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A Devil Gospel
02:25
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Call me black negro and a nigger too
Saying we the enemy but it's really you
Turn the culture to a
Prison feeding zoo
Repeat the image 'til it
Sticks like glue
No reparations when you build a nation
No recognition when you found the world
We focused on the money not the education
Think some of us are meant for a different world
Destroyed the Black Panthers
By the way
White supremacy
Let the KKK
Walk the streets to this day
Assassinating leaders like the CIA
Can you name another leader beside MLK
Dana chill out
Heck nah I'm not okay
Power dynamic our history being erased
Made Black Madonna white and try to say it's not 'bout race
Lie about the truth and then divide and conquer
Promote videos of violence so we can squander
And shoot him point blank as their excuse
Black on black crime we gotta find truce
If you want money when we together we cant be stopped
If you want love when we together we cant be stopped
If you want peace when we together we cant be stopped
If every gang came together and we own the block
If we knew our history we really own a lot
The patent system was made to legally lie
And steal
All the inventions that we got
Our communities would eventually get bombed
Can't tell me that the devil's underground
When I see him every freaking single time I go outside
The devil is a lie
Cuz we living with him
Make you think that heaven is outside
When your DNA is living proof
Praying for Jesus to return when it's really you
Gave birth out of sin
That's called lust
Not even married
Babies coming out the womb screaming Bloody Mary
Truth stranger than fiction scary
Finding truth until the day I'm buried
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Sporadic Thoughts III
03:09
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We all got problems that we tryna solve
They keep on coming not turning off
Success not greed so I can bless us all
Let me fly like DMX or Icharus before the fall
Let heaven enter earth
To see who's really saved at all
Give money like a gift like Santa Clause
Blessed are the good hearted in this Renaissance
Whatever's hard for me
I try to give it easy
Money is necessary
But it don't really please me
Will power over pleasure to see what it teach me
I don't care who you are
I don't put you beneath me
We all bleed red
You not underneath me
But the higher I get up
It's harder to reach me
Hierarchy of illusion to make it worse
Flawed humans tryna be the only god of earth
Remember simple times
When streets lights turn off
And you hear your mama call
It's been like seven hours
But it don't even feel
Like you even been out that long
Flush a spoon down the toilet for a snow day
But the toilet clog
Used to do it all
Never start a problem don't get me involved
Disregard a witness but I know what I saw
It'll take a lot for me to be at awe
Simply pay respect by taking hats off
Just my sporadic thoughts
Go from rapping to elegant speech like a president
My childhood is the precedent
Obsessed with words when the teacher taught me
About a subject and predicate
Compress the vocal till it's resonant
Don't need it polished
Just want to make it evident
That time is limited
And we working in the present tense
Don't give an inch
Cuz they take a mile on the measurement
We literally just met don't tell me I'm your brethren
Brother this and brother that
If you treat your brother how you treated me
I'm saying we ain't brothers then
Use you for a dollar then they'll throw you in the lion's den
Welcome to the industry
If you ain't independent
You either being used or in the streets
If I knew the truth I would've stuck to running track and playing football
My soul looking for something bigger
I take responsibility don't blame it on a figure
I did everything right except continue
If you hear me
I'm saying dont stop just continue
If you hear nothing else
Hear me when I say that
My sporadic thoughts
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Leviathan
03:08
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Fire breathing like Leviathan
Can you name a demon I'm not higher than
Need some better shoes to run miles in
Don't need a lot to get dialed in
Appreciate my space and the silence
If you wanna talk its in private
Always get the money cuz its necessary
But the loyalty is priceless
Don't got to be the richest
Just be the realest
The less you try
The more they listen
Like Jehovah can I get a witness
Golden child like Willy Wonka's golden ticket
Operation takeover is the true mission
How do I explain Christ is already risen
Don't need to focus to get the message
I know what you say before you end a sentence
Read my lips
I'm going going
Sticks and stones don't care what rocks you be throwing
My energy and message is forever potent
Put the money in the bag is how I'm approaching
Work my off
If you don't notice
Quiet for a second now you got me going
Make 'em feel my energy when I'm in motion
The apocalypse is here I'm not even joking
I'm not even joking
Like look around
For real
Tell me what you see
You excited for some money but don't know the quotient
Sometimes I think working hard's a little bogus
Like how he get position he ain't even working
Meditate at night
I'm stuck in lotus
Look at the clock
I didn't even notice
Manipulate the time when I'm really focused
Like a mutant in X-Men
Wolverine and Logan
Life will work you like we in a circus
I got a few cracks but I'm never broken
Mask off mask on like we back in Covid
No person to run to when your chosen
Said you know the answer you can't tell me nothing
In life, death is the only thing for certain
Egyptian roots but my last name Burtin
Ancestors were a blacksmith and a merchant
Jamaican chicken let me get it jerking
I'm not human or another person
I feel established as a Divergent
Go against me if you think it's worth it
This ain't competition
I'm just working
But let me tell you what you up against
Don't eat for 3 weeks tell me how it went
Look the devil in the eye but you don't repent
But this gift must be heaven sent
Right?
I hope so
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LyricalGenes Cleveland, Ohio
Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, LyricalGenes is an artist and songwriter, producer, entrepreneur, author, and actor. With a relentless message and professional attitude that promotes more of a positive message, LyricalGenes creates material based on his experiences. ... more
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