KNOWLEDGE ft. Keith Phelps Lyrics

Yeah

Now I ain't ever been one for scholarships

My GPA was low like "wow" I promise it

I always had dreams though. Hmm

These alternate realities consumed my conscious and

Dad and Ma want me pursuing degrees

But I promise that i'm not built for these colleges

I want it so I go and get it homie, ain't no stoppin

Ain't no octagons around me

Got the Juicy Juice, you know it

Will you please prepare ya palette

Gone and savor the sweet taste

Music like gold when it's flowing through nitrate

No Zs , Don't sleep on me

I pray He breathe the breath of new life, No Zs

Lately I been on my junk

Yes I been on my mission

I been trying 'a write a little more

I really hope you listen

Future Mrs. now

She really pay attention

Lot 'a things in this life really changing for the better

Yes I'm trying 'a please the kingdom, Uh

Ma and Dad told me to get a degree

But I was like, No

No, No , No

I don't want to go

Go, go, go

Ma and Dad told me to get a degree

But I was like, no

No, No , No

But I know I need to go

Go, go, go

They say we all need degrees like thermostats

But I'm faithfully bringing heat, cold flows to match

Successful without a college, that's the code to crack

I done set tripped on society and it clapped back

Now it would do my mama good to see a graduation, yep

Now it would do the bank good to get tuition payments, yep

Maybe then we can all get secure job placements and

Salaries so long that they cause complacence, woah

Hated the thought of college, GPA in the coffin

Within the proper context it's a wonderful option

Like a Keith Phelps song or a flower that blossoms

Like a cool summer breeze flowing straight into autumn

Super social construct so proceed with caution

Pick your path like the finest plantation cotton

Told my lil' homie Brandon I respect his decision

Just make sure that it definitely furthers your mission

Ma and Dad told me to get a degree

But I was like, No

No, No , No

I don't want to go

Go, go, go

Ma and Dad told me to get a degree

But I was like, No

No, No , No

But I know I need to go

Go, go, go

Reality check

Anyway it goes you gone be in the game

So why you mad at the ref

Just take a moment

Let it sink

We all working men

Employee of the month

Customer service or sales or

You can take that same energy and hire yourself

Entrepreneurship

No prerequisite to mess with it

College is the only way, that theory I just rested it

Another reality check

Go ahead and grab the new testament

Two Thessalonians Three Ten

You don't work? You don't eat

But you need that education

Now education doesn't always mean a GPA

With student loans, a piece of paper when you finally graduate

Seek out knowledge for your dreams

Many income streams

And everybody in the building if you feel it? Just sing

Ma and Dad told me to get a degree

But I was like, No

No, No , No

I don't want to go

Go, go, go

Ma and Dad told me to get a degree

But I was like, No

No, No , No

But I know I need to go

Go, go, go

Ma and Dad

But I was like

No, No, No

Told me to get a degree

But I was like

No, No, No

Even though I need to

Go, Go, Go

Ooooo

Ooooo

Thank you, thank you

Thank you very much

Alright come on bro, lets go

Now introducing the class of Distinguished and Original Productions

Let's give them a round of applause

I'm only here because my mom made me

Who going first then?, Get em first then

Alright, alright here we go

Get 'em

Okay

Making my way to the centerstage, they see me

Grabbing my credentials the dean is there to greet me

Pomp Circumstance they playing it so sweetly

Champion sound

I overdosed on the wheaties

Hopped off the stage, they knew that they couldn't keep me

Opposite side of the checkerboard, now king me

Wasn't no hassle for me to flip the tassel

Cause don't nobody do it like Brandon J and Keith P

Graduated from the box, box, no lunch time

Enjoying all my fruits now my fruit need punchlines

Witty with the flow, get me green with croutons

I sold all my graduation tickets on groupon

Blessed with gifts and opportunity, shout out God

I ain't let society define me or confine me

I'm created to create, word to prophecy and prophets

Now they send me treaties like it's Magna Carta

Get me my diploma

Born May 10th, 1997 the day before mothers day

Out of all of my boys. He was my hardest delivery

He came out like he was ready to set the world on fire

One of his first performances

He was a bad stutterer but when he performed, he didn't stutter

And so his eyes lit up

And he said, I did it, didn't I

And so after that he started writing and performing and

Look at my baby now

Graduation flow in a robe

I'm speaking into your lobes

I never live by the code

I'm qualified and it shows

Bigger than all your prerequisites all without tippy toes

My purpose? I surely know when the flow is colder than snow

White

Sanitized my sanity with words from a Holy God

Dreams are nothing but a vision channeled from the skies

Pursue that passion with a hefty piece of humble pie

Die daily please make sure the enemy will never rise

No associate to the bachelors, (Uh) Masters

Actualized dreams catered in on a platter

Drank my salary

No cap on tap

Hors devours; stack cash like brie on some crackers

Got acceptance without validation from society

Bringing in the revenue and ain't nobody hire me, ugh

At the age of twenty-five i'm thinking 'bout retiring, ugh

Bars without the handle, devastatingly inspiring, ooo

Aye

Aye

Aye

Yeah I'm down

Now them pentecostal choirs back home in Indiana are like, Ahhh

I need that

Yall better sang

Yeah

Woo

Yeah

Oh my goodness

Stay in school kids