Play With Fire (feat. Let the Dirt Say Amen & Fro Magnum Man)

There is a lesson you must learn Play with fire you must get burned There is a lesson you must learn Play with fire you must get burned There is a lesson you must learn Play with fire you must get burned There is a lesson you must learn Play with fire I burn sage I burn bridges whatever it takes to get away from you dog - you a negative ni%ga I figure I'd give you time to realize that's the issue between us It ain't stature or status, class factors or baggage It's being a human being and I'm way past being savage Or being average, uh not me homie I'm care & I'm free I'm rare and I'm a t I scare when I Re Up with a ruff rhyme for the whole industry When I retire be desired as spiritual being We've won two Grammys But when consciousness was killed we became raps Orphan Annie's up on the bill Daddy Warbuck's gives us bucks to tear it up And tear it up we do like staffers in Watergate Shredding everything as a group People talk soup Equal walk equal fruit Evil stalks truth So I guess more or less it's arrested development they stalking us dude There is a lesson you must learn Play with fire you must get burned There is a lesson you must learn Play with fire you must get burned There is a lesson you must learn Play with fire you must get burned There is a lesson you must learn Play with fire Uh Cuz opinions are a dime a dozen But truthful opinions can be the kind that bludgeon My momma said stand in your truth So I ain't budging My daddy said never be poor - so I wasn't But I had a choice because he gave me one An entrepreneurial father - gave hope to his son A responsible mother gave me prototype and example The drum that they marched to - I'm remixing it like a sample I can be known to ramble but My name is speech so is that really a gamble I mean the whole scene got me needing a Advil I been Adamant since the Eve of Hip Hop in the Big Apple There is a lesson you must learn Play with fire you must get burned There is a lesson you must learn Play with fire you must get burned There is a lesson you must learn Play with fire you must get burned There is a lesson you must learn Play with fire See I was resting at the park Minding my own Bizness Til my granny told me Go and get your microphone Listen Bring your bible going viral On your iPhone Wrap your head On and on Call Tyrone Whoa Too many clones My own Need a Nina Simone No gmo's Or emo G's in my home It's 3 to go Five months Day 2 In a row That's 3 or 4 Five, six seven or mo MTV, yo Fab 5 Freddy The Show Believe me yo I got the ingredients So Gimme the flo It's hot sauce Leave it alone Or let it simmer I'm a sinner At the Lord's dinner So when I enter Make the lights dimmer For all the White folks And all of my niggas Kirk Franklin Stomp in the yard Godz'illa Ask Jah I'm one of The Last Airbenders I got a thirst, for tapping into the rhythm inside the earth Converse with the universe, find my purpose, and purge the worst Versions of myself, trying to reverse my curse Ain't trying to be the emcee seeming more perverse per verse But the surf is hard to ride sometimes When Poseidon rises the tide to pull you inside And to survive, you gotta stand up or else you'll drown But the entire weight of the ocean is holding you down And the life preserver thrown from the demon is tempting But I turn to the pen instead, the writing is cleansing With every sentence invented I sense my spirit is mending A tendency to mentally bend time, my mind is extending the tracks On my train of thought, I'm conducting myself Never static, pushing forward, I'll be shoving myself I don't need no ones approval, I can govern myself Translation for the masses, I'll be dubbing myself