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“1-2 1-2 1-2
Gather round, gather round please
People please take your seats, take your seats yes, yes, yes
We’re about to start the show and, for our first sign up in the open mic today
We have a young man, well he’s not too young, but a young enough man who goes by the name of I think Lemz, Lemzi, yes ok correct, ok brilliant excellent
I'd like to bring him in the stage and I hope you can make him feel very very welcome
Ok Feel free to make some noise for him
Erm ok pure silence absolutely fine I’m sure he’s used to it
If you’d like to come up and you know how to hold the microphone right?”
“Yeah”
“Ok great take it away”

I’m a writer’s writer, so when I write up you’ll write a write up
Put your light up right up, light it til nothing left, must be right
I write a rhyme a night, my right to rhyme all night is all right, alright alright
Let me show you how we do this right cause
I was on the conveyor belt where my right brain didn’t have a chance
The thought of me doing this then that would’ve made you had a laugh
Adapting to my script and role, just like any acting star
I’m feeling pretty good now many people back the path
Tryna change my city like Aladdin did to Agrabah
If God is by my side then I don’t mind being the passenger
Do it for the soul but also tryna claim the stacks are large
2022 man, that’s the year that all the stats enhance
Who Jah bless, yeah they say no man can curse
Want you makin more noise than joyous auntie Afs at church
This will get biblical, you can go to all your Acts and search
You’re your hearts intentions, that is what a man is worth
Might hate it but it must be done just like a tax return
Wanna give you something smoking potent like how crack would work
But opposite affect because I stress I want the bad dispersed
With the contracts I don’t wanna see no higgy hagga terms
With at least my words, cause I make ‘em twist, flip
And then do some crazy shit just like an axel turn
I’m the symbol of tagging your people like how @s inferred
The symbol they’re tellin lies if they ever told you black is worse
Pull up and swipe away a demon like when an app don’t work
Swear it should be off with their heads for all of the cappin’ nerds
Only human course I’ll make mistakes that how our standards work
My spirit is written can’t be beaten by a satanic verse
Believe when I say that I studied the craft
Wanna be as ill as Slim with a saw and a mask
With a bottle of blonde peroxide and a flask
Filled to the brim with, er, don’t even ask
Or spit well as Big L when he was in hell
He’d say H-E-double hockey sticks
I’ve got a lot for this, soon I will topple this
That’s my hypothesis I thought it was obvious
I’m a novelist so when I jot and spit
You’d think I’ve got a scholarship in how to body this
I ain’t down with the politics, really aint a lobbyist
Might do what the prophet said and cause a Tupacalypse
Big or Small man the flow is notorious
In the booth free the truth never been spurious
Furious if they don’t see that it’s glorious
Curious how gory’s above the euphoria
How can you say that you manufacture
Raptures, when you write bars I write chapters
You’re a prize giving I’m a Bafta
The facts are to factor, our stature
Could never match up
Cause I could be nice as Will Smith or
I could inappropriate as smokin’ opium
In the open with old women, who’s close to death
And it’s cold for them or when rolling with
A load of men who chose to end their woes and sins
And never be round the dope again, uh
But I’m here
I’ll be damned if I don’t put on a show for them
I never pose for them
Blud put on any jazz through to Hoe Riddim
I’ve got flows for dem to carve calves in half
And ram lambs to show that I’m a G.O.A.T. to dem
Yeah I’ve gotta show em I’m the goat here, goat here
I’ve gotta do this with no fear, no fear
I’m gonna do it for the whole year, whole year
When I say it, you say Oh yeah, Oh yeah

Cause this is raw more than any spoken word
I was feeling so deterred
From coming up with an original flow or verse
Having thoughts that were so perverse
I got to a point I just wanted to delete all of my older work
I mean I spray shit and that’s how all my odour spirtz
I was praying to God to persevere and I know he heard
I don’t wanna listen to you like, you’re 30 and still got an older sir
I’ve been reminded it’s all inside me, I don’t even need to get in the zone to work

Alright I’m leaving

Finally! Jheez Louise
Gary you’re fired, OK!
Moving onto the next act swiftly
Ah ha apologies for any, technical difficulties ladies and gentlemen, we’ll be moving onto our next act so if the next act would like to get ready…”

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from Outliers - A Creative Project by Lemzi, released March 3, 2023
Feat. Nikita Patel
Prod. by TOB

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