{"id":222628,"created_at":"2021-06-20 01:11:23","updated_at":"2025-06-01 09:32:57","deleted_at":null,"published_at":"2021-06-20 01:11:23","original_id":null,"artist_id":81640,"title":"The Reign Freestyle","slug":"the-reign-freestyle","status":"published","description":null,"album_id":null,"streets":1,"source_type":"s3","source":"file","lyrics":"Theres a war going on, not everything what it seems\/\r\nThough I keep to myself though I wear my heart my sleeve\/\r\nSo tell me what you following my nigga if its not your dreams? \/\r\nAnd tell me what you stand up for me if it's not your beliefs?\/\r\nAnd who else who it would be if you not the one\u00a0 to succeed?\/\r\nI find it shallow when niggas claim that I get too deep \/\r\nBoy you could never relate if you're not a king or queen \r\nBut funny how you gotta work like a slave just to be free\/\r\nThat's why paid all my dues I even kept the receipts\r\nProviding for the fam while my niggas can count on me\/\r\nYea we taking over coparates from making names in these streets\/ \r\nWith so much drive you can hear the engines roar and tyres screech\/\r\nBut you can't slow my roll\/\r\nEspecially on open road \/\r\nMan not even for the traffic cops on patrol\/\r\nIt be stupid considering how far the shit could go\/\r\nBesides I keep the bass in my trunk like a traffic cone \/\r\nSmoking on that comatose\/\r\nWhile I'm riding all alone %\r\nI process everything better when I'm my own\/\r\nLearned to think fast back when things were still moving slow\/\r\nAll so I could settle the score like golden goal\/\r\nThats why I started all the stars like a horoscope\/\r\nRealised I had to change alot starting from my approach\/\r\nThat help me connect all the dots like morose code\/\r\nThat's why I'm a big deal even when these labels dont propose\/\r\nCause my nigga I'm from the block like cornerstone \r\nThat's where I picked up all my trades as a rolling stone\/\r\nBesides we werent given much except our postal codes\/\r\nAnd growing up it weigh heavy on your collar bone\/\r\nCause you could end up in jail or in a funeral home\/\r\nAnd that's as far as our options go I suppose\/\r\nI good reason why I still write these songs of hope \r\nAssuming we not being punished for the melanin in our chromosome\/ \r\nEven though we still scrutinized across the globe\/\r\nWe find hard to come together and support our own \/\r\nSteve Biko did say that we on our own \/\r\nCause as far as it being the topic discussion it goes undisclosed\/\r\nLike how we came along way to be sold on boats\/\r\nAnd to make up for that is that we all could vote\/\r\nThey set up a few laws just to keep us in control\/\r\nBut asking who's the one in power is tapping into the unknown\/\r\nWe been through the most \/\r\nAs far history goes \/\r\nBut they took that too ,another story that goes untold \/\r\nYea they took our throne\/\r\nTurned into a commode\/\r\nAnd had us rolling with the punches with our backs against the ropes\/\r\nCause if you strike shepard guarenteed the sheep gonna scatter \/\r\nThat's what happens to every leader who's was playing they roll\/\r\nEventually they'll try cheat the system like a hacker\/\r\nHoping one day the matrix theyl get to code\/\r\nThat's the sold they souls\/\r\nWhich is all exposed\/\r\nCause they show they true colors for a pot of gold\/\r\nWhen it comes to growth\/\r\nWe're not coming close\/\r\nThe way I see it we still stuck in the twilight zone \r\nRevolutionary Goat\/\r\nLike Huey with a afrocomb\/\r\nI dont fear much since I believe in the holy ghost\/ \r\nMy heart drum to a different beat like xylophones\/\r\nAnd everytime I pour it out it always seems to overflow\/\r\nCause rich what I promote\/\r\nBroke I dont condone \/\r\nI mean it's bad enough we already come from broken homes\/\r\nDad was never home\/ \r\nI had to hold my own\/\r\nEspecially with the fact mom played both roles \r\nForsure\/ \r\n\r\nYo yo yo and you cant stop the reign the reign the reign","download_count":362,"play_count":25,"restrict_download":0,"generated_thumbnail":null,"flag_count":0,"download_count_24":1,"download_count_24_at":"2025-06-01","reupload_sent":0,"thumb_path":"https:\/\/s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com\/sol-assets\/uploads\/public\/60c\/e79\/311\/thumb_689364_300_300_0_0_crop.jpg","status_reason":"published","status_reason_alt":null,"tags":[]}