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No Return Date

from No Return Date​.​.​. by Kweku.Kente

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Yo, I’m like 20 now, it’s June 5, 2011
I feel heavy now, a fifth a person more than my freshman
Frame was living in, still I’m in the same mind images
Need to change it up, I’m growing now, I need discipline
A little fixing and I’m wrenching right on past the end of it
See god in myself like the head of branch Davidians
They say you must be wary of where you sow seeds
But my life was much better when I could blow trees
I would see birds chirping, verses, catch it on my first wording
Think too much now, I’m tryna be the whole team
But nah, I play the bench in this rap scene, I’m past dreams
Wanted signings years ago, realized that I was acting
The voice inside my head said you just gotta be yourself
Or you’ll annoy entire fans tryna act as someone else
Then I noticed, I was bland and couldn’t grab or gasp for help
Had it back years ago and then I packed it on the shelf
Was it the years in high school I tried to smoke out of my memory
My preteen years, the only black kid at assemblies
Nah it was the time, these immigrants had first embedded me
Well it seems that I forgot, but it’s assembled at the embassy
I remember I was young and we used to save at cash and carry
I remember I was dumb and I was craving for the flash and barely
Knew a damn thing and I thought I gained it all
Always playing for the win and never bracing for the fall
Well if you had a stake involved, you’d better hurry up and cash out
I’ve rose from the dead with an IPO, you’re nigger’s back now
I started writing raps, cuz I was tryna be a man
At age nine, my mom was sick and I was hiding from my fam
They would never understand or would act like I was weird
I wouldn’t talk, but was like “damn, when I write my hands would sear
From the pain,” but I can’t stop and won’t stop like little brother
Nah not the group, my younger kin was always running and acting stubborn
I wanted to make it from Carolina, but it seems that I’ve reversed
If younger me saw me now I think he’d be feeling quite disturbed
You in the NBA? No! You got your record wrote? No
So you just live your day? So… A lot of bitches though… No
But I realize from in this song that I’m okay with being normal
Addressed as Kweku Kente in the post or in the formal
And I when I die, you’ll see my tombstone, and it reads initials
The day it ends follows May 15, I’m not special

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from No Return Date​.​.​., released March 18, 2012
Pigeon by Cannibal Ox [Prod. by El-P]

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