Badi - The Departure lyrics
rate meIt seems like for days, my flight has been delayed<br />
And I can see the plane sitting on the runway<br />
But I heard there's a shortage of pilots<br />
We got the craft, but nobody can recall how to fly it<br />
So I've been in the terminal basement, creating<br />
I ain't giving in to imitation<br />
Role playing? na, this is my Departure<br />
I'm taking off, feel the ground breaking<br />
And I know what you're thinking, rapping is lame<br />
But that's not how it has to remain<br />
Cause somewhere in a kid in the back of their brain<br />
Lies the answer to bring about change<br />
Meanwhile we sing about chains hanging<br />
At an all time low, put ya hazard lights on, ride slow<br />
In circles cause ya not sure where to go<br />
I wonder would you even care to know<br />
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CHORUS:<br />
Prepare yourself for the departure<br />
Strap yaself in, I'm about to start something<br />
Next movement, this is a departure<br />
From the usual, this is more suitable<br />
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Now I can't proceed if I can't see the past<br />
So let me go back to see the (Cedar) Ave<br />
Where it all started, so I'm traveling the farthest<br />
Before we became marketing targets<br />
Before the game was just rosters of artists<br />
That all seem to claim to be the hardest<br />
But I hear... just a bunch of little sean carters<br />
You see em, they on every corner like starbucks<br />
Now, get rich or die trying, so we all try rhyming<br />
But there was a time when hip hop wasn't bringing any loot in<br />
Imagine, rappers not rappin bout shootin'<br />
Just being about the music<br />
Only concerned with getting the crowd moving<br />
The block party could hear it, innovation<br />
Moving instruction always been a part of the lyrics<br />
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CHORUS:<br />
Prepare yourself for the departure<br />
Strap yaself in, I'm about to start something<br />
Next movement, this is a departure<br />
From the usual, this is more suitable<br />
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We at stand still for the time being<br />
You know it, you see everything that I'm seeing<br />
But I'm not leaving, even though this is the departure<br />
I'd never abandon the culture<br />
Even when I see most of<br />
My people are so close to<br />
Giving up cause it ain't livin' up to what it's spose to<br />
Listen I'll depart if that'll bring us closer<br />
Exec's look past me, cause I don't fit in they boxes<br />
Cause this is not gettin' a profit<br />
I rap about reality, the recognition of Prophets<br />
To spit what I believe, I gotta dig in my pockets<br />
But I got this, no problem<br />
Already in motion, nobody can stop this<br />
You swear that it died from the past couple years<br />
But I'm here to tell you it's only up from here
