Mlk (Dream Big) 2.0 - Substantial, See King, Matthew Shell

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Back stateside on MLK riding

Low in the whip look like no one’s driving (Repeat 3x)

Whether 395 or 704

Dream big baby stay steady on course

VERSE 1 (See King)

I grace these peasants with my presence King Martin Luther

The streets with his namesakes the perfect place to find a shooter

A civil rights mover turning left up in a Cougar

Watching the revolution on TVs took by a looter

On fire like H Street, tongue twerks on a break beat

History maker tell spectator to take seat

Enjoy the experience of this social experiment

Send shots at Cyclops;

close the eye on the pyramid

I’m too dope it’s no legalizing this lyricist

Father MC and your baby mother’s the surrogate

Hip Hop’s in my heritage, save it from the culture vultures and

The poet poachers, still not a player though I’m dressing like the coaches

Most of us fell victim, to well-placed pitfalls got my dawgs in the system

The chocolate city now suffers from vitiligo

The dream died on that balcony pray it wakes up tomorrow

VERSE 2 (Substantial)

Mike King like the minister’s initial name

Fighting imprisonment and those with wicked aims

Who administer pain, but we navigate the baddest fate

Like our ancestors did use our head to carry weight

Many chose to move it so now they facing the music

Misguided warriors can’t find their place amongst the movement

So you know the guns stay shooting ‘cause the streets blind niggas

Don’t see their a budding Nobel Peace Prize Winner

Tryna' eat my dinner like what’s mine is yours…

Really what’s mine is ours, need to combine our power

Why shine for hours we can reflect eternally

For y’all to take me seriously, they’d have to murder me

No respect like the mascot in gold & burgundy

But certainly spitters this ill belong in infirmaries

Still dreaming temporary setbacks be deferring me

But my Corretta know betta she ride for eternity

(See King)

Lost my sight at the podium, blinded by diabetes

A diet with too much sodium still writing this opium

Claim country in crisis gain control of petroleum

Dreamt big as a kid, grew to be a custodian

Mass media frenzy, beamers Benzes and Bentleys

Before we party’d with panthers but now the venue is empty

Still penny pinching while the devil’s Willie lynching

Guess my brother was too poor to pay attention… Overstand!

(Substantial)

Baby soldiers taken over never be an older man

Ain’t playing with a full deck, no one there to hold their hand

So they hold the steel like they wielding the wrath of God

Or hoping for a deal for their skill as a rapping God

…Hoping to give them chills with their catalog

Or hoop dreaming cuz they got skills with a basketball

Once you’re at the mall speaking to and for the people

Will you follow like sheep do or take a stance against evil while we’re…

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