Anansi, Anansi

Lyrics

[Verse 1] My mama preached me stories of Anansi That's why my storytelling keep me on beat She said, "If you whisper they'll never hear you speak And lions will be forced to tell the stories of sheep" Well I see the vision on the big screen I prayed to God my necklace gleamed Inspiration from eclectic scenes Show that even though hell is hot It's grass got a certain green I hope it Hit you as much as it hit my own Put faith in one man When he fall he'll break through your home Crash through thе ceiling Hanging my body out of the coop Hit my head crawling out of it Feel thе knot on my roof Driving towards the sky, what a view I look up hoping you can see shit too I'll tear it down if you raised up, true This rapping shit gon' get me through [Chorus] Writing "Long live the flower that blooms from concrete" Humming "Long live the flower that blooms from concrete Nigga, long live the flower that blooms from concrete For everyone hopes they don't speak" Singing "Long lives the flower that blooms from concrete Attached to the picture frame sitting up on the street" Yelling "Long live the flower that blooms from concrete For everyone prays they don't speak" Nigga [Verse 2] I'm telling the stories The gods and the glory That young boy is the villain? Blame it on his circulatory Systematic pressures Fester in the back of his mind So now he sits all day alleviating wings from spines Thinking how he can put them on his Say what it is, nigga a man when he should be a kid Have the choir sing, heaven out the crib Raise those hands high, high above your lid And shake them, sway them, throw them Right into the crowd Do this for the love Congregation sing it out loud We preaching, no soapbox He creeping, let's hope not What sleeps in the sidewalk Eats up the whole block Long live the bloomer that can't speak We pray for the flower choked up between concrete Cause looking up to the sky is beautiful from the street But lurking up in those clouds Lies the bottom of feet, nigga Don't get Stomped out Don't get Stomped out Don't get Stomped out