Bodies Around Boomboxes Yelling (Rewind Forward)

Listen/purchase the Baby (Being a Black youth) album here: https://onebelo.bandcamp.com/album/baby-being-a-black-youth Purchase Art Official Test Tube Baby album here: https://onebelo.bandcamp.com/merch/test-tube-baby-album Verse 1 I was sent to the three-fourths of Water covered Earth Spittin' Fire but i'm cool like the Element of Wind Negative exist 'til you develop the pic It was One to the Nine to the Seven to the Six Jazz and Soul music forever getting spins But these days a discorecord was the sh#t And welcome back Kotter/Carter was a television hit But four years and Reagan was a presidential pick We pitched pennies in wells but never get a sip Like ice water in hell The devil with a grin The rich feeding themselves Forever til the end Now my destiny is felon in the pin Cuz the Melanin is dwellin' in my skin F it to the pigs My attitude Ice Cube, Yella, Eazy, Ren No innocence We’re guilty of the same ignorance Muslim oils came to my sense I never did it since Verse 2 Now don't get it twisted like a fellow with a wrench Suicide was never meant But mal-nourishment from Drugs and alcohol in my system in a sense It's the same when a blade severe veins in ya wrist Connected to a raised hand rebel with a fist In a trench with a weapon seeking heaven in the end Since Binary began this how I represent You can run and tell a friend Or sell it to a kid It's too many fake smiles that stretch over the chin Haters wanna take a mile so I never give an inch No disrespect I know my elders feel a bit When they ask me about life I tell'em it's a B!!!!#ch And when I say B!#ch I ain't talking 'bout no estrogen and tits I'm talkin' 'bout experiences testing me to quit I'm wrestlin' within knowing winners never did Verse 3 But haters do exist like treble in the mix I bass in their face like decibels of ten We ain't the same level, same style you could try to walk a mile you could never do it stepping in my kicks And if you ever fix ya lips to discuss One Be Lo You can say "He was a legend with the pen" once again CREDITS from Baby (Being a black youth), released November 7, 2020 BEAT PRODUCTION: Eric G (Soul Council) ADDITIONAL INSTRUMENTATION: Jonas Siegel LYRICS: One Be Lo SCRATCHES: DJ Abilities RECORDING/MIXING ENGINEER: Aaron Angus MASTERING ENGINEER: D Sane VIDEO DIRECTOR: Evan Doheny LABEL: Subterraneous Records