
Date of issue: 09.03.2015
Age restrictions: 18+
Record label: Mello
Song language: English
Requiem |
For all the ones who lost too soon |
One two |
One two |
Got my hands high in the air |
But this is not a concert, it’s a sign of despair |
No I’m not a monster, I’m just out of my head |
It’s like a jungle sometimes |
Make me wonder how I keep from going under |
With the lions and tigers and bears |
Enough to make a cyborg break out into tears |
It is not as it appears, they think we all crazy |
Just unruly niggas and tar babies |
But what if these fuck ass Officer Barbradys |
Was killing y’all babies? |
And the cost of your life was less than a dog’s maybe |
You’d probably call some of your boys that had an itch |
To go out hunting for that something pop up out that bitch |
Like, go ahead and drop it, nothing you do can stop it |
Please don’t knock it cause my pocket still in that Doberman pinch |
Anything from candy to cigarettes can get a nigga killed |
But I’ll be honest man I’m running out of shit to feel |
I ain’t tryna tell my biz |
But I got the blues and I watch the news |
Like nigga what the fuck I’m 'posed to tell my kids? |
So fuck your city ordinance, this is for the flourishing |
So hot in the air and that’s word to West Florissant |
You seem to keep 'em shooting, bring the chorus in |
For real |
I just gotta find a better way (x4) |
Gotta find |
A better way |
I just gotta find a better way |
Religion’s like a gang, I guess you judge me by the way I dress |
My name and sex and think I’m on my way to display a vest |
Since 9/11 I’ve been off the plane, detained at best |
My name’s Amir Muhammed, no officer I ain’t change it yet |
My father came in '76 not to get your job |
But to get a job |
See we ain’t made the A-bomb |
And we don’t want yo' yard |
Just a piece of heavenly bliss, they painting a rift |
One-sided, I think they cheat the scorecard |
I guess this is where I go hard or go home |
Can’t do that, cuz y’all done turn my courtyard to war zone |
So let me grab this weapon, and load it with no discretion |
Exploding on the poachers to prove a point that I ain’t messing |
I’m talking musical lessons, marching movements in messes |
Stop the news from using shock as a weapon for suppressing diseases |
Won’t deplete us, can’t compare the toe to the slaughter |
To the soldiers who follow orders, kidnapping all the daughters |
I’m here to drive your taxis, feed your families and your fears |
And kick a little knowledge in your ear |
If you ask me |
So please go head get at me if my words loud as your actions |
So we can get together and do something that’s impacting |
I think I found a better way |
Name | Year |
---|---|
Afro Blue [feat. Erykah Badu and Phonte] ft. Erykah Badu, Phonte, 9th Wonder | 2011 |
One Too Many ft. Phonte | 2016 |
Ongoing Thing ft. Oddisee | 2014 |
Lifting Shadows | 2016 |
I'll Be There ft. Phonte | 2016 |
Pnt ft. Ras Kass, Mello Music Group | 2015 |
Now Or Never ft. Phonte, Dice Raw | 2009 |
Like Really | 2017 |
No Future ft. Rapper Big Pooh, Mello Music Group | 2015 |
Ready To Rock | 2012 |
Heard This One Before ft. Kaytranada, Bosco | 2019 |
One Time ft. Phonte, Dice Raw | 2010 |
That's Love | 2015 |
Beautiful Mind ft. Oddisee | 2021 |
Celebrity Reduction Prayer ft. Oddisee, Mello Music Group | 2015 |
The Perch (featuring Phonte & Tor, produced by Flying Lotus) ft. Phonte, Flying Lotus, Tor | 2008 |
Lower the Boom (feat. Kenn Starr, Oddisee & Sareem Poems) ft. Oddisee, Kenn Starr, Sareem Poems | 2010 |
The Day ft. Blu, Phonte, Patty Crash | 2009 |
For Whom The Bell Tolls ft. will.i.am, Blu, Phonte | 2020 |
Counter-Clockwise | 2015 |
Artist lyrics: Oddisee
Artist lyrics: Phonte
Artist lyrics: Mello Music Group