50 YEARS Freestyle Lyrics

50 YEARS Freestyle - M.anifest

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The truth lasts longer than a lie I no go lose guard

Picture me rolling with a resurrected 2pac

In the world of refugees everything is helter skelter

Dead presidents for food clothes and shelter

We used to put these black thoughts on white paper

A paradox like a black church and a white savior

That’s besides the point like a 2 guard

Michael Jeffrey Jordan flow that be why I’m too hard

I came to bring to the pain a method to this madness

1520 Sedgwick ave that’s the address

I was on some chill shit these pricks moving cactus

Naija dey talk Oshe… like a rapper actor

Not every skinfolk is kinfolk

Niggas po’ pimpin like they been broke

Mind set is do or die

For the cash money sell their soul to the bluest eye

Every slum and village is the same that’s a jiggy lie

But I won’t harp on it like a young David did (aye)

Karl Kani used to be my favorite (aye)

Put these words on a placard

We go mek them mugu like LL in a gap ad wearing Fubu

When I’m alone in my room sometimes I stare at the wall

And in the back of my mind I hear my memories call

In 96 I settled the score

It was written I was so smitten by how he was spitting I wanted more

Trevor took over the airwaves it was rhymes galore

Miseducation was part of my education I’m floored

Foxy, Kim, Misdemeanor, Nonchalant, Bahamadia

Rza, Gza, Wu-Tang forever, five percenter fever

Get at me dawg I’m slipping I’m falling I’m finding my calling

The scars on my face show mourning

I’m a big boy now my currency u couldn’t reach that

A million of yours couldn’t equal to these 3 stacks

The lexicon is changing ha, money ain’t a thing

Now every time I come around your city

The philosophies plenty, is there life after death?

Get rich or die trying I’m not holding breath

I’m black on both sides I’m being baptized with food and liquor

Broken language that’s a trigger now let me bring it home

Pae mu ka makaa maka Philomena kpitingɛ

Native Funk Lords talking drums hum where I’m from

A chronic writer Dr’s orders do it doggystyle

Hi kids do you like violence shoot the pedophiles

Mood muzik

Blueprint not in print but we all use it

The Jermaine Cole’s, the Kendrick Lamar’s raising the bar

The Stogie T’s, the Wretch 32’s they paid dues

The A-Reece, the Black Sherif’s bringing reprieve

The Sampa the Great’s, the Lil Simz' murdering beats

How many execs wrote a check for Kool Herc?

Does the industry show a modicum of respect?

Celebrate, sure but we should reflect

Provocateur check my couture I’m fresh to death

I give my all till there’s nothing left

Festo the best secret never kept

U.N.I.T.Y what I’m bumping next

State of the union end of my address, Hip-Hop (Hooray)

You don’t know who you are

If you don’t know where you come from

No mystery in history tradition has been passed on

Amidst all the glitz, flash, cash and the fandom

50 years in my guy none of this was random

You no know who you be

If you no know where u come from

Yɛnkofa sankofa tradition dey pass on

Cedis Nairas Dollars Pounds and all the fandom

50 years in my guy none of this was random

You don’t know who you are

If you don’t know where you come from

No mystery in history tradition has been passed on (Soul food)

Amidst all the glitz, flash, cash and the fandom (Reasonable doubt)

50 years in my guy none of this was random

College dropout

One day it’ll all make sense

Knowledge reigns supreme

This is just a snippet of history…

50 years in my guy none of this was random