The Departure - Badi

It seems like for days, my flight has been delayed

And I can see the plane sitting on the runway

But I heard there’s a shortage of pilots

We got the craft, but nobody can recall how to fly it So I’ve been in the terminal basement, creating

I ain’t giving in to imitation

Role playing?

na, this is my Departure

I’m taking off, feel the ground breaking

And I know what you’re thinking, rapping is lame

But that’s not how it has to remain

Cause somewhere in a kid in the back of their brain

Lies the answer to bring about change

Meanwhile we sing about chains hanging

At an all time low, put ya hazard lights on, ride slow

In circles cause ya not sure where to go

I wonder would you even care to know

CHORUS:

Prepare yourself for the departure

Strap yaself in, I’m about to start something

Next movement, this is a departure

From the usual, this is more suitable

Now I can’t proceed if I can’t see the past

So let me go back to see the (Cedar) Ave

Where it all started, so I’m traveling the farthest

Before we became marketing targets

Before the game was just rosters of artists

That all seem to claim to be the hardest

But I hear… just a bunch of little sean carters

You see em, they on every corner like starbucks

Now, get rich or die trying, so we all try rhyming

But there was a time when hip hop wasn’t bringing any loot in Imagine, rappers not rappin bout shootin'

Just being about the music

Only concerned with getting the crowd moving

The block party could hear it, innovation

Moving instruction always been a part of the lyrics

CHORUS:

Prepare yourself for the departure

Strap yaself in, I’m about to start something

Next movement, this is a departure

From the usual, this is more suitable

We at stand still for the time being

You know it, you see everything that I’m seeing

But I’m not leaving, even though this is the departure

I’d never abandon the culture

Even when I see most of My people are so close to Giving up cause it ain’t livin' up to what it’s spose to Listen I’ll depart if that’ll bring us closer

Exec’s look past me, cause I don’t fit in they boxes

Cause this is not gettin' a profit

I rap about reality, the recognition of Prophets

To spit what I believe, I gotta dig in my pockets

But I got this, no problem

Already in motion, nobody can stop this

You swear that it died from the past couple years

But I’m here to tell you it’s only up from here