To offer an explanation of this song is tricky. While addressing pop music standards and the infidelities that they create, he also touches upon a spiritual dimension, possibly nationalistic, but also directly personal and inspirational, which is denoted by the hook.
Ominous, critical, delicate yet...
[Hook: Pep Love]
Don't go insane
Although it gets
Tumultuous, the poets
Came to alter this game
Don't go insane
Although it gets
Tumultuous, the poets
Came to alter this game
[Verse 1: Pep Love]
I offer this with no disclaimer
We lose heart for the money and the fame
Modern day Buckwheats
Over butt beats
Never even reached
To touch the peaks
Spontaneously combust the beast
When I'm in this piece
All the nonsense must cease
Lights, camera, drama
Knights in urban armor
Curb serving karma
Cringe when the ingenuitive
Impinge on your ear drum
Injure you enough to ensure
Conclusion, confusion mass
This array come this away
It's a way we can get away
Fast in a flash when the day come
Hold em up, roll em up
Or break em, fold em up
For they told enough lies
We on the rise
Bold and golden mic holdin'
Excalibur, flex algebra
Power of the pen
Be mightier than sin
When I release what is within
Me, true indeed
[Hook: Pep Love]
Don't go insane
Although it gets
Tumultuous, the poets
Came to alter this game
[Verse 2: Pep Love]
Time's out
For digging a hole
Your soul
Can't climb out
Now what I'm about to do
Now that I'm out
Is find out
Where, who done it
We too blunted
To play Columbo so fool run it
"I want the Rolex, the keys to the Lex" Gs
300 disease sex-fiends and extremes
What about hard times
What about white lines
Replaced by dangerous minds
Matter could never pacify my thirst
For divine data for whatever
The trinket is worth
In earthly terms
My birth return concerns
Twist and turns of events
Contents under pressure
Won't be popping nonsense
I'ma set it off right on the spot
Bring it to your chest, hard rock
And niggas that's Big Willie jerks
Silly, really don't want to get your feelings hurt
You nurture false reality
Cross me, that'll be costly
Floss your field the pull of inertia
When I swerve, still nerve
And the all seeing eye
Being my guide
When my leaders have lost me
[Hook: Pep Love]
Don't go insane
Although it gets
Tumultuous, the poets
Came to alter this game
Don't go insane
Although it gets
Tumultuous, the poets
Came to alter this game
[Verse 3: Pep Love]
I bob and weave
With unbelievable speed
I dip and dodge
Place the planet under siege
I cover my trail
Blaze and raise the roof
Loving the hailment
She shoots to double my mail
A brisk breeze
This risky business
Pops, fizzes, and drops
Tisk tisk she tried to diss me
Bitchy bitchy
Ah shit she ain't shit
Can't get in my mix
We way too tight knit see
Itsy bitsy ritzy
Type Joe stifle the biz
Keep it stagnant and froze
I trouble the Feds
My thoughts are cutting edge
I'm over the top
But keep it all in my head
I'm not like you, iced down
Donna Karan wearin' type clown
Fashion raps
Get thrashed and collapsed
Living in the lap
Of luxury there's
So much to see there
Look but don't touch indeed
There's consequence for greed
Compliments that be done
Be done freedom
In before it begun
[Hook: Pep Love]
Now don't go insane
Although it gets
Tumultuous, the poets
Came to alter this game
Don't go insane
Although it gets
Tumultuous, the poets
Came to alter this game
Don't go insane
Although it gets
Tumultuous, the poets
Came to alter this game
Don't go insane
Although it gets
Tumultuous, the poets
Came to alter this game
Warrior Poets was produced by Mako (Oldominion).
Pep Love released Warrior Poets on Wed Dec 10 2003.