This song is a trip through a nonlinear timeline of historic events, both past and present, into the presumable future. It highlights African culture, the plight of American Indians and the cognitive dissonance of “white America.” Being able to relate to all of these groups transformed my fascinatio...
[Sampled Intro:]
Hey amigo! You know you've got a face beautiful enough to be worth 2000 dollars!
(laughs)
Yeah... but you don't look like one who would collect it
[Verse 1:]
I am immortal in the truest form
Riding on a slave ship
Navigating through the storm
Prince on the bass when
Dizzy get busy, blew the horn
Still, we at the pinnacle, when my physical moving on
Heart of Martin Luther, take em' back into the future
But I'm rapping like I'm Malcolm
And the outcome is the shooter
From the balcony where they're about to sing a hallelujah
Praise Jesus, we don't need this alchemy or Kamasutra
Promised acres, take an inch and aggravate the ruler
Still, I graduate and Window shop for Apple made computers
Calculate statistics and sample bullet ballistics
To aggregate all the rumors through agitated consumers
I know you had to sail us right before you had to sell us
First a ship and then a whip
So, I ain't sold on what you tell us
I'm about to take the reigns over
Just so when they reign's over, they can't even rain over the umbrellas
[Hook:]
I am Immortal in the truest form
(I am immortal)
I am Immortal in the truest form
(I am immortal)
[Verse 2:]
And then we landed
And when we landed, they had branded brothers from another planet
Smallpox blanket make us take the cold for granted
Gold finger roll, everything they lay up underhanded
Clap for Andrew Jackson, baby, ain't nobody cold as you
Carry me with Cherokee or bury me Lakota-Sioux
European pest solution, retribution overdue
Execution
All the sweat you losing 'cause you know it's true
Hate on what we make until you culturally appropriate it
Profit from the projects when you find a way to imitate it
This is God-given, while I'm living only He can take it
Holy Ghost, I spit Jehovah flow up in my homie's basement
I know the Bible tell me turn the other cheek
But I get real protective when I watch my little brother sleep
I want to live in perfect harmony even when it's hard
But you gon' need more than weapons if you ever try to target me, yeah
You gon' need the whole armory
And still deal with God if you ever try to start with me, yeah
So, whoever take a shot at me is captured real quick, and I ain't talking bout photography
[Sampled Bridge:]
Play conqueror all you want, mighty Caesar...
Rape, murder, pillage, thousands, millions of human beings!
But neither you, or any other barbarian, has the right to destroy one human thought!
[Verse 3:]
Tell Donald Trump that we ain't hearing it
And we ain't fearing it
I seen God intervene as I shift between pyramids
Who knew in 2016 rap would need lyricists?
Laugh at me, feeling it's actually mean-spirited
It's battle music
And if the rap rhymes, that'll do it
Arguing on Twitter with the Black Lives Matter Movement
To your friends, call me nigga
But, you know I'm not as stupid as you try to make us
And in the language you not as fluent
I am the poet laureate of the time
No glory yet for the rhymes, before we get into prime
Y'all witness
The end of the game and it's all business
At the gates of Hell, you playing yourselves like a scrimmage
[Outro:]
(I am immortal)
(I am immortal)
I am immortal in the truest form
IMMORTAL was written by STREET LIGHT.
IMMORTAL was produced by P. Soul.
STREET LIGHT released IMMORTAL on Tue Aug 23 2016.