Quotations from Chairman Fred (feat. Nikki Jean & Bishop Edgar Jackson)

Lyrics

Uh
 I EXIST
 Spoken in a confident voice
 Can worlds shift in continent hoist
 Look under for the plunder
 A rich man's song that gets sung for a sum out the lungs of a stunna
 But life turns to a station and a hustler to a hummer
 Went from speaking and now not even sinking
 The game is karaoke 'til it tries to punish poke me
 Kinda throw me words slowly fade degrading in the foley
 Waving metal sheets make thunder
 Fool when I was younger; fool me when I'm older
 Fool me now, screw me down to the sofa
 Taking so much, drinking soda, eating vulture
 Tweeting vulgar, playing Madden getting fat
 And getting cultured with the quotes
 In the hopes people will get the jokes
 If it rains you will get the float
 But only if they're still building boats
 But your values system says you believe in sleep more than you believe in grinding
 Your values system says you are a consumer and not a producer
 That you're spending more money than you're making
 Why because you're a consumer
 You're reading all the books and you're saying everything the books are saying
 But those books are not in alignment with your values!
 And you're gonna go to the next level
 Your values are gonna have to change
 Uh
 Drunken Fist versus Praying Mantis
 Was it God's plan or man mismanaged to turn New Orleans to Atlantis?
 They lie in the streets to lambast
 The black land swam at like a HE MAN in a bathtub
 Fire! Cup up the bad blood
 Hope hand thugs can write after the lackluster backrubs
 Or half structured, or tech hubs, or wack love
 That's stacked as if chance in community chest
 God said, "Don't you ruin me yet
 Until I give them everything
 And there's just 2 of these left."
 Black bumper slow fades into a vista
 Rapid cuts a stock footage which freezes on a listener
 Give me love, lovers!
 I read it like blood color on the head of a flooded structure
 Can't keep the duck rubber under
 Fundamentally it's buoyant
 It rises like court rooms to swoon for your enjoyment
 Every single word you say
 Well you say it to me
 Well it stays with me
 I heard every single word you say
 Well you say it to me
 Well it stays with me
 Trap music meets trapezoids, fake his own death
 They roll rocks like asteroids to the crest
 Think outside the box
 I wrap a toy in a cheque
 Then watch a sissy fuss with a boy in a dress
 Mad at the world
 In a voice of a man, with a bag of a girl
 She just avoids the success
 It's what he said
 Or what she said
 Double entendre no matter how you play it
 Then he takes the sex tape and destroys the cassette
 And puts the ribbon in the sky like the limited of eye
 Then prepares to utter, what's been a symbol in its side
 Against the ticker take scene
 In a Silver Lake dream
 Sorta orders the lungs to unmilitate screams
 Shouts to a forged sun with imitate beams
 In a blue sky filled with pornographic strings
 Getting caught up in the trees
 I still believe in Jesus!
 Our purpose is to ensure
 That literature and art sit well
 Into the whole revolutionary machine
 As a component part
 That they operate as powerful weapons
 For uniting and educating the people
 And for attacking and destroying the enemy
 And that they help the people fight the enemy
 With one heart and one mind
 Every single word you say
 Well you say it to me
 Well it stays with me
 I heard every single word you say
 Well you say it to me
 Well it stays with me
 Every single word you say
 Well you say it to me
 Well it stays with me
 I heard every single word you say
 Well you say it to me
 Well it stays with me
 There was a man who wrote many things
 But Carlyle said, um, that we could not be ruined
 Because no lie could live forever
 William Cullen Bryan said, "truth crushed to earth, would rise again"
 And James Russell Lowell, made it more plain
 That we would not be ruined or destroyed
 Because he said that
 "truth, forever on the scaffold, lies, forever on the throne
 But that scaffold sways the future
 And, behind the dim unknown
 Standeth God within the shadow
 Keeping watch above his own"
 These powerful scriptures were also used by the man
 In whom we celebrate his birthday today, Dr Martin Luther King
 And Dr King told us to practice non-violence and the power of love
 Non-violence and the power of love has brought us thus far
 The agape love that we have for ourselves
 That we have for our people
 Is the reason why our people
 In this particular diaspora called, North America
 Have not been totally ruined
 We have not been totally destroyed
 We have not been exterminated
 So therefore, uh, my dear brother, um, Wasalu
 We thank you for what you've asked me to do
 And we shall continue to study to show ourselves approved under God
 Workman that needn't not be ashamed
 Rightly this dividing the word of truth
 And so at this time, in this city
 Where young men's lives are not worth much
 In this city where our people have been discriminated against
 And kept from the resources which we
 Rightly deserve as a majority of people in the city
 We are dependent upon the most high creator of the ends of the world
 That I call Elohim Jehova
 And we are dependent upon him to keep us from falling
 To keep us from being ruined
 To keep us from being exterminated
 And we thank, the almighty, for the privilege of being here with my niece
 Is to impart these words, and I hope it would be of assistance in this project
 God bless you and thank you
 

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Duration
07:09
Key
5
Tempo
79 BPM

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