Sound Off

Lyrics

INTRO
Open up your eyes
Seek and ye shall find

VERSE 1 (Tug McRaw)
What if I never hit the block and hit the books instead
I probably would’ve went to college in pursuit of that bread
What if I grew up in the burbs instead of the 5
Where all the crackheads journey just to cop and get high
What if I rhymed about crime making money and sex
Would my music be popular, easier to digest
What if murder wasn’t illegal, would you be dead?
Instead of shooting the 5 you catch 2 to the head
Would you still act tough cause you thought it was cool
Illogical fools, congregate and call it a crew
What if slavery never happened, Would I have been born?
Cause it needed all that blood for my race to be formed
What if God were a lie, the devil were a lie
And heaven and hell was just a state of mind
What if truth in hip-hop was a thing that would sell
What if we all learned to think for ourselves… What if

CHORUS
Life was simple, no need to worry
No more struggle, don’t care bout money
No more searching for the finer things
(What If) Heavens on earth and
We all kings and queens

VERSE 2 (Drew Breezy)
What if life wasn’t such a mystery
What if schools taught real history
What if they encouraged creativity
Outside the box like shipping and delivery
What if we all infinite energy
What if man’s it’s own worst enemy
Fueled by hatred, greed and jealousy
What if misery didn’t love company
What if, I had an epiphany
Puffing piffery picturing imagery
What if the outer world is just symmetry
A mirror reflection of the inner me
Vividly in between the lines where we need to read
What if we consciously grew in unity
What if we had power, what if you believed
All the blind sheep, what if you could see

CHORUS
Life was simple, no need to worry
No more struggle, don’t care bout money
No more searching for the finer things
(What If) Heavens on earth and
We all kings and queens

VERSE 3
What if we couldn’t ask what if
What if we didn't have free will
And all we did was exist
What if we had more black kids with they fathers
Now every fatherless kid ends up like a Carter
What if money didn’t make life so much harder
Imagine we could trade skills it was legal to barter
What if Hollywood didn’t see you as black compassion
More successful black directors and actors
What if labels didn’t change cause of Napster
They looked at your talent instead of the money they were after
What if more people believed in positive
Confident, optimistic instead of the opposite
What if people thought for themselves and tried to be more
Instead of being sheep and hiding behind the keyboard
What if Trump makes reality clearer
Obama’s who we wanted to be
Trump is like looking in the mirror

CHORUS
Life was simple, no need to worry
No more struggle, don’t care bout money
No more searching for the finer things
(What If) Heavens on earth and
We all kings and queens

OUTRO
We all kings and queens
We all kings and queens
We all kings and queens
Ooohhh Oooh Ooh Ooh Ohhh
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