1. |
Scratch Off Intro
02:24
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Tell me can you lend a quarter
Can you lend the boy a quarter
Copped another ticket I ain’t staying on this corner
Tell me can you lend a quarter
Cuz I’m running outta chances and my patience getting shorter
Just a penny!
Can you lend a fucking penny?
Your two cents is too many
I been tryna turn this rain slowly falling to confetti
Waiting praying on this opportunity
And now it’s here, ima take it now I’m ready!
Ready
Ready
Ready
I been running into people from my past
Hit the chit chat small talk catch up then they ask
“Whatchu got going on now? How you being”
I replied busy rapping and I’m singing
Then the place got quiet
They ain’t say but they thinking like
God
Damn
Nigga is you outta ya mind
Is you outta ya mind
Is you outta ya mind
Is you outta ya mind
Is you outta ya mind
Is you outta ya mind
And I be like
Maybe
Ain’t afraid of looking crazy
And I know I hit your spirit
If I said it you related
I ain’t never met a sane muthafucka who done made it
In the world of long nights
Flashing lights and entertainment
If I got it young nigga ima go up and attain it
Unless you
Knucking up
I could give a fuck about your weigh in
Cuz it sure is a gamble
But I sure ain’t playing
Like nigga
Listen
If you want it go and get it
Cuz you can’t afford to rest up on the fence up like a picket
If this shit is a lottery I got the winning ticket
And I’m scratching
Off
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2. |
Great Migration
04:28
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Gullah when I pull up
Young bull all about a come up
If I gotta have a dream, I'ma take to extreme
I'ma make it by the ballot or the bullet
This my
Birth of the Cool
Langston: word it like Hughes
Anxious, I'ma hit the bank with, 41 acres, dirt and a mule
Cuz we
Earned in dues
If you had listened you heard it in blues
Make it no matter your shade if we talk about race
So I cannot be worried ‘bout hues
I would caution y’all
I’m an invisible man so if I go off, yah eyes watching god
Gotta get up stand up
Bitch if we free, I'ma take a knee
Ima replace the anthem
Look in my eyes, its greatness
Put me under pressure you would think ima cave in
Put me under pressure you gon test my patience
Talk about a come up we the great migration
Look in my eyes, its greatness
Put me under pressure you would think ima cave in
Put me under pressure you gon test my patience
Talk about a come up we the great migration
Child of an exodus
Who am I not to expect a risk
Do or die, everyday sentiment
So I can’t afford a bad attempt
Not me I'ma do us
Right now they are clueless
Top 3 and I’m ruthless
And my granny from a town where they founded the Ku Klux
Ain’t nobody gonna rule us
I was talented tenth before ten
So you never had chance with you pen
When you dealing with cops record them
Cuz we coming from hood the poor end
And we getting up out like Jordan
I am coming for crown of boom bap
So I pick up my shoes with boot straps
And the music infused with new jazz
And I’m taking your loot we shoot craps
And I’m leading a coup with cool cats
Look in my eyes, its greatness
Put me under pressure you would think ima cave in
Put me under pressure you gon test my patience
Talk about a come up we the great migration
Look in my eyes, its greatness
Put me under pressure you would think ima cave in
Put me under pressure you gon test my patience
Talk about a come up we the great migration
They wanna use us like props
My soul ain’t one to be bought
It’s deep hidden in our blood
I can feel it in one drop!
Let my hair grow to the top
They wanted Jim Crow but I’m not
I could never trust the police
And I can’t share no crops!
Look in my eyes, its greatness
Put me under pressure you would think ima cave in
Put me under pressure you gon test my patience
Talk about a come up we the great migration
Look in my eyes, its greatness
Put me under pressure you would think ima cave in
Put me under pressure you gon test my patience
Talk about a come up we the great migration
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3. |
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One plus one: snake eyes
One by one baby
Day by day even more tries
Say I'll stay
Give it more time
More time
More time (Ooh)
Say I'll stay
Give it more time
More time
One plus one: snake eyes
One by one baby
Day by day even more tries
Say I'll stay
Give you more time
More time
More time (Ooh)
Say I'll stay
Give you more time
More time
Baby
Maybe we bust
I never been one to look at someone and then develop deep trust
I give you all my free time and now I see I’m just never enough
You keep me boa constricted new definition of being cuffed
How many times can we roll
Stuck in a life that we chose
How many lies have we told
I cannot continue because when I lift you up I feel low
And if only I could show you and give you some clue that I’m feeling less than
I tried to tell you before
You heard me like you were deafened
I seem to overlook these develop amnesia as soon as we sexing
I need you ‘round and it hurt indeed you’re always my best friend
We ain’t
Solid
Far from the flawless
But when you need relief and time to breathe
Look for me you can find solace
Solid
I still can’t call it
We gon both pay the price, knowing vice
Roll the dice I’m all in
One plus one: snake eyes
One by one baby
Day by day even more tries
Say I'll stay
Give it more time
More time
More time (Ooh)
Say I'll stay
Give it more time
More time
One plus one: snake eyes
One by one baby
Day by day even more tries
Say I'll stay
Give you more time
More time
More time (Ooh)
Say I'll stay
Give you more time
More time
Speak
Truthfully do you copy?
Truthfully you move sloppy
Truthfully you left your phone outside still locked with the passcode
We both know that couldnt stop me
Stupid me thought you got me
Truthfully you got bodies
Suitably like autopsies
Truthfully you got a girl at home
But you rather be running through all the 'nani
And I
I’m so shocked
How could you deceive cuz I know not
Do you wanna leave don’t lie don’t cap
Tell me what you need that I don’t got
Say something
You don’t ever talk
And how is it that you cheated
And I feel like it’s my fault
And if only I could show you and give you some clue that I’m feeling less than
You always put yourself first
I’m always left here in second
I seem to overlook these
Develop amnesia as soon as we sexing
I need you ‘round and it hurt
Cuz indeed you’re always my best friend
We ain’t
Solid
Far from the flawless
But when you need relief and time to breathe
Look for me you can find solace
Solid
I still can’t call it
We gon both pay the price, knowing vice
Roll the dice I’m all in
One plus one: snake eyes
One by one baby
Day by day even more tries
Say I'll stay
Give it more time
More time
More time (Ooh)
Say I'll stay
Give it more time
More time
One plus one: snake eyes
One by one baby
Day by day even more tries
Say I'll stay
Give you more time
More time
More time (Ooh)
Say I'll stay
Give you more time
More time
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4. |
The Pressure
03:12
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Born to break, every rule
Will I make, heaven too?
Resonate, keep it true
Generate revenue
All the pain, they never knew
Will I stay, resolute?
I hesitate, the pressure to
Generate revenue
Born to break, every rule
Will I make, heaven too?
Resonate, keep it true
Generate revenue
All the pain, they never knew
Will I stay, resolute?
I hesitate, the pressure to
Generate revenue
Feed me a check
Lord don’t leave me in debt
Nothing can keep me in check
I need me a net
Gain, and we need respect
Only thing we keep in death
Cuz we be reject-ed
Like a defect
Fuck it dawg whatchu expect
And we be deject-ed
Keep a deep breath
Niggas know we ain’t free yet
My niggas we said
Lack of a dollar we dread
If we don’t see green we see red
I needed the bed
Lord I needed the rest
But fuck it I'd rather be fed
Ceally I’m fed
Up I’ve given my sweat in addition of tearing I bled
So fuck what he said
If you ain’t got shit and you starving
Of course it gon get to your head
Born to break, every rule
Will I make, heaven too?
Resonate, keep it true
Generate revenue
All the pain, they never knew
Will I stay, resolute?
I hesitate, the pressure to
Generate revenue
I’m tired of looking at shit that I never had
Feeling the pressure add
I rather be dead than to let all you peasants laugh
Make it my epitaph
Gotta see a come up working on Sundays
Nigga where heaven at?
Cuz most of the time we been going down one way
Like driving on 7th ave
The fuck do you know about hustle, ‘til your vision turn into tunnel
It’s knowing the shit that you built
And knowing that it could all crumble
The struggle
They tell me they feel me
Honestly nigga you’ll never
I’m the first in my family to be what I can be
The fuck do you know about pressure?
The pressure
Born to break, every rule
Will I make, heaven too?
Resonate, keep it true
Generate revenue
All the pain, they never knew
Will I stay, resolute?
I hesitate, the pressure to
Generate revenue
Born to break, every rule
Will I make, heaven too?
Resonate, keep it true
Generate revenue
All the pain, they never knew
Will I stay, resolute?
I hesitate, the pressure to
Generate revenue
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And don’t waste my time with that bullshit
Keep all that sympathy
I might not have much but at least I got my dignity
Cuz when it’s all said and done it’s kept until infinity
And we all got a past
I just chose to tell mine differently
See typically I’m just suspicious see
I’m keeping to my solo
I do that shit deliberately
That’s the part they don’t know
It’s critical I keep myself and presence at invisible
I figure people show they true selfs with the minimal
Well that’s the principle
Excuse the cynicism
I been thinking bout my older brother
Damn I really miss him
Tryna catch a fortune off these lyrics that I’ve written
Like these fucking songs I make could hope to bust him out of prison
Like maybe if I get on
The judge would see he did wrong
And let my brother slide just because I got a hit song
Well
Wishful thinking I got cousins who tell me we linking
I gotta lift up as I climb cuz I know that we sinking
Especially cuz every time I visit Broward
The feeling I’m turning sour
Lost connections like no router but
How can I save them
Knowing what is fated
I been struggling and fighting trauma set in generations
And I been scared to have a wee child meanwhile
Cuz raising infants reminiscent of a freestyle
Cuz it’s off the top
Ain’t no chance to pause to the shit or stop
I’ll be damned if another nigga raise while I’m not
But there’s the paradox
Dunno if it’s fair or not
Them kids inherit all that baggage that their fucked up parents got
And that’s anxiety, gotta build my dynasty
And shelter all my children from the demons build up inside of me
But that’s another convo
Another setting
Just as long as yah know
I’m laid up in my bedding
The essence of my adolescence is constantly pressing
Running from myself, lord knows where I’m heading
So let that set in
Tryna make it happen mane
Feed up off in this rapper game
They just can’t remain the same
Tryna keep from going insane
Tryna keep from going insane
Tryna make it happen mane
Feed up off in this rapper game
They just can’t remain the same
Tryna keep from going insane
Tryna keep from going insane
Last night I had a convo with my father
The topics of shit we brought up
Its deeper than what you thought of
Like trauma
And how it facilitate family drama
Cuz although it may be painful to work it out but we gotta
I'ma
Pay the homage I gotta
Help my dad and my momma
Cuz when you writing your wrongs, it’s only bout whatchu author
And whatchu offer
I met my father's father
He took us East to Gulf Stream Park
In hopes that we could prosper
For my gramm an’em; They love they gamblin’
I guess it runs up in the family, I feel I’m bound to win
And that’s the painful shit, to know your pain and shit
To know your opportunities they never really either came or went
I need to do it, need to make it and pursue my music
I need believe in any reason that my dream ain’t stupid
But I don’t know I’m just a nigga recording the session
Running from myself, lord knows where I’m heading
Maybe a dead end
Tryna make it happen mane
Feed up off in this rapper game
They just can’t remain the same
Tryna keep from going insane
Tryna keep from going insane
Tryna make it happen mane
Feed up off in this rapper game
They just can’t remain the same
Tryna keep from going insane
Tryna keep from going insane
Keep on fucking running
Gotta keep on fucking pushing
Gotta keep on fucking running
I don't care 'bout how it's looking
Keep on fucking running
Gotta keep on fucking pushing
Gotta keep on fucking running
I don't care 'bout how it's looking, nah
That’s another convo
Another setting
Just as long as yah know
I’m laid up in my bedding
The essence of my adolescence is constantly pressing
Running from myself, lord knows where I’m heading (Uh)
Maybe a dead end, huh
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6. |
Nobody's Interlude
02:39
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Nobody
Nobody
Nobody
Nobody
Nobody
Nobody
Nobody, yeah
Nobody
Nobody
Give a fuck about your fuckin dream
Give a fuck about the shit you seen
Give a fuck about the sleep you lost
They thinking about how much you cost
They lower your value, writing you off
Nobody
('Body)
('Body)
('Body)
Give a fuck about how bad you say you want it
Give a fuck how much you say you on it
Give a fuck about your wasted promise
Ain't no chances, ain’t no solace
Here is where you are veering haunted
Cuz you’ll always be
Nobody
Nobody
Nobody
Nobody
Nobody, yeah
Nobody
Then you’ll never need
Nobody
Nobody
Nobody
Nobody
Nobody
Nobody
Nobody, yeah
Nobody
How many
Times I been wrote off (Wrote off)
So far (So far)
That’s the type of shit to keep you stranded on the sofa (Sofa)
Similar type of shit keep you competing on that low bar (Low bar)
The type of shit to make you zip your lip and bite your boca
That’s that
“Who am I kidding?
Fuck it dawg who am I kidding?
I wanted to dream but I’m keeping it hidden
I’m choking it out and I’m bidding good riddance
The vision
Resemble a raisin’a trapped in the sun
All the belief is depleting
The trouble is keeping the faith in that you are the one
Any victorious never that glorious
Only can only can argue the morals you won
And those who bankrupt have only done only done came up
You finally recognize you were the bum
As it seems
Lowered self esteem will make you scream
Cuz nobody gave a fuck about your dream
And you’ll always be no-muthafuckin-body
Nobody
Nobody
Nobody
Nobody
Nobody, yeah
Nobody
Then you’ll never need
Nobody
Nobody
Nobody
Nobody
Nobody
Nobody
Nobody, yeah
Nobody
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7. |
Friends
03:16
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They the mirror that you need
If blood is thicker than the water they gon wash the bleed
Keep your circle to a few
A couple years’ll pass still that shit ain’t really grew
You turn an “I” into a “we”
You’ll never be a champion without the fucking team
They the family you choose
That’s why it, hurt, more, with friends that you lose
I ain’t got many
Only time you hit my line is when you pop henny
Know you waiting on the time when I can cop many
And currently your nigga really only got pennies so
That line of communication is weak
Authentic is on skeptic a friendship is what I need
Prospective on if I’ll get it
The credit is looking bleak
If I sent the first text I guess we don’t speak
Until you need me, easy
Then the typing fingers moving speedy, really
Kind of like Gonzalez on the TV, TV
How come when we speak it’s only briefly, briefly
Unless I get it popping
Then a periodic nigga turn into an often
I mean it’s not like I can really say it’s shocking
I mean I’m on the up and up and I can see you watching, plotting
Then you get to acting like a real amigo
Saying all that shit to fucking fill my ego
You acting like you crafty, listen nigga we know
When you looking at me, nigga, do you see a c-note
When I blow up you expect shit
That ain’t friendship nigga that’s investment
But I keep you on my team
What the fuck do that say about me
And please don’t lie
‘Least keep it hundred don’t lie
If your niggas really with you then your niggas gon ride, don’t lie
‘Least keep it hundred don’t lie
‘Least if you honest ima be all right
And no lie
I could give a fuck about a niggas co-sign
Rather be all by myself instead of collide
Least if we friend it or we end it i'ma be alright
I’m wanting more, anxious at the opportunity for what’s in store
Tired of the fluency existing living poor
I been working on myself and now I see the open doors
Fruits of my labor, roots of my haters
So intertwined in truth it’s like nature
You see the mindset I try to escape
I need to be the master of my mindstate
And what the fuck you talking about is in your reply
I communicate elucidate feelings that I describe
What’s the point I wanna think about realer shit you decline
Cuz you wanna hit the club and you say that I’m killing vibes, killing vibes
Well pardon me
I’ll be skipping dripping and tripping on wannabees
I rather find a way to convey some autonomy
I cant afford to wallow in shallow and non belief and honestly
I find it pathetic, I hear your words and I let it
Get to me and so truthfully I just wish I could dead it
Our friendship ain't never healthy and it's in need of a medic
I’m just better off without you in my life there I said it!
When I blow up you expect shit
That ain’t friendship nigga that’s an investment
But I keep you on my team
What the fuck do that say about me?
And please don’t lie
‘Least keep it hundred don’t lie
If your niggas really with you then your niggas gon ride, don’t lie
‘Least keep it hundred don’t lie
‘Least if you honest ima be all right
And no lie
I could give a fuck about a niggas co-sign
Rather be all by myself instead of collide
Least if we friend it or we end it i'ma be alright
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8. |
$ocio-€conomic (Ujamaa)
02:27
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I’m going to work today, it hurts the way
Niggas got the nerve to say
That they gonna be a Buffett when the verse get laid
Screaming money is motive we regurgitate
Got an Aunty getting older she deserve to grey
But we working til we buried in a urn a grave
I was putting in a shift when it occurred to me
I’m the last to get a check but I’m the first, first to pay
Money so expensive, we can’t even pay attention
So focused on a money grab, that, you the president’s apprentice
And what’s the message to the children
That you better be the villain
What’s the cost to make a billion
Fucking right you made a killing (Killed em...)
In grade school I learned about the ku klux crew
Round the same time I learned my two plus twos
But when it came to oppression it wasn’t too much new
So now I’m stuck here asking “really who fucks who”
To undo
The cycle killing my people
Is it the rifles
Is it a system
Is it the sickness
Is it the prisons
Is it the Bible
So far I narrowed it down
Especially if you are black and you brown
Nigga you better be paying attention
Ironic line, listen up now
The system that we keep building, capitalism I’m thinking we called it
It’s keeping my folks in the streets
And keeping them outta the college
For dollars
Niggas been hanging from money trees looking for profits
If the wealthy are having the benefit what makes you think that they ever would stop it
If money is the root of evil, then what about the richest people
Not having a budget is bullshit, not having a ducket is lethal
If I still can’t afford shit
You’ll prolly ignore this
Nobody wanna hear that shit when hip hop make the
Hip hop make the Forbes list
Wealth gap is enormous
Devil in a green dress, oou she looking gorgeous
We ain’t really mean it, mo' money mo' problems
I don’t need to be rich I just need some fortune
Fortune
Fortune
Fortune
Wealth gap is enormous
Devil in a green dress, oou she looking gorgeous
We ain’t really mean it, mo' money mo' problems
I don’t need to be rich, I just need a portion
Portion
Portion
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9. |
KnukkoHead
03:30
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Goddamn, ask em who I am
Bring the boy a penny I could turn it to a grand
Bring your BM to me I could turn her to a fan
Like the way it’s looking I be cooking with the pan
Goddamn, ask em who I am
Bring the boy a penny I could turn it to a grand
Bring your BM to me I could turn her to a fan
Like the way it’s looking I be cooking with the pan
Switch up the gear, uh, summon my alias, let him appear uh
Ain’t no more fear! Uh, this is my decade not only my year
Niggas all want my style but they won’t call foul that much is clear
If y’all want my pedigree, copy recipe, grab a pencil dear
Take a quarter black Bahamas, then you mix it with some negro
From the dirty southern, family dungeon like it’s CeeLo
Let him grow up in the lab, white coats in the back, with no placebo
Now what the fuck you got, a sick ass nigga that is me, hoe
Highkey, ain’t a nigga like me, did it on wax and I did it at the ivy
And I got a lot more, up in the psyche, and I’m in the top 4 but I’m not IV
And I’m not at the très or the dos, but I gotta odee lace in the dose
Yah niggas on codeine, taking it slow
Running on no speed play with your nose
That is the only way you could keep up
Gather your homies and try to team up
Give you the pick of the time and the place and I promise your OG can’t even speak up
Like cricket
Step aside: pivot
It’s on sight, if you bout that shit than I’m with it
I'm with it
I'm with it
I'm
I don’t walk shit back, I’m on your spine
Knukkohead gon say it you play it and press rewind
Go com-plain like “Damon you crossed the line”
Doing like I should: I’m taking what should be mine
Goddamn, ask em who I am
Bring the boy a penny I could turn it to a grand
Bring your BM to me I could turn her to a fan
Like the way it’s looking I be cooking with the pan
Goddamn, ask em who I am
Bring the boy a penny I could turn it to a grand
Bring your BM to me I could turn her to a fan
Like the way it’s looking I be cooking with the pan
A king run shit but a king don’t run
It’ll be that way til it’s kingdom come
You a pawn piece nigga but your queen want some
We fucking all night til a king gon come
Then it’s check mate, bow down to the sensei, kill them all then I get paid
Murder you rappers still never catch case, refer to the death rate screaming
Leng em down
Leng em down
Leng em down
Bitch I’m talking say no more the I’m aiming more until the gossip shot up
Blood get cough up I got game in store until it ain’t no pop up
Target, counterfeit artist, turn em into body, rolled up in a carpet
Taking your brands, taking your market
Organs or fans, both I harvest
It’s murder when I write a verse (facts)
Put me on record it’s arson (facts)
Feeding your body to worms (facts)
You were so good for the garden
And it’s cream it’s corn on the cob
Either they give us the shit or get robbed
Maybe you give it and show me you with it
But either way nigga it’s over for yah
Past my patience
I ain’t laugh adjacent
If I bring out knukkohead I put yall in the pavement
The pavement
The pavement
Don’t walk shit back, I’m trampling on your spine
Knukkohead gon say it you play it and press rewind
Go com-plain like “Damon you crossed the line”
Doing like I should: I’m taking what should be mine
Bounce
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10. |
Post Tuh
04:12
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Like I’m post tuh
Like I’m post tuh
Like I’m post tuh
Like I’m post tuh
Typically private, it’s quiet the way I guide it
How do I describe it, hard to find I’m never hiding
Rough surrounding diamond, I’m struggling in this climate
Cuz it all depends how many following or subscribing and
I’m asking question, navigating my profession
Like if I’m getting likes is tat truly your real affection
Or maybe it’s a ploy we enjoy in midst of deception
Cuz Sometimes I’d rather trade the networking for real connection
I guess it’s business the source of this fuckin friction
I figured if my music would bump, you found and listened
And that’s the way it’s meant to be sharing by sound or rhythm
So I cannot see my music determined by algorithm
And I’ll quit the bitching, debating if it’s computing
Maybe it’s mind that I’m speaking that gets me muted
Get the app rebooted, I really shouldn’t pursue it
Even though I’m going through it, on social you never knew it
Like I’m post tuh
So I’m post tuh
Like I’m post tuh
So I’m post tuh
Post tuh
Post tuh
Aye don’t cry, hey oh no
We ain’t gotta worry bout the choice of our words
We ain’t gotta worry how they take our tone
And we ain’t gotta worry how our voice get heard
Don’t cry, hey oh no
Cuz we ain’t gotta worry bout the choice of our words
We ain’t gotta worry how they take our tone
And we ain’t gotta worry how our voice get heard
Don’t cry
And lately, I been having a lot of trouble sleeping
The pressure to go off or, right off the deep end
The thoughts I got are locked I chalk the stop right up the defense
Sometimes I wanna post but then I ghost I block the tweeting
I’m peeping, I share my life with folks I barely speak
To, I get the views, you saw me grew all through ya screen
I type the draft then did the math, decide to press delete
Because I’ve never been the one to give my thoughts right up for free
My property my intellect, I’ll sacrifice a limb protect
Any fucking thing I choose to put up on the internet
I chose a song, I grow up a pro with cons
I show up then I go up, don’t co-op the shit I’m on
Hold up I’ll slow up disclosure it’s simple umm
You needed quotes and I spoke up we kindled bond
I wrote for roamers and loners, no middle mon
So I got to be the goat with the notebook I scribble on
I know agreement, I flow and you go and stream it
Pick apart my body of work like orthopedics
And if the words escaping my throat, I surely mean it
Cuz the truth is in my DNA sewn up in double helix
No need for bluffing, in honest I be reluctant cuz
I got an older brother with criticism constructive
He said “it’s hella niggas that want it, that shits abundant
So what really makes you think that you on your way or got something”
I took a moment I knew that he wasn’t judging
But I needed him to know I wasn’t doing this shit for nothing
So maybe it’s a part of the nigga that I’m becoming
Cuz look even if nobody is with me I trust my substance
Like I’m post tuh
So I’m post tuh
And like I’m post tuh
So I’m post tuh
Aye don’t cry, hey oh no
Cuz we ain’t gotta worry bout the choice of our words
We ain’t gotta worry how they take our tone
And we ain’t gotta worry how our voice get heard
Aye don’t cry, hey oh no
Cuz we ain’t gotta worry bout the choice of our words
We ain’t gotta worry how they take our tone
And we ain’t gotta worry how our voice get heard
Don’t cry
Don’t cry
Don’t cry
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I can’t afford to let my head down
Lately I been feeling stressed out
Now I got it figured everybody is my friend now
Swear down they my friend now
Wasn’t long ago they looked down on me like a let down
Can’t afford to let my head down
Walking how I’m talking promenading with my chest out
Yeah yeah I’m a threat now
Looking at my competition like it ain’t no sweat now!
Blackest star
Working twice as hard to get me half as far
I know you sympathetic cuz we always are
And I let you know what time it is like Audemar
Unapologetic never pardon moi
I’m fluent since I flew in into Charles de Gaulle
So if you wonder where I place in categor'
The proof is empiric that’s what the graph is for
Axis
Label for the time X-axis
On the Y label see defined as the status
And if you looking you could clearly see the fucking fact is
My trajectory is on the pinnacle, the pinnacle of rapping
I can’t live my life by other people’s satisfaction
That ain’t never worth it, it just service as a distraction
Best to keep it muted, only view it with a caption
Only shit that’s speaking louder than the words is my action, dawg
I can’t afford to let my head down
Lately I been feeling stressed out
Now I got it figured everybody is my friend now
They swear down they my friend now
Wasn’t long ago they looked down on me like a letdown
Took a moment let my dreads down
Walking how I’m talking promenading with my chest out
Yeah yeah I’m a threat now
Looking at my competition like it ain’t no-
Don't push me, I'm too close to
Cutting these niggas heads off
They slowed down and I sped off
Sleeping cuz they dead dawg
Thank you for attending my ted talk (welcome)
Let em dose off, fake blacking like Rachel Dolezal
You can't treat me like no hoe, dawg
Nigga go off
I'm what Hov was talking about with the Apple Jacks
Going back to back
Blank qui quoi flukes like a Shaq attack
No need for clapping back
So we roll, we letting these cappers cap
From birds off, ain't got a knack for that
I just make them aware there's an app for that
If you not jacking that
Lets just compare the statements after tax
I can’t afford to let my head down
Lately I been feeling stressed out
Now I got it figured everybody is my friend now
They swear down they my friend now
Wasn’t long ago they looked down on me like a letdown
Took a moment let my dreads down
Walking how I’m talking promenading with my chest out
Yeah yeah I’m a threat now
Looking at my competition like it ain’t no
Sweat
Niggas know I’m coming, they don’t really know what to expect
I done heard too many niggas only rapping for the check
Y’all don’t understand The value of the shit that I protect
Cuz I don’t know what y’all would do but I would die for my respect - ahn
At they neck, cut the tension
Only time I see the best is looking in reflection
If I ever lost a thing I never lost a lesson
Put your wager right on Damon I’m the one to bet on
And I
Said that you could call on me
You could bet it all on me
And I
Said that you could call on me
Promise you could put it all on me
And I
Said that you could call on me
You could bet it all on me
And I
Said that you could call on me
Promise you could put it all on me
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What do you want
What do you need
Do you want a lot
Who you wanna be
What do you want
What do you need
Do you want a lot
Who you wanna be
If I gave myself to the world, would I see return
If I profit from being honest, would you admit that it was well earned
I been guarded, know that you saw it, gold is my content, keep it held firm
My deposit, call that my promise, all that I want it, keep your concerns
If I told you all the shit I been through
The things I did the shit I didn’t do
You’d probably think that it’s akin to
A fiction, you wouldn’t e’en begin to
Believe it, wouldn’t believe it
You’d probably call me conceited
Of having my cake and wan eat it
Of falling asleep too much dreaming
But that’s the thing about dreaming though
What they say is deceiving
Ain’t nobody ever tell you what it takes from you to achieve it
Everybody wanna spread the hate or speculate pretending that it’s easy
Tell me what I have to go through just I could show you that I’m serious
I wanted to keep from my life sold
They looking at me like I’m ice cold
I’m looking to be the God MC
Never wanted to feel like I might fold
Cuz it’s
Depressing life, it’s stressful right?
I haven’t even slept at night
I then decide, everything intensifies
I kept inside, with everything against my pride
But I’m done doing that
I’m proving that, through every 5AM night
I ain’t out to prove nobody wrong
I just prefer to prove myself right
I want it all
What do you want
What do you need
Do you want a lot
Who you wanna be, I said
What do you want
What do you need
I want it all
And I need to be me
And I need to be free
And I wanna be seen
Come C-O-double R-E-C-T
This our EP so I R-E-P
For the government assisted, EBTs
When I run up with the fitness
Taking on the business, my beginning was modest
My greatest ambition, they gon have to witness
I promise always keep it honest
Cuz I
I need a way, I need a play to pay back all of my people
I need a way, I need to say at least I have my all
And either way, my dream remains simply I need to
I need a way I need a way I need a way
I WANT IT (All)
I want it all
And I need to be me I said
What do you want
What do you need
And for these bars
I pray they leave
I pray that they make it outta Yonkers
Pray that they make it outta Bronx’s
Pray they make it all the way to Compton
I don’t need to pop, I don’t wanna be forgotten
Cuz regardless
If my shit don’t break I don’t ever wanna flake on my promise
So let the game shake me, hope that it’ll make me
A man way better than I started
Want it all
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13. |
Last Word
03:16
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At the age of 17 I’m well aware of my mortality
All it’d take is a cop shot - fatality
19 stayed the same, bury me a hashtag don’t forget my name
21 I tried to run away from self to stop the pain
Quickly realized I couldn’t and I shouldn’t breathe in vain
By 25 that CNN predict I wouldn’t live to see it
So if this is my last word my nigga then so be it
So be it
So be it
So if this is my last word my nigga then so be it
So be it
So be it
So if this is my last word
Just know that at sometimes my path swerved
My feet on grass firm
And if I never had shit at least I had nerve
Cuz if my destiny arrives, if I should meet my demise
Don’t have nobody at my funeral just telling lies
I was - conflicted
Walking contradiction
So when the dust is settled know a rebel went the distance
If I’m really through with livin', body cold and start to stiffen
I don’t want no flowers at my grave just pop my tape and listen
If I’m outta my time, cut down right in my prime
Tell my people don’t you miss me I’ll be in the skyline, got
No time to lose, got bigger better pursuits
And if you never filled my shoes, don’t tell me what you would do
Cuz at the age of 17 I’m well aware of my mortality
All it’d take is a cop shot - fatality
19 stayed the same, bury me a hashtag don’t forget my name
21 I tried to run away from self to stop the pain
Quickly realized I couldn’t and I shouldn’t breathe in vain
By 25 that CNN predict I wouldn’t live to see it
So if this is my last word my nigga then so be it
So be it
So be it
And if this is my last word my nigga then so be it
So be it
So be it
So if this is my last word
If indeed this is my last thought, let it be a black thought
May the final words that leave me speak up for the have nots
Speak up for my people that are chained up like a padlock
Know that I ain’t never fucking change up for the jackpot
And I
Like many men, got no love the cops or the minutemen
Don’t care if it offend
How many times will we see it again
End up in the ground or court, even if it’s not my fault
They hunt us down, target us like a sport, so we know life too short
So it’s
Touchy
Know they can’t judge me
Cuz really at the minimal, the end of all I know they can’t crush me
Subject
Touchy
No they can’t judge me
25 on the 13th hope I’m lucky, oh lord
Lucky 13
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Damon X New York, New York
Hailing from Yonkers, New York, Damon X couples his songwriting, rapping, and singing skills with a sociological lens in creating music. Much of his approach to songwriting focuses on themes such as race, class, life, death, love, and loss. The point is not just to make art; it's to make art just. ... more
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