1: (K-Lash-Nek-Off) As lightning strikes and thunder Over the grey skies of east town Prophecy K returns from the Signified by the people's trumpet sounds Yeah, the system, it tried to me down But I been on my ting before was flinging guns around Blood, sweat and for years Feels like my career's been in the dumping Yeah, this is how hunger sounds and I'm the now Lash the lion heart, A.K.A. the man behind the iron For ten straight, I've been raising the iron bar Tryna breathe the life back into this art So why try and par? When you'll the same fate as that lion Scar game is fake; full of two-faced lyin' ras Who would sell their soul and just to climb the charts Yea, but me, I put in too time in the graft Refinin' my craft for labels to sign me for a advance Picture K-Lash, mimin' on Now picture Dr. Dre beats lash rhymin' Starks all fate and I got mine in my grasp They're all snakes, let 'em die in the But who what the future holds? These N.W.O. will probably shoot me cold All because the truth was You should I did it from the heart
I'm here, pushin' after several years I'm still here, standin' strong, never in I'll be still here, the dust settles and clears be still here, after the blood sweat and the tears I'm here, pushin' after several years I'm here, standin' strong, never in fear be still here, after the dust settles and clears I'll be here, after the blood sweat and the tears
2: (Lowkey) I do this for the happy ravers or the aggy haters I do this for the warriors and the Do this for those whose lives you never cared pronounce their names, their origins or their whereabouts Those brought up around and sadness Who adjusted and normality in the madness Fight the power I'm out of breath like Malcolm X You the powerful, I empower the powerless They'll play you on the if you rap about a Gucci belt But rap the government; you might as well shoot yourself Industry fairies say I rap about theories Just to hide the they lyrically fear me Got that eye of a tiger, the heart of a The of a lifer, my stance is defiant I rise like a phoenix, immediate the ashes My is inconvenient for the masses we are equal, I despise an imitation I for my people and die for liberation I stand as a visionary; some have got of killin' me To literally me physically like Aborigines Hannibal with the mask, an animal the bars I'm grappling my shackles, I channel it through my art Feel it in the ambience, champion, My life is nothin' but my pride is somethin' you can never take They I'm elusive or think I'm a nuisance I swear these major labels that I'm a stupid Keep your 360's you're convincing these dudes Like I'll give you the blueprint for my music I say that K-Lash, he's another lion Every hardship gettin' scared to my brother dyin' all of it with or without a big audience Through the blood, sweat and tears, I stand
I'm still here, pushin' after years I'm still here, standin' strong, in fear I'll be still here, the dust settles and clears be still here, after the blood sweat and the tears I'm still here, pushin' several years I'm still here, standin' strong, in fear be still here, after the dust settles and clears I'll be here, after the blood sweat and the tears