Purpose - Intellectual

I love vernacular, rhymes galore

Spectacular

Don’t care about the fame, for anyone that’s been asking her

I’m soul food, so the biters artificial

Their art is fickle and you know my art official

Influence of the pioneers pry ya ears

Mad heavy, but I’m feeling real light in here

Losing yaself is not how you find ya fears

I mean face ‘em

The first step’s to embrace ‘em

Grab ‘em by the throat, let the gun sling, and waste ‘em

‘Cause I’m hip, and I keep it on mine

Not in a literal form, y’all know I keep it in line

Studying prеdecessors steady keep mе on time

Dana called for unity, Lana’s light as a rock

Tsidi, Robin, Yolanda, mama, it don’t stop

Lolita, Kim, Inga, they all top

So Erica, Kiana, Rebecca, we won’t flop

The Frida Kahlos of this rap shit

Finessing words into images that be mad sick

Took me forever to be vulnerable in passion

Now I’m too high in the moment for me to pass it

That’s lit

We gotta keep it moving along

Faking messages, lames are being proved in a song

Polluting influence under influence of bongs

If they ain’t thinking for themselves, then you doing it wrong

Tell me, God

Where ya head at?

You got more bread stacked?

You think you writing my story because the lead cracked?

You think you taking my glory because I fell back?

You can’t even spell that

Dead that

Everybody's rushing and racing, no destination

Slow and steady wins the race, the best comes with patience

And then comes the greatness, I revel in such

‘Cause the ones that came before us gave us more than enough

Word

Hook:

(Aye, where you at?)

In the cut, calculating my moves

(Yo, why’s that?)

Tryna get it and there’s no time to lose

(Yo, true that)

You knew that, so sit back and be cool

Spit the truth, paint an image for fools

(True, but what's the purpose?)

To be a catalyst for the culture

(Is it worth it?)

Damn right, ‘cause these niggas are vultures

(Ain’t you nervous?)

Hell yeah, but I’m doing it scared

Fulfill your purpose, even in fear

Everything I do, embodies everything that’s you

Beauty personified, in light of what you’ve been through

Your depiction is important, and they forging the view

Now it’s fiction and it’s boring, and they soul is a zoo

They lacking substance, it’s limiting all my kinetics

I’m tryna show people how dope you are beyond aesthetics

There’s lack of expression in techniques and such

And an eye for detail is never saying enough

Man

Unless we talking composition

I’ll show the oppositon

We still exist and we have more than just a pot to piss in

The palette’s limited, I’m studying us

And every time we mix the colors, we keep muddying up

Damn

All eyes are in (Alizarin) crimson

Red from the fed-up ways, we still glisten

Yet so blue, they low (Phthalo), ‘cause they know that it’s fuel

Yet so true, they fold, ‘cause they know, that we rule

Art is life and it provokes the building’s former rapport

They gotta feel you every stroke, ‘cause natural order restores

So just let ‘em draw conclusions

I’m steady with the hands

And soon they’ll see a mural lies right where they stand

From yours truly

Just when you thought you knew me

Nah, you never knew me