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Sometimes, you love too hard
Sometimes, you go too far
Now I wont want you if you need me
Real things do not come easy, no
Never been your average girl
So take time with me, take time
Baby, talk to me with some action
We can find a place for your passion, oh
Cool down, simmer
Cool now, please me
Cool now, sinner
Cool down, love
Cool now, simmer
Cool now, please me
Cool now, sinner
Cool down, love
Cool now, simmer
Cool now, please me
Cool now, sinner
Cool down, love, love
Sometimes, I want you close
Sometimes, I want my space
Just know I’m gonna call if I need you
Its not my job to please you, no
Never been your average girl
So take time with me, take time
Baby, talk to me with some action
Think I got a place for your passion, oh
Cool down, simmer
Cool now, please me
Cool now, sinner
Cool down, love
Cool now, simmer
Cool now, please me
Cool now, simmer, simmer
Boy, you make it too hot for me to stay here
Boy, youre making it hard for me to be your love, love
So cool now, simmer, simmer
Baby, don’t make me tell you this
I wont waste no time, Ill be proceeding quick
The way youre moving lately got me feeling sick
Like sey youve forgotten who youre dealing with
Man, ah real bread winner, me work nonstop
You no cook no dinner when I come back
Something wrong with ya, come out from that
If me walk and leave ya, me nah come back
Youre falling, but you dont wanna fall too hard
You’re falling, but you don’t wanna fall apart
Cause it might break if I give you my heart
And you hold on too hard
So cool down, simmer, simmer
Cool down, simmer
Cool now, please me
Cool now, sinner
Cool down, love
Cool now, simmer
Cool now, please me
Cool now, simmer, simmer
Boy, you make it too hot for me to stay here
Boy, you’re making it hard for me to be your love, love
Simmer, simmer
Simmer, simmer |
I’m sure you’ve heard this all before
Sure you look familiar
Sure the cost of living keep on rising with no limits
N-N-Name a politician, gave a fuck about your feelings
Name a single trend that didn’t end up like a gimmick
Think there’s something in the water
Tell me what the mission is, I see lead showers
Code word, Flint Michigan
Attire match my melanin
Black on black is militant
Represents my diligence
I see through that privilege
Somethings in the water
I think there’s something in the water
And I still don’t watch the news
Barely trust the facts now
Liar liar liar, throwing stones then hide your hands, wow
That don’t make no man proud
Tears might make my city drown
I’m too scared to speak to God
There’s shooters in the churches now
Somethings in the water
Tell me what the mission is
Just another citizen that sacrifice my discipline
Still don’t know my origin
Still don’t know who’s listening
Still can’t tell the difference between strength and my conditioning
Somethings in the water
I think there’s something in the water
Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, ah
I’ve been gone a while now
Never thought I’d come back to this
Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh, ah
I heard we been falling down
Whatchu mean we’re falling down to this
I don’t get this fuckery
This was never taught to me
I don’t know how we got here
Oh so suddenly
Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, ayy
I’m stood at the border
And there’s something in this water
Somethings in the water
I think there’s something in the water
Somethings in the water
I think there’s something in the water
It seems that all we do is talk and never listen to the fiction
Clear as water that it’s all a masquerade
For the love of my addiction, tire marks and 911’s
Hear no evil, see no evil in my lane
Same old story, pain and glory, fit inside your categories
Numbers said I wouldn’t see another day
What more can I say?
I think the rain my guardian angel, fall from heaven just like Gabriel
Come and take away the pain
Somethings in the water
Bad things in this water
Somethings in my brothers
Something like no other
I can’t put my finger on it
All I know is we don’t want it
All I know is if we carry on then we will fall
All I know is if we take this on then we will lose it all, yeah
Something in the water |
Yeah
One two, one two, one two
Came from the mud and the trenches
Runnin and hoppin the fences
Packing the pen like a weapon
Fresh out the pen like a sentence
Hush all the noise and the tensions
Glad that I got your attention
Cut out the brother youre friends with
They only come holler for guest lists
Please see the exit
I done lost too many brothers this year
To worry about new invitations
Still think about you like Neo
Howd I get stuck in the matrix?
Countin the one and the zeros
Sorry but this aint the movies
You do not end up the hero
Your face do not make the papers
Maybe a couple a shirts
Flowers on top of your hearse
Questioning, what was it worth?
Hop in the van and we skrrt
Hope police get to you first, yeah
We do not need to converse, yeah
Save the forgiveness for church
Well, if them boy bad, not bad after we
Nah, cant lay a hand on none of my Gs
Well, if them boy bad, not bad after we
Them man not gang, no, not on my team
Well, if them boy bad, not bad after we
Nah, cant lay a hand on none of my Gs
Well, if them boy bad, not bad after we
Them man not gang, no, not on my team
Came from the bottom of the swamp
Never forgotten where Im from
Robbin what I want
Am I wrong? Am I wrong? Am I wrong?
Malcolm X by any means
You coulda found me dead by 23
You hear the sound of skengs, you better leave
Where you gone? Where you gone? Where you gone?
Woo-ha
D-D-D, shooter
Brrr, Luger
Head tumor
.45 sittin in the waist
Manll send a missile in the place
Lick him in his face
I got off for killin with the bass
Fell that in your chest, Timberland
Still caps in your ead, diss the man
Real family and friends on Instagram
And it began
Well, if them boy bad, not bad after we
Nah, cant lay a hand on none of my Gs
Well, if them boy bad, not bad after we
Them man not gang, no, not on my team
Well, if them boy bad, not bad after we
Nah, cant lay a hand on none of my Gs
Well, if them boy bad, not bad after we
Them man not gang, no, not on my team |
If only you knew
I got flesh wounds bigger than you
Funny how they all wanna watch my steps
But they couldn’t run a mile in my shoes
If only you knew
Exactly what a brother been through
Make you really wanna roll up, get high
Sip until the bottle see through
If only you knew
How much they pay for your silence?
How much of all that money you save
To put on your brother consignment?
How did you sleep through the violence?
You just get used to the sirens
You just got stuck in the cycle now
They look at you like it’s my fault
May not have been in the place to save you
All I can offer is guidance
Nights we were racking up mileage
You used to whip with no licence
Can’t ride around with that regular, regular
What we were serving was science
Clearer than water or diamonds
We had the wave like Poseidon
Fuck up the re-up on ego
I know the industry evil
I know a couple of devils in Prada tuxedos
I know they see us like negros
Til we came through with that black and white
Seeing numbers like we Neo
Doing numbers like casino
But all that loving a placebo
Energy switch up
Phone don’t pick up
Subs on twitter
Blood came thicker
Must be the dope
That made you slow
Even with the chains you were still my nigga
Me on the throne
You see me calling, you see me shining
You didn’t like it, must be a pride ting
If only you knew
I got flesh wounds bigger than you
Funny how they all wanna watch my steps
But they couldn’t run a mile in my shoes
If only you knew
Exactly what a brother been through
Make you really wanna roll up, get high
Sip until the bottle see through
If only you knew
Everybody talk, everybody chat
Everybody shook, everybody relax
Stand up straight, don’t watch face
You don’t wanna see another brother relapse
Count my steps, clock my pace
Jump my grave but I don’t need that
I just want the crown and the world off my back
I just need riz and fountain of jack
Yeah, yeah I heard you, cool
Didn’t need them in first place, cool
Didn’t see them on my worst day, cool
No we ain’t cool, no we ain’t dunce
No I ain’t done
Man wanna try take kindness for fool
Married to the game, prenup the divorce
Can’t be friends man it’s not by force
Can’t be them man, they look forced
Nasty
Phone book is looking ghastly
Please don’t ever put it past me
You don’t want the truth then why you ask me
Belly empty think I’m fasting
Turn the heat up think it’s bali
Let my hair down think I’m Marley
Wailing, here forever, ever
If only you knew
I got flesh wounds bigger than you
Funny how they all wanna watch my steps
But they couldn’t run a mile in my shoes
If only you knew
Exactly what a brother been through
Make you really wanna roll up, get high
Sip until the bottle see through
If only you knew
Tell them to keep the same energy
Can’t pillow talk with the enemy
That’s how Adam discovered his jealousy
Cautious, can’t lend an ear to the talkers
Me and my niggas do walk ups
Leave or they fall like it’s autumn then
Stay on your mind like a chorus
Fed up of underachieving
You buy what they selling youre dreaming
You dont learn from hunger by eating
You get left behind if you sleeping
How much you gave to the preacher
Racking up base with a visa
Forgot we got rich off amnesia
Just to get by like Felicia
Energy switch up
Phone don’t pick up
Subs on twitter
Blood came thicker
Must be the dope
That made you slow
Even with the chains you were still my nigga
Me on the throne
You see me calling, you see me shining
You didn’t like it, must be a pride ting
If only you knew
I got flesh wounds bigger than you
Funny how they all wanna watch my steps
But they couldn’t run a mile in my shoes
If only you knew
Exactly what a brother been through
Make you really wanna roll up, get high
Sip until the bottle see through
If only you knew |
Funny, huh
Last night Im sure you said you loved me
Woke up to unexpected space in my bed, and
You in my head, well
I don’t know what time you left
But I find it kind of rude that you cant even call
I wish Id-a knew that before I let you have it all
Well, funny, hm
Now I know it was your plan all along
To leave before my alarm
Well, see
You were lucky to be
With somebody like me
Baby, I’m a queen, yeah, yeah
Oh, oh, hell no
You just set the tone
You must have not known
That Im not no
One night only
No, Im not, no, Im not no
One night only
Funny
You was the first one to say, Trust me
Whisper your thoughts, rather you scream them instead
Like the thoughts in my head
When I wake up in love, leave my heart in your bed
It was so scary
One more fuck, we might just get married
Well, Ill be back, no, please dont worry
Didnt mean you no harm
Left before the alarm
But Im never too far
Well, see
You were lucky to be
With somebody like me
Baby I’m a queen, yeah, yeah
Oh , oh, hell no
You just set the tone
You must have not known
That I’m not no
One night only, well
No, Im not, no, I’m not no
One night only
I dont even know why you came over
You was drunk and I was sober, huh
I didnt even want you here
You asked for me, you called
And I picked up cause I’m a fool
But, thats what you do to me
You make me weak, you make me free
You make me all the things that I always dreamed a man would make me be
And then you left
With no intention of returning
And now my heart is burning
Because after all this
After all that we have not and have been, ha-ha
I would still let you in
Everybody like
Please dont like him, he one-nights em
He dont wife em, he go bye-bye
We dont talk much, we go night-night
You like love right, I might love like
I might want to, dont know how to
Way too proud to say I dont
Say I do, wedding song
Something blue, borrowed love
You recoup, who seek who?
Who need who, where we lay
You need truth, you need more
Than Im coming through
Shoulda never got too comfortable
Shoulda never looked over you to get under you
Uh, wait, apologies dont make me bulletproof
Well, see
You were lucky to be
With somebody like me
Baby, Im a queen, yeah, yeah
Oh, oh, hell no
You just set the tone
You must have not known
That Im not no
One night only
No, Im not, no, Im not no
No, you not, no, you not no
One night only
No, you not, no, you not no |
They dont wanna say Ive fallen for ya
They dont wanna make this simply more real
Thats another soul for the broken hearted
Cashmere tears baby Im in my feels
You know just how to get me started
Let me sink this life into him
You will never catch me broken hearted
Cashmere tears baby Im in my feels
Woah, I like that uh, wait, I like that
Uh, wait, woah
I like that yeah, wait, I like that
Emotional type, emotional light
Emotion in motion ocean is colder at night
Disposable crime, I mean you know what Im like
Not the sociable type, less you passing the light
You wanna leave with sativas but baby smoke what you like
Im a brother with options and any flavour suffice
I need to make a divide, crimson colour your wine
I took my run with the spice, I been in love with your mind
I never seek on my feelings came with a couple of demons
Now you can take it or leave it ???
Sure you heard that before, bet you quick to ignore
Til you see the decor and you peep the decorum
Such a similar story cinderella with ballers
Fell in love when I met you but know I couldnt afford you
Couldnt- when I met you but you was keeping it cordial, uh
They dont wanna say Ive fallen for ya
They dont wanna make this simply more real
They will never catch me broken hearted
Cashmere tears baby Im in my feels
Woah, I like that uh, I like that
Uh, wait, wait
I like that yeah, uh, wait
Yeah
And baby Im scared too
I know they that I shouldnt but baby I fear too
What man wont do, what you wont show
Got the world on your shoulders but lady who hear you
Know who hear you, not another insight
Dont need another tonight
Do away with the lights
Your decision way more, Im a libra tonight
Never quick to decide, then you dip to the side
I got trouble advice, try and pick me a fight
Try and push on every button til it blow ???
But I know what you like, plus I came with the vibe
Aint no fooling me twice, aint no rolling the dice
Say she love me then hate until Im gripping her thighs
Baby give me a try, didnt need a disguise
Didnt love her love or lust, oh what a surprise
I be stingy with trust, couldnt name me a price
They dont wanna say Ive fallen for ya
They dont wanna make this simply more real
Thats another soul for the broken hearted
Cashmere tears baby Im in my feels
You know just how to get me started
Let me sink this life into him
You will never catch me broken hearted
Cashmere tears baby Im in my feels |
Ill be so glad when the sun goes down, uh huh
Ill be so glad when the sun goes down, uh huh
Ill be so glad when the sun goes down, uh huh
Ill be so glad when the sun goes down, uh huh
These times they aint moving fast enough
Every time Im looking up
I dont get no answer I dont get no love
Every day I play the game, knowing I wont win again
They say times are changing now
Well, Ill be so glad when the sun goes down
Well Ill be so glad when the sun goes down
Well Ill be so glad when the sun goes down
Well Ill be so glad when the sun goes down
The last thing you ever promised was tomorrow
All the irony convinced a pessimist could see shallow waters as twice as deep
Well timed silence, twice as powerful as mindless speech
Eyes wide shut, fortnight sleep, that be twice as weak
But like a mortal man leaving troubles in other mortal hands
I buried my mistakes, mistaking hope should maybe understand
Ive never had the answers
Fuck, I barely had a mattress
Paranoia, common practice
Promised the rest when I meet my casket
Throw my ashes to the atlas
Let them travel round its axis
Use my soul to pay my taxes
Make my music off my sadness
Oh Ill be so glad so glad, so glad when the sun goes down
Well Ill be so glad when the sun goes down
Well Ill be so glad when the sun goes down
Well Ill be so glad
When the sun goes down
Will you meet me
This time around?
Well Ill be so glad
When the sun goes down
Will you meet me
This time around?
Well Ill be so glad when the sun goes down
Well Ill be so glad when the sun goes down
Well Ill be so glad when the sun goes down
Well Ill be so glad when the sun goes down
Well Ill be so glad when the sun goes down
Well Ill be so glad when the sun goes down
Well Ill be so glad when the sun goes down
Well Ill be so glad when the sun goes down |
I went through many stages
But all the time
I was aiming to improve my life
I am trying to recall my footsteps
But I do not have a clue
Someone please give me the answers
And tell me the truth
Lord father
Free me from my sins
I am home
Apologies dont do much to cover bruises
The news has been a nuisance
Attention span too short for the whole truth. We just lost another youth
We just lost another youth centre
Ive had enough
Darker spirits seem to confide in Hennessy
Discussing memories that could turn grown men into memories
Ponder thought
Will the masses echo my legacy?
Or not at all?
Help me send a prayer to all my enemies
I can only ever speak with the perspective I was blessed with
The damned may curse my name. Ill be damned if they dont respect it
I was out here. Trying to make penny out this art shit
Where the doubts of disbelievers, could turn anybody heartless
The only thing I fear is seeing how black my lungs are
Going to the bank and seeing how low my funds are
This is gods body speaking with a belly full of thunder
Havent eaten in 22 winters
I know hunger
You think I give a fuck about a genre?
Im still trying to send my parents back to Ghana
Ive been losing weight trying to find the way or find the answers
But I realised the same things that made can break a martyr
This is factual
Selling my soul just wasnt practical
Found wealth inside of knowledge made my mental twice as valuable
Yeah, quiet room as the penny drops
And you realise when youre broke they dont give
A-pologies
Dont do much to cover bruises
The news has been a nuisance
Attention span too short for the whole truth
We just lost another youth
We just lost another youth centre
Im calling bluffs
Very few show love without jealousy
The smoke clears and high shows
How low people pretend to be
Bitter spirits may taste bitter ends
This music shit is friendly
But these people are not your friends
I dont need you to show face my brother, Im easy
Don’t have room people who act
I don’t believe them
Aware of my wins though, your attempts at kindness are see through
I was told the wiser man will not see God as their equal
Are you judged on the question or answer
I just had another prayer go unanswered
So do I speak to him or speak to you
When you wont take the risk to see the proof
Lets play a game of pin the pressure on the poet
Is it poetry or rap, I found rhythm inside of poetry
Lets play a game of pin the pressure on the prophet
I wonder what my younger self wouldve told the older me
Lets point the finger and say oh
He acts different because Im slower with the text
And people cant get a hold of me
Lets say I never graduated with a first
Stepped out to do road and let the streets take control of me
Imagine my opinion nothing more than shallow thought
Simply spoken like whispers while knocking on heavens door
Imagine my talent had simply run its course before I even ever tried
By fault of my accord
Imagine
We believed that we could never make a difference
Spent our lives doing the devils work while
Asking for forgiveness
If we only judged a man on the strength of his riches
And continued to diminish the strength inside our women
I dont have the answers
I am just another citizen, walking amongst false gods
With self indulged omnipotence
I dont have the answers
I am just another citizen, walking amongst false gods
With self indulged omnipotence
One take |
You know what would really help though?
Just when you thought we were done
Get away clean, Master P in 91
If only you knew, what we done overcome
Over-stand, that this aint what you want
Im bout it, bout it, like its 1997
If all young kings get beheaded
Expect royalty in heaven
Me and my Gs big bands, looking like One Direction
Start by getting the facts straight
Some learn better the hard way
Whole lotta stress in the book bag
Young boy carry the hard weight
As long as the family eat first
Ive got a reason to say grace
Sipping the holiest agua
Wishing I wash all my sins away
Way, way, down, down, in a dark place I sunken
Rat race, money chase, Im lost in
John Q with a hostage, might meet my prophet
That broke life too costly and it dont fly like Ostrich
Young, dumb, so reckless
AP with a death wish
Jealousy on entrance
No, I need no guestlist
See the thriller in the mirror
Halo, matching with the leather
We gone done em on arrival
Bad, bad no Michael
Bad, bad like I still a legend when I die
Mamma said it wasnt easy
Win, win and repeat
Pappa said it wasnt easy
Win, win and repeat
Win, win, win again
Just when you thought we were done
Get away clean, Master P in 91
If only you knew, what we done overcome
Over-stand, that this aint what you want
Im bout it, bout it, like its 1997
If all young kings get beheaded
Expect royalty in heaven
Me and my Gs big bands, looking like one direction
We pull strings like triggers, bet I never missed that shot
Bet I never missed that calling, when she want me on top
She thats G O D you gotta earn that spot
Good things dont come cheap
All my mistakes cost
Fragrance Hugo Boss, cant smell fear on man
You can never tell man shhh, shhh
Them man know my voice
All I smoke is noise, hope God bless my plug
Hope, God, god got my dons
H we soon link up
Bad, bad like I still a legend when I die
Mamma said it wasnt easy
Win, win and repeat
Pappa said it wasnt easy
Win, win and feed me
Win, win, win again
Just when you thought we were done
Get away clean Master P in 91
If only you knew, what we done overcome
Over-stand, that this aint what you want
Im bout it, bout it, like its 1997
If all young kings get beheaded
Expect royalty in heaven
Me and my Gs big bands, looking like one direction |
Daddy, how come theres no dolls that look like me in the shop?
My daughter she a princess
The world ain’t slaughtering her skin yet
These Kanyes have not become important to the Kims yet
But when she gets older there’ll be brothers same colour as her Pappa who will not be showing any sort of interest
Disrespecting women who remind them of their mothers
Disrespecting women who remind them of their sisters
Disrespecting women who remind them of their cousins
Everyone’s entitled to their own taste
But every time you pricks make a statement
I can find a rival in my own race
I love all types of women
Variety is okay
But society will throw shade
So who’s fighting for the sisters then
When their own brothers keep on dissing them
Try and picture Justin as a little one
Daddy was around but I was raised by the womendem
Nan, aunts, mummy
Black woman significance
So fuck you and your ignorance
When I was young I had Ashanti on my wall
And there was pictures of my family in my front room with certificates
University graduates and good citizens
Baby keep doing you
Don’t let the world ruin you
No matter what they say, you are beautiful
Beauty’s in the eye of the beholder
And we don’t know who is who
Who are they to slew when they slewing you?
Babe, youre golden
So Golden
I need you golden
So Golden
I can cry those tears for you
Again
But just know Ill be there for you
To keep you golden
And they say sticks dont break no bones
But their words might still hit home
Broke up bags on concrete stones
Look at all this is our soul
To keep your golden
So golden
So golden
I need you golden
So golden
Black rose
When you was doing light skin vs dark skin
Some was doing white skin vs our skin
Divided and conquered
Living but slightly unconscious
Killing each other minor
Do I define a monster
Cos my knife is longer
My left is weak but my right is stronger
What I really mean is my writings stronger
Should I wife a Kate or should I wife a Rhonda?
I don’t mind either genre
Brothers back home using cake soap
I’m only caked up cause I make dough
We’re all try stay afloat in the same boat
But I’m trying to be the goat not scape goat
Are you aware of who I am?
There’s something called opinions and I really can’t escape those
Er, hes black and hes ugly
Nah, I’m black and Im lovely
Only god can judge me
This ones ones for my brothers that are lonely in this fuckery
Coming home from school and your shadows your only company
Really I’m from Africa but I don’t know the country
I’m a lost man
Where the hell are my locks at?
Got me looking at a dashiki like what’s that
And still I’m jango to you house niggas
I get even with the Stevens in combat
Babe, youre golden
So golden
So golden
I need you golden
So golden
So golden
I cant cry those tears for you
Again
But just know that Ill be there for you
To keep you golden |
Would you mind if I took a second to vent?
Would you respect me as a man if I gave you anything less than me?
My delusions of grandeur are far bigger than your assumptions
Far past the comprehension and narcissism
I really do feel like Im the faeces you perceive me to be
Lay your thoughts still
I step forth with course direction
This self-esteem
A worthy weapon to these obstacles Ive grown accustomed
What I do not speak into existence will only fall by the waist side
Waste not want, wanting not to be a waste is only a crime to
The disheartened crowd
Simmer down, simmer down
Would it be selfish if I prayed for patience
When the only time I do is when my soul feels vacant?
Sea blues in the muddy waters
Sing my sorrows in the truth
Is a poem still a poem if its self-centered?
Find I right just to center myself
See the proof
One breathe out for relief
Another in begin to vent
Preach, please
Take a couple nines to the one per cent
Oh I must be
I was given no other option
Propped up to position by leaning on all my problems
Hear the dialogue
Know what they paint me as
Im human, dont we share the same species?
If I must be the radical dont shoot me for a retweet
Sing about me
Sing my lows as well as victories
Teach my wrong and speak my history
Craft just how they remember me
A man of action and of thought
And of course a couple daisies by my corpse
Oh I must be, trust me
You agree and Im the hero
If you dont then its fuck me
I dont talk my truth for hugs
I dont need you all to love me
Just to listen
Forgiveness or permission
Ive been around the kings
Ive been around the victims
Ive been around the queens
Ive been around the riches
Ive fasted with the Muslims
Ive prayed with the Christians
Ive been around the desperate
I know why they did it
Ive lived through the evils
Ive stood with the people and they look at me
And they look at me
They look at me
They look at me like a winner now
Cause I had a dream and I chased it
I thought that running the easy part
Its really much harder maintaining
I pray for peace, pray for patience
Hope they can hear my frustrations
I wear my fear like a fragrance
They will not falter my cadence
I cry the tears of a nation
They think theyre Tony Montana, I think Im Kwame Nkrumah
I think Im Kwame Nkrumah
You will not give me my freedom
I cry the tears of a nation
They think theyre Tony Montana, I think Im Kwame Nkrumah
Oh damn Im important
I hope I dont lose my endorsements
Cause they keep on telling me shhhhh
And I keep on talking and talking away
Lets just hope that they got me
Bang this on loud from the coast to Kumasi
Bang this on loud from the coast to
Bang this on loud
Belly empty like action with no thought
Men dont follow blind men to war
My attire so you pardon my decor
Do you remember the depths from which we start from
Young soldier I admire your resilience
A young mind should never fear the experience
I paved ways to pay dues in diligence
While looking at whats mine like a privilege
By far the greatest wrongs are inflicted on self
The weight of our opinions
Now dicated by wealth
Wait, the position of my passion now placed on both shoulders
I will speak for the ones who see hope but feel hopeless
I was born with the gold embedded deep in my roots
Where a couple of the cities pay police not to shoot
Your people have seen war but they do not have a clue
My people have seen more, and wear compassion has the proof
My daddy was a member of the CPP
If ignorance is what they teach
Then they need not preach
The blackened star may shine bright
And guide my feet forever forward
Through heavy waters like its not that deep
I find the nerve of my peers unsettling
Willing to sell evil to their people, to profit off their people
I was looking like a prophet to my people
But they never asked nothing of my people
Simply spoke to my people
Now, they look at me, they look at me
They look at you and they look at me
And they look at us and they look at we
And they look at you and they look at me
And they look at
They look at me like a winner now
Cause I had a dream and I chased it
I thought that running the easy part
Its really much harder maintaining
I pray for peace, pray for patience
Hope they can hear my frustrations
I wear my fear like a fragrance
They will not falter my cadence
I cry the tears of a nation
They think theyre Tony Montana, I think Im Kwame Nkrumah
I think Im Kwame Nkrumah
You will not give me my freedom
I cry the tears of a nation
They think theyre Tony Montana, I think Im Kwame Nkrumah |
Where should I begin?
Man upon a mission still a martyr for the vision
Had to find my voice when the people wouldnt listen
Sacrifice my peace know my level double digits
I sacrifice my pride rather die than lose my spirit
Had to take a minute let my lyrics match my mind frame
Funny how these bars had me trapped inside a mind state
If I see the mornin Im just happy Im alive
Stomach cut from bottles that I harboured deep inside
Still a broken glass, aint no trippin over spilled milk
How many times you fake it just to show you the real deal
How many you inspire leave you out the conversation
How many mini mes do it take to be the greatest
Let them take my flesh if it means I feed the nation, mh
Let me kick my feet up and admire my creation, uh
School of hard knocks pay my dues and graduate them
Come a long way from hopping fences at the station
Pull up entrance like my exit, I just came to show face
Winter losses made me humble but Im falling from grace
Know Im talking bout the action when youre running in place
We made something out of nothing just a regular day
We made something out of nothing no applause for that
Mama do that every day and no awards for that
Ive tried, it was hard, so unfortunate
Scars heal even when they say theyre permanent
I was happy at my lowest cause I learn from it
I made hits out my sadness had to earn from it
I might cop a Maserati just to learn in it
I might cop the Maserati just to swerve in it
Where do I begin?
H-O-X-T-O-N, thats what Ive been, uh
I had to get it, aint no slipping where I live, uh
I had to wake them, they were sleeping on a kid, uh
Wait
Where do I begin?
H-O-X-T-O-N, thats what Ive been, mh
I had to get it, aint no slipping where I live, uh
I had to wake them, they were sleeping on a kid, uh |
yeah yeah,
I get it, I understand.
It’s fine.
It’s totally understandable feeling an
instant connection or attraction to someone or
wanting the affection of a partner I get it
I understand.
I wonder what the uncertainty feels like.
Constantly walking the fine line of infatuation.
We seem to give so care and much attention to perfect strangers
actively helping them indulge in their own narcissism.
Assembling in masses to fall prey to the beck and call
of the people we consider amongst
the beautiful, the cool,
the interesting.
All the attention might be, what fuels the insecurity.
so many longing to give you some kind of feeling.
physical, emotional, mental. Anything.
You always seem to make the wrong choices.
Why are you so afraid of being alone?
hmm…
I’ve never found my self much of a party goer
She echoes compliments in my name
despite the fact I hardly know
Her
core the colour yellow,
weather sunshine or stain who cares,
her petals shape a leos mane
or gust of cluttered leaves and such
Stuttered speech and awkward stares.
She claims her feet are planted
but her roots seem to be hardly here.
We long to find our selves.
Alone to delve deeper into common grounds.
Two perfect strangers, the musics loud I watch her mouth.
Her speech is wayward.
Body language tells a perfect tale
of two playful simbas
I search for symbols of attraction
or a means of lust. I crack a joke,
she cracks a smile and claims I play too much.
Laughs again pats my arm and transitions to a lingered touch
I attempt to wow her
with amateur philosophy
speak in riddles as if i
care about the state of
Syrias democracy.
The news is fickle.
People change.
Life is strange that way.
We ghost our selves,
mourning as we lay awake.
I think too far ahead, my mind has wondered.
To this second chance at a first impression
I read expressions like a mirror.
Her voice is new, but her face familiar
It must be twitter.
Distance between us now
mirrors the size of the earth
we stand on. Minutes stand still,
Still we do not question where
the times gone. She said do
you believe in love? I said does a requiem dream?
We crave for the chance to trance in love like hits of opium. see, Ita so addictive.
Karl Marx once said,religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature.
The heart of a heartless world and the soul of soulless conditions
It is the opium, of the people.
But to Marx I argue is it religion or love?
Love has the same effects on the brain as taking cocaine.
Power, greed, money.
It is that pleasure of dopamine that fuels corruption
a selfish instinct to want and have.
In conclusion I argue, it isnt religion that is the opium of the people. It is love.
LOVE!
We know,
this world is small and this we know
come waltz with me before you go
X 8
I saw her heart drop to her stomach
as she described her love for the wind….
The wind would lay with me,
shoot the most gentle breeze through my petals.
Pull my interest and
never question where I stem from.
Mutually sharing love, as he would share me
and my interests simultaneously.
Through my petals he would pump
an ecstasy I would fiend after every hit.
Bruising, I would excuse and still fiend after every hit.
Losing. Feeling till the rush of pain felt more a numbing bliss.
My memory is not what it used to be.
Empathy.
I stare at her with perfect empathy
I notice every imperfection, questioning
how someone so perfect can be so flawed
she was the unforeseen picture of a princess
after the happily ever after.
the remnants of Rembrandt’s pallet
the Daisy who envied the thorns of a rose
a bouquet of statements like
“the world just doesn’t understand me”
I told her understanding is half the battle
what ever that means… it sounded nice
or
“Burdens are for shoulders
strong enough to carry them.”
consider that,
I wanted nothing more
than to place the weight
her world on my back
at las’
we stand fractions away
from an action we’ve
anticipated whole heartedly
from hello; I notice her every detail
the goose bumps on her skin
I proceed with a hug
simply to shelter from the wind
I feel her blood pumping through her
flesh and envy it’s presence
lean in for kiss
a picturesque moment in frame
heart pumping
harmonious fear with every second
she stopped me..
and said I didn’t catch your name.
I said The Gardener
she took another sip of her drink
for temporary elation and said
Well, my dear, take heart.
Some day,
I will kiss you and you will like it.
But not now, so I beg you not to be too impatient.
I’m Daisy. |
Thought Id be the man at 21
Said by 22 that Id be closer to the funds
Belly never empty when you manifest the want
They said they did it, but we know they didn’t
I can’t wait to show all my niggas we in pole position
Polarised on colder nights, my niggas know the mission
Poltergeist just mean we whippin till your spirit missing
I had to ghost, they see loneliness in my disposition
I wonder why no niggas seem to fit my old description
I wonder why they couldn’t curse, I figured jah was blessing
I wonder why they talk about it, never hold the weapon, hold the message
Call your leader, tell him I need answers
Tell him I need every piece of gold that came from Ghana
Just another cobain searching for nirvana
Just another no name blessed to be the martyr, I’m the man now
Let em know, time I let em know
This ain’t nothing like the usual, I ain’t removable
I just came back from the mother land, the view was beautiful
I got something for you actors like the perfect movie roll
I ain’t scared of you niggas, I be Bernie with the mac
Never heard of you niggas, I was busy with the racks
The ye different, it’s just another angle when we rap
The pay different, I need another 0 on the back
Thought I’d be the man at 21, 21
Said by 22 that Id be closer to the funds
Tighten up the circle, move in silent, get the grub
Belly never empty when you manifest the want
Thought I’d have it all by 23, look at me
Damn near lost it all by 24, 2020 Vision
, 2020 Vision
, 2020
It’s cool if they feeling froggy, tell em’ jump
97 shots and we knocking back everyone Never miss em, the smoke free
You might have to pay me for forgiveness, that ain’t cheap
Act like I ain’t been through stormy weather, that rain sleet
Used to treat her nose back when I met her, that ain’t me
I was serving words to non believers that ain’t sleep
If I had a penny every time they said next up
I’d spend every penny on a prayer and on good luck
The buss down, dripping on the suede kinda much now
Couple brothers spot me by the plate, say I’m lunch wow
Still I know that karma keep me safe on the playground
And I know the neighbors probably hate me, the smoke loud
Thought I’d be the man at 21
Hope that I survive another trip around the sun
Said by 22 that Id be closer to the funds
Tighten up the uh, move in uh, get the
Wait!
Thought I’d be the man at 21, 21
Said by 22 that Id be closer to the funds
Tighten up the circle, move in silent, get the grub
Belly never empty when you manifest the want
Thought I’d have it all by 23, look at me
Damn near lost it all by 24, 2020 Vision
, 2020 Vision
, 2020 |
This the realest shit I ever wrote
Ever spoke into existence
I be letting go of all the burdens I was holding that’s a heavy load
Ain’t no walking into heaven with a heavy soul
Heaven knows that I’ve been waiting on a second plate
And every blessing meant for me was not a minute late
Every call that I would miss was left for you to make
Now we can’t talk when I miss you, I don’t know who to blame
Ain’t no happy tomorrows, I feel like novocaine
Circulating my body like this was all in vein
We were supposed to be Roc-A-Fella like Jay and Dame
We were supposed to be robe life on a summers day
I was supposed to be with you, brotha, through thick and thin
Somewhere up in the hills splittin them dividends
Bussin bands out the budget tippin on strippers friends
Life taught tell me ain’t nothing pretty when winners sin
Say you’re destined for greatness if you just settle in
And settle down
You’ve been a king
Without a crown
I used to want enough money so I don’t know nobody
Now I got me some money, feel I don’t know no body
Now they asking favours that I don’t owe nobody
I need strength, I see them fold like Origami
Plenty women and alcohol in the hotel lobby
Plenty niggas that claim they with us but we know they copy
guitar solo
Thought that shitd be different when the bag straight
Thought we celebrating like my last days
I used to write in my room hoping that Pac would feel me
Now I write every bar hoping that Harry hear me
Im tryna get in my zone, I dont need no one near me
No one near me, no competition, its caught eye fearing
No competition but those before me I gave importance
I might need a double album if I tell my story
Tell my momma I love her more with every day
Its hard now but when I get it we go celebrate
Said my sister aye thank you
I know she had my back through everything so when I did it Imma give it back
Tell my brother I got you after my second plaque
Tell my niggas I love em and pray they never lack
And nothing promised, aint nothing promised, remember that
Used to writing my truth, I cant hold nothing back |
You gon’ make me leave
You gon’ make me leave
You gon’ make me leave
You gon’ make me leave
The one Im with
Jumping ship
Done with this, more than done with this
Pour me another drink
Take another sip
And another sip
Jumping ship
Hottie, youre an item I wanna pay for
I’ve got attention if you make more time
I know we spent it, I wanna waste more
Push up on me till I’m feelin it
Droppin’ it, look how you killin’ it
Tell me that you needed spacе
I’m out here pulling my weight
I lеft my man on the phone
I left my girls in LA
Don’t tell me you into the way that I moan
When you wanna keep me up late
Can’t keep that body in place
I gotta move out the way
You gon’ make me leave
The one Im with
Jumping ship
Done with this, more than done with this
Pour me another drink
Take another sip
And another sip
Jumping ship
Jump, jump, jumping ship
Pretty girls like to jump that ship
Wickedest seas are killing bastards
You are the curse
But it is a blessing
Shorty move like Tetris
Come through, and I wreck it
Little devil with a passion
Huh, suspend it
Me want to give her the serpent
Me want to give her the perfect style
She come through with a joystick
Hoping she can ride it
Come see as I pick up she curse me
One step, and I bring out the ghetto
Come bring out the wrath
The beast is a realer one
Buss up the chakra
You gon’ make me leave
The one Im with
Jumping ship
Done with this, more than done with this
Pour me another drink
Take another sip
And another sip
Jumping ship
If you wanna hit the molly, go and party
Pop up out in Abu Dhabi
That’s enough to keep me shawty
Ima go ahead and fuck with you regardless
Wrap a blunt and get me started
Hold the fire, light my body up and try it
Light my body up and try it
You gon’ make me leave the one I’m with jumping ship
Pull up and pop it in place
Show me how dirty you play
Please, just like this
Yea, just like this
Be the one I’m with
You gon’ make me leave
The one Im with
Jumping ship
Done with this, more than done with this
Pour me another drink
Take another sip
And another sip
You gon’ make me leave
The one Im with
Jumping ship
Done with this, more than done with this
Pour me another drink
Take another sip
And another sip
Jumping ship
Hottie, youre an item I wanna pay for
I’ve got attention if you make more time
I know we spent it, I wanna waste more
Push up on me till I’m feelin it
Droppin’ it, look how you killin’ it |
I always felt
Wed be better off, if we go somewhere else
Found our love looking for the love, we couldnt find in ourselves
Lost in your aura
But I found heaven
Lost in your aura
But it feels like heaven
What do you want from me
I left it all in the open
I think youre wrong to me
Aint no such thing as perfect
You wont do no wrong to me
You cant do no wrong to me
I dont want much, yeah
Just some time
To help you clear all of the stress
And the mess on your mind
Somewhere in this cold world
We so happened to find, a match
Thats made by the divine imaginary
Someones watching over us
Helping us to navigate
The obstacles, hurdles, and curves
That this life throws
And even if its only us
I trust you enough that we can travel
And conquer the world, and the unknown
I always felt
Wed be better off, if we go somewhere else
Found our love looking for the love, we couldnt find in ourselves
Lost in your aura
But I found heaven
Lost in your aura
But it feels like heaven
I dont need the kind of love
That suits the social
Give a fuck if they like it, I love you
For hell and back
In prayer circles, in cycles of fuck you
The makeup sex be something special
Go deep when I hug you
Too cold for a cuddle
But Im warm to your touch
My heart was the loneliest muscle
And you down for a tussle
Now look at me Im stuck
You say Im doin too much
We gon be proving too much
I say its never enough
If you have to question my love
And mama told me turbulence is something you go through
Baby pack your bags
I got something to show you
Something lowkey with a breeze
Somewhere near 40 degrees
White linen, pants with a crease
Somewhere where papa dont preach
Somewhere with no cap
Just sun hats and sunsets
Somewhere with good weed
And Nike caps
And drunk sex
Instead of on my lonely
Just backspacing drunk texts
I need my angel in a sundress
So whats next?
I always felt
Wed be better off, if we go somewhere else
Found our love looking for the love, we couldnt find in ourselves
Lost in your aura
But I found heaven
Lost in your aura
But it feels like heaven |
This was everything I wanted
Past tense, the only other goal
Was to rise past stress. How funny
I aint had a second since
Since my last sense. Feel
Me. I and I only know the real me
In with the facts
Remember when I used
To rock the waves with the dax. Mile in your shoes
Dont suit these tracks. Nose too big ,but the skin too black
Hair too long but the skin dont crack
With the Vaseline melanin
All we ever needed was the bass line jumping
Simpler time for simpler minds
Roll one up. Hit the road
Home more mine
Dead weight Running out of time, no end date
Sinners sell sensi. No sensei
Mr im aggy. Hooded up. Screw face
No sign of daddy. Mummy was man when the rents due
I was living room chilling. See I, TV
Front door knock knock
If you wanna see me.Before I only
Text back when I feel like
Before I saw the blues
And words dont feel right
Before I heard the truth
And lies dont sit right
If all saw was you
Then I cant live right
If all I saw was you
Im like fuck your feelings
Spend A day where I come from
Ive been here for way too long
Same old tune a different
Song
Fuck your feelings
Spend A day where I come from
Same old tune a different Song
Ive been here for way too long
Because Im from a place called hell bruv
Born sinner send a man to the grave
Aint nothing that you can tell us
Motherfuck your feelings
Round here baby we aint never felt love
See the numbers on the board
We the numbers on the board
Thats the cards they dealt us
Thats the cards they dealt us
Mama used to pray through the sleepless nights
No tears for the pillow case if
God got me imma be alright
What ever came first for a nigga
Like rest in peace or peace of mind
We were never made for the system
But we only made men out victims
And my brother stays locked in the
Dont need the stress, Been sleeping less
Two bags for eye. Still I progress. I know the codes
I need my bread. Nothing more, nothing less
Need nothing more Did more with less. I need respect
Yeah I need that.They still trying to keep the streets black
Told my mama well be
Good and I mean that
I cant feed the fam
With your feedback
So Im like fuck your feelings
Spend A day where I come from
Ive been here way too long
Same old tune a different
Song
Fuck your feelings
Spend A day where I come from
Same old tune a different Song
Ive been here way too long
Take me in
With my hands behind my back I said take me in
Cuffs and collared shirts might not suit my appearance
But take me in
If these are my last thoughts then hold them closer
If these are my last moments I need my closest
Forever, gang related is what they told us
We beat the odds I guess were even
What more do you want from me?
What more do you want I cant
Give you an apology to please Socrates, I am Platos vision
I am everything the past may have written
I am no part of the same old gimmick
I say more, I am more, I became these lyrics
Ten fingers wrapped around my neck and all I asked was space to breathe though
My last was yours to take
I needed nothing but my people to understand and overstand
The mission was always more to me
There was always more to see
These towers block vision but these ends still feel like home to me
Ive seen what man can do with a little
What a damn shame that you would keep us confined to a little
For your own gain
Its a bold game
Pick up the scene you created and screamed see you in hell
Im taking everything
If theres no one left to save us
Then theres no one left to help you
And we move quickly like decisions with a barrel to your temple
Fuck how you feel... |
Frequent flyer, miles got my demons playin catch-up
Only nigga in first class, du-rag matchin’ my leather
Pride matchin my get-up
ACW my sweater
Denim I pair together black-owned
I spend it better than most
A lion dont leave the jungle by choice
And when it was time to speak up, you was losin’ your voice
Provin your noise only came from empty barrels
Annoys me, if Im honest
So many did it for clout until they got it
Can we be honest? Really be honest?
When court of public opinion keep people fearin their judgement
Whats really keepin you from it?
Really keepin you from it?
You speak, you say you want it for real
Then why you runnin, for real?
You say you stressed, man, I was stressed too
You say you next, man, I was next too
I know the wrongs that you said yes to
Deep in depression, I was dead too
I can’t go back
Feelin’ like I wanna die
Feelin like I’ll never fly
Can a real nigga touch the sky?
I cant go back
Feelin like I wanna die
Feelin like I’ll never fly
Can a real nigga testify?
Clockin and clockin out
Played with Stevie, now they see me
Im a topic now
I might drop another CD, start another drought
Wonder why they never see me, I was never around
I was workin, I was workin doin over-time
Got me feelin like Im Marvin back in 69
Too busy thinkin ‘bout my baby in the summertime
Too busy feelin like a nigga cant get nothin right
I lost friends, I lost pride
I lost money, I lost hope
All my bills on the table, I see pills on the floor
I see blood on the wall, love, Im dyin at the door
I see pain in our people, I know we might see some more
Been a slave to the kitty, I seen homies turn to foes
I saw brothers on a high turn to fiends on the floor
Take my soul in the war, take my scars, let ‘em show
If this is it, then let ‘em know
I cant go back
Feelin like I wanna die
Feelin like Ill never fly
Can a real nigga touch the sky?
I cant go back
Feelin like I wanna die
Feelin like Ill never fly
Can a real nigga testify? |
Bitch, I just hit the scene
All white on my body
I’m super clean
Sugar, Daddy
Out here with the sheen
Soul glowing, molars frozen
The pimp in me just wanna
Take a ride,
Baby I just wanna slide
On you
I might have to get paid for this
Kinda feel like I was made for this
Kitty feel like I was made for it
I might have to say grace to this
Think about to be late for this
She knows I can’t wait for this
Take the pic, but don’t filter this
I might have to say grace to this
I might have to get high for this
Might have to swing by for this
She gone have me on righteous shit
Cut the dairy out the diet tips
Conversation while we vibe to this
Tell me what be on your mind to this
Open up when I’m inside to this
I was hoping we could ride to this
I was hoping we could…
I was hoping we could talk
I was hoping there was something
Realer than a momentary intercourse
I was hoping it was you
You might tell me that it’s mine
I was hoping there was something deeper
That would keep me digging over time
Bitch, I just hit the scene
All white on my body
I’m super clean
Sugar, Daddy
Out here with the sheen
Soul glowing, molars frozen
The pimp in me just wanna
Take a ride,
Baby I just wanna slide
On you
Cant find no love like this
I poke, I need my fix
Sunday sip holy water
Then I baptise in sin
I hide my pride within the space
Beneath your torso. Then drown
My confidence and mix my weed and bordeaux
No trust the problems start
No breaks like bumper cars
We won’t survive the crash
My hoodie my lighter back
You know that petty shit
Treat you like medicine
Till I’m like fuck this bitch
And she go fuck my mans
Persistant pussy pleaser
My posture Harry Pinero
Balance feel more Ciaga
My crown sit like the pharaoh
Oh that’s your nigga now?
He won’t be here by tomorrow
Time a relative that I don’t see
Till I’m hollow. I cold play her
To yellow. You was more the
Othello, self serving your mellow
For likes. Pick a sedative right?
That’s your energy wow
What’s your jealously like
What your enemies like? |
Pulled up in the vintage thing
Checked the rearview through the vintage frames
Thats just gang behind me
Dirty niggas, no stains behind me
Free Nation, no ball and chain
A few niggas that came with slime
Im what niggas might call insane
They like callin bluffs, I wont call it game
If a nigga cant play when we callin refs
Cant state the stats
Debatin facts without the effort
Blatant act like Golden State without the Steph
The glue aint right
The ankle shake, the shoe aint right
I threw it well, I manifest the blue and white
Im too legit, Im doin it right
Still they hate, so
That dont mean Ill make it through the night
We been buildin isosceles, conduct like apostrophes
You know we need the acknowledgement
You cant talk shit with apologies at the end of your sentences
Concentrate, the truth cant kinda be
Im lookin for kindred folk
Im finding my folk, Im like an anaconda be, Im
Snakes in the grass, snakes on a plane
Snakes real mad, its just one and the same
Snakes in the grass , snakes on a plane
Snakes real mad
Snakes only wanna tip the scales when your pockets heavy
I remember days peace of mind comin secondary to this piece of mine
Gotta hold it steady, gotta concentrate
I been plantin seeds, water workin til the levee break
I know seasons change in the tall grass
Make the serpents deadly til they penetrate
If I tell it, I could pen a book
You can come to London, baby, take a look
I know real drillers, I know real niggas
We dont feel niggas, no, we got them shook
Same bruddas that will smile with ya
Quick to put the pistol to your pearly whites
Keep my circle tight like nun pussy
Just a couple brothers, aint none pussy
Maybe its sorcery, end up like apostrophe
I need me some accolades if Im speakin honestly
I need me a couple plays, just check my discography
They dont want no part of me
Im sheddin my skin just like anacondas be
Im feeling snakes in the grass, snakes on a plane
Snakes real mad, its just one and the same
Snakes in the grass, snakes on a plane
Snakes real mad |
I used to walk past a cemetery
On a pathway to my boys house to
Sit, get lifted and dream about
How we wanted to live. Irony
In actions. Fractions of honesty
Divide
People into factions
Those who will
And those that actually will
I guess things aren’t what they used to be
Memory lane had the yellow bricks removed
And The pavements now seem stained
With cigarette ash and shards of broken
Glass
Smells like home
The sirens
A familiar melody. But doesn’t sound the same
Without the nickelodeon theme tunes I would
To drown out sounds. Oh nostalgia
You wicked wicked temptress you
I remember
If not through the eyes of
The innocent who else could see potential
For limitless, second nature. survival
A mind set primitive.
Adapt and discover, that
Pound coin won’t stretch past that panda pop,
These days… It’s monkey see what monkey do
For the trees. Forest fires and friendly conversation
Searching Amazon for new ways to burn
The Bambu
Smoke filled lungs till
Speech slurs. streams of consciousness
Tangled. Gathered, with like minded.
A demand for retribution if left with the roaches
Burned it’s ooh ah ah ooh
We haven’t come that far
Since evolution.
Stand two feet
No alpha male
But still blessed with
Another tale of the hypocrite
Still blessed with the eyes of
The vigilant. See senses fall
To pensive states of temporary
Aspirations. Then pass it on, like
Tales around the camp fire
Unified in dream state
Then put the blind the blind folds
To our ear drums for session of ignorant bliss
Like I aint really worried about nothing
I swear
I aint really worried about nothing
I thought the grass would get greener
Once I came off the trees, seeking the high
Has me throwing away loose leaves like
Autumn. See me clearly, that same primitive
Thought we evolve from like Dar-winian theory
I wonder why we choose to stay in the dark
Like the pigment of Stevies vision when it’s
Hard to see our pigments as equals or
Any effort to engage your conscience
Must been seen as conscious
Accept the consequence
But never will I beg pardon on truth
The reality simian, but the fact are simple
It’s human instinct. As humans
Instinctively we adapt to survive
Or destroy. Same difference
I wonder why we choose to stay in the dark
Like the pigment of Stevie’s vision but some
Love the blind folds of ignorance
It’s a shame to see, the spiralling direction
Of self expression. jaded eyes see
Only see jaded solutions
Money Money Money shall rain down
On our daughters and we shall applaud
And cheer like the the arches in their back
Coupled with the rhythmic patterns of
There gyrating hips can summon condensation
Honey Honey Honey brown skin will be bleached
To be appreciated. Hungry Hungry Hungry
Stomaches will call our brothers to arms
Over pussy weed money because it sells
And thats all we know
I am no martyr for a message
I’m no better but know better
One body, a shoulder to lean
A head and mouth to speak
Truths piercing your flesh
A leg or two to stand on
Whenever in need.
And
They still got my niggas hanging from the trees
Can’t see the truth when it’s 6 feet deep
x2
Like I really worried about nothing
I swear
I aint really worried about nothing |
Ive been doing mileage with my phone on silent
Hear no, see no, felt the violence
God got my blessings on auto pilot
Why aint no one tell me peace of mind was pricey?
I could dance with the devil but thats unlikely
Might go broke but thats unlike me
I was born from the mud with the hustle inside me
Born from the mud with the hustle inside me
Feeding my soul
I go make nothing something
Show you my lows
I dont feeling nothing, nothing
Were all here for show
Now watch me go show you something
Feeding my soul
I go makе nothing something
Born from the mud with the hustlе inside me
Born from the mud with the hustle inside me
Born from the mud with the hustle inside me
Born from the mud with the hustle inside me
Born from the mud with the hustle inside me
Born from the mud with the hustle inside me
Born from the mud with the hustle inside me
You could test my spirit, just not today
I got demons on my back and a lot on my plate
Someone tell em back back, I got something to say
First they love you, then they hate you, then its part of the game
They cannot — I aint nothing to play with
Took my niggas off the block, pulled my negus off slave ships
You can test my spirit, but dont test my patience
I only fear god and you can meet thy maker
Ive been
Feeding my soul
I go make nothing something
Show you my lows
I dont feeling nothing, nothing
Were all here for show
Now watch me go show you something
Were all here for show
Now watch me go
Born from the mud with the hustle inside me
Born from the mud with the hustle inside me
Born from the mud with the hustle inside me
Born from the mud with the hustle inside me
Born from the mud with the hustle inside me
Born from the mud with the hustle inside me
Born from the mud with the hustle inside me
You dont need to pose and posture
When you born in the struggle
I know a negus with a needle that could burst all your bubble
These peace signs are just a piece of the puzzle
Spit to the muzzle
Silence the lambs
Kiss and they cuddle
Forget that they cut you
Its just part of the hustle
Born from the mud with the hustle inside me
Born from the mud with the hustle inside me
Born from the mud with the hustle inside me
Born from the mud with the hustle inside me
Born from the mud with the hustle inside me
Born from the mud with the hustle inside me
Born from the mud with the hustle inside me
Born from the mud |
JuLS Baby
Yo
Easy
Ok. Straight in
My enemies leave faceless
Can’t slip, can’t leave no traces
Put faith in the books like mace did
Gracious. I Found truth in statements
Found self on distant stages. Man can’t
Tell me about patience. Spent nights in
The darkest places. Man can’t tell me about grind
Ten toes put holes in trainers
Can’t parlay with paigons
Old friends now distant strangers
Old money make new friends later
Long time since minimum wages
Long time since man has seen angels
Like wait, where
Ok, your bad now cool
Young boy move like man a old school
G’s I know said they don’t know you
So we roll through your ends like man a local like um
Ok your bad now, cool. Go on then do a what a bad man do
I know Gs that will test that gangster
Make man lean like Criminal smooth
Like Whoa. Mic to Mouth. Cheque to Cheque
And I still go city to city repping the set like whoa
Who got now? I got next. Like Don’t lack. You wanna slip i’m at necks. like whoa. Still do the trouble with no stress. And I still got a couple of tenants that owe rent like whoa. Couple of seconds till mans vex and my bruddas wanna shot the breeze like air vents
We make this shit look normal
We make this shit look normal
I got a couple of scars that aint normal
I know a couple bruddas that ain’t cordial
We make this shit look normal
We make this shit look normal
I got a couple of poems that aint formal
But we just load the pen up and aim for you
We make this shit look normal
We make this shit look normal
I got a couple of scars that aint normal
I know a couple bruddas that ain’t cordial
We make this shit look normal
We make this shit look normal
I got a couple of poems that aint formal
But we just load the pen up and aim for you
Active man can’t tell be bout active
Loose lips sink ships like anchors
Manaman had strength samson
Manaman knew tons like stuey
Still By any means like malcom
Them man just talk won’t do it
Them man run youth like fountain
Mind mine, then I stack my stack my
Me nuh bother with no bad vibe. Bad mine
Still im coming for the crown, yeah that time
Yeah That time. Likkle bit late like black time
Oi big man. Oi big man. Black skin don’t mean come Trick man. Black thoughts in a blacked out whip man. From the block man been run distance
Cool. Come again. Cool. Try Again. Cool. Try tek man fool, man a get spun. Stone cold stun. Pen up and done. Bangers on deck when I truck them jewels
Bangers on deck when I grip that bass
Still got love for the birds like Wayne
Galiy like Cool. Man are like Safe. Lizzie like hi then I know your face
Wellll, All the fake love might make man rich. Still got love for my Gs in the bits. 233 +44 +27. Say we run it like this. All the fake love might make man cold, know I been that. Know I been this. Know I been down, now they call man king
We make this shit look normal
We make this shit look normal
I got a couple of scars that aint normal
I know a couple bruddas that ain’t cordial
We make this shit look normal
We make this shit look normal
I got a couple of poems that aint formal
But we just load the pen up and aim for you
We make this shit look normal
We make this shit look normal
I got a couple of scars that aint normal
I know a couple bruddas that ain’t cordial
We make this shit look normal
We make this shit look normal
I got a couple of poems that aint formal
But we just load the pen up and aim for you
Them cant done the dance like me
Didnt wanna know now they look like me
Ring ring ring, but they get declined
Only got day one gs round me
Run up in the set like hi its me
Same old codes from 40G
Them cant run the dance like me |
Mmm!
Worlasi!
Cucaracha
Boys wan strike but we faster
Boys no fit die, cucaracha
Vibe no dey die, cucaracha
Boys wan strike but we faster
Boys no fit die, cucaracha
Vibe no dey die, cucaracha
I dey on my Sani Abacha
In general, a general, never been a slacker
Back in the day I was dreadlock rasta
Too much sauce, with a little bit of pasta
Harness my power, even when its the 11th hour
I can make sweet out of sour
We never go fear and we never go cower
Wetin go fit break my spirit?, nada
True resilience in millions
Mr. Solo Dolo, no minions
I no dey bis demma opinions
Them try snake, me reptilian
You see these yawa guys, Im not feeling them
Fresh like Will and em
You can see the will in him
Im a hard guy you can find other synonyms
Make my own liquor, he brew like Elohim
Jujitsu any fool that dont hello him
Mmm-hmm
Cucaracha
Boys wan strike but we faster
Boys no fit die, cucaracha
Vibe no dey die, cucaracha
Boys wan strike but we faster
Boys no fit die, cucaracha
Vibe no dey die, cucaracha
Still the Kojey that you know but the pros love em
Pick your budget at the bank just to throw somethin
Im the seed on the stone but I rose from it
Send their hate when I get deep but the hoes love it
Some light in the boot, get stuffed
Blue lights, they aint got cure for the dust
I mean, some lie with the turbo tucked
East Legon, getting back seat love
If you diss me, youre gonna have to miss me baby
The only thing I switch up is the pimp name lately
I have big dreams, I can never risk them baby
The music money gonna keep my heartstrings played with
They never used to love me when my fans was basic
They never used to treat me like Im worth the patience
Told the girlie for the cocky now she cant replace it
Now she want another nigga on a last name basis for the
Cucaracha
Boys wan strike but we faster
Boys no fit die, cucaracha
Vibe no dey die, cucaracha
Boys wan strike but we faster
Boys no fit die, cucaracha
Vibe no dey die, cucaracha
Im cuckoo a.k.a. nutso
Still a Black Star, Mubarak Wakaso
Take it off the top, he just left the kanzo
Vibe never die, I swear my father kanto
Even if e lef 1 Ghana in my pocket
I no dey worry, see profits in the prospect
Sometimes life dey like a science project
Experimental, oh damn sosket
I think Im five albums and counting
Just another reason this season my eye red
If Mohammed wont go to the mountain then the mountain must come to Mohammed
If you for be bird, be an eagle or falcon
By any means, reminiscing on Malcolm
You fit to learn from anything, be a deep diver
See the cockroach, an incredible survivor
Mmm-hmm
Cucaracha
Boys wan strike but we faster
Boys no fit die, cucaracha
Vibe no dey die, cucaracha
Boys wan strike but we faster
Boys no fit die, cucaracha
Vibe no dey die, cucaracha
Guy dont blow my high
Man no dey sleep, just dey close my eye
Tell all the yawa, hello, hello and bye
Mmm-hmm
Vibe never go dey die
Kai!, stones fall from the sky
Still no tears, huh, mmm no cry
Tell all the yawa, hello, hello and bye
Mmm-hmm, vibe never go dey die
Kai!
But tomorrow is another today
You said tomorrow yesterday, and were today
Today be Monday special
Tomorrow be lucky Tuesday
Wednesday be mid-week
So the next tomorrow?
Fortune Thursday
And after that?
Oh Friday Bonanza
Every Monday be hangover from the weekend you dey get?
So Monday dier if God no dey on your side then chale you dey on your own |
We no longer need to close our fists for the revolution.
The open palm may show you, our separation
is man made. Made in aid of cementing
thoughts that turn John Doe to Adolf.
Where they see we weeds we see seeds see
We no longer need to close our fists for the revolution.
I’ve seen
flowers grow and petals fall from mountains
surrounded by estates and suburban terrace housing.
Heard notions of positivity discarded like pieces
of puzzles. Muzzled echoes of greatness in fear
Society may not feel the same elations.
We no longer need to close our fists for the revolution
We must be heard.
From the depths of our bellies
From the lump in our throats
When questioned on our perceptions
But fail to mention.
We must continue to be and be in unison.
Be and be in unison.
Like troops with with lowered arms and
open palms.
We no longer need to close our fists for the revolution
Its amazing.
To witness the hierarchy of
power you deem acceptable
How the masses would rather
Hand decisions to the individuals
Individuals back to masses
In termly political rituals
Stand beside me.
Not as followers as thinkers
So we no longer have to look
Up for guidance we can look
Side by side
What side are you on.
We are no different
No age
No class
No Color
No Race
Like troops with with lowered arms and
open palms.
Where they see we weeds we see seeds see
We no longer need to close our fists for the revolution
Oh he must be
worthless if his occupation
doesn’t match your level of patients
Oh he must be urban if his cadence
drops vowels lower than where
his trousers sit.
Oh he must be
They don’t know my history
Oh he must be
They don’t know my history
For the knowledge they ripped it out the pages
call us thugs and beasts when we protest on stations
because embedding of thoughts is what has
a nigger run a nigger to the slave ships
Stop snitching.
Patience
All I ask is patience
Fear the brother on my shoulder
Because he could take my life right now
And we act like we don’t know no better.
I so solemnly swear
No I don’t really give a fuck
No I don’t really give a fuck
One hand up,
other hand gripped on my nuts
shake shake
man I spent your advance on my lunch
No I don’t really give a fuck
No I don’t really give a fuck
One hand up,
other hand gripped on my nuts
shake shake
man I spent your advance on my lunch
You can’t say that,
you can’t say
no you can’t black
you can’t say
My brother what you afraid of?
we ain’t got to cry no more
My brother what you afraid of?
we ain’t got to cry no more
My brother what you afraid of?
we ain’t got to hide no more
My brother what you afraid of?
we ain’t got to die no more |
Im burning up in you
And you burn slow, you do
Into my ocean
And we sailed through
Your wind burning
Like two sunken souls do
Spilling into you, my love
Will it take me to, true love?
Ooh, this stuff is there like lust
Is spilling into you enough?
Oh it rains, dark clouds
Into my river for you
Then it readies, it burns
Until I fall into you
We make it, we shape it
Oh I find myself split in two
Spilling into you, my love
Will it take me to, true love?
Ooh, this stuff is there like lust
Is spilling into you enough?
Ooh, this stuff is there like lust
Is spilling into you enough?
Is spilling into you enough?
I cant find the words to save the day for you
And I dont really think that thats my place for you
Part the reason why the world weighs on you
But Im just happy that I knew I gained from you
You would think the skin Im in was made for you
You tell me your truth and Im a slave for you
See me spill loosely lyrics and useless truthers, huh
I see you perfect, I see me flawed and mix my words
Misdirect, reflects, I consider my egos worthless
If everything I give is only based upon your worth
I would tell you everything I needed to confess
Think about me more the world could think about me less
Never said these words, forever lost in my regrets
Spilling deeper in these notions, oceans decorate your flesh |
Major
Major to Ground Control
I dont know if Ill make it home
Im a victim of alcohol
Major to Ground Control
Swerving through country lanes
Drugs serenade my bones
White girl from the countryside
Pray we both dont die tonight
We some 20-somethings with a death wish
Put in my address and get dressless
Major to Ground Control
Sex just became so senseless
My ways just became so hectic
Nearly took the wrong exit
Major to Ground Control
Diablo with a V8 engine
Oh, these Magnums get my blood rushing
I aint with the conversation
I come through, Im tryna something
I come through, Im tryna lay
Pray that I dont go to sleep
Pray that you will stay awake
This lady on my knee got my blood rushing
I can barely feel my face
Colder in the summer
Burning bridges
Thunder
Pure white and hard snow
You was in the grip of changing weather
Either too young, too dumb or too both
It was like the third time this week
You could always call me on my phone
Had my hotline blingin like my line sweet like her
You kept the main line spotless
You rolled in shotgun, topless
We dreamt of suicide options
Onto better things
Im lost, shit, where am I going?
Major to Ground Control
I dont know if Ill make it home
Im a victim of alcohol
Major to Ground Control
Swerving through country lanes
Drugs serenade my bones
White girl from the countryside
Pray we both dont die tonight
We some 20-somethings with a death wish
Put in my address and get dressless
Major to Ground Control
Sex just became so senseless
My ways just became so hectic
Nearly took the wrong exit
Major to Ground Control
Diablo with a V8 engine
I can barely feel my face
Road ripping
Red light kissing
Fuck, your lips are laced
Im tryna alter all my ways
Whip swinging as we hit
And they aint offer no debate
Mayhem in the A.M
Im thinking bout your taste
How I might just have to pull up at your place
If your daddy trip you say youre mine until I say
His ancestors probably made my ancestors slaves
Dark liquor got me in my dark, twisted phase
No road signs
No speed limits make you safe
You aint a lost child
Clocking 130, switching lanes
You the rough child
You can smell the power in my veins
Havent slept a wink in four days
Going through my Hank Moody phase
Driving like Im tryna catch a case
Young Che Guevara in the Range
Major, Major, Major, Im on route to be a savior
Im the reason my momma cant say hello to our neighbors
Gods child
You can hear the demons in my cadence
Im the reason why my momma cant say hello to our neighbors
Major to Ground Control
I dont know if Ill make it home
Im a victim of alcohol
Major to Ground Control
Swerving through country lanes
Drugs serenade my bones
White girl from the countryside
Pray we both dont die tonight
We some 20-somethings with a death wish
Put in my address and get dressless
Major to Ground Control
Sex just became so senseless
My ways just became so hectic
Nearly took the wrong exit
Major to Ground Control
Diablo with a V8 engine |
Ever spent your whole life waiting for the life that you wanna live
Ever spent your whole life waiting for the life that you wanna live
Subtleties, summer breeze
Red wine, dungarees
Clear skies follow me
Everything is what it is
Hello, oh I feel colourful
Hello, oh I feel colourful
Hello, oh I feel colourful
Hello, oh I feel colourful
I feel golden today
That Monday blues brother
Boy was I blue brother, who
Was I fooling? excuses, excuses
Changing everyday
Ruby, Tuesday
I was 14 when I first knew I was black
Not by pigmentation but hatred and fear attacks
Never learned to love what your page 3 for that
Loudest one talking was empty in fact Ergh
I remember that day like it was yester
Enough to leave a grown man pale like uncle Fester
I aint had apology yet to cover bruises
Tried to complain but the system said it was useless
Ever spent your whole life waiting for the life that you wanna live
Ever spent your whole life waiting for the life that you wanna live
Subtleties, summer breeze
Red wine, dungarees
Clear skies follow me
Everything is what it is
Hello, oh I feel colourful
Hello, oh I feel colourful
Hello, oh I feel colourful
Hello, oh I feel colourful
All white suit when I die, Ill put the colour
My pen always kept me in line
When I was colouring my roots, blossoming to the sky
They want a summer fling
The colour purple in my sight, I fell in love with it
My blood bleed red like a redneck
But my teeth? Them are whiter than them face
And my skins all dark like I’m Kinte
That means I had to sell green for that rent there
This is my palette, this is my talent
These watercolours got me feeling like Im magic
This is my palette, this is my talent
These watercolours got me feeling like Im magic |
Verse One
Satin soft syables. Id love
You to teach me. Pull
Me from the soil. Tend to
All my petals. Tenderness
And Tender Grass. Im patient
For once I am calm. For once I
Am home. Deep inside your
Womb is where you placed me
Deep inside your mental I
Am chasing. Seconds I have
Wasted. Hunting, venturing
Through thorns. Taking
On their scars. Skin falling
Of my bones. I was wasted
Again
I was blaming you for them.
Again and again.
I was blaming you for them.
Again and again.
I was blaming you for them.
Again and again.
Marti
Falling hard I fall, I’ve been down that road
I bare all my scars, I undress my soul
Underneath my skin. Underneath my bones
It’s all for you
What are you so afraid of?
What are you so afraid of?
Weary and battered
Who are you so afraid of?
Scarred and scattered
Who are you so afraid of?
What are you so afraid of?
What are you so afraid of?
Kojey
Baptise my soul with you
You again. Once lost
Now I feel whole again. I
Found a reason to
Repair. Tell
Them Im coming
Home
Baptise my soul with you
You again. Once lost
Now I feel whole again. I
Found a reason to
Repent. Tell
Them Im coming
Home.
Verse 2
I need you to teach me.
I want to be calm
I want to be more than man
Who relies on his strength
cause he can. Doubling
Standards, Doubling the
Stakes. Ill be damned
If dont. Ill be damned
If I do. Make a bet.
We can choose
Accumulate all the
Things we have to lose.
I think im all in.
Again. And again
I was blaming you for them
Again and again and again
I was running from the truth
Again and again and again
Again and again and again
Marti
Falling hard I fall, I’ve been down that road
I bare all my scars, I undress my soul
Underneath my skin. Underneath my bones
It’s all for you
What are you so afraid of?
What are you so afraid of?
Weary and battered
Who are you so afraid of?
Scarred and scattered
Who are you so afraid of?
What are you so afraid of?
What are you so afraid of?
I look upon your presence for protection
Im home. At least you told me. At least
I was told. My kinds words choke me.
I froze. When you needed the most
I was empty. A shadow of the man
I pretended. Moses parted seas
I was trying to burn the bush
So my niggas didnt hang from
The trees. Who am I? Ammi
Got me feeling neglected. I
Look upon your presence
For direction. I was on
The road, going to show
To show to show everything
I said. I meant it
Another lost soul looking
For a death wish.
Again.
I blame you for them
Again |
You claim I’m just 5ft charm with an accent
My way with words has nothing to do with the attraction
A one on one with a one of one
You gave me a second but I’d be happy with a fraction
A book worm with a tell-tale heart
We could Edgar Allan Po’ up for the potency
Clued up to the trap, you said my lies sound like poetry
Couldn’t deny the fact I was startled by your honesty
You probably have me mapped, I ran out of apologies
Couldn’t begin to count all the fucks you said you don’t give
I assure you have my focus. Reassured
By the change you give to homeless
That’s a mighty big heart, any room
For the hopeless romantic poet plotting heights at his lowest?
Still spinning from conversations we haven’t finished
There’s no use in us pretending
May I lower my defences? Tell the truth
My pride my defendant
Serve my life in a sentence
Stay a night, lose the friendship
Say the cycle is endless
You ever tried trusting before you love?
You ever tried knowing before you touch?
I see your exterior, cold as when summer went
Youve heard this before, just not as eloquent
Deja Vu
We could be great together
We could be Yoko and Lennon
We could be we forever
On top of the world
We could create a family
Stop all war and poverty
Lay in bed on top of me
And love till we die
Love
Love, love, love
Love, love
Days in daze, my thoughts on you, said your guard was bulletproof
Since Ive nothing left to lose, could we build upon the truth?
Let me give you all your flowers while you’re still alive to tell them
That you’re thankful for their scent
Use my ears just like a diary and I promise not tell
Daddy could’ve taught you better but your momma raised you well
This is not a love song, this is not a love song
This is not a love song, this is not a love song
This is not a love song, this is a love intervention
This is a love intervention
My pockets empty enough to rest your heart in
Intercourse our new catharsis, flowers for dearly departed
Feelings of being guarded, I was still pushing daisy
You said my EP was decent, I still thanked you for listening
Since people consider pressing play part of the privilege
We sat under stars, watched the world planet demise
Carve our initials in earth so the world knows that we tried
You dont need the validation
Kindness for congratulations is hard to trust
Open up, you pull up, I roll up
You dont smoke, Im more blunt
Talked Xs instead of kissing hugged and said our goodbyes
Tongue tied, imagining tongues tied to sweet nothings
Make my heart your home
Let me drown in your opulence
Let me drown in your--
All I ask, if you can, hold me down
Show me love through the turbulence
You ever tried trusting before you love?
Knowing before you touch?
Loving before you...
Listening before you lust?
Dialogue, body language
Learn a lesson in us
Drowning inside your mental
Liquid like conversation
This is not love song, this a love intervention
This is a love intervention
This is a love intervention
This is a love intervention |
Look at all the seeds I done sowed
Somebody call the reaper for me
Shit is getting old
I never gave respect to a wolf in sheep’s clothes
I never shared a bed with a lady who weren’t woke
Lord knows
Ok x 4
You know i’m lying
Could have Martin Luther King
But had dreams of King of Diamonds
Adele was chasing pavements
I was busy ducking sirens
Could never play a dull boy
Please i’m busy shinning
Can’t rewrite the past
No way that’s a long story
Saw roots before I saw
Toy Story
I’ve seen pictures where
They left a nigga’s guts gory
So I never gave thanks they
Took the land from me
Oh, cut the cheque
All I want is 40 acre’s
A mule and my respect
All I want is hard food
My dues and diligence
Why we only shed a tear when
Blood spills in the west
I got these chains on me
Feel like mansa, feel like musa
Took this gold from me
Feel like Midas with the touch
Might clutch this rosary
No more interviews for free they
Took this gold from me
This is big lips, hands still
Swinging from my nuts
I’ve been high through all
My lows, so i’m belligerent
As fuck. i’m from the land where
Walking like your shook could get you
Touched. 10 toes, to the pavement
Want a ride? then saddle up
I can tell you about the struggle
I’m from the culture where we bow
To greet our mothers. My daddy
Taught me nothing free except the knowledge
We taking notes and send that change
Back to our brothers. Oh you silly
Motherf—
Cut the chat, cut the cheque
All I want is 40 acres a mule and
My respect. No apologies for my cadence
Tempered words have got me vex
Want it now, I want all my dividends
We aint buddies, we aint friends
I’ll take it all back for the ends
Gimme Gimme that
Another penny for your thoughts
Never needed that. Tears don’t dry on their own
I’m going back to black
I just lost another
Brother so i’m back in black
Look at all the seeds I done sowed
Somebody call the reaper for me
Shit is getting old
I never gave respect to a wolf in sheep’s clothes
I never shared a bed with a lady who weren’t woke
Lord knows
Oh, you want it factual. The destruction of my people
Wasn’t tactical. Found my patience and peace
Inside of parables. Till I figured were far too gone
To be rational. Feeling like Chris Ofili in some finger paint
Painting pictures on the same text books where toby
Limped away, don’t. Bite the hand that feeds when
You’re scraping of my dinner plate. Don’t act surprised
I’ve been this way
Coping
I’m a slave for this path
I’ve chosen
No escape from these
Sleepless moments
Oh coping
I’ve tried my best
I’ve lied my best
This curse is mine |
Pillow talk way too risky
I cant trust these moments
You might use them against me
Make me more like the old me, phoney
Dick might make you distant
Slowly I might lose my focus
Keep coming back like Jehovahs Witness baptised in your ocean
Argue first, that dont work
Love is war, in reverse
Pain is pleasure and rehearsed
I was hopeful at my worst
Thirsty thirsty, sans serif or cursive
Way more honest in person
Youll find you in my verses and I find me in your mercy
Dig deep till we both in hearses
I might let you in
Forgive my future sins yeah
Soak it up oh soak it up
Burn me like your cigarettes
Yeye
I werent just your new regret
Didnt feel words they hurt me with them
Didnt really think you intend to offend
But I said Id never let one hurt me again
Swerve the offence, serve the pretence
Cant play ball like Fergie and them
Homegrown truths cant focus on them
Cause Im lonely again, phoning again
Zoning again
Drunk text, drunk kiss, drunk sex
Lovesick, love lust, love less
Late night, lay cool, latex
Dont know peace but I know patience
Lie to me slowly, mind you control me
Ive seen the real you act like you know me
Grind on me closely, dont get too cosy
If youve seen the real me then why dont you show me
Soak it up oh soak it up
This is now what weve become
Pressure makes fun of love
It hurts but thats just what it was
I might let you in
Forgive my future sins yeah
I might let you in
Forgive my future sins yeah |
I swim deep in liquor and shallow conversations
Them LA nights a trip. I remember.
You would tell me. I mean how could I forget.
I often waited for your text. Paragraphs and paragraphs
Of I could only wish.
All before I felt your lips.
All before I felt you drip.
Drip feed me food for thought.
I was starving. I was cold
I’ve been lonely. Ive been told
Love might wander
Wont get lost.
Where you going?
What you need?
You yell back your paranoia
I turn up the jodeci.
And roll up some marijuana
I know you dont really smoke
But you took a couple tokes
Must be stressed out
Maybe I can ease the pressure.
I can tell that you been
I can tell that you been
Stressed out
Shaé
I just got 700 pennies at my last show
But imma spend it all on you
Came here wearing nothing but my ego
But I can take it off for you
My grain pepper my scalp nappy
The world is too loud and my head hurts
The silence go down like
Titanic. Swim good In that good good
Like why panic?
The intimacy don’t make you feel love?
Quite tragic
How you only came around
When I kept you coming
More apparent.
Were too impatient to
Love like parents
You parrot my every thought
A parody of your emotion
Like
Where you going?
What you need?
You yell back your paranoia
I turn up the jodeci.
And roll up some marijuana
I know you dont really smoke
But you took a couple tokes
Must be stressed out
These flowers cost me 700 pennies,
I could never put a price on your thoughts
It cost too much. To pay you anymore attention
Id be fool in love. Maybe ive fallen.
For the allure of. Man made mistakes
So you could lose some decorum and feel
Better the morning.
Chrorus |
OBONGJAYAR
I’ve showed you my darkness
Fed you my flesh
You made anthems of my tears
Im no super human
I can’t save you and save my self
Im no super human
Super
MICHAELA COEL
I built my ideals on standards I learned as an infant and then imagined my own, like most curious teenagers no?
I watched my peers walk a path far different to mine and grew more confident with my own solitude
Politics, love, manhood and sexuality I discovered like a blind lamb in the hands of a unfamiliar shepherd
With coloured pigmentation you must accept that your historically pivotal leaders will more than likely be killed
With darker pigmentation you become an example of exoticism under a western microscope
Elements of your identity appropriated and sold back to you with less than clever tag lines
And through it all you must smile
And continue to dance
Yeah keep dancing
Knowing the revenge will taste so much sweeter once you’ve made it |
I was told: never marry a muse, meant many things
But probably to keep illusions intact
I mean who likes the truth anyway?
The only thing Ive ever known to share thornes with roses
Ramble but keep it all to myself
Fish that swim shallow beg to be caught
Tangled in nets thrown to water by the nosy
Mind your own,
Company could be sweet
Ive been known to cut ties
But real wives no wise men still need advice
Sometimes I wish talking to you was easier
The writers curse is to never feel solitude
If they can write words, theyre …
Never mind
Pluck your petals,
Pluck my petals until theres nothing left and so were
Scared and bare like newborns or buried seeds
Lets begin again
You said, To love a man, you must love all of his flaws
Another bedroom wall
Another face in the pillowcase I dont recognise
Laid bare next to a stranger like newborns without the innocence
My feet dangle off the edge of another relapse
Hunting for love like opium and lapse of lost souls
That are just like me with a little more hope
If what you say is true
I admire your patience
Women should be more careful with the men that they pick
But to love a man you must love all of his flaws
As you would say,
To give your heart is to understand it may be broken
But I cant fix these soiled thoughts if you wont let down your guard
-Then I wear my flaws on the surface like memories beneath scars
Then cover them with outfits made of false confidence and au revoirs
Merely a man made of mistakes stitched together with good intentions
Sharing earth with other angels who dont deserve their wings, you mentioned
Manipulation, love and lies all go hand in hand
Who hurt you?
Who hurt you?
You said, you’re constantly ready to be thrown away to excuses
Who hurt you?
You said, to be with...to be happy, you cannot be mutually exclusive
You said, it’s virtually impossible to accommodate without losing value in self value
You said, I want to be with someone who makes me happy,
Someone who appreciates me for who I am
Someone who is proud to be with me and wants people to know about it
Who hurt you?
Was it me? |
Twelve a.m and im still high
Karma talking to me nice
Tell me Ill be more than twenty five
Twenty six might be a trip but Im alive
Hop up out the bed turn it on like im Soulja
Find me in the trenches know I roll with my soldiers
Ive been on the roll, show to show, just to showoff
If they knew my struggle then they know why I showoff
Mama gotta eat, papa gotta eat too
Big chain, all gold that didnt see through
I know, I know they so deceitful
I cannot be Gucci with those snakes that be living lethal
Ive been droughted Im alive
Most my bruddas gone by twenty five
Know they energy could never die
Twelve A.M. and im still high
Karma talking to me nice
Tell me Ill be more than twenty five
Twenty six might be a trip but Im alive
Pull up on me for the flight
She said youre only twenty five
Karma keep on talking to me nice
Twenty six might be a trip but Im alive
Between the fake love, new money and fast women
I felt jealousy, broken mirrors, a false image
Listen pride kills, love hurts well thats a given
I know many men tried to block on my position
This aint nothing nice twenty twenty the vision paramount
Let em doubt, then give em something to brag about
Looked over, fucked over till I got used to it
Motivated now they gon have to get used to it
Once Jah bless me no man can curse me
My angels working devil nah wan vs. me
Its in the water my people thirsty
Karma sleep comfy lord have mercy
Five years no genre, now they call the boy wonder
I just win and win again, I just win and win and repeat
I cant do the game cordial, I might hit em with another one
Just to make it look normal
Twelve a.m and im still high
Karma talking to me nice
Tell me Ill be more than twenty five
Twenty six might be a trip but Im alive
Pull up on me for the flight
She said youre only twenty five
Karma keep on talking to me nice
Twenty six might be a trip but Im alive
What I wouldnt do for me and mine
Everyday a lesson in survival
Pray I see another twenty five
Yah |
I’ve been waiting for the perfect time to shoot
Ive come way too far to play these games with you
Utopia
My paradise is burning
You hate to see that Im learning
My fears get thrown in the furnace
I’ve been waiting for the perfect time to shoot
My fingers dance around the barrel
A barrel full of laughter
The trees loud enough to make me paro
They tried to throw stones on my shadow
My posture more van gogh
Attire more regal
I dress like a man of the people
A crown on my chest
I see death through the people
I see death and just spud him
I don’t fear no evil
I don’t say I’m sorry
Regret was my teacher
Now they look at
They look at me like their speaker
I guess I should speak up
When it’s time to speak they are no show vocal
Chords stressed from progress
Ten stacks on practice. Hours and hours
Sleep cycles on seconds, wasted serving that potent
But they don’t check content
Never pardon my context I stand by mine
Never ran off on family I stand by mine
Principles I crafted morals wavered at times
I felt my lowest, I felt no coping
Mechanisms could help me. My star sign stubborn
My minds been made
Be the greatest or nothing
I was so sure, my skin supple like steel
That spotlight mine. Gave a fuck how you feel
My belly still feel empty, I dare you to tempt me
Seen people die for less, seen mothers cry for more
Justice was never served for skin darker than yours
I’ve been waiting for the perfect time to shoot
Ive come way too far to play these games with yo
Utopia
My paradise is burning
You hate to see that Im learning
My fears get thrown in the furnace
I’ve been waiting for the perfect time to shoot
Its the same shit, new wounds from old faces
Gracious
I barely stepped out the matrix
Heinous, parasites and traitors
Heinous
But my spirit can’t be wavered
Amazing? Me and my passion stood adjacent
My only worry she look at me like we strangers
I’ve seen you naked when your heart was still vacant
Youve seen me weak enough to tell you we might make it
Thats what we wanted. If a nigga kills a nigga
That’s one more nigga for the profit
One less one less body in a prison
One less, one less story bout’ a victim
Channel 5 paint as the killer
Pay me like the winner
Hope that keep me silent
Hope they keep me silent
So much power in my silence
It was nights like this
It was days like those
I would sit in my room
Cross legged and focused
Listening to the blues
That boo boo davis
Mama Im so tired
All sounds like the same shit
I cried so much, took the salt from my pores
Rub the sweat in my wounds
Made a vow for the cause
You can take my life they gone remember me more
As a man of my action as a man of my words |
Come follow me, come follow me, come
Lovely
Either way Im here forever, In Gods Body Im him
Baptized in brown liquor and wrapped in brown skin
Peep the pigment; draped in my new rags, speak the fiction
Please keep your hands in the air like stop resisting
If you werent prepared for heat, then leave the kitchen
Too many chefs on the stove, dont suit the picture
Gorillas fall from the trees like I am Caesar
Blood, sweat and tears in my eyes for non-believers
I cant keep an ounce of fear on my demeanour
Every day, I pray for the snakes and glory leechers
I learned how on my own, now Im the teacher
I run circles around and lap your leader like
Come follow me, come follow me, come
Caged bird dont sing songs, freedom
You wouldn’t last a night where Im from
Ive been left alone on my ones
I came back fee-fi-fo-fum
I smell blood, no, I cant run
Man down, rum pum pum
Like man down, rum pum pum
See, the sun don’t shine around here
See, the sun don’t shine around here
See, the sun don’t shine around here
See, the sun don’t shine around here
I put my light up in the air
I pray for patience, look for peace up in the darkness
So I, I put my light up in the air
I wonder if they love me at my darkest
I put my light up in the air
I pray for patience, look for peace up in the darkness
So I, I put my light up in the air
I wonder if they love me at my darkest
Either way Im here forever, In Gods Body Im him
Human, flesh and bone; let smoke pour from my grin
Let liquor pour for my kin, Im tired
Everything we admired, I use to kindle my fire
Light my spliff, burn a bridge then use the flame to get higher
I am him, break out the violins, break out of your all systems
Till they play me the their systems, at my lowest I am blessed
My chains cost me a fortune in paranoia and stress
At night I dolo creep
Sometimes I do not speak
More time I need my space
Why you test my patience? Sheesh
You placed your soul on lease
Cant sell my soul for peace
Of mind is all need
Cant live life on my knees
See, the sun don’t shine around here
See, the sun don’t shine around here
See, the sun don’t shine around here
See, the sun don’t shine around here
I put my light up in the air
I pray for patience, look for peace up in the darkness
So I, I put my light up in the air
I wonder if they love me at my darkest
I put my light up in the air
I pray for patience, look for peace up in the darkness
So I, I put my light up in the air
I wonder if they love me at my darkest
My spirit will live forever, Im from a different era where
Being sick made you better
There ain’t a bitch that gave me pleasure
Like when the riddim’ came together
This how it sounded in my cranium
This an album for the stadium
Malcom as the main event
Ex is the outcome when I take your ting
Big smile when Im drawing out the ATM
Cut from a different cloth
I caught the bus from a different stop
I ain’t never seen those niggas when
I was out here on the United Kingdom blocks
I got injured ops, fingered thots
But don’t stereotype me; I turn the systems off
I am whatever they think Im not
Young black mogul, used to run packs local
What they do, Ive done that, old school
I tell my engineer: Run that Pro Tools
And destroy your energy like one bad phone call
Oh, little nigga, I cant coach you
I just do what Im ‘sposed to
You shouldn’t speak unless you spoke to
You fuck boys too emotional, ah |
Im tired too
I wear my smile just like you
Days come and go when it different
Pray when you feel no one listens
I wear my smile just like you
Roll up a plane and go missing
Ride into rain in the distance
Hope that I dont get too distant
I watched the world go crazy
They called the young man lazy
I watched the government shift
And start to bicker like babies
I pray the Lord come save me
Like, no dont worry I wait
Desensitise whats on TV
See niggas die every day
Nothing nice
Streets turn red like a summer night
I just wanna see another summertime
Summertime
Summertime
Still thank Jah in the morning
Even when the blessings stop calling
I just wanna see another summertime
Summertime
Summertime
Like this, ooh
Red summer, mood switched
Lift up the temperature
These streets cold that we know
But thats just regular
Careful when you speak on your truth
They shooting messengers
Thick skin and bullet-proof vest
Are my exterior
Traffic was the best place to think about my movements
They said if I had drive better prove it
Tired of the slick talk
Tapping at computers
I mean, once I find my ways
I was different on the router
Tell the driver cut the radio down
I mean its cool or whatever
Im just used to the sound
Its all samey, could you blame me?
Keys aint been this nice since the 80s
Me and mine ain’t settling for maybes
Nothing nice
Streets turn red like a summer night
I just wanna see another summertime
Summertime
Summertime
Still thank Jah in the morning
Even when the blessings stop calling
I just wanna see another summertime
Summertime
Summertime |
Yeah
Dark days
Dark days
I need you to heal me
Hold me like my muddah
Shits been getting real lately
I just did a muzzah
Missing like my father
Tired with my arms up
Praying when they cut me
You’ll come buck me with a plaster
I need you to heal me
Hold me like my muddah
Shits been getting real lately
I just did a muzzah
Missing like my father
Tired with my arms up
Praying when they cut me
You’ll come buck me with a plaster ooo na na
Last year it was Margiela baby
This year it’s therapy
Couple new priorities
Turn the pain into monopolies
Mumma still call me Hercules coz she don’t know about the felonies
Couple niggas call me family
If I trust’em still relative
Smoke good still a tendency
Tend to do the most off the Hennessy
Sipping good I been sinning lately
I be late calling for the remedy
Daddy missing so you carry baggage
Cuh your mumma built you like a Cherokee
The majority of the maturity
So there’s no surprise when
I need you to heal me
Hold me like my muddah
Shits been getting real lately
I just did a muzzah
Missing like my father
Tired with my arms up
Praying when they cut me
You’ll come buck me with a plaster
I need you to heal me
Hold me like my muddah
Shits been getting real lately
I just did a muzzah
Missing like my father
Tired with my arms up
Praying when they cut me
You’ll come buck me with a plaster ooo na na
You wanna talk about black love, Yeah
I ain’t really got examples, uh
I was raised by my nana cuh my mum was on the roads getting money with a sharp tool
Funny how I probably developed a couple scars too
First born I was whiter than the milk man
Daddy was a dark horse
So when he never came back with the blue cap
It proved the capacity for love was only half full
T-T-Took her for a drink on Tuesday
Now I dodger but I know it isnt artful
You know women got a 6th sense
So there really isn’t putting nothing past you
Yo whats that little feeling in your heart called
When you wanna tell her but really don’t wanna argue, Gonna have to help me, nurse these, harsh wounds
Didn’t wanna ask you but…
I need you to heal me
Hold me like my muddah
Shits been getting real lately
I just did a muzzah
Missing like my father
Tired with my arms up
Praying when they cut me
You’ll come buck me with a plaster
I need you to heal me
Hold me like my muddah
Shits been getting real lately
I just did a muzzah
Missing like my father
Tired with my arms up
Praying when they cut me
You’ll come buck me with a plaster ooo na na |
We got a problem, sitting in front of two piles of albums
We were so happy the times that we bought them
All that we knew about love is in them
All that we have learned
Helping you out when I dont even wanna
Carrying boxes of memories for ya
Im not a smoker but now Im searching, for a light
Now we are having a party
And all our friends are having a laugh, hey
But its not so funny to me
When morning comes, you’ll be gone
Ummm
We got a problem, they are playing our song but
Were done with the dancing
It wont be long before everyone asking
Wishing that we could still talk about it
Look at all that we have got
Your own decisions will come back to haunt ya
And Ill be the ghost of the lover who lost it
Is there a way that we can talk about it?
Oh, no
Now we are having a party
And all our friends are having a laugh, hey
But its not so funny to me
When morning comes, you will be gone, ummm
Were just having a party
But its feeling like a funeral, hey
But nobody knows it but me
When morning come, you will be gone, oooh
That’s when the music stops
I can never bite my tongue when Im love drunk
Tell wisdom hold me back, your faith to take a shot
Your destiny was to chase, these dreams just got me lost
The apple that rogue too far, temptation that it may pluck
These lemons are far too bitter, a double came on the rocks
This was never breaking news
We might never get that time back, but never needed to
Wait for me, I am way too selfish, I am way too
Way too helpless, away too much
This cant be healthy for us
Understand we over stood like Badu
And Mali was us
Could’ve told me, all I needed was trust
Well make it work
Truths back and forth just make it worse
Every piece of advice could fill a hearse
Regrets only help you remember worth, right
Why cant I smile when Im happy for you?
Pop a bottle, drown the sorrow, time is bubble
Sure you know this already, shouldnt have to tell you
Who cares if I make a scene?
This is my house, this was our home
Before you turned the lights out
Wisdom told me let her go, fate told me that youd come back
Your destinys yours to chase
I try to keep us intact
My promises on your finger
Your burdens upon my back
I promise to have my back
You promise that youll be |
Wonder what they see first, the fear or the fiction?
Doubt the truth is a brave face, a shield or addiction, who want it?
Be the first soul to test my conviction, who run it?
Im only talking with who running the kingdom
Phone ringing guess they need me now, oh they see me now
reach me match the hand me downs
This black on black feel kind of different wow
They love the pigment, hate the trouble that we live with
Bless you gifted, proud
If you see a proud boy let him lift a smile
Let him lift you up even when they left you out, like what
These niggas that much better than me
Really paint a new Picasso like me, I dont see it?
I dont pree it, this tunnel vision relax me
Black leather mahogany in the back seat
and the look at me like Im one to watch
Where Im from same looks could get your body dropped
I dont see em, I dont fear em, I dont need em
Winter baby this cold season is cold
Shes alone seasons for known reasons Im like that
I got no demons that aint leaving they fight back
I tried to warn them, I tried to tell em they need me
Im never classic, another classic its easy
Money stuffed, Im only spending on bail
Preacher, preacher Im never going to hell
The pure-hearted will always prosper
If they dont hear me they better hear me now though
When idols became rivals, winners became spiteful
That thriller just aint Michael, them streams just aint tidal
I, pay the million dues before I saw the million views
I saw labels doing rounds on a million crews
Thats 360 them numbers just look shifty
That glitter dont turn gold, them diamonds just look pretty
I aint impressed, Ive got enough to be stressed over
Your wave micro I treat rappers like left-overs
Nkrumah stepping we only bringing the best forwards
If needs be go clip to clip with your best soldiers
Be easy we save the snubs for award shows
How we didnt win that MOBO only lord knows
I got to forget, I did it with no regrets
The passion was militant, the vision was heaven sent
Q told me keep it honest man they have to hear you
K told me youre too different man they have to fear you
Wretch told me that I am next we gave you colour purple
Mama told me that Im blessed, boy they dont deserve you
Mama told me that Im blessed, boy they dont deserve you
D&D I dont pick up I dont do digits
I see the snakes I see the sneaks, I hear the disses
I take a toke, I blow the smoke, I see the mirrors
First to last and built to last I do the distance
Overthinking, over-sipping, now Im distant
Wonder if theyd even miss me if Im missing
Cry to cry dont cry for help when no-one listens
The type of shit that turns your pride into a victim
Mamma told me it na easy in dis ting
God life so be careful what youre risking
Some people only want the truth so they can twist it
Some people only want the love but they resist it
Pure hearted will always prosper |
Hear my thought, ask me if I hear my breath
Let me go get this bread, let me flex
Made a choice, you chose me, you regret
All my seeds trust in me, know your hex
Hear my thought, ask me if I hear my breath
Let me go get this bread, let me flex
Made a choice, you chose me, you regret
All my seeds trust in me, know your hex
Open your bag, look in your bag
Girl you are blessed, ay look at thе bag
Look at your dress, look at this chest
She pull on thе tag, I said it aint stressed, the weather is next
Her feet in the sand, she and her man didnt seem pressed
I put it in sport, yeah, my foot to the floor, yeah
I took her on tour, yeah
She used to be borrowed
Now she be livin the life of a winner
We pull out one night, then we fuck in the sauna
I used to make money, from keys to a quarter
She knows that I did for I had to support her
She got me stressin bout legally gettin it
She need to relax when im throwin out roaches
Hear my thought, ask me if I hear my breath
Let me go get this bread, let me flex
Made a choice, you chose me, you regret
All my seeds trust in me, know your hex
Hear my thought, ask me if I hear my breath
Let me go get this bread, let me flex
Made a choice, you chose me, you regret
All my seeds trust in me, know your hex
Yeah, dont give my shit away
Merci et si vous plait
Youve not the type to chase
Me too, stuck in my ways
You dont need dogs who play
If they stray far away
Agree to disagree
How many shows, like ten in a week
You make up your mind, Im making my peace
Piece of the pie, you kids are gon eat
Gimme a slice, n throw me the cheeks
She got me whipped, you get in your feelings
I pull up and park, and throw you the keys
Lift up the top, raise up the tent
The tension be burning, a hundred degrees
Two Virgils, two sips got me toosie sliding through a few hurdles
Big dreams, small circle
Like long time I aint heard from you
We be hot and cold, when you hot you cold
I was layered with a few thermals
You know what they say, when you know you know
Still aint much I wouldnt do for you
Hear my thought, ask me if I hear my breath
Let me go get this bread, let me flex
Made a choice, you chose me, you regret
All my seeds trust in me, know your hex
Hear my thought, ask me if I hear my breath
Let me go get this bread, let me flex
Made a choice, you chose me, you regret
All my seeds trust in me, know your hex |
Theres something that I wanna give you
Im gonna give you a—
Theres something that I wanna give you
Im gonna give you a five-pound box of love
With a million-dollar bill on top, million-dollar bill on top
Diamonds on every corner
And a big black pearl for a lock
Asiago Romana, sprinkle that over pasta
We got view of the water, I take
Aim at the roster
Got my faith from the preacher
Got my seeds from the Rasta
Aint no promises made
Cant think about it menyata
Im ridin out in Ducatis
Treat my pain like a hobby
Im shakin these demons off me
Im shaken up to the core
They really thought they could stop me
Really thought I was rock
Really thought I was godly
But big, small, or tall, we six feet in the coffin
And every problem I faced just made me a bigger problem
Theres something that I wanna give you
Im gonna give you a—
If I keep my soul, you can take it all away
Theres something that I wanna give you
Im gonna give you a—
Ima move to Ghana, keep my name, and share my riches
Get my forty acres on my own, not additions
Fuck their reparations , fuck an invitation
Twenty-three and one aint a minor deportation
Is it giveth or we take it?
Lord knows Ive been patient
Still up in the basement
Still up on the late shift
Still they underrate it
Now they have to pay me
Price to keep my silence, took my family on vacation
They dont wanna see a new Obama run the nation
They dont wanna see me in my bag, Ive been waiting
Theres something that I wanna give you
Im gonna give you a—
If I keep my soul, you can take it all away
Theres something that I wanna give you
Im gonna give you a—
A million-dollar bill on top
Tell me where the searching stops
How much is enough?
When you get it, will you realize
That a lifes worth cant be monetarily quantified?
Clouds made of currency raining tenners and greyish skies
No pound signs when I look deep into my mothers eyes
How much is enough?
Its just enough to keep me getting by
Ill get my own ocean full of fishes
My own Tower of London full of riches
A swimming pool full of thirsty bitches
Fuck that, Ill burn the money if I get it
Set fire to the sports cars at the office
Replace the water in the filter for some chronic
Canary Wharf all screaming, Fuck the bosses
A million dollars wont fit into your coffin, no
So how much is enough?
Tell me, how much is enough?
Be honest
How much is enough?
Tell me, how much is enough?
Just be honest
How much is enough?
How much is enough?
Be honest |
So tell me how you feel about it
Know its been a minute, we dont speak about it
Dance around the fact that you still think about me
But never hesitate to tell me how you feel about me
I aint shit, say less
Apologies then I digress
I smoke more when Im stressed
I talk, youre unimpressed
I get it
Found my confidence in compliments
I know Im blessed
You say you liked more before we met
Cause now you know me less
So that money dont die with you
I overspent and bad decisions, wont lie to you
I know regret, charismatic now they wont ride with you
See the drip and now they gon slide with you
You let em in, come through and spend a whole night with you
Now you pretend that all this love gon enlighten you
Now you descend into a bottle of light pinot
And empty sex and find your way back to my pillow
You make me sick
So tell me how you feel about it
Know its been a minute, we dont speak about it
Dance around the fact that you still think about me
But never hesitate to tell me how you feel about me
She said I miss you but feel much better without you
Apologies make it simple, but aint no changing the outcome
You only care about yourself, dont you?
You think Im talking for my health, dont you?
I know she read me like a paragraph
And
When youre tired
Cut me out of all our photographs
Shallow waters, Ive been drowning going overboard
I been going through the motions, dont know who to call
I might hide all my emotions in another song
Drop another wrong
I knew something wrong
I knew something wrong
I knew something wrong
I know she need me but feel much better without me
My demons keep me surrounded
My preacher said I need guidance
My guidance said I need karma
I do
What I prayed for forgive I know Ill never recoup
What I did for our future I know Ill never undo
Still surrounded by women, but no dont ever be you
Keep it real with myself, but no that dont ever be true
I make me sick
The fact that you wont even answer the phone right now
Just proves to me how aint shit you are
Like, really Kojey?
Youre gonna sit up here and talk about
Oh, its distance this, and Distance that,
But there wasnt no fuckin distance when you was fucking me raw, fuck is you talkin about?
Like, you sound dumb
You fuckin wanna place the blame on everybody elses, everybodys elses
Take some fuckin accountability for your actions, like
Are you fuckin simple?
Are you dumb?
What the fuck is wrong with you? |
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Gotta be, wanna be
Gotta be, wanna be
Gotta be, wanna be
Wanna be, wanna
Please dont think less of me, mama
Im chasin destiny, mama
Dont know who blessing me, mama
Just gotta be grateful
Cant bring no stress to you, mama
Just want the best for you, mama
Try keep my head above water
Just gotta be careful
I tell karma take a seat, Im on my way
Just tryna make money, like a nigga made mistakes
I used to pray for what I wanted every day
Now me and God conversations aint the same
Still, I gotta be grateful, just gotta be grateful
I take all that pressure and put diamonds in my halo
I know that they watchin me, still gotta be careful
They say love and they say hate go in the same boat
All these chains around my neck, just keep my chest heavy
Cant miss my chance to shoot my shot cause we dont get many
My little man from round my way said he wanna do what I do
Do as what I say, dont do what I did cause I just did what I could
How many times I compromised all of my pride for respect
I just spent like thirty thousand tryna cure my depression
I admit that I got lost, I think I needed directions
Funny how dyin always teach us the most valuable lessons
What a world we livin in, this life aint promised my nigga
Here today but get caught lackin, you an RIP nigga
Need no vest on me, mama, angels invest in me, mama
All them nights that you would pray and keep your faith in me, mama
All that work inside the kitchen, thats your recipe, mama
I just pray that they dont put me on the menu like mama
What do I do when the devil keep on testin my honor?
Finish readin the Bible and go to sleep with my choppa
Please dont think less of me, mama
Im chasin destiny, mama
Dont know who blessing me, mama
Just gotta be grateful
Cant bring no stress to you, mama
Just want the best for you, mama
Try keep my head above water
Just gotta be careful
I tell karma take a seat, Im on my way
Just tryna make money, like a nigga made mistakes
I used to pray for what I wanted every day
Now me and God conversations aint the same
Still, I gotta be grateful, just gotta be grateful
I take all that pressure and put diamonds in my halo
I know that they watchin me, still gotta be careful
Cause I know love and I know hate go in the same boat
Had to stay afloat
Since I was a child, I been a brave soul
Even when my file was someones case-load
Round 285 like merry-go
Angels lit my fire when it was so cold
Treadin water since I been my mamas daughter
Im a seed, gotta feed the ones that farmed her
Keep it sweet, keep it peaceful, but they know Im a problem
Cant believe it, its my season and Im grieving my papa
Call me
You know Ima have it up my sleeve
Mama, you the one I love supreme
You was gassin me just like I was supreme
Ima keep my eyes wide, all night
Theres thieves, Devils foot soldiers walkin my way
Watch, watch, Ima send em back where they came
Lioness, for my pride, for my set, rip chests
Please dont think less of me, mama
Im chasin destiny, mama
Dont know who blessing me, mama
Just gotta be grateful
Cant bring no stress to you, mama
Just want the best for you, mama
Try keep my head above water
Just gotta be careful
I tell karma take a seat, Im on my way
Just tryna make money, like a nigga made mistakes
I used to pray for what I wanted every day
Now me and God conversations aint the same
Still, I gotta be grateful, just gotta be grateful
I take all that pressure and put diamonds in my halo
I know that they watchin me, still gotta be careful
Cause I know love and I know hate go in the same boat |
It sounds like Nyge
Just in, breaking news
Wild GOAT on the loose
Lancey Foux, is that you?
Mandem, is that you?
Just in, breaking news
Wild GOAT on the loose
Lancey Foux, is that you?
Mandem, is that you?
Is it you? Is it I?
Wild GOAT, they cant find
Theyre spreading news, Im hearing lies
Turned my phase into a flight
She placed the pork up on the pie
Im highly soulful, hardly light
I pray to God, he sends advice
I like my bread and wine with ice
My present purpose is the price
Run it up, run a height
Dunking beanies with a dyke
Black Houdini, come to life
Im Billy Ocean, Im revived
Im staining sofas, Im sitting nice
Im talking popes, linen white
You niggas old,
Due to actual facts
I get actual gash by the hour
Sex in the showers
Put time in, grind, get power, actual facts
Youve got a bitch and you dont know her secrets
Ive got a chick from Victorias Secret
Actual facts
Difference: Im not made in
Just in, breaking news
Wild GOAT on the loose
Lancey Foux, is that you?
Mandem, is that you?
Just in, breaking news
Wild GOAT on the loose
Lancey Foux, is that you?
Mandem, is that you?
Dropped out of uni and spent your degree on an outfit
Better than me? Bro, I doubt it
Cookie on me, loud as hell and its shouting
I cant do facts cause Im clowning
Pussy, aint bout it
Fucking your girl in the mall, thats an outing
Brought her a clutch, now shes smiling and pouting
Fuck all you niggas, just carry on doubting
AJ from the L-L x Lancey
Can I get a verse for a feature?
Fucking on your bitch, she a hoe hoe
Im the weatherman cause I gave her
Probably made her cum, then I made her
Made back two from a bloodclart
And girl said baby, can I see you soon?
I told her babygirl, come and see my show
Just in, breaking news
Wild GOAT on the loose
Lancey Foux, is that you?
Mandem, is that you?
Just in, breaking news
Wild GOAT on the loose
Lancey Foux, is that you?
Mandem, is that you?
Penmanship impeccable
Ive been wavy since the way out
Way, way out
See me like ghost shadows, Im boxing
Practice, hours and hours
Ive been a problem
Locksmith, opening doors
Leave you no options
Cockpit, mahogany tone
Vivica fox skin
Babyface, youngers are savage
They selling Johnson
Scrape the rest off of the stove
And chef Bronson
Satin black, melanin-kissed
I need a holiday
Nominated, walk out the building
With that McGregor sway
Come like AJ with the right hand
AJ Tizzy with the pasta
Blowing Marley like the rasta
Feel Boyega at the BAFTAs
Last week, got that Sonya on the Lyca
Ring my Nokia, Ive got that Bieber
I just burnt my hand on a rex
What happened with your girl last night? I got amnesia
Look, MCs come at me, best come right
No stress, Ill make your girl cum right
Model ting from south, she move boujee
In the rave, she still do them gun signs
Grinding till I see sunlight
Man skrrr skrrr with that Charlie
AJ nice with Kehlani
I got a runway shawty in my party
Just in, breaking news
Wild GOAT on the loose
Lancey Foux, is that you?
Mandem, is that you?
Just in, breaking news
Wild GOAT on the loose
Lancey Foux, is that you?
Mandem, is that you? |
Breathe
Running through the city like it’s
Like Yeah
Breathe
I can’t breathe
Breathe
Running through the city like it’s
Please
I can’t breathe
Breathe
I can’t feel my features Im tweaking
They don’t hear my message Im speechless
I don’t feel no fear for my demons
They don’t leave me lone’ like Im yeezus
I might roll these trees and drop seeds
I might just clap first like police
I can’t tell nightmares from my dreams
All I see is real I don’t sleep
I might dip my jaw in gold leaf
Dripped in skin too think I don’t bleed
All I speak is truth I don’t preach
Streets might make you smart but won’t teach
I might hit the belly and go global
Or I might reach for peace and go postal
Gentrified my hood there’s no local
Censorship my thoughts they go loco
Breathe
Running through the city like it’s me Bih’
I know you see the coat but please no photos
Please. Running through the city like it’s me
Yeah. huh?
Running through the city like it’s me
I know you see the coat but please no photos
Please. Running through the city like it’s
I can’t feel my features Im tweaking
I can’t feel my features Im tweaking
Know you see the coat but please no photos
Please. Running through the city like it’s me
Breathe. Yeah
Running through the city like it’s me yeah
I know you see the coat but please no photos
Please. Running through the city like it’s
I can’t feel my features Im tweaking
Running through the city like it’s me
I know you see the coat but please no photos
Please. Running through the city like it’s
I woke up this morning
I hear angels calling
I hear people talking
But theyre not important
I woke up. Calling calling
Hm
Normal
This new watch got my life span on count down
Face on dinner plate I go cold turkey on ice now
I’ve told more truths with the lights down
I wake up to new regrets and tell em pipe down
I got old friends who still can’t put the pipe down
I got new friends who seem to offer me lines now
I got old friends who still can’t put the pip
Ghost writer in my keys, must felt this in a past life
Standing in the mirror pep talking like it’s half time
Tell a boy, tell a boy to miss me with the funny shit
Ever since I put my foot down Ive been running shit
Never let a yeah yeah girl call me by my government
All I did was speak about the truth and they was loving it
Lord knows |
Got a funny feeling deep in my stomach
Aint nobody laughin, ha-ha-ha
Think the jokes on me
Feel it in my bones, feel it in my soul, feel it in my spirit
No, I shouldnt put it all on me
Damned if I do, cancelled if I dont
Either way, Im wrong, Im just tryna get this weight off me
Didnt have a half, so I took a quarter
Sippin holy water while I listen to hypocrisy
Theres a war goin on outside
Nobody see it but me
Theres a war goin on outside
Nobody see it but me
Still dont watch the news, no, no, no
Cause my nigga aint your nigga
So be careful what you say for views
Tried to talk about it, tried to walk around it
Trippin, now Im drownin and my aura got them ocean blues
Float like Im above it until its my cousin
And I gotta tell his mama what I did not do
Why werent he with you? Am I that removed?
Am I just confused?
I dont make the rules, they make me
Theres a war goin on outside
Nobody see it but me , uh
Theres a war goin on outside
Nobody see it but me
Ayy, the summer knows
I put my hope in embers of the day
I was in a phase with the dargs dem
Nothing to communicate with, everything to say
I cant be out here beggin for pardons, nah
Me and jigga saw a winner before we were asked if
We could bill a riddim, we were questionin the answers
Even if it didnt drop, its something out of nothing
Watch me, Ill be out here regardless
I said I didnt need a reason
Ima make a bit and catch a win before I sleep here
Ima need some things out of this place, it made me need it
Penny for a thoughts or a pound for your thinkin
Wait, Im thinkin
Ima need some cheese here just to dip in
Just a have-not who had wants, then had a feeling, I could feel it
I could have everything that I didnt
I said I could have everything that I didnt, I didnt
Theres a war goin on outside
Nobody see it but me
Oh, theres a war goin on outside
No, nobody sees it but me
No, no, no
No, no, no, no |
We dont need no pain
So wash them tears away
And though we bleed the same
So, now, wash them tears away
Said, we dont need no pain
Seven steps to heaven, but youre trippin on the first one
Mama bawl out when the bullet hit her first son
Tired of this world, think we need another version
Too many bombs and military incursions
This is our prayer for the ones that been muted
Deaf to our cryin, cant fix it with no Q-Tip
Everybody choosin desires over beauty
Evil is bloomin and moneys where its rooted
So spread your wings and get ready to fly
To a place where pain is just a memory, yeah
Said its no biggie and Im ready to die
The grave digger have them space in the cemetery
So just listen to me properly when me a tell you this
Get it in your head, say them system set up fi prejudice
When we warrin, the rich man seek the benefit
Them no business bout the blood when were sheddin it
We dont need no pain
So wash them tears away
And though we bleed the same
So, now, wash them tears away
Father, Im still sorry
Sorry I aint on and off
All that I see is war here
Theres bombs where the kids are growin up
Bullets keep you awake
She couldnt wash out the stains, oh, Lord
Theres blood on the leaves again
And if only I was never changed
And father, were still hungry
Starvin with no clear way out
All that I sees money
The money dont hear you callin out
Bullets keep you awake
She couldnt wash out the stains, oh, Lord
Pray your wings take you away
Said we dont need no pain
So wash them tears away
And though we bleed the same
So, now, wash them tears away
Said we dont need no pain
Ninety-nine problems, L is not an option
Heart got colder, goose came custom
Wolf, sheep clothin, still cant trust em
Who fell, Grenfell, what that cost em?
They said change was gon come
Change for who? Change for why?
Been worked hard, Ive had enough now
I need none of this here when I touch down
Youngers wilding, death toll rising
Young, them violent, no surprise when
Youth club shut down, funding cut down
Police cut down, who helps us now?
They can never penetrate the passion
Or the pedigree
Thick skin, that gon get me smilin
Through the jealousy
Distance, took the longer road
Cause I was meant for this
Well, we dont need no pain
So wash them tears away
And though we bleed the same
So, now, wash them tears away |
I dont wanna have to think about it too much
Lately Ive been feeling like we all lost touch
Federales pull up to our people, no love
Whats a man to do when they come, ayy
Lately been feeling like its kill or be killed, man
They killing our children, we feeling the chills man
We got in the field
I struggle to feel love and nothing is real, damn
Emancipation they took you from nations and killed men
Spirit can never die, I feel like it will be alright
See the hate in their eyes, I look myself in thе mirror and wonder what is the price
Thе bounty put on my head, they wanting my people dead, damn
Whats the plan or the move
Ive been blessed with the word
Ill be damned when I use it against what they do
But I can never be afraid of the pain that I felt
Saved by the bell, the light, the water, the hells
And so hard they fell
Positive is how we prevail
I saw the hate and started loving myself
I saw my people in and out of the cells
Same time I see us rise at the greats
Came from the heavens, I know you relate
We found us a way, lifted a weight, wait, lemme explain
Before the whips and the chains
Before the change in the names
Know the history great
Fastforward and our people remain
Nations rising well you thought we were done
Why the hell would we run
When the sun still shines, and my skin still glow, and my hair my still grow
Never let that go, nah nah
Politics still politicking
The greenest grass got picket fences
Gentrify our old addresses
Hug my kin and count my blessings
Pray I live to learn a lesson
Pray I live to see my son discover that his pigmentation where his strength is
And I dont contribute to his demise by being pensive
Wonder why I go to sleep at night still feeling restless
Knowing that this skin I call a gift could be a deathwish
Hoping that my pen could be a sword to cut the pension
Judging plagiary like you dont know the past is in the present
Plagiary, I cant tell the past from the present
And if history repeats we aint passed what is present
Its a fact though, love the entertainer but still wont let the black show
Scared of all the black growth, unless we help your bank grow
Fetishize the men but might not tell your dad though
Silence the black woman now that Becky made her back row
Four hundred plus years of generational anger
Of course Im tired of running, aint nobody got that stamina
Nobody got the answers but think that they understand us
Im tired of being tired and Cals still raising the cannon
Hope that they get the picture
Hope that they feel the passion
Pray that these pricks dont push me lets keep the kosher and crusty
The way you moving around, claiming mean me no harm
The streets my animal farm, this aint the time to be calm
Whats the plan or the move
Ive been blessed with the word
Ill be damned when I use it against what they do
Ive been blessed with the word
Ive been blessed with the word
I said, oh I said, oh I said
Ive been blessed with the word
I said, oh I said, oh I
Ive been blessed with the word
I said, oh I said, oh I said
Ive been blessed with the word
I said, oh I said, oh I said |
RENTS DUE
Paper in my pocket like the rent’s due
Weapon on my waist ain’t a sword
It’s a pencil
Don’t shoot
Eyes red, I think the trees loud
See sun rise like 7: 30
His eyes red because the start
Late, the finish early
Up again at 5
For the same service
He said he came to clean up
Now he’s stuck cleaning
Couldn’t blame your boy for american dreaming
Daughter needs braces
Sons still teething
Oldest out in uni
And the wife might
Leave him
I think the boy stressed out
Faithless
Can’t get no sleep now
Selfish
Might pray for peace now
Spent nights in stu
And his days up in retail
Still working
Little blood and sweat won’t hurt him
Money made the boy feel worthless
Man made the money
For your soul was it worth it
Ain’t the truth what you ready for
My brothers think they
Kobe with the loot
Ballotelli with the boot
Don’t shoot
The messenger
Don’t shoot
The man in the middle of your scope
Cobain with the bullet to his dome
The man with his eyes on the throne
A crown and a lump in my throat
The lady with the melanin like coal
Dont shoot
The pound. The penny
The food. The belly
And Im still bout my paper
Don’t take much to get your pockets on fold
I’m after everything, taking what’s mine and what’s
Owed. Banging hours on the graveyard shift
Laced up to the tongue with big sealed lips
There’s no telling
What the desperate might do
Survival is the least of my problems
I dont want to share my options with you
A penny for your thoughts wont solve them
My skeleton born where weapons were drawn
Like graffiti on walls wed often pass after school
The olders work what the youngers would do
At age 12 a 4 5 could make a man out you
Back out with foxes
Moving baggies and boxes
When they teach you respect
They dont leave you no options
They dont teach you to grow, sow the
Weeds just to crop them
Didnt know we were seeds
Came back where you dropped us
Oh he must be
Another man living like he death proof
Screaming Paper in my pocket like the rents due
Serving sense to less than innocent citizens
To see kind of money that bankers spend on heroin
The estate been real. Hide the money in the houses
Bills looking like measurements in ounces
Need more change than couches
Boxes over accountants
Shoulders feel like mountains. weight
Heart racing. pavement pounding
Theres never been an escape from this
Called trapping for a reason
Testing times, Taxed by a system we dont believe in
Beg pardon and hold your grievance
You ever had to sleep through the sound of your mother grieving
These smiles can be so deceiving
We dont need another preacher
We don’t need another teacher
Need all it all in an instant
And school makes you feel useless but
You could a flip a gram without a test to prove it
And the product come in ten out a ten
But you already made a promise to never do that again
Because your brother went from 8 to life in the pen
Lard a mercy, upon the soul of a sinner
I’ve been dining with killers
Blood of jesus in my liver hells fire in on my tongue
Head spinning stress pains in my lungs - no guidance
Just cycles of senseless violence
Theres no winners on the road life. Prison system looking at black youth
Like a gold mine -
Youngers getting facety, grafting
Just to take a j bag to J.D it dont make sense
Trappers think their gallis till she trap with a baby
I dont want that life for mine. Nor me and my niggas
These thoughts feel like cages
Victories are tainted
Magistrates and statements
Testing on my patiences
Assume its a phases and a better lifes waiting
But reality cheques dont pay wages
Fuck em’
Paper in my pocket like the rent’s due
Weapon on my waist ain’t a sword
It’s a pencil
Don’t shoot
Weapon on my waist ain’t a sword
Don’t shoot |
I hope you dont see, the day they clipped my wings
I hope you dont see, the day they clipped my wings
I hope you dont see, the day they clipped my wings
I hope you dont see, the day they clipped my wings
I hope you dont
A King in my past life, I stand in my own body
Born again, bar God, I prove myself to nobody
Cold coffins, teardrops, spilt milk
Cashmere
My attire, no wrinkles found in my silk
I feel suspect
Wonder what my people might do to photo demons
If I spoke a word of my story would they believe it?
Paragraphs at them with these poems, hope they conceive it
Rather they admire my tone and flawless features
Born n raised in Hackney
Never seen the ocean
Never learned the language
Never saw my talent till they showed me
Didnt know my worth until they owned me
Walked the same streets as the ones who claimed I was different
Wore the same shoes, the uniform was kickers
Heard the same taunts as the cow that called us niggers
Heard the same excuses when feathers squeezing them triggers
But even for it all they still look at me like the winner
I
Save the penny for the preacher
I
Taught my lessons to my teacher
I know, youre tired
I been tired too
I hope you dont see, the day they clipped my wings
I hope you dont see, the day they clipped my wings
Its been on and on, and tiresome
And I cant feel my limbs
I hope you dont see, the day they clipped my wings
I seen a woman , fall in the limelight
Ive seen a kingdom , drown in the dry ice
I hope you dont see, demons make me bleed
Pray all my beliefs, fester in my dreams
Devil cant win and they all know it
The devil cant win and they all know it
Theres a reason for your fear
The devil cant win and they all know it
I know that you been dying
The devil cant win and they all know it
Im sleeping with your fears
I hope you dont see
Everything you said was written in brow
Every promise that you made had cinnamon smell
Caramel scented, sweet like taboo
Shola Ama on a Sunday play Beanie mental
Had the living room spotless
Had the kitchen on comfort
Your Mumma taught you well, your Daddy didnt deserve her
They both made you perfect
You made me question if God could be a woman
Ill take you in if you fall from the sky
Take off your shoes, help you walk through the fire
If love is lust, dont you know we can find it within?
But if your run expired
Icarus, cigarettes my life
Look at this, imitate my crimes
Im not innocent, but innocence i tried
Not innocent, but innocence i tried
I hope you dont see, the day they clipped my wings
I hope you dont see, the day they clipped my wings
Its been on and on, and tiresome
And I cant feel my limbs
I hope you dont see, the day they clipped my wings |
We were happy
By that time, we don’t dress in
Jeans and all that
Because we know the youth follow
The musicians
And the blacks here
Especially the africans
Even the West Indians
Ah, my friend
They we’re enjoying themselves
When they meet they have a big speaker
With all their amplifiers and all that
And when they blow it
Ghumghomghumghum
And we would dance all day
And dance all night
Show me love
You can have my soul
If you show me love
You can have my heart
If you’re strong enough
You can have my trust don’t
Tell no one
Show me love
Baby like tonight was the only one
And if you take my hand
Maybe we can run
Out of time
Again
KR- “Love?”
KA - Love?, What do you know about love?”
KR -“ What do I know about love?”
KA - “Yeah, you. What do you know about love?”
“What is love?”
KR- “What is love?”
I don’t know what to feel and it’s confusing
I speak, stumble feel useless
Your questions become intrusive
The small talk is awkward, divorce
Rates made cynical
Love lost way to common
Affection is only digital
You, ever tried knowing
Before you love
Knowing before you touch
I told her on a level i’m not used to this
I have an ego bigger than my sense of hubris
Blessed with the snake of eden, but cursed
With exes like Judas. Loves been different
Since the dawn of genesis
More X O
Ex knows to much
Loose lips leave holes in boats
Maybe we can stay a float on a friendship
And try love |
VERSE 1
I pray to the god we hit the belly
Could of had the life
They sentence what we selling
Then we stressing
Just another day.
Pressure on the
Stove. Weve been cheffin’
Weve been stepping out of chains
We’ve been flexing
Feel kunta in my kente
If, if you aint my neighbour
We aint friendly.
We might hit the henny
Till its empty then plot upon
Your end date
Ive been running through
Like kunta kente and
Now my feet im tired,
But damn I feel live
Just another day
Round the way
I was chilling with my bros
In the cold
Ten toes
On the east side
Miloh Smith
Get dough with the kinfolk
Endo with the windows down
You know nigga it goes down
Get dough with the kinfolk
Endo with the windows down
You know nigga it goes down
Verse 2
All my niggas coming with me
Dreams and nightmares
My enemy do me Ricky.
Finger tips are sticky
From the icky. Smoke
Sound down. I dont
Hit the plug my
Amigos gone keep the loud
Round drums
For my entrance.
Feeling like independence
Feeling El presidente.
Gleaming you see
My dental. Smiling
I know they hated.
Fathers incarcerated
Gallons spill on the pavement
Mana still pray for patients
I still need me some acres
Just another day
Round the way
I was chilling with my bros
In the cold
Ten toes
On the east side
Get dough with the kinfolk
Endo with the windows down
You know nigga it goes down
Get dough with the kinfolk
Endo with the windows down
You know nigga it goes down
I pray to the god we hit the belly
Could of had the life
They sentence what we selling
Then we stressing
Just another day.
They sentence what we selling
Then we stressing
Just another day.
They sentence what we selling
Then we stressing
Just another day.
I feel golden and sanctified
Ill get lost in my sins tonight
Hope the lord forgive me you know
I tried but I feel golden and sanctified
I hope these trees help me sleep tonight
I hope these dreams gimme peace of mind
I’ll see tomorrow like I saw tonight because
I feel golden and sanctified
I pray to the god we hit the belly
‘Cause all my niggas coming with me
Just another day
Round the way
I was chilling with my bros
In the cold
Ten toes
On the east side |
Someone get my city on the phone
Tell them Im coming home
Its been a different kind of life on the road
Tell them Im coming home
Many dont make it where I come from I
Think we should make a toast
Come a mighty long way from the road
Tell them Im coming home
Its that motherfuck your couch Im Rick James
They dont know my story but they didnt my name
Bet they knew my chin way before they knew my face
But Id rather chase money than the stories these days
Read all about, re-read all about it
Made it from the rubble through the struggle to the mountains
Now Im looking down at all the reasons why I doubted
Almost lost my way for a second but I found it
Almost lost my way but Im Moses with the cane
Almost lost my brother he got able with the game
Still cant feel my lungs but Im in love with Mary Jane
Now I see the clouds from different kinds of paper planes
Never worked this hard to stay the same, Im different
Got a new smile, got a new spirit got a new heart Im lifted
Tell them badman keep their distance
Tell them badman keep their distance
Someone get my city on the phone
Tell them Im coming home
Its been a different kind of life on the road
Tell them Im coming home
Many dont make it where I come from I
Think we should make a toast
Come a mighty long way from the road
Tell them Im coming home
Someone get my mama on the phone she dont have to miss me
Saving all the love I give to you, I go hipster with me
Night time from my lowest I get no-one I get demons with me
Now I roam the jungle with my pride I got Simbas with me
I know they been plotting on my angels
But they just cant put dents in my halos
Save a penny save a pound save a peso
Hit them all before they lay low
Before I lay my crown hope I grow to make a queen
Royal from the soil throwing stones dont make you king
Pray I dont fall prey to violent things
Even with my back against the ring
Never worked this hard to stay the same, Im different
Got a new smile, got a new spirit got a new heart Im lifted
Tell them badman keep their distance
Tell them badman keep their distance
Someone get my city on the phone
Tell them Im coming home
Its been a different kind of life on the road
Tell them Im coming home
Many dont make it where I come from I
Think we should make a toast
Come a mighty long way from the road
Tell them Im coming home
And round and round and round and round
Much reason to celebrate
Young black boy dun made it you know
Lets be honest
I couldve flexed boy back when like Shakespeare with the bollocks
Fell from grace I dont need forgiveness till Im old in age reminiscing on my golden days
Teaching wrong from right with my old mistakes hold the page
Let me get my mind right
These days Id rather listen than talk
The wise man knows he knows nothing at all I
Put down the club on my evolutionary walk
That means I changed my own pathway before I could crawl as if fate decided
To let karma take the wheel Im filled with a beautiful emptiness welcoming
You are welcome if I need time to help me then Ill be it
Whos words reach further
The man who whispers peace to find peace
Or that who yells his troubles some to exalt his troubles
Wont you help me find the solace you promised
Trying hard to forget fleeting euphorias
I cant keep on running if I dont know what from
I cant keep chasing a moment thats already gone
So if I reach for the stars hope I fall on the moon
And if I fall hopefully they dont forget me to soon
Tell my city Im coming home |
Make it easy for me
Speechless teachers spoke doubts and reason
Respect and treason
I pulled love from a grain of dust and risked it all on a night of lust
We stopped, our eyes now locked
You kissed me before I could think of something silly to say
Lucky you, you slick like new tracks
Who got you laid?
Lost in how your nature feels
Well, aint no average flower, ooh
You cant dig no deeper here
I wonder if somebody caught us
I cant help it
You gone make loose my mind
Or make me lose my cool
Way too selfish, I got used to you
Bringing me flowers
Got some making up to do
Baby get comfortable
Cause Ima need a couple of hours
Baby get comfortable
Cause Ima need a couple of hours
Wonder how your ocean feel
But you dont wanna trouble the water
You can see the stars from here
I wonder if they watching us make love
I cant help it
You gone make loose my mind
Or make me lose my cool
Way too selfish, I got used to you
Bringing me flowers
Got some making up to do
Baby get comfortable
Cause Ima need a couple of hours
Baby get comfortable
Cause Ima need a couple of hours
I love your company
Baby come close to me
You took me by surprise
Cant usually go this deep
But you keep it real me
Like you like similes
Mirror my symmetry
We make a symphony
You never filter me
Plant me then water me
You can have all my seed
Just tell me what you need
Dont go controlling me
Scribble you poetry
Sonnets of solar scenes
Baby come float with me
Can we switch positions baby
I got something I wanna show you
First thing, last thing on my mind
When I got to sleep
I just wanna hold you
For another couple of hours |
Same shit, different day
Me and them are not the same
We do not need to debate
You can hear it in my tone
Wear my feelings on my face
Put the pressure on my chain
Blame the high on the lows
Lock my heart in this safe
Ima throw the key away
We and them are not the same
We do not need to debate
We just bank, we dont chase
Keep it humble and give thanks
Nothin promised in a day
You could take it all away
Throw my ice in the snow
Put some candy in the paint
Take a drive through my hood
Let em know we all good
We gon see some better days
It aint good, but we okay
Know my blessings on the way
Know my angels keep me safe
Ima always be okay
Ima always be
Blessed up, yes, I woke up knowin Im good
Even when Im stressed out, left out, live right knowin Im good
Weve been through some hard times, dark times, if the lights on, we gon be good
Even when Im stressed out, left out, if I live right Ima be, Ima be
All I ever wanted was a lot, though
My accolades on the right boat
Write nice hooks like Drago
Holy aqua through the towels
Slow down, dont worry them
Mama at the night shift workin
Slow down, keep searchin
Soul of a sinner aint certain
These Diors black on cause I bought em with the re-up
Rattlesnakes pocket-watchin, get to shakin when they see us
Only runnin from the feds, think we guilty when they see us
Dust it off and try again, say my prayers and my Aliyahs
I done come too far, I aint goin back to broke
Ive got voices in my head, and we aint goin back and forth
Contradictin, think Im guilty of the things I wont endorse
Unfamiliar with forgiveness, Im not sure I know remorse
I done lost weight, I lost self, Im still gettin that back
I worked for it, I slaved for it, got tired breakin my back
Ive been me, Im still me, theyre big happy Im back
My nappy hair, my big lips, Im big happy Im black
Blessed up, yes, I woke up knowin Im good
Even when Im stressed out, left out, live right knowin Im good
Weve been through some hard times, dark times, if the lights on, we gon be good
Even when Im stressed out, left out, if I live right Ima be, Ima be
Blessed up, yes, I woke up knowin Im good
Even when Im stressed out, left out, if I live right Ima be good
Weve been through some hard times, dark times, if the lights on, we gon be good
Even when Im stressed out, left out, if I live right Ima be, Ima be |
{Verse 1: Loyle Carner}
Check, uh
Dont know, you will never by now
Get a flow then you better mind out
Cant better my sound
Been the best in my town with the bars and
Im setting mine down
Letting mine out
Dont step in my bout
If Im hard watch, let him find out
Trust, let him find out
Pepper my sound
Ill be looking like I let off 5 rounds
Coulda bet him 5 pounds and that
Doubt the fact
Im down to whack
We can do this round the back
Allow the chat
Happy til the hounds attack
Im bouncing back with the bars til the crowd reacts
Its like Im inside
I speak
Keep telling me its pеak
Werent ready for thе Ps
Ready for the beef
Back, and Im ready for a little bit of each
{Chorus: JNR Williams}
Oh they lost themselves in lying
Oh they lost themselves in lying
Oh they lost themselves in lying
Oh they lost themselves in lying
Kojey: Funny how they didnt wanna hear me then
But they hear me now, yeah I hear that G
Loyle: Funny how back then I wanted to be like you
Now the kids wanna be like me
K: Wanna think like me, wanna speak like me
Sometimes even I wanna be like me
Or the me they see on the TV screens
On the side of the fence where the grass aint green
L: Yeah, Its funny that they didnt want feedback
Now they need that
Uh, leave that tell em ease back
Yeah, I didnt wanna cry no more
Cam kicked this and I relapsed
K: Hit the weed man for a deep chat
Unpack with the 3 5 then I lean back
Smile on show but the pride get tucked
Yeah, I got brave face didnt wanna need that
L: There aint no time for no messin
I keep the past in the present
K: They was tryna make darkness a weapon
L: I was tryna make darkness a blessing
K: And since the stakes is high
L: Uh, Im just a little man tryna get by
K: Big facts no dimming my light on sight
These bruddas aint killing my vibe
JNR:
L: Uh, tell em tell em
K: Pinnochio knows no bounds but hes trying
That brudda say he run the jungle but they lying
Im feeling more George Orwell with my defiance
J:
L: Uh
Triple six, turn that shit round pigs flying
Man down
Heart break, mums crying
Yeah, the same reason sons dying
Oh they lost themselves in lying
Oh they lost themselves in lying
Oh they lost themselves in lying
Oh they lost themselves in lying |
I used to like how it felt to fall
Until I realised it was one way down, only one way down
There aint a quick way back at all
Thats when you notice its a long way down, only one way down
Ayy, ayy, ayy
Told myself I shouldnt
Once again I find myself wrist deep in the jar for that cookie
Know I say I shouldnt fall in my with the kitty
But a brother might die for that pussy
Got me like ooh, wait
We goin up like a Tuesday
I wonder why the lady choose me
Tell me you love me , tell me you hate
Tell me your reasons , human mistake
Tempted to touch , tempted to take
Swim in your ocean , venture to taste
The salt after liquor , lemons are bitter
Lemonade Bey , throw the bouquet
You smile when it rains , you petty that way
I hate that I love it, you love when I stay
I love when you come, make love in rain
Then lie to me slow, I cant feel my face
Hakuna Matata, I cant change your ways
Nor would I want to, I found you that way
Nor would I want to, I found you that way
Aint no fuckin in the champagne room
But aint nobody cuffin off a first date spoon
Aint nobody tryna fall in like too soon
Everybody lonely, I know
Seems were all connected but together we ghost
I double tap to double tap
Double back on bubble backs
Fall in love on Instagram
Loved her once, didnt call her back
Trusted once, to hell with that
Act like Im too real for that
Pretend like Im too grown for this
Know that Im too old for this
Papi make you pacify
Know you not the vocal type
Less you of the local wine
Less you like a bottle deep
Love you til you go to sleep
Wake up to a poltergeist
I used to like how it felt to fall
Until I realised it was one way down, only one way down
There aint a quick way back at all
Thats when you notice its a long way down, only one way down |
Im so, Im so proud of you
True say I never doubted you
Long time we took the longer way
True say you had to pave a way
Im so, Im so proud of you
Long time knew I could ride for you
Dark days right there beside of you
Still dont know why they try you
But Im so, Im so—
If life a bitch then Im with her
Thats my homie, thats my bredren
Thats my slime, thats my nigga, I
Remember the nights on the floor
We was hungry, we was cold
We would pray for something more like
I remember five nights, same clothes
Doin road, ten toes, I was feelin like
This cannot be it, gotta switch
But the streets wont leave me lone
If I die, Id be lonely
Aint no feelings when you this high, yeah
Call me back when you decide, yeah
We aint sittin on the fence round here
Aint no ceilings when you this high up
More love on this side, yeah
Me and mine only need divide, yeah
When we talkin bout the big slice, yeah
Im so, Im so proud of you
True say I never doubted you
Long time we took the longer way
True say you had to pave a way
Im so, Im so proud of you
Long time knew I could ride for you
Dark days right there beside of you
Still dont know why they try you
But Im so, Im so—
If life a bitch, then Im with her
I know karma double-back
I know misery her nigga
I remember the nights I was lower than the dirty
Sip-sippin til I swerve like a Slip N Slide
Knew I had the drive need a pick me up
From the gutter to the glory like the Midas touch
Who-who really shootin in the gym?
Had to grow, had to dig
Had to really look within like
Aint no feelings when you this high, yeah
Call me back when you decide, yeah
We aint sittin on the fence round here
Aint no ceilings when you this high up
More love on this side, yeah
Me and mine only need divide, yeah
When we talkin bout the big slice, yeah
Im so, Im so proud of you
True say I never doubted you
Long time we took the longer way
True say you had to pave a way
Im so, Im so proud of you
Long time knew I could ride for you
Dark days right there beside of you
Still dont know why they try you
But Im so, Im so—
Im so, Im so, yeah
Im so, Im so proud of you, yeah
Im so, Im so proud of you, ayy |
Skit
Ohh, I saw you know beep
Oh that’s nice, I heard he just made the
XXL cover or something, right?
That’s cool, so you make music too right?
Verse 1
You know i’ve never had a swisha, true
You know Ive never seen the ‘beca. True
Jet lagging, GMT. I was early, yeah yeah
Overspent on the Marly now Im tweaking, Yeah Yeah
Testimony of a poet off of Nostrand.
See their eye’s follow me I don’t know them
Noticed you notice my focus was glued to my progress
If it wasn’t profit I was hopeless
So what if Im new here
What if I like it
What if my fear was inviting
Karma come bless me
Calm and collected
We all have to eat
I respect it
30 on the bridge
Knucks on the playlist
Fucking up the words to my favourite
Uber everywhere like Im paid shit
Fuck I have to lose
Nothing left to prove
No one eve knows who I am here
Bet they don’t know Im the truth
Bet they dont know
Bet that she still come through
Bet that her best friend think Im cute
Think that Im next up
Pass me the aux now it’s awkward
I play one of my songs
She knew the words then it’s game on
She like the chorus
The song didn’t have one
Fuck it she can still come through
So what if Im new here
What if I like it
What if my fear was inviting
Karma come bless me
Calm and collected
We all have to eat
I respect it
So what if Im new here
Marti
In all the small towns, Im yet to go
In all the big cities that we know
I’ll meet you there I’ll meet you there
I’ll meet you there
I’ll meet you there
Verse 2
Yeah
You know that love was never promised
You know I know your never honest
Men lie women lie, who cares?
Belly aching on that life’s not fair shit
Young dumb and careless
Fiction and more make shit
Rolling in the kitchen
Speaking at the function
You was on your black girl magic
Yeah I fuck with it, didn’t like the skin
You were in but you were stuck with it
Curious to say, hesitate to ask
Let you carry just to see if I relate
You say you were tired, everyones on Xan
We went from the leaders, to the dealers to
The drug hounds. Molly for millennials
Hands on the ten two
I was on my way to Manhattan at like ten two
Staring out the window
Thinking back on home
Would they even miss me if they knew that I was gone
Let’s get gone, forget where Im heading. I just did a show
For like 700 pennies, throw it on the Insta
Double up on likes. We should stop on 9th
Grab a dollar slice, Staring at the pavement
You was on a tab. Little white pouch in your purse for the dab
Lucy, lucid dreaming. Lucy off the noose
Lucy off the goose. Loosing all my demons
Lost inside your phone, lost with your screen
Just another contact, barely making contact
Barely making sense
So what if Im new here
Marti
In all the small towns, Im yet to go
In all the big cities that we know
I’ll meet you there I’ll meet you there
I’ll meet you there
I’ll meet you there
Skit
Oh yeah, I thought you look familiar.
So so where you from again?
Word? Nah I love your music it’s mad poppin’
Like you got a little future or whatever like for real
Like it’s cute, You cute! Like Im feeling it you got a little swag
Where you from again? Watchusay?
Ah that’s cute, alright
Well, you know me and my girls we just gonna go to this club
Um, but it’s like guest list, you know about it right?
Like everybody supposed to be going
If you going can you put me and my girls on the list
Because Id really love to roll with you
No, just so we can get to know each other more
Like Im really interested in like how you grew up
You know, it’s interesting |
I’m overthinking, I think that I’m slipping I’m bout to crazy
This shit is different, but I think that I’m slipping I’m bout to go crazy
I think that I’m slipping I’m bout to crazy
But I think that I’m slipping
It’s sad that I can’t press pause
Goddamn I can’t get her out
I can hear her thoughts
She don’t speak to me but I can hear her thoughts
She’s a part of my ego
Straight to the demons, she’s strong
Stronger than gravity and she’s tryna get me down
But I can’t let go, can’t stop it
She even talks and breaths like me
No, I’m not alone like a nightmare
So I pray to the lord cuz she’s out there
I felt warmer, warmer
And the sweat came down from my face
Wanna move on to a better place
But she won’t get out of my way
I see
Danger danger
There’s a killer inside me, I feel like my life is in
Danger danger
Can’t get her out, give it all that I got
But she won’t let go
She won’t let go
Go go go go
She won’t let go
She driving me crazy
Blocking the sunlight
Closing the curtains focus on everything I haven’t done right
Conversations, overrated
Losing my mind, I’m stuck in the past
No she don’t care that I’m sad
My pains entertaining and I’m making a laugh
But the joke ain’t funny
Yeah bitch stop laughing
Imma give it all till I get you down
I wanna make you fall and get past it
I wanna make you fall and get past it
True killer, pushing myself to the limit
I’m winning but the fight ain’t finished
Nah, The fight ain’t finished
I see
Danger danger
There’s a killer inside me, I feel like my life is in
Danger danger
Can’t get her out, give it all that I got
But she won’t let go
She won’t let go
Go go go go
She won’t let go
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
Been a very long time since I opened up
Been a very long time since I spoke to god
My mother told me I don’t call enough
Cause I was too busy call a bluff
Been a while since a really got personal
Personally
I can’t recall the last time that I gave a fuck
Bout my health, bout losing weight
Dont see myself
Wait wait wait wait
Dance with the devil, two steps with my demons
Lust love and lies come way to frequent
My mechanism play better in defense
Death to the tears I was born in the deep end
They try to throw shade on my shadows
The life on the streets got me parro
It’s nothing that a brother couldn’t handle
Already earned stripes in the jungle
Danger danger
There’s a killer inside me, I feel like my life is in
Danger danger
Can’t get her out, give it all that I got
But she won’t let go
She won’t let go
Go go go go
She won’t let go |
I match my lighter with my Nicorette
Then I match my coffee with my cigarette
Know my end is coming, dont know how to quit
Know my people dying, dont know how theyll live
Woke up in the morning on the left side
Wake up to my maker, hope Im dressed right
They gon read about my in the headlines
I just hope they get me on my best side
Know my end is coming, dont know how to quit
Know my people dying, dont know how theyll live
They say take it easy but I know they lying
Lately Ive been, tryna fight it
I need me a one way ticket outta here
I just need a reason, then Im over there
I just need a minute, think Im overworked
They say they about it, but I know they scared
I aint mad about it na me too
I can never tell you what youve been through
Dont fall for the kitty, na be cool
Before they read about you in the Me Too
Know my end is coming, dont know how to quit
Know my people dying, dont know how theyll live
Woke up in the morning on the West Side
Know she aint my shawty, but the sex right
She might when Im stressed out
Say that she dont love me cos Im next out
I might hear the same thing in the next town
Know they lying
Lately Ive been, tryna fight it
Tryna hold on and survive it
I need guidance, I need God
I need guidance, I need God
I spoke to God last night
She said dont worry, son, Im proud of you
What was meant to be was meant to be
What was meant for you was meant for you
I spoke to God last night
Still I match my lighter with my Nicorette
And I match my coffee with my cigarette
Know my end is coming, dont know how to quit
Know my people dying, dont know...
I spoke to God last night
I spoke to God last night
She said Harry said hes proud of you
Please dont focus on what could have been
But you do what you was meant to him
I spoke to God last night
She said the right thing might not always come out the right way
The right time might not always fall on the right day
And thats fine, thats life, thats life-like
Getting paid n paying bills like
Speaking your truth when it dont feel right
Like losing to win it
We all die, right?
When do we finish?
How was you feeling?
So what do we do next? |
You been there for me wherever you go
You leave a trace that I can pick up with my soul
And I know you care for me, your colors do show
Let’s seal that fate that we’ve been chasing round the globe
Cause I want you, baby
Yes, I want you, baby
And this feelings so true, oh yeah
Cause I want you, so true
Can’t nothing weigh you down,
I see you making moves, and Im very proud
And I be moving, too, I cant stay around
For too long, thats not my style
Wish I could turn this plane around
Baby for you, Im on my way
Dont be confused with what they say
Im yours, Im yours, Im yours, Im yours
You been there for me wherever you go
You leave a trace that I can pick up with my soul
And I know you care for me, your colors do show
Let’s seal that fate that we’ve been chasing round the globe
Cause I want you, baby
Yes, I want you, baby
And this feelings so true, oh yeah
Cause I want you, so true
I love you like keys need bass
I love you like stars love space, and uh
I love you like I know me
I long for a warm embrace
Its crazy outside
Lets stay home and dance, baby
I know you dont mind
Ima give you loving when its on repeat
One more round wouldnt hurt
I save room for dessert
You know how to make that worth it
Lord have mercy, love me like I dont deserve it
Love me like a sinner, you know I aint perfect
Love me at my lowest when Im down and broken, ay ay
Still weak like Monday to Sunday
You teach me how to be vulnerable always
You taught me how to be comfortable falling
You showed me freedom so often and cautious and cool
But Ill take that all for you, Ill risk it all for you
You been there for me wherever you go
You leave a trace that I can pick up with my soul
And I know you care for me, your colors do show
Let’s seal that fate that we’ve been chasing round the globe
There, meet me there
And Ill run, here I come
Ill be there, meet me there
And youll run, here you come
Ill be there, meet me there
And Ill run, here I come
Ill be there |
Caught in the way
Got so much to say
Losing myself to somebody else who cannot relate
A spark in the wire
Fighting the rain
Nobody else, Im beside myself with nothing to gain
At the end of it, it all comes down to this
Looking for a moment I can miss
Tell me, is it worse if I insist
If our last moment ends like this?
Please pick up the phone
Im not alone
Im not your stepping stone
Dont need it
Rushing out this home
I think Ive had enough
I just cant see the reason
At the end of it, it all comes down to this
Looking for a moment I can miss
Tell me, is it worst if I insist
If our last moment ends like this? |
Yeah
Gang shit
Uh
Ehh
Woof
I no go gentleman at all, tall
I no go hesitate ina the caution
I see your fancy things, I need my portion
I tell the belly, the belly be looking gorgeous
True African, original
Not gangsters of style
True African, original
Not gangsters of style
True African, original
Not gangsters of style
True African, original
Uh
Most young kings, no go leave with their head
I need my money like I need my respect
They gon hate me when Im here
They gon hate me when Im dead
Take, take, take but there soon be nothing left
A critic call me no answer
So critical but they never had no answers, uh
I am not without the banker
Midas, dropping gold like Im Mansa
Lent me your ear, I gon tell story
Uh, wait
Me not get worried
Uh, where?
problem
All the cocaine, but not many options
What they cost me aint what they cost them
Yeah, we had dreams but you never lost them
I no be gentleman at all, tall
I no go hesitate, I no go caution
I see your fancy things, I need my portion
I tell the belly, the belly be looking gorgeous
True African, original
Not gangsters of style
True African, original
Not gangsters of style
True African, original
Not gangsters of style |
They say no man is an island
But I left island
Had to do my ting
If I sense any sign in your eye that your trifling
Its bye no fussing or fighting
Seen all they drops the same
Seen all buss downs and chains already
Save your drip, made it rain already
Pissed off ca my cup couldnt take more henny
Lets discuss it
Wanna tell lies to the public
Cool, if you like it I love it
But true Im that guy in the function
Spit fire leave shit alight like a Bunsen burner
Man will grill beef, you dont want this burger
Money filthy, a disgusting earner
Wordup
Thats ya luck its gone further
Do a man like Klashnekoff its
Getting dough on thе front end
Cant take man for a prick, no thorn
I dont need no horns I blow my own trumpet
Thank road for thе funding
Only bro knows how its rolled into hundreds
Lizzie gone rogue, pink notes in abundance
Did all my bicep curls and my lunges
True say you aint yourself when you hungry
Coldest
I dont know how you aint noticed
Without Ghetts there aint no list
Your new shits like my old shit
Your old shit was just so shit
Hold it
Who wants smoke? Ill roll it
Who wants rope? Ill hold it
Lets play hangman
How do I know you aint got no heart?
X-ray and scan
Them man havent been transparent
But I know the minerals theyve got missing
Indirects often, indirect
Just bare subliminals theyve got written
I dont wanna play fill in the blanks
Id rather play fill up the bank
Easy, think of a plan
Meet me, pick up a shank
BP, fill up the tank
I was in the cold, no comfort
Grade 8s in music thats why I can blow my own trumpet
I got news for the public
I got views for the pundit
Im a sellout I aint got room for a hundred
I can only look down on people who gossip
I stay 22 rumours above them
Fuck them!
When the beat intro drops and youre screwing your face and blowing your top
A shot no fighter could block
A weight nobody could spot
Beats we are burning em
London to Birmingham
Course you have heard of em
Fellas are shellers
Were perming them, permanent
Jump from this plane but diss man for the turbulence
Plane we observing on so far above that it gets kinda burdensome
They are not ready for shells that were serving them
Food for your thought like Im swallowing, murdering
Gurgling on your own blood and its curdling
Your stomach is weaker than Wurzle is
My word on it
Im earning it
These scriptures I speak they just learning it
Street shit in deep shit
Like Ancient Egypt and 3 clips
Like read this and take in your teachings
If he flips then break face of idiots
Hes quick to make pace ca hes sick
And these pricks gave chase but he slips
Not a day in your life, I tell you these grips
Blood they grip on the track better than V6
And when Ive written a rap Ill tell you these dicks
They couldnt bust if they gave em 3 chicks
A whole load of crumpet
No bro you dont blow your trumpet
I roll over dunces
I throw loads of punches
Dickheads and lunches
Back, back, gimme space, gimme
Got God, got jah with me
Why they never wanna war with me?
Why the devil wanna spar with me?
I been around, been around for a sec
I need TLC like left eye
When shit got peak man left I
Now my heart turn black like Wes Snipes
Sniper
Watch a man shed skin like viper
Drop 2, 2 bars when I like her
No coming back like Rikers
All that drip but youre not impressive
Spark my thoughts, pen my lessons
Man cant talk too much bout blessings
Them man there might think Im flexing |
Pote
Dynamite, in your eyes
Ive seen it twice
Across the night mmm
Across the night
What’s your price?
Ive seen it twice
What’s the crime?
Dynamite
Ive seen it twice
In your eyes mmm
Whats the price
I’ve seen it twice
Across the night
Once or twice
Ms. Dynamite
Kojey
Great, seems I got your attention
So i’mma bring all of the things you forget to mention
Your words slice like knives, still cut the tension
Past tense, we tried. Far to condensing for your taste
Your chase, my only fear you’ve seen worse days
If you could see through the word play
Wouldn’t have fucked in the first place
I’m like please stop talking
Way to sober to make this less awkward
Words don’t mean much
Your too passive and Im too riled up
Started with kind words but they don’t get nicer
Could have thought twice but
Shoulda woulda coulda’s don’t keep lights on
And Im the provider
At least what Im taught but
Men don’t cry nah
Men don’t feel …
Tamera Foster
Mm
Owl on the edge again
Trying to find release
The more you kill me with your words
The more I feel at peace
Oh of course you don’t remember
I’ve heard the truth before
Naked lies are hard to witness
Fear I want you more
So I put my hand on to the pen
And turn the pen on to the paper
To clear every insecurity as I think
Over what to say first
Where do I begin the suffering
It just won’t die
I’ll count my blessings
Take a breath in and write
Write it out
Kojey
Oedipus Oedipus
I need you more like my mama
I need you more like mine
Possessive or protective
Those with regrets are the first
To preach lessons. First forge weapons
First seek blessings, first to throw stones
The lonely sleep less. Ah just forget it
Can’t waste words on ears that won’t listen
I hang up, you call back
You hang up then get mad
Push my buttons you need attention
Your male friends a yes man he sounds pathetic
I’ll say what I want I don’t need permission
Do not beg do not need forgiveness
Do not shoot the witness
You said you love me how you found me
But tried to switch up everyone I kept around me
I’ll leave my flaws by the door
Lip lock with logic and make sweet passion sense
To you
Dynamite, in your eyes
Ive seen it twice
Across the night mmm
Across the night
What’s your price?
Ive seen it twice
What’s the crime?
Dynamite
Ive seen it twice
In your eyes mmm
Whats the price
I’ve seen it twice
Across the night
Once or twice
Ms. Dynamite |
BEAT ONE
Ok. Straight in
My enemies leave faceless
Can’t slip, can’t leave no traces
Put faith in the books like mace did
Gracious. Found self on distant stages
Found truth in distant statements. Man can’t
Tell me about patience. Spent nights in
The darkest places. Man can’t tell me about grind
Ten toes Put holes in trainers
Can’t parlay with paigons
Old friends now distant strangers
Old money make new friends later
Long time since minimum wages
Long time since man has seen angels
Ok, your bad now cool
Young boy move like man a old school
G’s I know said they don’t know you
So we roll through your ends like man a local
Ok your bad now, cool? Go on then do a what a bad man do
I know man that will test that gangster
Make man lean like Criminal smooth
Whoa. Mic to Mouth. Cheque to Cheque
And I still go city to city repping the set like whoa
Who got now? I got next. Don’t lack. They wanna slip i’m at necks. like whoa. Still do the trouble with no stress. And I still got a couple of tenants that owe rent like whoa. Couple of seconds till mans vex and my bruddas wanna air the breeze like air vents
We make this shit look normal x2
I know a couple bruddas that ain’t cordial
I got a couple of scars that aint normal
We make this shit look normal x2
I got a couple of poems that aint formal
But we just load the pen up and aim for you
Them cant done the dance like me
Didnt wanna know now they look like me
Ring ring ring, but they get declined
Only got day one gs round me
How am I feeling?
Active man can’t tell be bout active
Loose lips sink ships like anchors
Manaman had strength samson
Manaman knew tons like stuey
Still By any means like malcom
Them man just talk won’t do it
Them man run youth like fountain
Mind mine, then I stack my stack my
Me nuh bother with no bad vibe. Bad mine
Still im coming for the crown, yeah that time
Yeah That time. Little bit late like black time
Oi big man. Oi big man. Black skin don’t mean come Trick man. Black thoughts in a blacked out whip man. From the block man been run distance
Cool. Go then. Cool. Come again. Cool. Try tek man fool, man a get spun. Stone cold stun. Pen up and done. Bangers on deck when I pen them jewels. ----
All the time fake love might make man rich. Still love for my gs in the bits. 233 +44 +27. Say we run like this. All the fake love make man cold, know I know been that. Know I been this. Know I been down, now they call man king
BEAT TWO
Pen up pepper then spray
Tell your wifey behave. You couldn’t imagine
Scenario patterned. We split it a couple ways
It’s only the money we chase. It’s only the bruddas we trust
They chitter, they chatter they think that badder
But that dont get none of you paid
Still I’m looking for a challenge, while im building on my balance
A couple feelings got an abandoned
Heart colder than a bando
Oh wait that’s your man doe
Won’t hesitate to get him handled
Henny got me feeling rambo
Painting pictures like im van goh
Poor traits on a canvas. Basquiats in the mansion
She don’t love me cause I’m handsome
Still i hold the pussy ransom
Me on my lonely, kenzo sleeve so cosy
Lungs stay smokey. Know I cant lack. They know me now
Face so bait. I roll deep
Big no bag no fashion
Suttin light to put in the racks in
Lights camera no action. All talk and no savage
What you flossing on gram with?
I just double down in taxes
Cop my mama something fancy
Hid the rest inside the mattress
Wakanda rich. Aspirations x2
Stacking digits on a slow grind, always been a man of patience
Only winners at the table. We don’t owe your boy no favours. brothers still killing brothers please don’t let the cain get able
BEAT 3
Either way I’m here forever they know that
May not pose for the kodak but gave you wisdom like Yoda
Found bass in your vocal but that dont make you no solider
Winter made you grow colder, finding money for heat
No that was no easy feet. Until I did it myself
I came in on my lonely and Mother Natured my health
Bet that they miss the old me. The one they didn’t support
Bet they copy the blueprint and try forget me of course. Until I switch the cadence, never seen no vacation. Ain’t no stranger to work. I’m in tune in with demons
I tell them do their worst. This my gift curse
This my testament verse. Scribble this on hearse
I’m no stranger to patience, I’ve been tested by fate. I look death face. And say I’ve been before
I am angalou’s pen. Last breath of shakur
If I really spoke my mind would they
Truly endorse. Man made I am fiction
Bet love my addictions. If I drown in the
Sauce and gucci down to my socks
If I start my own business
And hit the belly like ross
Will they build the black business or
Let it fall to the floor
Let it burn to the ground
While we riot for peace
While they sit and they watch
From their chariot seats
I’m in mariott suite
Im on the 50th floor
Wearing every damn chain
That I couldnt afford
Coming through the front door no keys
Dreaming that we make it until then no sleep
Nothing left to lost, Pray they comes
I am still a legend when i’m 6ft deep
Top missing, face in the scope
If the juju don’t work. Pray the shot misses
I got my hand on the bible, I swear
It was my fault i’m sorry if I failed
Another lost nigga. They say it
What they don’t preach. I say it’s
What don’t teach. If the politicians
Then the children don’t flinch. I know mothers
In the system. I got brothers in the wing and we
Will not go to war for mans sins. On life
Milk tokens, 40 pennies for the bus. Now we bus down, 40 something odd on the coffin. Lay a concrete. Double back and count our losses
It was just another day when they leave with no options. Windows down hear the screeching when
The tire starts. The people are tired and that’s
Exactly when the fire starts. We felt stuck. Gentrifying all our neighbourhoods. Who helps us? Comprising on our livelihood
While they sit and they watch
From chariot sear. I’m in mariott suite
Im on the 50th floor. Wearing every damn chain
That I couldnt afford |
Smooth..
Cigarette smoke, Gin in my Tonic ooh
That got me loose, let me be honest dude
Could have been us, but I was playing I know..
Better I do, but never do
You say its old, I say we cool well.. that may be true
You never do tell, we never did speak much before the mood fell
And my baby ??? give me that blues feel
What do I know?
What a fool Ive been, In my soul
Keeps on bickering, and I know..
Ill end up blown, if Im not careful
Caroline, No
Playing in the background on the radio
No good for the soul
Caroline, No
What do I know?
Caroline had to go...
Another joke, taking her for trips from my home
On everybodys lips, thats shes gone, oh..
Did the girl wrong, so predictable..
Caroline, No
Playing in the background on the radio
No good for the soul
Caroline, No
What do I know?
Caroline had to go...
Caroline, No
Playing in the background on the radio
No good for the soul
Caroline, No
What do I know?
Caroline had to go...
Who said love dont hurt, babe thats a fable
You cant play those games, no this aint Halo
You say Im no saint, but thats a label
The I say, I cant claim Kwa you no angel
I know I cant be nobodys saviour
And I dont earn no stripes on my behaviour
??? you might pipe up and get to snappin but
Who here, really hear who, you busy chattin well
Cool cool, you & the gram, you got a new dude
Didnt need that on my phone, I see you 2
Remember how B.B. King, you know that blues blues
Too true, never knew love could have that voodoo
Child be still be still, Be real be real
That brotha hit it like me, or just the usual?
Caroline...
I know |
The sins set on Saturday evening and sons rise on Sunday to the sound of Get up. We are going to church
Even with the eyes of a minor, I knew my mother was just as much endowed with her spirituality as I guess
Intuition told her the streets will not raise this child
As we pass police tape and hat-tipping constables, I would be laughing every color like light with stained glass windows and be reminded of how fickle life is
When was a kid I went to primary school with just got life. I would envy the wings of a pigeon
But I never understood why they choose to stay pecking for scraps in inner city blocks
Holding hopelessly to the next piece of bread that comes in their direction, as if a little was enough
Honestly speaking, I only felt guilty when abused, piu or burning incense, they dont remove the scent of faux pas
There was no kumbaya; I did not care how amazing Grace was - this was not for me
Understanding the philosophies behind verse was childs play, yet childs play seemed more enticing than an hours service of contradictions
I went to what many would call a white church
The bread tasted like paper but the wine a cheeky Merlot
Pardonne moi je me although I did not feel belonging to
Two minutes til service ends removed concern
Two weeks later a man who would teach me Sunday school got arrested for selling cocaine
I once went to a black church
I shared pigment with my peers but felt more alien than ever
Prayer so intense they served more as a distraction than an inspiration
Indignation riddled my core when I saw how much the collection played with the minds of the poor
Eyes closed, tears cascading down side by side with saliva as native tongues would call to the heavens, and I would simply watch, notice the posters, with the pastors face on it
His watch seemed nicer than most. Logos, buzzwords, slogans, spilling from the lips of the host. This service was a business
Alas, there I am, on a Sunday humming to a hymn
His blood is in my hands his bodys in the bread
But before that I was taught by an elder to question everything, to see and doubt everything, to whose really in control of the scriptures
A game of Chinese whispers couldve diluted what was said
And with all this Christian merchandise, feels like somebodys using his body
[Chorus}:
Preacher, preacher tell me will I get to heaven Ive only been sinning half as much as you
Dont condemn me, dont condemn me, dont condemn me, lest you walk at least a day in my shoes
Now whos right? And whos wrong? And whats light? And whats the truth?
Or are we all just living proof?
{Verse 2]:
Years went by, Im older now, sins set on Saturday evening and sons rise on Sunday to the sound of Im going to church. You should come.
My mother was no longer in doubt, but intuition told me the church would not change my mother
When she spends the whole night worrying exactly how she would keep the lights on, but scrapes together her last penny to put in the pocket of her church
Whod sell her wrist bags for five pounds because it will bless you
Handkerchiefs made holy with a fee, DVDs, guided prayer MP3s because it will save you
But I will be damned if the church saves my mother before I do
Preacher serving blessings to masses like cocaine
Disregarding he do to a life darker than Coco Bees that still taste as sweet
Miss the pastors judgement and you might hear me weep tears of joy to know my mother just wants the best for me
But cant see past the a small principle
:
Just want the best for you. You just want the best for me
I just want the best for you. You just want the best for me
:
Preacher, preacher tell me will I get to heaven Ive only been sinning half as much as you
Dont condemn me, dont condemn me, dont condemn me, lest you walk at least a day in my shoes
Now whos right? And whos wrong? And whats light? And whats the truth?
Or are we all just living proof?
:
Preacher, preacher tell me will I get to heaven Ive only been sinning half as much as you
Dont condemn me, dont condemn me, dont condemn me, til youve walked at least a day in my shoes
Now whos right? And whos wrong? And whats life? Whats the truth? Tell me whats the truth
Or are we all just living proof? All just living proof, all just living
Preacher, preacher, yeah
Are we all just, all just?
Whos right? And whos wrong? But whats life? And what the truth, whats the truth, whats the?
Living proof, living proof |
Damn Im
Everything they wanted me to look like
Couple bad bitches with a skintight
Bans in my pockets like a book file I’m like
Oh, damn Im like
Everything they wanted me to think like
Tell them sip slow, never think twice
Cause shit go left when you live right, I’m like
Say yes if you notice the flowetry
It’s ok to miss me I’ve been gone a minute
But I just came back with the poetry
Some brain in diplomacy
Need less fucks some spaces of loyalty
Love all trust few do wrong to none
You know the policy
Tell them to leave and they love me
These blogs get way too comfy
Hit the word count but do the words count
My words be more to the public, never
Sugarcoated never sugarcoated
And I free time like Peter wrote it
Pick apart the scene like culture vultures
When I back can I hold your focus
Bet they love that
When I give them what I do they don’t want that
Want another dark brother with some light raps?
Tell me where your mind’s at
I can show you where to find that
Where the Gs move keys on to minors
And PR turns thieves into martyrs
And the system made a home for our fathers
I’m like…
Wait
Damn Im
Everything they wanted me to look like
Couple bad bitches with a skintight
Bands in my pockets like a books file I’m like
Oh, damn Im
Everything they wanted me to think like
Tell them sip slow, never think twice
Cause shit go left when you live right, I’m like
Wait
Damn Im
Everything they wanted me to look like
Couple bad bitches with a skintight
Bands in my pockets like a books file I’m like
Oh, damn Im
Everything they wanted me to think like
Tell them sip slow, never think twice
Cause shit go left when you live right, I’m like
I made inner peace feel like a passion project
Synonyms like a hypocrites cate it
Judge a lady from her handshake
And a man on whether I can see the synonym fables
Made a blind man feel like he can see again
Just to look through the bullshit that they’re feeding him
I’ve touched elbows with the reapest skins
So I fear no man
Even preachers sin
It’s like everyone forgot where they came from
And the ends don’t feel like home
Luxury flats, niche little stores to go and buy crap and the rent goes up
Till we move out the flats
The land that we stand on, the code that we stood for
Convincing you to think that postcode wars is all that you’re good for
Think twice, wait, think twice, wait
Bounce in the visions like safe
Skip to the loose, sword double in a queue, wait
Never saw, never to the taste of the night, for the remedy
The punch when we stuck here in a rave
I can never cheat on my barber
The only ever place where the real never fades
Dress like homegrown, smell like homegrown
I’ma stay homegrown till I find peace in the grave
Wait
Bet they love that
When I give them what I do they don’t love that
Want another dark brother with some light raps?
Tell me where your mind’s at
I can show you where to find that
Where the Gs move keys on to minors
And PR turns thieves into martyrs
And the system made a home for our fathers
I’m like…
Wait
Damn Im
Everything they wanted me to look like
Couple bad bitches with a skintight
Bans in my pockets like books while I’m like
Oh, damn Im
Everything they wanted me to think like
Tell them sip slow, never think twice
Cause shit go left when you live right, I’m like
Wait
Damn Im
Damn Im
Damn Im pretty
I can feel it don’t watch you
Couldn’t touch this break count
Would sweat your fingers
I’m like…
One last look in the mirror
I’m like “Bravo!...Bellissimo!”
You see the video?
But wait till you see the next visual I’m laughing!
I said
Wait till you see the next visual I’m laughing!
“Where I come from... the challenges are quite different. There are no drug dealers or pimps, few thieves but, theres only the environment.” |
See it through my shades, I feel it all in my braids
They know that they cant replace, but still they try imitate
Oh why do they try us?
Something in my veins keep telling me we aint safe
I see the hate in your face. I know, no, we aint the same
So why do they try us?
Skin glow like the moon above
I can taste the power on my tongue
I Know the source is something ancient
Left the blueprints and its blatant
You? You should call me royalty
Give me my crown. Gimme-Give me my crown
Give mе my crown. Give it to me. Bow down.
Big flip
Can I get a-Can I gеt a witness
Make a little space on the wish list
Walked through hell and got blisters
Peace of mind encrypted
Mama didnt raise no victim
What I wouldnt do for the Kingdom
Ride out bare face for the mission
True say that the plantain sweet
True say, revenge delicious
Marinate through all four seasons
Man a age like wine not milk
And I still do road in silk
Moonwalk on the block in slippers
Me and them man are different ilk
All black when I move in stealth
Clean sweep. Move. Beep Beep
Swerve bad mind and repeat
Snakes get block then delete
Need high notes like Bee Gees
Cant do chat or kiki
Need more depth like 3D
When I go ghost, cant see me
Give me my crown
Give me my crown
Give me my crown
Give me my crown
Give me my crown
Give me my crown
Give me my crown
Give me my crown
Gimme that |
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Dataset Card for "huggingartists/kojey-radical"
Dataset Summary
The Lyrics dataset parsed from Genius. This dataset is designed to generate lyrics with HuggingArtists. Model is available here.
Supported Tasks and Leaderboards
Languages
en
How to use
How to load this dataset directly with the datasets library:
from datasets import load_dataset
dataset = load_dataset("huggingartists/kojey-radical")
Dataset Structure
An example of 'train' looks as follows.
This example was too long and was cropped:
{
"text": "Look, I was gonna go easy on you\nNot to hurt your feelings\nBut I'm only going to get this one chance\nSomething's wrong, I can feel it..."
}
Data Fields
The data fields are the same among all splits.
text
: astring
feature.
Data Splits
train | validation | test |
---|---|---|
138 | - | - |
'Train' can be easily divided into 'train' & 'validation' & 'test' with few lines of code:
from datasets import load_dataset, Dataset, DatasetDict
import numpy as np
datasets = load_dataset("huggingartists/kojey-radical")
train_percentage = 0.9
validation_percentage = 0.07
test_percentage = 0.03
train, validation, test = np.split(datasets['train']['text'], [int(len(datasets['train']['text'])*train_percentage), int(len(datasets['train']['text'])*(train_percentage + validation_percentage))])
datasets = DatasetDict(
{
'train': Dataset.from_dict({'text': list(train)}),
'validation': Dataset.from_dict({'text': list(validation)}),
'test': Dataset.from_dict({'text': list(test)})
}
)
Dataset Creation
Curation Rationale
Source Data
Initial Data Collection and Normalization
Who are the source language producers?
Annotations
Annotation process
Who are the annotators?
Personal and Sensitive Information
Considerations for Using the Data
Social Impact of Dataset
Discussion of Biases
Other Known Limitations
Additional Information
Dataset Curators
Licensing Information
Citation Information
@InProceedings{huggingartists,
author={Aleksey Korshuk}
year=2021
}
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