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diff --git a/ncmpcpp/lyrics/Kendrick Lamar - Mortal Man.txt b/ncmpcpp/lyrics/Kendrick Lamar - Mortal Man.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..71fa146 --- /dev/null +++ b/ncmpcpp/lyrics/Kendrick Lamar - Mortal Man.txt @@ -0,0 +1,256 @@ +The ghost of Mandela, hope my flows they propel it +Let these words be your earth and moon +You consume every message +As I lead this army make room for mistakes and depression +And with that being said my nigga, let me ask this question: + +When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan? +When shit hit the fan (one two, one two) +When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan? +When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan? + +The ghost of Mandela, hope my flows they propel it +Let these words be your earth and moon +You consume every message +As I lead this army make room for mistakes and depression +And with that being said my nigga, let me ask this question: + +When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan? +When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan? +Want you look to your left and right, make sure you ask your friends +When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan? + +Do you believe in me? Are you deceiving me? +Could I let you down easily, is your heart where it need to be? +Is your smile on permanent? Is your vow on lifetime? +Would you know where the sermon is if I died in this next line? +If I'm tried in a court of law, if the industry cut me off +If the government want me dead, plant cocaine in my car +Would you judge me a drug-head or see me as K. Lamar +Or question my character and degrade me on every blog +Want you to love me like Nelson, want you to hug me like Nelson +I freed you from being a slave in your mind, you're very welcome +You tell me my song is more than a song, it's surely a blessing +But a prophet ain't a prophet til they ask you this question: + +When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan? +When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan? +Want you look to your left and right, make sure you ask your friends +When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan? + +The ghost of Mandela, hope my flows they propel it +Let my words be your earth and moon you consume every message +As I lead this army make room for mistakes and depression +And with that + +Do you believe in me? How much you believe in her? +You think she gon' stick around if them 25 years occur? +You think he can hold you down when you down behind bars hurt? +You think y'all on common ground if you promise to be the first? Can you be immortalised without your life being expired? +Even though you share the same blood is it worth the time? +Like who got your best interest? +Like how much are you dependent? +How clutch are the people that say they love you? +And who pretending? +How tough is your skin when they turn you in? +Do you show forgiveness? +What brush do you bend when dusting your shoulders from being offended? +What kind of den did they put you in when the lions start hissing? +What kind of bridge did they burn? +Revenge or your mind when it's mentioned? +You wanna love like Nelson, you wanna be like Nelson +You wanna walk in his shoes but you peacemaking seldom +You wanna be remembered that delivered the message +That considered the blessing of everyone +This your lesson for everyone, say + +When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan? +When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan? +Want you look to your left and right, make sure you ask your friends +When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan? + +The voice of Mandela, hope this flow stay propellin' +Let my word be your Earth and moon +You consume every message +As I lead this army make room for mistakes and depression +And if you riding with me, nigga + +I been wrote off before, I got abandonment issues +I hold grudges like bad judges, don't let me resent you +That's not Nelson-like, want you to love me like Nelson +I went to Robben's Island analysing, that's where his cell is +So I could find clarity, like how much you cherish me +Is this relationship a fake or real as the heavens be? +See I got to question it all, family, friends, fans, cats, dogs +Trees, plants, grass, how the wind blow +Murphy's Law, generation X, will I ever be your X? +Floss off a baby step, mauled by the mouth of +Pit bulls, put me under stress +Crawled under rocks, ducking y'all, it's respect +But then tomorrow, put my back against the wall +How many leaders you said you needed then left 'em for dead? +Is it Moses, is it Huey Newton or Detroit Red? +Is it Martin Luther, JFK, shoot or you assassin +Is it Jackie, is it Jesse, oh I know, it's Michael Jackson, oh + +When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan? +When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan? +That nigga gave us "Billie Jean", you say he touched those kids? +When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan? + +The ghost of Mandela, hope my flows they propel it +Let my word be your earth and moon you consume every message +As I lead this army make room for mistakes and depression +And if you riding with me nigga, let me ask this question nigga + +[Kendrick Lamar:] +"I remember you was conflicted +Misusing your influence +Sometimes I did the same +Abusing my power, full of resentment +Resentment that turned into a deep depression +Found myself screaming in the hotel room +I didn't wanna self destruct +The evils of Lucy was all around me +So I went running for answers +Until I came home +But that didn't stop survivor's guilt +Going back and forth trying to convince myself the stripes I earned +Or maybe how A-1 my foundation was +But while my loved ones was fighting the continuous war back in the city, I was entering a new one +A war that was based on apartheid and discrimination +Made me wanna go back to the city and tell the homies what I learned +The word was respect +Just because you wore a different gang color than mine's +Doesn't mean I can't respect you as a black man +Forgetting all the pain and hurt we caused each other in these streets +If I respect you, we unify and stop the enemy from killing us +But I don't know, I'm no mortal man, maybe I'm just another nigga" + +Shit and that's all I wrote +I was gonna call it +Another Nigga but, it ain't really a poem, I just felt like it's +something you probably could relate to. Other than that, now that I +finally got a chance to holla at you, I always wanted to ask you about a +certain situa--, about a metaphor actually, you spoke on the ground. +What you mean 'bout that, what the ground represent? + +[2Pac:] +The ground is gonna open up and swallow the evil + +[Kendrick Lamar:] +Right + +[2Pac:] +That's how I see it, my word is bond. I see - and +the ground is the symbol for the poor people, the poor people is gonna +open up this whole world and swallow up the rich people. Cause the rich +people gonna be so fat, they gonna be so appetising, you know what I'm +saying, wealthy, appetising. The poor gonna be so poor and hungry, you +know what I'm saying it's gonna be like… there might be some cannibalism +out this mutha, they might eat the rich + +[Kendrick Lamar:] +Aight +so let me ask you this then, do you see yourself as somebody that's +rich or somebody that made the best of their own opportunities? + +[2Pac:] +I +see myself as a natural born hustler, a true hustler in every sense of +the word. I took nothin', I took the opportunities, I worked at the most +menial and degrading job and built myself up so I could get it to where +I owned it. I went from having somebody manage me to me hiring the +person that works my management company. I changed everything I realized +my destiny in a matter of five years you know what I'm saying I made +myself a millionaire. I made millions for a lot of people now it's time +to make millions for myself, you know what I'm saying. I made millions +for the record companies, I made millions for these movie companies, now +I make millions for us + +[Kendrick Lamar:] +And through your different avenues of success, how would you say you managed to keep a level of sanity? + +[2Pac:] +By +my faith in God, by my faith in the game, and by my faith in "all good +things come to those that stay true." You know what I'm saying, and it +was happening to me for a reason, you know what I'm saying, I was +noticing, shit, I was +punching the right buttons and it was happening. So it's no problem, you +know I mean it's a problem but I'm not finna let them know. I'm finna +go straight through + +[Kendrick Lamar:] +Would you consider yourself a fighter at heart or somebody that only reacts when they back is against the wall? + +[2Pac:] +Shit, +I like to think that at every opportunity I've ever been threatened +with resistance, it's been met with resistance. And not only me but it +goes down my family tree. You know what I'm saying, it's in my veins to +fight back + +[Kendrick Lamar:] +Aight well, how long you think it +take before niggas be like, we fighting a war, I'm fighting a war I +can't win and I wanna lay it all down + +[2Pac:] +In this country a +black man only have like 5 years we can exhibit maximum strength, and +that's right now while you a teenager, while you still strong or while +you still wanna lift weights, while you still wanna shoot back. Cause +once you turn 30 it's like they take the heart and soul out of a man, +out of a black man in this country. And you don't wanna fight no more. +And if you don't believe me you can look around, you don't see no loud +mouth 30-year old muthafuckas + +[Kendrick Lamar:] +That's crazy, +because me being one of your offspring of the legacy you left behind I +can truly tell you that there's nothing but turmoil goin' on so I wanted +to ask you what you think is the future for me and my generation today? + +[2Pac:] +I think that niggas is tired of grabbin' shit out the stores and next time it's a riot there's gonna be, like, uh, bloodshed for real. I don't think America +know that. I think American think we was just playing and it's gonna be +some more playing but it ain't gonna be no playing. It's gonna be +murder, you know what I'm saying, it's gonna be like Nat Turner, 1831, +up in this muthafucka. You know what I'm saying, it's gonna happen + +[Kendrick Lamar:] +That's +crazy man. In my opinion, only hope that we kinda have left is music +and vibrations, lotta people don't understand how important it is. +Sometimes I be like, get behind a mic and I don't know what type of +energy I'mma push out, or where it comes from. Trip me out sometimes + +[2Pac:] +Because the spirits, we ain't even really rappin', we just letting our dead homies tell stories for us + +[Kendrick Lamar:] +Damn + +I wanted to read one last thing to you. It's actually something a good friend had wrote describing my world. It says: + +"The caterpillar 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 this mad city +While consuming its environment the caterpillar begins to notice ways to survive +One thing it noticed is how much the world shuns him, but praises the butterfly +The butterfly represents the talent, the thoughtfulness, and the beauty within the caterpillar +But +having a harsh outlook on life the caterpillar sees the butterfly as +weak and figures out a way to pimp it to his own benefits +Already surrounded by this mad city the caterpillar goes to work on the cocoon which institutionalizes him +He can no longer see past his own thoughts +He's trapped +When trapped inside these walls certain ideas take roots, such as going home, and bringing back new concepts to this mad city +The result? +Wings begin to emerge, breaking the cycle of feeling stagnant +Finally free, the butterfly sheds light on situations that the caterpillar never considered, ending the internal struggle +Although the butterfly and caterpillar are completely different, they are one and the same." + +What's your perspective on that? +Pac? Pac? +Pac?!
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