[Hook]
I heard my name, did you call me?
Did you speak truth, when you dug wounds?
When you spilled blood, did you say love?
When you promised the most high
You won't betray
[Verse 1]
I've been spinning around in
Circles
To enter the circuit
And get up off the surface
This music s*** is
Important
But
N***** treat it like the
Circus
Can't keep it
To the estate
Cause they've pa**ed
Habeas Corpus
And made the game
Go public
Now everybody corrupts it
This music s***
Was a gift
Until they turned it
Into the Biz
Now any "artist"
Can make it
If they're a computer wiz
We sell out stadiums
For "rappers"
Who can't write
When the coldest
And hardest spitters
Are spitting at open mics
I can't
See that as right
Because I perceive this
As life
And when people
Just make a mockery
That can
Cause more than
Strife
There's been a developmental gap
Somewhere down the line
Because as artists
We stopped progressing
I'd still take to the nines
That's why I'm taking my time
And y'all wasting mine
Fine
Place the fakes
Out the picture
To free space in my mind
Every Kodak moment
And meant to make it
Through time
I walk into the future
With one eye on the past
(The new Spiegel)
I hope I last
Longer than the last
[Refrain]
I've been spinning around in circles[4x]
[Hook]
I heard my name, did you call me?
Did you speak truth, when you dug wounds?
When you spilled blood, did you say love?
When you promised the most high
You won't betray
[Verse 2]
On to the next paragraph
Rhymes slanted
Like parallelograms
My cousin
He used to rap
But now
He sells it by the gram
Cause he couldn't get off the ground
Swear that n****
Could have been Nas
But he didn't get any nods
Cause he don't rap like Cash Out
And he wasn't beating the odds
Not that
He wasn't playing his hand
He just
Couldn't afford the cards
He became bothered by broads
Ended up having a son
She already had more
I blame her
For closing his door
The bottom line is
We aren't helping our community
When Future came to town
The present got surreal to me
I went to an open mic
And it was unreal to me
So much talent
In one room
That world wouldn't see
Every artist
Spoke with real pain
That I couldn't believe
We made each other
Feel free
And they gave me the strength
To put my heart on the sleeve
When I listen to the radio
All I really hear is a beat
That's why refuse to stop
Until The Real
Is on repeat
Because I need the world to see
That rap is
Way more than words
Of
Hoes money and clothes
We're just getting what we deserve
I'll be grinding my whole life
Until my family living right
And I can be strong
For everyone
Who feels they've
Lost their might
Reach the blind
And shine light
Until I give them sight
Walk into a room of lames
And spit the power of flight
I'm not here just to survive
There has to be more to life
And if
Music can heal people
My purpose has been contrived
That's why I say
Don't make a mockery
Of the reason I'm alive
[Hook]
I heard my name, did you call me?
Did you speak truth, when you dug wounds?
When you spilled blood, did you say love?
When you promised the most high
You won't betray