[Verse 1: Homeboy Sandman]
I step up in a room full of fakes
Pollinate the mood until it takes
Move full of faith
Feel the shift so swift it make your dome spin
Show you nothing fit better than your own skin
I’m a quality over quantity dude
But every number on every ball out the lottery tube has gotta be whose?
People wonder how did he choose?
I don’t force it, when I’m tested ain’t no falses, just trues
That and loose screws
That and smooth moves
That and win wins
Never lose lose
Hear the vroom vroom
Flower petal to the metal full bloom
I ain’t talkin' every once in a blue moon
Can’t nobody do it congruent
I don’t need a hit a marijuana just to clear the conduit
If there was a rock that hit the castle I threw it
If not then I’ma hop to it
In the pursuit of IQ
I left the cave I’m trying to handle all the light
So many rays so every day I gamble wit my life
Impassioned, fearless, puttin' out my feelers, trying to get a bite
I speed right up to 18 wheelers, pass 'em on the right
And still ain’t got the time to strategize
Whatever my location, Satellite
I data analyze
I’m here to shine a lantern on the lies
Illuminate a pattern for a planet on the rise
I’m tuned in to the lows and the highs
I’m tuned in to hellos and goodbyes
Devils sprung to action once they saw me gettin' wise, frickin' spies
"Just a minute king here's a wing here’s a thigh"
Obviously they's all fried
But look at how the time flies
That’s why I had to write it up for BKLYN Combine
Imagine that if everyone in Brooklyn combined
Just think how it would look to break up out the confines
And stop being compliant
I’m inviting all of y’all to come try it
We’ll all become giant
Could hardly trust in anyone we’ve all become biased
I’m reaching out to everyone of y’all that don’t buy it
To do your own science
How we ever gonna please the most high if we the most highest?
Hey
A the triple A to change the blown tires
Flame to light the bonfires
The truth is that the colonizer culture be the culture about the cash
Escape up out the cult and take the culture out the trash
The proof is in the pudding, you the woman or the man so do the math
For stitching up a gash
It’s more than entertainment, quit debating and complaining about the past
And wisen up and rise up to the task
Today it be the Sandman who’s relaying you the lay of the land
And the only thing I’ma do is free whoever I can
[Verse 2: Shad]
Everything I got is God-given
Gotta give it back
If I give my all, whatever happens I’ll live with that
Never cared if they doubt me
Cuz it’s not about me
I just walk devoutly…
When I talk it’s outreach
I am not your mouth piece
I’m the opposite
I’m knocking out teeth
When I kick it I’m Rhonda Rousey ...
Housekeeping!
The beats knocking loudly
Rocking crowds
He’s from Canada but hot as South Beach
Funny how they say they’re the greatest ever
Meanwhile I got more to say and I say it better
Say the truth and I say it clever
The kinda sayings they’ll say forever
These guys say whatever
Go on …
I say what’s really goin' on
Then I go off to keep 'em goin' strong
Cuz a lot’s goin' wrong
My people still worse off
And they won't even read our work or do a workshop
It hurts
Still my purpose is peace
A priest for the poets and a poet for the priests
Not just playing shows
When I’m on the road it’s to make a new lane
I wrote these lines for the streets
Micro to Macro
Quantum to Newtonian
I look at things from every level then step to the podium
I don’t play though, this is Plato’s symposium
I'm dope as opium
It’s dystopian
What I do to the game
I ruined the game
I'm Jordan with the flu in the game
Air Jordan
How I flew in the game
Air Jordans cuz they all feel defeat
Like the shoe in game
I’m in a shoe in
Never losin' the game
Big up UCLA Bruin
Obannon suin' the game on behalf of the students
We ain’t new to the game
Pay us every time you’re viewin' the game or using our names
This is playground hoops with the chains
This is mutual respect in a human exchange
Look
I'm the nicest with the righteous talk
I heard your goats like a flock and they twice as soft
After any line the mic could drop
I fight the ops like a Jedi
Mind tricks to strike and block
Watch my light sabre slice and chop
Like I tied the knot
I’m sayin' I do what these guys cannot
Grateful for the breath in our lungs
At the ame time grieving all the death in the slums
At the same time leadin' so the next can become
A reflection of the light where the blessings are from
Let’s go
Pure as Curry’s J with the curry flavor
Ya’ll in the king’s court should try to curry favor
I'm raw as Ol’ Dirty's Chambers
Don’t make me impersonate the Terminator's worst behaviors
Y’all should probably listen back with the captions
Y’all should probably tip your cap
Lift your hat brim
Only rapper out that probably isn’t cappin'
Just to try to lift sales like a shipping captain
Infinity stones
Infinity jewels
They keep droppin' as I flow
Infinity pools
I’m finna' make humility cool
I could probably make humidity cool
Shad