The ghost of Mandela, hope my flows propel it Let these words be your earth and moon you consume every As I lead this army make for mistakes and depression And that being said my nigga, let me ask this question
When shit hit the fan, is you a fan? shit hit the fan (one two, one two) When shit hit the fan, is you still a When hit the fan, is you still a fan?
The ghost of Mandela, hope my flows propel it Let these words be your earth and you consume every message As I lead army make room for mistakes and depression And with that said my nigga, let me ask this question
When shit hit the fan, is you still a When shit hit the fan, is you a fan? Want you to your left and right, make sure you ask your friends When shit hit the fan, is you a fan?
Do you in me? Are you deceiving me? Could I let you down easily, is your heart it need to be? Is your smile on permanent? Is vow on lifetime? Would you know where the sermon is if I in this next line? If I'm tried in a court of law, if the cut me off If the government want me dead, cocaine in my car Would you me a drug kid or see me as K. Lamar Or my character and degrade me on every blog Want you to love me Nelson, want you to hug me like Nelson I freed you from being a slave in your mind, you're very You tell me my song is more a song, it's surely a blessing But a prophet a prophet til they ask you this question:
When hit the fan, is you still a fan? shit hit the fan, is you still a fan? Want you look to left and right, make sure you ask you friends When hit the fan, is you still a fan?
The ghost of Mandela, my flows they propel it Let these words be your earth and moon you consume message As I lead this army room for mistakes and depression And that
Do you believe in me? How much you in her? You think she stick around if them 25 years occur? You think he can hold you down when you down behind hurt? You think y'all on common ground if you promise to be the Can you be immortalized without your life being Even though you share the same is it worth the time? who got your best interest? Like how much are you dependent? How clutch are the people that say they love you and who How tough is your skin when they you in, do you show forgiveness? brush do you bend when dusting your shoulders from being offended What kind of den did they put you in when the lions hissing What kind of bridge did they burn, revenge or your mind it's mentioned? You wanna like Nelson, you wanna be like Nelson You wanna walk in in his shoes but you seldom You be remembered that delivered the message That considered the of everyone, this your lesson for everyone, say
When hit the fan, is you still a fan? When hit the fan, is you still a fan? Want you look to left and right, make sure you ask you friends When shit hit the fan, is you still a
The voice of Mandela, hope these flows they it Let my word be your earth and moon you consume message As I lead this make room for mistakes and depression And if you ridin' with me
I been wrote off before, I got issues I hold like bad judges, don't let me resent you That's not Nelson-like, want you to me like Nelson I went to Island analyzing, that's where his cell is So I could find clarity, how much you cherish me Is relationship a fake or real as the heavens be? See I got to it all, family, friends, fans, cats, dogs Trees, plants, grass, how the blow Murphy's Law, generation X, I ever be your ex? off a baby step, mobbed by the mouth a bit Pause, put me stress Crawled under rocks, ducking y'all, it's But then tomorrow, put my back the wall How leaders you said you needed then left 'em for dead? Is it Moses, is it Huey or Detroit Red? Is it Martin Luther, JFK, shooter you Is it Jackie, is it Jesse, oh I know, Michael Jackson, oh
shit hit the fan, is you still a fan? When shit hit the fan, is you a fan? That nigga gave us Jean, you say he touched those kids? shit hit the fan, is you still a fan?
The ghost of Mandela, my flows they propel it Let my word be your earth and you consume every message As I lead this army room for mistakes and depression And if you with me nigga, let me ask this question nigga
I you was conflicted your influence Sometimes I did the Abusing my power, of resentment Resentment that turned a deep depression myself screaming in the hotel room I didn't self destruct The evils of was all around me So I running for answers Until I came But that stop survivor's guilt back and forth trying to convince myself the stripes I earned Or how A-1 my foundation was But while my loved ones was fighting the war back in the city I was a new one A war that was based on apartheid and Made me wanna go back to the city and the homies what I learned The was respect Just because you wore a different gang than mines Doesn't mean I can't you as a black man Forgetting all the pain and hurt we caused each other in streets If I respect you, we unify and stop the from killing us But I know, I'm no mortal man, maybe I'm just another nigga
and that's all I wrote I was gonna call another but, it ain't really a poem, I just felt like it's something you could relate to. Other than that, now I finally got a chance to holla at you, I wanted to ask you about a certain situa About a actually, you spoke on the ground. What you mean that, what the ground represent?
The ground is gonna open up and the evil. how I see it, my word is bond. I see and the is the symbol for the poor people, The poor people is gonna open up this world And swallow up the people. 'Cause the rich people gonna be so fat, gonna be so appetizing, You know I'm saying, wealthy, appetizing. The poor gonna be so and hungry You know what I'm saying gonna be like There might be some cannibalism out mutha, they might eat the rich
so let me ask you this then, Do you see yourself as somebody that's Or that made the best of their own opportunities?
I see myself as a born hustler, A true hustler in every sense of the word. I nothin' I took the opportunities, I worked at the most and degrading job And built myself up so I get it to where I owned it. I from having somebody manage me To me the person that works my management company. I changed I realized my destiny in a matter of five years You what I'm saying I made myself a millionaire. I made for a lot of people now it's time to make millions for myself, You what I'm saying. I made millions for the companies, I made for these movie companies, now I make millions for us
And your different avenues of success How would you say you managed to a level of sanity?
By my in God, by my faith in the game, And by my faith in all good things to those that stay true. You know I'm saying, and it was happening to me for a reason You know I'm saying, I was noticing, I was punching the buttons and it was happening. So it's no problem, you know I it's a problem but I'm not finna let them know. I'm finna go through
Would you consider yourself a at heart Or somebody that only when they back is against the wall?
I like to that at every opportunity I've ever been threatened with it's been met with resistance. And not only me but it down my family tree. You know what I'm saying, it's in my to fight back
well, how long you think it take before niggas be like, We fighting a war, I'm fighting a war I win and I wanna lay it all down
In this a black man only have like 5 years we can exhibit maximum strength And that's now while you a teenager While you still strong or you still wanna lift weights, While you wanna shoot back. 'Cause once you turn 30 it's like they take the and soul out of a man Out of a man in this country. And you don't fight no more. And if you believe me you can look around, You don't see no loud mouth 30-year old
That's crazy, because me being one of your of the legacy you left behind I can truly you that there's nothing but turmoil goin' on So I wanted to ask you what you think is the for me and my generation today?
I think that niggas is tired-a shit out the stores And next time it's a riot gonna be bloodshed for real I don't think can know that I think American think we was just and it's gonna be some more playing But it gonna be no playing. It's gonna be murder, you know I'm saying, It's gonna be Nat Turner, 1831, up in this muthafucka. You know what I'm saying, it's happen
That's crazy man. In my opinion only hope that we kinda left Is music and Lotta don't understand how important it is. I be like, get behind a mic And I don't know type of energy I'mma push out, Or where it from. Trip me out sometimes
Because the spirits, we ain't really We just letting our dead tell stories for us
I to read one last thing to you. It's actually something a good friend had describing my world. It
"The caterpillar is a prisoner to the streets conceived it Its only job is to eat or consume around it, in order to protect itself from this mad city While consuming its environment the caterpillar begins to ways to survive One thing it noticed is how much the world him, but praises the butterfly The represents the talent, the thoughtfulness, and the beauty within the caterpillar But having a harsh outlook on life the sees the butterfly as weak And figures out a way to it to his own benefits Already surrounded by this mad The caterpillar goes to work on the cocoon institutionalizes him He can no see past his own thoughts trapped When inside these walls certain ideas start to take roots as going home, and bringing back new concepts to this mad city The begin to emerge, breaking the cycle of feeling stagnant Finally free, the sheds light on situations That the caterpillar never considered, ending the struggle Although the butterfly and caterpillar are completely are one and the same."
What's perspective on that? Pac, Pac, Pac