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INTRO X2
I don't know
Nor do you
Just tryna find
Some simple truths
VERSE 1
Some nights I drive aimlessly
Windows down
Cold air to my face
Let the music drown
The noise in my head
The insistent sounds
That take away my peace
The second its found
I find myself having conversations
Nightly meditations based on observations
Searching for answers but no ones there
Just the midnight air
Not like she care
Put my V in park
Stare at the roof
Let me mind wander hoping to find truths
CHORUS
Yet another night with my mind on cruise
All I wanna do is find some truth
Hoping that tonight I make it through
Maybe by tomorrow feel renewed
VERSE 2
Night time chill,
Cause night time will
Put me a zone
Put me in my feels
… Have me thinking that I'm so absurd
… To even think about a boy or girl
In a world when poor kids need text books
Get denied, but city council’s cheque books
Fund more police
Build more jails
You can’t tell me we ain’t
Built to to fail
Prevention is better than cure
But there’s profit in cure and with that I’m sure
The people we suppose trust…
… I think I’m saying too much
Chorus
Yet another night with my mind on cruise
All I wanna do is find some truth
Hoping that tonight I make it through
Maybe by tomorrow feel renewed
OUTRO X2
I don't know
Nor do you
Just tryna find
Some simple truths
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Rainy Days
03:32
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VERSE 1
I make music for them hustlers who got product they must sell (yeah)
Trials and tribulations everyday they walk through hell (yeah)
Thought they had a team but no one stretched a hand to help (yeah)
Instead of asking twice chose to do it by themselves
I wanna rap I wanna dab
I wanna have the nicest things
I wanna drip I wanna crib
I wanna live my wildest dreams
Don’t wanna work don’t wanna hurt
I wanna have this shit for free
Ain’t gonna earn ain’t gonna learn and you ain’t gonna ride with me
Different type of grind
Legacy is what I’m driven by
Different type of shine
Equity they better give me mine
Y’all be tryna climb
But still you got a million miles
Only building mine
And one day give it to my child
PRE-CHORUS
Teach’em bout investments, how to save change
How not to be a slave, chasing a daily wage
Eat what they kill, then you know it’s real
Eat what they kill, then you know it’s real
CHORUS 2X
Saving for them rainy days
Saving for them rainy days
Saving for them rainy days
Cause they coming
Oh yeah they coming, they coming
VERSE 2
No eatin’ off my plate unless you puttin’ in that work (yeah)
Ain’t no riding free cause everyone gon’ prove they worth (yeah)
You’re free to disagree but know that thought will not reverse
Being lazy Idle is a plague that no hospital can nurse
I wanna trap I wanna bang
I wanna show I’m bout that life
I wanna cap I wanna act
I wanna earn my ass some stripes
Don’t wanna grind just wanna shine
Yo I'm not about that team
Ain’t gonna grow ain’t gonna glow and you ain’t gon’ ride with me
Different type of wave
I’m tryna build my people up
Tryna get us paid
In ways they cannot lock us up
Y’all be tryna slave
Hoping that they hook you up
Sometimes you gotta wait
Then give your kids the biggest cut
PRE-CHORUS
Teach’em bout investments, how to save change
How not to be a slave, chasing a daily wage
Eat what they kill, then you know it’s real
Eat what they kill, then you know it’s real
CHORUS 2X
Saving for them rainy days
Saving for them rainy days
Saving for them rainy days
Cause they coming
Oh yeah they coming, they coming
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VERSE 1
June 2nd
My timeline was black squares
Bold statements
That truly made me ask where
This newfound wokeness
Some folks was tone def
Talking like publicists
With well-crafted slogans
Suddenly the veil that once covered their eyes
Was finally absent,
Gone were the attachments
To feeling comfortable,
Denying black trauma
They was ready to march,
They was ready for the drama
Yelling fuck the police,
The chants rang clear
They recognized their privilege
And told us they were there
But guilt is an emotion that you can’t trust
It comes and goes like a man’s lust
… Two weeks later,
The status quo
Riddle me this
Where’d the tangents go
The outrage had ceased
You were absent bro
But unlike you I can’t escape my blackness yo
CHORUS 2X
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
And even Saturday
I’m black everyday
I’m black everyday
I’m black everyday
VERSE 2
The most imitated
But least appreciated
The most appropriated
But rarely compensated
Black is beautiful
How is that not fact
When Karen and Becky want a black girl ass
They wanna walk like our queens
Be strong as our queens
But don’t want the struggle that develops those genes
Black is resilient
How’s that not true
Name another group that stomach what we do
Gave you gas masks
And lightbulb filament
Needless to say
Black folks are instrument
To development
Yet you want our residence
To be imprisonment
What are you an idiot?
Think black inventors that changed the world
Yet your silent when cops kill our boys and girls
What if the cure died with Sandra Bland
Your privilege is a weapon and it’s killing us man
CHORUS 2X
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
And even Saturday
I’m black everyday
I’m black everyday
I’m black everyday
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4. |
Focused
03:09
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Verse 1
Keep asking if I care
Homie I could give a fuck
Every day God give me life
He don't ever give me luck
Everything you see me do
Is me taking what I have
They doubt the moves I make
Cause I truly work with half
While they got all that they need
And can't even make a dent
On the gram going HAM
Ask me where my time is spent
Alone in a room
Trying manifest a win
Call me introverted
Watch it bounce up off my skin
First they was resting on they laurels
Now they sleeping on my wave
I let sleeping dogs lie
Under wrap you bitches stay
I’m just tryna do me
Make the most our of my gift
But every time I share my dream
All I seem to hear is this
Pre-chorus 4X
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Chorus 2X
Late nights
I’m focused on that bag man
Doing me
I’m focused on that bag man
Cold mornings
I’m focused on that bag man
On that bag man
On that bag man
Verse 2
Barely see me tweet
Cause the moves I gotta make
Are the ones you make in silence
So one day you'll overtake
Bill Gates on the gram
Warren Buffet never snap
So I took a page from them
Please don't limit me to rap
I'm a hustle in fact
So dreams I never buy
But I'll package and sell them
At a price that's worth your time
Addicts for attention
And your currency is likes
Every time they double tap
It takes you to another high
We truly can't compete
Our metrics aren't the same
Hoping for a heart
You can never be the ace
Still tryna do me
Make the most out of my gift
But every time I share my dream
All I seem to hear is this
Pre-chorus 4X
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Chorus 2X
Late nights
I’m focused on that bag man
Doing me
I’m focused on that bag man
Cold mornings
I’m focused on that bag man
On that bag man
On that bag man
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Arlo Maverick Edmonton, Alberta
Arlo Maverick is a hip-hop MC whose sound explores Jazz, Electro, and Soul yet identifies itself as hip-hop through fusing nuances of hip-hop’s golden era and Jazz theory. Lyrically Arlo Maverick’s music is a poetic narration of everyday life experiences. For Maverick it is as much about moving his audience physically as it is about moving them emotionally. ... more
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