Your fav Music lyrics

Discussion in 'In the Media' started by Bliss, Apr 7, 2015.

  1. Ra

    Ra Well-Known Member

    Oddisee - "You Know Who You Are"


    [Verse 1]

    You were there from the start
    Taught me to be aware of the sharks and prepare for the dark
    You kept a secret you practiced what you were preaching against
    Your inner demons were praying I'd tear apart
    You won't admit but you competed just a little bit
    I could tell, you'd be heated over little shit
    Telling me to quit trying and get real
    I got a little shine you was like big deal
    I was pursuing dreams, steady doing my thing
    You wasn't doing the same, you wasn't doing a thing
    From my truest to a Brutus to a Judas
    To who knew that this could happen
    But the fracture was brewing it seems
    I should have seen, mistaking smoke for a little steam
    It turned to fire you burned me, trying to ruin me
    I won't even mention your name in my bars
    It's too close to the scars, but I'm sure that

    [Hook]

    You know who you are
    You know who you are
    I ain't gotta name names
    You know who you are
    I ain't gotta name names
    You know who you are
    I ain't gotta name names
    You know who you are
    You know who you are

    [Verse 2]

    You were there from the start
    You told me whatever I'm doing to do it from the heart
    I was pursuing a dream that was cloaked in the cloth of the uncertain
    Making money, music, and art, and it wasn't perfect
    You told me whatever's worth it was worth hurting
    Double edge seemingly sharp, rather unnerving
    Still, you believed in a brother
    I was starving as an artist, you was feeding a brother
    You could see in a brother what I couldn't see myself
    When I couldn't see myself needing help
    One reason or other I was trying through it all
    Lot of ways to fail, that's the fastest way to fall
    And through it and after all, you was with me not against
    Cheered me from the bench, now you're with me as I ball
    And that meant, I ain't even mention your name in my bars
    You know you're close to my heart
    I'm sure that

    [Hook]

    [Verse 3]

    You were there from the start
    Before you were even aware of the plan you were part
    Of the scheme grand, as it could seem at the top
    Man can only go so high before he reaches where he can't breath
    But you know your limitations, you walk patient
    While everybody start running for their plan B
    Like a fire escape, but you stay in the kitchen
    Let them sleep on they dreams, you stay lying awake
    You stay eyeing the cake, they say you getting greedy
    And then they turn their side against you like they getting sleepy
    Try to convince you but you ain't into what they about
    Get in your mental prevent you to take the way out
    Please, let 'em try, let 'em fail
    Let em tell lies on you, let 'em be
    Let em see you prevail
    Let em bail on they attempt to stunt a star
    In any event be sure that

    [Hook]
     
  2. EuroChick

    EuroChick New Member

    ^just responding to Ra's lyrics, :cool:

    Nine Inch Nails: "You Know What You Are?"

    I tried to sneak myself through, tried to get to the other side
    I had to patch up the cracks and the holes that I have to hide
    For a little bit of time even made it work okay
    Just long enough to really make it hurt
    When they figured me out and it all just rotted away

    Don't you fucking know what you are?
    Go on get back to where you belong!

    You better take a good look cause I'm full of shit
    With every bit of my heart I've tried to believe in it
    You can dress it all up, you can try to pretend
    But you can't change anything
    You can't change anything
    In the end

    Remember where you came from, remember what you are
    Don't you fucking know what you are?
    Go on get back to where you belong
     
  3. Ra

    Ra Well-Known Member

    Pac Div - "No Superman"


    [Verse 1: BeYoung]

    I already know I ain't invincible, we in these niggas' scopes
    Mama said the realest ones always got the strength to cope
    Fuck all the fame, we gon' leave the game with our soul
    Jedi mind and we ain't never changed, niggas know
    That's how the shit'll go, they build you up to back you down
    Though it's wrong, nigga chain smoking black and milds
    Four sips from blacking out, one song from Bill Gatin'
    Classics in the catalog, niggas still hating
    Not from trees but for cheese niggas still hanging
    Lost my heart with my brother but we still praying
    Life's a catch 22
    Put the spark to my blunt, drown my stress in a brew

    [Hook]
    I ain't Superman
    I ain't Superman
    I ain't Superman
    You ain't Superman

    I ain't Superman
    I ain't Superman
    You ain't Superman
    You ain't Superman

    [Verse 2: Mibbs]

    We start out as tadpoles in mama's tummy
    And come out as assholes always wanting money
    It's me, myself, and all the ones who love me
    Cause when I'm on, they don't want nothing from me
    Superficial shit be bugging me like
    All the superficial bitches fucking me right
    We make the superficial sound lovely right
    I sell you a dream and you gon' fuck with me right
    Is this shit too smart?
    Am I saying too much? Is this shit too art?
    Is yo bitch that bad?
    Do you really put on, nigga is that yo car?
    Life's a catch 22
    Put the spark to my blunt, drown my stress in a brew

    [Hook]

    [Verse 3: Like]

    When that real shit gon' come back home, it's been decades
    Sick of this bullshit spreading over the airwaves
    My hand hurting like I'm writing ten essays
    My head hurting like I'm fighting ten ese's
    Eyes hazy, blowing on kush crazy
    Less TV, more books lately, home body
    Flow godly, dreads look crazy
    Niggas think I'm from Da Bush Babees, bars make 'em push daisies
    Alpha, omega, problem and solution
    Intro and conclusion, the start and the finish
    In a tug-of-war with this art and this business
    That's why a nigga gotta play it smart with decisions
    Occult symbolism in this art, pay attention
    Pagan messages, these niggas lost their religions
    They some false prophets, the rhyme profits
    They evade the truth, confront 'em, they go off topic
    Don't compare me to these pop objects
    You wouldn't compare Fred Segal to Hot Topic
    All brains and beats, yep it's called logic
    Getting brain from freaks we meet at y'all college, just using raw knowledge
    Nag Champas, all conscious like Kweli
    Niggas think I'm Wale, women wanna parlay
    When I was down and out, ain't nobody wanna call me
    See me on my grind, now they all late
    But I ain't no Superman

    [Hook]
     
  4. Ra

    Ra Well-Known Member

    J. Cole - "Knock Tha Hustle"



    Death to the imposters, label me the king
    My dreams could win Oscars, my niggas turned mobsters
    My white friends doctors, fatherless child
    Listen how I got this knowledge is wild
    Streets taught me, speak softly nigga watch from the crowd
    Cause any nigga that's loud, just want attention and eventually BLAOW
    No fake niggas allowed in my circle dawg
    You been through half the shit I been through it'll hurt ya dawg
    Tread softly, my nigga moving state to state running late watch 'em
    Tryna avoid state troopers, that's the weight watchers
    Run this dope set this cake till they say "Gotcha"
    Or till the fat lady sings, and niggas hate operas
    And Oprah hate niggas
    Make no mistake that we know the stake still, we hope to make over eight figures
    Slim chances, but niggas bet against the odds and who am I to criticise how you play your cards dawg

    [Hook]

    Cause I done beat the odds going way too hard
    I been getting slept on for way too long
    I been patiently waiting for way too long
    I been quiet dawg for way too long
    You can't knock the hustle dawg it's way too strong
    It's way too strong
    I said you can't knock my hustle dawg it's way too strong
    It's way too strong

    [Verse 2]

    Look, I never admit it, tryna get my brother acquitted
    Yo' tell the judge I be happy to pay him off if he's with it
    My flesh and blood, hauled off to the cell
    I search for heaven as I see him getting lost in this hell
    Headed for coffin or jail, to never try is the ultimate fail
    But love is wanting more for someone than they want for themselves
    Deep, I guess I love a lot
    Because the more I do my thang the more I feel the guilt and shame that my brother's not
    Reminisce as we was kids screaming "Fuck a cop"
    Guess he took it serious, for me that shit was just for props
    Arms too skinny to hug the block
    I found comfort in my dreams of things seen on the screen of fortune and fame
    Decisions, decisions, the Porsche or the Range
    I take a trip back to the 'Ville only corpses remain
    Some of them niggas still breathing but they dead inside
    Victims of a genocide
    Tears fill my eyes dawg

    [Hook 2]

    Cause I've been out of touch man for way too long
    I've been out in Hollywood for way too long
    I've been, getting this paper for way too long
    I ain't called my pops back in way too long
    I done make my girl wait for way too long
    I wonder if I changed on my way to own
    Can't knock my hustle but It's way too strong
    It's way too strong
     
  5. Ra

    Ra Well-Known Member

    Phonte -" Dance In The Reign"


    [Intro]

    All systems go
    Thank y'all so much, thank y'all for listenin'
    It's Phontiga
    And I do this all for hip-hop
    I'm lyin' like shit, I do this shit for my goddamn mortgage nigga
    And my bills, who the fuck am I foolin'
    New Tigallo, new Tigallo, new Tigallo

    [Verse 1]

    Stand clear
    You are not a man if you cannot stand here
    Phontigallo make the song cry grown man tears
    With the Bull City flow off the corner of Alston and Angier
    Sex symbol rap, you niggas is Pam Grier
    We throw bows like Bill Laimbeer
    Plant fear the first time around, no do-overs
    Where the fuck is my glass of sangria
    Get a sip, then get another sip
    Then go back to the mothership and tell them I'm on that
    Separate excrement, yeah that other shit
    Run and tell mother it's clearly not your time yet
    Cause you to me is Dr. Seuss to a Steinbeck
    A pro with the prose, what a concept
    Haha, and I cut this shit in half cause I ain't feel like waitin'

    [Verse 2]

    They say everybody got a story, so here's mine
    It ain't heartbreakin', because I've taken
    The sour Grapes of Wrath and made Cheerwine
    That NC shit, nigga I feel fine
    You know that I'm real, ten years still here
    No worse for the wear, nigga I'm ill
    And I'm still top notch
    You niggas is better off playin' hopscotch in a minefield
    Better off warring in the jungle with no camouflaging
    Suicide mission, straight sabotagin'
    Flow so addicting it's like habit formin'
    Flow hair-raising it's like rabbit farmin'
    Peter Cottontail hopping over beats or rocking
    Acappells since the days of Akinyele nigga
    I'm back in the kitchen with a silk apron
    Let that boy sauté

    [Verse 3]

    I said let me know the troubles on your mind youngblood
    And Lord willing me and you will solve them
    He said Tay I worry about you in the rap game
    I said motherfucker go and get a real problem
    Please beg pardon but I'm not starvin'
    This rap shit is not the life I live
    It's a tool that I use, that's it
    No great fortune to show for it but fortunate
    That no one can say his life ain't his
    Some might even say underachiever cause they are not believers
    That I don't want the world, but I done seen the world
    And if you ever saw it, hell, you wouldn't want it either
    I don't need a kingdom, just want a home
    You can take a seat or you can take the throne
    As long as it is known ain't a damn thing changed
    Still the underground king, nigga dance in the reign
    Holla

    [Outro by Sy Smith]

    I feel so glad that I made it, I couldn't ask for more
    This world is yours for the taking, what are you waiting for
     
  6. Ra

    Ra Well-Known Member

    Grieves - "Recluse"



    Yeah, I pushed the boat out - I'm floating on faith
    Got a I-don't-give-a-shit look stuck on my face
    I guess that I've become a product of the castle gates
    Dug a moat around my heart and filled it up with paint
    I went and poured it on the rocks with my last album
    So thick that a normal person would pass out from
    Now something of which I used to confide in
    Got me sittin in silence, propping open my eyelids
    Stupid - I just want to listen to the music
    Fade in to the background and drink until the rooms spinnin'
    So move some, there ain't nothing left to see here
    The only words I'm a pay attention to are "free beer"
    So leave me here like a cricket in a matchbox
    Cash in my good luck and spend it on a padlock
    The bad thoughts and the whiskey are better company than bullshit
    So just leave it and go

    I don't want to go outside today
    No, I want to be left alone
    I don't want to put the mask on my face
    No, I want to be left alone
    I don't want to get up out my bed
    I want to be left alone
    Didn't hear a goddamn word you said
    Go home

    I hit the still water; coasting on hope
    Got a bunch of little daggers tattooed on my throat - (ouch)
    What's the point of making friends when you grew up
    With a devil and couple of pretend ones
    I guess that I don't know the difference when it comes to space
    You're either leaving me alone or all up in my face
    And lately, with the way that things are going
    I don't taste the sugar in your words for me to give a shit about what you say
    Yup - I'm crazy and irrational
    Always tell the truth so that you can call me "asshole"
    I prefer the black hole over the sun
    Plant a seed up in the sound garden; watered with rum
    It's not the same when you're looking through the frame of a broken heart
    The smoke blinds but also helps you look the part
    So you can knock it 'til your knuckles get scars
    I suggest you leave it and go

    I don't want to go outside today
    No, I want to be left alone
    I don't want to put the mask on my face
    No, I want to be left alone
    I don't want to get up out my bed
    I want to be left alone
    Didn't hear a goddamn word you said
    Go home
     
  7. Ra

    Ra Well-Known Member

    Tech N9ne - "Going Bad"



    (Intro Part 1)

    This is the trip! The best part I, really, really like!
    Yeah, I'm proud to be a part of this number!
    Used to be good, now I'm going bad..
    Yo.. Like this!

    (Intro Part 2) (x2)

    Everything was 'posed to be all Jesus
    Everything was 'posed to be all Jesus
    But it seems like everything is all Satan
    But it seems like everything is all Satan

    Yo yo check


    (Verse 1)

    In the new millennium you can't play with nobody's mind, man
    Deliberately messing up a good thing or holding up a grind and
    You already knowing life's a big fight against time, man
    Crime minds really shine, who's dying is the kind man
    When some of us, find that life ain't beautiful, we switch to pharmaceuticals
    Your nine to five ain't suitable, for the cuticles
    I'm going bad, currently I keep ending up with even less than I had
    Record company is dealing me something sad
    How do you expect a man to sit and wait with three kids
    For you to figure out what Tech S-I-N-G-L-E is?
    Going bad, I feel like I just might act a fool when I see 'em
    Got a nigga, feeling petty looking forward to per diem
    I got some issues, most of these record execs are soft as tissues
    Defecate on they self when they here some "I'm gon' get yous"
    Understand this; when a Rogue sat, you trying to hold back his dough sack
    And try to bozack and he go cock the 4-4 back, you chose that
    So cut these ties and I'll rise, let's compromise
    Or else I'll hop a plane with my guys
    QDIII said, "It ain't all good, when you sign with a record label
    Who ain't had a hot soundtrack ever since Boyz N Da Hood"

    (Bridge)

    I'm going bad
    No luck
    I'm going
    Bad, bad, bad
    So rough
    I'm going
    Bad, bad, bad
    No church
    I'm going
    Bad, bad, bad
    Disperse
    I'm going
    Bad
    Feel me out now

    (Charmelle Hook)

    This life I live
    Ain't extra
    No angels to
    Stand next to
    To live a life that's better
    I'll sacrifice whatever
    This life I live
    Ain't extra
    No angels to
    Stand next to
    To live a life that's better
    I'll sacrifice
    Whatever

    (LeCoya LeJuene Voiceover 1)

    No one wants to see
    An angel in this world
    In these days
    To them I am
    The epitome of evil
    A found soul
    Looking to save the lost
    To them I am death
    And of not wanting
    An evil man

    (Verse 2)

    For living expenses they gave me like thirty-five G's
    Picture me in a hospital shot up with thirty IV's
    That's what I really needed when I found out this drama trauma
    Instead of moving I should've kept all that and continued to stay with my girl's momma
    Gutter living got me tripping I'm smoking bud daily
    Gutter living got me tripping, I'm going blood crazy
    Gutter living got me tripping, I'm struggling like a bad actor
    Gutter living got me sounding like The Madd Rapper
    The bad influence, the bad apple, the bad seed (That's me, yes)
    The bad people, the bad karma, the bad breed
    Mushroom tripping, brain's a mushroom cloud
    Finding groupies tugging on my zipper while I'm hanging on to my vows
    Demons surround me in triple stage darkness and taunt me
    They know I'm the good guy going bad so they want me
    All my family remembers way back in the day I was good but they doubt now
    Disperse, I'm going bad, feel me out now

    (Charmelle Hook)


    (LeCoya LeJuene Voiceover 2)

    To say going bad
    To most
    Ha
    Never been good
    Just getting worst
    Thoughts to destroy
    And to tear things apart
    Thoughts to praise
    Adore
    And to love
    The trick is
    What voice is telling you what

    (Verse 3)

    Mind state of a pirate, I'm irate
    Used to be cool till some straight fool lit the pilot
    Will I be that mid-town bound in the middle of a riot
    Or at a warehouse shipping platinum, and I'm shaking hands with Violet
    No love for the bane, false foes in the game
    The Qwest wreck was a shame, twas a journey full of pain
    But Tech Nine will remain hella brave and untame so make way
    For the reign I'm bringing Highland and Wayne
    No thanks to Qwest they on the receiving end of the gun
    I cursed you, for every time I climb you're getting fired one by one
    But taking Juan with me cause he knows the true meaning of a modern day hippie
    Who creates jewels off mushrooms and bombs sticky
    Hog Stylin', Mid West Side and Newday and King Tech and Sway
    These are the people keeping me alive to this day (Much love)
    QD said "You can't make rell with a label
    Who let Tipper Gore talk shit and made 'em take Ice T's Cop Killer off the shelves"

    (Bridge)

    I'm going bad
    No luck
    I'm going
    Bad
    So rough
    I'm going
    Bad
    No church
    I'm going
    Bad
    Disperse
    I'm going
    Bad
    Feel me out now

    (Charmelle Hook)


    (LeCoya LeJuene Voiceover 3)

    Right now I can't distinguish
    Which voice I'm listening to
    Am I evil
    Or just another lost soul
    Going bad
    Or just been bad
    And getting worst
     
  8. Satchmo

    Satchmo New Member

    When I'm drivin' in my car
    And the man comes on the radio
    He's tellin' me more and more
    About some useless information
    Supposed to drive my imagination

    When I'm watchin' my TV
    And a man comes on and tells me
    How white my shirts can be
    But he can't be a man 'cause he doesn't smoke
    The same cigarrettes as me

    When I'm ridin' round the world
    And I'm doin' this and I'm signing that
    And I'm tryin' to make some girl
    Who tells me baby better come back maybe next week
    'Cause you see I'm on losing streak

    No satisfaction, no satisfaction
    I can't get no
     
  9. Gorath

    Gorath Well-Known Member

    Satisfaction. Great song.
     
  10. beccaomecca

    beccaomecca Well-Known Member

    I love bad bitches, that's my fucking problem
    And yeah I like to fuck, I got a fucking problem
    I love bad bitches, that's my fucking problem
    And yeah I like to fuck I got a fucking problem
    I love bad bitches, that's my fucking problem
    And yeah I like to fuck, I got a fucking problem
    If finding somebody real is your fucking problem
    Bring ya girls to the crib maybe we can solve it


    Hold up bitches simmer down
    Takin' hella long bitch give it to me now
    Make that thing pop like a semi or a nine
    Oh baby like it raw with a shimmy shimmy ya
    Huh, ASAP get like me
    Never met a motherfucker fresh like me
    All these motherfuckers wanna dress like me
    Put the chrome to your dome make you sweat like Keef
    ...........
     
  11. Ra

    Ra Well-Known Member

    Childish Gambino - "Redbone"


    Daylight
    I wake up feeling like you won't play right
    I used to know, but now that shit don't feel right
    It made me put away my pride
    So long
    You made a nigga wait for some, so long
    You make it hard for a boy like that to know wrong
    I'm wishing I could make this mine, oh

    If you want it, yeah
    You can have it, oh, oh, oh
    If you need it, ooh
    We can make it, oh
    If you want it
    You can have it

    But stay woke
    Niggas creepin'
    They gon' find you
    Gon' catch you sleepin' (oh)
    Now stay woke
    Niggas creepin'
    Now don't you close your eyes

    Too late
    You wanna make it right, but now it's too late
    My peanut butter chocolate cake with Kool-Aid
    I'm trying not to waste my time

    If you want it, oh
    You can have it (you can have it)
    If you need it (you better believe in something)
    We can make it, oh
    If you want it
    You can have it, ah!

    But stay woke (stay woke)
    Niggas creepin' (they be creepin')
    They gon' find you (they gon' find you)
    Gon' catch you sleepin' (gon' catch you sleepin', put your hands up on me)
    Now stay woke
    Niggas creepin'
    Now don't you close your eyes

    But stay woke (ooh, ah)
    Niggas creepin'
    They gon' find you (they gon' find you)
    Gon' catch you sleepin' (gon' catch you, gon' catch you, ooh)
    Now stay woke
    Niggas creepin'
    Now don't you close your eyes

    How'd it get so scandalous?
    Oh, how'd it get so scandalous?
    Oh, oh, how'd it get, how'd it get
    How'd it get so scandalous?
    How'd it get so scandalous?
    Ooh we get so scandalous
    But stay woke
    But stay woke
     
  12. Ra

    Ra Well-Known Member

    The Story Of O.J.


    Light nigga, dark nigga, faux nigga, real nigga
    Rich nigga, poor nigga, house nigga, field nigga
    Still nigga, still nigga
    I like that second one
    Light nigga, dark nigga, faux nigga, real nigga
    Rich nigga, poor nigga, house nigga, field nigga
    Still nigga, still nigga

    O.J. like, "I'm not black, I'm O.J." ...okay
    House nigga, don't fuck with me
    I'm a field nigga with shined cutlery
    Gold-plated quarters where the butlers be
    I'mma play the corners where the hustlers be
    I told him, "Please don't die over the neighborhood
    That your mama rentin'
    Take your drug money and buy the neighborhood
    That's how you rinse it"
    I bought every V12 engine
    Wish I could take it back to the beginnin'
    I coulda bought a place in Dumbo before it was Dumbo
    For like 2 million
    That same building today is worth 25 million
    Guess how I'm feelin'? Dumbo

    Light nigga, dark nigga, faux nigga, real nigga
    Rich nigga, poor nigga, house nigga, field nigga
    Still nigga, still nigga
    Light nigga, dark nigga, faux nigga, real nigga
    Rich nigga, poor nigga, house nigga, field nigga
    Still nigga, still nigga

    You wanna know what's more important than throwin' away money at a strip club? Credit
    You ever wonder why Jewish people own all the property in America? This how they did it
    Financial freedom my only hope
    Fuck livin' rich and dyin' broke
    I bought some artwork for 1 million
    2 years later, that shit worth 2 million
    Few years later, that shit worth 8 million
    I can't wait to give this shit to my children
    Y'all think it's bougie, I'm like, it's fine
    But I'm tryin' to give you a million dollars worth of game for $9.99
    I turned that 2 to a 4, 4 to an 8
    I turned my life into a nice first week release date
    Y'all out here still takin' advances, huh?
    Me and my niggas takin' real Chances, uh
    Y'all on the 'Gram holdin' money to your ear
    There's a disconnect, we don't call that money over here, yeah

    Light nigga, dark nigga, faux nigga, real nigga
    Rich nigga, poor nigga, house nigga, field nigga
    Still nigga, still nigga
    Light nigga, dark nigga, faux nigga, real nigga
    Rich nigga, poor nigga, house nigga, field nigga
    Still nigga, still nigga
     
  13. MightyLighty

    MightyLighty Well-Known Member

    THE IMPRESSIONS - "Minstrel And Queen"

    Queen majesty, may I speak to thee,
    So much I have longed, I've longed to speak to you alone,
    True I agree, I'm not of your society,
    I'm not a king just a minstrel,
    With my songs to you I moan,
    Though just a minstrel in life we're so far apart,
    But royal queen I see love in your heart, your heart
    I love you too, your majesty
    ...hmmmmm,

    Isn't this really true,
    These things I ask of you...hmmmm,
    Oh,oh majesty could you really care for me,
    Minstrel and Queen
    A Queen with no king,
    I'm a minstrel subpar, but could this really mean anything,

    As long as you love me,
    And it won't be so hard,
    As long as I see love love in your heart, (your heart),
    I love you too, (honest I do),
    Hmmmm..(your majesty), hmmmm..(your majesty)
    Ohh I love you too, (your majesty)
    Hmmmm queen majesty...

    Curtis Mayfield - "Pursherman"

    I'm your mama, I'm your daddy,
    I'm that nigga in the alley.
    I'm your doctor when in need.
    Want some coke? Have some weed.
    You know me, I'm your friend,
    Your main boy, thick and thin.
    I'm your pusherman.

    Ain't I clean, bad machine
    Super cool, super mean
    Dealin' good, for The Man.
    Superfly, here I stand.
    Secret stash, heavy bread,
    Baddest bitches in the bed,
    I'm your pusherman

    Silent life of crime
    A man of odd circumstance,
    A victim of ghetto demands.
    Feed me money for style
    And I'll let you trip for a while.
    Insecure from the past,
    How long can a good thing last?
    No, no, no

    Got to be mellow, y'all
    Got to get mellow, now
    Pusherman gettin' mellow, y'all

    Heavy mind, every sign
    Makin' money all the time
    My LD and just me
    For all junkies to see
    Ghetto Prince is my thing
    Makin' love's how I swing
    I'm your pusherman

    Two bags, please
    For a generous fee
    Make your world what you want it to be
    Got a woman I love desperately
    Wanna give her somethin' better than me
    Been told I can't be nuthin' else
    Just a hustler in spite of myself
    I know I can break it
    This life just don't make it
    Lord, Lord, yeah

    Got to get mellow, now
    Gotta be mellow, y'all
    Got to get mellow, now

    I'm your mama, I'm your daddy,
    I'm that nigga in the alley.
    I'm your doctor when in need.
    Want some coke? Have some weed.
    You know me, I'm your friend,
    Your main boy, thick and thin.
    I'm your pusherman.
    I'm your pusherman.
    I'm your pusherman.
    I'm your pusherman.
    Lord, Lord

    The Jacksons - "Hearbreak Hotel"

    Live in sin
    Ten years ago on this day
    My heart was yearning
    I promise I would never ever be returning
    Where my baby broke my heart and left me yearning
    As we walked to the room
    There were faces starring
    Glaring, tearing through me
    Someone said welcome to your doom
    Then they smiled with eyes
    That looked as if they knew me
    This is scarring me

    We walked up the stairs
    Still concealing gloom
    There were two girls
    (Sitting in my room)
    She walked up to my face
    Said this is the place
    You said meet you right here at noon

    This is Heartbreak Hotel
    Welcome to Heartbreak Hotel
    So this is Heartbreak Hotel
    This place is Heartbreak Hotel

    Hope is dead
    She thought that I had cheated for another lover
    I turn my back to see that I'm undercover
    Now I can't convince this girl there ain't no other
    Someone's evil to hurt my soul
    Every smile's a trial thought
    In beguile to hurt me
    This is scaring me
    Then the man next door had told
    He's been here in tears for fifteen years
    This is scaring me

    We came to this place
    Where the vicious dwelt
    Found that wicked women
    (Run this strange hotel)
    There was Sefra and Sue
    Every girl that I knew
    And my baby said love is through

    This is Heartbreak Hotel
    Welcome to Heartbreak Hotel
    So evil
    (Heartbreak Hotel)
    This place is Heartbreak Hotel
    Someone's stabbin' my heart
    (Heartbreak Hotel)
    This is Heartbreak Hotel
    (Heartbreak Hotel)
    Ten years ago today
    (Heartbreak Hotel)
    This is Heartbreak Hotel
    (Heartbreak Hotel)

    Someone's stabbin' my heart
    (Heartbreak Hotel)
    This is heartbreal hotel
    (Heartbreak Hotel)
    Ten years ago today
    (Heartbreak Hotel)
    Hurting my mind
    (Heartbreak Hotel)
    You break my baby's heart
    (Heartbreak Hotel)
    This is Heartbreak Hotel
    (Heartbreak Hotel)
    Just welcome to the scene
     
  14. MightyLighty

    MightyLighty Well-Known Member

    Bob Marley - "Burnin' & Lootin'" (1st verse)

    This morning I woke up in a curfew;
    O God, I was a prisoner, too - yeah!
    Could not recognize the faces standing over me;
    They were all dressed in uniforms of brutality. Eh!

    How many rivers do we have to cross,
    Before we can talk to the boss? Eh!
    All that we got, it seems we have lost;
    We must have really paid the cost.

    Michael Jackson - "Jam" (verses)

    The World Keeps Changing
    Rearranging Minds
    And Thoughts
    Predictions Fly Of Doom
    The Baby Boom
    Has Come Of Age
    We'll Work It Out

    I Told My Brothers
    Don't You Ask Me
    For No Favors
    I'm Conditioned By
    The System
    Don't You Talk To Me
    Don't Scream And Shout

    She Pray To God, To Buddha
    Then She Sings A
    Talmud Song
    Confusions Contradict
    The Self
    Do We Know Right
    From Wrong
    I Just Want You To
    Recognize Me
    In The Temple
    You Can't Hurt Me
    I Found Peace
    Within Myself
     
  15. Ra

    Ra Well-Known Member

    Little Brother - Black Magic (Make It Better)


    (Verse 1: Phonte)

    Yeah, uh
    Black skin, black faces, black people make black magic
    So?pay?me every fuckin'?dime and add taxes
    Cop a feel?in a room full of brass tactics
    I been about that work, boy, I been ASCAP'in
    You been lyin' 'bout yo bread, nigga you Axe Cappin'
    You really 'bout that life or you just hashtaggin'?

    (Verse 2: Rapper Big Pooh)

    You really self made or is you CashApp'in?
    Doin' everything you can to make the cash happen?
    These new niggas do a whole lotta back slappin'
    See you win without they help, then they golf clappin'
    No applause in my trophy hall
    I'm still focused on the goal and not what's hangin on the walls
    Listen, all I need is the sports channel
    And a glass of your finest red, you feel me? Ha!

    (Chorus)

    You can make it better, why don't you, love? (Yea!)
    You can make it better, why don't you, love? (Oh!)
    You can make it better, why don't you, love? (Come on!)
    You can make it better, why don't you, love?
    Yo, I sat down and I started writing you this letter
    I'll never make it perfect, just tryna make it better
    You can make it better, why don't you, love? (Alright!)
    You can make it better, why don't you, love? (Go!)
    You can make it better, why don't you, love? (Alright!)
    You can make it better, why don't you, love?

    (Verse 3: Rapper Big Pooh)

    Black skin, black faces, black people make black magic
    Cut from a different cloth, you know the finest fabric
    That's intertwined in our DNA
    You go to work, whether you corner boy or starrin' in the NBA
    Even if you never left the porch, gotta know you pray
    'Cause once they put you in the game, gotta know the play

    (Verse 4: Phonte)

    And when it's time to leave the game, take a bow and say
    "Thanks for the warm welcome, I ain't tryna overstay"
    Good timin', the importance of, I can't overstate
    Drop facts over hot wax like Odelay
    The killer type on a thriller night like Ola Ray
    It's close to midnight, get right and let's motivate
    I need my ginger ale, and 5 lemon peppers
    All flats, nigga
    Let's go!

    (Chorus Repeat)
     
  16. Ra

    Ra Well-Known Member

    Black Thought - Twofifteen



    Yo, the big wheel keep turnin' like Ike's and Anna Mae's
    The church kitchen hustlin' dinners every Saturday
    Pull over, let me grab a plate, I tend to gravitate
    Towards how fish dinners from a styrofoam platter taste
    My granddaddy sported plaid Donny Hathaways
    Hustlin' for everything we had 'til he passed away
    When I would ask him ‘bout what path to take
    He used to laugh and say, "No man is an island but I'm a castaway"
    Casualties, I seen 'em like the French Foreign Legion
    On the streets, they used to carry out bizarre procedures
    In jean jackets and Jabbar Adidas
    Back when local R&B was just as soulful as orthopedics
    Me and my man twistin' up some reefer and wishin'
    We knew all the town hitmen in the likes of Sam Christian
    On the edge of existence, man, listen
    Understand, respect and fear was the all-American ambition
    For badass kids in the laundromat, foldin' a load
    Well lo and behold, a whole ‘nother fork in the road
    My wish for them is that the truth is eventually told
    Out on the corner, where whatever you can sell is sold
    I heard murder ran this vast, deserted land
    Since back when Burning Man was blacks in Birmingham
    Before the presidential election diversion scam
    Matter fact, before they clapped Franz Ferdinand
    You gossip on Jay and Beyoncé or Kim and Kanye
    But keep risin' to the top, what my mind say
    Picture my daughter drinkin' water where the sign
    Say, "For colored girls," I ain't talkin' Ntozake Shange
    Who said it’s Senegal? I was a king in general
    Rich in every resource, precious metal and mineral
    Before the devil entered the land of the plentiful
    With that Jamaican funk, gotta get it into who
    For generations under God, indivisible
    Psych ward patients, vampires in a interview
    Become institutionalized, what a nigga do
    But what we had to do to survive, none of them could do
    Who the technical culprit? I don't mess with no vultures
    I'm electrical voltage, not the regular dosage
    Too obsessive compulsive, I'm a fuckin' explosive
    Mixed message in a bottle, I left with the postman
    I'm that arachnophobia, black petroleum
    Ceremoniously holy when at the podium
    Even though it's hotter than weapons-grade plutonium
    The people tryna check for the return of the Ichiban
    Obi-Wan, universe, you owe me one solid
    My homie Gonzalez, only know gun violence
    On the corner where they probably on they 21 Savage
    Catch two in your cabbage, Young Cesar Chavez
    Division one, yo, wait a min', where we get our rhythm from?
    Continuum, still swingin' like a pendulum
    Here the women come, sing it like Sarah Vaughan
    Heard 9th up in a house from North Carilon'
    Ain't no mannequin challenge, but y'all paralyzed
    It's gettin' cold outside, a word from the wise
    Y'all niggas better bundle up
    But I bet it be a hotter summer, not for nothin'
    Yo, the cops get down, especially when it come to us
    Nigga better be a Rockefeller
    Get that out your pocket fella, sang acapella
    Ain't a damn thing really changed as far as I can tell it
    Another soul with no name, the helicopters hunted
    Look like a couple of days before the doctor comin'
    But that's my little cousin, watch him for me
    I think the world tryna sock it to me
    It kinda feel like everything is out of pocket for me
    Who keep it a hundred when everything's partial?
    Dignity and sanity is what the game cost you
    Wake up to the paddles on your chest, we had lost you
    I'm just paintin' a picture like Kerry James Marshall
    I'm just takin' a picture like Carrie Mae Weems
    So smile and say cheese, we in 2018
    In a pyramid scheme, nightmares and day dreams
    From the runaway slave to a modern day king
     
  17. Ra

    Ra Well-Known Member

    Noveliss - I Gave You Power

    (Verse 1)

    Before the war begins
    I drop my origin
    I'm power defined
    An indestructible life
    The peak of the mind
    Turn my user to a Telepath
    Read every mind in the universe
    Simultaneous
    I can hear the galaxies thoughts
    Only a mad man would want my kind of power at the grip of a glove
    I'm in control
    Better hope whoever's wielding my power don't find the Soul
    I'm like a starving version of the after life
    I hunger for souls
    Another one in the fold
    A consciousness of my own
    A gateway to a world unknown
    Full of the souls of the enemies of my users
    Before
    Or those who couldn't fathom this power
    I took my toll
    It takes a lot of soul to hold that
    Which takes a lot of souls
    The Soul Gem
    I got you open
    Adam Warlock couldn't escape me
    And that's close friend

    (Hook) x2

    How you like me now
    I go blaow
    This the shit that moves crowds
    Make the whole world foul
    I might have made you into a God kid
    Check the Gauntlet
    I gave you power
    I made you buck wild

    (Verse 2)

    The most powerful
    Reality my playground
    Anything is possible
    Literally
    What you say now?
    They call me the most dangerous of the six
    Create a separate universe
    With a flick of the wrist
    If my user wishes it
    I'm shining in the flesh
    Designing another world
    With my counterparts
    In the hands of Thanos impressing Death
    The power of a God at your fingertips
    How mean it is
    Manipulate Reality in any way that we see it fit
    You'll never be lost in space
    I'll lead the way
    I'm the energy
    Escaped
    From the ancient ones
    The spacious one
    I can tear the fabric of space
    Have you existing in every place in the galaxy
    All at once
    Now watch me jump
    The planet is ours
    Moving instantaneously is an art
    I'll show you what you've been missing
    Through the stars
    The master of teleportation
    I'm in your mental
    Know exactly where to go
    Before you say it

    (Hook x2)


    (Verse 3)

    Past, present and future
    I control all three
    And hand the mastery down to my user
    I don't abide by the rules
    I'm father time
    You heard of me
    I control time for all eternity
    Its surgery
    When I doctor the timeline
    It never gets the best of me
    My user might die
    But I move on to better things
    The very reason they after me
    No matter the strategy
    But We can't reach our peak without the battery
    All power is mine
    Mental or physical
    The foundation
    I make the other gems reach they pinnacle
    The glue to the power you pursue
    To rule the universe
    I'm too hot to hold
    The gift and the curse
    Infinity' worth
    Would you trade your sanity to rule the earth? (Yeah)
    Would you trade your sanity to rule the earth?
    (Hell yeah)
    Would you trade your sanity to rule the earth
    And be a God within the Universe?
    Say word...
     
  18. Tamstrong

    Tamstrong Administrator Staff Member

    Fragile: Tech N9ne (my favorite line is in blue)

    You said you'd never ever break, down
    But here I am sweeping, pieces off of the ground
    You said you'd never, ever play, to crowds
    But I've seen you hoping to play songs to them now
    I've spent all night long scared of tomorrow, broke my alarm
    Everything's almost lost, pick it up slow, before it's gone

    We're fragile
    (Wish I'd have known)
    I never thought I'd be so fragile
    (You're not alone)
    If it didn't break before it's about to
    (We've been here before)
    I don't ever want to change
    I'm fragile
    I don't ever

    Some of the people appointed to give an opinion
    Never do get it
    I want you to come on and gobble a jimmy and... die
    N9na be giving the remedy and why?
    Critics are really the enemy and I
    Can't stand the way they slam today's gifted
    Effin' incredible, get fanned away with grands to pay
    This jam will lay scripted
    Deaf and impeccable
    Write a rhyme and I put everything in a flow
    I'm the N9ne I'm a look very mean
    When a foe scribe a line but he has never been at a show
    By the times it'll be better, leave it in the sto'
    'Cause they wrote nothin' but lies, quotes stuck in my eyes
    Amateur writer dissin'
    He's a beginner and hopes for your demise, folks some may despise
    Never do try to listen
    It's real, I'm mad
    Clueless when you scribble on your pad
    How you gonna criticize with a chisel on your nads sizzling your ad
    You don't really get why I'm so pissed? Understand this (Understand this)
    I'm an artist, and I'm sensitive about my shit, yes I'm

    We're fragile
    (Wish I'd have known)
    I never thought I'd be so fragile
    (You're not alone)
    If it didn't break before it's about to
    (We've been here before)
    I don't ever want to change
    I'm fragile
    I don't ever

    Tell me that I'm famous
    Tell me that my name is
    Big as Venus Jupiter and then Uranus
    Tell me that your anus got your head in it
    I can smell the articles and know you're heinous
    Tell me that you love me, always thinkin' of me
    Unconditional, I'm hoping I'm your favourite
    Grab a fishing pole and throw me with the sharks
    That's the feelin' I get when you're concentratin'
    On this pen, on this pad
    Tell me you're willin' to diss on my craft
    Tell me the feelin' of pickin' apart this track
    Stop
    Puttin' my heart and my soul in these lines
    Tellin' me platinum and gold all the time
    Lookin' to bury, a deep hole for mine
    Drop
    This is more than you, and this is more than you
    And your entire building slanderin' and abusin'
    What I call the realest comin' from a student
    Told myself to use a poem as an UZI
    Empty magazine, I seen a magazine
    You seen my trigger finger, then I started shootin'
    That was nicotine, I'm 'bout to smoke 'em all
    And journalists involved should've known my music

    We're fragile
    (Wish I'd have known)
    I never thought I'd be so fragile
    (You're not alone)
    If it didn't break before it's about to
    (We've been here before)
    I don't ever want to change
    I'm fragile
    I don't ever
     
  19. Bookworm616

    Bookworm616 Well-Known Member

    Megadeth: My Darkest Hour

    In my hour of need,
    Ha, no, you're not there
    And though I reached out for you,
    Wouldn't lend a hand
    Through the darkest hour,
    Your grace did not shine on me
    Feels so cold, very cold,
    No one cares for me
    Did you ever think I get lonely?
    Did you ever think that I needed love?
    Did you ever think, stop thinking
    You're the only one that I'm thinking of?
    You'll never know how hard I tried
    To find my space and satisfy you too
    Things will be better when I'm dead and gone
    Don't try to understand, knowing you, I'm probably wrong
    But, oh how I lived my life for you,
    Till you'd turn away
    Now, as I die for you,
    My flesh still crawls as I breathe your name
    All these years, thought I was wrong,
    Now I know it was you
    Raise you head, raise your face, your eyes,
    Tell me who you think you are?
    I walk, I walk alone
    To the promised land
    There's a better place for me
    But it's far, far away
    Everlasting life for me
    In a perfect world
    But I got to die first,
    Please God send me on my way
    Time has a way of taking time
    Loneliness is not only felt be fools
    Alone, I call to ease the pain,
    Yearning to be held by you
    Alone, so alone, I'm lost,
    Consumed by the pain
    The pain, the pain, the pain
    Won't you hold me again
    You just laughed, ha-ha, you bitch
    My whole life is work built on the past,
    The time has come when all things shall pass,
    This good thing passed away
     
  20. Bookworm616

    Bookworm616 Well-Known Member

    Green Day: Boulevard of Broken Dreams

    I walk a lonely road
    The only one that I have ever known
    Don't know where it goes
    But it's only me, and I walk alone
    I walk this empty street
    On the boulevard of broken dreams
    Where the city sleeps
    And I'm the only one, and I walk alone
    I walk alone, I walk alone
    I walk alone and I walk a
    My shadow's the only one that walks beside me
    My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
    Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
    Till then I walk alone
    Ah ah ah ah ah
    Ah ah ah ah ah
    I'm walking down the line
    That divides me somewhere in my mind
    On the border line of the edge
    And where I walk alone
    Read between the lines
    What's fucked up and every thing's all right
    Check my vital signs to know I'm still alive
    And I walk alone
    I walk alone, I walk alone
    I walk alone and I walk a
    My shadow's the only one that walks beside me
    My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
    Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
    Till then I walk alone
    Ah ah ah ah ah
    Ah ah ah ah ah
    I walk alone, I walk a
    I walk this empty street
    On the boulevard of broken dreams
    Where the city sleeps
    And I'm the only one, and I walk alone
    My shadow's the only one that walks beside me
    My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
    Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
    Till then I walk alone
     

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