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justin clardy – a rant from the ivory towers lyrics

verse:
i remember when i walked in
yo i was a young n-gg- at the dine tho back then
3rd year and my major became philosophy
wasn’t long ‘fore n-gg-s start giving props to me
transitioned awkwardly
it took my pops to see
that the key to the academic lock is me
typical la player
you hear shots you hit the floor like a la player
i was the type to date her
do her a couple favors
impart her with some knowledge and send her back to you haters
threw my love life in a paper
it won a little favor
started calling me a g-nius a couple conferences later
humph
beautiful mind but it comes with some pain
enough to turn me john nash this a dangerous game
did’t have my blinker on when i was changing my lane
i just write what i believe i guess it comes with the fame
and everything i wrote you know i gave it my all
that’s why they didn’t question my decision when i gave up the ball
couple bottles of wine and i get to clacking the keys
orchestrating the language to put my family at ease
for the nature took me about four months and a day
dr. mason marshall thought that i had something to say
plenty thinkers say that love’s about the value appraised
but he’s never heard it spun in such an authentic way
so i chose to listen to mason
he said a couple revisions i might just see publication
monique always had questions if that f-ckin work was legit
but that paper was my ticket out the country and sh-t
plus
in the hood they never had schools
when they do never a good always a bad school
addin and multiplying only relevant math rules
so, grad school’s not a bad move
now n-gg-s watching my departure to the ville
lowly academic but i’m trying to see a mill
writing all my wrongs cause i write em down for real
so my papers like confessions that are coming from the hill
thats why i took it personal when dr. funk would make critiques
dismissing writing pieces a n-gg- been working on for weeks
but i don’t regret his making a n-gg- spill h-lla ink cause i’m at the apa’s all because he made me think
i was struggling with my sentences like “is this really clear”
struggling with a voice that my people couldn’t even hear
communicating in dialect that made it hard to feel
when sharese gave me a source to which my struggle could appeal
then jc met aave son, in virtue of which we’re leaving rosecrans ave son
then jc met aave son, in virtue of which we’re leaving rosecrans ave son
cause this sh-t is bigger than me
im from la so more pac than biggie in me
people done developed a vision in me
so i gotta break down structures that imprisoning me
scholars turning up they nose at he way that i write
“this ain’t academic language, no way that that’s right.”
well f-ck it it ain’t right then
my n-gg-s in my hood who i’m trying to enlighten
kill all this discussion of this light skin dark skin
solidify an effort take it right to the white man
ungh
you don’t work you can’t eat
in new slaves ye proclaimed that n-gg-s could not read
my pops use h-ll coupons and we think that that’s cheap
my cousin make 100k and we think that that’s cheese
please
finally making my people believe
that you ain’t gotta be a square to get ya ph.d
that you can be a smart n-gg-s still flow on beats
the same n-gg- who’s uncle’s a real crop og
devising a plan to get his people up out those streets
cause my whole race matters and i’m taking the lead
fixing my people’s head like they took an aleve
started from the bottom now i’m an academic elite
who realize its dire times cause his people are sleep
and i rant so that the people know that i’m holding em down
staking cake and never breaking except when zy is around
through this music leave the towers put my feet on the ground
and verbally paint em ebony with a quality sound
through this music leave the towers put my feet on the ground
and verbally paint em ebony with a quality sound
that sh-t was perfect

- justin clardy lyrics

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