Melancholy, spoken word intro set to a stand up bass. Exploding into a RAW hip-hop call to arms! The song is an extraordinary blend of smoky coffee house poetry and rugged hip-hop sensibility. Great beat, phenomenal lyrics.
THE best rapper you've never heard!
The future of hip-hop is SLICK ANT.
Welcome future. This is your loyal representative Slick Ant. Our pain, our joy, our bounce is well documented in the songs below.
Story behind the song
Observation of my surroundings and deep introspection of my own feelings toward our world and our culture inspired this song.
We need to look at our world today, fix what needs to be fixed, and be good to each other.All the negative energy we disperse will ultimately come back to kill us and our babies if we don't straighten up and spread love.
Lyrics
(Opening Poem)
In the midst of war my core of heartache/
is negotiating failed and sealed a son's fate/
Too late 2 bring him back/
I put voice 2 track/
so I'll live 4ever changing lives 4 better/
at the end of the day when I pray 4 peace/
Someone's catching a bullet simultaneously/
Overseas and here/
danger's present and clear/
so we blur our perception with weed and beer/
Drugs and rap suck us into fantasy's trap/
numbing us to the reality we're bombing Iraq/
go on and stack/
represent your silly ass set/
ignorance is bliss and you don't know no better yet/
I flow good as it gets but denied my props/
maybe, I'd fair better serving musical rocks/
There's Slick in the club with a bottle bub!/
Shake the fake shit/
walking dead in the Matrix/
I'll die to see kids live a life that's greater/ than SPENDING their whole lives chasing the paper/
YES, I'm hater!/
Hate the way the music is going/
Hate the radio for being annoying/
Hate the industry 4 killing positivity slogans/
only promoting/
sex, drugs, and violence/
Throwing 'bows and wilding/
My pain's deep/
Meet the black sheep of this rap thing/
Changing thoughts like this beat....
(1st Verse)
I get it on/
ROCK harder than KORN/
my flow is HEAVY METAL slung by my brainSTORM's/
flaming TORNADOS/
hater's better lay low/
my flow is POISONOUS and if you BITE it could fatal/
MISSION:IMPOSSIBLE/
I CRUISE through the Uncle TOMs in this industry/
Spit the message relentlessly/
See I'm a leader/
Of the next wave of the leaders/
Recording artists and progressive thinkers/
Come on! We're gonna make it/
Then we're going to CHANGE it/
50 CENT style but now we're PATIENTLY WAITING/
heads blatantly hating'/
trying to get a RISE out of Slick/
so I do, above the bullshit/
Man I'm too quick/
flow is too sick for the doubters to deny/
without batting an eye/
I stand tall, 'bout as tall as I can/
best I know how/
In the face of what's going on Right Now/
(Chorus)
Right Now...Y'all better take notice
Right Now...Y'all better get focused
Right Now...Take action stop hoping
Right Now...As I speak our foes are in motion
(2nd Verse)
Right Now, our enemies are plotting and waiting/
Ask the folks in New York if think that I'm playing/
We're a targeted nation/
Rooted in DIRTY MONEY from the UNDERGROUND/
Seen as KINGS of abomination/
so affluent and flagrant/
The ENVY of the world, big MONEY making/
The Earth's Police Station/
but who put us in charge?/
We've got our own house to clean/
the big cheese better watch that GREEN/
(Chorus)
(3rd Verse)
Right Now, my people rather listen to tracks/
Chock full of hoes and bitches instead of my raps/
Hip-Hop's gone SOUTH/
bought some gold teeth, adopted a little bounce/
And fattened it's bank account/
What is it all about?/
People see rapping as a way to get rich quick/
if you stick to the script/
Follow the puppeteers/
Rocking the latest gear/
You're a star now boy, but look how you got here/
Selling your soul!/
Leading the kids off the road of success, but it's cool you're balling out of control :o)/
Let me pack up and fold/
People ain't listening/
Maybe I don't cuss enough/
I'm uninteresting/
Maybe I don't tell enough jokes now/
Or I don't use the same ol' samples. How/
are people supposed to grow?!?/
I probably won't blow/
'cause I don't spit as ignorant as you like it/
(Chorus)
(Last Verse/Beat Change)
Right Now, My feelings for the music are changing/
I used to love it with a passion. Now I'm starting to hate it/
And I'm feeling undedicated/
I'm one and done/
This album took 3 years, my 1st and LAST one/
The music ain't fun like it used to be/
You see, Wu-Tang Clan was the stuff to me/
Dre, Tim, and the Neps have the hottest beats/
Roll them all in one and you get the essence of me/
All top 10 sellers, multi-platinum/
but people aren't sold on my skills in rapping/
Tell me what happened?/
Skill used to be/
the measure of an artist not
