Yeah (x3)

[Shad]

Let's go

[Verse 1: Shad]

Warmest wishes to those that chose to visit the show

Frigid flow: my tongue might stick to a pole

What I'm spitting is cold, Michigan snow

Listen though I don't put on airs, I'm conditioned to blow

I'm a star, my sis called me that

Back before my posse rapped

That's when the older homies told me "Just don't be a copycat"

Ok, copy that, handed the walkie talkie back

This is real pride in my eyes, it’s not a cocky act

Look at us struggling and look how those at the top react

Not saying they're Nazis, I'm just saying how can they not see that?

It's still a white world, they don't even want that coffee black

No prime time, they don't even want that Cosby black?

Man, a lot of cats wanna see the best watch

Well if you want to see the best, watch

This is like Redd Fox mixed with a TED talk

Mixtape icon sitting on your desktop

Stop

[Verse 2: Shad]

I'm still telling my people to let that light shine

I never thought on the day I started to write rhymes

That I might climb and now it’s like I

Just may be Jay Z in my lifetime

Cuz oooooh, look at how I'm killing these tracks

I'm a vet but not the type of vet that’s feeling these cats

Where the real Emcees at? I'm dying I need to hear someone as ill as me, stat

Mmhmm, Shadrach on racks putting these raps on wax

I don't usually go this fast on tracks but I’m zoning you know it when I laugh and my hat's on back

I don't rap for not fat contracts, till the day that I pass on

I deliver every jawn like my last song, last class with a graduation cap on

BRAPP

[Break: Lisa Lobsinger]

I searched so far for you

I work so hard, find me

[Verse 3: Ian Kamau]

I take a gasp of air like I can't breathe

I want to sit beside her like I can't leave

I open up my eyes like I can't see

I just want to climb trees so I plant seeds

I walk forever looking for a place to sit

Feels like I'm just beginning though they're wishing I would quit

I'm trying to find my spirit while they're trying to find a hit

Been to the motherland now I search for the mother ship

I walk miles in shoes worn as torn paper eyes wide in the eye of the storm

I found peace in a mirror, that's me, I died as I tried to conform

I've been squinting, it's so bright but light is reflected inside of my skin

I've been searching outside for an answer like I couldn't find it within

[Break: Lisa Lobsinger]

[Verse 4: Shad]

This life is a hell steps from heaven

Fear is a jail I’m in a cell next to legends

Ask Kheaven what his view through these bars looks like

If you still think there's wrongs that these songs could write

Goodnight....

[Verse 5: k-os]

Yo, throwing 'em bows

Blazing these rappers dressed up in their fancy clothes

Everyone knows your reign is over cuz you chose

Material riches over the rap essentials

Ontario provincial it's not a minstrel show

Poet Allen Ginsberg flow really with nah know

Biddy bi bam bo rappers be shucking and jiving like Bojangles

Lyrically Van Gogh, I tango then eat a mango that fell

On a galvanized roof in Trinidad when I was a youth just coming up

Rappers be dumbing down, Kheaven be dumbing up

We living, what? We living on a prayer in the air, it's the Elohim

Shadrach, Kamau, we in to blast the scene

That's why we mould them, just like I told them

We leaving mics frozen cuz we are the chosen