Hassaan Mackey Verse:
1970 something…my mamma made me
Raised me amongst the crazies for the papes
B!

The baby out of all her kids plus she had placed me a predicament strangely under guides of safety oddly enough

It’s us against what won’t tuck to fit between
Substances life keeps rushing in

My sister was a victim of teenage love and shit
Mama treated liquor like she made love to it
All because of it

I was put out into the world and judged for it!
Say what you want you bitch!

That’s what I’m a product of…taught full of pain how to produce love …hungry nigga get ya produce up..

Im from the ghetto where some how the sun’s forever yellow even under the metal the shooter holds nothing can’t remove the soul of the man in the background yelling

Somebody better tell ‘em cause I been on a local grind don’t mean I ain’t out of town getting things buzzing below it and above it

Got family that’s counting on cousin to get us out the bullshit …just need a good ass rope I could pull with and we gone make it I’m already considered a home town favorite
My whole family know I hold this rap shit sacred and ain’t shit in the world gone change it ….Get up!

Chorus:
“This that upright that we used to
Don’t get uptight try to prove to”

yU The 78er Verse:
Now all of these choices led towards today
Fortunate enuff to say it could’ve went the other way
Ancestors on the other side of the curtain
Probly workin sh*t out, for a brova
Art lets, them know I love ‘em
I am many up in one, rhythm, midi up the drum
When it really got gritty, ask “did he up & run?”
Answer is surely, no. Fourty-four, gon be bold
Never going below, I’m feelin more in control
Than I ever have, better than my level last time..
Integrity in motion, when u hear my ass is rhyming
Loved ones done died &, I’m here to amplify them
Styling the expression that I’m seeing thru this wide lens scope
My kinfolk done never been broke
That is just the state of mind of one who gave up hope
Zoom in up close, do I look like I am muthaf*kin playin?
I’ve been up from the p.m. to the a.m., namsayn??!
The snakes done slithered they way up in this
Doesn’t make any sense, that’s why I’m sayin this sh*t to yall
Just evolve, wrote this literally sh*tin in a stall
Dimwitted, cats done benefitted. That ain’t lit at all,
I get the ball, then I’m ghosting
Had to add in that emotion
Then after we done roast’em, raise ur glass as we toast to better
y is the chosen letter, soldiers hold ur head up
I don’t get upset, i situate the set-up.. better tell’em!!!!

Chorus:
“This that upright that we used to
Don’t get uptight try to prove to
This that upright you ain’t used to
Don’t get uptight just improve you
You see us out here
You see us “

Phase One Verse
“Wonder… let’s try it..“ (Women’s voice)
Jump off the cliff, let my wings bless me

Call it ascension, far as development

Don’t arrest me

Hate on sight

Got me on snipe like I was Wesley

If you were poor from the door, i get its

Hard to feel wealthy

Within

Have

Filthy grim

Mal cultured men

They say turn the cheek

Work, Take it on the chin

Nah, I press the brakes again

Heal, then I break again

Neal, for the light of God

Not, for the light of man

Chill

You know

That the word of man kill

Two sides

I know a side

Where word of man build

Somewhere

Middle-End

Don’t trust man still

I’m upright

Somedays, carry them sad grills

Cat-a-pult

Express

How ca-ter-pil-lars feels

Adult male

Who man-if-est

That

Butta ill

Chin up, Chest out

Music

That provide thrills

From the bass (bottom)

Go up right

Till it just here.

Chorus:
“This that upright that we used to
Don’t get uptight try to prove to
This that upright you ain’t used to
Don’t get uptight just improve you
You see us out here, You see us…”