Liner Notes
Chilling so much that I need a coat
Know I'm ice cold with the sh!t I wrote
A target on my back when you use a scope
But I'm protected with the liner notes
Got a cold world living with no hope
Peeps falling out when they see the pope
Millions treading water with no life boat
But the secret's tucked deep in the liner notes
When you live life trying to stay real pure
Look to the Holy Book just to endure
Haven't translated backwards, of that I'm sure
But it's ok, cuz love's the cure
From English, to Hebrew, then back to Greek
Words might get different when the truth we seek
But Hekau! true power's in the words we speak
Or you're stuck with a paddle up a creek
Gotta think back when the GOATs were kids
They channeled energy from the pyramids
Africa, Zulu Nation did the do
Right after Clive Campbell's b-boy crew
Whether in Shaolin or the Brooklyn Zoo
Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago too
Joseph Sadler, The Message
West Coast and the South
Chilling so much that I need a coat
Know I'm ice cold with the sh!t I wrote
A target on my back when you use a scope
But I'm protected with the liner notes
Got a cold world living with no hope
Peeps falling out when they see the pope
Millions treading water with no life boat
But the secret's tucked deep in the liner notes
Real songs hold the secrets, ya dig?
Raise up young minds to be big
When the system tried to keep us under
Steveland Morris makes us wonder
On A Tribe Called Quest, I question
What's the point of life, what's the lesson?
Listen to Butter written by Phife
To express my views to my future wife
Holla at Lisa Bonet or her daughter
Play Hypnotic by Tarik Trotter
When she tries to step to me
Turn to Rakim's Mahogany
If homegirl up and starts a fight
Can't Hide Love by Maurice White
Skip that Scarborough
Prototype, Andre Benjamin
Chilling so much that I need a coat
Know I'm ice cold with the sh!t I wrote
A target on my back when you use a scope
But I'm protected with the liner notes
Got a cold world living with no hope
Peeps falling out when they see the pope
Millions treading water with no life boat
But the secret's tucked deep in the liner notes
Life hits hard, gotta take it on the chin
Listen real close as I go all in
Black Lives Matter, but life gets darker
Remember Ah Yeah by Lawrence Parker
Got racism, poverty
Pick Tupac's All Eyez on Me
Sick of loud leaders that just cower
Play Public Enemy's Fight the Power
Feeling' kinda low after you fight
Then bump Kendrick Lamar's Alright
Wanna know why we need the Ankh
PTSD by Pharaohe Monch
Mos Def, Talib Kweli,
Ice Cube too so many more G!
What about you? What about me
Chilling so much that I need a coat
Know I'm ice cold with the sh!t I wrote
A target on my back when you use a scope
But I'm protected with the liner notes
Got a cold world living with no hope
Peeps falling out when they see the pope
Millions treading water with no life boat
But the secret's tucked deep in the liner notes
Know I'm ice cold with the sh!t I wrote
A target on my back when you use a scope
But I'm protected with the liner notes
Got a cold world living with no hope
Peeps falling out when they see the pope
Millions treading water with no life boat
But the secret's tucked deep in the liner notes
When you live life trying to stay real pure
Look to the Holy Book just to endure
Haven't translated backwards, of that I'm sure
But it's ok, cuz love's the cure
From English, to Hebrew, then back to Greek
Words might get different when the truth we seek
But Hekau! true power's in the words we speak
Or you're stuck with a paddle up a creek
Gotta think back when the GOATs were kids
They channeled energy from the pyramids
Africa, Zulu Nation did the do
Right after Clive Campbell's b-boy crew
Whether in Shaolin or the Brooklyn Zoo
Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago too
Joseph Sadler, The Message
West Coast and the South
Chilling so much that I need a coat
Know I'm ice cold with the sh!t I wrote
A target on my back when you use a scope
But I'm protected with the liner notes
Got a cold world living with no hope
Peeps falling out when they see the pope
Millions treading water with no life boat
But the secret's tucked deep in the liner notes
Real songs hold the secrets, ya dig?
Raise up young minds to be big
When the system tried to keep us under
Steveland Morris makes us wonder
On A Tribe Called Quest, I question
What's the point of life, what's the lesson?
Listen to Butter written by Phife
To express my views to my future wife
Holla at Lisa Bonet or her daughter
Play Hypnotic by Tarik Trotter
When she tries to step to me
Turn to Rakim's Mahogany
If homegirl up and starts a fight
Can't Hide Love by Maurice White
Skip that Scarborough
Prototype, Andre Benjamin
Chilling so much that I need a coat
Know I'm ice cold with the sh!t I wrote
A target on my back when you use a scope
But I'm protected with the liner notes
Got a cold world living with no hope
Peeps falling out when they see the pope
Millions treading water with no life boat
But the secret's tucked deep in the liner notes
Life hits hard, gotta take it on the chin
Listen real close as I go all in
Black Lives Matter, but life gets darker
Remember Ah Yeah by Lawrence Parker
Got racism, poverty
Pick Tupac's All Eyez on Me
Sick of loud leaders that just cower
Play Public Enemy's Fight the Power
Feeling' kinda low after you fight
Then bump Kendrick Lamar's Alright
Wanna know why we need the Ankh
PTSD by Pharaohe Monch
Mos Def, Talib Kweli,
Ice Cube too so many more G!
What about you? What about me
Chilling so much that I need a coat
Know I'm ice cold with the sh!t I wrote
A target on my back when you use a scope
But I'm protected with the liner notes
Got a cold world living with no hope
Peeps falling out when they see the pope
Millions treading water with no life boat
But the secret's tucked deep in the liner notes
Credits
Writer(s): Chester Starks, Robert Tyrone Hodge
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