Stogie T
Roots (Reloaded)
[Intro: Stogie T]
Ehh, Stogie T, Zakwe, ehh
Ha!

[Verse 1: Stogie T]
Before Nelson Mandela was on money
I was folding leopards you would swear it's origami
Wild life lessons, every death gave me life
Still-born, so me and Christ share a likeness
None like him, no Siamese
It's all timing
You can push hope it come out live but this ain't the gynae
Zakwe hit me like, "let's talk about the rhyming."
Couldn't find the heart to tell him, "that's not my vibe scene."
Not when the world need a Marley
And Bob's your uncle but you worry about your country
I don't take molly, I take lil' rocksy and my daughter
I take your chiffon dresses from the shopping complex
And I'm not trying to shop a complex
I put my shit in the music so you can find strength
It's a lil' project I built from the onset
Ordinary people baptized now that's a John Legend
Born in Tanzania, that seems far-fetched
But none of you know the world that's in my closet
I make lines speak to the heart of the darkness
Everything hidden unless you listening with your conscience
It's taking revisiting lyrics to feel the content
German precision sniffers is ill-equipped for this bomb threat
If she could get too thick for Shawshank
Don't bank on lip if you can't swim or walk it
Didn't got the whisky on the arm rest
Puffing something stinky from the tropics
With a face like brake lights
Eish son you can miss me with the nonsense
[Hook: Jay Claude]
About that time I'm ma get that money
I made me stacks but I'm ma make more hunninds
'Cause now I found the roots to my sanity
Shades for my money, drink, pop my daily bread
All black dude can't see nobody
If you ain't no badass somebody
Glory for the pain in the booth for them new look
Nothing's been the same since rain, Haleluyah
All black dude can't see nobody
If you ain't no badass somebody
Glory for the pain in the booth for them new look
Nothing's been the same since rain, Haleluyah

[Verse 2 : Raxion Stance]
Yeah, they say you reap what you sow, and so I plough raps
On a road to riches on bare feet, I barely count steps
Focused on the vision
Never bogus while they trippin'
If they say that they don't know us, they don't know what real is, that's facts
Ak'sanas'khath' sok'dlala, ng'vuk' ek'seni ng'vele ng'phande
Painting vivid pictures with words when I rap
Something like Danté
When I flow, then you know z'yabuya, sow'zabuy' ung'lande
I'm the seed Zakwe planted the time that he dropped Impande
I grew
Became the roots to Hip Hop, this be the Family Tree
Homie that's a Cassper Nyovest referral
Enemies still, look to the boy
I should've been suspended in a sphere of amber how I'm timeline
I'm balancing between lightyears
I surpass like a cryptobiotic element in emerald
Name a rapper that I'm better than, hah, there's a several
Matter fact the list is without bottom, bra I level up
Ng'yashisa, if I show you hell, it's me burning the devil up
Put seven up, I'm reluctant to go to university
Why should I when there's a whole entire universe in me?
Why should I study when I can body rappers with verses
See, I'm a different shine, you need heliocentric lenses
Just to see me on these stages
Bringing into life every lyric stuck in my pages
I want 28 mil by 28, don't know what age is
I'm hot, they know it's me bru
I look at  mumble rappers like, "what would Stogie T do?"
Ha, he'd prolly kill 'em all, exactly what I'm here for
I'm cut from a different cloth so Denim ain't what I tear for
Shaking ceilings with a sheer force
Making feelings be the main course
To the music I'm dishing to people who need it
And therefore they don't know me, they know my name and my music
Your dream can only be a reality if you go out and pursue it
I took my emotions, my soul and passion and I fused it
So that's why when I drop a song, I drop life and not music
[Hook: Jay Claude]
About that time I'm ma get that money
I made me stacks but I'm ma make more hunninds
'Cause now I found the roots to my sanity
Shades for my money, drink, pop my daily bread
All black dude can't see nobody
If you ain't no badass somebody
Glory for the pain in the booth for them new look
Nothing's been the same since rain, Haleluyah
All black dude can't see nobody
If you ain't no badass somebody
Glory for the pain in the booth for them new look
Nothing's been the same since rain, Haleluyah