if i donât get this in one take, imma quit rappinâ
the whole song, i swear to god
iâm supposed to be a professional
i ainât tryinâ to be one of them dudes
that make hundreds of new songs and none of them are good
some of âem are cool, but ainât say nothinâ new
runninâ through a verse, just for somethinâ to do
i wanna be the cat, that put the straw on the back
of the camel and send him to the chiroprac
i wanna write a line thatâs in your head all day
songs that make you say you never felt that way
like iâm tryinâ to give myself goosebumps, ok?
find the truth inside me and put it on display
many dedicated folks listen to me close
i open my inner soul and slip it in my clothes
some flood the blogs, some flood the streets
i donât flood nothinâ, iâm watering the seeds
i walk away from emcees offerinâ me cheese
to author a 16 and drop it on their beat
and itâs not like money ainât somethinâ that i need
thereâs a business side and i wanna succeed
plus i got a wife and a couple kids to feed
but if i sell my love, then whatâs left for me?
sometimes i donât write a lot
i know some folks call that writerâs block
i just call it my process
it comes out when itâs ready to, i guess
i donât wanna let nobody down, so
hereâs some new shit, you tell me how it sounds
i ainât tryinâ to be difficult or no shit
it just hurts too bad to try and force it
had a week off â¦
i flew out to seattle to go and build with jake
he can make a break that make the famous do a take
iâm hyped, imagininâ the magic that weâll create
i love my family but damn they distract me
when iâm at home someoneâs always yellinâ âdaddy!â
need to get away badly and focus
but itâs been a couple weeks since i really wrote shit
iâm strugglinâ, up late humminâ
pace around the hotel, the words ainât cominâ
wrote a little somethinâ, throw it away, fuck it
have an artist freak out moment and start bugginâ
maybe itâs the â¦, my fireâs just lost
iâm probably a fraud that got lucky before
if i let everybody down, then whatâs it all for?
lookinâ at seattle from the twenty third floor
cracked the window and swung open wide
nothinâ between me and the world outside
what if i decide to lean forward and fly?
they say thatâs the way donny hathaway died
such a beautiful life ended in suicide
maybe tryinâ to write was tearinâ him up inside
maybe tryinâ to write was tearinâ him up inside
i swear that tryinâ to write is tearinâ me up inside
i bet that iâd regret it, the second that i did it
wish that that instant i could continue livinâ
i pushed the window closed said âman, you trippinââ
sat down on the bed and wrote this one
sometimes i donât write a lot
i know folks out there call that writerâs block
i just call it my process
it comes out when itâs ready to, i guess
i donât wanna let nobody down, so
hereâs some new shit, you tell me how it sounds
i ainât tryinâ to be difficult or no shit
it just hurts too bad to try and force it
- :
- All the Beauty in This Whole Life
- The Bite Marked Heart (EP)
- Mourning In America and Dreaming In Color
- Us
- The Undisputed Truth
- Shadows On The Sun
- Rites Of Passage
- The Truth Is Here
- Champion
- Miscellaneous
- Mourning In America And Dreaming In Color [Deluxe Version]
- Truth Is
- Nardwuar
- RSE20: 20 Years of Rhymesayers Entertainment
- Rhymesayers Entertainment Label Sampler
- Alternative Distribution Alliance: 2012 Independent Almanac
- Mourning In America
- Mourning In America - Single
- The Bite Marked Heart
- CMJ New Music Monthly, Volume 146: April 2007