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Goethe

from Late Convert by Sam Nabi

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I got what you call a lot of skill
More than a mockingbird you want to kill
I'm untouchable, my flow's unreal
So if you're content reinventing the wheel
That's fine, but don't pretend that you can feel me
I'm a real G-O-E-T-H-E
So come at me, where's your ghat, B?
I'll even leave you 10 Gs in my will

That's how confident I am, that's raw
I put a bounty on my own head, brah
Stepping out my carriage at the opera
You keep sucking your teeth hanging out at the cinema
I'll be in my box seat hearing arias
And I'm sorry 'cause I'm on safari bud
Pickin' off MCs like it's Noah's flood
And we only need the best of the species

Bon, j'en ai marre de la langue anglaise
Crains pas, j'peut toujours t'apporter trop d'malaise
J'suis connu partout de Montparnasse à Barbès
Expatrié, non immigré, écoutez ma thèse
Paris est une ville construit pour moi
Roi du monde, chef des ondes, sais-tu pourquoi
J'ai un certain cachet comme les apparts dans l'Marais
La valeur de mes rimes ne cessera de monter

Coming back across the channel now
How you like my intercontinental style?
This ain't grime, ain't rap, ain't hip-hop
It's pure aesthetic, it's how I get off
I'm like your friend with the tribal tattoo
It's a gap year experiment, the world is my zoo
My parents they showed me love from the age of two
Said I could become anything so I chose a few

I got a handful of the life trajectories
And I don't know if there's one that's best for me
Whatever the scene I just keep living the dream
Not the American one, the millennial cut-scene
Where I'm hopping from place to place and it don't stop
The New Years' Eve ball drop, watching the shot clock
Ain't rocket science being in two places at once
That's what the internet's for, go ahead and check out my blog

I bob and weave with the rhyme and rhythm
Float like a butterfly high on nihilism
'Bino says rap is dead, I guess I'm a vulture
Appropriator of culture dancing around all this tribalism
And I don't really care what time it isn't
You gotta live in the present not fret the rest that you're missing
Pull it together until like nuclear fission
You explode in stardust so the world can keep wishin'

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from Late Convert, released October 25, 2016
Beat by kling (soundcloud.com/kling)

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