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1. |
Trying 2 Be Great
03:08
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I just wish the best out there for all of us
Locomotive movements watch me start it up
Giving you energy over these beats I i charge em up
All across the country like a charter bus
I watch the stars combust
Against the pitch black sky watch the light flicker
Ain't talking slave owners
Shout out to my niggas
North star seekers
Shit get deeper
By design nigga
Knowledge over trap beats wisdoms in these lines nigga
Might learn something
While you burn something
This blends perfect with that herbal sentence
So take a puff as i control the junction
I disappear into a cloud
Im tryna float or something
They said that martin had a dream aint lose no hope or nothing
Assassinated lost his motor functions
We integrated still controlling nothing
Well damn
We innovative but was taught to judge us
Thru buck breaking never taught to love us
Now barely talk in public
Whats yo excuse for remaining the same way tho
Got my mind spinning resembling tornadoes
No way tho
Somehow we got to make it
It's risky showing love but i'm willing to take it
HOOK 2X
Don't shit come to a sleeper but a dream
This for my risk taker get it by any means
Load machines
You gotta earn respect up in these streets
All i got is my balls and my words
Shit is deep
VERSE 2
I got my waiters on
In case the wait is long
The green mile walked a acre long
Fuck yo grey poupon
Forget it
i aint wit it
if the shit aint black owned
I'm just sipping live alkaline
Flint faucets on
Remember they lead us here a couple years still going on
They told us that it's safe
But looks the same when i turn it on
I smell conspiracy
They killing us odorless
tasteless is you hearing
I Can't face this
hop on my spaceship
fuck yo misery
One nation indivisible
They lied
Yeah right
They propaganda they fed it right to our eyes
And we buy they bullshit every time
Just further fuels our demize
But i'm refusing to die
They say the real ones multiply but all i see is divides
I say the truths really reveals what's underneath that disguise
Well who am I
A voice for my people thats a fact
This aint got shit to do with hate
I just love being black
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2. |
Gas Mask
03:11
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VERSE 1
I swear sometime this pressure extra
Heavy
Like what's the point don't they'll ever get it
Can i get a witness
No jehovah non religious
Testimonies from the heart is what i'm giving
But i don't think they want to hear it
Trying to give you all this power got me running out of energy
No reciprocation i just store it in my memory
They tell me keep on pushing we still searching for identity
Hard to break the cycle trying find the perfect chemistry
They told me just pray
ain't no answer so i stopped
everyday
Its a struggle trying to reach em even thru the music sometimes it feel there just ain't no way
Well ok
What you saying is you quittimg
Nahh nigga
I'm just wishing they would listen
Without me being ignorant to get attention
Compositions i be penning
Paint em vivid
Close your eyes and you can see em
Brick a warrior and this is my arena
coliseum
Im a gladiator kamikaze leader
Hold up
HOOK
Gas mask
Better get ya
Gas mask
Clear and seal
I want the smoke
You need suits for hazmat
Bag back
Gas mask
Better get ya gas mask
Lethal toxins make em choke
Turn em to a hashtag
Rip
VERSE 2
They keep asking me whats free well Shit it sure ain't us
Prolly how Rosa felt when she was on that bus
When they told her to move seats but her soul ain't budge
Told them that if shes leaving its in police cuffs
Its been a long day
I done chiefed a whole eighth
These thought that's in my dome race
Sights on olympic gold chase
Marathon
Thru my home state
So tell me who else can running it like me
All these hooks be black power the lost son of ali
Jab jab uppercut keep something up in my sleeve
Midle fingers up like fuck the police
This my reprieve
Open letter to mumia tell the system let him free
Death sentences
I manufacture with this penmanship
Bare witness
This ain't witchcraft
They just censored it
Called it conscious
It ain't toxic
So they show no interest in
Interesting
I made a revelation
Reverend brick exist
They say i'm preaching to the choir
I won't reach the streets with this
I disagree
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3. |
Red, Black and Green
02:46
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VERSE 1
Ain’t no rest for the weary
The skies dark and cloudy hella dreary
I got a multitude of styles yeah they vary
Which one I should present it
Whichever one gone make u legendary
Just wait I’ll have my own date someday in February
Black history
beating out the speakers of this Chevy
In the present
This a gift and the curse I’ve adjusted
This is more than just bars I’ve transformed them into lectures
Master teacher got that ether dialect for the collective
You ain’t gotta love it just respect it
Check the method
Giving
Generational self wealth that you can pass to your children
This that feeling
Euphoria
Awake they inner warriors
It's So glorious
Feel victorious
Melanated greatness sun absorb in us
Deciphering the matrix got me feeling like i'm morpheus
Red or blue i reveal what's in store for us
Focus on residuals just tryna get my fortunes
Up
HOOK 2X
Red leaks from our Black skin for this green money
Vicious cycle that we trapped in
Can we overcome it
The knowledge is of self and the powers in abundance
Cant a hater tell nothing
VERSE 2
watch me Tip this barrel over
Better chance we make it
If we all free
Can't catch us all
But on our trail that's where them dogs be
This that MARCUS GARVEY
ED POINDEXTER frying bacon what the charge be
Pigs to the slaughter ham sandwich aint no arbys
Just that god speech
My collective congregation they exalt me
Held in high regards musically i make this offering
But this just art to me
They told me take my shot i guess this archery
Arrow head sharp
Bout my business politicking with the pharaohs i talk
Im a ruler
True monarch of this music my thoughts
On these beats lead a nation
To the rhythm they march
Left right left
To the cadence of the songs
I created
From these palms
Innovated
What's the norm
Took the form of a
Deity
Yeah they tell you was born nigga
Yet still you sleep
Just look at me
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4. |
Time Traveling
03:30
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VERSE 1
Let me introduce you
To the most unusual
Fully focused on success
i hope the feelings mutual
They said it won't be televised
i bet somebody going live during the revolution
Checking in
In the midst of the chaos
You hear the shooting
Bombs going off sound like tel aviv
Smoke grenades fill the air you can barely breath
Gas mask, gas mask what they tellin me
Detroit riots i can see the fires from 11th street
Sniper fire i can hear it whistle thru
The air
The news said
little TANYA BLANDING shot dead
She was Only 4 years old
Swear it hurt my soul damn
Just watched watts burn now here we go again
Time traveling
Back to the future i can see the same pattern
Damn near 2020 and the coppers still harassing us
Perfect vision yeah i can see it clear
I find it weird
But we always found a way to persevere
Make something out of nothing just to watch it disappear
Every generation starts over again
that's the fear
Uhh
Overdrive So i'm switching up the gears
Take a ride with me
Tryna change the mindset of my peers
It ain't been easy tho
tryna just remind them who they is
Replacing all them stories we were lied to as some kids
All those allegory found out we were talking to ourselves
Since we made in his image
I answered my own prayers
Yeah
HOOK 2X
Time stands still for no man
The world still spinning best get with the program
Im lighty ears ahead
I deliver these space jams
This a blast from the past
Come and visit these waste lands
VERSE 2
Time shift
Let ya minds drift
Teleporting through these lines i designed this
The year is 1985
Realize this
They dropped a bomb on the hood
Vietnam shit
Damn
Who could imagine we thought niggas was free
And they got the nerve to wonder why its fuck the police
Women and children were stuck inside that look like me
As the buildings steady burned
Pistols firing repeat
At least 61 families left dealing with the grief
They homes gone
The city turned it to a war zone
The move house
cops shot them as they exit out the door
Firefighters let it blaze till it got out of control
Killed everyone inside even the five year old
bang
Blacked out
Reawakened
Somehow i got stuck in suspended animation
Didn't make it back to present day Check the situation
Now it's 1992
Gimme the loot
You see em rioting
The cops beat a nigga ass i guess it aint surprising
But the shit was caught on tape they tried to cave his eyes in
Then granted freedom to them pigs once the trial end
Young TASHA HARLINS died too
shot by that store clerk over orange juice
Then 5 years probation all they gave soon ja du
I'm guessing now 99 cents is worth a life
Aint have a clue
Who would of knew
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5. |
Stolen Legacy
02:37
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VERSE 1
Save these ends up
I see me in a benz truck
These just affirmation i'm creating im gone send up
I ain't talking prayers
Deer hunting chasing big bucks
No fake it til you make it play with these cards that they deal us
Here
You still somehow aint noticed that the real right here
Authentic
My bars littered
With strong ideas
To put our people on the path if we take it
Just to sum it l up this is melanated greatness
My hair coils towards the clouds
This feeling is contagious
James brown black and proud
Middle fingers to our haters
Claiming these despise us
But trying to replicate us
Vultures of the culture we ain't have so we created
But the number one hits
Now aint even from a face like this
These songs
POST theM ALONE
And hope they play my shit
These is facts it's just others scared to say that shit
And this the motherfucking thanks we get
Fuck it
I aint conforming
If you feel offended obviously this isn't for you
You aint rocking with me deep inside you just loyal
I ain't talking killing
They don't feel lit
Told them that we need some healing
So let's concentrate
On building up employers
Young bosses
Corner office feeling like lawyers
I just passed my bar exam
Lets put some things in order
Recordings
Street reporter
Live from the 810
Where life is far from gorgeous
HOOK 2X
Stolen legacy
Royalty all in my blood
On my king shit
Here to lift my people up
VERSE 2
Use monopoly strategies
Property investments
They increase your profit gradually
You gotta Learn the lessons
Buying back our corners
we can treat the streets just like this tetris
Yeah i red this for the blacks
And i aint talking bout checkers
Take our blocks like its jenga
tell em that its time to exit
My eyes is (isis) where the prize fuck around and get beheaded
They gassed me to kill em filling my tank with this unleaded
Let the engine vroom nonstop
Can't you hear it revving
This is my blessing
Like i stole it from the reverend
Dialect is
So eclectic
flow electric
You can feel the voltage in your chest its
Clearrrrr
I Bring the life back the game
This that bang beware my rifle when i aim
Sharp shooter
Malcolm x or martin luther
By any means or turn the cheek
Decisions for the future
We still victims of them police cruiser
Black lives used as
targets hands up stand still
But hes still moving
They gun us down
In the blink of an eye
This rubix cube is
Getting harder to solve
Im Consistent my hands moving
They don't want me to shine but forgive me i'm translucent
Translation the new era mansa musa
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6. |
Boss Moves
02:53
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VERSE 1
It takes a visionary to believe
What you cant see
Got me feeling like im dr king
i had a dream
That my daughter don't experience no times like this
I'm just tryna make a change thru these rhymes i spit
I present
the manual
go head and download this
It's the instruction guide
For pride in these times like this
Im convinced
The government hate that we tribe like this
This feeling
growing inside now i can't hide this fist
Raise it the highest
Sparking my lighter
Set fire
Trailblazing new enterprizes
Awkward at first but now we move a little wiser
Black macgyver
put this together from nada
No apologizing
Custom crafted
Autographed it made it classic
Was Introduction to our greatness while making blackfist
The foundation of a king dropped and made the path clear
Ain’t no turning back now everything black now
Focused on my future got me studying our past now
Breaking down this knowledge I absorb
Over tracks now
They tried to trick us like slavery was our only background
But This is royalty
Boss moves globally
HOOK 2X
I’m just making sure my family straight
Money good
These exotics help me meditate
Overstood
You ain’t messing with no featherweight
I knew you would think that I would lose
But I’m making boss moves
VERSE 2
I’m On the come up
That stomach touching ribs type of hunger
Already get by any means instilled in these youngstas
just need they ogs to be amongst them
But they Stole the Black man from the home removed the structure this the restoration process pride in abundance
On this money making mission keep my eyes on the compass
Huh
Road warrior never give up reluctant
Since I learned our truck history crackers can’t tell me nothing
I’m a god nigga
Walking deity
Blowing clouds in the
Sky
As I’m walking by I could part the Nile river
Swimming back strokes holy water pray aloud with me
All praise
To Our almighty race black and I’m proud with it
Who could it be
none other than Brick
The foundation constructing
This revolutionary hits
Tried to take break but this atrocities still exist
Being black in amerikkka
Comes with some many risk
Take chances
This is evolution I’m enhancing
My thought process is generational advancement
Let them dollars stack
Be an inspiration
Give em passion
This is an examples of what happens
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7. |
Perfect Symmetry
02:48
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VERSE 1
They need something they can feel
Something they can turn up to
Came up from the dirt but look at what i turned it to
Inverted views
Black excellence this the perfect hue
Hit my brother good on the phone like we got work to do
Surgical
Sitting sideways getting vertical
Im elevated
Hella black hella proud I say hello haters
Im breathing life into my people im the respirator
Activate they inner super being
Resurrect the nation
Hold up
I’m getting pennies for these thoughts while i roll up
Plus im resembling the boss
So they chose up
royalty on display
Yeah the kings is on the way
Wheres the valet
We just drove up
I got this lion on my shoulders like im jaffe joffer
Only speak the kings english
Plus its proper coded
Read between the lines and find this gold mine
That i'm exploring
Put this power in the music make it so it's omnipotent
I just wrote it
A new prescription for another dosage
Got em focused
Better snap ya pictures
For somebody notice
Bless it like im bible quoting
The holy grail
Burning bushes got me high as moses
Oh you can tell
HOOK 2X
This black power got me charged up turn me up
Tell me can you the energy let me know
Black excellence we up bossed up
Switch the roll
Now this is perfect symmetry
VERSE 2
Pull the plug
Who do you love
Building this trust
They heard this sound and knew what it was
Shouts out my haters I still ain’t losing my touch
Kobe clutch
Late in the game they call name watch me put these numbers up
All 24 still grinding even tho I 8
4th qtr this the game winner let us celebrate
Euro step on the baseline before I elevate
Slam dunk give em what they want and your forever great
Human highlight skywalker this magic
Melanated greatness be proud of yo blackness
my skin is my sin please forgive me for my actions
Sending prayers to the sky but don't nobody answers
So I blow my own cloud sit upon it
Gotta birds eye view this some strong marijuana
Take a puff
Switched the rolls bosses up let me know
Turn me up until you feel it in your soul
Here we go
I need theple in the back to be the loudest
Charge me up I reciprocate the power
they needed something they can feel I tol them give me bout a hour
We the originators
the world is ours
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8. |
Spirits
02:42
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VERSE 1
I aint trying to wake up and its 2046
All the topics that i'm writing bout now still exist
Throw on malcolm x
close my eyes clench my fist
As i listen to his words feel like 1966
On repeat
Time to make a change
Stand for yo beliefs
Look at me
Still fresh draped in red black and green
What you see
I see a soldier for the cause
In this mirror
And my focus on this mission cant be clearer
Power steering navigating
African engineering
What we building
We the pillars
This the thrilla in manilla
Constructed this empowerment go ahead absorb this feeling
It was written
By the gods
So exclusive i deliver
Directly from the clouds above
As I sit on this horizon still not high enough
Take another puff and keep on climbing
I provide that rush
Adrenaline
Heart racing
mind altering
Let’s enhance the situation
HOOK X2
Got these spirits in my body taking over
Sitting high up on this cloud barely sober
bending blocks thru the city need chauffeur
Yeah this that pressure
tell em start this shit back over
Here we go
VERSE 2
This is self reflection
Trying seek perfection
Got them vibing to the tune while im teaching lessons
One of the best but ain’t no need for flexing
These Compositions I’m penning
Instant classics
The flows vintage
Truth in every sentence
Orchestrated
to make these youngins greater
Im dedicated
like i owe my folks a hundred favors
Formulated these strategies while I was burning papers
Turning pages
Black History we creating
hope u appreciate it
We the negro leagues if jackie never made it major
What up players
We can control everything That we savor
Huh
Blowing my reefer in elevators
Elevating my mental
because it seems they’ll forever hate us
Culture vultures
aka modern day land invaders
Despise us inside
as they watch their children simulate us
Wanna be u we the flyest human beings
Ain't no cape
Super man
I bust my moves on the bass
All in they face
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9. |
"Quote Me On It"
02:49
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VERSE 1
This here is directly from the author
how you doing nice to meet you
All i do is write this ether
Had this brewing
Mix the season
chef this food for thought
Im catering this evening
what you got
what you need
I create a masterpiece
Better stay up out the kitchen if yo ass can't stand the heat
Who me i'm bout to turn up the degrees
Time to feast
Yeah
King status negus everybody eats
Could feed a thousand with this loaf of bread
Im oh so g.o.d
B.o.d
Y u hating on the new prophecy
Quotables that im create welcome to my odyssey
50 years from now
They gone hear this sound
Play it loud
Feeling black and proud
Reciting what i'm saying to yall now
Line for line
every bar
i put that flavor in my style
Sauce dripping
Talk different
Let yall savor it for now
Claim they woke still sleeping i'm ok with that for now
Dropping knowledge in these verses every song break it down
HOOK X2
All power to the people
you can gone and qote me on it
Yeah i love being black
you can gone and quote me on it
Say it loud black and proud
You can gone and quote me on it
It dont matter where you at
You can gone and quote me out
VERSE 2
Flow hibachi on em let them watch me cooking
They tell me that these songs is inspiration good looking
Trying to pack this power all into these verses before the hook hit
bang
This is my ballot or the bullet
Play it back
So you can get my words exact with no confusion
Written facts
these statements in these raps aint no illusion
I repeat
Copy that
This is the passage that im giving
Bow our heads let us prayer faith in self the new religion
So Let's get it
yeah
We all we got
more than a phrase to end a sentence
Huh ???
You must don't get it
If i said it then i meant it
Listen close
I assemble quotes
scribbled in my notes
Give yall album after album
I compose the perfect score
Soundtrack
theme music for the movement Of my folks
Provide them balance give the people back control
Thats goal
Becomes a part of your embodiment can feel it in your soul
Yeah i love being black say it loud let em know
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10. |
I Absorb It All
02:40
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HOOK 2X
I absorb it all
The negative and positive
The writings on the wall
This is black opulence
They waiting our fall
but we remain dominate
Melanated greatness watch it elevate my confidence
VERSE 1
100 miles and running gave em time so they could catch up
Then I put that brick back on the scale now watch me measure
I ain’t talking drugs in my mental there’s a treasure
Full of jewels and these gems that im dropping pay me extra
Focused on my people i suggest you pay attention
To what’s happening before homie this is not a lecture
but there’s lessons
In these bars
Recognize a real black god
When you see one
Just a constellation walking with the stars
This that universal knowledge that i talk
We embark
On this journey
Just a wise king won't hear no bible verses
I swear its omnipotent got em nervous
What we generating
Underground finally reach the surface
Short circuit
Live wire
lines power surging
This feeling so contagious
can’t contain it
Turn it up so you can feel these vibrations
Speak it into existence
Now everybody say it
HOOK 2X
I absorb it all
The negative and positive
The writings on the wall
This is black opulence
They waiting our fall
but we remain dominate
Melanated greatness watch it elevate my confidence
VERSE 2
Level 12
They about to raise hell
Finally reached that boiling point test them waters for yo self
Tip the scales
This anger taking over
quickly changing how i feel
Unless you know about these problems
you can't tell how to feel
Dear amerikkkaa
I'm just another black man
But i ain't scared of ya
Already labeled us some predators
Menace to society melanated treasurer
Standard gold bars that I mold watch me level up
I can feel the hatred in the air
Get prepared
Practice peace bone crushing never scared
Light the sky up
tell me homie can you see the flare it’s about to go down
Stay aware
My swivel on 360
Still be on my pivot getting busy
Only rocking for my people and that’s strictly
Don’t Bet against me
Because
I’m gone Take the good with the bad absorb it in me
Then I’m gone show em all what strength is
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