Forward is taken from:
PBS' African American Lives 2
With: Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Maya Angelou
[Poem: Mickey Wallace]
Started off as Lil' Diz spinning like a typhoon
Manipulatorz, MZ, boom-shakalaka-boom
Mythmad, ASquad, holla if you hear me man
Death of DIZ, birth of Mick, now i do my own thing
Came in the game and I gave y'all the project
Mixtape/Album, banging like a moshpit
Stand Alone, Still Standing, sounding like a prophet
Underrated, slept on, yet to turn a profit
Area MCs turned blue like my denim
Knew that i was kicking antibiotics for the venom
Head on collision my intention is to end 'em
Honor his dying wish DIZ told me to GETEM
ThunderCat of Rap, swinging swords like Im Conan
Gifted with the scripture spitting like i wrote the Koran
No, I'm not a martian, but feeling like I'm no man
Call it god-body, yeah i feel like i know man
Tell me how you move forward with no plan
You say you heard it all before? Then you should know fam
Ain't nothing at the end of the road of that gram
Mick a high bidder, through my lens see your low hand
Fear no man. My whole crew Ram
We breath life, give insight to the motherland
At every moment lend a hand to my brother man
This is how the cream turns into butter fam
I live life no regrets let the past be
I am the past. Now the future? You should ask me
Kind of like how Nas went from Nasty
Get your mind game up and get to class B
Get your B up to a A, then get your A to Z
My boys looking at me now like, Mickey crazy
An 80's baby, granny's baby, Dasie raised me
Holla Pat, Penny, Winkie, Baby Joanie, Tracy
Now them my aunts and my momma put the real in me
You raised by a single woman? Holla if you hear me
If i could take it all back, I'd leave it where its left
And relive every moment to the death
Cause at this very moment I am that dude
To lead the youth out the mental slavery of the hood
I don't stop at the hood, cause the burbs got slaves too
Media get mid-evil with mental meat they feeding you
Synthesizer now wise up, Aquemini was teaching you
You can ride the bike with no handle bars?
But who's leading you?
Death around the corner
Who's with me to got Against the world
Pain is love. Rip out my heart to save these lost little girls
Bleed for a nation in need!
This just another body. Stand for what is right
They you love you, then holler crucify him
Tell them it is written, these sentences done sentenced me to
A life time that is not mine. Im here to reach you!
Get it in like a hand full of 7's
Rappers come a dime a dozen, so I'm throwing them 11's
And I'm looking for that mana they was getting from the heavens
Cause I'm here to make 'em rise like the feast of the unleavened
Say the the game is to be sold, I'm not buying what they selling
Ain't no future for the youth? Don't believe in what they telling
Heard that dreams ain't easy, word to Campbell, Tevin
If they say they know it all, I'm still gonna tell 'em
Willingly skip class, I will go GETEM
Hind sight is 20/20, I will not fail 'em
Used to do it for myself, now i do it for the brethren
Can i get a witness? Preach on reverend!
No poker face, Royal Flush, never folding
Destined as a child to be here Kelley Rowland
Mick King Midas so you know just what I'm holding
Much love to Jill, Live life like it's Golden
Play the game of life no pause, no controller
Hustle and I grind, cash in a save folder
Race against time, Venni, Vetti, V, told ya!
Do this for the youth like a Young Money soldier
Loyal to the cause like a dog, no Rover
Shooting for the stars, Mickey really going Rover
Play me in the UK, I'm a Land Rover
Michigan winters no match, i'm colder
God put it in me I don't need four clovers
Its a done deal, real estate home closer
Storm, move the clouds, and expose these posers
Sunny forecast, Al Roker, told ya!
This that moment right here…I feel you Nicki-Nicki
This that moment right here
The moment where you take hold of your life
When you stand for what is right
No matter how dark it gets
When you lead a generation not just with a microphone
But with your heart and with your conscious
This that moment right here
This that moment that people are killed for man
Ushering in a generation of truth man
