Mr. Grace (Intro) - Royce Da 5'9''.mp3

[00:00.000] 作词 : E. Johnson/R. Montgomery/C. Smalls/D. Grace
[00:01.000] 作曲 : E. Johnson/R. Montgomery/C. Smalls/D. Grace
[00:04.492]Father & Son:
[00:04.886]What is America built off of? Violence and entrepreneurship
[00:07.975]So if you had to tell another six year old like yourself what to look out for, what would you tell 'em?
[00:10.957]They would kill you for the right price
[00:12.753]Are you a buyer or a seller? A seller
[00:14.621]If I gave you a million dollars right now
[00:16.355]Would you buy candy or a candy store? A candy store
[00:18.880]What is the goal to be? Independent
[00:20.427]If you lost everything tonight, what you got tomorrow? Intellectual property
[00:23.107]And what is intellectual property?
[00:24.477]They can take your possessions, but they can't take your mind
[00:27.071]How do you say group economics in Spanish? Economía de grupo
[00:31.053]How do you say barter system? Sistema de cambio
[00:33.467]If I gave you something for 500
[00:34.788]And you flip it to the next man for 2000, what is that called? Upselling
[00:38.438]Alright now, me, as your leader, as your father, the person who's supposed your best interest
[00:42.177]If I celebrate holidays and Christmas your entire life
[00:44.383]And you gotta go beg somebody for a job at 18, what did I do?
[00:47.352]You failed me financially
[00:48.703]And I want you to tell me, how fast can somebody be a victim of gun violence in America?
[00:53.025]This fast (*Gunshot*)
[00:55.477]Royce da 5'9":
[00:56.700]Was told to hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil
[01:00.601]In a place that hears no evil, sees no evil
[01:02.981]Where the oppressor sees no color
[01:04.751]The investor sees no others
[01:06.262]The ******** seems so seasonal, plus illegal
[01:08.767]Man, that's just the mode, that's just the evil
[01:11.214]We just adjust to that, that's just machismo
[01:13.772]I was destined to be mo' than a apple laying next to a tree, bro
[01:18.286]Clandestine, colorful G stuck in a G code thrust into street mode
[01:21.794]Searchin' for soul with a stolen identity
[01:24.622]Surface low, economically
[01:26.632]In need of capital, in search of a loan and it's a few bankin' institutions who got the remedy
[01:31.971]But this is America, where credit is for the privileged and profit is not my amenity
[01:36.595]I'm just here to get popped by the cops, get popular so I can discredited in a documentary by the enemy
[01:42.597]While in a homicidal, fratricidal cycle of wild, constant hostile energy
[01:47.665]Lookin' down the barrel of a rifle while tryna find some inner peace
[01:51.701]As God as my witness, through teary-eyed tyranny
[01:55.742]Knowledge itself is the caveat and the dollar itself is the demigod
[02:00.695]Listen, nigga, this is The Iliad
[02:03.178]Flip the dollars for wealth until our figures resemble the myriad
[02:06.949]We are the inventors, we are the lenders, we are the matriarchs
[02:10.796]Only thing we didn't make was slavery laws
[02:13.252]And on this specific day, it's the end of the prison sentence, this is the period
[02:19.023]A rich man wrote this with a poor man's focus
[02:22.518]A sick man quotes this, but the **** man sold this
[02:26.294]Lookin' for a soulmate and the bitch playin' Go Fish
[02:29.029]Provin' you got heart doin' dirt for The Tin Man in a quicksand culture
[02:33.213]Standin' on anything I said like the kickstand open
[02:35.970]Feelin' like Rembrandt sculpted some shit that just van Gogh get
[02:39.910]I am the descendant of the original, physical melanin skin man
[02:44.994]The highly-intelligent pride of the ghetto, the Zinjanthropus
[02:50.330]The Phantom's so clean you can't see the lord sit down, she is gorgeous
[02:56.119]All you see is a steerin' wheel floatin', led by a herd of stampedin' horses
[03:02.210]Checks and balances by the curb
[03:04.883]Steps to amateurs flyin' birds
[03:07.684]Connected annual to a buyin' surge
[03:10.276]Expectin' the amateurs to try and merge
[03:12.996]To try and lessen the blesses
[03:14.769]But you can never lessen the connection of the indefinite pentameter Ryan serves tryin' words
[03:20.177]This is Category A
[03:21.732]Definition, battered slave of yesterday
[03:24.870]Recognition by cattle
[03:26.715]Present picture, a guy battles sexuality in tight apparel, eyeshadow
[03:30.346]That's not deep, I'm shallow
[03:32.948]As time travels, rapper-boys get to doin' acid on stage
[03:36.869]Wearin' satchels, catchin' cases like statutory rape
[03:40.084]Online actin' like natural-born slaves, really
[03:43.770]I guess it's from the back of the back to back to sittin' with my back to the shadows
[03:48.837]With actors standin' behind me with puppets controlling nothing but shapes
[03:54.273]But that shapes our fate
[03:56.665]This is the Allegory of the cave theory by Plato, and this is the first chapter
[04:02.738]The first forty-eight, "Death Of the **** Man"