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Lyrical Exercise

from Do It Now by DJ Dacel & JSWISS

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Verse 1:

Looking in my bookcase for inspiration
I’m an Outlier way that I be pulling information
Invisible Man you only hear but can’t see
When Their Eyes Were Watching God know they really watching me
Crack the code of Da Vinci I battle Angels and Demons
Between The World And Me don’t even have to read Four Agreements
I live it, they want us Forty Million Dollar Slaves
We Were Eight Years in Power tried to take it all away
Notes of a Native Son but I Am Not Your Negro
Unbothered as Assata bringing power to the people
I be All About Love for Salvation,
Wretched of the Earth Decoded how they stole nations
How you want it Guns, Germs or Steel?
The Miseducation of the Negro have you living out the Art of War for real
Waves like The Water Dancer but my Soul On Ice
Curious Mind I could crack a book and go all night
Why we learn Hitler but not Leopold in the Congo
Both had millions of victims but what do I know
I’m Talking to Strangers for a living, Bucking the system
Searching for The Alchemist in the mirror I couldn’t miss him,
None Blood but got Brothers regardless,
Nobody Knows My Name all they know is the artist
One book for each day of the month
That’s 28 in one verse this Black History as plain as it come

Verse 2:
1 way to pay the bills many ways to get paid
2 hands touching everything I ever made
3 my favorite number Iverson Dwayne Wade
When my forehead sweating take 5 in the shade
6 million faces mean 6 million stories in the city where I lay my head
Lucky as 7 every day that I avoid the lead
Cuz there’s 8 million ways I could end up dead
Still I don’t keep the 9 on me, lethal mind since 91
Been loading ammunition since the second life begun,
Among the talented 10 across the globe
De boys can’t touch me a crisis like 11th of September
For the competition they always remember
Better avoid 12 like the cold of December
Or 13 that’s a bad omen but don’t freak
Verse put you on notice it don’t take two weeks
14 days I’m in it more than 15 minutes
If you counting spit 16 but not finished
Insane as 17 lighting up the Garden
Went to the college 18 then I changed targets
Made the major journalism I was thinking sportscasting
By 19 two projects deep with the rapping,
Done a lot but could forever do more
I stop at 20 just to settle the score

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from Do It Now, released February 7, 2023

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