The ghost of Mandela, my flows they propel it Let these be your earth and moon you consume every message As I lead this make room for mistakes and depression And that being said my nigga, let me ask this question
When shit hit the fan, is you still a shit hit the fan (one two, one two) When shit hit the fan, is you still a shit hit the fan, is you still a fan?
The ghost of Mandela, my flows they propel it Let these words be earth and moon you consume every message As I lead this army make room for mistakes and And with being said my nigga, let me ask this question
When shit hit the fan, is you a fan? When shit hit the fan, is you still a Want you look to left and right, make sure you ask your friends When shit hit the fan, is you still a
Do you believe in me? Are you me? Could I let you down easily, is your heart where it to be? Is your smile on permanent? Is your vow on Would you know where the sermon is if I died in this next 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 character and degrade me on every Want you to me like Nelson, want you to hug me like Nelson I freed you from being a slave in mind, you're very welcome 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? When shit hit the fan, is you a fan? Want you look to your left and right, make sure you ask you shit 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 army make room for mistakes and depression And with
Do you believe in me? How you believe in her? You think she gon' stick around if them 25 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 you share the same blood 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 is your skin when they turn you in, do you show forgiveness? What do you bend when dusting your shoulders from being offended What kind of den did put you in when the lions start hissing What kind of bridge did burn, revenge or your mind when it's mentioned? You wanna love like Nelson, you wanna be Nelson You walk in in his shoes but you peace-making seldom You wanna be remembered delivered the message considered the blessing of everyone, this your lesson for everyone, say
When 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 you friends When shit hit the fan, is you still a
The voice of Mandela, hope these they propel it Let my word be earth and moon you consume every message As I lead this army make room for and depression And if you ridin' with me
I wrote off before, I got abandonment issues I hold grudges like bad judges, don't let me 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 clarity, like how much you cherish me Is this relationship a fake or as the heavens be? See I got to question it all, family, friends, fans, cats, Trees, plants, grass, how the wind Murphy's Law, generation X, will I be your ex? off a baby step, mobbed by the mouth a bit Pause, put me stress Crawled rocks, ducking y'all, it's respect But then tomorrow, put my back against the How many leaders you said you needed then left 'em for 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
When shit hit the fan, is you still a When shit hit the fan, is you a fan? That nigga us Billie Jean, you say he touched those kids? When shit hit the fan, is you still a
The ghost of Mandela, my flows they propel it Let my word be your earth and you consume every message As I lead army make room for mistakes and depression And if you with me nigga, let me ask this question nigga
I you was conflicted Misusing influence I did the same Abusing my power, full of Resentment turned into a deep depression Found screaming in the hotel room I didn't wanna self The evils of was all around me So I went for answers Until I home But that didn't survivor's guilt Going back and forth trying to convince myself the I earned Or how A-1 my foundation was But while my loved ones was the continuous war back in the city I was a new one A war that was based on and discrimination me wanna go back to the city and tell the homies what I learned The was respect Just because you wore a different gang color mines mean I can't respect you as a black man Forgetting all the pain and hurt we caused each other in these If I respect you, we unify and stop the enemy from us But I don't know, I'm no mortal man, maybe I'm just another
and that's all I wrote I was gonna call another nigga but, it ain't a poem, I just like it's something you probably could relate to. Other than that, now I finally got a chance to holla at you, I always wanted to ask you about a certain About a actually, you spoke on the ground. What you 'bout 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 ground is the for the poor people, The poor people is open up this whole world And up the rich people. 'Cause the rich gonna be so fat, they gonna be so appetizing, You know I'm saying, wealthy, appetizing. The poor be so poor and hungry You know what I'm saying it's be like There might be some cannibalism out this mutha, might eat the rich
Aight so let me ask you then, Do you see yourself as somebody rich Or somebody made the best of their own opportunities?
I see myself as a natural 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 could get it to where I it. I went from somebody manage me To me the person that works my management company. I changed everything I realized my destiny in a of five years You know what I'm saying I made a millionaire. I made millions for a lot of people now time to make millions for myself, You what I'm saying. I made millions for the companies, I millions for these movie companies, now I make millions for us
And through your different of success How would you say you managed to keep a of sanity?
By my faith in God, by my in the game, And by my faith in all good things come to those that true. You know what I'm saying, and it was to me for a reason You what I'm saying, I was noticing, I was punching the buttons and it was happening. So it's no problem, you know I mean it's a problem but I'm not finna let know. I'm finna go through
you consider yourself a fighter at heart Or somebody that only reacts they back is against the wall?
I to think that at every opportunity I've ever been threatened with resistance it's met with resistance. And not me but it goes down my family tree. You know what I'm saying, it's in my to fight back
Aight well, how you think it take before niggas be like, We fighting a war, I'm fighting a war I can't win and I lay it all down
In this country a black man only have 5 years we can exhibit maximum strength And that's right now you a teenager While you still strong or while you still lift weights, While you still wanna back. 'Cause once you turn 30 it's like they take the heart and out of a man Out of a black man in country. And you don't wanna no more. And if you believe me you can look around, You see no loud mouth 30-year old muthafuckas
That's crazy, because me one of your offspring of the legacy you left behind I can truly tell you that there's nothing but goin' on So I wanted to ask you what you think is the for me and my generation today?
I think that is tired-a grabbin' shit out the stores And next it's a riot there's gonna be bloodshed for real I don't America can know that I think American think we was just playing and it's be some more playing But it ain't be no playing. It's be murder, you know what I'm saying, It's gonna be like Nat Turner, 1831, up in muthafucka. You know what I'm saying, gonna happen
That's crazy man. In my opinion only hope that we have left Is and vibrations Lotta people don't understand how it is. Sometimes I be like, get a mic And I don't know what type of energy push out, Or where it comes from. Trip me out
Because the spirits, we really rappin' We just letting our dead homies tell for us
I wanted to one last thing to you. It's actually something a good friend had wrote my world. It
"The is a prisoner to the streets that conceived it Its only job is to eat or consume everything around it, in order to protect itself from mad city While consuming its environment the caterpillar 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 within the caterpillar But having a harsh outlook on life the caterpillar the butterfly as weak And out a way to pimp it to his own benefits Already surrounded by this mad 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 Wings begin to emerge, breaking the cycle of feeling Finally free, the butterfly light on situations That the caterpillar never considered, ending the struggle the butterfly and caterpillar are completely different are one and the same."
What's your on that? Pac, Pac, Pac