1: (K-Lash-Nek-Off) As lightning strikes and pounds Over the grey skies of east town Prophecy K returns the underground by the people's cryin' trumpet sounds Yeah, the system, it to shut me down But I on my ting before Onyx was flinging guns around Blood, and tears for years like my career's been in the dumping ground Yeah, this is how hunger and I'm the hunter now Lash the heart, A.K.A. the man behind the iron mask For ten years straight, been raising the iron bar breathe the life back into this dyin' art So why try and par? When meet the same fate as that lion Scar This is fake; full of two-faced lyin' ras Who would sell their soul and arse just to the charts Yea, but me, I put in too much time in the Refinin' my craft for labels to me for a minor advance Picture K-Lash, on trance Now picture Dr. Dre beats rhymin' with Starks all fate and I got mine in my grasp They're all snakes, let 'em die in the But who knows what the holds? These N.W.O. soldiers will shoot me cold All because the was told You should know I did it from the
I'm still here, after several years I'm still here, standin' strong, never in be still here, after the dust settles and clears I'll be here, after the blood sweat and the tears I'm still here, pushin' after several I'm still here, strong, never in fear I'll be here, after the dust settles and clears I'll be still here, the blood sweat and the tears
2: (Lowkey) I don't do this for the ravers or the aggy haters I do this for the and the gladiators Do this for those whose lives you cared about pronounce their names, their origins or their whereabouts Those brought up around and sadness Who adjusted and normality in the madness the power 'til I'm out of breath like Malcolm X You empower the powerful, I empower the They'll play you on the radio if you rap about a belt But rap about the government; you might as well yourself Industry say I rap about conspiracy theories Just to hide the fact they lyrically me Got that eye of a tiger, the of a lion The of a lifer, my stance is defiant I rise like a phoenix, immediate from the My is inconvenient for the masses Though we are equal, I an imitation I live for my and die for liberation I stand as a visionary; some have got plans of me To literally vanish me like Aborigines with the mask, an animal with the bars I'm grappling with my shackles, I it through my art Feel it in the ambience, champion, My life is nothin' but my pride is somethin' that you can never They think I'm elusive or think I'm a I these major labels think that I'm a stupid Keep your 360's you're convincing these dudes Like give you the blueprint for pimpin' my music I say that like K-Lash, he's lion Every hardship from gettin' scared to my dyin' all of it with or without a big audience Through the blood, sweat and tears, I victorious
I'm still here, pushin' several years I'm still here, strong, never in fear be still here, after the dust settles and clears I'll be still here, after the sweat and the tears I'm still here, pushin' after several I'm here, standin' strong, never in fear I'll be here, after the dust settles and clears I'll be still here, after the blood and the tears