Maintain

By Rise (Emcee)

On Risen

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[Intro]

Maintain. Yeah. That's a lot better. Sounds good


[Verse One]

Yo

They say I made it to the decks but I can't line the parties

The fans think I'm dead but they can't find the body

My name through the crevice is slick

Deeper than underground

Fame can envelop your shit and kill your under style

My stomach growl like ghosts around exploding sounds

Rip the verses down till you curse my birthing town

You know those cats, used to rap

Several years or more

Sayin' they back

You didn't know they were here before

Fame is the fable

The game with a label

Explosive potential

Time bomb, auto disable

This rap music

There's a bap to it

I got a knack foolish

You'll be on my rap toothpick

I'm still in the cut

In the audio vibe

Still ahead of my time

Born in 4005

Still according to Blige

Answer all of your cries

Speakin', I get treated like a desert water supply

It's Rise


[Hook]

It's not it used to, things change

I might start producing then sing

If I got my boots and my brain

And I got my heart, I maintain

It's not it used to, things change

If you think this music's insane

If you got your boots and your brain

And you got your heart, you maintain


[Verse Two]

I rap right, act like

Like I don't wanna be lords

Since last night, I don't like nobody no more

Nothing happened, I just thought about it

You know I'm rash

It's all over my music

Every track has a scratch

I'm painting pictures

You drawing with sticks

Like the pig that build with bricks

Said "Blow me you prick" (huff and puff)

Only my shit

Is totally sick

Hip hop is cursed

And she'll wake up by only my kiss

I'm the best in the history of being

So I'm detested by everybody breathing

I think that I'm the man

I think therefore I am

You link between the ape and us the modern man

Crafted like a sword that's forged by Hanzo's hands

Locked into a stone

The king of Arthur's land

I write/right till nothing's left

I fight till huffing breath

My light makes you go deaf

Now write my fuckin' check

It's Rise


[Hook]


[Verse Three]

Cause my brainstorm, Hell flakes

The pawn at the stalemate

The crowd full of pale face and jail baits and dread locks

I think the dead watch

The kid's lost the dead cop is

Probably swingin' ghost arms through us as we're walkin'

Talkin' never listen

"Caution a musician"

Was on my tag when the stork dropped me in the prison

Stop me or listen

You'll have to pick the latter choice

Like when I had to choose

For huge privates or a fatter voice

I get the itis from rappers I eat

Somebody tell me what's in this turkey that puts me to sleep

It comes out rude

I guess it's in my instinct

Size up the world

Checkin' how a ? blinks

Whip it in shape

Conditioning shoes

A lie is so polite, the truth is so rude

The youth is so glued

We don't know what solution to use

What can you do

When parents they might shoot you then sue

Maintain


[Scratches]

"Though we maintain the focus and hold the fort down"

-Group Home


[Hook]