Soon Come - Asheru, Talib Kweli

Ashane brought the Nomo, Nomo brought the word

Which is Asheru, the crew is Unspoken Heard

Wes Jackson had the vision, and brought it to fruition

With a little hard work, perserverance and intuition

Seven Heads is the label, free to just to be

The envy of emcees, my man trust me

What once was a logo, is now in my bloodstream

People always ask, yo Ash what does it mean?

And I tell em you, yo we represent the masses

A herd of folk, that came to set it on your asses

That’s why I’m teaching classes, life is my syllabus

Take out what you can, cause no one will deliver us

Jack shit, we moving backwards, in a downward spiral

The rest of ya’ll is swimming in denial

Meanwhile, like we told ya’ll it’s about time

Better make way for me and mine

We gotta get what’s rightfully our’s like the Maroons done, Soon Come

We wanna stand tall and shine bright like the noon sun, Soon Come

The time for shucking and jiving and playing the coon is done, Soon Come

We live by the principle of the snare, bass, and drum, Soon Come

Fear ain’t a factor it’s the pain that’s real

That’s why brothers run from guns made of stainless steel

You can hear, shrieks of horror against the night

From the helpless without enough defense to fight

Children grow too fast without a strong foundation

They ain’t built to last, they reject their past

Cut class and the generation gap is vast

So they scared to ask, it’s a difficult task

We gotta, unlearn the lie, and unveil the mask

Teach em how to be thorough, and not come half-assed

Everything that we want is right behind the glass

Yo it yours for the taking, hit em, full blast

We stand face to face with hardship ya’ll, we never run, Soon Come

Going out to all of my Cinnabunz and Wimbledons, Soon Come

We wanna welcome you all into the new millennium, Soon Come

Remember Sankofa, and don’t forget where you come from, Soon Come

Im 24 years old, molded by my peers and family

Keep em close cause no one else can handle me

Some might find it strange the way I change moods

One minute from the next, go from happy to vexed

With no prompt, I’d be foolish to think there’s no comp

With brothers outside my show standing 'round like «wanna rhyme»?

Well Hip Hop is what I do

You think a brother can’t do this simply for the art, but I do

You put this in a capusule for years, because it’s timeless

These rhymes ain’t only nice, son I’m killing em with kindness

And you won’t find this side by side with the spineless

Watered down pop shit, bleached out and rhymeless

You can go and get my brother Wes to co-sign this

Seven Heads stay in the plus and not the minus

Bascially meaning I got security like Linus

To keep pressing on, never looking back behind us

We gotta take what’s rightfully ours like the Maroons done, Soon Come

We wanna stand tall and shine bright like the noon sun, Soon Come

The time for shucking and jiving and playing the coon is done, Soon Come

We live by the principle of the snare, bass, and drum, Soon Come

Truth, balance, harmony, love, life, equality, all of the above

Moutnains we gotta climb, are all equal to one, Soon Come, we Soon Come

Truth, balance, harmony, love, life, equality, all of the above

Moutnains we gotta climb, still equal to one, Soon Come, Soon Come