Talkin' Down - Stann Smith

This song right here

Is dedicated to all the regular people out there

Named Smith

That’s talked down on the regular basis by somebody in a higher position of

power than you (EKOET)

I recognize that you don’t have the voice to tell em' exactly how you feel

But I wanna let you know that I’m here and I’m gonna tell em' straight like it

is

EKOET

If he shoot and no one see him is it still a crime?

If he livin' with no purpose is he still alive?

I rather wasting dollars than you waste my time

You could give me money back but give me minutes?

Nah

I still haven’t seen a clock that could rewind

I still don’t believe in trophies if he wasn’t first in line

Being second stands for next time give more effort and maybe next time get the

necklace, it will scratch you like a leopard

I don’t get when people say, «It's now or never»

If Moses split the Nile we can split this pile together

I that girl do us split that’s a whole different measure

Either tell her no, a letter, but she might be out to catch us

That’s raw, New Orleans, Chris Paul, Cleveland, Cavalier, Lebron

I’ll be this until I’m gone, bruh

Talkin' down, they talkin' to me like a pawn

Boy they talkin, let em' talk, you know they talkin' to the wrong one

Don’t talk to me like I’m three or somethin'

Don’t talk to me like you eatin' somethin'

Don’t talk to me like I’m weak or somethin'

(Walk on the clowns that will try to talk me down)

Don’t talk to me like I’m sleep or somethin'

Don’t talk to me like you G or somethin'

You better talk to me like you needed somethin'

(Walk on the clowns that will try to talk me down)

Can you tell me how I used to be?

When you wrote vinyl, what it used to mean

When you used to travel with your two or three friends

Because of the music, that’s view for me

They say the safe thing applies today

But the whole damn game change is kinda strange

Apollo model where I follow James

On the with the famous flames

Went through the pen as my

As the world full of rage and my fingerprints

As I reached the limits of my

And I pushed the roof of concrete cement

I know my peaks are someone else’s valleys

So I push the foes until the world can grab me

As I roll I’m being Rolling Stone

Through muddy water tryna find my happy place

Pray I make it with my name untainted and my face unpainted

Yeah, no masquerade, facin' danger but I ain’t no stranger like a Power Ranger

Cuz' they just fade away

This my poetry, call it rap, or call it hip-hop;

sure as dope as shit

Wanderin' through this cold world

Tryna let you know who the sober poet is

Don’t talk to me like I’m three or somethin'

Don’t talk to me like you eatin' somethin'

Don’t talk to me like I’m weak or somethin'

(Walk on the clowns that will try to talk me down)

Don’t talk to me like I’m sleep or somethin'

Don’t talk to me like you G or somethin'

You better talk to me like you needed somethin'

(Walk on the clowns that will try to talk me down)