No Label (Esma Remix) Lyrics

But if we label this just picture what

It's undefinable

Every time I try to describe the pull I've been feeling

I pull it out and it's less filling

So let's just keep it on the simplest terms given

A gift that keeps spinning under diamond tips with 'em

We the children of blues, rock and all that other jazz

Doo-wop, funk, soul, know that hip-hop has

Ageless flows gone from an African past

And my African heart been scattered all across the map

They put pieces in a box

And don't want to give it back

I don't want to feel this trapped

Like a ghost from the past

In my own home chilling

At my own shows feeling

Alien, the main act

Crowds don't connect with 'em

But I can't go back

To laying hella tracks and not seeing any scratch

They say they never really recognize you in your homeland

So I roam, through New Rome

Visibly not Roman

And don't want to even act

But if we label this

Just picture what we might miss

But if we label this

Just picture what we might miss

But if we label this

Just picture what we might miss

But if we label this

Just picture

Just to be me fully

I gotta knock over walls

Insecurities and doubt

Genres ain't about me

We rep for the whole spectrum

Black proudly

People of the current who ain't mainstream drowning

From East Los to Westlake with free flows

To underground punk shows

Mosh pits with shamans and they shift forms

So many hats worn

And a torn mind state

Make music with higher stakes

Refuse to assimilate

A goat-fish born on a January date

Open for whatever that this moment might bring

Crosses on my pathway

I can't stay predictable

In no way ashamed of any of my contradictions

Fools sick in the head

Thinking they know what is best

For another person's quest

Ain't lived a minute yet

I bridge so many worlds

And my only known limits

I place on myself

You can't label this

But if we label this

Just picture what we might miss

But if we label this

Just picture what we might miss

But if we label this

Just picture what we might miss

But if we label this

Just picture what we might miss