Murs - Powerful lyrics

[Verse 1: Murs] (Powerful) They call me slept on, guess I’m the one they dreaming ’bout But when they finally woke, it’ll be my name that they’ll be screaming out Been walking this path since an early age Reading books by the Panthers, building up my rage At age 14, rest soul on ice Spook Who Sat By The Door, read that joint twice Ice Cube, Brotha J and Ice T These are the professors that would set my mind free f** the police to the Easton cop k**er These were my textbooks, sorry it was not thriller That pop music was filler, no disrespect to Mike But I was fed up and focused, I was ready to fight The power With Flavor Flav and Carl Ryder now emerged my energy with Public Enemy for many hours Towers of Babylon that radiate pollution Are the same ones we’ll be using to stream the revolution [Chorus: Murs] Facts is facts and the fact is whack is whack Nowadays they need to let the rappers rap Facts is facts and the fact is trap is trap Whip that work, but just let the rappers rap Facts is facts, it’s a fact that you stackin’ racks Get your money, but just let the rappers rap Rappers act like rappers but they still singing Autotune and making music with no meaning [Verse 2: Murs] I stand for the flag, and stand for my people This is not a contradiction, I am not a fan of evil Most of these rappers is evil as these politicians Flexing on their own folks who ain’t even got a pot to piss in Still they loving on the bad guy Try to be the hero, my people tell me to stand by (Stand by) Cause I don’t rap about the coonery I’m Rogue One, standing like Diego in this lunacy Ergo, my Earth go Urso, full circle And we plant seeds amongst the weeds to make the Earth grow Pollocks sprout as I spout this intelligence Horrid in my aura, my intent is of intelligence Radio once meant relevance, now irrelevant It’s all about the playlist, the playing field is levelling If you got better ideas, then I am Edison Electrifying and defining true music medicine [Chorus: Murs] Facts is facts and the fact is whack is whack Nowadays they need to let the rappers rap Facts is facts and the fact is trap is trap Whip that work, but just let the rappers rap Facts is facts, it’s a fact that you stackin’ racks Get your money, but just let the rappers rap Rappers act like rappers but they still singing Autotune and making music with no meaning [Outro: Propaganda] We live in this odd paradox right? This juxtaposition of knowing too much and not enough I got facts to quote ya, you just don’t know when to shut up When you can’t un-understand Know too much to leave it alone and not enough to trust the process of seeing too much Art that builds cultures and chants down tyranny’s power And empowers powerless, homie how you gon’ change the land with one tenth of your man’s fanbase Facts! Am I too smart to be that dumb or too dumb to be that smart Lol, nevermind, I’ll just rap