King Kwofi - Salute Lyrics

Cold blooded individual
That's how they view me
It's perception - nothing literal
Means nothing to me
I been working on this left hook
Incase they try to do me in
Tell em I'm a King first
Second ima Nubian
Hone in on the strategy
Like war is what we truly in
Seek for understanding
Find out what Yah truly meant
I am but a giant
And these mortals - they just truly men
Let em see you shine
Thats the only way we truly win
Look at my reflection my reflection is more truer than
Any prop or portrait you can paint me of Yeshua and -
I done walked this surface as my circle still gets fewer in
Now my only mission is to make these niggas true again
Make the negus true again
Make em love they hue again
Feed em some intelligence
Feed another Newton then
There's another shoe again
I been talking Huey P
Speaking words of greater men
Sharing thoughts with Marcus G
I been known to wait and keep replaying
All these days I keep on praying
That my weight would be repaid and I could move again
Now Im looking deeper than the surface -reevaluate my circle and I see that this the truest we done ever been

I just wanna hear salute
Tell em not to shoot mama
I keep my crown up to keep from fallin
I just wanna hear the truth
Tell me what to do ya honor
I know you don't wanna see us ballin
I just wanna hear the salute
Tell em not to shoot Father
Too many clowns wanna see me fallin
I just wanna hear the truth
Yeah Yeah
I just wanna hear the truth
Yeah Yeah
I just wanna hear SALUTE

Young dude 23
Trying to live happily
Ever after never napping
Things for him just never happen
People say yeah dude there forever rappin
Couldn't find him in the streets cause D-Boys couldn't trap him
Baby mama couldn't trap him
Hungry hounds they couldn't track him
But the bright lights and spinning rims they did attract him
So he hustled hard
Had a plan put to some action
It's arithmetic moving quick
Pluses no subtraction
But now we sitting here trying to calculate the fractions
Lonely question marks trying to figure out what happened
It's simple
Things were fine it was time
Just ask his grandmother and she'll reply yeah he's only napping
Truth is - there's more to life than golds and trappin
When we bust people die dude it really happens
And it's a shame mane to get me what I'm asking gotta take me out the game to make it happen

I just wanna hear SALUTE

Tell em not to shoot mama
I keep my crown up to keep from fallin
I just wanna hear the truth
Tell me what to do ya honor
I know you don't wanna see us ballin
I just wanna hear the salute
Tell em not to shoot Father
Too many clowns wanna see me fallin
I just wanna hear the truth
Yeah Yeah
I just wanna hear the truth
Yeah Yeah
I just wanna hear SALUTE