
Date of issue: 14.07.2022
Record label: Washington Classics
Song language: English
Debonair |
Yo', I’m gonna start this from the only place an artist |
Can paint a picture with sharpness and say it from where the heart is |
Regardless of all the darkness that surrounds mankind |
The corruption and all that’s heartless that surrounds man’s mind |
The greed that leads to deeds where people exceed they needs |
At speeds, mislead without any sign of fatigue |
I must proceed to plant the seeds and feed my creed |
Believe in something that’s bigger than me |
So I write for the mic, don’t write hype for the light |
I don’t need no boujie car to back me like Michael Knight |
I don’t need a chick in a swimsuit to convince you |
My music ain’t tinsel, I cling to the things I’ve been through |
So every bar is like a scar on my soul |
Yo my destination is truth and that’s as far as I go |
As far as I know, there’s nothing that can stop me, so carbon and copy |
They never embody the type of Tsunami that’s behind me |
A beat devastator, paint pictures with predicators |
Rewriting the rules of rap like a lyrical legislator |
Cos' when I put pen to paper, I never pretend to take ya' to a place |
That’s even greater, every time you switch the fader |
And twenty years later, I’m still here |
I’m still clear, I’m still with a career, I still care |
I regenerate like cells every seven years |
And still swear to bring you a style that’s debonair |
Listen to the beautiful compositions of these tracks |
This is Black Jazz, settle back and relax, this is Black Jazz |
Hope I got the sound right down to your taste |
Listen to the beautiful compositions of these tracks |
This is Black Jazz, settle back and relax, this is Black Jazz |
Hope I got the sound right down to your taste |
Many years later, but I’m still in the mix |
I’m gonna end this from the only place a friend is |
Supposed to send this and recommend that you take this incentive |
To blend this into your playlist, love it or hate it |
Educated or ignoramus, I bring that greatness |
Never paralyzed in changing my paradigm |
Cos' living ain’t pantomime, you’re trapped in a Babylon |
If you ain’t gone analyze, fantasizing instead of living |
With a vision that’s never vivid like a slain villain |
I’m never watching anybody, all that’s gonna do is hold me back |
And understand, see as a man that no one owes me jack |
Stand on my own two, and yeah I’m prone to |
And known to release the Hackney in me, yeah that’s zone two |
Come from humble beginnings, so never let my feelings |
Turn me to some egotistical being, that’s unappealing |
I stay making music, Blackcurrent Jazz and the Blues |
And Big Band, Latin and Smooth and Ragtime, Dixieland, Fusion |
Contemporary, Avant-garde or Be-Bop |
D drop, the beat knocks, crumble your Sheetrock yo' |
I’m still spitting like saliva from beat-box |
Avoiding any beef like I’m swerving a meat-truck |
So twenty years later, I’m still here |
I’m still clear, I’m still with a career, I still care |
Consistent, so I don’t make you wait for twenty years |
Before you get to hear me bring you something debonair |
Listen to the beautiful compositions of these tracks |
This is Black Jazz, settle back and relax, this is Black Jazz |
Hope I got the sound right down to your taste |
Listen to the beautiful compositions of these tracks |
This is Black Jazz, settle back and relax, this is Black Jazz |
Hope I got the sound right down to your taste |
Many years later, but I’m still in the mix |
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I Am / Quattro | 2015 |
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Back Around the Old School | 2009 |
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Still Dreaming | 2011 |