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Glasgow
02:58
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It's stimulating, mind expanding...
Yeah
All soul from the first shine to last glow
Flow wit control but look like I was raised in Glasgow
No, from the south—but my parents from the north
So I think that really means I caught a mixture of the force
What's divorce do to kids when they think that shit's they fault
They end up with a lot of emotions locked in a vault
It's salt to the wounds when you gotta find forgiveness
You can't run a race in reverse and begin at the finish
Cuz seconds turn to minutes and hours turn to days
And months turn to years and you got like seven decades
Maybe 8 or 9 dependin your state of mind
Thinkin bout this friend of mine gets me everytime
Ayo I heard you been aligned, I told em back up
All I know is comin thru straight up like a mack truck
Watch em act up when we throw a proper hoedown
This what happen when you throw some Drugs on the Pro sound
Yeah, throw some Drugs on the Pro sound
This what happen when you throw some Drugs on the Pro sound
People have problems
And drugs seem like a solution to them
Drugs are here to stay, they've been here for quite a while
People of all age levels use them
Be it from the very young to the very old
The adult world and an increasing number of young people as well
Have accepted and are living the industrial slogan of better living thru chemistry
The reason that we continue to have these stereotypes
About who drug users are is because of the ongoing racism of our society
Ayo, cold blooded—old styles won't cut it
I been lookin for some ears just so I could leave em flooded
The wave that you lookin for go high to low to crash
That monocle you lookin thru gon catch up to yo ass
I been last picked and underrated, it's all relative
What's the fate of all our souls if we could all be innovative
Creative control—ayo I'm never givin up that
Even when y'all promise y'all gon bring all of my buzz back
A place at the table tend to come wit a thumb tack
If you gon kick it off you better watch the run back
All pro like Cooper Cupp caught it
Gettin paid on the road with these shows—here come the audit
Like pre Carter 3—I'm just tryna bring the floods out
More concerned with what's forever than just what's now
From the dust in the sky to lust in your eye
Find the whats in your why and let it multiply
Thus rely on yourself, it's a lie they gon help
It all comes down to you and if you vie for the belt
Ayo, you can't never tell the endings from beginnings
Linkin up with Drugs, performance enhanced winnings
Some of them are turning to drugs to escape
Others are turning to drugs to turn on instead of turning off
To become stimulated, they seek excitement
And psychologically they're somewhat unstable
And turn to the use of drugs to do this
We are obligated to give these young people the knowledge
So that they can make a proper decision
We know that the decisions that are being made by young people
Are made when we're not there to help them
So therefore, we must prepare them to make these decisions
And if we believe in education then we must believe in knowledge
And the knowledge that helps them make these decisions
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2. |
Must Be The Drugs
02:45
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Yeah, yeah yeah, yeah
They said it must be the drugs, it must be the drugs, it must be the drugs
Nah, I think it's the love, I think it's the love, I think it's the love
Yeah, come up and vibe, jump in it live, I just been searchin for somethin
Yeah, keepin it cool and ditchin the school and I ain't been answerin nothin
Yo fuck y'all mean, duckin the scene, lookin around for the whole thing
I just need a look, I just need to cook, I just wanna have another bowl game
All they wanna do is block both lanes, all I'm tryna do is my own thing
In a world that's got that slow change, it's on us to find the openings
Back outside til it's pass out time, I on't really focus on how fast I rhyme
I just wan get all my cash on time from the critical mass that's amassed online
Nah your numbers suck, nah your number's up, now your time is just passed
Need to hang it up and get your language up and then get your ass back to the class
Yo who need a classroom, I need a bathroom, I just been talkin my shit
Yeah people been dyin and cryin and lyin and we just been keepin it lit
Fuck in the cognitive dissonance is this shit, I just been flippin my mind, mind mine
What is you doin if you ain't pursuin the things on your heart with your spine, spine
That was a dime, throwin assists, all in the wrist, callin the switch
I keep on shootin like I just can't miss, they keep on ballin they fists, ahhh
Listen to this, this what it was, I was just lookin for somethin to love
Feelin and feelin I wasn't enough, I was so low so I went up above
Yeah so I went up above, yeah so I went up above
Feelin and feelin I wasn't enough, I was so low so I went up above
It must be the drugs, it must be the drugs, it must be the drugs
Nah I think it's the love, I think it's the love, I think it's the love
Yo, it must be the drugs, it must be the drugs, it must be the drugs
Nah I think it's the love, I think it's the love, I think it's the love
Yeah, little bit of love and a whole lot of buzz, do what I do cuz it does what it does
I been tryna tell you to just keep it cool cuz that's what it was
Yeah, it must be the drugs, it must be the drugs, it must be the drugs
Nah I think it's the love, I think it's the love, I think it's the love
Yeah, love for the ones that show love back, love for the ones that roll a dub sack
Yeah, love on my mind is a one track, I been tryna find what's untapped
Yeah, straight from the dust up to the sky, roll up the kush, I'm ready to fly
They ready for us, see there is the lie cuz all that they want is a share of the pie
Little bit of love in a locket, yeah put a little hug in your pocket
Yeah find a little plug for your socket, yeah gimme a crowd I'ma rock it
Aye, hands to the sky if your heads up there, dudes just wanna find legs up there
All I wanna be is the best out here so I ain't gettin no rest this year
It must be the drugs, it must be the drugs, it must be the drugs
Nah I think it's the love, I think it's the love, I think it's the love
Aye, it must be the drugs, it must be the drugs, it must be the drugs
Nah I think it's the love, I think it's the love, I think it's the love
Yeah, little bit of love and a whole lot of buzz, do what I do cuz it does what it does
I been tryna tell you to just keep it cool cuz that's what it was
Yeah, it must be the drugs, it must be the drugs, it must be the drugs
Nah I think it's the love, I think it's the love, I think it's the love
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3. |
Dragon Luck
02:18
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Damn, and I was looking for the shine
And didn't even realize I got lost in the grind
And yo why I'm struggling for I think is teaching y'all
And why I'm juggling more when I just reach and fall
Nine times standing up and then fell a tenth
Back to that first lesson--thought you was exempt
Stop adjusting to temp and be the thermostat
Type to run up on they block and then circle back
Fake killers love to claim the way they murder raps
I respect the audience and y'all deserve the facts
What's more fucked up than seven million deaths
When you tryna run the game like a seven's on your chest
And your people betray you, then you become Atreyu
A Neverending Story of the people tryna play you
Better be able to switch your stance south paw
Unless of course your dogs can fly like Falkor
Draggin luck into discussions it's the preparation
Linkin up with opportunity when nothin's waiting
I'm bustimating but I bet yourself is underrating
What you could do and how you move like there's thunder waitin
My brainstorm is a monsoon
Yeah, sink they whole boat when I float like a pontoon
We gotta get on soon, that's the rapper ethos
Stand behind my lines, follow thru like free throws
Ayo we go hard, y'all never seen the shit
Ain't you realize bein you is showing leadership
The world's a brain wash and I on't really need the shit
My main source to profess is the beat I flip
I'm mixin up what's in my chest with the weed and shit
And if you muthafuckin racist you can eat a dick
Yo how's a big shot like you got such a small mind
Y'all couldn't roll downhill with a double fall line
All grind like the pool got coping
Yo I left school and now I leave mics smoking
I don't mind joking and I don't mind jests
But I might leave broken what resides in your chest
Yo we alive, it's the best, we arrive at the steps
1-2-1 now climb with your next
What's a test but a skill display, let's build a way
To find a future that could feel way more real today
Aye what's some pay that's not a living wage
That's a living cage, damn ain't they ain't never give a raise
The ways of the world got the ladies and girls
Got the boys and the men all caught up in the whirlwind
Like it's half pretend--waiting for a wake up
The earth been moving, man y'all ain't feel the shake up
Unsteady ground gon lead to wobbly walks
And don't you think all your inaction probly talks
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What's up
Yo, what are you doin spittin'?
You subhumans ain't suited to shoot the gip with subatomic supervillains
Assume the position, if the overpriced shoe fits
Factory rappers get subtracted by a factor of six
Six, six, witness this is bout to get iller
It's the nonfiction reenactment of Natural Born Killers
Gimme the scrilla, ya lady's lookin like Skrillex
But I don't fuck with techno and I don't chill with pill heads
And yet I still enjoy hearing hoes complain
Bout walkin in stilettos through the frozen rain
It's the ice age baby but that ain't stopping me none
Spot me on the roof shooting sunblock at the sun
Like Jimmy Newtron, rolling in a icy helicopter
Turning your virgin daughter a person version of Goddard
Honestly it ain't a challenge, Nate is crazy with this
With just some basic reprogramming I can make her do tricks
"Aye what do you mean Jarv?"-well I guess what I'm tryna say is
If you got the will then it ain't hard to find a way kid
So face it, live up to your dreams and your goals
Just sign on the dotted line and gimme your soul
I'm taking off now heading back down to the underground
Lair, bass and the snare blare like a thunder pound
Pushin through the gates kid I'm here and it's on
My body's made of steel and my spirit is strong, what!
Y'all could never be like us, no y'all could never be like us
Cuz y'all ain't got it like that, no y'all could never be like us
Step to this and get reduced to dust, what what what what
Yo y'all could never be like us, no y'all could never be like us
Cuz y'all ain't got it like this kid, y'all could never be like us
Get your click and y'all can all get crushed, what what what what
Aye, by my calculations, y'alls demonstrations
Of lyrical domination need more calibration
Your concentration needs improvement and y'all dilute it
If you ain't lookin at targets where you lookin when you shootin
The illest villainous lyricists, yeah get your fill of this
Choppin hands off at the wrist if y'all ain't feelin this
Simple as this I interject, pick it off and intercept
Disrespect intended, you jackin' beats off the internet
Came off like a vet but you ain't never been a threat
You wanna battle that's a bet, yo you better protect your neck
You let squares in your circle and now it look like a octagon
I'ma pit bull with a fist full of rhymes that I'm lockin on
Strong as rocket launch codes, y'all are Costco
Tryna save a buck, I gave a fuck but I ain't got those
Locked, loaded, levers lifted up, ready to fire shit
Lookin left, I'm alone aligned with my lion grip
Mane, we ain't fuckin around but it's a pride alliance
And what if what's the math God led y'all all to science
And what's the highest of the high got to do with the low
That's like what the fuckin bars got to do with the flow
On the road with the coldest bending corners around the grains
Moving against the traffic, makin medians my lanes
I split the difference, divide with subtraction
We break y'all down to fragments and then watch the chain reaction
Y'all could never be like us, no y'all could never be like us
Cuz y'all ain't got it like that, no y'all could never be like us
Step to this and get reduced to dust, what what what what
Yo y'all could never be like us, no y'all could never be like us
Cuz y'all ain't got it like this kid, y'all could never be like us
Get your click and y'all can all get crushed, what what what what
Aye, back the fuck up, y'all don't know what time it is
Aye it's uh, little Jarv and big Shreve
In the place to be, doin the damn thing
Get the fuck out my face, aight that's it, peace, bye
D.R.UG.S. Beats, D.R.UG.S. Beats
D.R.UG.S. Beats, D.R.UG.S. Beats
Biatch!
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5. |
Slow Roast Pork
02:46
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And we're going to play some more music, you know
This is what we oughtta do, what do you think of that
We gon play some more music, is that alright
Ok, thank you
Let's go like this right....I said
Mad hungry, eat em up like lunch time
Throwin shots but they ain't never land the punch line
Yeah, check
Ayo, cyph god, the chain swing, watch the lames switch
Y'all love hip hop but don't treat her like your main bitch
Pain switch the signal up, they lookin for a pick em up
And if they don't get it then probly find a stick em up
Pickin up the pieces like it's prosthesis movements
Mind over matter, I hope you don't mind illusions
The true test of a man could present in many forms
So in life I guess you gotta be ready to weather any storm
Comin back like Benny Blanco from the Bronx
Streets is always watchin, coulda killed em—what it cost
It's a loss to the game, just in our thoughts remain
They was lookin for the train, he was lookin for the same (aye, remember me)
That shit's never late, yeah youngsters tryna take us out
Lookin at my old styles like a bank account
Cash it in and let your mouth write a check that
Your ass can't cover, well see we can't respect that
Y'all chasin bags but stuck with lost baggage claims
Actin tough but you an't never done no savage things
Let's set fire to they whole empire
Lookin like the type that would like to rock a wire
Not a seller, you a buyer, lookin work for hire
Smellin like it's slow roast pork out on the fire
Let's set fire to they whole empire
Lookin like the type that would like to rock a wire
Not a seller, you a buyer, lookin work for hire
Smellin like it's slow roast pork out on the fire
On this mic they said to flex like life depends on it
On these tours I'm just tryna chalk a couple win sonnets
Spin out like a Benz on it with sprinter van movements
And I ain't totin shit but Phil Dangerous is a nuisance
Now who's that peepin in my windowww, baow
45 cal with the style down now, baow
One more time just in case they still movin around
This is what it sound like when you runnin the town
What's the ground for except to be the foundation
We came from dust and the mud if you need that motivation
We shinin light from stars, mostly made of space too
You lookin in my eyes and I just feel the bass move
I feel the snare hit and I just wanna share spit
In the woods and I'ma stay there like some bear shit
Expectations been weighin up on reality
Really I'm just balancing as Drugs change the gravity
Let's set fire to they whole empire
Lookin like the type that would like to rock a wire
Not a seller, you a buyer, lookin work for hire
Smellin like it's slow roast pork out on the fire
Let's set fire to they whole empire
Lookin like the type that would like to rock a wire
Not a seller, you a buyer, lookin work for hire
Smellin like it's slow roast pork out on the fire
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6. |
Johnny Utah
02:46
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Drugs came in...
The beast comin thru, the beast comin thru
I was lookin at you like I feast with a crew
That's 2014 and we was masked up like Point Break
Robbin the game and just doin it for the joint's sake
Career arc tryna be like Keanu on shit
Went from Johnny Utah, dog to John Wick
Bill and Ted couldn't take adventures that sick
Yeah, think outside the Matrix if you can't see how I backflip
Boom bap bip shit, butter for the biscuit
Drugs came in I had to risk it, let's mix spliff
Sauce knowledge with a fifth off balance
Like a six ball challenge or some big tall silence
I was pissed off talent, musta missed—off ballots
I been this close—callused, even big toes valid
Hold your mental palace wonderful like Alice
Pusha to the T but you ain't never seen No Malice
They keep fallin for the phallus, all this world be on the same shit
Fuck a bitch, they just tryna have a banquet
And you feel lucky if you really got some bread
A little money in the market and a place to rest your head
What's the give, yeah just your soul and your passion
I heard that hearts on your sleeve was outta fashion
Well damn I also heard that real style was timeless
So I guess that right there might be where my mind is
The beast comin thru, yeah the beast comin thru
I was lookin at you like I feast with a crew
That's 2014 and we was masked up like Point Break
Robbin the game and just doin it for the joint's sake
Career arc tryna be like Keanu on shit
Went from Johnny Utah, dog to John Wick
Bill and Ted couldn't take adventures that sick
Yeah think outside the Matrix if you can't see how I backflip
Yeah pedal to the floor like it's Speed, he's not comin back
King of the streets and lots of thieves tryna dumb attack
Lookin like a price up on your head like it's Wick 3
Y'all know how it go, handlin this business strictly
Swiftly with the reloads leave you lookin three toed
Dressed in all black lookin sad, kinda emo
Ayo we go hard and y'all need more people
And don't think it's sweet or let the ground burn your feet tho
1 for the mystery and 2 for the enigma
I been droppin isms cuz I see with an astigma
The rippers of the mic, we deliver this on site
It's the bottom of the ninth and we swingin for the lights
Stay polite, yeah and then we killed em with the kindness
Took my shades off and then I really felt the blinders
Tunnel vision had me gone for a minute y'all
I was really just tryna think outside the limits dog
The beast comin thru, the beast comin thru
I was lookin at you like I feast with a crew
That's 2014 and we was masked up like Point Break
Robbin the game and just doin it for the joint's sake
Career arc tryna be like Keanu on shit
Went from Johnny Utah, dog to John Wick
Bill and Ted couldn't take adventures that sick
Yeah think outside the Matrix if you can't see how I backflip
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7. |
Rug Speech
02:22
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Aye, I see the recursions and get lost in the patterns
Maybe figurin it out ain't all that matters
Feelins are fickle, now watch a moment fall flat
Need a friend, hit em up and watch em never call back
Rockin all black or maybe shades of grey
Now can't let time waste away—we just need space to play
Now what we waitin for and yeah now why we stayin stuck
Aye man I thought y'all could relate to I on't give a fuck
I think the people care too much about what they think
But shit I get it when you tryna sell a pay link
I don't care if it's forex or supplements
I'm in the forest tryna find life substances
I on't fuck with rubishness, fakin friendships
Just so you could get ahead—that's some thin shit
Aye I don't really fuck wit any of y'all's kinship
Cuz y'all don't really ever treat me like no kin, shit
Ayo I heard they bustin shots but they ricochetin
Told em Jetty tote a blade and then we fish filleted em
Yo slicin records up like it's D.R.U.G.S. Beats
Tyin rooms together Dude wit my rug speech
Ayo I heard they bustin shots but they ricochetin
Told em Jetty tote a blade and then we fish filleted em
Yo slicin records up like it's D.R.U.G.S. Beats
Tyin rooms together Dude wit my rug speech
My mind goes to let it go but then it won't release
I keep on holdin on I guess becuz they're no relief
I'm lookin for the thief, it's feelin like my time's gone
But I guess it's really cuz my nose was to the grindstone
Now what's your rhymes on? Now make your mind known
I guess all I been doin really is tryna find home
Yeah and I was feelin lost for a minute
Hard to see the big picture when your mind's feelin timid
Yo and how you know self if you don't test the limits
Battle all them shadows—it's a fight to the finish
Yeah, ten down, never put the pen up
I been thinkin who, what, where, when, why, how too much
Enough, all I really wanna find is that feelin
I think it's on you and me to grind til we buildin
And start with foundation, y'all can dig it right
Style and innovation every time we rip a mic
Ayo I heard they bustin shots but they ricochetin
Told em Jetty tote a blade and then we fish filleted em
Yo slicin records up like it's D.R.U.G.S. Beats
Tyin rooms together Dude wit my rug speech
Ayo I heard they bustin shots but they ricochetin
Told em Jetty tote a blade and then we fish filleted em
Yo slicin records up like it's D.R.U.G.S. Beats
Tyin rooms together Dude wit my rug speech
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8. |
Let It Go
02:59
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Ayo
Old soul with a new hop in my step
They talk about me lots, there ain't no hype in the rep
I been a vet since 03 but then I switched to rappin
So it was back to rookie status til I started snappin
07 When I first grabbed the mic live at a show
And sat in with a full band and I could ride the flow
It was a go but bands break up so we felt the shake-up
Learned a lesson early, I just had to get my weight up
Yeah I hold my own, I don't really need a band here
All I need's a microphone in my hand here
Gimme the rhythm and a rhyme, it's a rocket ship
09 Open studio mind, it's pocketed
Lockin shit down ever since, find the history
Now look it up while you see how we don't miss the beat
Mad easy but we make it so difficult
How the fuck we gettin lost in the principle
Lookin at me, lookin back we would never know
Until we let it go, feelin like we let it go
Mad easy but we make it so difficult
How the fuck we gettin lost in the principle
Lookin at me, lookin back we would never know
Until we let it go, feelin like we let it go
Like we let it go
Check it out
A new mission with no stops in my vision
I was lookin for collisions now I'm movin with precision
When it wasn't what it is sometimes it's for the best
Somehow you always knew, but you couldn't let your chest
Really feel it, I been really reelin from the realness
This life'll take your light if you light with the stillness
Yeah, now what's your point of reference, when it's effortless
That flow state feel great but it's fate is exodus
Let it just soak inside of your mind
That you really can't do much except enjoy your time
Yeah for real, find your family and treat em like your family
And this is from the Gods straight down to the man in me
You got that same spark, you gon fall flat though
Cuz y'all confuse all the land with the map, go
Deeper than the rap, go reach up in your bag
I been leapin in and just leavin em toe tagged
Mad easy but we make it so difficult
How the fuck we gettin lost in the principle
Lookin at me, lookin back we would never know
Until we let it go, feelin like we let it go
Mad easy but we make it so difficult
How the fuck we gettin lost in the principle
Lookin at me, lookin back we would never know
Until we let it go
Until we let it go, feelin like we let it go
Until we let it go, feelin like we let it go
Mad easy but we make it so difficult
How the fuck we gettin lost in the principle
Lookin at me, lookin back we would never know
Until we let it go, feelin like we let it go
Until we let it go, feelin like we let it go
Like we let it go, feelin like we let it go
Some nerdy scientific type, I mean
The Professor, the professor, the professor, professor...
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9. |
Holy Ghost
02:27
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I caught the holy ghost, they be like holy smokes
I tend to go for broke becuz the crowd be comatose
Sleep at the other shows, all we brought was rugged flows
Stimulate your mind & shine while she touch her toes
It's all a contradiction, the flow is all depiction
Of what we really are and not so much all of the fiction
It's friction with the mission in our hearts that's sparked up
Learn from tradition, get your intuition smarts tucked
Look out for each other, if we don't then who else will
King of the mountain but it's more who got the best hill
Who take the best pills, who got the baddest bitches
Who got the most money, y'all don't think that that's a sickness
Comparison--the thief of joy, nah I think it's worse
It take your time, it take your moments and your universe
Ayo, I treat these verses somethin like they sacrament
And on stage with conceptions that's immaculate
It's just a aggregate of happenstance and hard work
This for all my rapper fans and everybody bars first
Art's a curse and gift, a sword with the double edge
Hard to celebrate til you penetrate what the trouble is
Damn, I mourn the death of my youth
But I'm thankful for the life I lead that led me to the booth
Yo, now lift me up like a spiritual
In life it really ain't always how it appear to you
Sittin over vents and breathin like a oracle
Askin all these questions that's so rhetorical
What's the nothin in the center worth
And when you pen a verse think of all them friends they ain't never heard
I ain't the only one that ain't a phony one
Ayo we recognize real when you show us one
Now feel the force, blast shield up like it's Obi Wan
I'm rockin favors til I'm famous then y'all owe me one
It's been a minute but they fightin to the finish
Our country ain't Finnish, it's just run by a bunch a bitches
Yo lets not diminish what these leaders all accomplish
Not a damn thing, they just stifle all the progress
All y'all do is fan hate, with all your hand shakes
Tryna divide us over fuckin simple mask mandates
Fuck the division, I been tryna find community
But now we isolatin just to stock immunity
And damn, I ain't even met my niece yet
But seein her lookin in my sister's eyes bring peace back
Sweet stacks of memories that I could sift through
But all the pain remain and then what's left to lift you
The light we see, it gon change thru the years slow
But these days, I'm stayin thankful for the tears tho
Yeah, I'm stayin thankful for the tears tho
But these days, I'm stayin thankful for the tears tho
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10. |
For The Culture
04:24
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Yeah
Move the crowd, MC protocol
Y'all can hold your breath waitin for the Pro to fall
Cook today like there's no tomorrow, we can spar
Test your chin, hands, and body with the bars
Yo what kind of scars you earn all up in the work zone
The lotus came from the mud, embrace your Earth tones
From the roots to the sky, lace your boots and your mind
Tie em up in a knot at the top of your spine
Prime with deluxe flow, time to grind for gusto
Polish mine, it's hard to shine with a mind full of rust so
I stay sharpenin my axe, parts to your caps
Can't relax when your backs on the wall and that's facts
Tax out here, they really tryna make us all pay
For everywhere we go and every single step we take
Dues paid mane, y'all on't see the cost bruh
Y'all the ones sayin do it for the culture
Do it for the culture, for the culture indeed
That just mean y'all really want me doin shit for free
And that's greed, yo how y'all pricin y'alls fee
I on't understand, man I'm just a MC
Do it for the culture, for the culture indeed
That just mean y'all really want me doin shit for free
Ayo Shreve! Damn how y'all pricin y'alls fee?
I on't understand, man I'm just a MC
Just a MC on my progression
Shows full of old lessons plus new cold questions
Raw aggression, this is spittin the raps, kickin the facts
Flippin the rhythm and bringing it back, no slippin, I'm sippin and whippin the Rav
A kick in the ass to rappers, rippin through y'all like chapters
All they wan play is the game but I'ma just hang up in the rafters
Yo where y'all took the game to, how you came out game 2?
How you carried your self when they just tend to under rank you
This a thank you to the haters and under-estimators
If it wasn't for the steps I'd never use the elevators
The wait just make it taste sweeter, I just want a 8 seater
Take the fam on the tour, me and Drugs made a heater
Let's fix a feast to eat up and put our feet up
After puttin work in then I tend to roll the trees up
Yo, breathe up, on your journey while you roll by
Beware the hookup—that might be what you get stole by
Do it for the culture, for the culture indeed
That just mean y'all really want me doin shit for free
And that's greed, yo how y'all pricin y'alls fee
I on't understand, man I'm just a MC
Do it for the culture, for the culture indeed
That just mean y'all really want me doin shit for free
Ayo Shreve! Damn how y'all pricin y'alls fee?
I on't understand, man I'm just a MC
Well do you think you have now encouraged your fans to take drugs
I don't think it will make any difference, you know
I don't think my fans are gonna take drugs just cuz I did
You know, the thing is that's not the point anyway
America's public enemy number 1: drugs
The reason that the currently illegal drugs are illegal
Has nothing to do with a scientific evaluation of the relative risks and benefits
Otherwise you could never come up with a situation
Where marijuana is illegal and tobacco is legal
You cannot make a rational argument for that, that comes from racism
Drug laws were made in explicitly racist circumstances for explicitly racist reasons
Young people that are using the drugs come from every walk of life
The old stereotype that, only the bad kids from the bad environments, and bad homes
Are the drug users, just doesn't hold true
We're quite sure now that the drug problem goes through our society
From one continuum to the other
Those who are economically well off, those who are economically poor
And all those in between, those who come from the good parts of town quote
And the bad parts of town...everyone, there is no one that escapes it
Until we find modalities of stimulating the young mind and body
Within either the school setting or in the community
Where they can feel a part of something, where something has meaning
Where there's feedback from say adult to youth and youth to adult
That we're gonna be missing the boat in any educational program
Where did this need for stimulation come from
And remember the key word, stimulation, which is opposite to boredom
And if there's any common phrase used as to why youngsters are taking drugs
Or doing the more bizarre or way out things, it is that they are bored
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Free The Optimus Asheville, North Carolina
A call to action.
We wanted a revolution, but they just ran us around in circles. Here to speak truth, to say what needs
to be said. And the beats are f#@kin bangin.
Do your best.
See the positive. Transform the world.
FTO is for the kids.
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