🎤 epic V O C A L Z 🎤 vol.14

I Am From

Stand Clear (prod.by.Juno)

Well, here you have it! My first song on Soundcloud and my last track as a 16-year-old. I worked extremely hard and used the best of my ability to make this track very high quality. I hope that my listeners enjoy it and not destroy it. And best believe that this is not the end of my uploads, only the beginning. Feel free to follow me on Instagram/Twitter @crystanicmickey to stay updated! :)

Rap and Rollerskate (Prod. The Passion HiFi)

The record label, Broken Complex, hosted their first themed rap contest called State of the Union and I decided to enter with this track prod by Dj Hoppa x Silly Kid. Shout out to Pete Rodriguez of SoundCap Audio for recording, mixing and mastering under a tight deadline. I heard about the contest and got the track done within 24 hours. Hope y'all enjoy! Check the video submission: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pshZv5Q2WSc

Lyrics below:
There's a war going on outside, no man is safe
No man is safe

Teacher, teacher you say that you wish me well 
But please tell, why I gotta barely pass or always fail//
I try to excel, I know that you would rather see me fail
Dismissin to detention, when my life's a living hell//
Doctor fill me with prescription, police throw me in jail
Mother fightin addiction, pops stuck in prison cells//
I'm livid, telling myself there's no way I'm not a criminal
I'm King, pawns after me, I castle//
Out of frustration with mass incarceration, it carousels
carry shells from the sands and lands of our former selves//
I inhale, and breathe seeking some sort of inner peace
In a sanctuary city surviving the police//
I'm hungry, fighting for scraps in the belly of the beast
Writing raps to keep the peace and honor the deceased//
It's disease, and war on the poor and poverty-stricken 
Media don't pay attention, cause our lives are different pigments//

There's a war going on outside, no man is safe
No man is safe

Don't make sense to fight a war when there's trauma at home
How you represent the poor and still sit on a throne?//
It's time to face the fact, even though my race is black
I carry genes from a land I could never call home//
Slave trade erased all these names, times and dates
I can't replace your history without knowing my own//
I've grown, as a man, to expand my understanding
Didn't need a college or textbook to demand it//
My elders in the streets were truly outstanding
Sister went to Harvard after Hood College in Maryland//
That's true facts, what makes that story even better
I put my sister in a rap and now I gotta tell her//
Black excellence, check my reference, every letter
That spills from my pen only begins to get better//
How clever, even if I'm miseducated
I get to live my dreams and tell my momma that I made it//

There's a war going on outside, no man is safe
No man is safe

I'm grown now, thinking bout buying homes now
My girl teaching, so we building other thrones now//
Grew up in the struggle, now we standing next to you
Nerdy as all hell, ghetto intellectuals//
Still learning how to eat all these vitamins and vegetables
Mo' money but watch what tthe effects of stress'll do//
Not protected or removed, privilege wit these syllables
Won't keep me safe from the state and it's many tools//
There's plenty fools who step in the circle acting cool
But that's who these raps for, check who I'm rappin to//
You black and still alive, working a 9-5
Came from the hood, but the boardroom eats you inside//
It's time to support our people out here dyin'
I can't bite the hand that feeds when I recognize it's mine//
We all equal, one under the sunshine
So son shine, while I hit em with the one time//

There's a war going on outside, no man is safe
No man is safe
(c) March 2017

Broken Complex State of the Union Contest

W.hat's A.fter R.evolution (prod by DJ Hoppa x Silly Kid) Broken Complex State of the Union

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