A Good Name-Shad

[ti:A Good Name] [ar:Shad] [al:TSOL] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]A Good Name - Shad [00:07.83]I've got a good name [00:08.87] [00:10.47]Yeah [00:10.71] [00:12.07]I represent more than my rap [00:13.40] [00:15.40]I've got a good name [00:16.47]My first name came from slave in Babylon [00:18.83]Back in the day rat in a cage [00:20.80]Raised in chains he trained like Rocky [00:22.96]But I mean his brain not boxing [00:24.87]So he got sly like Stallone [00:26.64]Got game like 50 cent posse [00:29.03]Up first to work on his coffee grind [00:31.18]In no time promoted to the king's right hand [00:33.56]But no hype man [00:34.73]Had to take the right stand [00:36.21]When the king made a statue of gold [00:38.12]He told the whole nation [00:39.43]That they had to bow down to it [00:41.29]That or get tossed in the furnace Shad [00:43.75]And his boys said boss you can burn us [00:46.21]We can't serve this statue it's worthless [00:48.22]The king was mad [00:49.31]But Shadrach wasn't nervous [00:51.50]It must have been some strange phenomenon [00:53.64]They walked straight through the fire [00:55.53]Chaka Khan [00:56.31]Saved by faith stronger than flames [00:58.43]If I'm half as brave [00:59.57]Then I honour my name [01:00.59]I've got a good name [01:01.79] [01:05.83]I've got a good name [01:06.83] [01:10.83]I've got a good name [01:11.90] [01:26.53]And my last name [01:27.57]Come down some generations [01:28.47] [01:29.30]Came down from the elevation [01:30.89]High in the hills of a great nation [01:32.76]With a bright future and a dark past [01:35.42]That won't overshadow [01:36.52]The hope cause the night's passed [01:38.06]Down from my grandfather [01:39.19]Who held down the village [01:40.49]Feel it when I touch down there [01:42.27]Now it's spilling in the same veins [01:44.37]As a good dad [01:45.61]With a good name [01:46.72]You see Shad's pop [01:48.04]Always played bad cop [01:49.14]He had no badge though [01:50.33]We didn't give him mad props [01:52.17]But now I respect it [01:53.51]Guess it's perspective [01:54.20] [01:54.79]In hindsight seeing it's corrective [01:56.83]So when I get kids if they get arrested [01:59.38]They going to get licks like breath mints [02:00.88]Check it [02:01.88]He held a tough job down [02:03.41]Held my mothers hand [02:04.43]Handed down proud roots from my motherland [02:06.95]To my hometown people say [02:08.49]My name sounds d**e no doubt [02:10.35]But that's not why I'm most proud [02:12.15]I've got a good name