1. |
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Ha!
Mic check
Yo said mic check
One two
Yo said one two
Fly
Yeah bitch
Yeah bitch
Yeah bitch
Fuck you tryna say to me?
I got homies round the way
Down to slay something
Yeah bitch
Fuck you tryna say to me?
Came from hard-knocks
Leave ya whole face bloody
Yeah bitch
Fuck you tryna say to me?
Haiti baby
Keep a flag and a blade on me
Yeah bitch
Fuck you gotta say to me?
If it ain't bout the money
It can wait homie
Yeah
Cause I'm always with the business
Invest in the squad
Yeah we boutta start a business
If it's
Fucked up
Work it out like it's fitness
Gave the homie out back
A couple packs
And he flipped them
I got
Big dreams
We doing big tings
Rarely see me rocking jerseys
Yet I'm always with the team
Talking
Boss moves
Double cross who?
I can smell a fucking set up
Leave you wet up like a loon
Wait a minute
Wait a minute
I ain't even finished
Smoking big purple
Like a mac
Make you grimace
Yeah we winning
Had to flip the script
I'm directing all the clips
Shoot a star and make a wish
Ah!
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Please don't tell me how to feel
(Never taught how to handle my emotions)
I done spent late nights
Fighting demons
Popping Pills
(Used the drink and the drugs to suppress until explosion)
Asking is we lit yet
Homie told me I should chill
(Homies ain't even notice)
Cold blooded reptilian
I cannot relax till all my family
Making billions
Steady getting cheese
And cooking sauce
Like a Sicilian
All my deep cuts
Bring in life
Like a caesarian
(Flooded with the vibes)
I mean how you 'gon compare the kid
When I'm rare as this
You can't rush no food for thought
I take my time preparing it
Let the beef simmer slow
Till the fork put tears in it
Shed a tear for my enemies
(Everybody gotta cry)
Pray that we can find some synergy
(I used to want to die)
Lord knows I'm just a sinner
I've been praying for the winter
I done came from the hell and heat
(Fire burning up inside)
Down bad seeking revelry
(Got too difficult to hide)
I remain where the rebels be
(Hold my head to the sky)
Built a home, I ain't need a lease
(Got my family by my side)
I contain rage, and hella beast
(Tell em we 'gon be alright)
And I walk em with a leash, yeah
(Put my demons on a leash)
Walker Texas with the range, yeah
(I see heaven within reach)
You want the peace
But brought the piece, damn
(Never fold, never crease)
I made a platform outta pain, yeah
(Flaws all part of me)
Diddy bopping on the graves
Of our so called masters
Diddy bopping on the graves
Of our so called masters
Bop, bopping on the graves
Of our so called masters
Diddy bopping on the graves
Of our so called masters
Tryna bring the rain
To wash the blood away faster
Word like a pastor
Speaking to ya spirit
They be preaching bout the cash
But the love, they tend to fear it
They say you'll never change, huh
(Burning through some quarters)
Want you used to the same, huh
(Dealing with disorder)
Not content
Till a shift in our path
From a glimpse of the past
Rearrange us
Never tame us
Even though they try to cage us
And contain us
Thoughts running wild and free
Get a taste and savor
Bitterness is never sweet
I adjust the flavor
Want the smoke like Constantine
But I'm tryna save us
I know its finna take some work
Put it in ourselves
Just imagine what you need
Coming from yourself
I've been going through some books
Organizing my shelves
Metamorphic with the crooks
I discarded my shell
Grew used to the hell
That we made
And the bed where we laid
And the road that we paved
Broke down
All the bridges fell apart
By the hinges
After burning from the center
I was far, but felt the singes myself
Send for help when you see the signal
(Smoke rising)
And you'll know it
When you see the signal
(You know I'm sliding)
I ain't even gotta tell you
You can feel it in ya bones
Catch a vibe like we at the temple
(Where the frontline is)
I want you smiling
Wanna see the dimples
Reverberate Love
Let's make this thing official
My out of state plug
Hit me with the latest issue
While they flipping through the pages
I jump up on em' just for the occasion
Yeah
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Climate Change Is Real!
02:01
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Homie said it doesn't rain in Cali no mo
Turned on the news
Whole world up in smoke
The trees on fire
Smoking fire with the bros
The dirt too soiled
How our seeds gon grow?
This virus is malignant
The patient is afflicted
With the stain of us living
Try to breathe
And you choke
I prayed for repentance
But the Gods barely listened
Still they gave a 'lil wisdom
To rebel you need hope
They say it doesn't rain in Cali no mo
Yeah it's summertime
But it still feel cold
The water seem to rise
But the tides still low
We look to the stars
Like "where we gon go?"
I know she don't deserve this
She gave us all life
But we silent while she hurting
I know this here for certain
We all play a role
In the call of the curtain
While we stuck inside
I seen more birds fly
Since we ain't on the move
I seen the water turn blue
Yeah the Government lies
But the heart can't deny
That we gotta do more
Than destroy and consume
They say it doesn't rain in Cali no mo
Yeah it's summertime
But it still feel cold
The water seem to rise
But the tides still low
We look to the stars
Like "where we gon go?"
I know she don't deserve this
She gave us all life
But we silent while she hurting
I know this here for certain
We all play a role
In the call of the curtain
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Aha
Aha!
Yeah
Yeah!
Big Dawg OG (OG!)
Been around town
Everybody know me (Everybody know me!)
Pulling up too clean (Too clean!)
Wrist on glacier
Neck on freeze (On burr, on brrr)
Gold smile
Still mean
Act up
Direct the shooters make a scene
Young God OG
Never go to sleep
Gotta work for the dream
Roll up to the spot
Heard the bass booming
From the end of the block
Elevator to the top
Once I hit the party
Know the party don't stop
Making my way through the crowd
Head nods
Couple daps and pounds
And I knew the DJ
My arrival announced
Dance floor hella lit
While I drift to the couch
Sit down, scroll up
Some exotic shipped in
From out in Boulder
Push it like Sisyphus
Cause the weight is eternal
Put the fire to the lips
Inhale
Get turnt up
The aroma arousing new clientele
Came to party
But I still moved half a pound
Got a text from the plug
Said "Come around"
Took a shot to the head
Before I dipped out
Big Dawg OG (OG!)
Been around town
Everybody know me (Everybody know me!)
Pulling up too clean (Too clean!)
Wrist on glacier
Neck on freeze (On burr, on brrr)
Gold smile
Still mean
Act up
Direct the shooters make a scene
Young God OG
Never go to sleep
Gotta work for the dream
Hit the alleyway
Exit round the back
Seen some people on the corner tryna rap
I was smacked
So I hopped in the cipher
Spitting lyrics from the spirit
That they couldn't decipher
They asked for a lighter
I gave em some flames
Told em
"If you hit this weed, you'll never be the same"
Sold another quarter
Money in the piggy bank
Kept the head on a swivel
Case the piggy's tryna chase
Figured I was safe
Bopping to the whip
When the plug pulled up
And told me "Hop in"
So I did
Now we riding round
Seen the driver getting sweaty at the brow
Looking at me in the mirror
Saw him frown
Plug offered me a bottle of the brown
Said "I'm good"
Then he took it to the head
Driver turned around
Blaow!
All I saw was red
Big Dawg OG (Og)
Been around town
Everybody know me (Everybody know me)
Pulling up too clean (Too clean)
Wrist on glacier
Neck on freeze (On burr, on brrr)
Gold smile
Still mean
Act up
Direct the shooters make a scene
Young God OG
Never go to sleep
Gotta work for the dream (Dream)
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Who is that creeping up behind me?
Thought I was somewhere you'd never find me
Almost thought that what they thought defined me
We all in rapture, so
Would you kindly do this
Would you kindly do that
You remind me of me
When my heart was intact
We done suffered through losses on losses
In fact
I can't picture no gains
When the canvas all black
But that blackness be beautiful
Ain't like ya usual
Went through a crucible
Cross on my back
Had to chuck the deuces too
Body in the viewing room
Got up out that casket, cool
Funeral was packed
May think that sounds blasphemous
No cameras, we acting up
One take before they take a whole lot
And then they bag us up
Back me up
Without a question you was always there
With no discretion
Hold the light and share
I share it cause I want us all to shine
I want us all to find the love we thought we lost inside
I know we will in time
But the times be a changing
These fires are raging
Black smoke in the sky
Black blood on the pavement
I'm saving my anger
For something more useful
I know I can't use you
We too intertwined
You blame me, I blame you
If I change me, I change you
Our fate's on that same cube
That dice rolling fine
And everything is "fine"
You hear my tone and know I'm lying
You see my face and close ya eyes
The pain you see is yours in kind
Kindly stay pure
Kindly remind me when I be unsure
What this is all for
I'm all for your love
I'm all for this world
And what resides above
And everything below
And everything I show
You mirror me in ways
That I didn't even know
I know you so well
Sometimes look like a stranger
We've been through some wild things
And even more stranger things
Bound to come, yeah
I know
I know it's time to grow
And never count my blessings
I know I found my home
I knew it once I stepped in
I know it's time to go
But I got many questions
I question myself
And everywhere you stepping
Sometimes you right behind
Sometimes beside
You change directions
Do you question yourself?
You prepared for a fight?
Do you know what you love?
What you need?
What you like?
Did they try to put you down?
Did you rise up in spite?
Did you bully yourself when you didn't feel right?
Is it all bout acceptance
Except when it's strife?
Did you murder your old self to feel new inside?
Are you afraid of the dark?
That's when you pulled me right aside
And told me
"Fool, you know shadows can't exist without the light"
"You'll find yours inside"
"Shadows can't exist without the light"
"You'll find yours inside"
"You'll find yours inside"
"You'll find yours inside"
"Inside"
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6. |
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My 2020 vision ain't too clear
We still moving with the mask on
Still got fear
For our brothers
And our sisters
Sons and daughters
And ourselves
Can't breathe or sleep easy
When the system always fails
It was never meant for us
It was never meant to help
Got us praying out to heaven
But it's time to give em hell
Wish em well
Wishing well
Throw some change in the water
I rebel
You rebel
They can't change our aura
We just
Tryna live but they take life from us
I got
Love to give
But they hate my color
Saw them kill my sister
Watched them rape my brother
But they still made it home to they family
So fuck em
They don't understand the pain
They don't understand what's going through my brain
All the trauma that we face
They don't understand the pain
I want em all to understand the pain
Make em feel it just the same
We done seen so much horror
On a cosmic scale
Cold blooded lizards killing
Got our blood on they scales
It's time we tipped the scales
I thought
Justice would be blind
But she seems to ignore you
If your skin brown as mine
And I find
Time and time again
Story always similar
Talking bout "crime"
When the boys steady killing us
They do it on camera
Yeah, pose for the camera
They smile at the camera
My memory is filling up
They get away with murder
And frame it like we deserved it
Bringing up rap sheets
While the media burn us
Like CD's in 2010
Wave the burner like a fan
My .38 is hella special
I may let the chamber spin
I ain't got not time to waste
I ain't got no bread to spend
I'ma exercise my freedom
While they try to cage me in
Staging killings just to hype up gang related crimes?
I ain't stupid
Fuck the swine
Feel like it's bout time
We just
Tryna live but they take life from us
I got
Love to give
But they hate my color
Saw them kill my sister
Watched them rape my brother
But they still made it home to they family
So fuck em
They don't understand the pain
They don't understand what's going through my brain
All the trauma that we face
They don't understand the pain
I want em all to understand the pain
Make em feel it just the same
Breonna Taylor
George Floyd
Ahmaud Arbery
Sandra Bland
Korryn Gaines
Atatiana
Tony McDade
Freddie Gray
Tamir Rice
The list grows
We mourning, morning through the night
And I can't take this shit
Ain't complacent
Know we gotta change
But can't contain the rage
I'm tryna turn the page
But blood's on the leaves
Racism's still alive
Please, I can't breathe
Please, I can't breathe
Please, I can't breathe
Please, I can't breathe
They tryna kill me
We came to protest
They shooting at the crowd
Meanwhile, the triple K
Marching with they guns out
Please, we can't breathe
Please, we can't breathe
Please, we can't breathe
They tryna kill me
They shooting tear gas
We just came to protest
White supremacist are marching
With they rifles' on they chest
Fuck em
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Is it wrong
If I'm feeling myself, lil bitch?
Did you know?
I've been healing myself, lil bitch
They tried to bend me
But I'm steel, myself, lil bitch
I remember tryna kill myself
Lil bitch
Good Lord
Thank you for my existence
I was wishing for the opposite
You don't even know the story
Why you plotting shit?
I got a homie over West
That let that choppa spit
We broke with thoughts of opulence
I used to lack the confidence
I'm walking with it now, hey
Tryna make my momma proud, hey
I just ate up all the doubt
Used it all for motivation
Baby, look up at me now
Hey
Biking round the city
I don't need the auto
Ayy
Team Rocket Power
Dreads swang like Otto
Ayy
Y'all sound too automated
I got organic flavor
I'm dripping with the sauce
Strong make me sound like Vader
Red eyes got me looking like a villain
Hot boy, but you know a nigga chilling
Lord willing
We gon take it to the next level
I know my worth
So for less, I can never settle
I know my worth
So for less, I could never settle
Never
Never, ever
Used to bury my emotions
But they'd rise up
Like a zombie
Tryna eat my soul alive, bruh
Realized
I can't kill em through neglect
Gotta live with em
Learn from em
Always know you blessed, yes
I done made mistakes I'll never make again
Don't incinerate no bridges
If you can't swim
I've been drugged up
Slumped down
Hella lit
Got me wondering
"Where the wonder years went?"
Got me wondering
"Where the wonder years went?"
Got me wondering
"Where the wonder years went?"
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Girl, you stay on my mind, yeah
Make a point like a blade
Oh, you fine, yeah
Before I fade away, you revive
Yeah
Sorry if I wasted ya time
Yeah, yeah
Hope you know
You stay on my mind, yeah
So sharp
Like a blade
Oh, you fine, yeah
And I pray you stay by my side, yeah
I don't wanna waste any time
No, no
I knew that
I ain't even wanna do that
Felt connections
Took a while to pursue that
I was used to living wild
Where the zoo at?
And I had my vision clouded
I had some doubts
Then love found its way around em
Can't be without it
Water falling all around
Like we in a fountain
Wash away all the pain
And the hurt in my soul
Plant seeds
And we watch em all grow
Baby, please don't go
I know I may cause pain
With the feelings I show
And the feelings I don't
I hope my demons die slow
Girl, you stay on my mind, yeah
Make a point like a blade
Oh, you fine, yeah
Before I fade away, you revive
Yeah
Sorry if I wasted ya time
Yeah, yeah
Hope you know
You stay on my mind, yeah
So sharp
Like a blade
Oh, you fine, yeah
And I pray you stay by my side, yeah
I don't wanna waste any time
No, no
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He heard the gunshot
His eyes opened wide
Laying on a metal table
In a room, off white
His skin cold to the touch
He feeling funny inside
His lungs struggle to breathe
His legs weak
But he rises up
And stumbles down
Loud crash
He knocked a metal tray on the ground
With his chest on the floor
Cheek on the tile
He sees a bullet right in front of him
He's in denial
He tried to figure the facts
He gave his head a scratch
And felt a hole in the back
A smaller hole in the front
He tried to cry, but he laughed
It was all coming back
A severe flood of pain
And remembrance of the dirt in the past
He hit the hallway
Recognizing the morgue, uh
He seen some homies of his own here before
But they ain't make it out
He's a dead man walking to the exit now
He could hear the plug talking while they drove around
He tryna piece it together
He stepped out to a dark sky
The coldest of weather
Yet he felt no chill
No grill
But he was cooking up
A plate of revenge
Served cold
And he'd deliver em
No fee attached
He thought the plug had to be a rat
The driver too
He felt remorse
But tried to beat it back
He never been violent
Unless by requirement
In his trade, people trying ya
Gotta be put down
He in his old hood now
Fresh blood up on the corner
Old heads looking for fixes
Young ones fulfilling orders
He approached his crib
Sending people running when they seen his scars
He grabbed his key
To his armoire full of long arms
In the corner of his room (In the corner of his room)
He plotting on they doom (He plotting on they doom)
Got the guns on the bed (Got the guns on the bed)
Tryna enjoy the view (Tryna enjoy the view)
Starts loading up clips (Starts loading up clips)
Cause what else is there to do? (Cause what else is there to do?)
He's a dead man walking (He's a dead man walking)
And the world is his tomb, and the world is his tomb
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We was outside
We was out in the streets
Coming to you live
We was ducking the heat
Tryna search for a fan
Wave a hand like a beach
We was outside
Screaming "Fuck Police!"
Sweat on me
But it's no regrets on me, yeah
Grey hairs since a youngin
Stress on me, yeah
Seen the world for what it was
And I wanted better
El viento
Instrumental
Homie, keep ya head up
Head high like a peak
Ghetto birds over me
How the hell I have a dream
When I ain't been to sleep?
How you judging my life
When some want me deceased?
Just for who I really am
Just for who I wanna be
Why the hell you acting basic?
Seen our bodies on the pavement
Buried faces in assorted screens
Brainwashing our babies
Hella dirt on me, still
Can't forget Emmett Till
Blood soaked in the soil
Land can't be tilled
Man can't be still
Plenty work needed, so I can't chill
No ice on moi
But I'm cold
Snow White, Grimhilde
Got something in my armoire (What's that?)
It'll leave a pig killed (Oh yeah?)
Make pork belly out a cop
Realize Allah favors me still
I kept it inside
Shit I learned from the streets
I kept it inside
Rage building in me
Spilling over the edges
The edges sharp as can be
I kept it inside
All this pain ain't leave
All this pain I keep
But it's love I seek
So, it's love I give
Till the Earth takes me
Gold, like first place be
Talking bout heart
I can't learn without tearing my old ways apart
We can't advance without looking back at the start
I'ma burn it all down before my soul departs
Molotov's in hand
Fist up to the stars
The boys start their advance
The revolution is ours
Not one for the BS
Muddy waters can't reflect
Bloody waters near hungry sharks?
I'ma tear your whole life apart
See us and they wanna be us
But they treat us like demons
Calling out for an exorcism
Exercising my freedom (Work it out)
Gym rat, way I move weights
The future's here and it can't wait
Can't fuck with us
We gon castrate
Talking to the ball like Cast Away
No rest for the wicked (For the wicked)
Brewing spells with the witches (With the witches)
Brujas with the new locks
If you hating on my pigment
Pigs hating on my pigment
Pigs hating on my pigment
We gon tear down the whole fucking system (That's right!)
Pigs hating on my pigment
Feds hating on my pigment (Fuck the feds anyway)
Why you hating on my pigment?
Time to tear down the whole fucking system (That's right!)
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The Red Eyed Jedi Baltimore, Maryland
Baltimore born
HU Alumnus
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