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The First Lyrics by Akay The Pharaoh

BAP Tapes

2016

I speak alive in public
I speak the gospel through the eyes of nothing
While I still supply something that's high in substance
The devil body slammed me
I got up fixed my shirt and tie and cuff-links
He told me next time I won't be so lucky
I promise, nothing he can do can demolish what I accomplish
I see the future through my own optics
If I have a problem, my vision is to solve it with knowledge
Four years of stupid high school
One and a half years of college
A profit-less prophet
Tell stories about my metropolis
Gave 'em the blue pill and begged 'em to swallow it
Happiness what they wallow in
They say the track's nice but I'm just stating the obvious
When I die I want a sarcophagus or a monument
They see that I'm different
They see my envision
They understand and catch everything that I'm pitching
They know that I'm gifted
I rap more than presents on christmas
I know that life is uplifting
I treat this life like a prison
Because I live behind these bars
These walls
Try to close me in, but I see far ahead
To the light
My head up is right
Because really, what's a star without stripes?
A wrong without right?
Or really what's a song without hype?
Yeah I'm a starving artist
Hungry to find the harvest
Hip-hop new Marcus Garvey
Trying to tell my story
Not trying to change the rule, I'm just paying my dues
You say I sound like Drizzy; we share similar views
I'm try'na shift the culture and buy my moms a building
And do it for the children, do what their fathers didn't
Not try'na tear you down
Just try'na make a sound
Just try'na make you smile
And make you have a little hope so that you'll stay a while
Yeah I'm a crazy child
But I just had the calling
The higher-ups put it on me
And told my "run with it run Forrest" to troubled waters
My style is so anointed
ANd you know I wouldn't conform it
To all the fingers pointing
To all the people hating
Its History in the making
I mean its all in arm's reach and I just had to take it
I rumble young man rumbling while our music fading
But I ain't tone-changing
They want me to pick up first chime when the phone ringing
I don't condone strangers
I don't condone anything minor; its all major
So turn up the volume, high, on your CD player
Or wait 'til I'm in your city boy and you'll see me later
They throw a whole lot of shade because I'm the aviator
If Hip-Hop was a female then I'm Captain save her
Path taking
Racing through
Singing "Glory, amazing graces"
Look at all they faces
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Akay The Pharaoh

Akay The Pharaoh

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