summatime, and the living is easy (oh it ain't that easy youngin, it aint that easy) fish are jumping and very often I'm high (you smoke too much youngin I'm tellin you. Always bussin down them backwoods) your daddy's rich (you got it made youngin) and your mama's good looking (your life been handed to you, come on now) so hush little baby (what you got to cry for?) don't you cry (you ain't got nothing to cry about) one of these mornings (you've been blessed) you're gonna rise up singing (blessings come with a responsibility) and you'll spread your wings (you can't afford not to) and take to the sky (it's all you, it's all you youngin) but 'til that morning (ain't nobody else to blame) ain't nothing gonna harm you (you was safe and sound, now you lost & found) with your mama and daddy (you better get it together son) standing by (they ain't gon be here forever)

rap, I gotta rap, rap, rap, rap Akari blessed me bro I know I could have been a doctor but I’m rapping instead my life actually a movie not just acting for cred tryna build on what I have not what I’m lacking instead then go back to what I’m lacking when I’m passing ahead I’m from Tampa I get bucks I whip a big truck and I got fresh cut under the nappiest dreads people really think they know me we just casually met yeah they love me cuz I’m saying just what had to be said if you insist on having beef then I could I have it prepared cuz when I hop up on the beat I leave it tragically dead I’m a gentleman in these streets but I be nasty in bed no she don’t like to call me Chris she call me daddy instead I’m ashing my blunt making it bump the back to the fromt they lacking respect I’m cashing a check I’m actually that kid the chosen one, the lost can always get found I'm the nappy headed cowboy the Yankee of the South you ain’t never been to Gyros you ain’t been to my town no they won’t never understand me so I’m sitting em down I’m student and a teacher but my lessons is free I always keep it really real that’s why they pressing repeat feel like that nigga Tom Brady I’m the best my league feel like that nigga Tom Brady I’m the best in my league it’s still fuck Tom Brady though I’m ashing my blunt making it bump the back to the fromt they lacking respect I’m cashing a check I’m actually that kid sometimes you gotta see the Ls to get the dubs sometimes you gotta lose yourself to find yourself

know your history, gotta know your history or they'll take it from you know your history, gotta know your history or they'll take it from you know your history, gotta know your history or they'll take it from you know your history, gotta know your history or they'll take it from you you know as black as I am and as many black kings and queens that I know make up my ancestry my most immediate connection to my family, my last name is that of a British white man, and that's a damn shame so this is a dedication to mother Africa a place I never been but a place I call home (2021 til infinity) if you can relate! (Chorus): I thank Lord because I’m black and I’m southern man but this go all way back to the motherland to all my niggas from the trap to the jungle man yeah we always learned to laugh through the struggle man and I don’t gotta act like no other man through my soul I got a path to the motherland my skin is black and I love it man it’s Johnny on the track keep it running man shoutout to your skin if its looking like mine I thank the Lord he made me blacker than the fucking nighttime I came from people who had suffered through their lifetime and through the spirits of my past I got a lifeline all the things we’ve overcome I could make a list see they took my name erased my past and left it as a mystery stole the lives of all my peoples just to make them rich see so I’m really not just learning but I'm making history my people making waves after crossing oceans came from western Africa to Hispaniola, St. Kitts St. Thomas then to San Antonio and Jah know we’ll keep on going global my skin is dark I came from land that’s close to the equator mi affi represent the Africans out in Jamaica the soul of Africa is really what my blood is made of and I’m gon represent my people til I meet my maker (Chorus)

(Chorus): hear me Allah, hear me Jah I will see you when it’s time hear me Jesus, hear me pray I want to meet ya but not today I want to meet you hope today is not the day but I know I don’t get that choice especially when they kill my people everyday or try to lock them in cage man I hardly rest my voice I cry for, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Nina Pop Amauhd Arbery Oluwatoyin, Tony McDade, Trayvon Martin a list so long that it’s painful just to start it every day I pray for the departed time is illusory but change is a must and the universe will judge how long you take to adjust Make sure your people and Ideas get all your faith and your love They want you loving all they products how they taking your trust Every object in this earth will one day fade into dust human connection and Gods praise is a must Capitalism is a system where you worth and faith in your stuff I’m mad we don’t hate it enough We might be oppressed but we isn’t stupid Name one good thing the police have done if they ain’t useless That’s my story and I’m sticking to it Its mad niggas sitting in jail for crimes that they isn’t doin That’s no cap cuz I isn’t Jewish That’s all facts cuz I do my research They Caught him walking while black now he on a t shirt Been had us running like track and now they mad our feet hurt We gotta hit em with the stats just so they believe us A land of colorblind crackers never tryna see us They stopped whipping at our backs but they ain’t tryna free us And now the only love they gots a fetish of my penis They also really love my raps and my style of sneakers My melanin and my locks and how I burn my reefer They love my culture all around me everything about me But they don’t give a fuck who you and me is Black boy white America (Chorus)

strange fruit, a fruit so strange, yet so familiar strange fruits come from strange trees strange trees planted in foreign soil uprooted from their forgotten homes of lusciousness and plenty these trees struggle to bear fruit, but continue to do so, painstakingly pushing their xylem and phloem toward their life-giving limbs and there these fruits have hung, on those limbs, for over 400 years many get harvested by old man Sam to sell for profit but many, many, just drop, drop right onto the hard cement from which they grow these fruit are used to getting bruised beat but they often do not survive strewn like trash becoming food for the rats these fruits never ripen but are harvested nonetheless leaving the sourest of tastes in the hungriest of mouths not that taste matters to those who feed on the trees that bear the strange fruit filled with greed planting seeds that bear the same truths they ignore time again they stole the land that they till and the money they spend made from fruit of the trees, underwatered undersunned never ever understood still underfunded undergunned the beautiful fruits that grow on these trees are so sweet with a tang but on these strange trees they continue to hang

Bob Marley: "the whole world confuse you and you worried and you don't have no time fi think. And herb is thing that give you a little time to yourself so you can live" (J) they call him slick, seen him rolling now they really want to slide (R) yeah she really wanna ride (J) niggas tryna blow my high but I'm fienin for the heavens in the sky shit I'm tired of niggas questioning me why (R) pressing at me right? how could they be stressing at me tired this my medicine I'm tired ya'll tryna give me some better shit? evidently not (J) heaven sent me God had a message for me now told me messing with the fire is a blessing in disguise (R) Moses had the burning bush, burning kush to set the vibe got a murderous look, nervous shook when I arrive we out here learning books, but ya'll worried bout my mind (J) we just serve and cook the hot verses and the rhymes our furnace set on high my curses get applause they searching but they lost, I know I'm one with God (R) I really don't know what to say after that. Like what the fuck to you say after like "I'm one with God?" (J) I'm a product of a slave ship make shit happen (R) ain't no cappin like the wave shit (J) ain't shit splashin (R) I seen what's happenin like I'm Raven no teen but I'm tightening niggas up (J) I don't like a nigga who gon cyph with niggas but be fighting niggas when they rising up (R) time is up rising luck yeah ya'll drying up (J) try to trust I'm the finest one in my settlement dust'll settle like sediment, in the room like an elephant Avatar in my element uh, (R) but it keep going like life (J) SHEEEEEEESSHHH no this ain't over, "rawnny Champagne" (J) they thought it was over but energy never dies I keep going I'm chillin with Ryan Wise I keep flowing (R) the melodies never die I keep harmonizing with woman God didn't want clothing, we was out there naked after 2020 I ain't tryna say shit fuck these laces, even these glasses I'm finna be like Stevie Wonder only participate in conversations and make music that's the greatest damn, you can't debate this (J) yeah I'm gambling with my life but I ain't been to Vegas bring the thunder to the cat panties seen them changing the guts is rearranging, they love me cause I'm flagrant I'm a real Jamaican, I got a dollar and a dream I'm just tryna make I'm spitting acid on the beat ya'll niggas kinda basic (R) time to face it (J) I'm already at the bank ya'll niggas tryna Chase it (R) Fuck these crackas tryna police me with their ugly faces their mugs be dangerous tuck their pugs away when I come up their way like I'm the mangy mutt, they be sus (J) if they want the smoke then I could save the blunt hate me once, shame on you, hate me twice, lames gon do what lames gon do (R) I can take a cheesy beat and make fondue I could take a Jay Z plate and make communes (J) damn, this nigga talking about communism (R) cause I hate the news, if ya'll bored I'll skate some more and break the rules (J) be patient dude, this world is a place for fools the higher up I get I seem to really hate the views they say I bring the fuhrer but I don't hate the Jews nah that's messed up (R) free Palestine (J) free Palestine on the real shit, that's the song right there man shit

the volume keep on rising but I drown it out with weed so every day is silent the knowledge of my spirit isn’t limited to science in a capitalistic world in which the mission is to buy us it gives the finance and the bias towards who’s Seated highest it’s a crisis needn’t be reminded lots onmy mind so i can never feel the peace and quiet sometimes you lose your way and then sometimes you need to find it sometimes the ends is loose but sometimes you don’t need to tie em reunited with my past and my present self I been doing my best know my best is getting better still I can put my soul in every word and every letter still while niggas telling fables tales taller than some mega stilts heaven's built outside the realm of space or time and I’m Godly with my message it’s a feeling it’s a frame of mind doing things that ain’t been done the purpose and my way of life nothing is impossible it’s people just afraid to try cuz they afraid to fail these mental prisons need escaping can’t just pay the bail being stuck in your potential is the greatest hell I don’t wait to chase my goals but being patient still I alone can’t make it happen but my savior will he see the bigger picture and he take it to a greater scale the evil stop at death but mama told me all the greats prevail it’s time I use my gifts to give the love that I was made to share

staying black and I’m minding my business staying black and I'm minding my business yeah staying black and I’m minding my business staying black and I'm minding my business yeah no I don’t give a fuck if niggas hating I can take that shit gracefully but cracka run me my reparations if you got some shit to say to me I'm staying black and I’m minding my business staying black and I'm minding my business yeah staying black and I’m minding my business staying black and I'm minding my business yeah I don’t wanna be in your drama (don't wanna be in your drama) I'm just tryna count my commas (tryna get my people the commas) major history we living through it (major history) so if you asking me what I’m doing I'm staying black and I’m minding my business (that's the truth) staying black and I'm minding my business yeah staying black and I’m minding my business staying black and I'm minding my business yeah (Staying black, staying black and I'm minding my business) 8x

a young poet no pages stay trippin no laces all my thoughts is in italics all my actions bold faces thoughts is kinda wild but but all my actions so dangerous they stare I’m walking by because the gas is so fragrant shit I’m going round the world I had to cop another visa momma told me fore I go to take the chicken out the freezer crew in red lobster balance working with the leisure I should get the house salad cuz I always get cesar I pour my drink too strong but I sip slow gone so much that shit don’t really ever hit home the more I see the less that shock me as I get grown she gave me her number but still rocking with a flip phone Moto Z I’m the year 2020 I don’t fuck with fake niggas but I see many many girl shy at the club cuz she need henny henny she only drink on occasion smoke the weed plenty plenty she don’t watch tv but she read plenty plenty Just moved to Bushwick in the deep genny gennys but I can’t blame her for the system that make way for rich people leave the poor with evictions you gon listen to a stoner smoking weed no prescription hitting different now I’m tryna start spending all my time on my mental taking notes I’m jotting with my pencil I own the fucking game this ain’t a rental I know the fucking game this is practice I stole the fucking keys and giving access it’s cold up in these streets so bring your chapstick a young poet no pages stay running no races from these chocolate loving white girls that I know be so racist niggas poppin on the gram but they be wack and so basic yeah you got few thousand yeah I know you so famous I’m going round the world I had to cop another visa momma told me fore I go to take the chicken out the freezer crew in red lobster balance working with the leisure I should get the house salad cuz I always get cesar I pour my drink too strong but I sip slow gone so much that shit don’t really ever hit home the more I see the less that shock me as I get grown she gave me her number but still rocking with a flip phone Moto Z I’m the year 2020 I don’t fuck with fake niggas but I see many many girl shy at the club cuz she need henny henny she only drink on occasion smoke the weed plenty plenty she don’t watch tv but she read plenty plenty Just moved to Bushwick in the deep genny gennys

(Welcome to the stream-of-consciousphere no need to be shy, I know you may be lost but I can help point you in the right direction you just gotta let it out, talk to me sally) (S) I been anxious, my mind be spacious for me any option to escape is a temptation I open up my heart to the nearest one facing and now the real thing couldn't tell it from the faking yesterday I'm on the subway and I'm in my boots quaking (mmm) thinking if someone came in here and my life's taken I guess I must concede that terrorism has had it's effect on me (tragic) the sympathy for old men seeing soldiers in the trees but not the peoples in the street that's scared of huffing concrete I compete to complete my personal boundaries before I hit the wrong street and end up in a long sheet or pass in a long sleep (uh huh) my country sends the bomb fleets focus topical change it keeps chains on my feet demonize my sex because they scared of my skeet (tell these niggas man) (Chorus): ahh skeet skeet motherfucker, ahh skeet skeet God damn I ain't never been a gun tucker, but I still got my yams practice or play with the Wu Tangs, prosper my call for my land off the old things to the new things, offer the whole thing to my fam (alright now Johnny) (J) through God me and my family will prosper I am a poet although I know that I can be a doctor dissecting flows chasing O’s and reprimanding imposters the haters watching shit, I'm glad I planned for an audience cause when I kill it won’t be timid I don’t plan to be modest Johnny so lethal need to plan to be cautious I'm kinda crazy I do this for my sanity obviously flow so wavy you should plan to be nauseous I feel at home when I land in the tropics I’m from the South so she loving my charm I can love you through the night but I can't love you at dawn she my dark hair shawty but my other one blonde both of them gon tell me that they fuck with this song I’m always maxing never muddle along making splashes like a puddle or pond to those who listen shit I’m loving the bond this shit gon stick like some drugs in your arm I’m black and bougie this a luxury song (Chrous) (J) sometimes I’m thinking to myself so I just jot with my pen what if my fate pronounced me dead right in this spot that I’m in? so many treasures yet to share cuz I kept locking them in does this shit matter? What do I really got in the end? Im searching forever but my mission is futile I’m praying blessings learning lessons in these scriptures I doodle I’m less a rapper more a history student bare my soul but the goal is still to leave some mystery to it I keep it simple you could even get the gist if you stupid sonic hugs spreading love and affection no Cupid who dis? It’s Johnny in the flesh no confusion they think it’s easy but it's just an illusion my shit so raw man I just be trusting my noodle they love to hate but they also really love when I do it nobody can really do what I does to the music being the best, it’s a luxury to it

(K) could you save my soul? what you gotta go and break me for? what do you even take me for? don't play me like I'm a fool don't play me like I'm a fool why you gotta be brand new? I'm just tryna be cool I ain't want to see that it was true I ain't want to be without you why I gotta go and be the fool? guess it's how it go I got problems with my self control losing love is really such a loss losing grip of what you want to hold consequences carrying the cost catch the spirit like the Pentecost always itching at the pinnacle don't mean I ain't been wrong I'm an old soul guess it feels long got some brothers I can depend on catch a feeling and put it in a song I still claim my innocence say it truly I had been amiss never really for the benefit lately I can see there's been a shift sick and tired of grabbing in a dish I don't know how to feel no more (J) yeah, yeah (see shawty, your problems, kinda like that song, it don't play forever shawty. So it's ok to be sad. Go ahead and feel those emotions out) I love my haters love the criticism this shit right here just hit a little different I tell the world the shit that’s on my mental student of my life I’m jotting with my pencil I done did some things I done made some moves a realization I’m a crazy dude need a lot of growing lotta changing too there’s some people that I lost relations to I done grown a bit and learned a lot I was chicken like the Church's spot it’s gonna hurt it’s gotta hurt a lot can’t just pull away because the surface hot she thought I called her phone last night her FBI agent tryna stir the pot I hate it I violated now everyone looking sideways yeah gotta do my time they say that crime pays yeah laying in my bed cuz I made it checking on my phone and it’s dry raisin digital booties jirating on my screen yeah dirty nigga but I’m coming clean yeah nerdy nigga so I’m learning things yeah guilty conscience won’t keep burning me when I turn a leaf I'll be sure to see yeah people in my life all that matter to me yeah (S) I'm fucking the beat, redbone you might wanna put in your headphones you talk a lot but you get slept on you ain't got haters you write cell phones mobile, mogul my rap persona is nonvisual vipassana I'm so fucked up call me mañana pussy dolce *errrrr no Gabana Copacabana I met your mama she my biggest fan said when I'm gon sign her this shit'll sound great if you high enough bull shop I'm china I'm the bump in your marijuana and my niggas, Ohana (J) I'm medicated good no doctor breaking down a wood no fronto with my day one's that I know proper these new people turn to old drama I'm finna write my story I'm the sole author I need a black woman don't want no blancas right? (S) I can't hold you I been swiping right on some white girls tryna get bread in the white world loc'd up I got tight curls convict music pushing me I'm finna lose it you's a bitch niggas you is loose lipped I'm the same nigga in a new fit (J) no I'm never lying only spitting true shit passing over niggas on some Jew shit they gon love it and it's just a loosey we some smart niggas going stupid (S) I don't see why I can't have it all while I'm here I'm finna have a ball I am supreme call me Kavanaugh on my black balls, caviar

legalize the herb, free all my people out of prison, man have this conversation with me real quick (some people want the petals without the thorns) it’s a couple things I’ve noticed, that I’ve noticed over time the thorny bushes got the roses, the best roses that you’ll find when I’m bleeding cuz its seeming hopeless, i gotta focus on what’s mine I'm only human but my heart is golden, yeah it’s golden so I shine these niggas crabbing I ain’t talking seafood hope you’ll be there when I need you we win together or I beat you, so it goes I’m finding comfort being solo I won’t give in to the FOMO I’m on a mission that I chose so, I can't fold It’s always friction when you gaining traction these niggas say they want the cash when they really not about that action they just talk I’m always chillin but I’m never passive spread the knowledge like my classes imma liberate the masses that’s on Jah no the revolution won’t be televised as long as I’m a nigga I’ll be vilified they say I’m down to earth but I be hella high they say I’m down to earth I’m looking hella fly they wanna bring me down and imma let em try they hate I'm flowing cuz they well is dry I’m Staying woke but I be hella tired I done grown so much that they don’t recognize who I am inside I be chilling i just sip my tea slow talk to God cuz I know he my cheat code I know what he created me for speaking to my diasporic people learn the easy way or the hard way life be speeding past just like a car chase life is more than just what the stars say I'm on top fuck what the charts say it’s a couple things I’ve noticed, that I’ve noticed over time (over the short span of my life, I done realized that...) the thorny bushes got the roses, (the greater the struggle the greater the treasure at the end) the best roses that you’ll find when I’m bleeding cuz its seeming hopeless, i gotta focus on what’s mine (you gotta embrace the pain to find the pleasure you feel me) I'm only human but my heart is golden, yeah it’s golden so I shine (Lost&Found&dnuoF&tsoL, sincerely yours truly, Johnny Champagne)

time don’t stop for no one the sun will rise so I gotta get up get up I keep on running no i never had a bed time I look just like my cousin doing fed time Im at the point where I don’t even understand time today snuck up on me like a land mine I gotta get up praise the most high but grounded like a dead fly said my wisdom is my weapon fuck the lead I tell em suck my dick and fuck the world I'm on my Brent Faiyaz I keep the heat up in the kitchen so my bread rises I keep my ear out and I listen tryna get wiser It’s Jah and Johnny with the cure I didn’t get Pfizer I pray to Jah up on the track I'm tryna get higher