It Ain't Hard to Tell - Asheru

Ash ketcham

Pokemon emcee

Empty clips on Babylon

I’m armed, you swarmed, been warned

How hot it could get when I let off two at a time

My rhyme’s designed to uplift not tear down

Wear down you clowns with gift

Gifted not lifted

Random or specific

Atlantic to Pacific

I get in gear then shift it

You know the game — multi-task, pivot

Gotta have more than one edge

You know the ledge, gotta live it every minute

Second, hour, to the third power don’t miss a drop

I do many things but it always comes back to Hip Hop

Stage show virtuoso most folks won’t know what hit ‘em

Now I think about it, Eric B and Rakim woulda said it was the rhythm

I miss them

Theses youngins out here missed them

Wouldn’t know ‘em if they slapped ‘em in the face

Then claim to be rappers what a fucking disgrace

OK enough of that

Don’t let me soapbox

I could rap all day about the fuckery

But I’d rather just be and get mines in spite of

That’s enough for me

The long years of toil 'bout to pop like a boil

And pay off in a major way --

When O. Retnu and Asheru threw on the capes, who saved the day?

Maaaan I do this shit for real

It Ain’t Hard To Tell

A Homeowner, stack chips/ pay bills like you nigga

It Ain’t Hard To Tell

I been raised in the ways since back in the days

It Ain’t Hard To Tell

Unfazed by the glaze of the media haze

It Ain’t Hard To Tell

Got The ELs behind me, DC to co-sign me

It Ain’t Hard To Tell

I got gifts in abundance I use to stunt with

It Ain’t Hard To Tell

Made by the Most High I’m unbreakable

My faith in myself is unshakeable

No comparing me to anybody else clearly

Because the difference is unmistakable

Guerilla Arts

By any means necessary

We carry the torch

Then scorch the ground

Blaze trails for miles

Real life and sound

Better ready your ammunition

Beg forgiveness over permission

Listen twice as much as you speak

That’s how you play your position

Advance one step at a time

Learn to separate time

Between the real and the fugazi

Put your all in one

Put none in the other

Gotta avoid being too lazy

At all costs be a boss

Don’t follow you lead

Don’t wait for a break

You got everything you need

First make up your mind

Then make up the lines

To write your own story

As you proceed --

That’s rules to live by

One to grow on

For those who get their flow on

And so on

Dedicated to the artists in the field

Whose pen is their sword

And passion their shield

Dedicated to the whole Diaspora

DC Caribbean to Africa

I ain’t talking Umfoofoo

I’m talking Ubuntu

Dogon, Ibo, and Zulu

Dedicated to the yout' dem

Who don’t see the forces

Tryna uproot them

They grow before their time

Get plucked from the vine

Their own brother or police shoot them

Happens all the time

Some say all is well

Try so hard to win

Seem to always fail

But the meek shall inherit

When it’s all for sale, huh--

It Ain’t Hard To Tell!!!