Class of '23 ft. Yellokake Lyrics

It's dark out here...feels cold

Like a storm is coming, you know?

Watchin' rain come up out the sky, every time somebody dies

Must be out my fuckin' mind, What is this the hundredth time?

Sendin' flowers to funerals...readin' "Rest in Peace"

Let's give a toast to the class of '23

They singin' "Ready or Not

Here I come and you can't hide"

This type of life is nothin' new to me

Look at pain and what it do to me this is grief in perpetuity

I could...search for the words and the perfect pitch to say it

For some it resonates, but for others it's entertainment

I'm somewhere in the middle...it's appeal to survive

Throw my tears to the fire, to keep the real niggas alive

Never once made tracks, Soldiers from the way back

Diamonds in the rough, rarest needles in them haystacks

And our bond? Secrets that we can't discuss

The only crews in Lansing moving units - Y'all, Specktators, and us

Either you Toast of the Town or get approached for the crown

But for the city? Knew you'd hold that shit down

Mount Rushmore of our scene, I saw a pillar destroyed

I watched y'all Black boys fly, you was the realest McCoy [uh]

No disrespect if your covenant covers kitchens

The illest shit you cook up wasn't fuckin' with The Chemist

Most likely to be inspiring I like those odds

To give the honor to my guy Lakaz RIP

Watchin' rain come up out the sky, every time somebody dies

Must be out my fuckin' mind, What is this the hundredth time?

Sendin' flowers to funerals...readin' "Rest in Peace"

Let's give a toast to the class of '23

They singin' "Ready or Not

Here I come and you can't hide"

This type of life is nothin' new to me

Look at pain and what it do to me this is grief in perpetuity [Look]

Different mothers but built as kin, brothers from different men

I put that on everything since the first day I gripped a pen [uh]

Hate this movie, cause I know where it ends

So let's rewind it to the glory where the story begins

We grew up at a different pace, you moved at a slicker stride

Watched you raise a family then blew through the finish line

[Me] An activist with plans to pen my fears and save the world

[You] Engineered your spitting image and a baby girl

Let Nikki Baby and the children know I got ya

But just a helping hand, cause you lookin' over proper

Call it commercials, interruptions to our schemes

I know my visitation rights to see you in my dreams [Dreams!]

And all them trips is only temporary visits

I'll just chill and take my time even if it's only minutes

Valedictorian inside my mind's DeLorean

Until we meet again a sweet day I look forward to it [love you bruh]

Watchin' rain come up out the sky, every time somebody dies

Must be out my fuckin' mind, What is this the hundredth time?

Sendin' flowers to funerals...readin' "Rest in Peace"

Let's give a toast to the class of '23

They singin' "Ready or Not

Here I come and you can't hide"

This type of life is nothin' new to me

Look at pain and what it do to me this is grief in perpetuity [Kake!]

Feel like the realest niggas ain't here long enough

In my mind's eye, patterns and intentions don't add up

Black boys can't even play with toys

Well before they're teenage, them city funded boys

Learn to build an emotional cage

Just to get through the day, bury fear, joy and pain

I mourn for their innocence

And light some sage, from my grandfather down

To my disseminated egg [This is a letter to the unborn uh]

Halos on hoops, understandin' on stoops

Or found in a clipper's blade...

The world's on a loop in a sense, doves

Stay on me for your inner Prince, but

Sometimes in April...it snows

So I love my brother...I didn't write any of this down

So that's my very last freestyle for him

Thank you much, for letting me share that with you today

[Amen! Bless you.... Bless you]