Apollo Brown
Promises
[Verse 1]
I’m chasing my blessings and making it work, I was made from the dirt
Birth is amazing you live then lay under earth
I took the mud and I made it my worth
Expanded to a mansion in the mind it’ll soon comes into the universe
It’s worse, American made making it through this masquerade
Being Black today is Cassius Clay wit a path to pave
So you can run, shoot or Catch the fade
& if you mastering A it’s best you never come back this way
Just evacuate, pack it up, cast away
I'm from the K the roots deeper than the blackest slave
It’s in the blood you can track the trace
Traumatic, Imagine, evеrything was practiced in a passive way
Let Thе Dolla circulate
I grew up where that beef get ate, Jordan Jammed & cats percolate
Regurgitate all ya laws & your teachings
The war is everlasting no one ever gets even (I promise it)

[Hook]
My daughter asked me was I coming home before I left for her I never break promises
They saying serve & protect but all they do is harass & arrest & break promises
They wanna lock my body, they tell us that they gon give then take they break promises
They wanna take my soul and see me off in a hole I can’t honor it

[Verse 2]
Twas a cold night before the heartbreak, calls & heartaches
Shots rang out made his whole block shake
Rainstorms , shooter running through puddles cuz he ain’t goin
His co-d was caught but everything seemed foreign
He knew the code, police rolled, point it & blew a load
One was apprehended but other shooter drove, & fled
Clothes is red putting foes to bed
The bullhorn explodes now the “white shirt” is red & furious
Shooter at large armed & dangerous
Sirens is goin, every car alarm is banging —Out its mind
The shooter played a chick for a alibi
But little did he know was how them ppl would strategize
Guns cocked - & then the footsteps & loud knocks
Shorty was up getting ready for work to them loud pops
(BANG)
The cops shot & saw a gun when they rushed
But all the shorty had was a black hair brush, WTF?!?!!
[Hook]
My daughter asked me was I coming home before I left for her I never break promises
They saying serve & protect but all they do is harass & arrest & break promises
They wanna lock my body, they tell us that they gon give then take they break promises
They wanna take my soul and see me off in a hole I can’t honor it