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Carried away for carrying faith to an early grave

Cause you couldn’t bury your blade in the state

And your face is the latest shame on the king’s plate

Your head was requested like a record out the crate

Any blackface at the mercy of the rat race is fair game

Light em up cat and mouse chase

We’re counting on your violence don’t you dare raise the stakes

Change the state of the fair play or photograph my behavior and dangerous hearsay

Never to be questioned

Raising my weapon to any who threaten my airspace

Monsters incorporated by rare snakes who legislate

Your flesh to be the bear bait that sharpens up my scare face

It’s getting it’s getting kinda hectic

When your tribe’s effort is questing for relaxing electric

But only met with the buzz of a taser every second god

Status quo is the oldest weapon up in the repertoire]

A sharpshooter pierces the illusion

Without confusing my kindness for weak and spineless]

Or televised gunshots aimed at your highness

When we were kings dying from refinement]

Comb-overs holding over American bigotry

Mild mannered grandmothers carry like the infantry

Public opinion won’t grow out of infancy >

The truth is still life’s greatest mystery

Who got comfortable with Huxtable imagery

And thought it to be realer than our struggle for centuries

When hate stacks the deck and we shuffling energies

The slight of hands different with the same old enemies

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from My Brother's Keep, Volume One, released April 22, 2022

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Mercury Waters is a DMV born and raised hip hop artist who brings thought provoking lyricism with a grown man sensibility to his decades long career. Waters counts creative rap luminaries like The Roots, Common, and Yasiin Bey among his influences. With a style evolved into its own form, he creates moods, soundscapes and visual pictures that seek to engross, educate, and connect with the listener. ... more

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