[Napoleon Da Legend verse]
Many time Show loved to those who didn't loved me back
Bad investments for the cause u don’t get ya money back
Yo charge to the game and hope Karma make it boomerang
Was gossiping about me stayed focus while the rumors ran
Gave u the truth of man with all my flaws included
Beyond the music laid it out for all of y’all to view it
Amongst the movers and shakers, sharks and money makers
Who show us love but I remember funny looks they gave us
The industry be trying to shape us but we won’t have it
I won’t let you make my excellence be so average
Unloaded all my baggage then I took flight
All these played out formulas don’t even look right
I moved to Brooklyn and connected with my next to kin
Can’t dwell on pessimism I gave u the best of it
This my testament that thru perseverance
You can really break through any wall or interference
Was never in adherence with the stereotype
They talk a good game but many be too scary to fight
Had to divorce it altogether, once was married to the hype
Was momentary tired of chasing that high every night
It’s demeaning, people could be cold and mean
You an be trying to help and they be sending jokes and memes
It’s easy not to face reality and run away from it
Started following my gut, I don’t got the same stomach
Felt the pain from it kept a smile on my face
And it took a few years to get em on my page
Pre-covid I was finally hitting stages
Seeing wire payments coming thru from different agents
Different demographics, ages and different races
Fruits of my labor tasted better with some patience
So lucky and blessed for every breath I’m a honor it
I leave you with a message to decode like a ponaglyph
Took losses but in time? Overshadowed by accomplishments
But really seen my victory? Once I put my heart in it
Put my All of it friendships fell off
Was my apprenticeship now I let my pen tell all
This dynamic is a paradigm, new to ignorant minds
Invert the pyramid it’s time to let derelicts shine
Weakness being hid behind arrogant rhymes
DNA made in god form inherited mine
I don’t even have to write no more I swept floors
Cleaned bathroom lift boxes through the storeroom floor
Exhausted with my body sore, fighting demonic thoughts And
Alcoholic walks probably inches from a fall
But like I can’t go out like that, too much riding on me
I don’t care if I’m dolo I can fight an army
Left a legacy you can’t write off or murder
I tell em I made it this far, so why not further?
[Nejma Nefertiti verse]
Radiant Queen
Looking like a thousand victories
Oscar Wilde wit it possessing a thousand mysteries
Sufi kinda poet, Rubaiyat in my hand
Philosophizing equations not known to man
This a stepping stone not even half the journey
There’s levels to this ya’ll run in circles in a hurry
Any lifetime good or evil you couldn’t turn me
Ask yourself why a villain becomes a villain it’s discerning
My mother struggled all my life she paid the full price
They stole her recipe and wouldn’t even give her a slice
Took us out like the Wild West ate our wild rice
How the world turns watching murder on a device
So I write every word meant to ignite
You never truly won a battle if you never lost a fight
Ain’t that right?
We deliberate spoken into existence how we livin it
Passing you positive energy that’s now I give my gifts
You couldn’t tell me otherwise
I’m the prize
And on the mic I’m nicer than most of these other rapper guys
Freestyling used to be off the dome and improvised
You weren’t legit if you came through spitting written rhymes
Went from dimes to quarters to flippin bigga size
Bigga pies
Bow & arrow focus shoot a motherfucka in the eyes
Don’t be surprised take it further than you would think
17,000 years passed in a blink
Nefertiti flow make ya face look like something stink
I’m so filthy
Pint sized pharaoh god and I’m illy
What the dealy?
Early risers get the bread they despise us
I ain’t even go to sleep yet
And I ain’t even tired
You couldn’t comprehend the way I’m wired
My people greet me with respect I’m loved and admired
All attire do it flyer independent designers
No corporate
Come to their senses then they forfeit
What you gonna do with your power at the pulpit?
Talking bout ya hot songs but you on some dull shit
When I do it go hard emptying the full clip
I got reserves on me equipped with a full ship
Homies sweating my girl she sexy & fly
If you could get her attention I salute you aight
I’m too fine myself to worry bout that
Most of yah dogs really cats
Drunk in my face at a show do step back
Take a shower
Cleanliness is godliness
My power
Is enough to set the world on fire and make you cower
Drop it on ya head that’s the best shit Wayne said
Fighting for my life a couple times back from the dead
Worked in prison kitchens, sewing rooms, jail detail
Didn’t think I’d make it out alive still I prevailed
Still I Rose
Nothing short of mesmerizing
Emphasizing
The real in every word I speak no silver linings