Renaissance

Sitting at the lakefront working on my next LP

At 55th and LSD and you will see

You see something about the water man, it soothes the soul

Rinses, cleanses, and keeps us all

I swear without nature I'd go insane

On these concrete streets, I can't maintain

Woke up this morning in a vile ass mood

So I came to the lake to change my attitude

And my altitude, with a blackened mind

I'm wondering what made Malcolm smile

In the midst of hate, and ostracism

How do people maintain in the optimism?

Sometimes I think I'm losing mine

If I ain't writing or producing, I'm one step from losing my mind

I gotta loosen up and find a way to unwind without no shit and wine

I'm peeping out the people as they pass me by

I see a thieving fly flavor and I'm asking for a sign

Staring at the skyscrapers, scratching the sky

Blocking out the sunshine, got me asking why

It don't matter where you at if you don't know the time

If you need a lift, hold tight, you 'bout to climb

Keep the elevation for your soul, body, and mind

The renaissance, the renaissance

It don't matter where you at if you don't know the time

Wise words I heard as a youth still in my mind

Feeling divine, revealing the sign, for healing the blind

Cause too many cats have been locked or killed in the crime

Where I live stick-up-kids concealing the nine

They stealing your shine, front how I live spilling your spine

Chicken-heads is a dime a dozen willing to grind

Mad kids, no husbands, there's a million fine

Through out my area code, it's mass hysteria mode

Shaken got us feeling like inferior foes

But no one will legislate myself, my interior grows

Makes it felt when I deliver my exterior blows

To any obstacle

What did you think? I want my pockets full

Very possible, because this world is filled with lots of jewels

The best one is the one that last forever

Cause it's the one you treasure, the principle of pleasure

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Through the eyes of the wise, let me paint a picture

Sands without the Rawls, like the J without the mixer

We spit the scripts so hot, your ears blister

That's why you cop a fixture of the all natural elixir

Combined with The Catalysts makes it hazardous

To those who think not and want to test the fabulous

I take you out, then bring you back like Lazarus

J Sands, Capital D, the strategists

We using music as an answer to this inner city cancer

I guess I'm blessed with my chance to advance the

Hip-hop art, and add my add spark

The catechist to the catalysts spreading light on the dark

So we embark on a journey from here to win

From the land of three rivers to the city of wind

With the pen, we ascend on air like The Nonce

With my fellow confidants, continue in the renaissance

It don't matter where you at if you don't know the time

If you need a lift, hold tight, you 'bout to climb

Keep the elevation for your soul, body, and mind

The renaissance, the renaissance

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