1. |
Socially Just
01:47
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1. Socially Just
V1:
They want to label us as radicals, uninformed and supposedly nuts/
because when we speak its emphatical, but thats just the passion, they don't understand the socially just/
see its easy to pass us off as just a "classless, awful group stirring a situation"/
well I guess thats half true. Its cliché to say but I will stir a generation if I have to/
this is that 25th of Matthew, right now we separate the Sheep from the Goats/
so I seek to provoke the people to at least take a note, so at least they can know the truth that it ain't equal for most/
it ain't equal for so many and transcends any one community or village/
both locally and globally, theres an issue with distribution of opportunity and privilege/
well thats socially justice in a nutshell, and how the systems we believe in and we trust fail/
the principles must prevail, get on the same page first then we'll discuss details/
theres problem that we're facing. If you see a problem in a nation, addressing that problem is your obligation/
yeah I said it, "Obligation". Because we as a people are one/
we as a people are from the same dust, same dirt, pain thrust the same hurt so we must contain the same worth/
and so we must proclaim the same worth. Hear the musket "bang"!/
no baton but we're all running in this human race. Focus because theres only one of them/
all of us just the same as it pertains to "team name" in this human race, because theres only one of them/
WE ARE THE SOCIALLY JUST
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2. |
Make Your Voice Heard
03:30
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2. Make Your Voice Heard
V1:
I speak for the people who never get a platform/
I speak for the people through music in a Rap form/
I speak to the people and the people are tired/
we need to inspire the peeps we admire to ride, put their feet to the fire/
I came to enlighten you now, even if it I never fit in/
I came to enlighten this crowd, even if it is forbidden/
I came from a light-beam and "blaouw"/
now my town isn't hidden. Found in sufficient sound and the nouns I've emitted. Down in a prison bound break ground with precision/
SCRATCH BRIDGE:
usher in a movement of enlightenment/
HOOK:
make your voice heard/
not on my watch not in my generation when faced with all time misplacement we make our voices heard/
make your voice heard/
not on our watch not in our generation we face an all time disgracement and make our voices heard/
gonna fall if we don't make the balance, will you fall or will you take the challenge/
we're following the greats who spoke in faith so make your voice heard/
(2X)
POEM:
social media leaving us seemingly deaf, as we move through this life from one screen to the next/
how can we expect to hear the cries of manipulation? They were tricked and then were stripped of any amplification/
this is classic "Ursula to Ariel", left voiceless. Choice-less, but our voice can wreck oysters/
pierce through the noises for their sake, so when they speak we speak, and return to them what is rightfully theirs/
I implore you, SPEAK/
V2:
back in the ring after the same thing, I ain't after the fame/
I ask you to bring passion ingrain latch and attach to your brain/
the past that we came is the proof that we have to look after the lame/
the path is a lane that is Batman to Bane, they'll be cracks in your frame but you bask in the pain/
walk in the ways often portrayed "off" when I offer a way/
up up off and away opting to speak up when the cost finna raise/
a multi billion dollar industry thats making profit off a multi million people trapped we are the key unlock it/
try to haul me away, halt. Leaving my mark, I'm a Hulk in a rage/
SCRATCH BRIDGE:
inviting them to stand and fight with us/
HOOK:
make your voice heard/
not on my watch not in my generation when faced with all time misplacement we make our voices heard/
make your voice heard/
not on our watch not in our generation we face an all time disgracement and make our voices heard/
gonna fall if we don't make the balance, will you fall or will you take the challenge/
we're following the greats who spoke in faith so make your voice heard/
(2X)
SCRATCH BRIDGE:
I'll keep rapping never backing down/
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3. |
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VERSE 1:
If I could just change lanes, If I could get over, I know I can make it/
If I could just change lanes, would you let me get over? You don't know whats at stake/
If I could just get there. This meeting it happens in nine minutes/
And im trying to prove to these nine cynics that if Im in it, we can finally silence the critics/
If I could just get there. This always happens to me. Well if people could drive then I could just get there/
If I don't get over this traffic will eat me alive/
If I could just…..
If I could just make it up out of this traffic I could just…..
Forget it Im getting up out of this traffic/
Im going to gas it, Im going to make this happen, shoulders open, move past fine/
I can pass him, not going to brake or ask him, ive been late for the last time/
And I swear ive missed or last date, and his last game/
If I could just get to the fast lane, no longer neglecting the people who share my last name/
And Im tired of these work trips. Every sunday working, wheres worship?/
If I could hold it down in this meeting then Im going to move up and….that'll be perfect/
If I could just…. If I could just make it up out of this traffic I could just…./
If I could just make it up out of this traffic/
CHORUS:
(Trying to get away now)
VERSE 2:
If I could just change things, if I could be bolder, I know I'll be free/
If I could just change things, then when I get older, who knows what i'll be/
I could do fashion. They sold my soul and they cashed in. The door is closed and they latched it/
But I can get back to my parents if I could get passed it/
I could just view the stars and soak in the light, at night in the bed/
I never view the stars at night no instead, my light is red/
If I could get passed this, for far too long it has lasted/
The door is open they cracked it, by an accident, im coming home if I could get passed it/
I could just….I could be anything I could be free, I could be anyone I could be me/
I could be viewed as a person and not as a service, I could be seen/
If I could just make it up out of this traffic I could just…../
Forget it im getting up out of this traffic/
Im going to run, Im going to make a break for outside, thats going to make or break me out right/
I'll hitchhike, when a car comes make them brake, thats my ride/
Look at me run! Im going to conquer this obstacle, even though it seems impossible/
If they catch me they'll stop me but right now a freeway is right in my opticals/
Look it ive made it. Theres so many cars im elated/
Just thinking how long that ive waited, for someone to come in and save me/
For someone to come in and do something. Thats all over now, I see cars all over now/
Theres one on the highway, coming my way on the shoulder. WOW!/
He isn't stopping. He isn't seeing me, he isn't budging/
Of course he don't see me, everyone doesn't/
Thought "this my ticket to freedom", it wasnt/
She just couldn't make it up out of this ….. no/
She just couldn't make it up out of this traffic/
CHORUS:
(Trying to get away now)
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4. |
Smile
03:36
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4. Smile
HOOK:
I don't know how to deal today, but you wont take my smile away/
you wont take my smile away (2x)
I kneel to my knees and pray, "please don't take my smile away"/
please don't take my smile away (2x)
V1:
I've got the blues in me/
it used to be "you and me" but you were using me/
did I fail to mention/
that it's been brought to my attention that the little homies pimping/
that messes with your psyche/
when you've invested years of teaching peers to do the right thing/
its striking, lighting/
I've been blocking spammers while you're cocking hammers and its frightening/
a little sudden that it hit me/
so quickly, like the vodka is to buzzing/
and its hard not to feel a grudge when/
your momma tells you that they've shot your little cousin/
heard who did it, first reaction was that Dilla noise/
we morn your death and celebrate your life to fill a void/
now a statistic and I'm still annoyed/
but you wont steal my smile, steal my laughter, steal my heart, no you wont steal my joy/
HOOK:
I don't know how to deal today, but you wont take my smile away/
you wont take my smile away (2x)
I kneel to my knees and pray, "please don't take my smile away"/
please don't take my smile away (2x)
V2:
I wrote these words so I could honor the people/
who's fate they faced but then they escaped astonishing evil/
who's brain was ached but didn't break they conquered cerebral/
to see your pain it angered me but look at who you became, you inspire me/
I wrote these words to honor the hurting/
who's current state is facing this great astonishing burden/
this global state is veiled but we will conquer the curtain/
to see your pain it angers me, to freedom in HIS name, you inspire me to smile/
BRIDGE:
little lady you're a conquerer (yes you are)/
pretty lady you're a conquerer ( yes you are)/
your scars they are removable (yes they are)/
pretty lady you are beautiful (yes you are)/
little homie you're a conquerer (yes you are)/
big homie you're a conquerer (yes you are)/
they thought your heart was one they can kill (they were wrong)/
so beat your chest because you're a man still/
HOOK:
I don't know how to deal today, but you wont take my smile away/
you wont take my smile away (2x)
I kneel to my knees and pray, "please don't take my smile away"/
please don't take my smile away (2x)
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5. Prevail (feat. Propaganda)
V1 (Nomis):
We offer you an organic force, through a digital means/
the marriage of music and movement we've restored the divorce/
of course it would seem that if I claim to be a man of God/
the music may be digital but action is in analog/
hand to the plow, we do work/
I build my stamina now to make it, until we know that what we do works/
and I know that what they do hurts/
material's got them scraping the numbers off the serial/
material's got them turning to killers that are serial/
material, moves them to currency at any cost/
and currency is currently a cause/
of a dying culture, and so we aim to be a tourniquet/
consider the World Cup, any major tournament/
the traffick is rampant and turbulent/
turning these turntables with "overturn injustice" within it/
now hows that for revolutions per minute?/
HOOK (Fallon Moore):
you can chase your dreams/
its okay, succeed/
when you face the need for more, don't forget about us/
you can chase your dreams/
its okay, succeed/
with integrity proceed and we prevail/
BRIDGE:
everybody take a vow (principles must prevail)
everybody take it now (principles must prevail)
everybody take a vow, everybody take it now, everybody make it loud (principles must prevail)
POEM (Propaganda):
and I've asked nothing but my fair share and that shouldn't scare you, how dare you?/
a man is worth his wages, but if them wages wave flags of defeat to my fellow fellows/
then that man should make his legs legit right angles. Humility, priorities/
see people ain't objects and objects don't have sovereignty, or personhood/
and there was a time I would blame some sort of outside force/
as if that was the source of my selfishness. Stems from well made products such sorcery/
soars out of the sores of my souls hole, how should we escape?/
it pours out of the pores of my poor soul and this piss pour attempts to create glimpses of heaven/
POEM (Nomis):
and we've all been condition the same way/
If you're not first, you're last. There is no "runner up", and no second place trophy/
get through that maze, get that cheese first by any means/
because if you don't, believe that someone else will/
somewhere along the line we've abandoned the idea of loving our neighbor/
and adopted the idea of loving our neighbors possessions/
replacing decency for decadence. The rat race/
and all for a shiny blue ribbon, that has no eternal significance/
principles will prevail, principles must prevail/
V2 (Propaganda):
and that I yell, like the stature we've taken as a nation/
in relation to the time we've wasted/
its kind of like humility and service, without love its worthless/
and in lieu of all attempts to fix us/
we lift up an enclave thats awkwardly awesome always/
and in all ways I've tried them paths don't lead to heaven bruh/
I laid my eyes on trash that bleed forever bruh/
I've craved the time I've dashed against the jagged rocks/
as if eternity was still mine to waste/
and I know these are nose bleed seats words over your head but/
I believe in you, promise I wont leave you/
me and you could do better if we knew better/
together we a crew in the storm we do weather/
so fist to the superficial, giggle when they try and sell it/
fist up the official symbol of the true rebellion/
the true rebellion, lets yell it/
HOOK (Fallon Moore):
you can chase your dreams/
its okay, succeed/
when you face the need for more, don't forget about us/
you can chase your dreams/
its okay, succeed/
with integrity proceed and we prevail/
BRIDGE:
everybody take a vow (principles must prevail)
everybody take it now (principles must prevail)
everybody take a vow, everybody take it now, everybody make it loud (principles must prevail)
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6. |
Flaw
02:04
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6. Flaw
V1:
a pledge of service and protection, but something here is not right/
you see I'm one of the "good guys" so why am I nervous everytime you're beside me at a stoplight?/
when I'm in need, I pray that you'll be there in a flash/
and that your preconceived notions are buried and stashed back at the precinct/
I ask my dad, "why am I 30 years old and I'm scared of a badge?"/
you see its funny but I'm not laughing/
why do you continue to belittle me? It riddles me/
silly me captain, actually I'm not on parole/
just like I wasn't 30 seconds back when you already asked me/
and so they ask why I'm shook by beast/
because lives keep ending and they seem to all look like me/
and if we cry out they'll treat us like we're overreacting/
on social media they'll meet us with no compassion/
because these folks cant imagine living in a broken system/
so to make it all make sense to them, they demonize the victim/
lets all take shots at a dead man/
show his flaws, hopefully the captured it on webcam/
at what point do we matter? When does our demand for justice become justified?/
and have you ever thought that maybe things were actually as bad as we perceive it/
but due to lack of melanin you don't receive it, and so therefore you don't see it/
because if you did, well then you would have to actually believe it/
then you would have to actually believe it/
flaw/
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7. Theme Music (Life In Motion)
HOOK (Sarah Dean):
this is the sound of a life in motion/
shake beneath the ground/
the sound we make is a great commotion/
walls come falling down/
If revolution had a movie I'd be theme music/
V1:
the masses are gathering/
with one mind elevated crafted on Saturn's ring/
do we respond or do we sit still/
I'm alarmed and sick still from the passiveness the latter brings/
and the sound of a battering ram echoes the same sound of a unified voice/
so we raise in upliftment, a noise with amazing persistence/
we're poised with a phrase of resistance/
"I will not stand down, I wont speak softly"/
consequences of silence is costly/
hands off me, audibly I'm offering/
an option to stop harboring all of the options/
and offering the offspring a doctrine/
that doesn't turn away the lame and coughing we'll embrace them until the coffin/
so in the vein of the Doctor King/
and the author of my dreams, I see it from the mountain top/
HOOK (Sarah Dean):
this is the sound of a life in motion/
shake beneath the ground/
the sound we make is a great commotion/
walls come falling down/
If revolution had a movie I'd be theme music/ (3x)
V2:
raise up from that couch and that mattress/
wait of this world pressing my back like the Atlas/
Atlantis to the land, this planet is a broke sphere/
damage. I pray that we don't panic when the smoke clears/
because many tend to vanish/
when the obstacle is so large and grandiose we're at a disadvantage/
a standard we don't trust, its supposed to be us/
this is the burden of the socially just/
but the burden is a gift kid, born with something different/
in our DNA, gene pool of the misfits/
if chess we're the Bishops/
I fell like I'm X-Men Gold Team School of the Gifted/
we're about to educate, you with some pressure/
IF YOU CHOOSE APATHY YOU SIDE WITH THE OPPRESSOR/
and I don't want to hear that you just didn't know/
you caught the knowledge when you came to the show/
HOOK (Sarah Dean):
this is the sound of a life in motion/
shake beneath the ground/
the sound we make is a great commotion/
walls come falling down/
If revolution had a movie I'd be theme music/ (3x)
SPEECH EXCERPT (Dr. King):
from the "Mountain Top" speech
V3:
we will not stand down, we wont speak softly/
consequences of silence is so costly/
hands off us, audibly we're offering/
an option to stop harboring all of the options/
and offering the offspring a doctrine/
dont turn away the lame and coughing we'll embrace them until the coffin/
so in the vein of my father, King/
and the author of my dreams, I see it from the mountain top/
HOOK (Sarah Dean):
this is the sound of a life in motion/
shake beneath the ground/
the sound we make is a great commotion/
walls come falling down/
If revolution had a movie I'd be theme music/ (3x)
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8. |
Filthy Rich
03:32
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8. Filthy Rich
V1:
you're gonna make waves if you take a stance, but die prolific/
a tone of them wait to watch me drop but I've persisted/
Guantanamo Bay is where they want my life to visit/
for wave making, but I only fear the waves from Oceanside Pacific/
they'll challenge you, channel insecurities and count on dismantling you/
to believe you're a foolish ideological product sounding outlandish/
but you're talented and its that time no more silence don't panic/
destiny's calling you answer the line/
BRIDGE:
so hold your head/
when they do not understand you when you're trying to take a stand/
remember they fed Daniel to the Lions/
so hold your head/
when they deem you sensitive because you're not like them/
remember they're just frightened, because they ain't been enlightened/
so hold your head/
with a slighted grin, smile and you decide within/
how you win with him, your value doesn't lie with them/
you know your worth isn't vein, no your worth doesn't stain/
no, your worth is the same, I know I'm worth risen pain/
HOOK:
I'm filthy Rich/
money makes a man when a man is worth his weight/
I'm filthy rich/
money makes a man and the man outweighs a freight/
I'm filthy rich/
money makes a man when a man is worth his weight/
filthy rich/ (4x)
I'm filthy rich/
something like I'm gold (shut your lips)/
I'm filthy rich/
stunting on these pros (shut your lips)/
I'm filthy rich/
buying all this, stunting like I'm, fronting like I'm/
I'm filthy rich/
V2:
forgive my bold confessionist tone/
but man cannot live on possessions alone/
and in the end when my profession is gone/
what will they say of my progression at home/
(2X)
they'll tell me "beautify sacrifice", the duty and task? A suitable cat to write/
the stories of the glory and victorious movement to maximize the facts of life from black to white I scouted it/
attacked the fight I'm proud of it, while these cats are so out of it/
they just want the same thing, I just want to change things/
the pain of those who in chains arrange to chain the pain until pain leaves/
insanely, crazy enough to think that the world can flip its mind/
when I spit these rhymes and I kick these lines, it simply time to change things/
BRIDGE:
so hold your head/
when they do not understand you when you're trying to take a stand/
remember they fed Daniel to the Lions/
so hold your head/
when they deem you sensitive because you're not like them/
remember they're just frightened, because they ain't been enlightened/
so hold your head/
with a slighted grin, smile and you decide within/
how you win with him, your value doesn't lie with them/
you know your worth isn't vein, no your worth doesn't stain/
no, your worth is the same, I know I'm worth risen pain/
HOOK:
I'm filthy Rich/
money makes a man when a man is worth his weight/
I'm filthy rich/
money makes a man and the man outweighs a freight/
I'm filthy rich/
money makes a man when a man is worth his weight/
filthy rich/ (4x)
I'm filthy rich/
something like I'm gold (shut your lips)/
I'm filthy rich/
stunting on these pros (shut your lips)/
I'm filthy rich/
buying all this, stunting like I'm, fronting like I'm/
I'm filthy rich/
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9. Dr. Malcolm (feat. Jurny Big)
V1 (Nomis):
shallow waters in the talent pool/
you rose up from a city where the odds were insurmountable/
your bank is bountiful but now a town of fools are drowning/
in the life you preach but you refuse to be accountable/
this word power is no joke, with limited slow growth, and those defending it are known as feminine/
well if you're seeing us as women then, the ending to your primitive ways today are seeming imminent/
your team they benefit from a despicable arrangement/
instead of taking blame you claim its "only entertainment"/
only for the famous, look at the sum of it/
a mans responsible for self but yo we carry some of it/
a person with a platform is a leader, for the fact that he has one/
your tracks show if you're a good or a bad one/
and I ain't saying you cant have fun/
but your biggest fan he aspires to the grams and just to have guns/
V2 (Jurny Big):
the puppet master in a three piece suit/
keep strings on his fingers see what these things do/
you wiggle his index and then sex we're spilling/
objectifying our daughters and mothers of our children/
the power lies in the hands of the puppeteer/
because he shower mine with advance when I signed and made it clear/
that, as long as I'm selling and telling its my story/
I can embellish and relish in my glory/
and never mind the topic of my discussion/
my optic 'cause thats the substance that got the industry buzzing/
the sound, of the humming means money is coming in/
and thats the hymn that made "YOLO" an acronym/
but, the truth is we almost always 'gon lack immunity/
long as we choose to sing off the backs of the black community/
cracks in the arm is what children is getting taught/
and man if the karma ain't even give us a second thought/
V3 (Nomis):
these suit & ties got no conscience/
taking young women and men who've got no constants/
and give them a pen, to show nonsense with no content/
promote convicts so now Nomis gotta go conscious/
its so common but bet that/
later when arrested or they're laid to rest that labels gonna step back/
with no comment. Ain't getting help from no congress/
you get shot then little homie you die, this is no comic/
I want to go vomit, the truth is sickening/
for all of you thats listening, my words the antihistamine/
misplace of the mystery/
1980s privatized prisons in the US homie you can check the history/
the signing of N.W.A., quite a coincidence/
sentence my sentiment to pilate/
you're turning on the TV what is highlit? Then you act surprised/
asking, "why all those black sell drugs and act violent?"/
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10. |
Green Mile
03:05
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10. Green Mile:
INTRO:
I see the people and they're crying for help/
so I ain't ready to die until I'm done dying to myself/
V1:
No more looking the other way first/
no more waiting on the samaritan/
no more waiting for you to care/
and debating on who should carry him blatantly its embarrassing/
"it aint my responsibility, the calling is gonna choose them"/
try saying that with a straight face/
when I pass through the great gates and he asks, whats my excuse then?/
I'm walking this Green Mile now/
but I don't see a finish line/
'cause he aint finished with me yet/
finish breakfast first that last suppers dinner time/
I see the people and they're crying for help/
so I aint ready to die until Im done dying to myself/
(2X)
POEM:
but lets be honest/
the circle of those out of reach is a diameter far superior to the sphere of those who are actually in arms length/
and the bitter irony of it all/
is that so many who are actually in arms length are so far out of touch, that they couldn't reach those without, even if they tried to/
viewing life with binoculars on backwards/
non exposure becoming non existence/
we don't stand for what we don't see/
I see the people and they're crying for help/
so I aint ready to die until Im done dying to myself/
(2X)
BRIDGE:
rarely do you see an MC out for justice
(3x)
everything is anything/
anything everything/
and all of it is only for the ones who are in reach/
V2:
When I'm dead and gone/
my vital isn't on but life within the song is ripe within it strong/
When I'm dead and gone/
I tried to end a wrong I trifled with the "johns" and fighted them with brawn/
When I'm dead and gone/
I sighted timid, calm ignited them along inspired them to spawn/
When I'm dead and gone/
my title isn't gone he knighted him a don the night'll end at dawn/
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11. |
Love God, Love People
03:14
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11. Love God, Love People
POEM:
As the Pharisees gather with an agenda, they proceed forward with a highly tactical approach, and then they speak/
They say "teacher, which is the greatest commandment of the law?"
Surely he is not prepared for this/
And as the pages turn and the letters burn to Crimson/
sternly yet simply he speaks/
"Love the Lord your God with all parts of you"/
No further questions. Yet further answers were given/
center stage with eyes locked in a second commandment is mentioned and this one is similar to the first/
"Love your neighbor as yourself, all of the law and the prophets rest on these two things alone"/
So easy to comprehend but so easy to forget when faced with a chance to apply it/
I'm sure we all feel like we are loving people/
we shake hands, we wave to familiar faces and we kiss our grandmothers goodbye when they leave/
But the bubbles we've cultivated in life, subconsciously decreases the number of those who we actually deem worthy to be loved/
He's a "bad person" he can't actually be worthy to be loved can he?/
You remember what Jesus said, "love God and love some people" right?/
Or was it, "love God and love certain people", or "love God and love only people who haven't done time or only people who don't share a bed with the same sex"/
Or maybe it was, "love God and love only people who live in this country legally and only if they can speak proper English"/
or maybe it was, "love God and love only people who don't subscribe to this sometimes seemingly radical religion known as Islam"/
Lord help us for we have altered your command to become, "love God and love only those who we are comfortable loving"/
We must stop viewing people through the eyeglass of prejudice or patriotism and start seeing people through the sunglasses of Christendom/
All of us fearfully and wonderfully made/
And again he speaks, "for I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat/
I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a foreigner and you did not welcome me/
I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me/
For whatever you have not done for the least of these, you most certainly have not done for me"/
Teacher, which is the greatest command of the law?/
Well that's easy. Love God, love people/
all of the law and the prophets rest on those two things alone/
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12. Violence Within the Violin
V1:
its hard to admit but I've got issues that are irking me/
but first heres some perspective of my life out here on Mercury/
my main supporters aint from Dopeboyz or Rapzilla/
'cause my raps are more Macklemore than Mineo and Mac Miller/
and thats not a co-sign for Mack or diss to Min and Miller both/
its more about the social aspect in my rap as an approach/
I found I had a passion for the broken and it stuck with me/
not coming out through rapping for me just wasn't a luxury/
words formed, I wrote songs and felt the Lord was honored/
but he didn't bless it how I expected that had me ponder/
so I figured, "I guess the world aint ready yet"/
but when they start asking for Human Trafficking raps Im here already set/
next thing you know Im seeing all these songs and poems/
most the artists weren't established, but a few of them I know 'em/
and ya'll get recognition now for knowing?/
man I wrote those bars years ago, this must be how it feels for Leonard Cohen/
a San Diego visionary like Im Dannu/
my platform wasn't large enough I started acting brand new/
and honestly in hindsight, I really think the fam knew/
a Dream Junkie showed me his poem and I tried to ban Ru/
from spitting that Trafficking piece that he created/
like I had a monopoly on everything justice related/
I tasted and started to smell the fumes of that bitterness/
I was consumed by my bitterness/
the sooner I admitted it, the sooner I could fly again/
it shot me to my core I really considered retiring/
you can hear the violence within the violin/
another rapper falling victim to entitlement/
HOOK:
Shameful when i'm looking back, painful from the memory/
confusion it was sent to be my enemy (20/20)/
shameful when I'm looking back, painful from the memory/
community was sent to be my centerpiece (20/20)/
it never bothered me the growth of awareness/
why was I bothered when they spoke I'm embarrassed (20/20)/
I never minded if other people said it/
in hindsight I was blinded because I wasnt getting any credit/
V2:
so there I was forced to step back and view myself/
I hated what I saw I can believe I'd loose myself/
in 2008 for me was the start of it/
educated myself on the issue and grew a heart for it/
that same year, I put my art to it/
and wrote, "On Behalf of the Silenced" I just wanted to play my part in it/
nothing was more important than building the movement/
and perfect timing 'cause that time my rhyming skills were improving/
and I can honestly say, the mission never left essential/
but that full time rapper grind is a killer when the rents due/
it adds a certain pressure that music was never meant to/
so without the bills this might've been something I never went through/
but no more excuses, I'm done with the scapegoats/
how dare I complain, my little place has got a gate code/
my heart crossed hand on a bible I'll say I'm grateful/
but its hard to show the darkest parts of me because I hate those/
do you know how much it makes me boil/
when they progress the cause and I respond as if un-joyful/
do you know how hard it is to admit/
that you've let your ego in but you pretend it don't exist/
well im done with it I'm free from it/
look back and I see from it/
learn now how to flee from it/
may he summit and me plummet/
no more of "me" homie we've done it/
shout to every artist out who's ever reaped from it/
I celebrate your work we've got the same assignment/
in the same gang, same goal, maybe different environment/
I embrace the violence within the violin/
never again will be a victim of entitlement/
HOOK:
Shameful when i'm looking back, painful from the memory/
confusion it was sent to be my enemy (20/20)/
shameful when I'm looking back, painful from the memory/
community was sent to be my centerpiece (20/20)/
it never bothered me the growth of awareness/
why was I bothered when they spoke I'm embarrassed (20/20)/
I think I minded that your way was accepted/
my hindsight has given new life and some proper perspective/
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