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