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Motivated Lyrics by Truth Universal

Invent The Future

2013

Verse I
I’m on target like the Howard Johnson roof topper
No big secret, that I don’t oblige the swine coppers
In my company you’ll never find a dime dropper
Nobody liable to speed dial crimestoppers
Crime alarming and snitchin’ never dropped the rate
Really protected me, well then I might cooperate
Capital motivated, all the duties they perform
That’s never gonna change without some radical reform
DJ Waht synthesized it, I memorized it
And walked the continent before the devil terrorized it
No auction price sufficed, (they) obviously underbid
Dealing with the (simple) fact, I came before Columbus did
(When) Van Sertima and others contributed to mental wealth
Had a subtle departure from my former self
Now I paint the picture like an African Picasso
That liberates a mind like Sankara did Burkina Faso
HOOK:
…underground + underexposed + underrated
Maybe indifferent, you could love it, you could hate it
Never outdated, can’t be exterminated
Obstacles and struggles, (they) just keep me motivated
Sybil:
I’ve been up, I’ve been down
I finally found some solid ground
Lookin’ back I’m so glad I made it
Obstacles and struggles only kept me MOTIVATED!
Verse II
Omo Shango…MC means Molotov Concoctor
Chopped these drums of EPMD’s Jane saga
Respectable when spittin’ over juggles holding (on to) microphones
(Cuz) I got offspring with double X chromosomes
This Joseph Technicolor Raincoat, you monochrome
Still choppin’ dusty samples to a clicking metronome
I own the culture so and so misappropriates
When I spit I keep it doper than an opiate
Right now if you’re walking out then you don’t relate
Hail up Oludumare, but still (with) no religious faith
In my backyard they stingy with the compensate
Rodney Dangerfield syndrome, I’m taken outta state
And usually out of context, and though he conscious
And beaucoup marginalized, the man well accomplished!
Avoiding rumors, breathtaking as a body blow
And strive to liberate like Nkrumah Osageyfo
HOOK
This coon ish, with me it don’t digest so well
Tyler Perry, housewives of ATL, I hate to dwell
Evident that bafoonin’ make pockets swell
Shoulda never gave you saggin money, quoting dave Chappelle
I’m motivated by my elders banished to a cell
For emphasis, added the voice of sybill shanell
I’m not alone, although a fixture in the scene
I dedicate this to all emcees in New Orleans
That brother Spitta, Lyrikill, Eles from the GPC
Merc, Jay Elect, Dee-1, also Nesby P
Y’all ‘cross the river, my Uptown Brown Clowns
Mid City, East, Gentilly and my Downtown rounds
Hope you not seated when this come out the DJ crate
Get up like Top mob, elle one, Harsh and EVACuate
Try to ignore it, but I know that you hearing me now
Striving to liberate like Cabral in Guinea Bissau
Chorus
Credits
Truth Universal

Truth Universal

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