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[00:00.301]The Forgotten - Zack Hemsey
[00:12.019]Whatever takes to lay
[00:12.829]To rest all competition I do
[00:14.768]So pray to repent that
[00:15.758]Those devout forgotten
[00:16.448]Will not find you
[00:17.627]Don't make an attempt to follow
[00:19.017]Wallow in your own discomfort
[00:20.306]Discover how to pay your respects
[00:21.696]Accept them as your brother
[00:23.346]I'm leaving a path
[00:24.406]Through trails of mud
[00:25.186]Anointing all those in pales of blood
[00:26.376]Then focus their lives on lies
[00:27.466]And find they're hopeless
[00:28.556]In eyes of mind and why
[00:29.596]We not designed we right on time
[00:30.916]And when we arrive we get it live
[00:32.316]Just acknowledge we on fire
[00:33.466]Nine Leaves are the set design
[00:35.155]Record time remaining nameless
[00:36.365]Formless cuz your forms are shameless
[00:38.195]You've forgotten where you're from
[00:39.805]And all your flaws that made you famous
[00:41.115]Threats are painless
[00:42.124]Aim this at your heart
[00:42.914]To make the pain lift
[00:43.864]Shape-shift on this track
[00:44.723]To scratch your name
[00:45.523]Right off the game's list
[00:46.903]Plain sh*t I am sick of rappers
[00:48.273]Pissed cuz I'm a sicker cracker
[00:49.743]Fire blacking out the room of places
[00:51.063]That you stage your acting
[00:52.653]You've forgotten where's your passion
[00:54.243]Need to ask that's my infraction
[00:55.673]Show me where your skills at
[00:56.822]And I'll show you
[00:57.782]How to hack and slash 'em
[00:58.982]Some are being pushed through the machine
[01:02.381]And being told what to do
[01:04.760]They're not challenging themselves anymore
[01:08.080]They forget about themselves as an artist
[01:12.290]That may be how it evolved
[01:13.800]But that's not necessarily
[01:14.680]How it has to be though
[01:17.850]Some do what they want to
[01:21.439]I'm backhanding the game
[01:22.459]She aint treating us right
[01:24.119]I aint really the one
[01:25.689]But I cherish her life
[01:26.749]I blame the change on us
[01:28.188]The same must go for me
[01:30.088]Our love is deep
[01:31.018]But I only write once a week
[01:32.488]Listen I never held a nine
[01:34.727]Besides my 9 to 9
[01:36.207]No jail time trust me
[01:37.767]My life is fine
[01:39.147]I even rhyme in a suit
[01:40.957]Cuz my pursuit of happiness
[01:43.017]Is to spit the truth
[01:44.487]You lose
[01:45.247]And I don't gotta change up my flow
[01:47.387]It is what it is
[01:48.517]You can ride or you don't
[01:50.226]You'll decide as I go
[01:51.666]Every line you can scope
[01:52.866]I aint losing sleep
[01:53.946]You could live a lie
[01:55.066]But I won't
[01:56.016]I aint beat money
[01:56.736]You could talk about all your doe
[01:58.485]Man life is sweet
[01:59.715]You could peep my gut as it grows
[02:01.225]Hold the cheddar for the cheese
[02:02.915]And your beef for the streets
[02:04.465]Two sides of a coin my point
[02:06.175]We both eat
[02:07.504]So yes I really gotta say this is great
[02:10.233]You can hate on my hate
[02:11.593]So your hate's just the same
[02:13.133]Don't be mad at me homie
[02:14.623]I paved my own lane
[02:15.743]Speaking honestly
[02:17.082]Homie you're a waste of a name
[02:19.152]A waste of my space man
[02:20.791]Check out my frame
[02:22.751]I'm drained
[02:23.601]But I still speak my piece
[02:24.731]This last piece of hate
[02:26.081]For these you'll take heat
[02:27.411]Y'all wear shades in the club
[02:29.041]I'll rock mine on the beach
[02:30.890]Please
[02:32.299]It's a competitive sport Hip Hop
[02:34.109]Everything is “I I I”
[02:35.449]Because you have to prove
[02:36.259]That you're the better emcee
[02:38.739]And of course it's a business
[02:42.569]Hip Hop wasn't derived from that
[02:46.299]There is this other dimension of Hip Hop
[02:50.209]There are these songs all over the world
[02:53.189]They've already forgotten
[02:55.179]How it sounds felt the taste it
[02:56.709]Before the industry reshaped it
[02:58.789]And raped it
[02:59.638]Landscaped your face
[03:00.828]Now you're the Mona Lisa
[03:02.358]You gotta do what they do
[03:03.688]Or they won't release ya
[03:05.198]The fans may greet ya
[03:06.478]But you can't look them in the eyes
[03:08.298]I guess your hustlin'
[03:09.697]Features was just a disguise
[03:10.747]Make us believe ya
[03:12.387]At least you could try
[03:13.817]You wanna get rich lying
[03:15.376]Relying on false pride
[03:16.756]Sold your soul for the price
[03:18.236]Of the gold and the ice
[03:19.576]Now you're a hoe with no hold
[03:21.086]And they're controlling your life
[03:22.396]You were exposed to the light
[03:23.826]But prefer being dumb
[03:25.745]The who what where
[03:27.055]When will you remember one
[03:28.195]The place you've begun
[03:29.425]Look what you've become
[03:31.195]Succumb to what sucks
[03:32.535]For a successful some
[03:34.184]Regrets you'll have some
[03:35.604]Respect you'll have none
[03:36.904]Cuz when it's all said and done
[03:38.594]You're one loss was the love
[03:41.214]People are forgetting who they are
[03:44.754]What Hip Hop culture is
[03:47.174]And why they're doing it
[03:48.644]That's the forgotten
[03:51.824]Everybody in Hip Hop is not an artist
[03:55.294]You're doing
[03:56.004]What you think people want you to do
[03:57.684]Rather than who you are
[04:00.504]There's no innovation
[04:03.234]Have you ever had the feeling
[04:04.374]Of being in slow-mo
[04:06.044]The type of case that comes
[04:07.254]With a thinking of “oh no”
[04:08.994]Or had a vision showing
[04:09.944]Your future as so low
[04:11.723]But without a way
[04:12.633]In which you could alter or re-sow
[04:14.743]Well I'm a bring it through
[04:16.163]Like a leader that bestows
[04:17.632]A speech upon his men
[04:18.642]That'll heed 'em to let go
[04:20.392]Of the artificial skin
[04:21.822]That just keeps 'em in limbo
[04:23.392]These seeds will bring the being
[04:24.752]Intended to first grow
[04:26.271]You're heading to and fro
[04:27.691]On a path that is void of pride
[04:29.171]Happy to put aside
[04:30.101]Who you are on the inside
[04:32.091]In truth I can't surmise
[04:33.491]If this turned out all by design
[04:34.821]Did you intend to play the fool
[04:36.161]Or did other people decide
[04:37.931]Did managers advise
[04:39.040]You sever ties for prize
[04:40.780]Well now your dragon slumbers
[04:41.790]While goblins are on the rise
[04:43.500]I'm trudging through the snow
[04:44.880]While you building a man of lies
[04:46.520]I'm speaking to your soul
[04:47.870]But it's greeting me with goodbyes
[04:49.340]And now it's time to hide
[04:50.880]Cuz I'm wrecking your false disguise
[04:52.510]I'm stepping through the haze
[04:53.760]With intention to bring demise
[04:55.120]And when the rug gets pulled
[04:56.540]And the mirror brings its surprise
[04:58.280]Look into your eyes
[04:59.130]With the question of “who am I”