Overture (with Omari Hardwick)

Overture (with Omari Hardwick) (with Omari Hardwick) - Tank/Omari Hardwick

I use the mic like a walkie-talkie

Cali love with a bite of Milwaukee

DMV in my bloodline I done start wars with a jabberwocky

Eye of the tiger call a n***a Rocky

The finish line between humble and cocky

Use verse and rhyme to extend the time for others

Crumble every clock I see with a twelve followin' behind my brothers

Call me the mothership my music for the mothers

I been a ************

Undercover like a super man make a woman wonder

Make a hater my lover

But equally I been a rubber band without elasticity

Been a trap man drastically stuck in the gutter

A fallen star never to be discovered

An inmate with a number but orange was never my color

Double my entendre

Rap 'til I can sell my bars to the highest sucker

RB money wrapped in a young thugger

Keep my beats on repeat like they stu-stutter

Pretty on some Ali

I done become the Thrilla in Manila

New Jack City on some pain probably

Call a brother Duh Duh Duh

But my train done been wobbly as any other

Big body truck in the mud

Or the feet that grew from the concrete

'Til I'm big as Jigga and the n***a he came up under

I went from notorious to glorious

I flew above them storms wrestlin' with thunder

'Til I be one a Neo-Morpheus

And by the time I be six I knew I was more than his

Is what it is this is how I feel

Like a one-man force of a nature strong in my mind

'Til you go on-line orderin' my kind to savage your ****

And with them lines I just spit I hope you're recording this skit

This ain't no average ****

I'm hood-born a dark form with a candlestick

I'm rockin' with the good Lord and His manuscript

The ghost of the too-poor-to-rock-sandals kid

And before I could handle all of this

I was hard to walk a mile in my own ****

A prodigal smile with a poem losin' that glow it used to give

I was two roads diverged I chose the narrowest

I done seen them doors close like pharaohs did

I been the afterparty to my own show ya dig

I just needed to know can I live

Like Hov did way back when

Then lo and behold these old wings found some wind

Dealt with the stings from them arrows I felt within

And elevated to where them sparrows been

'Til that became equal with the skies them eagles swim

But if height reflects how slight life done slipped

I been right with the lowest of the invalid

No fight left in my battleship

A kite with broken ribs

Bleek Gilliam with a busted lip

No Mo' Better Blues just a permanent bruise where the horn used to fit

Low like where the throw up is

Low like a roach's crib

Low like slow to get up on the count of ten

To keep it all the way five hundred low as your basement wasted

Dazed and too confused to find my placement

Nightmares of degradation

When I was a kid I used to dream of this kind of graduation

Now I'm on some Tom Hanks I done got too big but

Still a bad boy gettin' paid for them toys

I play station I give thanks

And use God's noise as a celebration

I'ma sing with that thing for your soul's ************

I'ma bring enough king to control your manifestation

And you gon' scream with anticipation

While you turn from all the lil' boy-girls they play on your radio stations

This man done reappeared when the world is filled with fear and intrepidation

The screen got the same scene

It just seems too many Elvises done left the building to believe the motivation

The people fiendin' for that old feelin'

So the big Tank just pulled back into the station

This time with a blue and red light in the basement

This that new height we chasin'

I'm here to serve you with a new found dedication

Same food for thought through sound just made it where you can better taste it

Use what I sing now and never for the best of nations

And the rest for the ones brown who don't feel blessed enough to make it

I done cleaned the mess up no more cryin'

Just a brave lion standin' atop Mount Zion

I come to you open and naked

I come to you knowin' without hesitation

Fifty thousand waitin' for my ****

I'ma give you every last drop of it

Until we all on the same trip to destination

Come **** with it my elevation