Rewind aKa Realness - Promises [tekst, tłumaczenie i interpretacja piosenki]

[Verse 1: Rewind]
While you niggas was sleep, I was steady grinding
While they was petty talking, I was steady rhyming
They was in the spotlight, I was on Osama;
Naw, I wasn't hiding, I was just designing
See, they did it for the kicks they was on they Ferragamo
While I put my team on like they was designer threads
I'm the cloth of my city, I stitches of the trenches
And if you don't remember I will freely jog your memory
I just pray we work it out like I'm all about my fitness
This has never been an image its just always been young wizzy
On these tracks I handle business, this the ballad of John Henry
Still driving, with real rhyming not finished until all my listeners listen
I mean listen don't just hear it, until the finances sufficient
And these friendships with this phoniness gets distant or done ended

[Hook]
I promise every time I talk, I promise to give you the real
I promise you this is my heart, exactly how this nigga feel[x2}
I promise, Oh Lord I promise[x2]

[Verse 2]
Promises promises, broken promises promises
Obviously honored spit, poetic and prominent
Provided to all of you, like a ho that's promiscuous
I'll show you what ironic is, in this basement writing I'm in
This zombie state of mind, yet I've never been so alive
The pistons turn and the pencil writes, now I'm pissed on life
Cause a nigga got will ma, like Flinstone's wife
And similar to the Flintstone's ride, my drive is from my soul
These niggas they don't know, that what I'm floating on
Is more than hope, this is more than some shit I wrote
When I'm bored at home, control those bars like a warden though
When I'm wyling, I'm a stay awhile, treat raps and tracks like a boarding home
And your decline and fall will be more depressing
Than a chick PMS'ing in autumn after postpartum I'm sorry yo
This is something I cannot be sorry for

[Hook]

[Verse 3]
I used to want the wealth the fame, the dames and all the baller shit
Now I just want half, but half of me, it still wants all of it
That's why I can't call it quits, '
Because every time I leave the booth I realize why I entered it
To give you the most intricate, sentiments, lyricist with sense
Showing you the differences from images rendered on your TV sets
Media ain't teaching ya, the television tells lies vivid
It so scripted, but our kids they listen to Viacom
Who inspires wrong, so I fire off, with this mic and cord
Until I'm hired on, they want it for them I got a higher cause
They like that lion cause, the cowards ain't got the courage to go against the odds
I'm spreading knowledge I'm conscious ain't got no backpack on
I like to think I'm fresh ain't got no tats or no damn snap back on

[Hook]

[Verse 4]
I'm spreading knowledge I'm conscious ain't got no backpack on
I like to think I'm fresh ain't got no tats or no damn snapback on
I rap with a....