[Intro: Damian Lemar Hudson]
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Okay, settle, settle, settle, settle, ladies and gentlemen, settle down
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Okay, so, this next brother were gonna bring up to the stage usually does not come in on Monday nights
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Youre in for a real treat, ladies and gentlemen
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Give it to Mr. Hall
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[Verse 1]
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Rip out my soul from the depths of my flesh
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Flesh from my blood I caress
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Right on the page so its fresh
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I take my time, but express
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Lot on my mind, but I guess
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Its just in my genes like a Glock 17, like a genetic scene
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Kick in the door, we blow it off the hinge
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Music my drug, tie it off, then inject the syringe
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Its in my blood, aint no need to pretend
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Therapist tell me I dont need to defend
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Therapy tell me I dont need to explain
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Just drop the record on the needle and express my pain
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Cant wait until my son shine and together we reign
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My queens by my side like Manhattan
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Fuck rapping, this is poetic conviction
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My rendition is not meant for your diction
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Battled addiction in the womb
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A crack baby by definition
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Keys to ignition with no permission
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That mean that Im driven
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Alive cause Im living
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Fuck workin with what youve been given
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I knew I always wanted more like The Roots in nine-five
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And Ill be sure to do more for my family than mine did
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‘Cause hip-hop rhymes taught me more than my moms did
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Didnt drink til I was twenty-five cause Im my moms kid
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All I knew was alcoholism and prison
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Only saw domestic violence and racial division
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Social worker trying to take me away
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But I know that group home probably worse, hell nah, no way
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At least I know my odds here, Ima be okay
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Adapted to the lifestyle, so Ima be okay
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[Interlude]
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Keep that one just in case, yeah
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[Verse 2]
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Im just an entity
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My DNA, not my identity
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Finding serenity
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Become a better man, I better be
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For the child in my baby mama stummy, never crummy
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We get big bread
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Tryin to be the greatest, that shit been dead
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Im trying to be the happiest that I can be instead
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Im trying to get ahead like a fetus
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Money dont complete us, but it feed us, it can lead us to depression
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Being rich is not a blessing, fame is not a blessing
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Wasnt til I was rich and famous, I learned that lesson
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Whats the meaning of life, to live it, what Im guessing
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[Verse 3]
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Live it, live it
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Living life like this is so crazy
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Hip-hop is amazing
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One day, youre on top and the next, they want to erase em
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Goddamn, what Im facing
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Every day a new frustration
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People thinking Im complacent
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People thinking that I changed like a cashier
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But I cant let that register, get the fuck up on out of here
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Buy it, break it, roll it, light it, get high as the stratosphere
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I can hear the voices in my mind when I rhyme
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Give it up, youre out of time
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Never even had a prime
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Like the Preemo never linked up with 59″
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Bitch, Im back like the muscles surrounding my vertebrae
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Okay, fuck what you gotta say
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I keep it going, already know when Im flowing
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For the listener, youre kind of like a therapist
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Or rather Cole in 2005, flowing like Canibus
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That throwback shit, yeah, that throwback shit
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Fuck what you heard, my catalog, it aint got no wack shit
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‘Cause Im a gladiator in the Colosseum, everybody wanna be him
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‘Til they feel like they cant be him, then they wanna see him lose
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Wrote this poem in navy, thats what I call singing the blues
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Word to Dot D, my family got me, no carbon copy
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Life can hit you harder than Drago
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But if I roll with the punches when its rocky, dont ever stop me
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Never top me, never cocky, Im never cocky
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Okay, well, maybe sometimes
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Occasionally in some rhymes
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But its fine, in due time
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Im the illest to ever do it, come now, Bobby Boy, cool it
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An indigenous era of the indigenous emcee
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Riding this motherfucker til the tank on E
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Whats up?
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[Interlude]
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(You-you-you-you-you)
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(You-you), yeah, uh
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Yeah, uh, yeah (Yeah)
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Uh, uh, yeah, yeah
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(You-you-you-you-you-you-you)
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Uh, yeah
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Uh, yeah
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(You-you-you-you-you-you-you)
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[Verse 4]
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Fuck all the bullshit, dig from deep down inside
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I wrote this sitting shotgun in my favorite ride
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Reflecting on memories from my childhood
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Bringing a baby in this world, I hope my child good
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All I ever gave a fuck about was my career
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But all that shit out the window now that my son is here
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Fuck sales and streams, none of that shit entails dreams
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Fuck rap, fuck press, fuck feeling like Im less
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If it aint bout my happiness, then I could give a fuck less
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I remember window shopping
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Now Im shopping for windows for my baby new room
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Bobby coming soon
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And thats the type of line I wouldve second-guessed
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Putting on my shit before
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Out of fear that they would hate cause they couldnt relate
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‘Cause it wasnt relevant
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Give a fuck if its evident, this right here is the evidence
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Im like Leo in Revenant, bear with me
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You could tear me apart
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But that wont take away the fact I wrote this shit from the heart
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Where its built from the start
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Where its finna stay
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Ive learned every days a good day
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Surrounded by people that love me
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Dont want nothing from me but my happiness
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Off the internet, thats when Im at my happiest
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Scrolling so much, my thumb fucked up
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We call that carpal tunnel vision
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Follow me like religion on this course of collision
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Feeling imprisoned, and this is my freedom through these lyrics
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As I repeat them and beat em into my conscience like Adonis
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All this lyricism straight to the dome like cocaine through the sinus
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I think I finally found my paradise, thats word to Thomas
