The first thing I'm recording in 2012 is a verse that I'm dropping on a collaborative project that two fellow Toronto hip hop artists are working on -
Fenaxiz and
royceBIRTH. These are the lyrics:
It really shouldn’t be
surprising
with everybody scared
to look inside they focused on what they buying
accepting implicit
values instead of searching and defining
when you perpetuate
the status quo, what are you defying?
let me break it down
hip hop’s something
real, you can embrace it
it’s gotta have some
substance to it so that you can taste it
content’s consumerism so
I’m taking issue
cuz when you’re laying
six feet deep, you can’t take it with you
every time I spit I feel
I’m firing off a missile
homing on your heart
and I’m praying that it hits you
so you can get
awakened to something that is bigger
than this brainwashed
life, got my finger on the trigger
targeting all types,
all peoples of all colours
my message is this: I
want ya’ll to stop killing each other
can’t keep it real
with yourself, how you gonna keep it real with your brother
feeling lost so I
turned to my mother
she said son, let ‘em
be, accept ‘em for what they are
save your power for
the battles ahead – you’re going far
try to let go of the
past, though it’s on me like a scar
just ‘cause you got
some shine don’t make you a star
now I ain’t tryna be
the type to rain on your parade
but just cuz you
getting plays that don’t mean you’ve got it made
from where I’m
sitting, your whole stees need adjustments
what’s the point of
music if it ain’t got substance?
