Ready (feat. Truth)

[1: truth] yeah

Uh. break away the chains.

We don’t need charms.

With our love, with our knowledge,

We don’t need arms.

Welcome brothers home.

We don’t need lawns.

Keep the uncles in the house.

We don’t need toms.

At the lab in virginia.

All we need: drums,

Couple basses & a sample.

Finish it in ample.

Heavy in our hearts,

Make it difficult to handle.

Not saying shit

Is the breeze against the candle.

So, i chopped it up with dilla –

Pianos & the sample.

Middle of the winter,

But the booth is like orlando

In the middle of the summer.

The visit was an honor.

I met a couple game-changing folks

On the come-up, like,

Well-versed in history & fiction.

I’m sitting back thinking, like,

This what we been missing.

This should be the mission:

To cash in on the pain.

From laughter & shame,

The passion remains, cause

[hook: truth] we ready.

We gon’ take it.

We gon’ make it,

Cause we ready.

We gon’ scream it.

We gon’ play it

In our chevies.

Not a building.

Not a body

Or a levee.

Joe, we ready.

[hook: a.d.] yo, we ready

We gon’ rip it,

Or we’ll tip it

If it’s steady.

We gon’ lift it

Even if the shit

Is heavy.

Keep the mission

With the vision

On the deadly.

Yeah, we ready.

[2: a.d.] ay, yo,

They say there’s something special

‘bout a black love,

& if they ain’t never had it

Then they lack love.

It’s like them conversations

In the back of

A mind where it’s defined

As being backed up.

Yo, if the doors open,

& we all come though,

& being here is what it all comes to,

It was worth it to share it,

I mean, i purposely cherish

The very thought of a practice,

Creating habits

To challenge the way to sharpen the

Steel that’ll need itself

To be better at doing what it does.

Huh. it’s what it always was.

& what it will be will,

& if we still be still

Then there ain’t no way

That we’ll be killed. huh.

So, i say let’s be

& if i can, let me.

There’s much more

Than what the world let see. huh.

So, i say let’s be

& if i can, let me.

There’s much more

Than what the world let see.

& we ready.

[hook: truth] we ready.

We gon’ take it.

We gon’ make it,

Cause we ready.

We gon’ scream it.

We gon’ play it

From our chevies.

Not a building.

Not a body

Or a levee.

Joe, we ready. uh.

[hook: a.d.] yo, we ready

We gon’ rip it,

Or we’ll tip it

If it’s steady.

We gon’ lift it

Even if the shit

Is heavy.

Keep the mission

With the vision

On the deadly.

Yeah, we ready.

Huh. yes, yes.

[3: truth] alright.

Yeah.

So, you thinking that i’m here

‘cause you let me.

It’s the system, not the person,

That upset me.

Let me interject—

When you say that you accept,

I don’t care if it’s a yes or a no,

You gonna get me. uh.

[4: a.d.] huh, unapologetic.

Thought it so i said it.

Want it, so i go & get it.

Went it got it,

Now it’s all around us.

Talked to truth about it

When it was a dream

& when it started happening

We seen.

[hook: truth] ‘cause we ready.

We gon’ take it.

We gon’ make it,

Cause we ready.

We gon’ scream it.

We gon’ play it

From our chevies.

Not a building.

Not a body

Or a levee.

Joe, we ready.

[hook: a.d.] yo, we ready

We gon’ rip it,

Or we’ll tip it

If it’s steady.

We gon’ lift it

Even if the shit

Is heavy.

Keep the mission

With the vision

On the deadly.

Yeah, we ready.

Yo, we ready.