[Intro:]
A: Alright, so like
We got—we got this...
N: Alright, alright so...
A: Nathaniel—
N: Me!
A: Tanny Singhz, got Amir Royale and Trav Rae right over there...
M: And Marquise the Cameraman boy...
N: We 'bout to k** it
Had to get ratchet real quick
Alright here we go...
[Piano Begins - Nathaniel]
A: Yeah. One, two, three...
[Dance Interlude - Travis Raeburn]
[Hook: Nathaniel & Amir Royale]
Oooh—Ooh, Ooh
Oooh—Ooh, Ooh
Ooh, Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh
Ooh, Ooh
Oooh—Ooh, Ooh
[Nathaniel:]
I'm talking 'bout stars
Dark stage
Spotlights
No facades
I'm talking about dreams and me baby
And we're tryna show you just who we are
(A: Inside.)
I love this
And I need it
And you best believe I'll achieve it
With or without you girl
T: What you got bro? What you got?
[Amir Royale:]
I got the looks and talent
But say that with avid admittance that I'm not conceded
I mean it, like
These are things I've heard repeatedly said in my presence
Guess they're a basic present
But that don't mean that I believe it
Much less that I'll achieve it in a shape or form
Please sir, tell me what's the norm I must conform to
Or is it just you I must perform for?
Last year I didn't dare to dream
This year it'll work out
[Hook: Nathaniel]
Oooh—Ooh, Ooh
Oooh—Ooh, Ooh
Ooh, Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh
Ooh, Ooh
Oooh—Ooh, Ooh
[Travis Raeburn:]
I'm dealing with dealing all in my conscience
Just tryna breed gardens all in my pockets
Don't say that my sense of morals is nonsense
We just looking for antidotes for the toxins
I started with debts but now I cop tens
You see its funny cause they say all this for money
But we really like the shine
They say its sweeter than honey
Uh...
And guess what?
They say we doing good cause we're superstars in the hood
But we just manifesting decapitated figures that we all put
Chasing a dream
Tryna make box lean I wish I could
We say we feeding kids
But we feed them things we never should
Let me build a synopsis
As I draw a map to the cracks of your mindset
That anything at all was never accomplished
That the world got lighter
And we all lost fire
So dark was white
And then we lost our color
And we enslaved the people that just looked like others
This is a letter all the way from the womb
Will I ever be able to live without someone's a**ume?
[Interlude: Amir Royale]
We are all coming together
And we're getting something crazy
I can't tell you anything but how we're...
So hazy and criminal
[Hook: Amir Royale]
[Outro: True Artists]
T: Alright, that was when you were supposed to end...
A: No, no, no, but—
N: That was hot though—I think that was hot
A: (scats)
T: And then you just come in with something s**y...
N&A: Yeah!
A: Then you just go in right?!
Yo, yo, alright. I love ya'll
Whoo! So like, ya'll got—just a little bit of a preview
T: Who's ya'll?
This sh** ain't going nowhere! (2x)
(laughter)
[Interlude: True Artists's "PATTERNS"]
N: One, two. One, two, three and...
(beat drops)
A: Patterns. (2x)
T: Patterns. (2x)
T&A: Patterns
A: Patterns
T: Patterns
T&A: Patterns. (2x)
A: And we don't even understand why we here anymore...
T: Word?