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