[Shad]

Yeah

What if we can’t be this perfect genius

Thesis deans list virgin jesus

Shirt n clean crisp jeans fitted

And all straight from the seamstress

Seamless persons we all fall to pieces

What if peace is something more than appeasement

And power rules the world living peacefully is treason

Defenceless defeat in allegiance of demons

Peace isn’t pleasing the people it’s a belief in people above profits

Profits that speak for peace more often than not reap their fair share of beatings

It’s not naive in the least it’s hard fought

And the deepest thought in the peak of our reason is peace

[Shad]

Just another young lyricist spitting that unserious

It’s clear that conscious rap is dead we done hearing it

Heads filling that trap ‘cause we trap still

Trapping only stats still rap about how blacks kill black

‘cause no one wants to hear those facts still

That’s so 90’s that’s sending the facts

Still no paper in that reel no paper in that mill

Half mil plus locked up who want to listen to that? Chill

All we want is peace the poor and the rich

From the beaches to the streets

So we rather hear beats than the sound of the beast

Now these comics is prophets see the clown as he weeps

Crack jokes crack eggs for a feast

Got us all scrambled gotta beat ‘em just to eat

And it’s not taught which teaches us to repeat

The strong cycle of violence now it’s harder than peace

It’s not naive in the least it’s hard fought

It’s the deepest thought in the one thing that we seek

It’s not just talk when we meet when we greet

When we grieve when we leave the last word we speak

(Hope has a cost. Hope is not comfortable or easy. Hope requires personal risk, it is not about the right attitude or peace of mind. Hope is action. Hope is doing something. Hope never makes sense. Hope is weak, unorganized, and absurd. Hope which is always nonviolent exposes in its powerlessness the lies, the fraud, and coercion. Hope posits that people are drawn to the good, by the good. This is the secret to hope’s power.)