Keeping On Lyrics

You won't pay us

But you want to define us

Scarecrow

You won't claim us

But you want to deny us

Yet somehow

You want to treat us like you own us

You don't know us

We are artists

Scarecrow

Delete data

That grants you weak rappers

Elite status

On schematics of patented apparatus

In these cameras

Canons enhance status

And selling indebted grams

In which you're fiend phantoms

Then we're branded

As seekers of brief glamor

When did MC Rappers

Succumb to fear factor

Coz, we matter

We wreak havoc and speak candid

Unfiltered in grammar

Against reasoning tactics

Only politicians weave deceit

Civil and diplomatic

And greet enemies

Cavalier all practiced

With street manners

We free what needs answers

Where we're planted

We-seek-green organic practice

So, we fathom

That these means are Black Panther

And seize action

That we deem to be valid

Bereaved, battered

We speak with clean palates

and steer clear abandoning

Near mirror distractions

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I kneaded a Gi

To defeat monotony

With a key supreme qi

That revealed the inner me

And diseased iniquity

Of a pimpin' industry

That depends upon the weak

And it breeds melancholy

The kinesis often breeds

In the deeds of lawyering

And it feeds upon the needs

With an ill soliciting

Given a rear ending

That appeared to be convincing

And sinking the real venom

It's killing ya parasitic

Now you got a dependent

A handout a minute

That's how you get indebted

By betting upon an image

What is a nigga thinking

By giving' away his spirit

When parents are on a pension

And feeding him on a budget

Running 'em out of pocket

And spinning an empty wallet

Then following false prophets

And paying an altar profit

Robbin' the hooded idiot

King you'll be beheaded

Your lying heart is sheriff

You're absent and not listening

Keep on, keeping on

Keep, keep, keep it going

Keep on, keeping on

Keep, keep, keep it going

Keep on, keeping on

Keep, keep, keep it going

Keep on, keeping on

Keep, keep, keep it going

Keep on, keeping on

Keep, keep, keep it goin

Keep on, keeping on

Keep, keep, keep it going

Keep on, keeping on

Keep, keep, keep it going

Keep on, keeping on

Keep, keep, keep it going

Woah! uh, woah

Can't stop moving on

Woah! uh, woah

Keep on moving on

Woah! uh, woah

I won't stop, no

Woah! uh, woah

I got to keep going on

This is my dream

This is my vision

This is my dream

Self-belief will untie the knots

And I will keep moving on

I know what men are capable of

Onward we march

Scarecrow uh

My dominion lies deep within my opinion

No sentient being will help salvage my salvation

I don't care for any notion of paradise

The size of my existence in the gaze of my eyes

I've seen the face of people who in deed are gods

Mephistopheles, Ahriman whatever, Beelzebub

Cull the superhero complex, everybody can't be saved

Even the righteous won't be delivered the day

Niggers for the long haul in the corridor for justice

Surpassed by petty White-collar causes, Huh

I don't need you to agree or grant me any acceptance

Coz I wake up and I feel I belong in this

Good or evil manifests always from the people

Spare me the Kingdom come bull and be true

Only God can judge me? Pfft! Could've had me fooled

But Illmatic taught me that the world is yours