LITERATURE, LYRICS AND POETRY
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STILL I RISE EXCERPT
By:Maya Angelou
Out of the huts of history’s shame
I rise
Up from a past that’s rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.
AMBITIONS LYRIC BREAK DOWN
So many battlefield scars while driving in plush cars. This life as a rapstar is nothing without God-Tupac Shakur
Why you treat me so bad!!???
40 makes it happen!
Fosgate's slapping
Revenue grossing
Just a little bit
of lightweight flamboastin
Potent
fumes
linger
mighty clouds
of northern lights
disrespect
Vic Da Baron
and you be violating my civil rights
Im starting to feel my skrilla
but perhaps today
my skrilla
ain't feeling me
for the simple fact
I'm off to the track
with hella foo's B
pockets empty
pitching 5,
man I'm dusted took off my hat passed
it around
sprinkle me mane
I GOT 5 ON IT LYRIC BREAK DOWN (E-40 VERSE)
So I typed a text to a girl
I used to see
Saying that I chose this cutie pie
with whom id like to be
And apologize if this message gets you down Then I CC'd every girl that I'd see-see 'round town
And
hate to see y'all frown but I'd rather see her smiling
Wetness all around me, true, but i'm no island Peninsula maybe, it makes no sense , I know crazy Give up all this p thats in my lap no looking back
Space ships
don't come equipped
with rearview mirrors
they dip
as quick as they can the atmosphoere is now ripped im so like a pimp im glad its night
so the light from the sun would not burn me on my bun when i shoot the moon high jump the broom like a preemie out the womb my partner telling, " Too soon! Dont do it
Reconsider
Read some liter-
ature on the subject are you sure? Fuck it
You know we got your back like chiropractic
Sometimes I hear death knocking at my front door
I'm living everyday
like a hustle
another dr*g to juggle
another day
another struggle
I know
how it feel
to wake up
fucked up
pockets broke as hell
another rock to sell
people looking at you
like you the user
selling to all the losers
mad buddha abuser
But they don't know about your stress filled day
baby on the way
mad bills to pay
thats why you
drink Tanqueray
so you can reminisce
and wish you
wasn't living so devilish