Lost (Intro)
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Let's go
Warmest wishes to those that chose to visit the show
Frigid flow, my tongue might stick to a pole
What I'm spittin' is cold, Michigan snow
Listen though I don't put on airs, I'm conditioned to blow
I'm a star, my sis called me that
Back before my posse rapped
That's when the older homies told me
"Just don't be a copycat"
Okay, copy that, handed the walkie talkie back
This is real pride in my eyes, it's not a cocky act
Look at us struggling and look how those at the top react
I'm not saying they're Nazis
I'm just saying how can they not see that?
It's still a white world
They don't even want that coffee black
No prime time, they don't even want that Cosby black?
Man, a lot of cats wanna see the best watch
Well if you want to see the best, watch
This is like Redd Fox mixed with a TED talk
Mixtape icon sitting on your desktop
Stop
Uh
Check it out
I'm still telling my people to let that light shine
I never thought on the day I started to write rhymes
That I might climb and now it's like I
Just may be Jay-Z in my lifetime
'Cause oh, look at how I'm killing these tracks
I'm a vet but not the type of vet that's feeling these cats
Where the real emcees at?
I'm dying I need to hear someone as ill as me, stat
Mmhmm, Shadrach on racks putting these raps on wax
I don't usually go this fast on tracks but I'm zoning you know it
When I laugh and my hat's on back
I don't rap for not fat contracts
'Til the day that I pass on
I deliver every jawn like my last song
Last class with a graduation cap on
Brap
I searched so far, for you
I work so hard, find me
I take a gasp of air like I can't breathe
I want to sit beside her like I can't leave
I open up my eyes like I can't see
I just want to climb trees so I plant seeds
I walk forever looking for a place to sit
Feel like I'm just beginning though they're wishing I would quit
I'm trying to find my spirit while they're trying to find a hit
Been to the Motherland now I search for the mother ship
I walk miles in shoes worn as torn paper
Eyes wide in the eye of the storm
Found peace in a mirror, that's me
I died as I tried to conform
I've been squinting
It's so bright but light is reflected inside of my skin
I've been searching outside for an answer like I couldn't find it within
I searched so far, for you
I work so hard, find me
This life is a hell steps from heaven
Fear is a jail, I'm in a cell next to legends
Ask Kheaven what his view through these bars looks like
If you still think there's wrongs that these songs could write
Goodnight
Uh, yeah, throwin' them bows
Blazing these rappers dressed up in their fancy clothes
Everyone knows your reign is over 'cause you chose
Material riches over the rap essentials
Ontario provincial, it's not a minstrel show
Poet Allen Ginsberg flow, really me nah know
Bididi bam bo, rappers be shuckin' and jivin' like Bojangles
Lyrically Van Gogh, I tango then eat a mango that fell
On a galvanized roof in Trinidad when I was a youth just coming up
Rappers be dumbing down, Kheaven be dumbing up
We livin', what?
We livin' on a prayer in the air, it's the Elohim
Shadrach, Kamau, the rest are plasticine
That's why we mold them, just like I told them
We leavin' mics frozen 'cause we are the chosen