Wonder Brown - Benjamin Banneker lyrics

[Verse 1: Theory Hazit] Baby, I know I failed at making time for you It's hard for you to see I'm on the grind for you I put my life on the line for you Every time the beat drops, I rhyme for you And you don't know what Daddy doing I be touring, you be like, "Where you going?" I'm pursuing this paycheck, so you can stay fresh And if I don't, then I don't know when I'll get paid next See, royalty's a slow money In fact, I owe money I could be a rich rapper, but I don't flow funny Regardless, I don't gotta make records For my daughter, I'd drop the world in a second Travel for hours just to chill with you for one second Wish I could make up the time I was selfish and reckless If it was up to me, I'd square up and punch the clock And make time stop, I make time for you [Verse 2: Theory Hazit] Mama, you did your best at making time for me Couldn't see that you was on the grind for me You put your life on the line for me I appreciate how you never stopped trying for me And I ain't know what you was doing You were providing for me, I was headed to my ruin I was truant, skipping school, ditching cla**es, gave you hell If you didn't sign me out, you probably would've went to jail And that wasn't fair at all, I was stuck on myself I shoulda took the time to realize you needed help Cause you was only tryna help me be a man Raising three bad kids on your own, I was too young to understand Or even give it a chance, I was busy breaking curfew I'm sorry mama, I didn't mean to hurt you If it was up to me, I would take a time machine back to when I was a teen Help you fulfill a dream and make time for you Part 2 [Verse 3: Wonder Brown] I wish that I could say there was no love lost But the best music is made with subtraction, so cut off Guess you could say that these experts had worked their bu*t off Cause some words were [?] and snuffed off Or should I say that their olfactories were sniffing glue Stuck in their ways of wackness, ack ba**wards and wiffing too These words are playing wiffleball, we're playing chess That's a mixed metaphor for how they played us to the left (Ahh, we're standing in the judgement day) Now let me break it down while they're swinging to the fences I'm steady plotting my next one with multiple advances Diversify my chances, no limit to where I go Please understand your hearse is like wherefore art thou going Meant for art that art, question mark, question Luke Question John questioning me Cause best believe I am questioning you For severing truth from matters of the heart Yes there is no truth without you but without me then we're back up on [?] back and forth, into Pac yes, it was a fresh beginning Emcees spitting while the b-boys and DJs get to spinning But ask yourself, have we grown up enough to know The origins are important but only to keep us accountable Ain't nobody humble, especially you Ain't nobody wise enough to say they're unequivocally true And yes, you might be a beast but I'm animal Carnivorous with these raps when you make an a** out of what we do (Ahh, we're standing in the judgement day) [Verse 4: Theory Hazit] Lives are in the hands of many evils Portland school shootings to cops k**ing kids in Cleveland They claim that evil claim more than 6,000 d**hs Faster than your favorite rapper mic check ISIS: the new KKK, we need a new MLK or NWA Law officials blasting us from long distance Got me thinking, "Hmm, we shoulda hollered at you to borrow some white privilege" That Uncle Tom stepping only gonna get you so far Jay-Z ain't savin' nobody and Johnnie Cochran is gone Oprah's still on every last cover of TIME Magazine And we too busy paying attention to the wrong things Taliban bombing overshadowed by Kardashians Animals in cages are equivalent to Africans in America These coon rappers just shake they dreads I liked it better when hip-hop was dead