from FROSH!, released January 15, 2007
VERSE 1
(Damn, you suck. You suck so much)
That’s all I heard, when I was growing up
Not tough, not a hood or scrapper.
(How’s a nerd like you gonna be a rapper?)
Going after my dreams of basking in the spotlight
Getting thousands of fans hype while holding the mic tight
Were excite-ing unlike my mundane life.
I escape when I write, freestyle or recite.
I’d like to be Hip-hop’s Bob Marley.
My words enlighten, fighting prejudice and poverty
But if they don’t listen to Kweli, than why me?
I’m only half the emcee, but I have to emcee
Without it I’m empty, like a fiend I can’t stop it
Even though there’s a million emcee’s that rap conscious.

VERSE 2
Now people I don’t know are asking me to be in their show,
Cause my flow’s flown from so so, to (So incredible)
No doubt about it, I’m on the way to where I wann go
But I’m afraid of loosing control while barreling down this road
What if I end up like so many of the emcee’s I’ve known
Keeping it real, with tight skills, living in their mama’s home.
But the chrome I speak into beginning to love me back
As I stack tracks and back on down this road
and the more and more that I give my heart to it
Hip-hop turns from a culture I love, to the way that I live.

VERSE 3
We get told, since we’re a few years old, that our dreams are fantasies
But if you get bold, go for the gold it’ll all unfold, take it from me
Look at the fall of too/ many who follow fools, these streets cans swallow you
You wanna look back on your life like “Wow,” I ain’t rich but..
The want us to be their tools
They try to keep us down
But we refused to be moved
‘Cause in the end I found.
But I ain’t even trying to say that I’m perfect,
or that I’m such a great guy, and I deserve it
But if you follow your heart, man its worth it.
and I know this cause…