Abstract Rude, Brother Ali, Slug - The Solution lyrics

(ab sings, dj zole cuts)

If you ain't go heart to play
- then stay off the course
Rap - rappers disintegrate
I'ma - I'ma recommend this

I've been the problem yeah
Now I'm part of the solution yeah
My own personal retribution yeah
The new me is new around here
I got new found vision clear moving
So fast u missed a year
I might just disappear it'll feel
Like I skipped a year
I ain't got shit to fear I can
Risk losing it what are the benefit's?
Or should I hold it tighter in my
Clutches instead of just letting it go
I done been wrong before matter fact
It wasn't that long ago
I even hit the bottom low but that
Was just part of my growth
A heart's always broken I
Guess I'm starting over
And now my battered soul is
Going back through the motions
I'm just half of a whole
Who once had no control
I was breaking my oath it was
Happening over & over again
That wasn't gold so I had to take hold
Sad how it goes when you
Don't even know to begin

It starts with me I must admit
(I been a problem) but still I can't quit
Used to spend my time complaining
To no benefit but nah
(Now I'm) making a contribution so
That makes me the solution

Follow me now if you're ready to
Do more than just talk
Walk with me be the solution
Offer critical thought for the
Youth be the solution
Everyone is at fault after
All we're only human
I've been the problem you've been the problem
But now we're The Solution

I spread my arms like frosting
Like a phoenix wing around this offspring
Soda Pop sing songs of optimism
1972 caught the rhythm of a heartbeat
Lost the change in a car seat
Aiming at the mirror but
Still blames the party
As if everybody's listening wrong
It's the vision I've drawn of
This impossible mission I'm on
I ain't like the rest of the scene
I'm not swimming in a stream
Of synthetic wet dreams nah
I work hard keep everything clean
Cause the needle still stings when
The pendelum swings yes
I'm tryna do my best I'm not the best though
I'll do it to my death I never let go
A student of the Revolution
We put the salute in the solution

It starts with me I must admit
(I been a problem) but still I can't quit
Used to spend my time complaining
To no benefit but nah
(Now I'm) making a contribution so
That makes me the solution

I was raised on the doctrine
Of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad
Do what u gotta do to be
Profitable ain't nobody stopping u
But ain't nobody tryna plant your
Seeds & water too
Yes your crew is starving who
Gotta harvest that garden, u
Meaning me, it became easy to see
I'm the one gotta put my life the
Way how it's supposed to be
And it might seem kind of cliche
But hey truth be that way
Those that don't know need to hear so
Those that do know need to say
You can quote them slogans over
& over til you overdose
And coasting through life until u slam
Into that wall then bam!
Then it click, that truth is an upper lip
Chilling right there under your nose until
One day it come to grips
As long as the world been
Revolving if I'm still groveling
In the same problem wherever I walk
It's probably not none of yall
But obviously some flaw that I
Ignore but got to see
And who got to solve it? Me - Brother Ali

It starts with me I must admit
(I been a problem) but still I can't quit
Used to spend my time complaining
To no benefit but nah
(Now I'm) making a contribution so
That makes me the solution

Follow me now if you're ready to
Do more than just talk
Walk with me be the solution
Offer critical thought for the
Youth be the solution
Everyone is at fault after
All we're only human
I've been the problem you've been the problem
But now we're The Solution