Substance

The first thing I'm recording in 2012 is a verse that I'm dropping on a collaborative project that two fellow Toronto hip hop artists are working on - Fenaxiz and royceBIRTH. These are the lyrics:

It really shouldn’t be surprising

with everybody scared to look inside they focused on what they buying

accepting implicit values instead of searching and defining

when you perpetuate the status quo, what are you defying?

let me break it down

hip hop’s something real, you can embrace it

it’s gotta have some substance to it so that you can taste it

content’s consumerism so I’m taking issue

cuz when you’re laying six feet deep, you can’t take it with you                      

every time I spit I feel I’m firing off a missile

homing on your heart and I’m praying that it hits you

so you can get awakened to something that is bigger

than this brainwashed life, got my finger on the trigger                                     

targeting all types, all peoples of all colours

my message is this: I want ya’ll to stop killing each other

can’t keep it real with yourself, how you gonna keep it real with your brother

feeling lost so I turned to my mother                                                   

she said son, let ‘em be, accept ‘em for what they are

save your power for the battles ahead – you’re going far

try to let go of the past, though it’s on me like a scar

just ‘cause you got some shine don’t make you a star

now I ain’t tryna be the type to rain on your parade

but just cuz you getting plays that don’t mean you’ve got it made

from where I’m sitting, your whole stees need adjustments

what’s the point of music if it ain’t got substance?