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Journeyman Rap
By Jahi

Yeah
Hip Hop
Feels Good
Jahi
Yo

Call it journeyman rap
Mi uzi weighs a ton I don’t need to strap
I be out in nature never be in no trap
Pat myself on the back I don’t need your clap
Im smart and adapt
And the rhyme book is packed
What the next 50 looking like
A whole bunch of look a likes
A bunch of empty metaphors
Lyrical displaying
Got me like EPMD so what you saying
When I’m on the microphone you know I’m not playing
Simple straight to your face not over your head
And if I said it you can quote me
Never mind the okey dokie
Reading books by Stokley
Negativity not provoking me
Not today or any day
Will I let the salt shakers cause delay
Tajai said switch up the styles
So I took off the nostalgia
Now I’m moving ahead a million miles
New dialect
Keep ya likes
Spell my name right
Extra O’s on my check
Community is fickle
But the global respect of my peers is solid
They out here trying to frolic with the culture man
I come with introspection you can overstand
First generation thinking of a master plan
From the homeland to Oakland
When I’m on the microphone you know I’m never joking

After 25 years different points on the map
Call it journeyman rap
Over 10,000 hours all facts no cap
Call it Journeyman Rap
To my peers who held me up when I see you give you dap
Call it journeyman rap
99 to the current time
Call it journeyman rap



Call if over 50 rap
Not in a race with young folks that’s a fact
I ain’t talking BIPOC I’m saying all Black
First on my mind then everybody after that
I move like a cat
The number 9 nine lives
9-19 number of completion
Come from the kemetic ancient system
Have you seen it
Some say I’m too esoteric
To much gun rhetoric
So I thought to set a different diction
New hypocrisy and old politicians
Where’s the mute button on the remote
They taking people for joke
They want your vote
Some sleep and some woke
Some selling false hope like a counterfeit 20
Hip Hop to me is craft over money
We the people of the darker hue stepping through
No hanger on’s in my crew staying true

After 25 years different points on the map
Call it journeyman rap
Over 10,000 hours all facts no cap
Call it Journeyman Rap
To my peers who held me up when I see you give you dap
Call it journeyman rap
99 to the current time
Call it journeyman rap

On and on
On and on
On and on
Keep On (2x)