Lion

Tofu

Fake it till you make it
Even friends follow suit
So when I lie about that coupe
I'm waiting for Uber to come scoop
The blue cheese that I'm counting
Ben Franklin galore
I'm just hoping that my card don't get declined at the store
But *** it I'm happy for now
But when I make it bet I make my money smile
Then fake friends gone come around
*** the food, my pockets eating
Let's go make a new style
Blue cheese become real
And plentiful you'll see
But this fake happiness is killing the inside of me
Should I be broke and happy?
Rich and sappy?
Fake emotions got me snapping
Crazed emotions, strange devotions
Feel like I can't ***ing control it
My faking becomes stronger when somebody's around
Nobody can know the truth. Not even I.

One day

Wise Words

I'm not going to see the light all the times 
I'm not the best but that's not in my mind 
Tomorrow's waiting for me to create a different path 
No matter how far I got I must remember the things I have 
I'm neither a king nor a god I'm but a simple man 
Complex thoughts with many needs to understand 
The bitter ways and tragic days I must grow apart 
But the struggles are everlasting in the canals of my heart 
They say that on the other side, the grass looks greener 
But when they..look at ya lawn what's their demeanor 
Don't let a foe disguised as friend lead you ill-fated 
Your life is a picture tell me how you portray it 
Days and days turn to weeks and weeks into months 
Years go by and people haven't thought about themselves once 
I hope that everyone I've encountered fi...

Hunting Season

It's that time of the year where you stalk your prey 
Endless victims night to day 
Don't forget to get your license 
So you can show that legal violence 
And no matter how many you'll kill it'll be fun for you 
You'll say you feel like this is what you were born to do 
The rope to tie them up felt ever so natural 
Never let a chance to kill one slip past you 
But what happens when that season is year round 
How does that make you feel? 
How much faster does your heart pound? 
Kill the biggest one and you get the best prize 
Isn't that how it always was in your eyes 
The license you need is gold it's called a badge 
It projects your inner killer, sensations become mad 
And the game that you're hunting is your natural prey
Any person of color who you feel looks your...

Alarm

They always told me the sky is the limit
I got my wings now, i can fly, i'm livin
High in the sky just to start my day
I've made it this far I hope I won't get shot on my way 
You see there's many more up here who're trying like me
Melanin and black excellence is all I see
Gods and Goddesses cover the sky
But down below they're scared to see that black bird fly
They'll shoot us down without a second thought
For several centuries this is how they were taught 
A couple of my brothers down there because that's all they knew 
They justifying us getting murdered like "they're doing what we do" 
His blindfold thicker than the oldest of molasses 
He always sleep, but talking about the upper classes 
Wake up brother and take flight with me 
There's greatness being in the sky you'll see 
...

Repitition

It started with a drink

A drink lead to a dance

A dance made me think

My thoughts led me to you

You were suddenly my intoxication

I'd take shots of your words until I was poisoned.

Gallon after gallon I'd drink until I couldn't

And when I'd throw up I felt unknown relief

So I when I threw up

I went back to that drink

And went back to that dance

And found solace in you

My poison, yet my relief

The good nights, and my grief

Sister

I never knew my sister hurt as much as she did

Sticks and stones break bones but my words broke her ribs

She can't breathe she's oppressed and I don't give her a chance

I try to dumb her down every time she tries to take a stance

Her looks aren't good enough, she's not as light as I want her

I want them light damn near white, with all the hate of our culture

Repeat 1000 times, all over social media

Put it on magazines, album covers, when she turns the TV on

I'd drive her into a corner of confliction with inner-self

The black boy has become the downfall of her health

The institutionalized thoughts are like cancer within societies

Telling her beauty is one color and never in other varieties

Tell my sister I'm sorry, my mother is of resemblance

How could I say that she's ugly when beauty's truly melanin?

How c...

Heartbeat

You don't have to tell me you hate the things I do;

At the end of the day, I'll still be me;

As long as I stay strong willed behind the plots I construe;

Than in my mind I'll remain trapped and free;

Being me is more than being different;

For I have longed to be the same at times;

But in that dark hour I could only listen;

To the loudest bass of my life's rhymes;

This beat growing, emerging, erupting;

Telling me I am still here;

But if my path wanders, I'm surely unlucky;

For my conscience will now live in fear;

I live and die for myself only;

I'm selfishly selfless, though, at times;

Because when that dark hour strikes and I'm lonely;

I only have my inner rhyme.

Lion

A gazelle alone is nothing to a lion

The lion is the king for that reason

But one day the gazelles took cubs and raised them as lion hunters

Now lions are conflicted while gazelles run freely

Lions are conflicted as gazelles laugh like hyenas

A lion should not be raised as a gazelle

The lion is of its own royal essence

And with the lion knowing that it is royal

Why don't we?

Why must we kill our own for the gazelles amusement?

Mirror

Why do you look at me that way?
I am a male so I must act a certain way, right?
What if it’s all mental though?
Too afraid to find out what you don’t know?
Are your assumptions so opaque that categorize me as the same?
So what makes me the same as the rest of them?
I have a p-nis so my chances of being different are slim?
What are you searching for that you always find the wrong?
I’m just saying.
You’re giving guys a bad reputation
Your brain seen the outside of the box, maybe?
But, I won’t ask you to change.
Cuz’ I want you the way you are
I know that sounds lame
But, baby you resemble the stars
Don’t go to smiling
Cuz’ I’ll go blind from all the brightness
Close your eyes, settle down
Take some time to stare at the darkness
Night sky above looking upon us
But you know whatâ€â...