Legendary Queensbridge rappers Cormega and Havoc team up on “Paradise”, spitting some hard-hitting bars over a STREETRUNNER-produced beat. The track is the twelfth song on Cormega’s The Realness II.
The song’s beat is set over a sample of Poverty’s Paradise by The 24-Carat Black, which was also not...
[Intro:]
Poverty's... Paradise
[Verse 1: Havoc]
Niggas fake it till they make it then get tested for it
Claiming that their name’s good, the nigga put a weapon on it
Niggas lying on their dead and puttin' heaven on it
My niggas live this shit for real and not just metaphoric
My nigga did twelve and never told 12
On his niggas as he rotted in a cold cell
Sitting in a old jail, loyalty is everything
While niggas turn their stripes in for motherfuckin' fairy wings
They live in a facade, when morals not involved
You hear it in their bars, their energy got bars
Could not compare it to ours
Don’t disrespect the gods, don't wanna be at odds
Have us clapping at your car
The lifestyle us hood niggas been through
Ain't no one size fit all, shit's too big for you
You be swimming in the drama like a motherfucka
Begging for a lifeline looking like a sucka
[Verse 2: Cormega]
You never hugged the block or was known for squeezing
Iron, you're so anemic a liar I don't believe you
My rhyming is so elite, but I am no elitist
I'm a smooth, street poet, the culture need it
My voice of reason, currently enjoying freedom
No cases running concurrently, always scheming
Standing up when most stay seated
They love you in the womb of custody
Not the lap of luxury
We built different, I'm secure, your structures weak
I’m a silent individual
It’s obvious the pinnacle acknowledge as formidable
My dominance is considerable
Confidence in my lyrical performance incomparable
Highly pivotal like Carl & Lenny
I'm too skilled for you, short sighted
I got unrestricted views
Real recognize real, I don’t remember you
In the field where the pitchers and hitters move
[Chorus:]
Poverty's Paradise
If you want it, you better think twice
Poverty's Paradise
Whoever said, you better think twice
Paradise was produced by STREETRUNNER & Tarik Azzouz.