Kardinal Offishall Lyrics

Album: Unknown

Powerfulll Lyrics

f/ Jully Black, Tara Chase

 

 [Kardinal Offishall]

 Yo, yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

 yo, yeoooow!

 Yeah huh

 Wake up!

 Are we awake, are we wake, are we wake

 Take it low, low low low low

 Take it low take it low, take it low

 Yo!

 I said yo, I said yo, I said yo

 

 Yeah

 Kardinal is walkin' (yo) just how we be talking (Yo)

 Fakes get they face palmed, and thrown to the floor

 Shout out to the ghetto, girl's in they stilettos

 With their tongue rings, doing tricks, sippn' on Ameretto

 Fire pon a fosse-man a bad man truss me

 Not a homophobic, just a man who loves pssss

 Come here let me see you, and throw a little game

 You can either fall in love with the hood or with the name

 Explicit lyriciasm (yo) nuff narcissism

 Is invading hip-hop, replacing escapism

 My vision is an ism (yo) smoke it till you're high

 Unattainable goals blank to your third eye (yo)

 Maneuvering high skies to low tone flows

 Straight to the five mic sight is where the flow goes

 Killing 'em with knowledge - the mind is the key

 Just sign on the dotted line and check who you be

 

 CHORUS [Jully Black] {Kardinal}

 You {you}, me {me}, powerful {so powerful}

 We're fighting for this goal and we ain't gonna stop

 {We ain't never gonna stop y'all}

 I said you {you}, me {me}, is wonderful {so wonderful}

 We'll be makin' babies til our army's on top

 {'Til we standing on the top y'all}

 

 [Kardinal Offishall]

 The funk is in the air (yo) you might suffocate

 If you don't strap on your mack on and watch I articulate

 We don't shake hands with cops (yo) we don't participate

 Light up an informer and make his mouth menstrate (yo)

 Black is for Black, they can't understand that

 So they call it "reverse racism" and try to pin it back (yo)

 But if we ain't for us, who for us? them? - nah!

 If it was up to them they would have us ridin' in the back of the bus

 In handcuffs and other shackles (yo) check Mr. Bush

 Plant cocaine on me and call it operation push

 Our Prime Minister is actually second in command

 Bending over to the star spangled-politically strangled

 So we have to move (yo) through the underground

 Encode the funk mode and claim back the sound (yo)

 'Cause what's mine is gonna stay mine, word to line for line

 Off the top and all that

 Peace to magnificent rap

 

 CHORUS

 

 [Tara Chase]

 Look out

 Cameras are watching you, they watching you from birth

 And they be killing us softly by biologically attacking us first

 Don't think that you're immune

 'Cause your acquired system is soon to be consumed

 Flesh eating disorder, false claims of water

 I rip through the lies so I can bare sons and daughters, and soldiers

 Build my camp up like an army over Giza, running suicide missions

 You can't disarm me

 

 CHORUS **no Kardinal**

 

 **Jully Black ad-libs**

 

 [Jully Black]

 Making babies 'til our army's on top

 yeah, yeah

 Oh yeah

 [Kardinal Offishall]

 Wake up!

 Take it low, low low low low low

 

 OUTRO [Kardinal Offishall]

 Dear Lord,

 I really, I don't even know how to ax this

 You know, I can't, this this this is not an act

 I must, from the bottom of my heart, ask forgiveness for my sins

 But you know what

 I ask that you give me the strength to be able to reach 

 all of those peoples, on every street corner, every block, every ghetto

 All of those people, that we sometimes think are not worthy of blessings, 

 they're worthy to me

 And I think that as a man given the blessings you have given me

 The opportunity to speak, that I need to speak the language 

 of those people, and I need to reach them

 You know, beacuse there's are a lot of good people on this Earth, 

 but there still some people that need a talking to

 And I ask you to give me the strength to reach out to those people

 You know because I believe everybody is worthy of your blessings

 So I ask that you give, you give me, my family, my crew, F.O.S, the circle

 All of us, all the babies that are being born

 You give us the strength to be able to deal with it how you see fit

 Beacuse you give all of us the power, as much as some people might not believe it

 You give us the strength to reach out and touch a lot people

 So Lord I ask you give me the strength to go out in the world and start the fire

 You know, start your fire, you understand I'm saying

 Lord, just please be with me, be with me 

 and give me the strength and let me do this

 Come to you as humble man, Kardinal Offishall

 Quest For Fire