KING DAVID
Gotta tell all my ancestors I feel like I'm King David
So my roots is like the Old Testament
So excellent, black excellence
Black artwork, black president
Bad precedent, black prophet
Like Black Mogul no got prescience
Seen it coming, I see the future
I manifest it, I got confessions
From adolescence, knew I was special
Knew I was different, so pay attention
Five years old, I seen the tension
Didn't need a message, mama knows that I saved her life
Don't need a question, don't need a sentence
I learned a lesson, I need the power
Another man put hands on her
I'll bring the flowers like none of my threats ever idle
I'm God's disciple, don't try and test me
Struck down with lightning, I'm all for fighting
I'm all for protests, but not for dying
Read Robert Greene, and art of war
My heart is pure, I'm not for lying
But if I die inside these streets
Turn on the news, my mama crying
Then what was me and mama fighting
These hustler ethics, you should pay attention
Respect the victim, I respect the shooter
Like Malcolm X, meet Martin Luther
Like Sean Carter meeting Mandela
I start a riot that's rather quiet
I speak to kids inside the classroom, I will inspire
Tell the truth in holy choir
Start enterprises for revolution, build institutions
Don't topple governments with no solutions
Write think pieces that seem facetious
This is my thesis, I will complete this
They never seen this, a black man look presidential
In Jesus' pieces, got MDAs and NDAs
Dressed like I'm in the NBA
I'm in the gym like every day
Turn on the news, seen my nigga
In a suit, almost catch a stray
But if that bullet go and stick
Wonder who would really be at the grave
Maybe loads at first, then as time passes
They all start to just fade away
We've been taught to die, like for the cause
But truth be told, I'd rather stay
Saved mama's life, and she saved mine
So now we got that debt for life
Both cheated death like more than twice
So now I'm on my second life
Lazarus
So my roots is like the Old Testament
So excellent, black excellence
Black artwork, black president
Bad precedent, black prophet
Like Black Mogul no got prescience
Seen it coming, I see the future
I manifest it, I got confessions
From adolescence, knew I was special
Knew I was different, so pay attention
Five years old, I seen the tension
Didn't need a message, mama knows that I saved her life
Don't need a question, don't need a sentence
I learned a lesson, I need the power
Another man put hands on her
I'll bring the flowers like none of my threats ever idle
I'm God's disciple, don't try and test me
Struck down with lightning, I'm all for fighting
I'm all for protests, but not for dying
Read Robert Greene, and art of war
My heart is pure, I'm not for lying
But if I die inside these streets
Turn on the news, my mama crying
Then what was me and mama fighting
These hustler ethics, you should pay attention
Respect the victim, I respect the shooter
Like Malcolm X, meet Martin Luther
Like Sean Carter meeting Mandela
I start a riot that's rather quiet
I speak to kids inside the classroom, I will inspire
Tell the truth in holy choir
Start enterprises for revolution, build institutions
Don't topple governments with no solutions
Write think pieces that seem facetious
This is my thesis, I will complete this
They never seen this, a black man look presidential
In Jesus' pieces, got MDAs and NDAs
Dressed like I'm in the NBA
I'm in the gym like every day
Turn on the news, seen my nigga
In a suit, almost catch a stray
But if that bullet go and stick
Wonder who would really be at the grave
Maybe loads at first, then as time passes
They all start to just fade away
We've been taught to die, like for the cause
But truth be told, I'd rather stay
Saved mama's life, and she saved mine
So now we got that debt for life
Both cheated death like more than twice
So now I'm on my second life
Lazarus
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Writer(s): Jason Nderitu
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