realness personified
my name? kayiel.
my music? hip hop.
what am i? an emcee. realness personified.
enjoy. and dont forget to LISTEN !!
Lyrics
Welcome to the documentary of CHI LAI
Where very real pain has been witnessed by these Eyes
The life and times that I keep inside of me
So if I shed a tear or two in this song .. my apologies
Ive tried honestly to stick with this policy:
That I be real with myself and God with all my Heart, you see
By that philosophy Ill teach a brotherhood
But if they prove as too stubborn, my best of luck to you
I had to suffer too, wasn’t no Huxtable
I was raised in the streets .. [think it was comfortable ? ]
Yeah ghetto in the burbs, see ghetto’s just a WORD
A word on the idea of basically being POOR
Basically, meanin that I lived that life
Despite the area .. CHILDREN, I been through strife
I get real tired, of lil critics doubting my beginnings
So shutup and sit down for a minute, .. just LISTEN …
I BEEN THROUGH STRIFE, I BEEN THROUGH LIFE
I BEEN THROUGH HARDSHIPS, SO I DON’T THINK TWICE, I
LEARN FROM MISTAKES, AND GRANTED I STILL LOSE
BUT WHEN IT COMES DOWN TO IT, YO, IM STILL HUMAN
I got a fleshy yellow underbelly under all this armor
Strip down my armor .. [what] .. I put a guard up
[A shell of conscience,] got a turtle in my brain
It houses my thoughts .. my inner workings of the day
With the strength of a wave I overturn what they would say
Be a person they could claim was worthy of being framed
Im nothing special .. just an image of God
With the talents Hes instilled in me Im a Winner of War
For these people to see, and for these devils to Fear
While the demons I keep in my closet diminish and wear
.. Im just living to eat, I see em grittin they teeth
Prayin for the day they get tired, and begin to fatigue
Until then I keep my cross on my heart, hope to die
S’ like .. when we were kids pinky promising right ?
.They say “Kenny I see hope in your eyes”
I saw “nah, what you seein is probably Stars”
