Lowkey, Klashnekoff - Blood, Sweat & Tears lyrics
[Lowkey, Klashnekoff - Blood, Sweat & Tears lyrics]
As lightning strikes and thunder pounds
Over the grey skies of East London town
Prophecy K returns from the underground
Signified by the peoples crying
Trumpet sounds
Yeah the system it tried to shut me down
But I been on my ting before
Onyx was flinging guns around
Blood, sweat, and tears for years
It feels like my careers been
In the dumping ground
Yeah, this is how hunger sounds
And I'm the hunter now, 'Lash the lion heart
AKA the man behind the iron mask
For ten years straight
I've been raising the iron bar
Tryna breathe the life back
Into this dyin' art
So why try and par? When you'll meet
The same fate as that lion Scar
This game is fake full of two-faced lying ras
Who would sell their soul and arse
Just to climb the charts yea, but me
I put in too much time in the graft
Refinin' my craft for labels to sign
Me for a minor advance
Picture K'Lash, mimin' on Trance
Now picked a Dr dre beat
'Lash rhymin' with Starks
It's all fate and I got mine in my grasp
They're all snakes, let 'em die in the past
But who knows what the future holds?
These NWO soldiers will probably
Shoot me cold all because the truth was told
You should know I did it from the heart
I’m still here, pushing after several years
I’m still here, standing strong
Never in fear i’ll be still here after the
Dust settles and clears
I’ll be still here after the blood
Sweat and the tears
I don't do this for the happy
Ravers or the aggy haters
I do this for the warriors and the gladiators
Do this for those whose lives
You never cared about
Can't pronounce their names
Their origins or their whereabouts
Those brought up around tragedy and sadness
Who adjusted and found normality
In the madness fight the power 'til I'm out
Of breath like Malcolm X
You empower the powerful
I empower the powerless
They'll play you on the radio if
You rap about a Gucci belt
But rap about the government you
Might as well shoot yourself
Industry fairies say I rap
About conspiracy theories
Just to hide the fact that
They lyrically fear me
Got that eye of a tiger, the heart of a lion
The mind of a lifer, my stance is defiant
I rise like a phoenix
Immediate from the ashes
My existence is inconvenient for the masses
Though we are equal, I despise an imitation
I live for my people and die for liberation
I stand as a visionary some have
Got plans of killin' me
To literally vanish me
Physically like Aborigines
Hannibal with the mask
An animal with the bars
I'm grappling with my shackles
I channel it through my art
Feel it in the ambience, champion
Heavyweight
My life is nothing but my pride is
Somethin' that you can never take
They think I'm elusive or
Think I'm a nuisance
I swear these major labels must
Think that I'm stupid
Keep your 360's you're convincing
These dudes with
Like I'll give you the blueprint
For pimping my music
I say that like K’Lash, he’s another lion
Every hardship from getting scarred
To my brother dying
Spit all of it with or without a big audience
Through the Blood
Sweat & Tears I stand victorious!
Over the grey skies of East London town
Prophecy K returns from the underground
Signified by the peoples crying
Trumpet sounds
Yeah the system it tried to shut me down
But I been on my ting before
Onyx was flinging guns around
Blood, sweat, and tears for years
It feels like my careers been
In the dumping ground
Yeah, this is how hunger sounds
And I'm the hunter now, 'Lash the lion heart
AKA the man behind the iron mask
For ten years straight
I've been raising the iron bar
Tryna breathe the life back
Into this dyin' art
So why try and par? When you'll meet
The same fate as that lion Scar
This game is fake full of two-faced lying ras
Who would sell their soul and arse
Just to climb the charts yea, but me
I put in too much time in the graft
Refinin' my craft for labels to sign
Me for a minor advance
Picture K'Lash, mimin' on Trance
Now picked a Dr dre beat
'Lash rhymin' with Starks
It's all fate and I got mine in my grasp
They're all snakes, let 'em die in the past
But who knows what the future holds?
These NWO soldiers will probably
Shoot me cold all because the truth was told
You should know I did it from the heart
I’m still here, pushing after several years
I’m still here, standing strong
Never in fear i’ll be still here after the
Dust settles and clears
I’ll be still here after the blood
Sweat and the tears
I don't do this for the happy
Ravers or the aggy haters
I do this for the warriors and the gladiators
Do this for those whose lives
You never cared about
Can't pronounce their names
Their origins or their whereabouts
Those brought up around tragedy and sadness
Who adjusted and found normality
In the madness fight the power 'til I'm out
Of breath like Malcolm X
You empower the powerful
I empower the powerless
They'll play you on the radio if
You rap about a Gucci belt
But rap about the government you
Might as well shoot yourself
Industry fairies say I rap
About conspiracy theories
Just to hide the fact that
They lyrically fear me
Got that eye of a tiger, the heart of a lion
The mind of a lifer, my stance is defiant
I rise like a phoenix
Immediate from the ashes
My existence is inconvenient for the masses
Though we are equal, I despise an imitation
I live for my people and die for liberation
I stand as a visionary some have
Got plans of killin' me
To literally vanish me
Physically like Aborigines
Hannibal with the mask
An animal with the bars
I'm grappling with my shackles
I channel it through my art
Feel it in the ambience, champion
Heavyweight
My life is nothing but my pride is
Somethin' that you can never take
They think I'm elusive or
Think I'm a nuisance
I swear these major labels must
Think that I'm stupid
Keep your 360's you're convincing
These dudes with
Like I'll give you the blueprint
For pimping my music
I say that like K’Lash, he’s another lion
Every hardship from getting scarred
To my brother dying
Spit all of it with or without a big audience
Through the Blood
Sweat & Tears I stand victorious!