Word is Bond - Khantrast.mp3

[00:00.000] 作词 : Anthony Zhang
[00:12.187]This some shit I just need to vocalize
[00:13.788]Arguments with the family, we scream until our vocals fry
[00:16.881]Used to get jealous whenever one of my friends would get showered in compliments by by they parents
[00:21.421]Used to wish they were mine
[00:22.666]Not to say I’m not grateful for what my family provided
[00:25.463]But at times I was wishing I had more gentle guidance
[00:28.202]And not to be called a pussy just ‘cause I envied kindness’
[00:30.925]Or be made a social pariah ‘cause I enjoy the silence
[00:33.585]My fondest memories clouded by ambiguity
[00:36.277]‘Cause most of them moments that I had cherished had felt bittersweet
[00:39.318]You would have thought that some progress would earn some trust in me
[00:42.197]But it seems I’m still fighting so they could hear me speak
[00:44.938]Asian traditions telling me to respect the fam
[00:47.566]But at what cost? Should I continue to neglect the chance
[00:50.295]To vocalize my feelings and feeling inadequate?
[00:52.725]I grabbed a pen so I could vent and show ‘em all how much this rapping shit had mean to me
[00:56.829]How much it really saved my soul and helped me and keep the peace
[00:59.631]How painting pictures with these flows, I was healed with ink
[01:02.542]How strong I felt when on the stage with my first sixteens
[01:05.235]Felt like I be super powered-up, nothing could damage me
[01:07.987]So thank God for the Joey Bads
[01:09.944]The capital steezs, underachieversand and A$APs
[01:12.846]The Earl Sweats, Team BackPacks and Miller Macs
[01:15.661]Vinny Stape, K-Dot had me thinking the West was back
[01:18.430]Schoolboy was chilling in school; boy, was my brodie smacked
[01:21.230]Bumpin’ Pro Era, I felt fly, like “Where CJ at?”
[01:23.859]Doomsday coming, I hear ‘em yelling in all caps
[01:26.789]Still remember when Logic bodied that Under Pressure track
[01:29.460]Even Lil B had me shook with them exhibit raps
[01:32.314]Even had an edgier era, was spinnin’ Hopsin back
[01:35.020]The way I freestyle, you would have thought I brought Mamba back
[01:37.923]‘Cause I was getting hungrier every year when I wasn’t rapping
[01:40.409]I was tryna see how to put the game in a body cast
[01:43.691]And take ‘em out if anybody want to try me out
[01:46.293]Then I’ma walk ‘em down and show they asses where the coffin at
[01:49.104]Like, just to show them I could rap
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[01:52.051]Like, yeah, just to show them I could rap
[01:54.768]Like, yeah, just to show them I could rap
[01:57.552]‘Cause all the things, the diamond, the gold rings
[01:59.956]I’m good off all of that if I could show them how to rap
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[02:02.989]Look, I’m tryna build me a milli to get my brothers up
[02:05.738]‘Cause some of them don’t know about a feeling of when the Sun is up
[02:08.466]Some of them been in survival state since they was young
[02:10.978]And I just wanna build a world where my peoples don’t need to care about none
[02:14.188]I got a homie whose mind is sharp and they grindin’ hard
[02:16.977]But when you from the P’s, it’s hard just tryna find a start
[02:19.634]One of my guys lost his pops and had to go to work the day right after
[02:22.782]Back to the same routine, living life reversed
[02:25.484]Don’t got the time to be processing any of the pain
[02:28.088]Numb the pain just to pass the days off minimum wage
[02:30.620]A numbing cycle, he waking up just to end the day
[02:33.799]In the same place he woke up in, and shit don’t change
[02:36.676]I thank God one of my guys made it out the mud
[02:39.168]I pray his company earn him a million in funds
[02:42.063]One of my guys gettin’ extorted by his landlord
[02:44.815]I wish I had a crib, I could swing them to keep them up above
[02:47.504]I’m always movin’ with love in my heart
[02:49.854]Strength in my steps, never waver, I never forget
[02:52.398]For those I cherish, you should know, I’m forever in debt
[02:55.434]Within my soul, I’m a rap ‘til we can all take a breath
[02:58.289]‘Til we can all eat together
[02:59.713]‘Til we can all take that flight out to Japan, like we said, without all the pitfalls of life
[03:03.823]‘Til we can feast without stressing ‘bout what we eatin’ at night
[03:06.747]But ‘til then, I’ll be grinding until we all eatin’ right (Yeah, alright)
[03:21.331]So when the party dies, I’m hoping I still got time
[03:23.566]To build me a legacy, and my name be immortalized
[03:26.354]I’m hoping my circle flourish, no stressing pennies or dimes
[03:29.207]I pray my brothers succeed with businesses multiplied
[03:31.878]I pray one day I could look at my pops and tell them I love him
[03:34.927]Despite the fact that I’ve never embraced him or vocalized it
[03:37.657]I’m hoping my mom retires, she overdue for vacation
[03:40.460]The trauma that she been through, she be the toughest one alive
[03:43.176]To my sisters and my cousins, I’m grateful for they support
[03:45.748]Even though affection is a luxury we can’t afford
[03:48.639]But despite all of the clowning and joking and back and forth
[03:51.363]I wouldn’t change it for a thing; they still my family, of course
[03:54.443]This the life I been living, keep it true to a T
[03:56.876]I wasn’t capping when I said I’ll move my guys out the P’s
[03:59.766]Think I’m acting when it’s culture, it’s the reason I breathe
[04:02.556]So when I say that these my brothers, that’s the shit that I mean
[04:05.311]Word is bond