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The Tribute

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Hip-Hop/Rap

The Tribute was released on October 31, 2024 by Inferno Records as a part of the album Emotions

Song Details

Release DateOctober 31, 2024

LabelInferno Records

LanguageEnglish

Melodicness

Acousticness

Valence

Danceability

Energy

BPM92

OVERVIEW

LYRICS

Credits

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

danté

Songwriter

Quddus Gordon

Songwriter

Lyrics

1, 2, 1, 2, yes

Let's go

It's the Italian stallion with flow just like Rastafarians

Climbing mountains and valleys and always making your body spin

Always try to be honest like someone's got me on oath

And when I see all of my family always give 'em the most

It's real

I wanna propose a toast to all the people who support me and who never go ghost

I used to feel like I stood out like I was down with the lowest

But then I rose up like a star that lights the night up that glows

Some people look to higher powers when they're shook when they're sad

Or when they need a substitution for who they call their dad

I wanna be that replacement the rock that they never had

I know how being lonely feels but don't ever stay mad

A broken shell can always mend be grateful for what you have

Keep your ambition and your drive the rest will fall in your hands

It's knownledge

You may not live to tommorow

So don't go filling up your head with all these visions of sorrow

Instead just keep up your composure and stay hard like a borough

And as you walk through life keep your experience thorough

Look

I'm boutta spit some real shit

If I could move myself through time like I was Marty McFly

I'd jump right back into the 90s just before Biggie died

We'd smoke a blunt and maybe sip on cold pitchers of beer

And as the sun went down I'd have him lend me an ear

To tell him that his music's message will forever be clear

And just because someone is gone it doesn't mean they ain't here

They stay alive inside our heads and in our hearts they stay dear

Don't ever question someone's legacy no matter how mere

It's true

I hope my words stick like tacks

I want my rhymes to touch all creeds white, yellow, and black

I want my songs to get you hooked like addicts keep coming back

My tracks stay fresher than an infant and I never move wack

It's big

My mind will never go sour

It keeps on budding new ideas like my brain was a flower

I'll stoke my passions till the day I die cause knownledge is power

I'm always on like morning news but here for more than an hour

Preach

The world might be going down

But I can't help but smile when all of my friends come around

I just stay grateful never fuck with fakes, frauds, or snakes

My haters stay stuck in teacups while I'm just cruising in lakes

Uh

And like an old man said

I'd rather be alive and sad than be happy and dead

I never let the suicidal thoughts get up in my head

The only thing you'll catch me cutting up is slices of bread

And look

I wanna give a shout out to Nas

Who held it down and made an album while he also sold glass

And even though he had to tote a gun and had to skip class

His track about the world and how it's mine it got me so gassed

He showed me that the things I will do overshadow the past

And anything I set my mind to I could get to it fast

And look, uh

He said the world is yours

Even if it's fulla motherfuckin' crooks and whores

It doesn't matter what the others say, think, or do

What matters most inside this twisted world is Y-O-U

Now look, uh

Lemme keep things real

My rhymes are hard just like Gang Starr with their mass appeal

With lyrics ominous just like a convict's last meal

This beat goes harder than 4 inches of the world's best steel

We gotta take back Hip Hop

What's the deal

Instead of flexing bout some chains show us how you feel

You gotta open up tell it from the heart

It may not come to you so easy but at least it's a start

And look, uh

The beat's about to cut off

And it's due time I went and turned the stage's spotlight off

But represent and just remember we come from the same cloth

Just because someone is different doesn't mean you should scoff

Uh

And laugh in their face

Don't ever hate someone for being born into the wrong place

Just love your fellow man

He'll do the same for you

And even if you don't agree at least just think it through

And even though the track's about to end just see my view

I'm for the people like we adding up two plus two

We out

Written by: Dante Caloia, Quddus Gordon

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