[Verse 1: ONE SON] My penmanship makes bloods and crips fellowship and uplift the ma**es
Across
The atlas they gave us ratchets for this wretched condition can't
Afford tuition so we enroll in the school of hard knocks where the
Origin of a valedictorian is a life sentence that's why teachers
Couldn't reach us I prepared this thesis for the world to grade it to
Get the hood rejuvenated hoping the sleeping giant awaken fighting the
Degradation but this elevation makes your ears pop God grabbed my hand
And say jot so my hip hop elevate the toxins like amoxicillin three
Droplets to open optics what was once microscopic became enlargen in the
Sound garden I water these flows until they grow to unbelievable heights
They can't believe what I write but it's conducted for those who
Suffered and rise above it
When the paint dries on my mental walls you can see it all my n***a see
It all see how I rise and see how I fall but I keep getting back up to
Stand tall when the paint dries on my mental walls you can see it all my
n***a see it all see how I rise and see how I fall ask me will ask me
Will I quit my reply is hell naw
[Verse 2: ONE SON] Decode the encryption before the shifting of the tectonic plates before
The sea regurgitate swollen primates I navigate to higher ground but
Some drown in my ultra sound so I journey through the birth can*l with a
Blessing a life lesson that's destin to save my brethren cause we headed
For extinction like the wholly mammoth to be banished off the planet
It's a must I stroke the canvas some can't interrupt the way I word it
They say it's disturbing it's to urban the hoods too ignorant for higher
Learning might think it's a sermon start turning a deaf ear but the
Ghetto Paul Revier gets beastie with words of harmony therefore
Soothing the savage beast they sit at the table of knowledge and eat
Some say I'm deep well dive in the depths for your listening pleasure
You guaranteed to find the buried treasure
When the paint dries on my mental walls you can see it all my n***a see
It all see how I rise and see how I fall but I keep getting back up to
Stand tall when the paint dries on my mental walls you can see it all my
n***a see it all see how I rise and see how I fall ask me will ask me
Will I quit my reply is hell naw
[Verse 3: ONE SON] No fallacy in my mental art gallery just the harsh reality of life you
Ask me what's the price for the portrait that left your mind in orbit
And took you on a voyage unknown leaving no stone uncovered made you
Realize you was stalked by buzzard and if the hovering continued you was
Next on the menu what's large is now meniscue so remove the protective
Seal unscrew the top take the pill
When the paint dries on my mental walls you can see it all my n***a see
It all see how I rise and see how I fall but I keep getting back up to
Stand tall when the paint dries on my mental walls you can see it all my
n***a see it all see
How I rise and see how I fall ask me will ask me will I quit my reply is
Hell naw