Black Noise

Yo, can I get that guitar? That's good Levels is good, Heat [hunh]...Tried but they can't subdue me, life like a movie Cold open stare, in that wicker chair, I'm Huey Overlooking, broken cities and bitter dreams Juxtapositions...pimps, poets, and Philistines Notice my M16, stay next to the Bible That's on Jehovah, light you up like the floor under Michael Intersections 'tween new life and a dud No price on the love, regardless if you Christ or a thug At crosswalks between Bibles and blood, we can't compare doctrines From fallow lands, my ancestors was sharecroppin' We evolved to Harlem Nights from where the soil be A paradox, covered in blood and mixed loyalties [I'm] stressed but tapped in, blessed with black skin And if reborn, I'd do it again, I'm bout that action [hunh!] Adding what, seven years and four scores will do Maneuve' like the Souls of Black Folk in Black Forces move They dread me cause I'm existential, or I'm scot-free? Or cause I'm Locke on instrumentals, with a block steez? Maybe isosceles, all my niggas got degrees To do 180s from the project piss to Black Sophocles "Stop, freeze, hands in the air!" Throw up a stick when we unite The wick ignited from there, a nightmare set alight From Tunisia to Tiananmen Square, a soul like Richard Pryor That's a wicked fire through prayer...that's my Blackness Spin around, I'm in your hood with my Blackness Top down, rolling around in my blackness Black car, Black joy, let the bass knock Through my city, that's Black noise, Love my Blackness And if you ever try to play me on my Blackness We gon' leave 'em in the ground, you'll see Blackness Black soul, Black car, you can see the shining light I'm a luminous Black star [that's my Blackness] Wish I could flap wings and fly away To where Black kings in Ghana stay, like Nas said See beaches where my mama lay, swaying in the sand where my daughters play Next to Kenyans of Obama's shade My heart bleed a color red as Mike Jack-et shine With Black and green like my stripes is pro-Palestine They say the...Blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice Inhibit the potion, I push off 'til they get me open And perchance I make words dance like Misty Copeland? I'd jeté on these tracks, pointed, my ten toes in Watch me grab mics, speak them flows, they act sour [hunh] Make the critics eat Jim Crow, that's Black power Nobody made you, you designed yourself You can get it from the mud and still align with wealth Some might craft flows, spin yarns, spit symphonies Others choose to cut out the throats of they rich enemy The heavens bred a legacy, recognize that you got a gift And they can hate you, but never fit in the monolith Whether dead or anonymous, when you lived it, terrific If you see it? Scream it, if you breathe it, believe it Call it resilience or golden design One day I'll find you to discuss what I was hoping to find For now, I appreciate this moment in time Fulbright scholars and draft picks be knowing my rhymes [That's on my Blackness] Spin around, I'm in your hood with my Blackness Top down, rolling around in my blackness Black car, Black joy, let the bass knock Through my city, that's Black noise, Love my Blackness And if you ever try to play me on my Blackness We gon' leave 'em in the ground, you'll see Blackness Black soul, Black car, you can see the shining light I'm a luminous Black star [that's my Blackness] And that's only the first chapter... Hey, we wasn't able to make this session happen So put this on your album instead First, happy homecoming, my brother They don't love you like that, But I Do Keep going, Jahshua Smith You special, bro I mean that, sincerely, man I love you, I love your music I can't wait for this new project