I Can't Breathe - Chino XL, E. Smitty

Hip Hop at its purest

For me is an everyday occurrence

How I influence

More seeds than a seasoned florist (They're Azaleas)

Swimming in the wicked currents

In the midst of the sea

I can’t be seen like hospital patients without insurance

Lyric felon, thats sellin' more hell and fire penance than Mount Saint Helen

I ain’t come down and get a cheapo clearance

Pop radio hates me, they censor every sentence

Scared of my musical merits and message of independence (Fear me!)

Feared after so many years of my disappearance

Avoiding mirrors, getting away from weird and angry spirits (Get away!)

Theorys of where I was during this period vary

From the ethereal to padded cells for my material

Artistry in the hard industry, its a mystery

But I plan on going down in history for my vocation

Like Jesus' earthly father

For carpentry fulfillin' prophecy

Standin' outside of Heaven hoping God grants me amnesty (Yeah!)

I don’t doubt God is sittin' in the clouds

Kinda proud at my strength to proceed

Yeah, cause I can’t breathe

While I’m on this earth, things are gettin worse

I gotta bleed for everything I receive

I can’t breathe, yo

Is it all a dream, I can’t let out a scream

So deceived that I’ve become a machine

Yeah, I can’t breathe, son

Now is not the time to lose steam

Refuse to let evils abuse me, I can’t sleep

But I can’t breath

Unmercifully

Introduce you to death personally

Lock you in a cell in the ocean

And then submerge the key (Gone!)

Committing perjury, to prevent my souls burglary

No clergery, could fix this broken circuitry (Can't fix this)

It really hurts to be stuck in the Trials of Job

A fires below, eating life with no sign of parole

I lie in the road, beetles and flies in the cold

I’m risin' up slow, the skies, they disguising the code (Yeah)

I write and it finally broke

The violet and smoke

Tryin to soak in the most Bible and all of its quotes (Ahhhh!)

My life is like a dull knife when it slicin' your throat

Lost like Rip van Winkle’s hopes when he finally woke (Crazy!)

The death of this art form has become a threat

And its greatest enemies hide in the least places that we’d expect

As I travel carrying nothing but my regret

And loneliness

My lungs have forgotten how to take a breath (Ahhhh)

I don’t doubt God is sittin' in the clouds

Kinda proud at my strength to proceed

Yeah, cause I can’t breathe

While I’m on this earth, things are gettin' worse

I gotta bleed for everything I receive

I can’t breathe, yo

Is it all a dream, I can’t let out a scream

So deceived that I’ve become a machine

Yeah, I can’t breathe, son

Now is not the time to lose steam

Refuse to let evils abuse me, I can’t sleep

But I can’t breath