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The One

from The New Flesh by Top $ Raz

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THE ONE

Sometimes I WAKE UP!
Thinking I’m Nat Turner
Like fuck a slave master
I’mm do what I wanna
Consider myself an owner
I’m more than a performer
Or backpack rapper that’s my city on my shoulder
Yeah! I go beyond it.
Yo! I turn bionic
From where the skinny die
But my mind is brolic
See my moms is crying
See my pops is trying
But only providing enough to keep us for dying
I’m at war with the gods for the sake of my tomorrow
You on amateur night
I’m down in Hades with Apollo
But they cannot pierce me my flesh is to hollow
They can only scratch me on the records or serato.
Surrounded by the fiends with addictions that they follow
Scratching on their neck, or scratching on the lotto
I used to want the money
But now I want the truth-yeah
You can have the paper but it’s yesterday’s news

Chorus
I got nothing to lose
And everything to win
See they trynna give me nine
But I’m waiting on the ten
And you looking at the one!
You looking at the one! (whoo)
You looking at the one! (whoo)
You looking at the one! (whoo)
Yo- I’m so close!
I’m bout to get the win
See they trynna give nine
But I’m waiting on the ten
I be looking for the one! (whoo)
I’m looking for the one
I’m looking for the one
I’m looking for the one

Verse 2
Sometimes I WAKE UP!
Thinking that I’m an angel
See when you that fly know the devil gon’ hate you
They may throw stones
Yeah, try to degrade you
But never turn your back cuz you know the streets made you
That’s how I make these songs realest shit on every record
I was made from the block my soul is a like a Tetris
All my people are starving like what the fuck is breakfast
So we just want some food give a fuck about a necklace
But I’m getting wiser switching up my methods
Getting better by the ten
You measure me in metrics!
Yeah I’m still here stuck in that Ocean Village
Where they acting like the romans
The raping or the pillage, can you dig it
Not the sentence but the grave
Think it’s time that I be brave
Cuz if I don’t work hard
Then the road cannot be paved
And- this is not the music for the ones
Who had it made
For the rough, to this day
My grandmomma still a maid, whatcha say?!

CHORUS

Verse 3

Sometimes I WAKE UP!
Thinking I’m Helen Keller
Blind to the light
But I’m soaring like propellers.
Aint hearing what you tell us
Aint buying what you sell us
And when you call us “nigger”
I know really that you jealous.
Yeah, I’m so close but I’m so far
I treat life like it’s no god
It’s so precious
You only get ONE
So I’m doing what I want
Cuz it’s all on me when its all said and done
They be looking for the light
I be grabbing on the sun
I was playing for the heart
Like I’m beating on the drum
At the half-way point another hundred miles to run
And you know that I aint stopping
Till I’m coughing up a lung.
Yeah! I go hard like a Spartan
I’m a man stand tall
Even when I’m starving
So in the heat of the night my stomack sticking to my ribs
You respect motherfucker you could call me Mr. Tibbs!

Chorus

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from The New Flesh, track released February 22, 2011
Produced by The Aqua League

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