The Line-Slumvillage

[ti:The Line] [ar:Slum Village/Focus] [al:Evolution] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Line - Slum Village/Focus [00:08.21]I put it all on the line everyday [00:10.43]'Cause it's all that I got [00:11.64]And I'm not trying to lose [00:13.16]So I recall in my mind everyday [00:15.84]Why I did what I did I had a lot to prove [00:18.29]You see I'm here and going nowhere [00:22.87] [00:28.60]Nah ain't no opposition never second to none [00:31.34]Slum has begun a moving piston [00:32.69]Overcoming slum is running [00:34.23]We optimistic even if fail [00:36.42]Like a transmission slipping [00:37.64]I'm rolling I go the distance [00:39.18]Engine smoking I stay in motion I'm so efficient [00:41.94]I had my a** out no pot piss in [00:43.97]My intuition told me not listen [00:45.81]Niggas send you up the creek swimming [00:47.91]With hidden agendas and bad intentions [00:49.84]If I stumble that's a brief intermission [00:52.23]'Cause I don't coincidentally [00:53.42]Lack I'm back it vengeance [00:55.06]My proclamation is to prove that [00:56.99]I rock the nation [00:57.90]Threw my occupation [00:58.88]Make moves and not complicating [01:00.55]Heart ache and pain I just embrace it [01:02.37]When I was a product of blame [01:03.85]And hatred I didn't [01:04.62]Ask why I face it [01:05.92]Now I'm reading the tao taking a bow [01:07.89]Flipping my style 'cause such [01:09.13]And such couldn't figure me out [01:10.49] [01:11.00]Out [01:11.84]I put it all on the line everyday [01:14.35]'Cause it's all that I got [01:15.66]And I'm not trying to lose [01:17.23]So I recall in my mind everyday [01:19.75]Why I did what I did I had a lot to prove [01:22.22]You see I'm here and going nowhere [01:26.50] [01:32.06]I'm like a butterfly I can fly high [01:33.95]To the top of the sky [01:35.52]Came out of my cocoon [01:36.57]To shine bright over the horizon [01:38.90]Rising like the sun up in the atoms [01:41.20] [01:41.78]I drop classic [01:43.23]To bad you didn't believe [01:44.88]Told you niggas I had a trick up my sleeve [01:47.64]Here it is [01:48.46]New team new sound [01:50.63]Whole different flavor take a taste pass it around [01:53.32] [01:53.88]Taste good don't it [01:55.26]Killing my opponents [01:56.40]I know I'm getting on yo nerves like sera toning [01:59.04]Gone and run yo mouth I hear the chit chatter [02:01.75]I'm to big for small talk so y'all don't matter [02:04.39]You can be a giant like goliath [02:06.11] [02:06.63]I'm a still triumph [02:07.82]Like a flame walking through a fire [02:09.73]Never a flaw rock hood to bos raw [02:11.83]Spit it like cane from Bogota [02:13.67] [02:14.20]My niggas vanguard I'm out [02:16.12]I put it all on the line everyday [02:18.32]'Cause it's all that I got [02:19.48]And I'm not trying to lose [02:21.01]So I recall in my mind everyday [02:23.53]Why I did what I did I had a lot to prove [02:26.07]You see I'm here and going nowhere [02:31.15] [02:35.97]I'm never going away [02:37.26]Had a burden on my shoulder [02:38.66]But it was tooken away [02:39.78]All of a sudden I'm on top of the world [02:41.63]Doing my thang [02:42.27] [02:43.01]Who is the blame [02:43.95]Or what is my aim [02:45.51]What am I saying [02:46.58]I'm just saying that I'm in it [02:47.91]'Cause I love it skip the fame [02:49.09]I'm just playing with a nickel [02:50.46]I don't care if lose it [02:51.71]Not paying any attention [02:53.09]Just vibin to this music [02:54.52]No lens to straighten my vision [02:55.57]Like I'm try hit a target [02:56.77]And I don't care if I miss it [02:58.36]Is it rocket science no not really [02:59.94]I'm just really gifted [03:01.34]Just a spiritual weapon [03:02.35]Give you a lyrical whipping [03:03.87]S villa b**ch I'm repping [03:05.16]Yes I'm da secret weapon [03:06.61]I know you hear da bomb ticking [03:07.88]I'm exploding any second [03:08.71] [03:09.46]And when it happens [03:10.58]You can call it da big bang [03:12.15]I'm the new king [03:13.23]Me and dilla switched chains [03:14.29] [03:14.80]Be dem yancey boys [03:16.04]John and james [03:17.06]We are laugh at the bird [03:18.45]And don't put out to blame [03:19.78]I put it all on the line everyday [03:22.15]'Cause it's all that I got [03:23.28]And I'm not trying to lose [03:24.35] [03:24.86]So I recall in my mind everyday [03:27.53]Why I did what I did I had a lot to prove [03:29.94]You see I'm here and going nowhere