From The Heart ft. Macho John Tobi Lyrics

I am grateful for love

Through the deepest days of chaos, love shone its light on me

Out of the mountain of despair

A stone of hope

Hope of life, life through the reflection of love

Love has kept me, built me

Created doors, nothing short of greatness

I have failed, cried, tried

Yet love got me through the strides of life

From my heart, I am grateful

GET EM!

This ain't no surprise for those who know me well

All started when I was 12

Rapping on FL

My dad earned well

But that meant nothing in KD

It could be hell

So many ordeals

Many men fell to the sound of them shells

And I'm not about this

Nah man, trauma countless

I need an outlet

Whilst the pain, frustration mounted, and I felt confounded

And I think I found it, Hip Hop

Man I love how it sounded, it kept me grounded

Look I love my books too, but compared to this? I doubt it

(Ay yo) Talk to em

Look, I love this cuz my dad loved that I loved it and always tipped his hat

I love this cuz it's yet another thing I'm better than you at

I love this, cuz it's how I met my girl

In fact, no cap

She heard my verse on the internet and said 'I want that!'

So

Thank you Lupe

Thank you Musmah, Tony Warp and Wordz

Thank you MI, Falz, Eldee, I think I heard every verse

Emilio Rojas, Yela, Chino XL, yea that's what I'm talkin about

Every member of Slaughterhouse, DJ Unk, walk it out

This ain't no façade, it even brought me close to God

So thank you Wadi for introducing me to 116 and Crae

I played them every day, like I did Ye

Like I did Sean, Wale

Like I did Chip, Skepta and Dre

Like I did TechN9ne and Rakim

Like I did Biggie, TI, Pusha, Ab-Soul, J.Cole, Dot and Drake

Thank you Wayne

Thank you Nasir Jones, Jay, and RTJ

Thank you KRSOne, Beastie Boys and Big Daddy Kane

And thank you Em, it's literally cuz of you, these words I bend

So I'm bout to go off like the bomb squad took a day off

Wanna stop me? It won't pay off like you're laid off when Tobolos goes and sprays off

Mama's angel, but on the mic I'm a demon

Meaning if you test me when I'm seething, you'll be bleeding

In fact, your reading is this evening (better run)

My foes are beasts, they gon drown if they don't float my boat

So 1 by 1? No scratch that, bring them 2 by 2, you know I flow

Man a 1 on 1 don't interest me in anyway

Cuz me v you is a mismatch like the WNBA

Hold up, run that back

The producer's asking me to slow down

How? When I'm outstanding

I got the bass pounding

I'm hounding these beats

They know me now in these streets

So when strangers surrounding, asking for my pronouns (who are you?)

I say him!, him!, I am him!

You ain't nothing but a wimp

I am the king, who the best emcees? I'll take em all out like a pimp

Dude, you don't want that verbal combat

Cuz once I dump that? Flames, like a Foreman

I'm on smoke, you catch a contact

But I take you down like an All Black

All black, yea Auerbach

Man it's useless when these dudes is pocket watching like they cue sticks

Cuz I do this by His grace, so your cries are just acoustics to my victory song

Yea I win every time, you can't refute this

And if you don't get it by now, then you're just clueless

When you think of magic, you must think about Tobi

D.Howard, he was a fav, he was like superman to me

Man or woman? Now they wonder which way I swing

I have carnal knowledge of beats, and generally I make them scream like

This is a question I've been getting endlessly

'Tobi why ain't you in the industry?'

Why ain't I in the industry? Let's see, let's see

It ain't no industry, it's more like a killer of these dreams

It's happened to many gs, and most of these was in my team, you see

You sign to a label, your album comes out in 5 years, maybe 3?

After that, 200k streams

That's like 100k in your jeans

And that ain't a lot of money to me

I make like 4 times that a week

And that's even when I'm on leave

And I can't hustle backwards g

But thankfully, these bars are never going out of fashion

So I can kick back, just spazzing for the passion

And I probably should have said this from the start

If I ever sound stupid, It's because I do this

From the heart