Tiger Song - Naeem

I was born a lover raised a fighter

Sworn in a saint turnt into a sinner

If I earn another stripe I be motherfucking tiger

Next kill for the loaf you fucking with a winner

Niggas going ham for a slice

Can’t knock the hustle working for their next meal

Wishing they could have a nigga life

Pigeons ain’t eating, I’m just throwing them the heels

Flipping you the bird while I’m flipping niggas bills

If I’m whipping in the whip, sit, bitch nigga chill

Couldn’t tell the pedal from the motherfucking wheel

Niggas on my dick thinking that they on my heels

Image never tarnish, stainless like steel

Print the face real big, 'cause I’m still the emblem

If they start I’ma end them

No say no referendum

Read my lips

Read my lips

Read my lips

Read my lips

Read my lips

Malcolm was a failure, more fame than lethal

Feeble, shot by his own people poignant the needle that feeds his blood,

violent loops

Last hoop he will leap through

But its strong to be militant like it’s smart to be ignorant

Just to sell all this nigga shit, 'cause they only buying nigga shit

(God damn) Supply and demand

They demand, I supply though surprised that I am

I didn’t take a stand, money over matter, matter fact over fam

I know that through experience

Ain’t that right triple X? You feeling this

I know that through experience

Ain’t that right triple X?

I was born three seeds in my palm

Papa don’t preach, black quiet storm

Speak with his first we recite his Psalms

Raised a fighter though I had my qualms

Gave two to the body another two to the jaw

His little lip bleeding but my heart got scarred

Pull the fire alarm

Adolescent immolation, I protest these laws

Born a lover, full lips soft hands

Old head said it went against my brand

Brand new stance, iron fisted jab

Gift that gab and I whoop that ass

People don’t change, they just do new task

Another tool in the box another trip to the shed

Men make men made men like pawns

'Til we follow Islam to the Boko Haram

I all empathy I sing with sympathy

Simply not we spot our true enemy

But all empathy I sing with sympathy

Simply not we spot our true enemy

But we are who we company

If it’s health then we healthy

If it’s wealth then we wealthy

If it’s filth then we filthy

Without saying if it’s guilt then we guilty

I was born a lover, raised a fighter

Papa said that’s how you raise a real nigga

And he should know he should know

Dead or in jail, nigga

I’m a look who still here, nigga

Hell yeah, hell yeah, yeah

Look who still here, nigga

Look who still here, nigga

Man, man, ain’t here no more man

Man, man, ain’t here

And it’s hard on my psyche

He suppose to be just like me

Or me just like him

He suppose to be my best friend

Made excuses for him, said it was society

Thug charm man had the whitest teeth

Even in our music, even in the TV

Even in the news, gave it to him easy

But they hard on a nigga like me, man

They hard on a nigga like me

They hard on a nigga like me, man

Ain’t never seen a nigga like me

They want me to be one of them

But I ain’t one of them I ain’t even one of them

I start drifting when I think of him

See a cold wind when I think of him

I drift so far from shore

Don’t they know niggas can’t swim

Now Martin waiting on his harvest

Debating if the state going be coarse or modest

Fought as a pacifist accomplished

More than all them Harlem niggas, pen his accomplice

Fresh out of jail, suit still pressed the sharpest

Look who the law for we going break laws regardless

Outlaw nigga from the south

Boys talking down got them diamonds in my mouth

Every farmer when they plant their seed

Dreams of sweet fruit with the greenest leaves

From the strong branch of the tallest tree

But never promised to taste what’s reaped

Both portraits hanging over the couch

Martin on the left, Malcom on the right

As if still debate, still choice in route

Some might understand what I’m taking about

Born a lover raised a fighter

Drawn to the air thrown to fire

Only one heir to the highest

If I told you that I cared I’m a motherfucking liar

No shares, no compliance

Every action got its opposite

Know your fucking science

Learned about David from Goliath

Now my whole hood know how to defeat the giants