Common - Common Freestyle | LA Leakers Freestyle #119 lyrics

Like the 'pollo, I
The holy spirit of Chicago
Married to the game
I should have took the bitch to Cabo
I know, I know like Bill Withers, feel niggas
They say, "Stay safe" but they still hit us
Fill the rivers
It's like the ghost of Emmett Till with us
We got black cards
Now they gotta deal with us
Rihanna got a bil'
They gotta deal with the sisters
In pursuit of happiness
I ask God to Will Smith us
Blessed are the meek
We inherit Earth and then we speak
Into existence
I'm rooted in black thoughts like Tariq
I was a drifter
Now I'm a shifter of paradigms
An upliftеr of tethered minds
Forеver signed to the artform, no
Things didn't start warm
Wrinkles in time 'til I met
My Tony Starks form
And straightened it out, Iron Man
While some was workin' the
Pots and frying pans some of my guys moved
Keys like Robert Glasper
They gave me room so I could be a master
My book of life
I write it like a Christ chapter
When Hip Hop was dead I met
It in the life after
Vision in the hereafter
Listenin' to Donny Hatha
Tryin' to find a way to get my
People out the trap or the prisons
Talkin' with my daughter
I learned to listen
She's studyin' law, I told her
"make firm decisions"
This is a prism of Hip Hop realism
From the block we arisen
Still we walk like Egyptians
This the not-need edition
Planet Rock reinvention
The lock key ignition to them Ali dimensions
Grew up around Stones and they
Rocked me the wisdom they yell
"All is well" and it got me to wishin'
2Pac, the ambition, I'm keepin' my head up
I am a rider from the black pool of genius
And I'm a diver striver of perfection
Inside of my inflections
The blessings of the destined
Restin' with no questions
These are the strides of a knocker
Took time to myself like Naomi Osaka
Took time off to never rhyme soft
My mind's off the grid that I climbed off
I'm live 'til I sign off
My man Murray said
"never take your shine off"
Sometimes I go offline to get these lines off
My crown chakra's like a Chi-town opera
Violence, violence
They broke in my crib and seen Oscars
Emmys, Grammys
Damn he near a EGOT and he still Hip Hop
I'm to rap what Bird is to Bebop
What AI is to Reebok
What Jada is to D-Block
The game need a detox
Go get your turmeric, your Dr sebi Sea Moss
Burning sands that we crossed for
The tribes that we lost
In a war with stars, I make niggas into ewoks
I'm a rap god but still
Human like the beatbox
Like (beatbox sounds) a one, two
Rest in peace to Biz Markie
Honor those that spark me
I spit verses like girls get purses
Some rappers get by and some get purchased
My shape's earthless
I came to earth's surface
To reverse curses and birth purpose
My verse nurtures a woman's worth is first
It's a soul merchant like a sneakerhead
I just keep soul-searchin'
As far as freestyles
I go wild like no churches
My occupation, greatness is my coworker
Like uh

Warriors rejoice at the voice of a black king
Some say I'm slept on
I symbolize the rap dream the unforgettable
Them niggas must be napping
I been as cold as J or Nat King
It was all notorious
The glow of the glorious
The story gets wild as Zendaya's Euphoria
Morpheus morals, black Orpheus orals
To them we just mortals, to the Lord
We portals for the prophets
I wear my ancestor's watches
That's why I'm timeless and know God got us
Sittin' back watchin' shottas like
I was a Rasta
I guess what it taught us about the imposters
It's kinda tricky how quickly
One'll stick me
For so long you ain't care about the sickly
I keep it a buck fifty, like Giannis
Yesterday's lies and tomorrow's
Not promised
To stay Common I can't stare at the comments
I'm a slave to progress and A1 honest
Malcolm X ray vision, I see through devils
The God's stay down the block
I always knew the levels
These are petals to flow words
Oral arrangements like orchids
I turn the desert to an orchard
It's food deserts in my city
They say a change gon' come
But only by committee
The witty unpredictable, every time this play
Give Rae his residuals, nine individuals
Eight in the physical
I just gotta give the Wu
They props, it don't stop, rap is a ritual
I'm the untouchable style Capone
Yellin', "peace" on the phone while
It's wild at home
It's warzones, niggas hustlin' still
They say you gotta bear
Arms like Justin Fields
I quarterback black movements
Like the influence of black music
The confluence
Beyond nuance through aunts and uncles
We were conduit's for hot clothes and hustle
I ain't catch no cases like the NBA bubble
Too much talkin' and
Flexin' stimulate trouble
Brothers gon' work it out
My mind is the muscle
I exercise thoughts, divine in the subtle
Like a blind man's rebuttal to
See what I'm sayin'
Kaepernick of this rap shit
You see I ain't playin'
With these goofy ass rappers, I do movies
I know actors it's all on your face
You ain't never been proactive
This is pro-black hood, wrapped in Backwoods
Yeah we stack good and still show black love
Like Barack and Michelle
I'm like an electric car
Out of my shell, I plot and prevail
Pushin' these bars like I got out of jail
You ain't fuckin' with it
Well I'm feelin' myself
Put me on the list where the Gods will dwell
Nas and BIG, I got a story
It ain't hard to tell uh, yeah, yeah
It ain't hard to tell, California love, yo
I'm giving California love
Like the LA Leakers
Yeah I love the sun like LA preachers
I'm doing movies
Niggas askin' me for features
Lifetime achiever like Queen Latifah
Yo, knock 'em out the box
Yeah I been a seeker ask Lauryn
Going up the hill it always gets steeper
My mind, I grind, yo I'm a keeper
And I'ma tell you
Y'all I'm with the LA Leakers
I came to speak, y'all