Verse 1: From slavery, racial segregation, police brutality, and mass imprisonment/ learn the history about this country that we're living in/ the Next Chapter you ready? Cause I'm going off the deep in/ Listen I'm talking deep as Elijah Muhammad teachings/ embrace what this artist speaking they might try and silence me/ they hope we turn on each other and react violently/ poetic floetry paint vivid pictures using imagery/ still give em that real like DMX poem about the industry/ through music they'll remember me show em the ugly truth/ lately I been digging finding my roots/ and what I spit in that booth/ its real so I hope these lyrics catch ya/ see the pain like Nas seeing who enslaved his ancestors/ they gon always try and test ya don't be blind to the facts/ falling for traps while they incarcerate more blacks/ to fill up the prison population no chance of probation/ no escaping from what we facing in this ugly nation. Hook: It's getting worse things will never change/ yo its time to take those chains off your brain/ more pain when it rains/ open your eyes don't believe the lies that they make up/ yo its real son we gotta Wake Up huh/ I think its time we start changing our ways/ free your mind don't be mental slaves/ until we see that grave/ open your eyes don't believe the lies that they make up/ yo its real son we gotta Wake Up. Verse 2: Keep my eyes open watching this country crumble to pieces/ the government controls everything that the media releases/ lies about history that the school teaches to all the children/ speaking truth to all the youth praying that they keep building/ preparing for the scary future approaching I'm advancing/ they hope to catch me sleep like the police who shot Fred Hampton/ I know D'Evils watching me so I just kill em with the rhyming/ I'm bout to blow like the Boston Marathon Bombings/ gotta keep climbing and free my mind Ima stand and be a leader/ some turned on me just like when Koba turned on Caesar/ I see the world for what it is you know the system was devised/ to keep us trapped and blind realize we fighting to survive/ why didn't them cops stop when Eric Garner said he couldn't breathe?/ you see the lies they want you to believe/ don't be afraid to speak up cause now its the time/ to make history when I enter like the Little Rock Nine. Hook: It's getting worse things will never change/ yo its time to take those chains off your brain/ more pain when it rains/ open your eyes don't believe the lies that they make up/ yo its real son we gotta Wake Up huh/ I think its time we start changing our ways/ free your mind don't be mental slaves/ until we see that grave/ open your eyes don't believe the lies that they make up/ yo its real son we gotta Wake Up. Verse 3: Yo they watching our every move through all the satellites and cameras/ views up in the news is propaganda look how they slander/ the people its all part of their operation/ this was my obligation since I made that first observation/ that this will never end like work them slaves got on plantations/ its kind of scary/ when they got police armed with weapons that's from the military/ its very real so I always speak the truth and take a stand/ they wanna murder me like how they did them kids in Pakistan/ who were murdered by the Taliban innocent lives taking/ assassinations plotted I elevate with the knowledge/ I learned life lessons through my adolescents/ its a blessing to be apart of this culture and sticking to the true essence/ this for that real Hip Hop so you know Ima keep rocking/ and give em something special like Doug E Fresh beat boxing/ this beat knocking always aware of the problems that have arisen/ see it clear with this third eye vision. Hook: It's getting worse things will never change/ yo its time to take those chains off your brain/ more pain when it rains/ open your eyes don't believe the lies that they make up/ yo its real son we gotta Wake Up huh/ I think its time we start changing our ways/ free your mind don't be mental slaves/ until we see that grave/ open your eyes don't believe the lies that they make up/ yo its real son we gotta Wake Up.

Verse 1: Always see with your eyes all the lies that they sell em/ this one goes to my people time to get it together/ they making ways to control us like the Willie Lynch letter/ but yo, its all real when you look in my eyes/ Im watching out for dirty cops who always brutalize/ in my community we need unity/ create your own opportunities but they be trana ruin me/ I elevate with the mental while they try and get your info/ big plans like Biggie on Ready To Die intro/ its simple I speak truth so they appreciate my honesty/ spitting from different angles this is lyrical geometry/ now Im on this road and I see my destination/ but before I leave this Earth I'll spark the brain with inspiration/ knowledge of self my education know they fearing this/ to my real Hip-Hop heads I hope you hearing this/ Verse 2: Its the lyrical felon this is how I do crime/ they didn't see this coming like Tony getting hit from behind/ elevate with rhymes, seeing signs, people trana blind me/ never selling my soul for record labels to sign me/ what happened in my past been behind me/ in the studio where you find me this that boom bap from the 90's/ still inspired from real emcees from the golden era/ keep it authentic and expose the truth they never tell ya/ you gon have to kill me because you know Im never stopping/ know you rather see me up on them fields picking cotton/ but with this realness Im dropping I could be one the greatest/ funny how them tables turn now I'll be one of your favorites/ Verse 3: Visualizing my dreams turned to reality/ my people still always suffer from the slave mentality/ instead of killing each other fire back at the oppressor/ they had you fooled thinking the president would protect ya (Obama at the time)/ now its time to take back whats ours/ they got you running like some cowards scared to speak truth to higher powers/ trapped where no one pays attention where they plan to send ya/ and have you brutally murdered like the people in Kenya/ so understand the message Im conveying/ and really hear what Im saying cause this aint what radio playing/ and even when Im dead and gone you'll still feel my energy/ spitting venom and see carnage thats Spiderman enemies/ and this was always going on for years/ watch an important story hit the news then forever disappear/ its clear that most of you who in the game lost/ and everything that we've been taught was suppose to keep us brainwashed/

Verse 1: I keep it real when I spit these verses/ I remember seeing these mothers cry when their child died and got put in them hearses/ violence within the community was on the rise/ now everybody in the area had anger inside/ living in places where reality strikes before your eyes some seen death/ and try they hardest to forget/ them nightmares bring it back all the pain that they suffered from/ some died as a teen never seen 21/ murder was all i would see on the news/ kids blasting tools, cops arresting people right before school/ my homie just went in he doing his bid/ got a letter that said "if I die in here give this to my kid"/ no problem brother anything that you need/ he say while he locked all he think about is his seed/ don't know when he'll be freed looks out the window of his cell/ wonders what the world gon be like after years spent in this hell/ hook:2x Alot of ugly truth we gotta embrace/ as we get older it gets colder no more time to waste/ society is set for all of us to fail and they plan to erase/ the population its a trap we could never escape/ Verse 2: Pick up the pin these rhymes filling up the pages/ thinking how they really want us in them cages/ first they mentally enslave us look around things starting to change fast/ I survived like that 7 year old in that plane crash/ investigations, human rights violations/ they hiding things from us to control the population/ more devastation like the Nigeria massacre/ media manipulation always that's how they capture ya/ and more people incarcerated so they building up more prisons/ Im still having these visions/ and while these cops killing us in cold blood/ they plant something on us then in the reports you see it says how we sold drugs/ this is crazy I can no longer take this/ to many cases of cops who shot unarmed black faces/ listen up always remember/ the government will kill their own kind just to push their own agenda/ hook:2x Alot of ugly truth we gotta embrace/ as we get older it gets colder no more time to waste/ society is set for all of us to fail and they plan to erase/ the population its a trap we could never escape/

Verse 1: Soon as the pin hit the paper I can feel the fire burning/ I had to open my eyes like Omar Epps in higher learning/ what you been missing returning go head and take a listen/ amazing performance like Magic playing center position/ rhymes murderous bout to show em all who the nicest/ with lyrics that be on point government tracking devices/ with these bombs of knowledge so you all see who the wisest/ no surprises its just bars with these verbal exercises/ emcees they always know I'm coming with something sicker/ its real you see it in my eyes like Pac last picture/ lyrics hit ya while the evil be plotting my demise/ time to rise and not be mentally institutionalized/ this the Genesis murdering mics whenever I'm on stage/ still ahead of my time like Nasir at a young age/ filled with rage taking shots at the wicked system/ mission almost complete rhymes get deep like ancient wisdom/ I was trapped in a dark hell wondering how I made it through the mazes/ in the jungle where drug spots get raided/ never traded my soul even though they promised gold/ at the end of the road now those liars getting exposed/ another lyrical slaughter so you know that this beat dead/ had to hustle like Malcolm X when he was Detroit Red/ lyrically damage ya everybody know I'm next/ It's over like when Michael gave his brother the kiss of death/ 2xHook: Til infinity you know it don't stop/ never flop we do this for the real Hip Hop/ emcees get rocked anytime they ever come around/ kill the radio and watch us rise from the underground Verse 2: (ILL Conscious)

Verse 1: Another story to tell about black males/ trana survive in these rough ghettos by making crack sales/ in the same hell where they were trapped by the evil forces/ thinking that selling this is what will bring em resources/ not realizing their community they were destroying/ the powers who put the drugs there are enjoying/ the fact that they don't realize what they're doing/ undercovers everywhere watching weight they was moving/ always got they eyes on em trana build up a case/ so when they go against the system watch the years they face/ this kills the black race and it will never stop/ young kids standing on blocks ready to shoot glocks/ at anyone who wanna step on their territory/ death or prison walls will be the end of this story/ killing our own kind when we let go slugs/ and watch all over the news they call you "NIGGAS and "THUGS'/ lets rise above the madness/ they say that were animals so we get killed without hesitation when they blast it/ I've had it so I speak up they don't like that/ but in the end truth will prevail lets fight back/ Verse 2: I knew this kid Tyrone who was deep in the game/ he made a name from slanging heroin and bricks of cocaine/ I use to catch him at the high school basketball games/ stayed fresh shining with his gold watches and chains/ I knew him when he first started just rocking a black hoodie/ that was back when he was low key like Ace Boogie/ then he got flashy so them jealous eyes was watching/ someone who he knew from years back was plotting/ to have him murdered he was bringing some fast money in/ once the fiends got a taste of that pure Colombian/ had em lined up ready to snort or shoot/ but Tyrone could never face this ugly truth/ he was destroying his own race right before his eyes/ never realized until he came across the wise/ they took him through history showed him how it was a plan/ the ultimate destruction of the young black man/ but Tyrone was still blind to what was coming next/ its crazy that same night he would be meeting his death/ another young black male that the dark just swallowed/ on his way back to the crib he was followed/ in his house waiting they ready to have him killed/ once Tyrone stepped in then the truth was revealed/ everything caught up with him in the end when they got him/ watched his life flash before his eyes then they shot him/

Verse 1: Pain strikes, sometimes you sit and wonder/ how long will it be before the dark takes you under/ its hard to embrace it all I know life gets scarier/ people hungry dying in poverty stricken areas/ fiends walk like zombies who badly infected/ looking down those dark alleys where drugs injected/ where they carry their metal and dance with the devil/ when I'm gone make sure that this message hit every ghetto/ you stuck on the bridge of hell hard to get across/ many in the wilderness lost with suicidal thoughts/ caught in a life maze watching everything crumble/ a struggle when your'e trana survive in wicked jungles/ dealing with hard times reminiscing on your past/ days cold you never know when it will be your last/ looking at everything see how it all will play out/ man I just pray and hope you find a way out Hook 2x: Days going and I'm right on the edge/ about to jump off but I pick the pin up instead/ these thoughts in my head really making sure they feel this/ we all got them real life struggles we deal with/ days going and I'm right on the edge/ about to jump off message still alive when I'm dead/ thoughts in my head really making sure they feel this/ we all got them real life struggles we deal with Verse 2: Look in the mirror the reflection of my father/ like Simba when Rafiki told him look at the water/ times is harder trying to survive in this country/ had a conversation with a recovered addict junkie/ something deep he broke it down how my music saved him/ opened his eyes with the inspiration that it gave him/ told me how he was in a war with his own evils/ many marks on his arms he was messing with them needles/ this the music the people need I'm one of the chosen/ so I paint these deep vivid pictures while these walls closing/ seen what was unfolding when the mist started clearing/ false illusions majority of minorities fearing/ blind in these last days its hard to see the blessing/ aint no teliing what I'll be facing right after this session/ deeper depression getting lost in them dark shadows/ where demons will haunt you I'm a true warrior in these battles/ I'm trana make it where I can bring all of my brothers in/ but underneath this empty smile more than just struggling/ puffin the marijuana smoke them trees help/ starting to wonder if this how Capital Steez felt/ I need help or I'll just be trapped in this black hole/ no light at the end of the tunnel just lost souls/ seeing the final ending in the chapter my eyes close/ in the end of my story they'll say that this king rose Hook 2x: Days going and I'm right on the edge/ about to jump off but I pick the pin up instead/ these thoughts in my head really making sure they feel this/ we all got them real life struggles we deal with/ days going and I'm right on the edge/ about to jump off message still alive when I'm dead/ thoughts in my head really making sure they feel this/ we all got them real life struggles we deal with Bridge: People struggling trana survive/ hard to really make it when you barely making it by/ a little above the water just so we can breathe/ yo its deeper than you think we got seeds to feed

Hook: This how I keep myself prepared for the storm/ step into the light where infinite knowledge is born/ I perform with this microphone mountains move in the valleys/ a bright future shining when my mother had me/ sadly I seen evil take control of youth/ so I salute anyone who always speaking the truth/ we continue the same cycle while nothing is done/ my lungs filled with breath as I see the morning sun/ hear the cries of many when its cold through the night/ just wanna live to see the day my people rise and unite/ in the same fight where we all die on the line/ its hard to see the facts when the blind leading the blind/ my mind travels through time soul touches the music/ could be a powerful weapon when you know how to use it/ this for the movement and for the people stuck in the beast/ and for those who sacrifice their life for freedom and peace Verse 1: Younger generations minds being corrupted by the wicked/ higher levels intelligent thoughts from one of the gifted/ this how I kick it something powerful in every lesson/ to get my people from under the systematic oppression/ I still see no progression just pain that never heals/ like the wounds of slaves who picked in them cotton fields/ I build never forgetting the raping, beating, and whipping/ evil blinding your vision don't worry the truth has risen/ but they tell you to just forget it all and move passed it/ how could you when you see how they left Emmett in his casket/ everlasting this the ugly truth I had to swallow/ it kept me going like young Lauryn after the Apollo/ this path I chose to follow was destined beautiful memories/ deeper understanding when you feel the mystical energy/ devils eyeing me closely hope the fire start burning me/ but with this gift and knowledge see I'm blessed for eternity Hook: This how I keep myself prepared for the storm/ step into the light where infinite knowledge is born/ I perform with this microphone mountains move in the valleys/ a bright future shining when my mother had me/ sadly I seen evil take control of youth/ so I salute anyone who always speaking the truth/ we continue the same cycle while nothing is done/ my lungs filled with breath as I see the morning sun/ hear the cries of many when its cold through the night/ just wanna live to see the day my people rise and unite/ in the same fight where we all die on the line/ its hard to see the facts when the blind leading the blind/ my mind travels through time soul touches the music/ could be a powerful weapon when you know how to use it/ this for the movement and for the people stuck in the beast/ and for those who sacrifice their life for freedom and peace Verse 2: Still exposing the many ways that they planning on coming after ya/ spread my message, break down the science art like Ancient Africa/ culture, civilizations understand what I'm teaching/ they hoping this don't get out like government secrets leaking/ I'm seeking the higher places where these words forever touch you/ all different races and show the problem humanity faces/ these writings that are sacred, hieroglyphics encrypted messages/ disappointed with how we all just settled and accepted this/ so I'm willing to die for it since truth is barely seen/ spark the minds of these young blacks rage against the machine/ its really storming so this album more of a final warning/ you transforming I'm transcending into the supreme/ the presence of a true king who ruler of his kingdom/ tell my brothers to pack they bags up so I can bring em/ out of that place where all of their minds are being fenced/ and bring em to another side of life for eternal strength Hook: This how I keep myself prepared for the storm/ step into the light where infinite knowledge is born/ I perform with this microphone mountains move in the valleys/ a bright future shining when my mother had me/ sadly I seen evil take control of youth/ so I salute anyone who always speaking the truth/ we continue the same cycle while nothing is done/ my lungs filled with breath as I see the morning sun

Verse 1: Alone to suffer in the darkness where they kept us/ follow the deep signs that our ancestors left us/ figured it out from the pain in my own struggles/ same pain help me connect them pieces to the puzzles/ now its all real so I'm seeing them signs well/ knowing we in deeper like Carlito and Klienfeld/ time tells it all you can miss it while it passes/ what I'm doing gon help my people rise from the ashes/ that's why truth spoken to those who ever following/ let em know our people were kidnapped like Solomon/ discovered things they secretly tried to keep hidden/ facing the facts shows where many blacks were forbidden/ now see back in the days left us hanging from our neck/ now its profits through the prison industrial complex/ put an end to this nonsense this the final call the time coming for revolution/ the only solution/ Hook: Curtains close will I hear the applause/ for people who really fought and took a slug for the cause/ who ready to fight and stand up for what they believe/ the time is now so I'm calling all emcees/ lets come together and I'm sure all will agree/ we tired of being oppressed by the powers that be/ we still keeping it real with you so you can see/ that this was all set up so we can never be free Verse 2: I'm not alright when I'm still receiving calls/ from innocent inmates sitting behind prison walls/ insane laws got us serving the maximum sentence/ suffer in the real world right after its finished/ these rappers talk nonsense, but yall love to hear them flow/ but won't listen when I talk about this New Jim Crow/ you worried about your jewelry and jordans staying fresh/ KKK screaming white power and making threats/ protest and they send tanks and swats/ leaving our bodies in the streets for hours after the shots/ sit and just watch then go online posting hashtags/ but in the end its not us getting the last laugh/ someone asked how do we come up with the answers/ I reply revolutionary like the black panthers/ gotta realize it now we in serious trouble/ this for people going through the black liberation struggle Hook: Curtains close will I hear the applause/ for people who really fought and took a slug for the cause/ who ready to fight and stand up for what they believe/ the time is now so I'm calling all emcees/ lets come together and I'm sure all will agree/ we tired of being oppressed by the powers that be/ we still keeping it real with you so you can see/ that this was all set up so we can never be free Verse 3: Breaking the shackles cause my people still at war/ I'm fighting for our freedom like Assata Shakur/ but still we ignore problems right in front of our eyes/ the hate between races how they rule and divide/ then when divided the population gets so weak/ so that means anything done by the elite/ history repeats they continue hiding the proof/ look how the media tried to justify Dylan Roof/ police didn't shoot said he was mentally ill/ they didn't give a damn about the nine people he killed/ up in the church shows how its getting much worse/ to see my people tear each other down what really hurts/ under this curse trana escape the tyranny/ the ignorance spreads quickly so yall not hearing me/ these weak leaders selling you lost hope and dreams/ when we just want freedom and justice by any means Hook: Curtains close will I hear the applause/ for people who really fought and took a slug for the cause/ who ready to fight and stand up for what they believe/ the time is now so I'm calling all emcees/ lets come together and I'm sure all will agree/ we tired of being oppressed by the powers that be/ we still keeping it real with you so you can see/ that this was all set up so we can never be free

Verse 1: Life's a series of serious choices always being made/ before beginning my teen stage always getting blazed/ those were middle school days sometime right after Katrina hit/ when my city drowned and that water had my people sick/ calculated steps started mastering the math/ realized decisions from my past lead me to this path/ my future will be determined by these choices I make/ a power we hold within how our own life is shaped/ but now I'm coming of age making wiser decisions/ staying away from traps in the system keeping us in prisons/ where conditions are poor staying alive is the hardest/ almost got myself sent away hit with felony charges/ not being the smartest with those who never want to see you better/ but thankful I caught it just in time got my life together/ surrounded myself with those who motivate to fill up/ your mind with the knowledge the foundation of it all when you start to build up Verse 2: Really embracing the nature what was in it was enough for me/ never knew there were people in this world looking up to me/ little cousins and kids from my old block wanting me to lead them/ into something that will forever feed them/ it was clear that this music was my calling/ but find yourself trapped in your own life when you don't stop the stalling/ start creating or continue falling procrastination/ blessing you while I'm in my prime for deeper transformations/ my dedication to this art shows my heart is pure/ since my first steps on this Earth lot I had to endure/ harsh realities in my youth pushed me to go beyond this is what I love to fight for/ the rain help me write more/ they hate then they like yours/ it never stops so I move like its Black Ops in the city when I fight wars/ certain choices could be a good or a bad route/ like Trey when he told Dough Boy to let him out Verse 3: Raised the vibration of my lyrics for every brother and sister/ since my best friend died in front of me like Antwone Fisher/ how this flow got sicker now can't you tell that I'm fired up/ got through it like Kanye when he had his mouth wired shut/ real music inspired us to go after our dreams/ met a kid from city both of his parents were fiends/ he was cold saw where the fire went inside his environment/ that's how it was in Magnolia, Calliope, Melpomene/ those the projects, death was something that you just had to process/ it was normal to see kids with guns dangerous objects/ walking up to they homies like you got yours? I got mine/ cause they thought the farthest that they was going was the stop sign/ when it's implanted in they minds/ so they start selling drugs just to get by and try to deal with them hard times/ so before you judge think of what they had to face/ and ask yourself did they have a choice in the first place?

Verse 1: Still spit lyrics that lift spirits and murder opponents/ I'll reach ya with something deep like I'am Legend final moment/ controlling my own destiny the industry afraid/ slicing emcees up like Yoshimitsu with the blade/ look how my people portrayed so much negative they feeding ya/ look how they be misleading ya monopolized media/ spark the revolution this for black liberation/ bringing you that boom bap, lyrical assassination/ when it comes to my race they say we only bout violence/ but when them black churches was burning all you heard was silence/ struggle with what's provided that's the plan that they prepared for ya/ trana stay alive in Divided States of America/ martial law in your area Brian and illa rocking it/ elevating your political and your social consciousness/ now tell me how you stopping it steady watching them hours go/ these real emcees come together something powerful Verse 2: (illa ills)

Verse 1: See now I know you can get sexual but lets see intellectual/ beauty and elegance I like women with high intelligence/ but don't get me wrong still like to get behind her/ hitting them great walls like we was fucking in China/ but Brian get poetic for his ambitious women really winning/ staying focused on they dreams while the world spinning/ said she was taking college classes studying for finals/ met her up at the record store she was picking up vinyl/ conversation sparked started saying who was her top 5/ and how the game changed after Biggie and Pac died/ she loved Rakim, Nas, Big L, Big Pun, and Andre 3 stacks/ and underground emcees who spitting bars on tracks/ that's when she told me how the game lacks originality/ and emcees who keep it real showing lyrical skill/ she was about that knowledge and finding her life purpose/ we kicked it and started spitting some of our favorite verses Hook: I realized that she was different from the others/ bumping all the classics we just some Hip-Hop lovers/ took each other to higher levels mind elevation/ she got her own style intellectual conversation/ she said Hip-Hop is more than just music this is a culture/ lets keep it alive, protect it from these evil vultures/ I told her I was down when I looked in her eyes/ ay yo these type of queens hard to come by now lets ride Verse 2: Beautiful goddess dropping jewels you won't hear in them schools/ divine mind never waste her mental light on these fools/ you know the type who always keep her mind active/ not just a beautiful face but also mentally attractive/ feeling her energy you always gotta be around it/ something amazing as I was blazing that's when I found it/ for the day that we crossed paths I'll sit you down and play this/ powerful independent thinker like Angela Davis/ it's an honor to see you grow and progress/ just remember some truth we swallow may be hard for some of us to digest/ food for thought some paintings of art to help you fight a long never ending battle/ you'll elevate while you travel/ you told me to take an inventory of my thoughts step into my greater self/ at that moment this is how I felt/ inspired to reach the higher place with someone who understands/ then get away somewhere where its waters and sands/ and that's future plans for me and my queen/ who spotted the hidden message by studying and reading in between/ the lines ahead of her time one others will envy/ what's dope she had a deep love for Hip-Hop like Sydney/ that's Brown Sugar never over after we expire/ so really trust your purpose that your journey requires/ snakes slither through the garden don't believe them/ I drown in the depths of your soul where wounds meet wisdom and turn to freedom Hook: I realized that she was different from the others/ bumping all the classics we just some Hip-Hop lovers/ took each other to higher levels mind elevation/ she got her own style intellectual conversation/ she said Hip-Hop is more than just music this is a culture/ lets keep it alive, protect it from these evil vultures/ I told her I was down when I looked in her eyes/ ay yo these type of queens hard to come by now lets ride

Verse: My ancestors who paved the way are turning in their graves/ facing my moment of truth as I embrace my final days/ warrior born from slaves who were brought into the fire/ album was needed my people so fed up and tired/ where are we headed? really isn't looking any brighter/ who prepared to be a rebel? marching with freedom fighters/ they robbed us of our history never said sorry/ I'll start a mass movement for my people like I'm Marcus Garvey/ show em the real picture see how bad it all looks/ came across facts you won't see in them history books/ I escaped the plantation that's why they started to hunt me/ I'm starving like them children in them Third World countries/ now get unplugged from the Matrix really see what its coming to/ make a decision like Morpheus with the pills in front of you/ know what it will take for all of us to be free/ this world still racist like the chants at SAE/ and what's still going down its so hard to believe/ without it happening my people still hanging from trees/ that's why I'm really coming with something that's influential/ life's precious like the treasure buried underneath Solomon's Temple/ militant mind I did this here for the people/ they shoot us down then turn around and ask if will be peaceful/ when did it ever get to this you searching for clues/ can't find it cause we blinded by the white supremacy views/ that real music see the many minds that it captures/ like ancestors names given by slave masters/ these dark chapters in the land of the scary giants/ now I see how we are in mental solitary confinement/ whose to blame the next time we see a fool flip?/ if i see Zimmerman then he getting a full clip/ fuck the politics and the people who mad cause I'm dropping this/ won't stop until its grave time and they acknowledge this/ heard they coming to kill me well go head pull the trigga/ no matter what I do you still see me as a NIGGA/ now watch how Ima take that word and easily stomp it/ stands for Never Ignorant Getting Goals Accomplished/ crucify you for speaking truth here we go/ happens to you fast like how they shot Tamir Rice up in the video/ gotta take time to find messages I've shown/ some are trapped forever in the screen of their iphone/ don't come talking like you bout fighting the power/ when you worried about how many likes you get in an hour/ you still think they care about us? man yo, have you been listening?/ pay attention and look what happened up in Flint, Michigan/ ignorance placed on every up and coming generation/ trana survive through this war like its Beasts of No Nation/ opening books of the ancient mind sees the images/ of women and infants who being raped in them villages/ people afraid to do something cause they're terrified/ they planning to have us slaughtered like Rwanda genocide/ it's either that or it's the penitentiary life/ whether you Black, Latino, or poor Whites this ain't right/ they only letting you free you meet the certain criteria/ didn't even mention attacks in Nigeria/ and other places where they drop bombs on children/ they turned us against each other just to keep us from building/ they ask what's been up with me something in the air corrupted me/ how many more people gon die in police custody/ my blood is boiling thinking yo how will we prevail/ what happened to black teen who died in that Kentucky cell?/ will probably never know because we never get love/ and anything about us watch em sweep it under the rug/ the Next Chapter of Life I went above and beyond/ but yall won't understand my message til I'm dead and I'm gone

Verse 1: Feel my beautiful vibes that'll touch you inside/ I saw cancer spread crazy when my best friend died/ the look in his eyes was embracing death in that moment/ next day soul rose with the sun in the morning/ and I'm still mourning them thoughts swarming/ bring some light from the dark for my deepest pain when performing/ they say the pain passes but the beauty remains/ so I rise like a Phoenix that was rising from the flames/ life changed forever after hurricane came/ brother had that BG, Juvie, with that old Wayne/ Fresh Prince on the screen now that show makes me real sad/ cause now my pops really act just like Will dad Hook: A battle with myself I overcame/ everything you deal with stepping into this game/ but in the end it's something better that you obtain/ so I smile through my beautiful pain feel my beautiful pain/ a battle with my self I overcame/ after seeing what I seen how could you be the same/ but in the end its something better that we obtain/ so just smile through your beautiful pain Verse 2: Yo time going yo my mother hit the 50's/ and when she got sick that's when reality hit me/ she looking like my grandmother who had her back in the 60's/ after the age of 4 she was no longer with me/ she laying on her death bed this what her eyes showed/ she was leaving like Eminem trana get away from 8 mile road/ always was around by the time I was born/ next thing you know she's gone family torn/ words of wisdom every time she use to come and speak to me/ now I hear her voice whisper while she rest peacefully/ raised 7 kids in a city that's tough/ somehow still made it through when she didn't have much/ went back to school after the 7th/ cold winds start to blow and that's when I start feeling your presence/ I hold the memories until I see what's at the end/ hopefully that's when I see you again Hook: A battle with myself I overcame/ everything you deal with stepping into this game/ but in the end it's something better that you obtain/ so I smile through my beautiful pain feel my beautiful pain/ a battle with my self I overcame/ after seeing what I seen how could you be the same/ but in the end its something better that we obtain/ so just smile through your beautiful pain Verse 3: A starving artist I did this when I was homeless/ sleeping in my car just one of my lowest moments/ you have no idea what I've been through load was heavy/ smoking weed on the bench like shorty from Belly/ ayo life would be better if the pain was removed/ I'm going through hell while my stomach calling for food/ my pockets empty couldn't even bu me a meal/ this was around the same time when my cousins were killed/ at night I just use to look up at the dark sky/ and say this that music other people be sparked by/ and when you so down you know you wanna cry too/ there's always gonna be pain we gotta smile through Hook: A battle with myself I overcame/ everything you deal with stepping into this game/ but in the end it's something better that you obtain/ so I smile through my beautiful pain feel my beautiful pain/ a battle with my self I overcame/ after seeing what I seen how could you be the same/ but in the end its something better that we obtain/ so just smile through your beautiful pain

Verse 1: Yo, I mastered mathematics this music here for the masses/ seeing the signs of the times the day the good and evil clashes/ lyrical assassin who move the fastest my life intense/ ask for truth they give you nothing like when Henry Hill got pinched/ but they got you convinced things are getting better/ but never tell you that it will cause pain like John Teller letters/ staying focused I'm moving clever that's what made me wiser/ coming with a different skill set like Denzel in Equalizer/ looking ahead I see a future that's filled with horror/ how many people they plan to slaughter in this New World Order/ prisons overpopulated, water contaminated/ they spraying your food with chemicals but hey you still ate it/ them walls closing so I'm still exposing all of this crazy shit/ like the poison them doctors still injecting them babies with/ made me sick to my stomach run it this revolutionary rhyming/ keep going my third eye forever shining Hook: These are the last days approaching/ we gotta stay focused always know my third eye open/ while this truth spoken liars hope that I'm killed/ how it is when the truth get revealed, destroy and rebuild/ these are the last days approaching we gotta stay focused/ always keep your third eye open/ while these spies scoping watching our every move/ yo it's time we really have a funeral for the news Verse 2: Historical inconsistency, political hypocrisy/ deeper philosophy while I decipher prophecies/ government spies watching me someone tell em I know they follow me/ robots while they force us to follow their ideology/ see in the beginning Hip-Hop made mad noise/ then lost control like Dr. Gero and them Androids/ divine intelligence this the type of shit I been on/ my third eye, it never blink like I'm Tien Shinhan/ killing em on the boom bap bringing the terror/ down with the movement like Obama daughter rocking that Pro Era/ tap into yourself really go beyond the light/ this vision provides perception beyond ordinary sight/ you ready to step through the gate that leads to inner realms/ at first feeling this mystical power you might feel overwhelmed/ but once you start the process and bring some meditating in/ you start to feel your third eye awakening Hook: These are the last days approaching/ we gotta stay focused always know my third eye open/ while this truth spoken liars hope that I'm killed/ how it is when the truth get revealed, destroy and rebuild/ these are the last days approaching we gotta stay focused/ always keep your third eye open/ while these spies scoping watching our every move/ yo it's time we really have a funeral for the news Verse 3: Yo I'm saying fuck the whole damn system, feeding this knowledge and wisdom/ making a change like them civil rights leaders through their activism/ I just give them the truth, need to be known/ they waiting for the one who rise from the darkness and pull the sword from the stone/ emcees don't wanna test cause they know the flow mean/ aware of my surroundings like I'm Golgo 13/ can't see what I've seen cause your chakra been closed/ to view these different patterns unlock them third eye codes/ you still haven't found a way out yet/ to busy entertaining what they feed you on those social media outlets/ start reading and turn off your television/ the time passes all we do is argue over race and religion/ look how we live in this society politicians just lie to me/ need something that's empowering to just inspire me/ but I could still feel it building up it's coming through my body/ won't take my mind it's still Killumanati Hook: These are the last days approaching/ we gotta stay focused always know my third eye open/ while this truth spoken liars hope that I'm killed/ how it is when the truth get revealed, destroy and rebuild/ these are the last days approaching we gotta stay focused/ always keep your third eye open/ while these spies scoping watching our every move/ yo it's time we really have a funeral for the news

Verse 1: Going like this my last rhyme on my last beat/ I'm not fearing any man like MLK last speech/ the final chapter where it all comes after me/ they hope a bullet hit like in Memphis on the balcony/ once a bullet hits I'll be dying the same day/ came into this world alone leaving the same way/ been feeling like it's really all coming to an ending/ writing this music when I really wish that I was spending/ time with my mother, brother, nephew, and my niece/ we realize it all when our loved ones deceased/ but now I'm at peace embracing a final breath/ they'll act like they care when hearing about my death/ I've seen it all from real ones to my frienimies/ been fighting my demons with them suicidal tendencies/ but through the mist of it all loved my rise and my fall/ by these sounds you hear you'll always remember me Verse 2: I can see it coming looking at the waves/ it's much deeper like last words of them hanging slaves/ those nights my momma prayed for better days to come/ it's scary thinking that she'll have to bury her second son/ I'm sorry for everything but that's just how it's been lately/ inhaling my mary just waiting for death to take me/ devil still trana break me I can still hear him talking/ darkness pulling me under while I'm tight rope walking/ thinking of precious moments in my life that I've had/ memories of my childhood weekends with my dad/ it's sad cause now we don't even speak no more/ for him my heart doesn't even beat no more/ I think about them times we live together just being poor/ going back trana see where did we start this war/ even though I still love you man I can't deny/ this last one right here will be my final goodbye Verse 3: If this my last rhyme I spit on this microphone let it be known that it was all real/ my words heal/ people of different colors/ from blacks, whites, to Puerto Ricans, down to my Nigerian brothers/ and many others who deal with life in this ugly world/ remember me for speaking truth to them boys and girls/ I stepped up and showed how we fell for the lies/ while people were telling me how my music saved their lives/ embrace these final words this is really it for me/ when it's time I'll probably leave my music with Brie Marie/ my black queen who held me down since we were teens/ gave me love I need she'll be the mother of our beautiful seed/ I put my heart into this the sky darkens/ leaving you all with something that'll keep your brains sparking/ some of the realest words I ever spoke in a song/ no matter what my music will forever live on