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1. |
Digging Deep
03:24
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Verse One
The short timing, I've been on the life thing/ I've lived like kings/
& the men who set aside all the nice things/ Searching for what life means/
& all I found was dreams until the night came/ Rights made wrong from a point of view/
Morality is relevant to what you're going through/
On a high I'm a judge, on the low I'm like your honor/ If you only knew the karma
You would light plea/
I feel sorry for the people that are probably hated/
When you take the time to understand the makings of a man/ You comprehend/
That he's the sum of circumstance/
& that evil ain't incarnate & if cornered we can all created/
I know it's easy when you’re angry just to shallow grave it/ But dig deeper for the reasons & we're all related/
To kill a cousin ain't as easy as stranger/
But the danger’s not the bullet but the anger/
Chorus
So let’s get into/ deeper/
down/
Verse Two
Nothing happens overnight/
Stop thinking you can make it if you copy what I'm doing right/ My mistakes ain't in the credits but that's what should get it/ Failure fueled the drive like 87 unleaded/
Never gassed up/
I'ma stay the same/
You could give me fame/
Or could take away my last buck/
Switching lanes ain't in the formula forget it/
One me & that’s the person i'ma be until I'm dead'ed/
I ain't hear to tell you everything will be fine/
Cause thinking critically is really on a decline/
Please read between the lines/
For they cross us & we hang like free time/
I'm on the incline/
Steady growing like a garden, try to tend mine/ & you go folding in the foliage of a forest/ Filled with fortune/
In the form of something for us/
That's a grape vine/
Chorus
So let’s get into/ deeper/
down/
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2. |
Things
03:39
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Things
Things, on my mind when I wake up/
Things, all my time try to take up/
if I could save up money like worry I'd be a rich man but the sorrow would plague much/ I have made up the fiction/
that I'm the center of a system/
causing the day's rust /
center stage in a monologue play of/
me & the audience all in my make up/
what a view & it's all the show/
assuming what I'm doing's what you already know/
I think I'm in the middle of a palm heavy globe/
everybody trying to steal what I already own/ but oh in this life we are all but alone/
but feeling that you are is a problem condoned/
so sunlight is a spotlight that we hold/
like it's one light & we cuff tight until it's gone/
one candle on the cake for the taking/
souls set sail on a race trying to take wind/ we are faves in the chips that we place in/
I better build self anybody else cave in/
so I'm holding on to pressure like it's all mine/
that ain't sweat it's just the way I keep the floors shined/
everybody queued up for the long grind/ thinking that we're next in a short line/
Thinks I'm going through (chorus)
I want a lot more things/
biggie tried to tell me what a lot more brings/ a head strong man will take a lot more strain/ seeing pleasure in the presence of slot more pain/
it's like I'm in the plot of a horror flick scene/ & i'ma run towards where I thought I heard screams/
cause things draw me like a self portrait/ blank paper trying to fill it with a lot more green/
cause things make life & life worth living/
is a life worth giving to a fight for dreams/ but when your schemes matter more than the next man/
the next mans matter more than the rest than/
we all forget we are not all things/
so i'ma take in the line/
all those behind me can chill/
but if I was the last, I'd probably be the first one to wine/
for real/
Things I'm going through (chorus)
We just want to matter more/
trying to be the matador/
in a pit of bull/
trying to gather our status in the masses/ looking at the glass saying that's pitiful/
I ain't seeing what you're seeing cause your problems ain't my problems how you solve them really I don't even care/
putting pressure on my shoulders that ain't really there/
but I know you see it when you stare/
Things I'm going through (chorus)
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3. |
Built By Pictures
03:56
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Verse One
I was born with small access to big dreams/ & detached homes/
& lazy boy couches were fit thrones/
That, would sit kings/
Lion statues on fences larger castles they guarded/ Lawns made to pastures pristine/
A race with the have nots/
Broke but the mote's where the Jag's parked/ Doing dirty work but the whips clean/
Notice the Jones's/
All of what they have is for the showing even notices on doors of for-closers/ I'm trying to get income/
& them some/
Ride around in something/
The system bumping/
The disk jumping/
I'm rolling/
A slight high/
From being able to buy/
What you shouldn't but you never knew why/
Never mind/
This the feeling I've been wanting for time/ Flying blind/
Into a wall strong drawing to shine/
Chorus
I just looked at the pictures/
Didn't have a manual to build this/ Just assemble it from feeling/
By looking at the pictures/
I was given tools meant for building/ With no instruction for wielding/
But look at the picture/
It ain't even close to the description/ & yet it's works as I wish it/
By looking at the pictures/
& even though parts of it are missing/ It's still complete in depiction/
Started off trying to make a way/ then I made a wave that made a wage, that lay to waste the paper chase that i was into race/ but how you even stop this thing/ I never learned so in turn, i'ma burn out breaks/ spend it faster than the churn out makes/ but I'm a Phoenix, went from ashes to classes/ shoebox to plastic/ credit could get what ever imagined/ developing habits I can't kick/ man I was rocking cleats to a match full of baskets fast break/ broke the safe trying to bask in/ sums that wasn't real but ones & nils & they asking/ debit or credit the ladder please/ climbing into debt without a sweat when it's gradually/ had to make couple mistakes couldn't couldn't erase/ overdrawn but it turned out great/
Chorus
I just looked at the pictures/
Didn't have a manual to build this/ Just assemble it from feeling/
By looking at the pictures/
I was given tools meant for building/ With no instruction for wielding/
But look at the picture/
It ain't even close to the description/ & yet it's works as I wish it/
By looking at the pictures/
& even though parts of it are missing/ It's still complete in depiction/
I maneuver by example/ Good or bad/
Triumphs & tramples/ Something couldn't grasp/ I wouldn't pass/
I would rather struggle assembling what I can do/ Look at that/
Little different but the differences make it what it isn't/ Is, is whatever I want to witness/
Behold a vision outside of the city limits/
Where time is more valued than money for the spending/ Ascended to deeper things/
Never knew reasoning/
Throwing random spices into life for the seasoning/
Without a silver spoon I couldn't taste what I was prepping/ My guessing made the wooden whip a problem to a question/ Why do my people spend more & have less than/
No seat to eat the meal that I'm responsible for cheffing/ Imagining the window was just mirroring reflection/
I turned the sideline into a seat at the concession/
Chorus
I just looked at the pictures/
Didn't have a manual to build this/ Just assemble it from feeling/
By looking at the pictures/
I was given tools meant for building/ With no instruction for wielding/
But look at the picture/
It ain't even close to the description/ & yet it's works as I wish it/
By looking at the pictures/
& even though parts of it are missing/ It's still complete in depiction/
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4. |
Hold It Back
04:06
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I'm asked to speak but not to tell the truth/
Anonymously in the credits you can check the proof/
In the camera, innovators & creators real/
In the mirror imitators & the takers steal/
That's a practice put in action that could win awards/
Yeah we love the frauds/
But hate the ones that really come with cause/
Moment of silence for me, I don't really need applause/
Think I'm loud enough when I'm alone with all my inner thoughts/ May not never meet the people I'm inspired by/
& find out that they're really, really fake or they just kind of lied/ Kind of surprised I was able to keep my mouth shut/
This long, but/
On this song/
I'ma tell how i feel keeping quite is a crime/
Not enough fake G's doing time/
I’m not the only one to notice that/
I’m cutting all my ties/
I think it's time i stopped holding back/
Chorus
Hold it back/ (Repeated) No I can’t/
I make more than my sister/
Cause I was born as a mister/
& I ain't never been to college/
& she graduated honors/
Still the bosses think that I'm a better fit, huh/
That annoys me more than cargo shorts/
& yoga pants worn at anything that's not a sport/
Dinner plans/
At eight/
& if show you up in some sneakers better call me in advance/ To say you running late/
I’m a contemporary man/
I mean take it back to what, so y'all could screw it up again/ While you’re running for an office/
I'ma run away from coffins/
Pray the policies show progress/
Before they boot it up again/
Cause everytime we restart it/
We try to push the demons deeper in the closet/
It ain't no secret they just seeping out regardless/
Keeping logic hostage/
we need to stop/
Chorus
Hold it back/ (Repeated) No I can’t/
Tell them how you really feel, they label you hater/
That's the greatest trick imposters ever played on the creators/
You around here acting like we’re equal It I'm greater/
Bring up talent all you want but you can keep your resume though/ Talk is cheaper now & it is just dropping by the day though/
Take precaution/
Putting stock in
Anything somebody say though/
We gone tell you anything we want to get the payload/
Don't be shocked if they come talking to you like you were a day old/ Cause every time the clocks restarted/
We try to push the demons deeper in the closet/
It ain't no secret they just seeping out regardless/
Keeping logic hostage/
We need to stop/
Chorus
Hold it back/ (Repeated) No I can’t/
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5. |
You Grew Up
05:05
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Verse One
Let me take it back to my childhood/
When six flags was still called wildwood/
Where I had every race as a neighbor/
We were all working class trying to make it out of our hood/
My best friend back then was a white kid/
we were tight he liked the same things I did/
Despite us being different colors/
We were tight as Elmer's, & we called each other brothers/
While I was trying to keep my Nikes clean/
He was trying to scuff his Chucks scuffed up/
He was grunge
I was fresh we were young/
Cuss along to rap while we're sneaking into punk clubs/
But things changed when his pops got laid off/
He blamed my father for the loss of his job/
He said immigrants robbed citizens jobs/
& I better never set foot again in his yard/
As we became adults in a cult called America he got himself a job as an officer of law/ My thoughts got blacker & his views got cracker/
There was no way backwards/
To the roots at heart/
Many years part recognized him in the news/
He shot a black man that was sitting in car/
Near same park where we used to shoot hoops/
& all I blame as the cause/
Chorus
You grew up/
No you didn't change/
You were made the same/ As those before you came/ Cause you grew up/
All our growing pains/
Were given like our names/ & you just bought the blame/ Cause you grew up/
Verse Two
You ever have a friend that became a fanatic/
Most of you all haven't/
But if you ever did/
You'd understand the one thing they all have in common/ That somebody took advantage of their damage as a kid/ I knew a guy who's folks were professors/
Proof in the flesh that Allah was a blesser/ Grew up in a midwestern town/
Where there weren't many brown/
People he could seek reflection/
Got picked on in school during lectures/ Graduated hating everybody in his class/
Picked on because he prayed five to the east/
& he didn't eat meat that Allah said was bad/
One day a man approached him in mosque/
& changed his life when he asked him a question/ Do you ever feel your was a loss/
& what if I could teach you that life is a weapon/ Attracted strong to the feeling acceptance/
He was soon gone to delusions of a cause/ People of the present had faces of the past/ Make them easier than blast/
If he feel they did him wrong/
You can raise a child in a house full love/
But can't keep them safe from a world full of hate/ So he blew up/
The only mistake that could hold all the blame/
Is he grew up/
Chorus
You grew up/
No you didn't change/
You were made the same/ As those before you came/ Cause you grew up/
All our growing pains/
Were given like our names/ & you just bought the blame/ Cause you grew up/
Verse Three
My heart's a jug & when I was born it was filled with love/ It ranith over, life ran me over till I spilled the blood/
I poured the cups & left it up you to say enough/
Never ending, never quenching, I sealed it up/
Tried to change my reality but settled for, real enough/
Life is better when you're thinking lesser go on give up/
When I was younger I was so determined I would change it all/ Couldn't fly but wasn't chained to fall/
So where is it I put the blame & cause/
I grew up
Chorus
You grew up/
No you didn't change/
You were made the same/ As those before you came/ Cause you grew up/
All our growing pains/
Were given like our names/ & you just bought the blame/
Cause you grew up/
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6. |
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Verse One - Oddisee
I mean what is there to fear/
I''m from black America this is just another year/
If you're new to disrespect by your elected puppeteer/
well let me show you how to persevere/
Just get up every time somebody knocks you down/
& celebrate in front of people like they're not around/
& if they try to build a wall to keep you balling out of bounds/
Use the bench they told to you warm to keep the fences knocking down/ Shout out to latinos because hustling ain't illegal/
Whether praying to the east or the padre, we all are equal/
But if parted they will progress in stopping us getting C notes/
Well let me asked the crowd, do one of y'all disagree, no/
This is for chocolate city though I represent the county/
Until your vote is counted know I got you until I'm outy/
it's all about the effort & effortlessly fresher/
If I'm preaching to choir know they're bound to get the lecture/
it went from folks around me, pushing envelopes & boundaries/
So you won't only hear me where you found me/
I'm somewhere asking questions like can I afforded the most/
You better answer me with more than a no/
Chorus
Ooh, never not getting enough/ From this life that I'm leading/ & all I believe in/
ya'll go, I ain't leaving/
I'm posted, like/ (x2) This if for the county/
& the areas surrounding/ DC, Maryland & Virginia/ know I'm with you/
Verse Two - Toine
What are you willing to let die first/ Your pride or your freedom/
The story of my life's inner conflict/ It's like I follow my dreams/
But how am I supposed to slide in the DM/
On the mic, is what I'm trying accomplish/
I used to do it for the fist bumps & applauses/
But caring about respect started making me nauseous/
You walk in a room, $ bammas speak to you cautious/
like employees trying to figure out who the boss is/
so now I just kick it for, the most divine/
Working overtime/
Sitting with an open bottle, looking for an open mind/
trying not to be aggressively jaded/
Because I find myself just getting faded/
& I know that ain’t quite me/
I step up for whatever it might be/
& RSVP when inspiration invite me/
Because who else gonna look out for those who look like me/ another disenfranchised boy in a white tee/
Chorus
Ooh, never not getting enough/ From this life that I'm leading/ & all I believe in/
ya'll go, I ain't leaving/
I'm posted, like/ (x2) This if for the county/
& the areas surrounding/ DC, Maryland & Virginia/ know I'm with you/
Verse Three - Oddisee
All I know is love/
I give it & I get it, I can never get enough/
Sympathy to enemies cause hate ain't in blood/
& if you can relate you've given up/
I'm trying to make the most of it though/
Getting close is a no/
Want nothing less than yes because it's suppose to be so/ The cost of nothing's too low/
My expectations are too high/
I'd rather die/
Than be complacent with the way that it goes/
Apathy is a disease & we're just steady sharing needles/ Unaffected people carry evil/
Ease is what know/
We've got to raise the bar though/
The sorrows of today will give away to a tomorrow/
So what's a week of paid leave/
& empty promises of hiring/
Just to fire me before retirement/
I'm trying to make more in one day than 401 K/
So give me what you promised to pay/
Because it's never enough/
Chorus
Ooh, never not getting enough/ From this life that I'm leading/ & all I believe in/
ya'll go, I ain't leaving/
I'm posted, like/ (x2) This if for the county/
& the areas surrounding/ DC, Maryland & Virginia/
know I'm with you/
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7. |
Like Really
03:44
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why you want to catch my eye, when you already know that I'm taken/ how you past due on payments, and I'm seeing you on vacation/
how you gonna make us great when we were never really that amazing/ take it back what, I don't find hanging black lives entertaining/
how do you police the streets of a neighborhood you do not engage in/ why a brother get three for a sack while your brother go free for a raping/ how you make a film about Egypt with all lead roles caucasien/
how you saying all lives matter when the stats say we are not adjacent/ tell me if I got it all wrong/
like I signed on the line but I didn't read the form/
and the fine print is all about the times we mourn/
and the color of my skin means I gotta be strong/
& your hand me down faith said if I was reborn/
when I take my last breath that you'll let me breath on/ as of right now we could never pals/
and how are we supposed to get along/ this now more than ever though/
all about force and measure though/ why I'm forced to let it go/
and clean on your messes though/
you take jobs to Mexico pay us less and lesser though/
promised to bring them back, that's how the problem gets the vote/
Chorus
Really (repeated)
I be on the grind all day, I don't pay mind to the date (nah like really)/
missed call vibrate, & I find most times it could wait (nah like really)/
I don't talk blue in the face, to just to make movement in place (nah like really)/
out a breath watching other man steps & you wonder why you’re losing the race (nah like really)/ I was sleeping floors/
making bread instead of beds on tour man (nah like really)/
if you ain't never cry about loss/
don't speak about the situation you’re in (nah like really)/
i ain't got a big deal but I'm still a big deal & I feel important (nah like really)/
yeah you got a big deal running a big wheel I ain't with extorting/
yeah I'm independent & I'm making hell of noise/
& I'll never let women make a Helen out of Troy/
got no suckers in the circle that pretend to be boys/
I don't lend them an extension I just sell them decoys/
chilling in the cut is when I'm really feeling voids/
cause the movements getting muted and it really needs a voice/
we're just picking between the evils of the lethal and the liars/
people tired and they really need a voice (nah like really)/
this now more than ever though/
all about force and measure though (nah like really)/
this that calm collected flow/
done right, wrong correctional (nah like really)/
enough bout peace & blessing bro I want that deeper message though (nah like really)/
If you on top that's surface, drop that lesson though, preach (nah like really)/
Chorus
Really (repeated)
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8. |
Want To Be
04:50
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Verse One
There's this feeling that, I've been chasing/ & I've got leads on, its location/
it changes form every time I face it/
only appreciated when it's gone/
taken for granted like it’s etched in stone/
liberty ain't strong any wrong break it/
placed in, my arms my controls in cages/
tween a rock & hard place & they say move on/
That's what I'm trying to do, a miracle to perform/
but you can't make that without an eyebrow raising/ people want your magic for their own ovation/
when you're in full bloom is when the beehive swarms/ The time I've wasted, trying to fit in norms/
people like me more when I pretend I'm basic/ but what do I do want, I practiced patience/
& right then & there it dawned/
Chorus
I just want to be happy/
I just want to be free/
I just want to be left alone/ I just want to me/ (Repeated)
Verse Two
What in the world are you looking for/
can't a young man get money on tour/
live Brooklyn buildings pre-war/
with a name that don't make you think of C4/ high ceiling apartments/
no ceiling on my living I ain't giving up options/ love without a limit is the mission accomplished/ don't expect to get it without wetting the armpits/ I sweat these pores/
In this American scheme a picket sign to a fence/
They want to kick me out the country as a line of defense/
See me, I'm from the country & I'm proud of my ends/
& even though you try to shun me you ain't shrouding intent/
I’m just a man with a vision in a tunnel with hitmen/
trying to shoot my lightbulb because they thought I was twitching/ got a few ideas, wrote them down in list/
Let me say them now before I forget them/
Chorus
I just want to be happy/
I just want to be free/
I just want to be left alone/
I just want to me/
(Repeated)
Verse Three
I don't believe in a promise/
unless it's one I made to myself/
cause there is no denying the facts/
if I'm the only accomplice/
& rarely have I courted for help/
I ain't trying to monstrous/
I just want month's rent/
a little something extra I ain't hoarding the wealth/
cause 99 percent of us is trying to get success/
that 99 percent of us was already dealt/
no trophy on the mantle but I got a mantle/
when mama couldn't pay the power I would grab the candles/ I'm just thankful I can channel that to block tangle/
steering straight & I don't hesitate to park an angle/
I'm just trying to turn a smirk to a smile/
restricted to allow/
all while keeping my distance from distance from the crowd/ & that may change along the road I pave/
But today right here & now/
Chorus
I just want to be happy/
I just want to be free/
I just want to be left alone/ I just want to me/ (Repeated)
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9. |
This Girl I Know
03:37
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Verse One
I got a lover but it's complicated/ we've been off & on/
trying to keep the fire warm/
but a brother jaded/
I've even moved up to Brooklyn so that we could bond/ Feel like I see even less then when I lived away &/ Suffocated by the city she ain't never home/
She in LA or any other place that ain't my arms/
Can't say she cheating because she was never mine alone/
I just think I'm better for her than the drug dealers & the lie tellers/ yeah am I wise but could wrong/
Please don't let be/
I gave her time in half while others get her free/
& I ain't one to compare but what I see/
Is her in a lesser form with anybody instead of me/
we on a different page, same play different stage/
waited on the street to say hi, I must have missed the wave/ await her call to come by/
Chorus
I know this girl around town
she cool, she cool
she coming around, round/
when no one around, round/
She come through, come through we messing around, round/ alrighty for now, now
we do, what we do
but we know that for now, now/ is only for now, now
we through, we through
but I still lover her though
Verse Two
We've come a long way/
Even though she keep me arm's length/
Over her head & she responds late/
I place the blame on all them clowns that she round/ because cause intelligence ain't part of their style/
smarten up dumb it down/
Drop jewel rocking jewelry/
The way you move done parted the crowd/
& I know you did the knowledge before admitted to college/ So why you hanging round with this foolery/
The same lame bragging how he bagged you dorm rooms/ Done tried to flip the mattress acting like he adore you/ Same bed, if it ain't all true/
why am I here/
You know they lying through the locks & the beards/ Although I'm faded I'm as sharp as they is/
cause he ain't seen a barbershop in some years/
don't mean that he the one to lead us when apocalypse near/ you see the light, you know I'm right end of days/
final calling me I'll see you tonight aye/
Chorus
I know this girl around town
she cool, she cool
she coming around, round/
when no one around, round/
She come through, come through we messing around, round/ alrighty for now, now
we do, what we do
but we know that for now, now/ is only for now, now
we through, we through
but I still lover her though
you ever love somebody that didn't reciprocate it/
but they give you just enough to keep waiting/
thinking maybe they might see you how you them with patience/
will come say when they quit faking on the heart that you gave them/ but do you give it for gifts or for the feeling itself/
if nothing's in it for you would you still be willing to help/
I think my love know me more than I give credit for/
she made me greater though I tell her that I'm better for her/
but she done heard it before & she gone hear it again/
it's plenty men that tried to holler in metaphor/
i'd love to talk to her but I talk through her/
we speak our minds the same time & so I let her off/
am I the side piece or the main squeeze/
either way I'm filled with pride when I hear her thank me/
so she can come & go as she please/
she leave me lone but not in moments of need/
ain't only mine & maybe so it should be/
Chorus
I know this girl around town
she cool, she cool
she coming around, round/
when no one around, round/
She come through, come through we messing around, round/ alrighty for now, now
we do, what we do
but we know that for now, now/ is only for now, now
we through, we through but I still lover her though
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10. |
Waiting Outside
03:33
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Verse One
Been a hot minute we ain't speak/
Been a little while we ain't fought
Guess you doing better than the last time we met up/ When you ran away from feelings getting caught/ Why you always got to get a grip/
When you ever gonna let it slip/
Bottle up your pride never drinking what's inside/
But you ever gonna sip a thought/
Why you always gotta make a split/
What you say & how you feel don't ever fit/
Ain't nobody watching/
You can lay away the caution/
This the perfect opportunity to vent/
Say it while we're sitting in the dark/
You don't need nobody else talk/
Talk to myself and my brain spoke back/
When you finish trying to block/
Chorus
I’ll be waiting on you/ On the outside/
After last call/ (Repeated)
Chat with I, myself & me/
I never stop to asked what helping needs/
It works for me & I don't work at it/
Some type of service to curve a habit/
Don't believe in magic shirts & sleeves/
Rabbits & such as luck would have it/
I am one of many to converse the tragic/
& pride myself with the worst of me/
That's a vital part in the art of blackness/
We don't get depressed we compress the sadness/ Feeling anyway about a day's a privilege/
Conversing with the Doc to get expensive answers/ Never visible but I could fill a room/
With people of the sun who run away from feeling gloom/ Anger is an illness that I'm tired of containing/
That's why my mind's saying/
Chorus
I’ll be waiting on you/ On the outside/
After last call/ (Repeated)
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11. |
Rain Dance
03:52
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Verse One
I remembered when I discovered purpose/
I was good at something Finally worth it/
Told my father that i'ma be an artist/
Foreign parents don't understand all our newer options/
They flee their countries, protect their families, perusing progress/ They think in needs, & we think of wants, are views are parted/
I want to be like doctor Dre, they want degrees from Harvard/ An engineer that slide the fader not designing rockets/
I'm in the lab without a beaker but the speakers knocking/ Making art in broken English they mistake as nonsense/
The only language understood income/
So I got good at business plans as well as making rhythm/ It took this art so serious/
It made any girl I dated so furious/
& put tears in they eyes, I wouldn't dry/
So they turned into rain/
So many lessons I was learning through pain/ (Rain Dance)
Verse Two
When I was younger I was all about the ladies/
Quick to do them wrong, even quicker to call them crazy/ Cause I ain't see the harm in leading on somebody daughter/ Who wanted my commitment but instead they got a maybe/ Four or five I juggled them like I'm Barnum & Bailey/
Until my arms got tired of hugging women I'm breaking/
The less that I was working/
The more that I was flirting/
Can't be somebodies half if you ain't a completed person/ Started developing myself first/
Ain't easy to take for granted when it's self worth/
Kept promises, made money, stayed honest/
In his thick accent my father said I made progress/
Became the man that I was meant to be/
Right on time I met a women that was meant for me/
You know the feeling of Keeping your phone face up/
No interference so nothing's causing a break up/ Drama free/
Verse Three
No a days I'm just trying to get paid/
Stay away from trouble & avoid an early grave/
Read a little more, speak a little less/
My competition listens & they quick to imitate/
Invited to the studio by so & so/
& everybody think that I'm the one that stole the flow/ Where here a quotable/
I ain't jealous or offended/
I'm glad to see reactions of a style that I invented/
To me be remembered means your time is finished/ And I'd rather be the reminder with a minor presence/ Not quick rise & long fall/
For long haul I'm in it so just sit tight/
Things don't grow if the ground stay dry/
I see the good things in the clouds blown by/
So when the rain comes I Presume my stance/
& if I move, it’s to do my dance/
Bloom/
Oliver St. Louis
I can make it rain no matter what the time/ But I'd do it less for some peace of mind/ Reach out and you will understand/
What God put in these hands/
All we be revealed in due time/

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Verse One - Olivier St. Louis
Two halves sittin on a one sided saw/
roundabouts is how we get round all/
It ain't enough to have fair space between you and the hierarchy/ Wanna fight for some equality/
But what about if You the boss/
And the boss always pays the cost/
how you feel about your pockets, now/
You could never have it all and make everyone feel 10 feet tall/ The rise and the fall must occur to all/
Chorus
What’s right or wrong/ What’s right or wrong/ What’s right or wrong/ (repeated)
Verse Two - Oddisee
I would kill to save life/
Do you see a hero or you'd rather read me rights/
My neighborhood is getting nice/
Safe to walk at night/
I can't afford to pay the price/
Sudan we eat a lot of lamb/
The latins like the chicken but what's better over rice/
I think I'm giving out advice/
But all you hear is judgement on the way you love your life/ Paper that we read not the same/
Yours framing me for the blame/
Mine see you cause all the shame/
We can't agree on a thing/
We both are beyond the games/
But we still play/
Should I fear what's on the way/
Bigger gear push on the breaks/
One man’s heart is another man’s brain/
Forever then the question will remain/
Chorus
What’s right or wrong/ What’s right or wrong/ What’s right or wrong/ (repeated)
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