome yall

one of my favorite songs of all time

absolutely beyond this universe.........

Stoupe doesn’t get the respect he deserves for this beat

My favorite line in this whole masterpiece: "I'm convinced now that more than the truth is at stake, when people create language that pretends to communicate."

Exemplification of disciple in art.

So lyrical this guy actually gives me shivers

one of the greatest pieces of music ever recorded

I recall listening to this whole album on repeat all the time... I then remember performing this song with him as his hype man and was in awe. It is masterful.

Canibus is literally the GOAT of hip-hop. Nobody consistently delivered like this in history

Bis one the 🐐s. Lifetime achievement that I got a song with the legend who was the greatest on the planet at one time. Stoupe one my favorites of all time. The man should be doin the soundtrack for the marvel universe.

If this isn't one of the greatest pieces of art ever written,,,I don't know what it..

Not the biggest Canibus fan in the world, but damn this track is crazy.

Stoupes beats complement the profound lyrics perfectly

This is a Masterpiece.................a work of Art.

poet laureate part one was great. poet laureate part two was awsome. poet laureate infinity was on a level that will leave a genius using 99.9% of their brain baffled.

Why would I argue with my own conscious over the truth? That's like me telling myself "Don't tell me what to do!" dayum, dayum, dayum

OMG Years go by so fast but I'm still addicted to this masterpiece. Senegal, West Africa.

The number of peoples heads this song went over back in the day is uncountable. This is so sohisticated. It literally took more than a decade to understand and appreciate songs like this of his.

I love the fact that it's physically difficult to rap this album. This song there are points where you practically have to gasp for air to keep up with his flow.

Still bumping in 2023

Most people don't even know who David Hume is 🔥🔥🔥

I always wondered why I couldn't get the words out like him, while reciting this. If you listen really close in the beginning you can hear him doing this breathing technique for deepsea divers

Alone in my room looking through the 32x telescope zoom adjusting the focus of the moon ...still gives me chills and i've heard this 10,000 times

One of the best sophisticated museoum worthy rap songs ever made

This is amazing. Canibus is criminally under rated. Rip the Jacker and Mic Club albums are classics.

Best Rapper alive!!!! Blackballed by the WHOLE industry!!! This is the shit the youth should be reciting...Not the Zombie Drug Rap

Canibus is the most underrated rapper and this song is proof. He needs more recognition for shit like this.

He gotta be one of the most lyrical emcees I've ever heard, damn Canibus

Canibus is the greatest i dont care what anyone says.

this song will be 20 years deep next year in 2023!!!

One of the greatest lyrical masterpieces written and produced in like.. ever

Elite production by Stoupe.

Eminem and every super lyrical miracle studied this dude. Joe Budden, Royce, Tech 9, Vinnie Paz, etc. Canibus is arguably the most underrated.

This song gave me mad knowledge from all the info I had to research

He metaphorically likened the art of rhyme to alchemical processes so beautifully, something that no other rapper to this day has done.. Love Canibus and have so much respect for him.

every word that comes outta his mouth in this song is quotable

A complete genius. A complete visionary.

Most underrated rapper in history. Name one better lyracist?

I have to say this is one best HIP-HOP ever ridding rather you like Canibus or not.

Saw him live last summer Epic he still performs. Go see him before he stops touring!

This is some upper level, out of everyone league type of of Jam. He was in an untouchable zone when he created this one...

wether or not you like canibus, this is the greatest hip hop track of all time.

Canibus took lyricism to another level

So underrated. How come this song is not on the top 10 GOAT?

We need a reincarnation of canibus because bruh I miss this type of music

The greatest rapper of all time Deal with it

🔥🔥"Why would i argue my own conscience over truth?/ thats like telling myself "don't tell me what to do!"🔥🔥

In another universe Em and Can are friends

"Complete enigmas wrapped in puzzles encrypted in language With sound but without shape or signature Kept files in his garage on MS-DOS In a fire-proof pod, we thought it was odd Outside there was a shed with an Oppenheimer lock He apparently kept more wax than Madame Tussaud's" ❗❗ I hope y'all know that 'Madame Tussaud's (now 'Tussauds') is a Wax Museum in London

Just some of the most incredible lyricism here. What a legend Canibus is.

Rip the jacker is one of the best albums created. I wished, prayed, begged and pleaded for a second album like this - in this spirit. I can't even describe the album it's just a standalone masterpiece. I wanted a 2nd. But all that came after this was him trying to make money. I can't blame him. This song in particular is so damn good. But the whole album is great. I just, I need in my life another canibus album like this. Diff beats diff words but the same feel. It's so unique what it is - what he did - he was just being himself on this album. I feel like virtually everything after this just wasn't in the same spirit. Faeti compli has some bright spots for sure, same with for whom the beat tolls. I feel like for whom the bell tolls was the closest to this. BTW, I am so incredibly harsh on him because I know he is the best. I love this man. Canibus if you ever read this you got me thru masters degree and some of the hardest times in my life bro. Love man all love

Canibus has such a unique ability to just rap on and on, he almost never has a chorus and certainly not a poppy one, just constantly hard dense rapping

The first time I heard this jam back in the day my entire life and perception of reality and alike were without doubt altered immediately and permanently. This track latched on to my personality and to my soul with an unexpected, unprecedented vicious ferocity, and I haven't been the same since. It literally rewrote my DNA while simultaneously opening a sacred conduit to spiritual beings beyond our plane of comprehension. I shit my pants and never looked back.

We are living up to our agreement with Mic Club Music.

Somebody really needs to get in contact with Mike now(Mike Tyson) And give him a copy of this album. Mike nowadays is more of a philosopher and I guarantee he would appreciate this album!

and I used to think Canibus was mediocre but now after listening to some of his albums he is definitely one of my favourite rappers

Lyrical Genius.