|
[Intro: Killah Priest] |
|
Wassup, whats the deal? |
|
Feel so good tonight, heh heh |
|
Yo, this is the album right here, yeah |
|
Killah priest, I'm back |
|
I'm feeling good too |
|
Yeah, yeah |
|
Up in the house (yeah, waddup brooklyn) |
|
Right about now (waddup new york) |
|
Yo man (waddup cali) |
|
Yo (waddup midwest) |
|
I'm just ready to get into this |
|
Yeah (count em all down) |
|
So intimate |
|
I just can't believe I'm seein it with my own eyes on paper |
|
[Killah Priest] |
|
Yo, yo, yo |
|
Welcome to Black August |
|
This is the portrait of a poor kid |
|
That came to fortune |
|
Back before when |
|
I had nothin |
|
Just a pad busting **** rhymes like coke lines |
|
I carefully laid them out, then seperate them |
|
Then I would lace one |
|
It made my face numb |
|
Struck from a bass drum |
|
Then I would pass the pad like glass to my man |
|
And he would take some |
|
He used to shake from |
|
Overdosin, we both endulgin |
|
Eyes were bulgin, remaining focused |
|
But the brain was frozen |
|
It's the same as smokin |
|
We would just stand, just stare |
|
Film would appear, and tapes would start rollin |
|
It took us way back like a-tracks, it's so amazing |
|
My man used to say that, this ain't rap |
|
'Priest, your lyrics, are too vivid' |
|
'They more like pictures, you can feel it' |
|
'Yo, you gifted', it flows like liquid, mystic |
|
I never witnessed such things as beautiful |
|
As unusual, like a musical |
|
[Hook: Killah Priest] |
|
So say 'Black August', and that's the chorus |
|
It's so gorgeous, it's so beautiful, unusual |
|
And 'member y'all this is no rap |
|
These are moments captured on a kodak |
|
So hold that |
|
So say 'Black August', and that's the chorus |
|
It's that gorgeous, it's so beautiful, unusual |
|
And 'member y'all this is no rap |
|
These are moments captured on a kodak |
|
So hold that |
|
(So hold that, so hold that, don't hold back) |
|
[Killah Priest] |
|
Yeah, yo, yo |
|
Music fallin |
|
Like leaves in autumn |
|
I hope you caught one |
|
Please hold it close to you |
|
It's for the pupils, of the new school |
|
It's chicken noodles |
|
It's vitamins, rice and beans |
|
A nice cusine, you like it steamed |
|
Or broiled? |
|
Grab it like soil |
|
This mic is royal |
|
My pens a needle, my arms a notepad |
|
My thoughts a **** bag, my rooms a coke lab |
|
I cooked up tunes |
|
My homie smoked tash, and used to throw cash |
|
Out of born fishes, they want the raw lyrics |
|
Shoot or sniff it, you call it |
|
Alcoholics listen |
|
Smiling, while nodding off, mumblin |
|
'This kid has talent' |
|
Then pass out, while spillin they quarts |
|
Then open up another gallon |
|
I smoke from a chalice, who wanna challenge? |
|
I spoke inbalanced |
|
Priest the magic man |
|
Presto, there goes your ghetto |
|
Colored, increase your level |
|
You gotta love it baby |
|
[Hook] |
|
[Killah Priest] |
|
Yeah, uh huh, yeah |
|
I get em with the rhythm |
|
Twist em, spittin like exorcism |
|
A poets wisdom, give em vision, dialect |
|
Just listen, to productions |
|
Let it flush your system keep discussions |
|
To a minimum, watch me I'm winnin em |
|
Those imprisoned from the bling-bling |
|
Locked up like sing, sing |
|
Until I ginseng root |
|
Right into it like a fruit again |
|
Sight to the blind, speech to the mute, yeah |
|
[Talking: Killah Priest] |
|
It's all day man |
|
I can't believe what I'm hearin |
|
You know what I'm sayin? |
|
What I'm seein, it's beautiful |
|
I could go all day long, it's the life |
|
Yo, I could just keep going (Priest) |
|
Yeah, check it out, yo (Killah Priest, baby) |
|
[Killah Priest] |
|
My heart is jaded, star gazin, R rated |
|
Nickel-plated, manipulated |
|
It gets better when it ages |
|
So amazing, I say 'Amen' |
|
So majestic, emotions like a slow record |
|
It's like a epic, or a ****ny necklace |
|
Catch me at the guestlist |
|
At Black August, check my performance |
|
I'm brainstormin, rain pourin, no need for umbrellas |
|
I'm tryna tell ya, best seller |
|
Thoughts angelic, soft like velvet |
|
Take off my helmet, the warriors home |
|
Like Centurions in Rome |
|
You know what I mean? I just zone |
|
I could go all day with this |
|
Just gimmie- where the hook at? |
|
[Hook] |
|
[Fade out] |
