Ital Soup

Ma know dis likkle youth,

Dread locks and Ital Soup,

I remember you living in a shack always wit no shoes,

Skin look dusty going to school,

Send home early cause you too rude,

Broadside cutlass cross man face,

Watch a twelve year old eat big man food,

Calabash don't need no plates,

He run streets don't watch cartoons,

Used to buy weed from your mother place,

Right off the beach but keep on your shoes,

Cause we're going through the bush to the dog pit,

But my gun is the only thing barking,

Jus ah test, beer cans for the target,

Ting Clean and shine like varnish,

Rolling up a forest,

Lighting it off when he finish his porridge,

Gotta get it out of storage,

Keep it organized everything assorted,

Yh the sky is gorgeous,

Sunset orange barrels importing,

Used to serve tourists,

In a hotel or a beach with horses,

Currency important,

Especially when it's worth three times more than yours is,

Row boat navigate courses,

Yellow fin tuna or swordfish,

Nyaming up salt fish ducana,

Cutlass if you step foot in yah,

Ntn yah sweet like sugar sir,

Can’t believe work likkle youths put in yah,

Giving up this package don't look in yah,

No fishing rods but the hook in yah,

Sitting in the cell with some books in yah,

Likkle snotty nose digging boogers yah,

Still see it wipe off your face,

Gee he da spliff light off and blaze,

Pan da corner when sound ah run,

Beres Hammond and Marvin Gaye,

Wet paint big bottles of rum,

Gone six years carnival ain’t change,

Homesick really miss the place,

But I'm on a mission straight,

Coal pot no kitchen aid,

Goats, cows and chicks fa raise,

Straw hat till the soil in sun,

Do it for the region is my mission statement,

Switch locations,

Karma is a bitch,

And so is her sister patience,

Tears for the missing faces,

Ah so man raise around dem rastas,

African pendant pan man chain,

Man nah shave until dem get captured,

Real long locks wrap around man waist,

Read about black Jews call them falashas,

Ain’t no where in this world man feel safe,

Leviticus talk bout pork and lobster but when man hungry yah cyah complain,

Never that,

Loose tendons better sever dat,

Heaven on earth been to hell and back,

Papyrus scrolls for the treasure map,

Therapeutic with the pen and pad,

Feeling like a new me just a little boujee at the restaurant tell em send it back,

Cross from the corner jumping out my cleats looking at my goals I’m a header that,

Check the scoreboard,

Only place I’m going is forward,

Stagnation is torture,

Likkle hard headed youth you was forewarned,

Rotten out floor boards,

Make my own shit yours store bought,

Can't have a rich vision with a poor heart,

Tryna cut out pigs and the warthogs,

Got stripes for the wars fought,

If you ride a wave don't ignore sharks,

Got slaves for my forefathers crack whips when they pour salt,

Red snapper and more malt,

Nyam curry no soy sauce,

Study blueprints and floor charts,

Olympian lighting the torch off,