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