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Pisces
01:51
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While they was lying bout kilos of coke
I took the backdoor
That’s the Rick Pitino approach
When I showed up egos got broke
Whole careers derailed
Smile in my face behind my back
Praying for me to fail
This ain’t for sale or retail
This is passion work
They dug they own hole now
I putting they ass in dirt
Put it back in first pop a wheelie on the street
Billionaire with jewels
I drop a Billy on the beat
The energy I’m really on discreet
Still flashy though
Sweats dirty sneakers unshaven
With a baddie though
Rocking with shaggy at a show
He recognized the illness
From the first to last song
I had em jumping out the building
Legendary life
Snakes a wanna tear you down
Shoot bullets, with a fuck you
Message in every round
The cultural iconoclast
Iconic blast you drove passed
I blocked it on the glass
Ultimate event cultivating strength
These promo ass niggas came and went
Kept a sober brain even when I bent
Take decisive action during crisis
I leave em on the fence
Motherfuckers taking industry cues
Appropriation been happening
Through history duke
Im with the people first peep
The way my ministry moves
Enemies that fuck around
Get their chemistry bruised
Demons I fight em often
Go to war for righteous causes
Life is offered as a blessing
From the highest sources
The mighty swordsman
I slice a rib right off the horse you riding
The stories told about the legend
Will immortalize em
Before unauthorized biographies
Start flooding markets
I left a mark that’s indelible
Like the blood of martyrs
I wear the scars proudly focus my cosmos
My energy projected
Everywhere the god’s go
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2. |
Aquarius
02:20
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Nothing's sacred in
This day and age
Bunch of plagues returning
Bunch of rappers spitting mayonnaise
The planet's getting hotter
While the poor is getting slaughtered
Muslims taking shots of whiskey
After their Shahada
Christians robbing each other
It's a religious war
Devoted Buddhists
Not even meditating anymore
Who's at fault
When the fault lines crack?
Chalk lines arguments
Get cut short like that
Coats getting pulled
While execs getting paid in full
Had to get a job
Thinking maybe should have stayed in school
That chick left your heart broken
You tried to play it cool
Now your ass wilding out
Compensating for your womb
Ain't no winning
Having conversations with a fool
How you expect to win a game
When they be making all the rules
How do you expect them to feel shame
When they shaped him as a tool
How you expect us to unite
When the races are in feuds
Spoiled rotten and stubborn
How you expect him to change his views
Totally marginalized
Until his face hits the news
Some patiently paying dues
With little to show for
Many shots taken
Still sporting a low score
Saying fuck it on the road
Hitting a hoe raw
Showing up at the ballot
With no one to vote for
Bills piling up
And they're starting to snowball
Loose ends come back
To bite ya like Franklin in Snowfall
Driving down the lane hacked
And getting a no-call
Been there before
And I'm not gonna hold yall
Them so-called real niggas
Often so soft
Introspective motherfuckers
Like me be closed off
The lone star
They gonna try to clone Paul
It's the roll call
The bus left you behind and drove off
Living in a bubble
Of this American folklore
Coming with full force
Killer instincts like Fulgore
Hitting shots from full court
Never touching pulled pork
If your aux don't play the shit
Yo my dudes will pull cords
Show up at court
Confident like Better Call Saul
Ghostwriter for these rappers
Yo these metaphors cost
Never floss false
We show off and wash the floor
With competition
Deal the final blow and dose off
Entrance roped off
Everything I wrote raw
At the telly knocking
Shorty greeted me with no drawers
Taking no shorts
Chicken wings and no frogs
Bogard the chessboard
Rooks knock em both off
Wendy's drive-thru
Shorty gave me drinks with no straws
Had to drive back around
She gave me some more sauce
They took shortcuts
Now they whole career all stuck
City hopping
Got a nigga shopping for a cut
Even though I'm bald
Making moves you waiting for a call
Like a 3 pointer from Shaq
Yo my shit a never fall
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3. |
Capricorn
02:38
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Spoke to Ayatollahs
From an eye level
From a place where they decapitate for
Five shekels
(Life is cheap)
We give props to the pioneers
They did the work
While the execs get the lion's share
They catching up now
The real ones were tapping in
While they was at the parties
I was at the gym
Burning glycogen
My body fat is 5%
Resilient like the body bags
I put rappers in
Smoking packs I don't even smoke
(I don't)
Friends start to laugh
I don't even joke
Made the mood spooky
I don't even believe in ghosts
How you rock expensive jewelry
When your people broke
(Explain)
Finish one book
Read another book
Tell me how it feels
When the shoe's on the
Other foot
(How it feel)
Never judge a book by its cover
All we do is eat
And look out for each other
That's it
What you doing?
The city's littered
With cadavres and flies
So normal
We don't stop when
We be passing em by (nah)
Numbers on our screen
Flash by we click "likes"
Living so fast
Fuck around and miss life
Attention traps
Focused on our dislikes
Shit I love
Don't hit the spot no more
The shit's light
Sometimes I feel I can't do
Shit right (damn)
Hit the putter straight
The ball hit a hill and slid right
Everything got price
Even when you sit still
Trying to carry the message
Like the son of Ishmael
Bismill(ah) never lie
They be shills for the other guys
Culture out of wack
But you get killed if you
Criticize turn a fan on
I'm a die on the hill that stand on
Motherfuckers rather die
Than try to put their man on
And you wonder why the game
Is fucked
You be paying your life
If your trying to blame the plug
So I tell em
Fuck the small talk
Give me the practical news
And nah I don't share
Those dumb magical views
What I'm telling yall is fact
Actual truth
I bring the evidence
And maximum proof
Fuck the small talk
Give me the practical news
And nah I don't share
Those dumb magical views
What I'm telling yall is fact
Actual truth
I bring the evidence
And maximum proof
So fuck your rap list
Cause I'm the nicest you know
Motherfuckers bump
My album then they tighten the flow
Them bars sound alright
But what you writing em for?
You might have put some heart in it
But it's light with the soul
I ain't trying to peddle bullshit
I'm trying to grow
The industry will blast you
For acting like an adult
Butter you up
Before you know it
They slicing your throat
From hype to broke
Used to be the life of the show
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4. |
Sagittarius
02:50
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Motivation in the making every day I do awaken
We equations every phase rising to a new occasion
I was caged in but made it out alive now I’m flagrant
In the making of myself it requires all of my patience
I am blatant one hell of a statement compelled the Pharaoh ya favorite
The taro the sage the ghetto my boroughs amazing
I’m heroine raising well entertaining hell in a basement
It’s hell you are facing I’m hell in the making one helluva weigh in
One helluva weigh in
Yea we learn the game
Through some firm training
From freestyling on the corner
Years later we earn payments
Some chose to turn their backs
I chose to return favors
Many will get put on
And say peace to their tribe
You can peep it when
You greet em and they
Change their whole vibe
When their buzz
Start to slide
They come back like
“What up slime?”
Funny how fame can make
You forget about the tough times
About the tough times
Times have been tough
The riot inciter I’m mighty and brighter and
I did it in the darkness I’m just lighting ya fire
Earned my stripes I’m a tiger and likely to bite ya
Had my fights but never started one still likely to strike ya
Never thought I’d make it to where I’m at excited to fly up
Climbing higher when I reach the top a new mountain appears
That’s the process it’s what we’ve lived for throughout the years
It ain't been easy but we love it
Take a genie lamp and rub it
If I were to have 3 wishes
Would my dreams be different?
As a child was real timid
Was beaten down a lot
Back in Paris a street gang
Beat my ass around the block
A random woman
Intervened and saved me
Some broken bones
Not longer sweating things
Over which I have no control
Condolences to the old me
Fam I broke the mold
Doe or die
I had to grow and learn to fly
You really flying though
Yo Po the same thing happened to me
A lil different though
Getting jumped in Jersey outside my crib my mom heard me
6 older girls tryna take me out mom flipped it though
Came downstairs and they scattered my conviction grows
Two weeks later they pit almost bit my ear off
I wasn’t supposed to hear again but I do wiped the tears off
They wear off eventually what life got me prepared for
Squared off many times got nice wit it now they scared off
See what we share with yall?
On a human tip
These entertainers acting like
They never lose and shit
Hardly the case
Stories we share far from fake
Matter of fact adversity brought us
To where we are today
Scars and scabs
And now both our story arcs collab
Went from fan to protagonist
In this art of rap
Dodged the traps
We knew the drill and saw the math
Every time I doubted it
The music called me back
The frequency is key
And it was sworn to secrecy
So now I appreciate
The sequence of events equally
And if I die today
Then I can leave peacefully
From this earth
Knowing I left behind
A piece of me
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5. |
Scorpio
04:42
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Sometimes I feel depressed
My soul is so exhausted
Trynna stay sane just yesterday
I almost lost it
Ever make a step a forward
End up going backwards
You put your whole trust in a person
Who's a bogus actor
What you want the most
Keeps alluding you
And the process of gaining it
Has you losing you
With something to prove to the world
When the proof is you
And it's hard to catch the timing
While you moving through
Unanswered questions
When the text is seen
Waiting for the light to go from red to green
Trynna build up momentum
And get a head of steam
Them violent ups and downs
Start fucking with your self esteem
Can never see me sweat
Can never show my weakest moments
Gotta win now nobody cares
About last weeks heroics
Our hero's let us down
Crowns keep getting passed around
It will have you second guessing
What you're after now
Peace is when you have a need for nothing
Peace is when you build a legacy and trust it
Peace is when you love without condition
And when you trust your gut with your decisions
Peace is when the ego plays the back
Peace is who are when it fades to black
Peace is in your thoughts peace is in your heart
Peace is everywhere peace is when you start
Abundance of trauma
Unrealized promise
Visions materialize and real lies
Can seem honest
Phyllis Hyman
I would feel it in my heart chakra
Family betrayal hit like
The scene from the Godfather
Part two
Despite of it all we charge through
Living your truth is freeing
But it'll cost you
Regrets a linger though
You know that ghost a stalk you
Make the vibes in rooms better
Every door you walk through
I can't turn my heart off
I know some babies listening
Time on earth is minuscule
Still aiming at the infinite
We boarded on a sinking ship
Hustling to stay afloat
Facing reality
For what it is is the only way to grow
On gods payroll against the odds fuego
Tremendously
Surrender to my destiny like Kratos
Grateful when I'm getting what I prayed for
I don't let a day go
Without doing what I was made for
Nah
Peace is when you have a need for nothing
Peace is when you build a legacy and trust it
Peace is when you love without condition
And when you trust your gut with your decisions
Peace is when the ego plays the back
Peace is who are when it fades to black
Peace is in your thoughts peace is in your heart
Peace is everywhere peace is when you start
At the train station
Zoning out on headphones
Picturing the hero's journey
Carved in on my headstone
No weapons
Formed against us a ever reach us nah
We keeping arms at arms
Reach and pause to read Corans
Bibles and other scriptures
Still the non-religious scholar
I don't fit the job description
I'm a different genre
An Egyptian carver
I'm just projecting farther
Wish I was smarter in the past
Couldn't protect my father
Conflicted but still
And all still convinced I'm lifted
I copped a "Simpson"
When tides were crimson
In the times we live in we mind our ways
We don't shy away from storms
We ride the waves in these modern days
Still believe
We can see the silver lining
While they put barriers up
We stilll defiant
And yes inner peace yet
Can be achievable
Read the book to it's end
The finish is unbelievable
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6. |
Libra
02:30
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Music is a lonely hustle
Where fame and money
Is the only muscle
Everybody choose their persona
But that can change fast
When you move a coma
Relationship are rarely deep
If clout wasn’t involved
They would rarely beef
You see us smiling
In our pictures
But we rarely speak
The foul behavior
They deny until you share receipts
Denial as survival mechanisms
They can’t bare the grief
For the opportunity
And bag they don’t dare to speak
The silence intense
Everybody feels uneasy
You sold them
Paradise for a pair of Yeezy’s
Your generation sold us out
Now you mad
When they call you dusty
When you stepping out the house?
And granted you was young then
You didn’t know
But yall was the ones
Who made it all about the dough
Get money money
Get money money money
Get money money
Get money money money
Yea huh
I never stopped to smell the roses
Most often I was stuck
Under the spell of focus
Sleepless nights
Popping pills of melatonin
Scrolling on my cellphone
My peace of mind was stolen
Become a cross
Between a Shaman and a showman
Rough around the edges
Never judge a scholar
By his clothing
They throwing numbers at us
To blind us and influence us
Shorties with big titties
Moonlighting at influencers
Tap dancing for these moguls
So they can grant you wishes
Eroding at your core
Going against your intuition
Yea the game is mental
And the fame is consequential
How you washed
When years ago
You had some promising potential
Tell us what happened
You had such an inspired pencil
Now you sound generic
Like a cast iron utensil
Tell us what you been through
Educate the seeds
The problem in this game
Is that nobody’s there to lead
A whole culture imprisoned
By an algorithm feed
A big percentage of the fandom
Mostly likely a child in need
Children breeding more children
Pleading for life
What they listen to is food
And what they eating isn’t right
On my soap box Malcom style
125th
It’s either 120 or they telling us
We 3 fifths
How far we came
Historically for us to reach this?
To allow a few to sell us out
Over some cheap thrills
We went from keeping it real
To getting at the bag
Counting each other’s pockets
Yo we going out sad
For years most of these dudes
Ignored the red flags
Busy Breaking Bad
Like Heisenberg in a meth lab
Got us hooked to the dope
And sold us some false hope
But yall ain’t ready for
That conversation thought nope
(They ain’t ready)
Ignorance is bliss
That karma that came back
To spank all of us was swift
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7. |
Virgo
02:29
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Enrobed in a cloth fully made of gold
Gracefully roaming like a great soul (roaming)
Seen the sky change colors
Stardust we was made from it
Destiny and fate
Sacred secrets the legacy is safe (safe)
The right place right time
Light faith and the right mind
Seen sunshine coming out the night sky
Sometimes the beauty of my life blinds
Feels tremendous (fulfilling)
I let it run it’s course (run it's course)
What’s meant for me’s gonna come across (yea)
My cup runneth over
Flip time backwards we ain’t getting older
Does the sun ask the earth for royalties?
Does the earth ask humans for loyalty?
Creation, put it in existence
Let the universe take care of its business
Let it handle it
Universal unconditional
I can’t own the wave
But I can be the wave
And download a new self
When the fever breaks
Cheap skates end up paying when they cheat fate
Legends from the past become street names
Vodka soda water that’s my pre-game
Staying humble like most of men pre-fame (facts)
Got it from the dirt like where the trees came
When I let go of the ego
Peace came (peace)
Somewhat arcane
All the accessories in the world
Can’t camouflage pain
Most likely just focused on the wrong thing
on Google and Reddit typing in the wrong names (yea huh)
Rather focus on the long game (the long game)
It's the heros journey
Heading back from where we all came
Does the sun ask the earth for royalties?
Does the earth ask humans for loyalty?
Creation, put it in existence
Let the universe take care of its business
Let it go
Surrender to it
huh everything we need is right there for us (trust)
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8. |
Cancer
02:10
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Revenge is a meal that you eat cold
Catch me in the snow with a sheep coat
If you say it in a song then police know
When the party done serve you with a RICO
Hear em gassing but that's just the placebo
I be caking up like a priest though
Never fuck with the snake type
Great sights can turn into a gravesight
Up late nights
Early mornings we take flights
To handle pressure gotta train right
It's mind over matter
Taking care of mine over chatter
When you find yourself in a zone
Then time doesn't matter
Time is money bags
You know mines is getting phatter
Formally the formatter of the core matter
Formally they hated on me now they more madder
The war crafter, I'm the landlord smasher
The evil seed slash Pandora crasher
Except more brasher, the no-look passer
Cook plasma, slash shook rapper slapper
3 pointer splasher, Golden State trophies
Yard food grower, I cultivate groceries
Under palm trees, Jamaican cold breeze
Torch bearer of the game the bitch chose me
French bistro quiche with goat cheese eating
Feeling obese when I'm most fiendish
Reconnecting with some old demons
Little to no features we don't promote leaches
Stroke of genius yoked up some new Adidas
Symbol of hope hold the yoke for the vegans
Smoke anything, that's within the vicinity
Might not fit the bill but I hit the epitome
The games full of obstacles
I chop them fools
And box them fools like cafeteria food
Imperial coup
Copping brews from the store
Never lacking
I recognize that dude from before
Shoot from the hip if the shoe fits
I'm a wearing it
Smooth like jewels in a new whip
Pure bliss no words to describe this
Every year everything change like a time skip
Life is neglected
We play it off but none of us is unaffected
Pop up to the spot unexpected
Get a few drinks and hit the exit
Then reflect on the ride home
I made it home alive that's a milestone
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9. |
Leo
05:45
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The sharpest tongue
You just a harmless monk
You hardly dunk
Mac McLung
Your whole arc is done
I got market spun
Bullets shoot out my karma gun
It's that spartan sound
Taking down entire squads for fun
Jobs done
Props came drop insane amount of octane
Broke the blockchain
I'm in the top lane
Thinking out the box frame
Introduced you a world view
That if effectively implemented
Would much better serve you
Take it personal
Do the education on your own
Motherfuckers is getting rich
While you playing on ya phone
My armor chrome
Knights of the Zodiac my constellation's
Constant elevation
I counter the speculation
The modern iteration
To consume without moderation
Living off the grid
Had to escape government observation
The setter of precedence
Upsetter of all the presidents
Dont kill the messenger
It's about what the message represents
Huh
This the newest LP
Stacy Augmon Larry Johnson this is UNLV
Drop a jewel do it well, till my crew is wealthy
Witnessed the game behind scene
Ain't nothing you can tell me
Nothing ha
This the newest LP
Stacy Augmon Larry Johnson this is UNLV
Drop a jewel do it well till my crew is wealthy
Witnessed the game behind scene
Ain't nothing you can tell me
Nah trusting the process
Crushing the opps (flex)
Hustle snuck to the top
Nothing can stop (the Leg)
I did the heavy lifting
Move like a Chevy driven
From apprentice to an expert
I pushed the very limit
Sonny Chiba Benji Ohba
Not too many chosen
To represent a culture
There's too many bending over
Sold it out and broke out
Not too many spoke out
It's most foul huh
I got the receipts we hold files
Man listen they can't trick us
Living in the land of fiction
Got a manuscript written
I stroke genius like aneurisms
They tried to warn me but I had to risk it
I acted on a hunch
Took these motherfuckers out to lunch
I had to pack the biscuit
I just knew it was something I wanted to do
Since my first brush with it
One foot front the other
One step at a time
Left right left right
One step at a time
Yea hey yo
With my boy Scotty
We used to shoplift basketball cards
My girl Giulia would steal clothes
From Nordstrom at the mall
She wanted me to look fresh
I told her to stop
I ain't want her to caught
She liked me a lot
We used to do dumb shit growing up
We used to fight
About who the best ball player
Instead of proving it
As a juvenile would run with adults
At the playground
Would go up for lay ups get hacked
And lay flat the ground
It made it tougher
With Ansen used to lift weights after
Distracted myself from my worries
My sister was still missing
The earth still spinning
Despite it all we still living
While Mom and dad fighting
I would work on my writtens
Dad got kicked out
I was watching anime
I was listening to music
Just to take my mind away
From the stress and chaos
And the haters at school
Dudes I was beefing with
Came to the party with tools
They didn't shoot me
But damn it left me shook
Used to be my best friend
He tried to get me booked
Years later seen him working at a gas station
I didn't recognize em
He asked my friend about me
I said damn son! That's you? wow
Gave him a pound
That's just how the wheel go round
I ain't throwing shade
But those memories stick
Stay saved in my conscious like a memory stick
PlayStation 2 playing EA sports
Then drive to redding PA
We would stop by York
Nuwabians was passing flyers
From Malachi York
Waiting for the game to do me justice
Like Sotomayor
A chick from the next building
Was standing at front of my door
She cooked me lunch out the blue
I never munched her
We was cool though
I caught the obvious hunch
Outside the club fights was how
I learned to dodge a punch
Throwing em came easier
My spit game greasier
With time a fine Aaliyah look alike
Her hip game was meatier
Both my parents out the loop
I was free to roam
Anytime of night would leave home
Hit U street K street
Or Dinosaurs in Laurel
Maryland winning the Final Four was immortal
The streets were sizzling hot
Like that Jamaican jerk chicken
From that fisherman spot
Shoot outs brawls illegal police searches
We survived if you know you know
Like an unreleased version
Till this day often I still sleep nervous
Demons interrupting my sleep
Am I cursed?
I heard they call it sleep paralysis
That nigga standing over me
Brolic I can't move
My limbs straight frozen G
Half awake and half sleep
My soul haunted
Reliving a surreal past
With the future mixed in
Seeing my life flash in a New York minute
Exhausted but despite it all I fought with it
I gotta wake up
Got shit to do I gotta get it
Now I'm bald headed
New day a new aesthetic
That fits with my state of mind till this very day
Hustling like these chicks selling Mary Kay
Or Avon
My Barksdale mentality sharp
Made it the last 10 years
Without a salary Paul
Just giving life to these beats
Like they give life to me
What these dudes struggles do
That shit light to me
I had no choice but to move decisively
And deprogram the bullshit
They would recite to me
How many times I heard word is bond
And they lied to me?
If the vibes ain't real fuck it
I gotta leave
You can catch me where the real ones be
Where motherfuckers break
Bread together and eat
From the underground trenches
To the top of the peak
Snapping like a class world photographer b
That's why everything
I drop stay hot in the street
You can the feel the authenticity
All in my speech
Huh I just be talking and
They say that I teach
I just think y'all used to getting
Your reality bleached
One foot front the other
One step at a time
One step at a time
Yea
One step at a time
Hip-hop is just that influential
It just catches you right away
Now how did you?
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10. |
Gemini
02:58
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Catch me in the frozen food section
Studied under the sous-chef like the Wu Legend
Double speak you gotta dig
To get the true message
Inflationary fees
That double like the duplexes
Tough it out
Took the rough route
Now I'm talking shit like
Wack 100 on Clubhouse
My proper value up
Like property value
Since my childhood
When you nice they wanna battle you
Taiwo Olufemi with a semi
Holding up a deli
She was blowing up my celly
Now I'm blowing up her belly
Now I'm showing up sweaty
Bout a half an hour late
Elevator higher under pressure
When in dire straits
Messiah face golden pharaoh coffin
Witnessing the metamorphosis
Of a meta orphan
Impressing orchestras
An esoteric offering
Adversaries capitulating every so often
Barry Gordy
Motor city vibe
Meditative state of mind
Explore the city high
Technicalities nah I don't really mind
Cats rarely get their flowers
While they're still alive
So spill a little beer
Even though I'm still here
Stepping on stage
With the confidence of Ric Flair
Shit's rare like a Steak in
A Michelin 3 star
Legendary like Dilla in a Wheelchair
I love yall man
The train left and it left us behind
You see how in the same breath
The devil telling a lie?
Acting like I'm not sweating when I suffer inside
Entrepreneurs with empty shells
I checked there's nothing inside
Devoid of feelings and emotion
Just success in the eyes
Flapping they gums
Empty promises when they sigh
Self love means old friendships selfishly cut
Got in a new circle
They no longer messing with us
How the table turns
Mad fables told like Mark Twain
Switched up at a speed
Would have thought the Narc came
Dipping where the sharks swim
Only the sharp win
I absorbed the lesson
Like sun rays and dark skin
Had to shed the soft skin
Rake the deutsche marks in
Avoid the cucks where the duck are
We tuck R-10s
And shake feds like Parkinson
We talk our shit
And hide the money inside of walls
They try to pluck our shit
I swear
They don't respect us
We gotta make em respect it
Hit em when they least expect it
(Don't telegraph your moves)
I trust my gut deep between my intestines
Nah They don't respect us
(Namsaying like I'm telling you
How I feel I'm being for real)
We gotta make em respect it
Hit em when they least expect it
(They won't see it coming)
I trust my gut deep between my intestines
Tah
I don't worry no more
I just carry on
Fine we can leave on a bad note like Omarion
You ain't in on the joke?
Like Affion
I'm cold riding through the South Pole
With the AC on
Tah
Catch me backstage crazy calm
Same attitude small room or stadium
I come across like a level headed legend
But on the low under my coat
Its next level weapons
That might be your preference
But I'm trying to tell you man
Rap is for a select few man
Everybody not supposed
To be rapping man
Lot of these niggas
Need to cut it out man
Do something else with yourself
Get something else popping
Leave our shit the fuck alone man
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11. |
Taurus
02:36
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I swear to god
I would have fired shots
The night my father died
Stays on my mind a lot
For real man
Betrayal happens really fast
Masks do come off
After the silly acts
Turn coat family
Turn coat friends
The mermaid charms
Whenever her voice sings
Turquoise begets
In the herbivore’s nest
Friends aren’t friends
When they never warn friends
Either I’m early or late kid
I never wore trends
That’s probably why
I tend to get foreign press
It’s probably why
I don’t have a real home
You can have a seat
I’m the type to build thrones
I’m the type to tell you to chill
Before you throw your life away
The type to venture in a dark path
To light the way
Sometimes the light
I tend to shy away
Just to walk around the lake
For the entire day
Anti-war rocking a military jacket
Children being born
While the cemetery stacking
Life is circular (big circle)
Artists eating jerk chicken
While the labels jerking em
(Bon appétit)
Divided at the core like
The soul of Marvin
Fiending for a fix looking
For a bargain
It’s hard man (it gets tough)
I’m just playing with my cards man
How can you thrive
Without the compromise?
How many bills does it take
To make you apologize?
No rent control
You had to rent the Rolly
You had to rent the Rolls
To rock the ceremony
The puppet master
Playing wild games
(Wild games)
Word to Crazy Al Cayne
Still evolving
Undergoing wild change
In the street either you eat
Or you Chow Mein
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12. |
Aries
05:15
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Sometimes my soul weeps
For whole weeks
Some friends might be police
I no longer roll deep
Ebbs and flows
Sometimes I feel tired and so weak
Then I bounce back
On track that destiny showed me
Definitely thankful
Yall rolled with me through all this
I went from crawling to walking
Now I offer yall this
I was told great things take time
A long way from the days
When me and my boys
Used to battle and trade lines
Great minds connect
I couldn't stay behind a desk
Had to make moves
And exercise to push
Weight out my flesh
Now I'm lighter on my feet
A light sleeper at night
Like my mind was on speed
Elaborate dreams
Shattering passed limits
No longer need to pull teeth
Like I'm the last dentist
Ending my sentence with a "init"
Like I'm half British
Yea I'm going out with a bang
Live everyday
Like I got 24 hours to hang
Huh
Walking on foot bus trains and planes
Cause when we die
None of this material shit remains
And peace to the real out there
We need yall
Spend more time on the things
That feed yall
And those talking shit back there
Let them watch
Don't let them deter you
From getting to your spot
Play the game like Kobe did
Shoot your shot
Win or lose
Next game shoot another shot
Time is moving faster
As the years go by
Crybabies get left back
When tears go dry
Love gonna reign or shine
Rain or sunshine
Venting helps me cope
With the pain sometimes
Just a moment in time
Blind from any worries
Just a human on this planet earth
On a divine journey
Napoleon (yea yea)
The soldier who conquered the globe
And never once sold out the tribe he called his own
In War
You come to grips with who you are
Inside your soul
And burn
A trail of flames under the stars
Till you reach home
It's been a long road
Nobody ever said it was gonna be easy
Triumph comes after tribulation
Stay the course
How many times I seen this?
Does reincarnation exist?
How many bodies I been in?
How many days have I lived?
What's written in my DNA
Hidden from conscious memory
Dreams of waging holy wars
And stomping on my enemy
From a desk job to running from a lynch mob
To riding in the subway listening to Tiken Jah
Fakoly in my air pods
Thinking of a plan
To create a life that goes
Beyond the grips of the man
Taking trips to France
Building with the heads over there
Down in Europe made some bread over there
Didn't need to be loud
I never liked to copy cornballs
Stood on my square like paintings from Andy Warhol
In a game where only the big stars eat
And the multi millionaires cheat sheesh
Meanwhile we be the ones
Who bear the weight of the flag
Dodging bullet on our way to the bag
And where your so-called friends
Will put a blade to your back
Starting fights
In which you end up fighting while they waving a cab
I just kept looking ahead while they chasing the past
Riding round hitting spots
And coming late to the pad
This rap shit was never easy don't let 'em lie
Like they pushing foreigns
When they barely peddling by
Highs and lows bi-polar like Jekyll and Hyde
Carrying mental scars I felt as child
The devils lives inside of the mind
I had to sever the tie
Identify I top 5 dead or alive
Heart of a griot no cap
Neo's back
Galileo Nap Geo make the whole league crash
(Live everyday like it's my last)
Heart of a griot no cap
Neo's back
Galileo Nap Geo make the whole league crash
When ya lifestyle promotes death
What you got left?
My soul got used to doing heavy lifting
With the low reps
Events taught me to pack light
Today I hold less
Thoughts no longer pixelated
Used to see at low res
But now it's clearer than it's ever been
Young veteran
Only competing with myself
Wanna see everybody win
This is blues rap
With undertones of soul in fact
The eagle stirs the nest
We standing at a cul-de-sac
Gotta spread our wings
Despite what our anxiety sings
Finding loopholes
Like Phoenix flies through fiery rings
Your body tries to jinx
This is an elixir you can drink
Pure spring from the peak of mount Zion
You read the loud signs all around you
Change is coming
The chickens coming home to roost
The devils days is numbered
And the blessings are incumbent, to you right now
Bumping in your headphones
It's coming through right now
Yea feel in the soul while ya spirit is whole
Miracles happen
When the smoke and mirrors get broke
No longer scared so
Fear can no longer hold it weight
Time for me live
God show me the way
Heart of a griot no cap
Neo's back
Galileo Nap Geo make the whole league crash
We gonna make it y'all
We gonna make it y'all
Heart of a griot no cap
Neo's back
Galileo Nap Geo make the whole league crash
Everything happens for a reason
You here for a reason
Trust me
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Napoleon Da Legend Brooklyn, New York
Napoleon Da Legend Bilingual MC & Producer artist from Comoros, living in Brooklyn, New York.
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