Album: Flying Colours
Yeah (x3)
[Shad]
Let's go
[Verse 1: Shad]
Warmest wishes to those that chose to visit the show
Frigid flow: my tongue might stick to a pole
What I'm spitting 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
Ok. 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
Not saying they're Nazis I'm just saying how can they not see that?
Its 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 like Redd Fox mixed with a TED talk
Mixtape icon sitting on your desktop
Stop
[Verse 2: Shad]
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
Cuz oooooh 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 hats on back
I don't rap for not fat contracts. Till the day that I pass on
I deliver every jawn like my last song, last class with a graduation cap on
BRAPP
[Break: Lisa Lobsinger]
I searched so far for you
I work so hard... find me
[Verse 3: Ian Kamau]
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
Feels like I'm just beginning through 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
I found peace in a mirror that's me as I died trying 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
[Break: Lisa Lobsinger]
I searched so far for you
I work so hard... find me
[Verse 4: Shad]
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....
[Verse 5: k-os]
Yo. Throwing 'em bows
Blazing these rappers dressed up in their fancy clothes
Everyone knows your reign is over cuz you chose
Material riches over the rap essentials
Ontario provincial it's a minstrel show
Poet Allen Ginsberg flow really with nah know
Biddy bi bam bo rappers be shucking and jiving like Bojangles
Lyrical Van Gogh I tango the 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 living - what - we living on a prayer in the air it's the elohim
Shadrach, Kamau, we in to blast the scene
That's why we mould them, just like I told them
We leaving mics frozen cuz we are the chosen