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The Audacity of Dope Lyrics by Timothy Welbeck

No City for Young Men

2017

Hook
Imagine the audacity of this little flower/Who grew past the weeds, its sees shrivel into powder/And that powder, men think will give power/But that power will steal, kill, and devour
Verse 1
The Sumerians could find no other plant to compare with it/They called it Hul Gril, joy was its apparent gift/Using its euphoric effects more or less for merriment/Snorting it in proportion in their fellowships/Passed it on to whomever else would cherish it/It turned their most devout citizens to heretics/It had others drowning in pools of embarrassment/And now it’s toyed about by us foolish Americans/It has subdued the will of queens/And been strong enough to bring kings to their knees/When it contracts the diaphragm kings give back their diadems/Dust themselves off, sober up and then try again/It will attack childish whims, that desire comes back again/You feel like life is over, and you’ve died within/But it still goes in the nose/And that’s the audacity of dope
Hook
Imagine the audacity of this little flower/Who grew past the weeds, its sees shrivel into powder/And that powder, men think will give power/But that power will steal, kill, and devour
Verse 2
Talib told the truth when he was passing it on/We sell crack to our own out the back of our homes/We put crack in the songs and call them passionate poems/But when the passion is gone, all the attraction is gone/Then we’ve just got crack in the songs/And we’re calling it rap music/But Kanye got it right when he called it Crack Music/But we should change the name to trap music, because we use bars and hooks to trap you kids/And you study Jay for a path to follow/Knowing the only Coke you’ll ever hold comes in a plastic bottle/You want to be a Big Boi like you hung out with Andre/Then end of up more traits than that commercial with LeBron James/First you’re thugging and hustling, then you’re pretty and clean/Then you’re toting that white, but you don’t know what that means/You think you’re an example because you’re selling the man’s dro’/Posted up on the block like you’re trying to be a lamppost
Hook
Verse 3
You missed it, you don’t get it, you’re not getting the plot/The goal of people on the block is to be off the block/So being on the block doesn’t end up being your job/They want you in prison after you’re smitten by cops/So in all of your getting, all that your getting is robbed/That’s why they’re giving us work, they’re not giving us jobs/The war on drugs is a war on us/We don’t send boats across the coast to send coke from Venezuela/But they invade us/Telling us we stay buzzed, then arrest us for the same drugs they gave us/And it will make you poison your own/Turn around and gloat about it songs/And it’ll turn kings to fiends who weigh they’re life on triple beams/And when hope erodes, it will go in the nose/And that’s the audacity of dope
Hook
Imagine the audacity of this little flower/Who grew past the weeds, its sees shrivel into powder/And that powder, men think will give power/But that power will steal, kill, and devour
(repeat)
Credits
Timothy Welbeck

Timothy Welbeck

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