Growing up I never thought I would rap
Cuz everybody around me said that I wasn’t black
And that’s a fact, fresh Js but can’t never wear your shoes
Lacing mine with empathy lent to me different views
The do’s and the don’t’s are different for our kids
It’s black lives matter til black lives can live
Just cuz it’s trending doesn’t mean that’s what it is
You can’t see it now then you hide behind your eyelids
Vibrance of humans in the hues dance
Every single moment that you breathe is a new chance
Who got a bruised stance, how your wounds healing
I ain’t dealt wit mine yet, yo I got a new ceiling
Fans go around, make the air circulate
Love’ll hold you down while you make it percolate
This the bubble up, yeah the heat made the sauce thick
Power to the people, we ain’t on some soft shit, yo
Yo, you cooling with the ILE.Pro
MPC to SP with a skilled flow
Build to grow, earning stripes like shell toes
Yo, yo...
What I was tryna find was deep within my spine
Connections to the divine in body and mind
It’s double blind and they all use placebo
Faking medication make the evil taste sweet tho
It’s all our freedom, it’s all about liberty
Its god given rights and that's the holy trinity
Fuck civility right, you got a holy cause
What’s a double cross when you lost in a holy war
Damn, they preaching love they neighbors
Then they turn around, call the cops on em' later
Damn well knowing how police do black folks
Especially way out there on the back roads
Yo, the same damn thing that you see in every city
Fucking dirty cops out to get they shit gritty
Mad muddy, American blood money
Is red, white, and blue, ain’t a damn thing funny
And yo, y’all are bullies in the worst way
Yo, lessons that you shoulda fucking learned in the first grade
Respect life and treat others how you’d be treated
Golden rules, lots of knowledge out there, but what you reading
I believe in this, I believe in us
I believe that we could be better than what it was
Yo, I believe in this, I believe in us
Yo
What I was tryna find was deep within my spine
Connections to the divine in body and mind
It’s double blind and they all use placebo
Faking medications make the evil taste sweet tho
It’s all our freedom, it’s all about liberty
Its god given rights and that's the holy trinity
Fuck civility right, you got a holy cause
What’s a double cross when you lost in a holy war, yo
Aye yo, you cooling with the ILE.Pro, yeah
MPC to the SP with a skilled flow, yo
Build to grow, earning stripes like shell toes
Yo, but who the hell knows
Yo what I was tryna find was deep within my spine
Connections to the divine in body and mind
It’s double blind and they all use placebo
Faking medications make the evil taste sweet tho
It’s all our freedom, it’s all about liberty
Its god given rights and that's the holy trinity
And fuck civility right, you got a holy cause
What’s a double cross when you lost in the holy war
When you lost in a holy war
What’s a double cross when you lost in a holy war
credits
released October 2, 2020
Written by Chris Shreve. Production by Ile Flottante. Mixed and mastered by EG Engineering.
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.
North Carolina MC Big Pooh tells it like it is, detail for gritty detail, aided by L'Orange, Steve Roxx, and Apollo Brown. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 24, 2015
