The Renaissance (2008) by (보컬) on maniadb.com

Sometimes I phase out
When I look at the screen
When I think about my chance for me
To intervene

And it's up to me to bring back the hope
Feeling in the music that you could quote

Not saying that I hate it 'cause here
I kinda dig it
But what good is a ear
If a Q-Tip isn't in it

So to stick it in
To inform your friend
Your boy from the hood
Is on that shit again

He has upped the degrees
And dropped the mercury
To splash on the mass
And look to upper class
And win the records spins
That Sometimes goes a win
A fickleness of friends
They sometimes hate again

They always bring up tribe on me
Could not suprive on me
'Cause this is my man's on me
'Cause this is my fams

And here's somethin' new
It's from row for you
So don't miss
'Cause you was tribe on the true
My due sue hassle heart
Don't stop
Your repertoire
As long as you could see
It's you who's staying we

'Cause life is filled with mer?
Pills and little pearls and shit
I'm fucking up
A man
I'm tripp'n up

But still
There is a boy
Them people get annoyed
Who's focus is on the feel
Before we get a deal

Cum on!

Think it if life can be a thing
That wilderness is wild to me
But a trip all the road
I see we're just the same
Think that we're not
Where we should be

Movin' on we came to
Prefect on the street
Let's take it a pause
And ensure we eat
And open an end
To criticize the boys
They're out in between
They loose all their boys
They can't keep it down
With Dominic and Brown

And Doe's of other shades
They joy up a way
But wait this frame to add
Like brai' and cap a Pad
And magazine debris
A shit
She gotta see it

I'm no different to you
I goes through it too
I dumps through the pages
I don't come a age

I'm not a D A T
I'm far from Percy
I roll the tumble weed
It's just a humble scene
That I present to you
Is just a Mister Crue
Who burrs a harmony
And sum a melody
Just speaks to where we are
And don't a hopes a jar
A soon we're walking in
A blim to just to say
A cum on!

Now that I know what is boy

For your epitaph niggers
Laugh, tricks that he gassed your ass
Siphon and not your cash
Seeing the door in a flash
While I stay enclosed
Walking out my clothes she said,

I won't trade him for nothing

You're mother fucking right
Walking this shit every night
Fin this shit? Hold it tight
Rina Filma on my sleeve?
Even when I have to leave
Cooler than even in the breeze
Do you believe
I was waiting for nothing
The one division leader
In the rebound new group of shorties
Off the post, going coast to coast
She on the hard ones, sub him out the game she saying
"No, he good, I mean"

I won't trade him for nothing

For no amount of dough
Franchise this man
Give him all the things you can
Think long term plans
He be bringing in the fans
Front page magazine, listen to this lady scream
I won't trade him for nothing

Cause she know what?s better her top and
Now a beckon on the flu
Like a running with the nicest nigger
Kinda sorta ?
When he's singing just to slaughter no matter the quarter

I won't trade him for nothing

The club house king
Batting practice Slugger swing,
Game time same thing
When I'm in about a minute
Holding the bat, as good as fat
She's out the park and coming back she?s saying

I won't trade him for nothing

And for ray you say you get it good
If you were the ball player at all
And the famous fall inevitably will make a call
Hanging memorabilia from you walls
This is why you can't trade me

I won't trade him for nothing
Now that I know what is boy

You can bet your money on a sure thing
Certain profit?s what it brings
Ceremonies of the ringer in the white house wing
Clear your mantle, the trophies I bring, do you wanna trade?

I won't trade him for nothing

Cause in the air there's a teammate you're looking for
Back-shoot and laughter ball ?
Leaves it all on the floor
Always looking to score
Pep talks in the locker room
This is why you sing this tune

I won't trade him for nothing

And then you reach can't make me sit out
I go til you get out
Her ball no get out
An all night get-down
I train for the pressure
And come out fresher
Equipped for the game
You know my name, it makes me better
I cheer for the whole team
Let's go for the whole thing
The ballots that you're holding
MVP voting
And I represent the sentiment you're emoting
And you say

I won't trade him for nothing

The physical ability with mental capability
Legitimately faces me outside of your vicinity
And I ain't really seeing me
Vacating this community I?m staying in

I won't trade him for nothing

I'm glad that you feel this way,
Here is where I like to play
Need to hear it everyday
They cheer for me, say "Olay!"
Wait a minute, "Andale?"
I don't know, well anyway

Sent you a message, sent you an email
Hasty decisions we may still prevail
Both needed breaks, we both needed to bail
Walking thru the corridors of my mind
The hideaways, the nooks, there filled with good times
Memories certainly yes they still bind
Still a common man and yeah that's for sure
Still a bankroll and yeah still couture
The madness, the thing we had was much more
Come back home, don't be out in the world
It's a rat race and place for a girl
And most scavengers have found the pretty pearl
It's for the faint of heart who never get enough
Gotta get tough, buckle em up, we call em duds
And we, and we and we ahhh

We gotta gettin up
We gotta gettin up
Today is nice come on we gettin up
Said we gettin up
Said we gettin up
Tonite is right come on we gettin up
Said we gettin up
Said we gettin up

Come over here baby, don't look so grumpy
This kind of lifestyle could be so comfy
We can start a clan just like the Kennedy's
You and I advance, certainly we can expand
Feelings that should never end
And you respect me like a friend
But love me like your man
No other could contend
Or we could be like Doves exposed 2 history
Like staying with each other with truth and chivalry
The things we go thru they shape our identity
Yes pretty let's do this all nite
Consummate this thing and make it alright
And when we cuddle up and promise that it's right

We gotta gettin up
We gotta gettin up
Today is nice come on we gettin up
Said we gettin up
Said we gettin up
Tonite is right come on we gettin up
Said we gettin up
Said we gettin up

I like to watch everybody gravitate towards you
Your magnetic presences make them come thru
The same way you got them you got me too
Now look at our lives so colorful
A wonderful spectrum, not 1 tone dull
Full of excitement and not 1 lull
See we had an understanding, oh yes we did
I'm bringing it back, I'm puttin in my bid
Have a couple of kids, have a couple of cribs
We like Ruby Dee and Ossie, Martin and Corretta
Doin it to death, no one can do it better
When we leave our physical our sprits still together
Come on now, here's a placement for your hand
You rockin with the #1 MC man
The #1 controller of right with the plan

We gotta gettin up
We gotta gettin up
Today is nice come on we gettin up
Said we gettin up
Said we gettin up
Tonite is right come on we gettin up
Said we gettin up
Said we gettin up

[Chorus]
Oh yeah
Well the bell has rung
Cause the time is here
Oh Yeah
We gotta switch it around
And put the thing in gear
Oh yeah
Not much is for sho
But this here is true
Oh yeah
I gotta do it for me
But then I'll do it for you

Major attraction
Trouble distraction
Scramble up my name and it still come action
Musics our number
Dial to sue slumber
Open up ya ears to the low tint of thunder
Created Queens native
Mixes automated
Want some fresh shit then we?ll correlate it
Busta is ferocious
I'm flawed and percosious
Carryin' fools out
Cause ma willy bodocious
Peoples don't blame me
Shorty's cant game me
Country Cherokee
But the city here made me
rock like coral
distinctive bout my hormals
Gotta lil grime
And gotta lotta lorals
The rhthym stay banging
My one two thingin'
Is eximplified by the cop left hanging
Percussion's our weapons
Drums are Smith and Wessn's
lyrics pop it off
Leaving deep impressions

[Chorus]

I feel what the beat does
People fuck wit me cause
When the song end
I become what the beat was
Same thing is other
No need for cookie cutta
The bar gets raised
Not ya average old gutta
For that I hit a chin up
B, ya time been up
Would of came sooner
But I overslept my get up
Now lets get in the middle
Girl I'll solve ya riddle
Cause we can be strong
And protect against the brittle
Ya groupies need to see me
Go and get the CD
I aerosol you all top to bottom like graffiti
?
Dudes say I'm plotting
When you here the music
Thus begin the mardi gra'n
Bribes ain't the issue
That's how I'm gone get you
Don't need a bill board
hit for me to hit you
The clear for ya mic its
Who always come the tightest
Queens everywhere
Demonstrating who the fliest

[Chorus]

[Chorus]
Wait
Its you
And at the end of it all its you
And at the end
Its you
At the end of it all its you
Its you
Its you
At the end of it all its you
Its you
Its you
At the end of it all

Looking for how I see her
When I finally realized couldn't believe it
I couldn't, even swallow
Had a lump in my throat my stomach hollow
I had a notion that things were fishy
But everything was fine so I'd be pissy
But when you wasn't seeing me nights you get in
That's when the snooping and shit it would begin
Where you at?
Where you going?
That's what I get when I pick up the phone
Not a hello or I miss you
Or the renaissance how does it do?
Suspicious ones go few
Can stress out your brain
In weighs on your mane
And helps you peep game I thought it was me
But then I could it see

[Chorus]

I couldn't take it
But the spell of love
I couldn't shake it
Even though I would discover
That there was somebody else
It was your lover
You gave me up
And managed to turn the tables
And all your honest words they turn to fables
The things that you would accuse me of
It seem were the things you were doing love
Get it? These things you projected
And I don't want to be affected
But when you get in love
Its never easy love
To make decisions of
You've defected
You were doing so much to try to pin me
Going through all my stuff but it was empty
Answers, that I'm seeking
Well it seem I'm getting close
That I'm reaching
And I was thinking I had no reason
Calling you a culprit it was treason
And the twinkle in your eye
It was kinda not for love
And tell me why?
We'll make a mends if you admit it
We can ascend if your committed
Your heart, is it in it?
If it goes for many days
Sweet love can decay from you

[Chorus]

and it, and it begins, he walks outside for a cigarette break
and thinks how many cigarettes does it take
he takes a long drag with the sun in his eye
he squints, he thinks he starts to sigh
sometimes he cry when he think bout his girlfriend on his side
she held him down, she made him better
fought the love, through the fucked up weather
and shes thinking about her life with no more work just being
a wife
But instead her love, she gave it to a man who fought against her lovely palns
so when she go to work, plus go to school
plus fight the love, she must feel like a fool
she wants the ease that come after pain
she fights for love, thats her campaign
we fight,we love

(chorus x2 raphael saadiq)
we fight and love so much sometimes I get confused of who we are
maybe if we just stop and chat and It will find out who we are

(fight) just a little bit
(love) just a little bit
(fight) just a little bit
(love) just a little bit more

we just keep on

(fight) just a little bit
(love) just a little bit
(fight) just a little bit
(love) just a little bit more

(verse 2)

and it, and it begins, he's off the ball
he left his friends, he aint home no more
he's in a place, that's far away
where he can't understand what they say
they say salaam, they carry bombs
in crowded places, and sause alarm
u're the infidel who's univited
but really an american boy who's slighted
it aint your fault, you want identity
so you join this big fraternity
you get to travel the world, its cheaper than college
and you get guns and you get knowledge
looking for your soul, and WMD's
you can't find nothing,cause its empty
you got your gun, and he's your friend
and he's your man, until the end
we fight, we love
(chorus x2 raphael saadiq)
we fight and love so much sometimes I get confused of who we are
maybe if we just stop and chat and It will find out who we are

(fight) just a little bit
(love) just a little bit
(fight) just a little bit
(love) just a little bit more

we just keep on

(fight) just a little bit
(love) just a little bit
(fight) just a little bit
(love) just a little bit more

She's a dancing machine

[Chorus 1]
Here we come yo
Here we come
Here we come yo
Here we come
Here we come yo
Here we come
Here we come yo
Here we come
Here we come yo
Here we come
Here we come yo
Here we come

[Verse 1]
I'm just a brother man descendant of the motherland
I fuck with blackberries and dimes and butter tens
Good on my right and shuffle on my other hand
Life is a tight rope I'm dyein' the balance in
And by the end hopefully I be the balance-man
A simple dude who can exude the talents and
I am the captain of the hot butter-caravan
Spread in a different look to charred and battered lands
It's outta function I see girls that can top it off
I hold mines while these cowboys pop it off
You just a movie-dude claimin' that you pop-soft
This shit's like cold grits without the hot sauce
This government seems to me like it's off course

[Chorus 2]
Come on come on
Let's move and get down
[Like it's off course]
Come on come on
Let's move (This government) and get down
Come on come on
Let's move and get down
[Ride with me, come on]
Come on come on
Let's move and get down

[Verse 2]
Your dubious style may rock for right now
But in the long run, you really lost one
Jamaica, Queens-man land of the tossed gun
It's never easy police nah sees we
Go through the checkpoints birds flip to po nine
I got a bad bird nicknamed her sunshine
I treats her so kind sweet nothings at nighttime
Into the right tunes we hit the right rhymes
I dig her fashion smash into my memory
And in the club shorty stays rear end of me
A humble dude and never will pretend to be
The type of artist that's desired for the industry
Came in this fucker me and I'm a leave me
And in the end B you would believe me that I'm a leave me
So what's a industry if the listeners will always stand beside me?

[Chorus 3]
Come on come on
Let's move and get down
Come on come on
Let's move and get down
Come on come on
Let's move and get down
Come on come on
Let's move and get down

[Chorus 1]

The people at the label say they want something to repeat
But all my people really want something for the streets
So keep hooking
Hey ya'll what's goin on?
So keep hooking
It's time yo word is bond
So keep hooking
Let's do what we must do
So keep hooking
Ah ah ah let's hear for
Keep keep
Who can make it up, dark ages here in rap
And the constant conversation has been let's bring it back
Corny rap style niggas they lack the pedigree
Deep waters they be in when they are just the manatee
Who me I am unaffected the Whale, the Hammerhead
The Magnanimous decision, unanimous, I am fed
What chu looking at, wait, I can help you with that
The Formidable, unforgettable painting Abstract
On the wall amongst them all from Tucson Michelle
A commodity, hot property, hears the morning bell
Guantanamo bayin niggas deferring routs
You soliloquies are trash inferring that you got clout
Homie, what's that about? You should revisit your scheme
Before the scheme it seems real it reverts back to a dream
Into that pea head of yours
You ain't commanding no tours
You seeing fee per deim
We seeing that in the doors
Plus a little bit more because she choosing the prettiest
Thou while it's wittiest
On the low we the grittiest
Taking the task, these barbaric insurgents
Who nursery rhyme niggas and play like they are crime figures
Man, what could give you such a naive belief?
There's examples all around of careers being brief
The Luke Cage of the loose leaf page
Run and hide, comin out in the yard
Bonafied to be hard

So keep hooking
Keep hooking
Keep hooking
Keep hooking
Keep keep
So Keep hooking
Keep hooking
Keep hooking
Keep hooking
Keep keep
As if we reading pressures higher
We should all be that inspired
Too just lift it and take it higher
Peep the name that's on the flyer
The Midnight Marauder, low end theoretical
Ring tone rappers rockin shades are forgettable
Phantom of the rap world boo
Yo you puss in boots
Energy's electric who's looking for a love recruit
High definition for the fortunate you to view
Challenges with riches we will put you on strict review
Time to turn the tide around
Comin with the tribal sound
Brandishing these microphones, we outlaws in the town
Corruption in the fool pit, we witness the jam
Acquisition of materials the evil of man
Trickles down to MC's
We combat the disease
With the good and hardy measurement
A real rap sediment
Degenerate genes and your bodies the host
You need to open up wide while we give you the douse

Gather round
Gather round
Gather round
It's the hottest thing
Gather round
Gather round
Gather round
It's the hottest thing

Life's filled with gray
But now it cars come in
Leaves fall away
Hip hop is playing again
And it's bangin too
Go on bang it for you
Don't stop this feeling I feel
I just wanna lay around all day
And feel the breeze
whatever that means
I'm so into your rich history
Tell me a story to take me away
Come and take me ooooooh
Come and take me with you
Life is better
Now that now that I found you
Life is better
Now that now that I found you
Life is better
Now that now that I found you
Life is better
Now that now that I found you
Life is better
Now that now that I found you
Life is better
Now that now that I found you
Life is better
Now that now that I found you
Life is better
Now that now that I found you
one step at a time
a man walked on the moon
One record got played
Kool Herc said boom
One minute young man
your time come soon
We waitin
it was prophsised you loon
We bang our drums
enter message through sound
We wrasslers
and we takin over your town
Hands sweatin
it's critiquing all this vibe
I'm gettin
Playlist setting
Cold Crush Furious Five
and the Masterdon
Cosmic Force Bammbaataa Jazzy 5
Lovebug Starski Junebug Busy Bee
Run D Jay LL Kane Biz Markie
Doug E Will Barry B Spoonie
Schooly D
Rakim BDP Dana Dane Ricky D
Leaders of the New School
Snoop Dogg Monie Love
BIG and Pac are up above
Eazy E and Bone Thugz
Fat and Skinny Boys
Cash Money and the rapper Nas
Large Professor Lauryn
Wyclef and Pras
Brand Nubian Diamond D
Ludacris and Jay
R I P Pimp C
Common Lil Wayne and 'Ye
Primo OutKast
where my nigga Dilla at
S V uh u
where my nigga Dilla at
And when you look into my eyes
it makes all these feelings rise
Makes my space a better place
can't you see it in my face
Life is better
Now that now that I found you
Life is better
Now that now that I found you
Life is better
Now that now that I found you
Life is better
Now that now that I found you
Life is better
Now that now that I found you
Life is better
Now that now that I found you
Life is better
Now that now that I found you
Life is better
Now that now that I found you
Life is better
Now that now that I found you
Life is better
Now that now that I found you
Life is better
Now that now that I found you
Life is better since I found you
Life is better since I found you
Life is better since I found you
Life is better since I found you
Life is better since I found you

I believe thus love, thus love
I believe thus love
I believe thus love, thus love
I believe thus love
I believe love

Fool, uh of the things we believe there's a whole lot of work
We should roll up our sleeves and we got a whole fun
When faces I can see that
Why doubt your plans 'cause it's all worth believing

We can make it worth do believe
That evenness trust in the dust and believe
That we can achieve that by tuning out negative feedback
Next he is, can he be concentrate to bring believe back

Into ourselves, into the world, into the rap gang
He's a miserable that means, that means emotion even likes me man
Man look we holding out for the truth
But we alone and aloof, we gon' hold for the proof

Man put it in believing, believe in believing
Seeing ain't believing, it's the feeling that we needing
Believe in each other, put the question to the system
They promising returns then question what you gettin'

We should believe in the reasons we existing
Time for renaissance to reawaken what is with it
Belief can confirm, make it is but it isn't
Sometimes I wish I had belief when I didn't

I believe thus love
I believe thus love

In the land of make belief, time to make unbelievable believable
Take a believe to the realm of the real
Believe in this shit, this force fed to the medium
Believe in this real when it's really a raw deal

Never disbelieve when you see a new miracle
Like ghetto children shining bright in Babylon
Believe in that, don't believe in stats to the contrary
Gotta be wary of them their carry on

People find belief when they don't find identity
Believe in your friends, don't believe in your enemy's
Mountains of doubt and disbelief right in front of you
Troops on the other side, what you gon' do?

Ooh, ooh, believe
Ooh, thus love, thus love
Ooh, ooh, believe
Ooh, thus love, thus love
I believe, I believe, I believe

My brother Shaka would have wanted me to do it like this
So raise the glasses for all the lost ones in your life

Dilla dawg and master wow, what up with Emmy
Is well to propel with the spirit of the mic

Even if you have one person with you when it's hard
That makes it easy, celebrate them let know just who they are

Because of these experiences, I have some control
On the microphone and roll elevating to the stars

Her's a demonstration, with the excellence
Reverse the pandemic that's filled with pestilence
Who has his finger on the post of the b-boy
Serving fees with the stream of a deep boy

Who's well connected, you must respect it
I'm dippin' with the spirits mentioned on this record
Hopefully this serves as motivation
The never sayin' docon-sensation

Put my stamp on it, the mic clamps on it
Mama I know let me put little thamp on it
Blade running through the day of agility
Staying gunning make way for possibilities

It's the capital Q, rap it'll do
What I want it to, it's like taming a shrew
Living life experiencing proportions
Knowing better, I've experienced distortions
And through the in and outs, of life's revolving doors

I'mma see that, I'm still getting more
Yeah, I'm comin' in, I'm gonna see my friend
To the top floor, seems it never ends
Heaven never ends, yeah, it never ends

It be goin' on, it's phenomenon, like a new born
Or a Stevie song, it be going on
Do ya fell it, do ya feel it, do ya feel it?
Do ya feel it, do ya feel it

Snare drum goes

My brother Shaka would have wanted me to say this to y'all
Don't lose sight y'all without giving a fight

I'm channeling well and Irvine, Mr. clean
He would have wanted me to say what I mean
And mean get it right

Dilla having you in my past has been a blast
You've inspired so many and forever will you last

And to my father yo your spirit is draping me
Never escapin' me, I'm happy that I had you in my past

Let's go
(Let's go)
Let's go
(Let's go)
Let's go
(Let's go)