Dumb It Down Lyrics

Ok

Its my game
They say they're fire but I'm a street fighter
Watch me douse em when Dhalsim my flames

They'll simmer down cause I'm the winner now
Watch'em spin around when i win a round no games
No I'm not playing
What they saying?
Speechless cause they can't read this level spitting rap super saiyan
Bus caps when i spray(sprain) knees and ankles in your pain
See i reveal any Achilles heel when i slay steel mightier than my talk
Words mightier than my sword and i dare say I'm fighting for a cause
What your fighting for
You couldn't battle for my rapport let alone for a hymn of an applause
Hear the silence
Thats death before violence set its course
Cause when i pick up a mic and light the quiet no remorse
Set fire to the walls let the screams lift ceilings from the stalls
As my team kicks the ground through the floors

My reward

A little space for thought
How'd you feel knowing that you ace that court?
See some play for praise but i pray for course
Cause I'm just opening doors

Tryna find a place in my mind my creativity can pause
And contemplate on the before's
Cause the future that I'm heading to many halls seem false

Images of finishes sinister initiatives that murder the innocence
Close the minds eye to bore a new sight a cure for purer eyes
Tell'em aim for better lives
A sword to lay divides a knife to put in sides they fight for something like its war not genocide

The reward

Something a little less precise
They fight brave but really should've thought (fought) twice
You only live once it seems they been living thrice
Their own their goals and for someone elses price
They can live theirs I'm just tryna live right
Three times is nice but id rather lift life

Thats Q over Q
You do you i'll do you over too (two)
Thats like well your pie sees less (picses-less) minds fed on my slice


Maybe you're capricorns
Lets keep it factual most talk straight while moving lateral
I'm actually naturally calculating

Mental agility speed like a jamaican
Born in jamaica
So i can take heat -
Out on your make up what you made of
Theres nothing than I'm afraid of
Not scared I'm just hater hate when i can't understand what's on the paper
So i move on
Its not me
It must be school's wrong

The poor tailor
The shoe maker
They sell me emperors clothes try hide who is the highly skilled true creator or creatives
Your talents only on paper
Ignore you nature
Be a ball player put your make up on put your heels on put your suit on turn your real off be kool aider
If you don't dumb it down then your just a fool player life's a poker game not a true layer
Delay her
Take her hem tell her that you love her to lay her
Wake up in the morning in disgust don't display her
Get her up and out the room
Hide her from the real you
Tell her the love wasn't true betray her
Later
Aching from acting like you like what you hate when you look in the mirror and see your eyes
Your maker
Something a little less surprising her make - up
On your shirt
As she hurts
You call and make up
Cycle repeats 'til you fall from your feet lay down to go to sleep
Then dream bout something deep realise your still asleep then wake up
Peel back your eye lids
Cause thats what i did
And why life is my life not just my ____
Note the silence
It was decisive
Didn't really wanna curse when I'm reminding
Its my game, my day, my lane my aim
The word just don't go with my name
Is that the time
Well last line never dumb it down keep it like this time

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A track taken from Lupe Fiasco’s “the cool” album and was also used by Kendrick Lamar prior to his “overly dedicated” mix tape. Asante lays his lyrics illustrating who he is and touches on some of his wider beliefs about life and the current status quo of society.

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