[Intro]
Check, check, check
One, two, one two, yeah
Yeah
You got to feel it (Sorry, uh huh)
Yeah
You got to feel it (Yeah, feel that, y'all)
What? How you feelin'

[Verse 1]
I was your typical white kid straight from the suburbs
When I would rhyme, I just stuttered
Hungered for this, my tongue twisted back flips
Just to spit it, pure critics all up in my business
It all started in the basement, lace the rhyme arrangement
Beats I prepared for the invasion
I never would a done it without Christ the subject
I know the truth, you can't touch it
Rhyming with a reason, ain't no time for sleeping
All my brothers emceeing, how you feeling
Come on

[Chorus]
I'm feeling like I need somewhere to hide, yo
I know the feeling of pride, I've been denied yo
All my people's emcees if you're feeling me
Open lips on the m.i.c
I'm feeling like I need somewhere to hide, yo
I know the feeling of pride, I've been denied yo
All my people's emcees, are you hearing me?
You got to feel it

[Verse 2]
All my life I've been seeking it, searching it
Reading in, working it, the whole world's cursing it
Versatile lifestyle, kinda different
Finger prints, hit diligence, rinse instruments
Chances are you don't know me, ye haven't seen me
Like TV industry puppets, in underground scene
Hold for a second, pause for a minute
Box religious lips if the vine rap ridiculous
Not the new hype, its true blue eyes, and white
Yes a hidden prototype, censored with appetite
Back stage I wrestle Hyde, he won't let go, I've tried
Manafesto, release the Dr. Jekyll inside

[Chorus]
I'm feeling like I need somewhere to hide, yo
I know the feeling of pride, I've been denied yo
All my people's emcees if you're feeling me
Open lips on the m.i.c
I'm feeling like I need somewhere to hide, yo
I know the feeling of pride, I've been denied yo
All my people's emcees, are you hearing me?
You got to feel it
[Verse 3]
You know the feeling when people ain't behind you
I know the feeling when they just straight deny you
Once you make it they beside you always try to find you
Strip you for your cash, and just ride you
The lifestyles of an emcee gone famous
Once he was nameless, now on your pages
Covers, stages, styles, contagious
You know his faces, receiving all the crowds' praises
So much straining, entertaining, hold my brain in
I just jump on the stage and start raging
Doing this for my people, lay down my ego
Know my steelo, harder than steel toes
Ill flows and concepts, I'm Manafest
On the mics righteous, sip and digest
Across the continent, I got no tolerance
For fraudulence, release rhymes as top secret documents
God sent the vision and I went with Him
Explicit business, full of misfits for the riches
Stick-shift the consciousness, souls and the hostages
Unless I got somethin' to say, I won't bow to it

[Chorus]
I'm feeling like I need somewhere to hide, yo
I know the feeling of pride, I've been denied yo
All my people's emcees if you're feeling me
Open lips on the m.i.c
I'm feeling like I need somewhere to hide, yo
I know the feeling of pride, I've been denied yo
All my people's emcees, are you hearing me?
You got to feel it