Liner Notes Lyrics

Chilling so much that I need a coat

Know I'm ice cold with the sh!t I wrote

A target on my back when you use a scope

But I'm protected with the liner notes

Got a cold world living with no hope

Peeps falling out when they see the pope

Millions treading water with no life boat

But the secret's tucked deep in the liner notes

When you live life trying to stay real pure

Look to the Holy Book just to endure

Haven't translated backwards, of that I'm sure

But it's ok, cuz love's the cure

From English, to Hebrew, then back to Greek

Words might get different when the truth we seek

But Hekau! true power's in the words we speak

Or you're stuck with a paddle up a creek

Gotta think back when the GOATs were kids

They channeled energy from the pyramids

Africa, Zulu Nation did the do

Right after Clive Campbell's b-boy crew

Whether in Shaolin or the Brooklyn Zoo

Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago too

Joseph Sadler, The Message

West Coast and the South

Chilling so much that I need a coat

Know I'm ice cold with the sh!t I wrote

A target on my back when you use a scope

But I'm protected with the liner notes

Got a cold world living with no hope

Peeps falling out when they see the pope

Millions treading water with no life boat

But the secret's tucked deep in the liner notes

Real songs hold the secrets, ya dig?

Raise up young minds to be big

When the system tried to keep us under

Steveland Morris makes us wonder

On A Tribe Called Quest, I question

What's the point of life, what's the lesson?

Listen to Butter written by Phife

To express my views to my future wife

Holla at Lisa Bonet or her daughter

Play Hypnotic by Tarik Trotter

When she tries to step to me

Turn to Rakim's Mahogany

If homegirl up and starts a fight

Can't Hide Love by Maurice White

Skip that Scarborough

Prototype, Andre Benjamin

Chilling so much that I need a coat

Know I'm ice cold with the sh!t I wrote

A target on my back when you use a scope

But I'm protected with the liner notes

Got a cold world living with no hope

Peeps falling out when they see the pope

Millions treading water with no life boat

But the secret's tucked deep in the liner notes

Life hits hard, gotta take it on the chin

Listen real close as I go all in

Black Lives Matter, but life gets darker

Remember Ah Yeah by Lawrence Parker

Got racism, poverty

Pick Tupac's All Eyez on Me

Sick of loud leaders that just cower

Play Public Enemy's Fight the Power

Feeling' kinda low after you fight

Then bump Kendrick Lamar's Alright

Wanna know why we need the Ankh

PTSD by Pharaohe Monch

Mos Def, Talib Kweli,

Ice Cube too so many more G!

What about you? What about me

Chilling so much that I need a coat

Know I'm ice cold with the sh!t I wrote

A target on my back when you use a scope

But I'm protected with the liner notes

Got a cold world living with no hope

Peeps falling out when they see the pope

Millions treading water with no life boat

But the secret's tucked deep in the liner notes