
Date of issue: 16.03.2015
Age restrictions: 18+
Record label: Substantial Art &
Song language: English
Mlk (Dream Big) |
Whether 395 or 704 |
Dream big baby stay steady on course |
I grace these peasants with my presence King Martin Luther |
The streets with his namesakes the perfect place to find a shooter |
A civil rights mover turning left up in a Cougar |
Watching the revolution on TVs took by a looter |
On fire like H Street, tongue twerks on a break beat |
History maker tell spectator to take seat |
Enjoy the experience of this social experiment |
Send shots at Cyclops; |
close the eye on the pyramid |
I’m too dope it’s no legalizing this lyricist |
Father MC and your baby mother’s the surrogate |
Hip Hop’s in my heritage, save it from the culture vultures and |
The poet poachers, still not a player though I’m dressing like the coaches |
Most of us fell victim, to well-placed pitfalls got my dawgs in the system |
The chocolate city now suffers from vitiligo |
The dream died on that balcony pray it wakes up tomorrow |
Back stateside on MLK riding |
Low in the whip look like no one’s driving (Repeat 3x) |
(Substantial) |
Whether 395 or 704 |
Dream big baby stay steady on course |
Mike King like the minister’s initial name |
Fighting imprisonment and those with wicked aims |
Who administer pain, but we navigate the baddest fate |
Like our ancestors did use our head to carry weight |
Many chose to move it so now they facing the music |
Misguided warriors can’t find their place amongst the movement |
So you know the guns stay shooting ‘cause the streets blind niggas |
Don’t see their a budding Nobel Peace Prize Winner |
Tryna' eat my dinner like what’s mine is yours… |
Really what’s mine is ours, need to combine our power |
Why shine for hours we can reflect eternally |
For y’all to take me seriously, they’d have to murder me |
No respect like the mascot in gold & burgundy |
But certainly spitters this ill belong in infirmaries |
Still dreaming temporary setbacks be deferring me |
But my Corretta know betta she ride for eternity |
Back stateside on MLK riding |
Low in the whip look like no one’s driving (Repeat 3x) |
(Substantial) |
Whether 395 or 704 |
Dream big baby stay steady on course |
Lost my sight at the podium, blinded by diabetes |
A diet with too much sodium still writing this opium |
Claim country in crisis gain control of petroleum |
Dreamt big as a kid, grew to be a custodian |
Mass media frenzy, beamers Benzes and Bentleys |
Before we party’d with panthers but now the venue is empty |
Still penny pinching while the devil’s Willie lynching |
Guess my brother was too poor to pay attention… Overstand! |
Baby soldiers taken over never be an older man |
Ain’t playing with a full deck, no one there to hold their hand |
So they hold the steel like they wielding the wrath of God |
Hoping for a deal for their skill as a rapping God |
…Hoping to give them chills with their catalog |
Or hoop dreaming ‘cause they got skills with a basketball |
But once they’re at the mall speaking to and for the people |
Will you follow like sheep do or take a stance against evil while we’re… |
Back stateside on MLK riding |
Low in the whip look like no one’s driving (Repeat 3x) |
(Substantial) |
Whether 395 or 704 |
Dream big baby stay steady on course |
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