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Lyrics:
Chorus:
No back door I’m tryna get it from the front
Respect for my people we shoulda had it from the jump
Loving the culture we always give you what you want
Honor the history we ain’t waiting for a month
Temperature rising think it’s about time,
Name an element melanin couldn’t outshine
We see the video ‘fore the body is outlined
The trauma is real no time to appeal
Couldn’t care less bout how you feel
You don’t see it then you never will,
When you know you under fire you could never chill
Which sound like violence? The taking of a building or a body
Murder for vacation it’s like killin is a hobby
I’m just tryna have a normal day, it’s exhausting
But I’m proud of my people and I feel it so often
Caught between ropes I ain’t talking bout boxing
But but we fighting like a bunch of Jack Johnsons
Ali is his prime with the rhymes I’m too pretty
Little Tupac in his prime don’t push me
Latifah Jamie Foxx do a little of everything
Welcome to the cookout and we playing Frankie Beverly
I’m about my biz like it’s Greenwood Tulsa in 1920
Or Madame CJ Walker with product across the country
You see the figures no longer hidden I’m Katherine Johnson
We master rocket science like it’s nothing
(Chorus)
Touch hearts like Daniel Hale Williams
With words like Morrison Hurston my pen working
Fly as Tuskegee, the airmen not the experiment
But know there’s always been a healthy fear of this
If Hov handle the roc like Van Exel
I, coach the team like McLendon on a fast break,
Tenn State three-peating before Wooden
This time around there be no overlooking
Like you better not Coretta Scott or Betty Shabazz
Can’t get this in class no, but you gon get in rap
This like Howard U and Spelman mixed with Grambling State,
Academics and athletics and forever great
You see the legacy, we all enjoy it on daily basis
Even if we don’t truly recognize the depth of greatness
Since day one and it’s infinite
From style to culture to product we invented
Nothing move without us, control traffic like Garrett Morgan
If earth was a person then Black folk is a vital organ
That means you play us then you play yourself, think about it
Check the history you ever start to doubt it let us breathe
(Chorus)
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On The Money
03:49
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Lyrics:
Nana used to say ‘on the money’,
So Imma keep my flow on the money,
When she passed swear I heard ‘on the money’,
When I pass put my face on the money
A hundred dollar bill I know couldn’t bring her back for a second
But some way maybe I could bring her back on a record
No IG tributes, this is better
Cuz you know once you put it on wax then it’s forever,
You just like the brightest star and I’ll see you when I see the moon
Was just there in the living room I’ll see you soon
One day with you I had real luck
That unconditional now it’s spiritual real love,
So I guess now I got me an angel
Taking me through the danger and easing up all the anguish
Knowing where she was going made it all near painless,
In a place where she can oversee the changes,
I can’t let an obstacle create worry, for me
Cuz I got a queen out there working, for me
Shoot in empty rooms I am not alone
Ain’t a time on a microphone when I’m not at home
Makes it comforting in life when the chaos and strife keep you way up a night not a day off the fight
Soul not for sale you could lay off the price
With Nana out there I can’t stay out the light
So look what you did the fam shining I’m glad when you passed was more laughs than crying
I’m glad from you to mom I can see who I am,
That’s a legacy I never see dying
Chorus:
Keep doubts outta my head and just remember what my grandma said
Man I’m on the money
It’s more than just cheese and bread as I remember what my grandma said
Man I’m on the money
Hey it’s Julian Michael R.I.P. Poppy there was no one like you
A rock a foundation for the family
I’m building steadily with an example paved ahead of me of what a man a should be
A true gentleman in any definition written over 6 feet even bigger giant how he lived it
And Imma stand tall too keep a positive view and if I need to I can just close my eyes and call you,
A whole community was lifted up it by one man
A legacy that just can’t fit up in a program
It seems even Gods got a finite amount of time wit us
So give your love and your life fearless
And if wasn’t clear every bar got a little life in it
So naw I don’t just recite lyrics
And know his spirit wanna witness every victory now
He’s not looking down naw I think he’s sticking around
(Chorus)
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Solitude ft. Dizzy SenZe
02:41
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Lyrics:
[JSWISS]
When I’m alone in my room I get better with time
And face my biggest adversary but it’s all in my mind
Get to know myself better study all the designs
My body soul and my goals let em all get aligned
Get to know my own, strength power with no, limit
If I can conjure it in my mind then go, get it
Letting my mind wander and wildest dreams marinate
Reset recalibrate e-mail gon have wait
Phone is in airplane mode I’m in the zone
Love self first then all else you know the code
Spar in the dojo in iso
I meditate in peace no telling just where I might go
I’m clear of fear and the odds, rebel without a pause,
Doing work on my spirit, never need the applause
It’s silence, a couple of seconds I start finding the balance
A couple of minutes my room feel like a palace
Astounding every answer a mystery found it
So connected to roots I’m officially grounded
I sprout stems and leaves and drop seeds,
I’m a garden incubated, centered as the equator
Nothing to be afraid of unplugged no WiFi data
The present is a pen the future is blank paper
Live it to see it later solitude is a favor
Depending on how you play it
[JSWISS]
Alone closer to God visions of grandeur but it’s not a mirage
Pieces of life form a epic collage
No facade take it at face value,
In the silence hear the universe in great volume,
Pure knowledge the richest resource in the earth
For what’s it worth, too many friendly faces be a gift and a curse
In a 4 corner room staring at fire inside of myself
I need to look no higher for help,
Thinking is this what we most fear
Discovering everything we ever needed it was always there
SOLITUDE
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Lyrics:
To bounce back from a battle launch another battle warriors know
Could take defeat with the wins or have nothing to show
No scars and a shiny sword
You could say you never took a loss but never sparred
And it’s written on your armor untouched but untested
Without question gotta answer for that perfect record
Zero losses come at zero cost the pay get delayed
You fill the safe and don’t invest while history being made
Don’t be afraid cuz the battlefield bloody but there’s honor
And there’s beauty once you make it through the horror
Among the defeated are those who never fail
Cuz in defeat you earn a lesson you could treasure still
It’s how legends build it’s the way of nature
Ain’t it funny how playin it safe can’t even save ya
The defeated the only truly victorious wounds speak for themselves
The truest mark of a champion with a story tell of Defeat
Chorus:
Defeat (defeat), we all gon' lose
It's defeat (defeat), we all gon' lose
Defeat (defeat), we all gon' lose
It's defeat (defeat), we all gon' lose
Go to battle lose like a champion,
Break a leg win the war if you stand again,
A new slate the score vanishes to the experienced go advantages
You see a scar I see a weapon you see damages
A wound shows a man already been through something
And your weapon might work shoot but it don’t stop nothing
That’s a dangerous image, ain’t game or a scrimmage
Could step in it and fall, but stay in it to win it
It’s like the war is infinite, every start is an ending
Victory is temporary oh you thought it was finished
Not even, you victorious feel free to toast
But roles get reversed watch if you need to boast
You win by, not just winning how you execute
The process, and success just a consequence
Shoot for perfect post a less than perfect record
Still walk like beast and a winner every second
(Chorus)
Speech:
Only he who gives up is defeated
The defeated are those who never fail
You don't take the opportunity to lose,
You don't get the opportunity to win
(Chorus)
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What's Love?
02:47
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Lyrics:
Four letters, L-O-V-E
Love more love better
Love is natural but it does take effort
Love could take us out from where hate tends to get us
Love don’t forget us,
Love of passion love as action
Love is beautiful love is dangerous love is tragic
Love is powerful love is wild unpredictable
Love is never under control love is a miracle
It’s miraculous we still love when it hurts and we know it
Love’s a shepherd love’s a poet
Love provides food for the body and the soul
Love breaks the heart, love fills the hole
Love could bring happiness love could bring pain
Love could be told but could never be explained
Love is all that matters and ain’t matter at all
Everything is really nothing if love ain’t involved
Love is scary but it’s comforting
Love could just, piss you off but even still you know one day you’ll love again
We feel love but could never get a hold
You could love for decades still never really know what’s love
Chorus:
What's love, what's love, what's love, what's love
Learn to love self, love to learn others
Sometimes hate is just love undercover
Love could be love shown out in the open
Love could be lovers making love under covers,
Love sustains love’s never mundane
We could want one thing but love’s on some other
Love is being open to what love might discover
Love is a risk cuz you might not recover
Love is a house and the concrete below
Don’t jump live in it wait a minute let it grow,
Love could be a dream and a nightmare
Love is a battle and you know it don’t fight fair
I strike air with blows but I always miss
Fighting love, but love is some invisible ish
And you never see it coming til you know it’s arrived
Million ways to describe no way to define
They say love is blind or we blind to it,
Love’s the best way to define music
Love’s a teacher that always reminds students,
If you lived through it you could shine through it
Love is fighting another day right after the fall
Love is feeling rich when you got nothing at all
Love’s a choice and accident but, never mistake
Love is never contained but it’s never misplaced
Love’s for everybody but love’s exclusive,
Love loves faith don’t love excuses,
Love is the direction on the compass of the soul
Write a whole song about it still never really know what’s love
(Chorus)
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