A Break 2 Build On - Substantial, Marcus D, Bop Alloy

HOOK

Gimme a break to build on

Blackout til it’s just ______.

Still goin'

Thieves in the night and we might just steal dawn

To prolong the groove and mood from hereon

REPEAT HOOK

VERSE 1 (Substantial)

My bars is barbells, ring the alarm

The wait is over, pressing forward my team bout to charge

And we got all our Visas Hip-Hop hybrid

F*** anything pre us, follow our ish

Like it’s written by Jesus, Holy Ghost Writer

Johnny Praise, the beat nuts, Marcus got fire

Call’em Pyro Les… American Psycho

Go dutch on a stage if the price is right though

VERSE 2 (Intelligenz)

Psycho, now rewind the cycle

Elevate the love and remember like Michael

Maestro, when I flow I might glow

Illuminate the moment while moving on to night shows

Fist up… with a team we might grow

Listen and lift up, we dream we might blow

Father walkin' on water so maybe I might flow

Heaven over hell but they dwell in the nitro

12 years a slave, I’m paid and might show

When the break comes around I’m just building a light hope

VERSE 3 (Substantial)

Tell me what do you fight for?

Money and fame?

Freedom, power, respect or a household name?

Equal pay on your check or some more chump change

Tighter noose or gold chain?

Both one in the same

I want neither.

Freer thru speakers I find

All I got is my voice to compete with the times

I see with my brain while speaking my mind

Like Krang.

Til these lames stop speaking for mine

I shine rockstead to the beat one time

VERSE 4 (Intelligenz)

Tryin' to comprehend it.

Tryin' to understand it

Black bold and beautiful, forever we’ll defend it

Star band the universe, you and I, we diverse

And we immerge, we divert, we reverse

And see the worth, see the work, see the worse

Bridge over bloody water, uh, see the hurt!

It’s like we living in a different dimension

Prison images invision a sentence

Wordplay if your vision is in it the never ending is written

HOOK

VERSE 5 (Substantial)

Break loose.

Break fool.

Break rules

Breakbeats.

Breakout.

Breakthrough

Break molds.

Never let nothing break you!

VERSE 6 (Intelligenz)

Living in a shadow but waitin' to break views

I break news, there ain’t an ego I can’t bruise

I can’t lose, understand the conscious I choose

Descendant of a legend, the dereliction of youth

VERSE 7 (Substantial)

Sub is like eating soul food with chopsticks

Half man, half amazing the top pick

Songs in the key of strife writer and locksmith

HiPNOTT’s the squad in case you not hip

VERSE 8 (Intelligenz)

Never new with the steam, never new with the means

I overdo it, underheard, never new with the dream

Yeah uh…

See I body the scene

And you can choose to snooze but I body your team

So please…

HOOK

POEM (Substantial)

…an abyss of static

Dusty grooves

Unpolished sound, combustible energy

Broken down by indestructable entities

Once flesh

Now and forever fresh

Encapsulated in black gold

Birthed in the land of red, white and blue

Descendant of red, black and green

Love child of slaves, kings and queens

Building on breaks since time began

Built pyramids on broken soil in our land

Built empires with broken backs

Built our children up from broken homes

There isn’t a break we can’t build on