Mahogany Oracles Video (MV)

Infatuated with how far I could take it
Fascinated by the facts that
Should've never let me to make it
What had me running from cops
Got me running to class
Biggest moment of my life
Like Tua with the pass
See I was bred to be a champ
But understand you fail
When you think
It can't be taken from your hands
So leave it on the dance floor
Never leave it to chance or
You'll windup another
Would've could've should've
Good enough to have played for John Wooden
But no one care to listen cuz you didn't
You see, I got a list of regrets
That make me
A better player at chess
This stress reaches a stretch
But with every struggle I progress
I'm placing pieces together you couldn't connect
Seen things you would need with special effects
Put rhymes to beats
You can see
Lookin thru your third lens
Still it's Stoic on the beat and Grafik on the content
Lunatiks
Stoic, Stoic
Theses eyes'd seen things
Go off and be great
These pills don't treat pain
Instead a mistake
Spent all day in the shade
'Cause I can't get darker
At least for my sake
So I can't let harder
Habits take me under
And I can't tread water
With cinder block kicks on
Presence brick and mortar
And the reason that I don't
Flip the former
Is something that I call
Paranoia
Avoid a problem
Since spotted on horizon
Don't like 'em
Stopped countin' nine lives when
Realizin' that I'm
Well past my fifth one
Paralyzed with fear
Today was different
Reignited by a
Closing distance
Between what I'm getting
And what is given
So I grabbed the hammer and the chisel
Started chippin' away
Reminded that
Rome wasn't built in a day
Nothing to lose
Nothing to prove
Time is telling
Nothing to lose
Nothing to prove
Times are telling
Hardly ever have I made it hard to figure
I've been reppin' with this LA fitted
Since OJ was acquitted
I've been committed to this vision of illustrious living
You can see where others have failed, Ive succeeded
For reasons beyond the stripes on my arm
The ink in my flesh
The price that it's cost
I know that I'm blessed
Despite what I lost
So when it's time to show face
I never come up short
The illest soldier
When I'm holding down the fort
Kickin' knowledge from the steps of my porch
A young oracle wielding the torch
Encroaching on limits you couldn't approach
Paying dues you couldn't afford
A double edge sword when I walk through the door
Edgar Allen, I came knockin' from under the floor
Represent! Represent!
Like Nas in '94
Lunatiks, Rest assured
The best is still in store
We pushing the culture forward
Nothing to lose
Nothing to prove
Time is telling
Nothing to lose
Nothing to prove
Times are telling
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