Ego Trip By Nikki Giovanni Lyrics - Blackalicious

I was born in the Congo 

I walked to the fertile crescent and built the Sphinx 

I designed a pyramid so tough that a star 

That only glows every one hundred years 

Falls into the center giving divine perfect light 

I am bad 

I sat on the throne drinking nectar with Allah 

I got hot and sent an ice age to Europe to cool my thirst 

My oldest daughter is Nefertiti 

The tears from my birth pains created the Nile 

I am a beautiful woman 

I gazed on the forest and burned out the Sahara desert 

With a packet of goat's meat and a change of clothes 

I crossed it in two hours 

I am a gazelle, so swift, so swift, you can't catch me 

For a birthday present when he was three 

I gave my son, Hannibal, an elephant 

He gave me Rome for Mother's Day 

My strength flows ever on 

My son, Noah built Newark and I stood proudly at the helm 

As we sailed on a soft summer day 

I turned myself into myself and was Jesus 

Men intone my loving name, all praises, all praises 

I am the one who would save 

I sowed diamonds in my back yard, my bowels deliver uranium 

The filings from my fingernails are semi-precious jewels 

On a trip North, I caught a cold 

And blew my nose giving oil to the Arab world 

I am so hip, even my errors are correct 

I sailed West to reach East 

And had to round off the earth as I went 

The hair from my head thinned 

And gold was laid across three continents 

I am so perfect, so divine, so ethereal, so surreal 

I cannot be comprehended except by my permission 

I mean, I can fly like a bird in the sky