Cool Mornings-Substantial/See King/Matthew Shell

[00:03.99]No matter where it leads [00:06.32]No matter what abuses it may bring [00:09.30]I'm gonna tell the truth [00:11.62]Back stateside on MLK riding [00:13.75]Low in the whip look like no one’s driving [00:16.83]Back stateside on MLK riding [00:19.13]Low in the whip look like no one’s driving [00:21.96]Back stateside on MLK riding [00:24.59]Low in the whip look like no one’s driving [00:28.90]Whether 395 or 704 [00:30.72]Dream big baby stay steady on course [00:33.14] [00:33.70]I grace these peasants with my presence King Martin Luther, [00:36.44]The streets with his namesakes the perfect place to find a shooter [00:38.93]A civil rights mover turning left up in a Cougar, [00:41.83]Watching the revolution on TVs took by a looter [00:44.28]On fire like H Street, tongue twerks on a break beat, [00:47.47]History maker tell spectator to take seat [00:49.85]Enjoy the experience of this social experiment, [00:52.88]Send shots at Cyclops; close the eye on the pyramid [00:55.52]I’m too dope it’s no legalizing this lyricist, [00:58.57]Father MC and your baby mother’s the surrogate [01:01.31]Hip Hop’s in my heritage [01:04.06]Save it from the culture vultures and [01:04.81]The poet poachers, still not a player though [01:06.94]I’m dressing like the coaches [01:08.32]Most of us fell victim [01:09.81]To well-placed pitfalls got my dawgs in the system [01:12.38]The chocolate city now suffers from vitiligo, [01:15.57]The dream died on that balcony pray it wakes up tomorrow [01:17.74] [01:18.59]Back stateside on MLK riding [01:20.95]Low in the whip look like no one’s driving [01:23.63]Back stateside on MLK riding [01:26.38]Low in the whip look like no one’s driving [01:29.17]Back stateside on MLK riding [01:32.01]Low in the whip look like no one’s driving [01:34.91]Whether 395 or 704 [01:37.55]Dream big baby stay steady on course [01:40.04] [01:40.75]Mike King like the minister’s initial name [01:43.08]Fighting imprisonment and those with wicked aims [01:45.95]Who administer pain, but we navigate the baddest fate [01:48.89]Like our ancestors did use our head to carry weight [01:51.69]Many chose to move it so now they facing the music [01:54.22]Misguided warriors can’t find their place amongst the movement [01:56.95]So you know the guns stay shooting [01:58.31]‘Cause the streets blind niggas [01:59.67]Don’t see their a budding Nobel Peace Prize Winner [02:02.26]Tryna’ eat my dinner like what’s mine is yours… [02:05.24]Really what’s mine is ours, need to combine our power [02:07.72]Why shine for hours we can reflect eternally [02:10.97]For y’all to take me seriously, they’d have to murder me [02:13.66]No respect like the mascot in gold & burgundy [02:16.49]But certainly spitters this ill belong in infirmaries [02:19.57]Still dreaming temporary setbacks be deferring me [02:21.90]But my Corretta know betta she ride for eternity [02:24.72] [02:25.03]Back stateside on MLK riding [02:27.89]Low in the whip look like no one’s driving [02:30.62]Back stateside on MLK riding [02:33.30]Low in the whip look like no one’s driving [02:36.20]Back stateside on MLK riding [02:38.89]Low in the whip look like no one’s driving [02:41.77]Whether 395 or 704 [02:44.47]Dream big baby stay steady on course [02:46.84] [02:47.49]This war is doing a great deal to destroy the lives of [02:52.39]Thousands and thousands of my brothers and sisters. [02:55.23]We are dying physically [02:57.15]And the other thing is that [02:58.18]We are dying spiritually and psychologically [03:01.33]In disproportionate numbers at home in the ghettos [03:03.91]And I think the war itself accounts for our spiritual [03:08.41]And psychological death here at home. [03:09.88] [03:10.19]Lost my sight at the podium, blinded by diabetes [03:12.01]A diet with too much sodium still writing this opium [03:15.30]Claim country in crisis gain control of petroleum [03:17.92]Dreamt big as a kid, grew to be a custodian [03:20.71]Mass media frenzy, beamers Benzes and Bentleys [03:23.60]Before we party'd with panthers but now the venue is empty [03:26.08]Still penny pinching while the devil’s Willie lynching, [03:29.02]Guess my brother was too poor to pay attention… [03:31.53]Overstand! [03:32.04] [03:32.29]Baby soldiers taken over never be an older man [03:34.99]Ain't playing with a full deck [03:36.31]No one there to hold their hand [03:37.82]So they hold the steel like they wielding the wrath of God [03:40.56]Hoping for a deal for their skill as a rapping God [03:43.30]Hoping to give them chills with their catalog [03:46.58]Or hoop dreaming ‘cause they got skills with a basketball [03:49.36]But once they’re at the mall speaking to and for the people [03:51.38]Will you follow like sheep do [03:52.94]Or take a stance against evil while we’re… [03:54.87] [03:55.07]Back stateside on MLK riding [03:57.09]Low in the whip look like no one’s driving [03:59.83]Back stateside on MLK riding [04:02.70]Low in the whip look like no one’s driving [04:05.39]Back stateside on MLK riding [04:08.18]Low in the whip look like no one’s driving [04:11.05]Whether 395 or 704 [04:13.74]Dream big baby stay steady on course