The Black Canvas

DJ, I know love song, heart is torn in pieces,

Future may be that is gone, play it all night long.

I know I’m such a fool, i gave him all he needed

Treated my heart and soul for nights in karat gold.

I know it’s hard when you feel like everybody

(shut you down, shut you down)

I know it’s hard when you feel like everybody

(shut you down, shut you down)

With a bullet through the heart I popped the gun.

This goes out to the artists of my time

Painting Mona Lisa's and such

But yet when the rent starts to climb

Can't afford their leases and such.

They work hard for a decent little cut

Enough to let paint seep from the brush

When I scribble I think of everybody from the lower to

the middle class, we might touch.

Can't put a price tag on a real flow,

Can't put a body bag on a real soul,

Can't put a stop sign in front of a rock star when his

goal and his dream is to kill shows.

Young artist, clever thoughts

When he follows his dreams, he's never lost.

What's worth a lot of money now, here in the present

Is the very same art in the past, people never bought.

And damn it's real

Still paint on the canvas ill

Cause I've gotta keep it moving forward man no standing

still

Shit, shit, damn it's real

Still paint on the canvas ill

Cause I've gotta keep it moving forward man no standing

still.

DJ, I know love song, heart is torn in pieces,

Future may be that is gone, play it all night long.

I know I’m such a fool, i gave him all he needed

Treated my heart and soul for nights in karat gold.

I know it’s hard when you feel like everybody

(shut you down, shut you down)

I know it’s hard when you feel like everybody

(shut you down, shut you down)

With a bullet through the heart I popped the gun.

Van Gogh's, Divinci's, Basquiat's, Warhol's

Jay-Z's, 2Pac's, Lupe's, Paul Wall's.

Whoever you pin up on your wall

In your room, it's your call,

It's your movie, it's your scenes,

We just symbolize your dreams.

Please understand what it means to be great

When your talent becomes your escape

So much to the point your reality is replaced by the

place that you trace.

And that place that you trace ain’t always easy to

relate

If it was then it wouldn't be so safe, from the people

tryna get up in your space.

But fuck it, gold chains, gold chains

One thing that you'll never see is a hood nigga with no

chains,

Hipster kid without a rope chain,

Drug dealers with no shame,

And me without my notepad just analyzing that whole

thing.

If life punches, you punch back

Cause if not then your dreams die and trust me you

don't want that.

All I need is my one mic, my one truth, and my one

track.

Cause once you lose that one love, you'll never get

that one back.

DJ, I know love song, heart is torn in pieces,

Future may be that is gone, play it all night long.

I know I’m such a fool, i gave him all he needed

Treated my heart and soul for nights in karat gold.

I know it’s hard when you feel like everybody

(shut you down, shut you down)

I know it’s hard when you feel like everybody

(shut you down, shut you down)

With a bullet through the heart I popped the gun.