Verse 1:
They say love is not a promise
There's not a lot of promise in a world where it's hard to find
Anyone that's honest
This is why I suffer lately feeling like Vincent
Just trying not to cut my ear off over this business
I wasn't 'bout to cut my ear off for business
I cut my ear off so as not to hear that ignance (ignorance)
For instance, everything's a stripper track
Everybody's in the trap no one's giving back
How the song go? Beez in the trap
Anything for a buzz bumble beez in the trap
Many times I sought to teach with the rap
'cause the books ain't doin' it and our seeds need it bad
Why do I care when they streaming my tracks
And I see the emcees rep the beef and get stacks?
'cause I love you and I gotta get the knowledge to you
Even though if up to them it isn't promised to you

Hook:
They say love is not promised to you
They say love is not promised to you
They tell you love is not promised to you
They tell you love is not promised to you

Verse 2:
Yeah
You know love is not promised to a true emcee
These kids never heard of Rakim and Kool Moe Dee
So they absorbing that corporate rap
They say I'm too complicated where the chorus at?
I sound foreign? Dag
Well if it's foreign you ain't used to being challenged
I say your bound or you ain't used to seeing talent
How could I be too musical or too lyrical?
Isn't that like claiming a monk's being too spiritual?
It's hard to blame you 'cause radio maimed you
They trained you to like novelty over brain food
Shysters paid under the table, you think you playing
Them in your car but trust me they playing you
Same songs different channels on every station
Y'all clubbin' while Congress change legislation
Sorry laws... I forgot you don't like education
Maybe next time I'll keep it basic
Okay then
Hook:
They say love is not promised to you
They say love is not promised to you
They tell you love is not promised to you
They tell you love is not promised to you

Verse 3:
I been in meetings where people treat you like a number
Label heads talk that talk and they try to crush ya
Tell you you ain't doing it right if you ain't copying
'cause they ain't got balls to vouch for someone Godly
And it's really all politics
A bunch of scared blacks
Worried massa might flip when he hear raps
About the revolution and black evolution
So they promote stereotypes and devil music
Then got the nerve to try and speak down on me
Why?
Because you gave your soul for a salary
Huh?
How do you sleep with the kids that you sacrifice?
Better hope that suffice in the afterlife
Hell is hot, hope you have your ice
And no backstage pass is allowed in the paradise
I have to write what is real like a Nazarite
'cause I love y'all yup that is right
Aight?
Hook:
They say love is not promised to you
They say love is not promised to you
They tell you love is not promised to you
They tell you love is not promised to you

They say love is not promised to you
They say love is not promised to you
To you
Huh
They say it never was promised
They tell you love is not promised to you
They tell you love is not promised to you

But you know they lied
And I know they lied
Love IS promised
Just go to the SOURCE
So what you got more money than me?
You walkin' round with your pockets swole
Meanwhile you ain't got a soul
So you can go to the bank as many times as you want
But we know what's up you are morally bankrupt (laughs)
I have true riches
I'm iLLUMINATED