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One Mic
- [Verse 1]
- All I need is one mic, one beat, and one stage
- I got the lyrics to describe your life in one page
- I need the pen and paper, turn into the new Andre
- Anger management, I got enough rage
- After I grab the mic, have all that rage residual
- 'less I bottle it enough to kill some individuals
- Stop me now, already playing all sorts of visuals
- The scenes on the news today are unforgivable
- These stage lights, I want it, these lyrics I can't get enough
- You'd think I'm Iggy's Quentin Miller the way I wanna spit em up
- I be a Big Apple turned Mini Apple (Minneapol) boy
- Violence is wild and it makes the city fragile, boy
- I bet you wanting me lost in that mob mentality
- Like that's what I gotta do when cops lacking legality
- Like I'm s'posed spray bullets of the highest lethality
- Have violent thoughts in my cranium and make that a reality
- Nah, really the brothers needa stop packing the chrome
- If you think violence solves you need a smack in the dome
- If you ain't helping out our streets, get back in the home
- We ain't destroying an empire by attacking the throne
- Don't shoot the coppers, put your hands up
- The reason shouldn't be to harm coppers when we stand up
- These cops scared of a man down, they oughta man up
- You understand my metaphors, understand us
- [Hook]
- Cuz all I need is one mic...
- All I need is one mic...
- All I need is one mic...
- All I need is one mic...
- [Verse 2]
- All I need is one mic, one pen, and the paper
- I ain't religious, but this the time for our prayers
- This situation is deep, cops be pulling out the razors
- Deep like mama on a death bed and you can't even face her
- This situation getting bigger, I can't even face it
- Cop killings be doing more numbers than the matrix
- And I oughta address what y'all do to the natives
- But for now, y'all got us hiding in our basements
- I'm over exaggerating, but sometimes I wonder
- How far would they take it from a black man's single blunder
- This simple like Yin and Yang, I go above and I go under
- Don't you know, I am the sun and I am the thunder
- I ain't fighting no dragon with all sorts of immunities
- All I'm saying, you attacking gets us killed brutally
- At the end of the day, I at least want some unity
- I gotta make a move, I do this for my community
- I'm preaching the truth, with it I destroyed cyphers
- A bag of a few ounces, then employed lighters
- I write better floating, that's how ya boy wired
- I'm nothing but a voiced writer, instrumental joyrider
- [Hook]
- [Verse 3]
- Tainted citizens hold triggers at cops, ready to pull it
- I'm killing racist coppers mentally, lyrical bullets
- Really I'm foolish, really I wouldn't
- Self claimed king turned mortal man, learned to cool it
- I'm calling out your flaws, challenging you and your laws
- Innocent bunny with claws, environmental boss
- Black boy playing squash, these stereotypers lost
- Used to do it for the props, now I do it for the cause
- It's a vicious cycle, too, system got it well planned
- So homies firing at coppers with these shells, grand
- If you seen what I been through, I gotta be a quell man
- Kids held triggers replacing mommies who never held hands
- Never knew mama's skin, just the skin of metal
- No comfort and protection in mama playing devil
- Found just what they needed in that thirty eight special
- Over his years, killed a hundred, made thirty eight mental
- I ain't justifying murder, simply explaining insanity
- Race in America, question the humanity
- Used to hate this skin, now I got all this vanity
- Listen to me on the mic, cuz I demanded we
- Stand up, we done reached far in accomplishments
- In the very least, you could acknowledge it
- It's a dream and considering, I know we can be incompetent
- I ain't satisfied with our situation, now follow this
- [Outro]
- All I need is one mic... I just dream of no more racism
- All I need is one mic... no going to bed at night to gunfire
- All I need is one mic... We don't need none of that
- So all I need is one mic... Hear me, now
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