It’s been hard for me as a black man to tackle the everyday injustices I see on the news on an everyday basis. Just this week we’ve lost more lives by the hands of police with the murders of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile’s. Jay Z felt compelled to express his feeling on the subject with a new track entitled, Spiritual. The uncovered track was recorded a year ago, it’s sad these events are still happening and the song’s message is still relevant.
The song is available exclusively through TIDAL, listen below.
Hov’s statement:
Annotation via Genius:
[Intro]
And it says, now the works of the flesh are manifest
Meaning, the things that are in the sinful nature
They always come to the surface
And when they come, when they come to the surface
They come to the surface as demons
[Refrain]
(All this work can pay off)
I just want all this work to pay off
(Just don’t calculate us)
Don’t calculate us
(Get to know you later)
Spiritual, yes it is spiritual
No I’m not poison, no I’m not poison
(Just don’t calculate us)
Alcohol in my room
Spiritual, yes it is spiritual
No I’m not poison, no I’m not poison
(Just don’t calculate us)
Spiritual, yes it is spiritual
No I’m not poison, no I’m not poison
(Just don’t calculate us)
Yeah, yeah, yeah
[Hook]
Yeah, I am not poison, no I am not poison
Just a boy from the hood that
Got my hands in the air
In despair don’t shoot
I just wanna do good, ah
I am not poison, no I am not poison
Just a boy from the hood that
Got my hands in the air
In despair don’t shoot
I just wanna do good, uh
[Verse 1]
Pray your father’s father wasn’t touching his little daughter
Creating trans-generational trauma, that shit’ll haunt ya
Pray your little cousin ain’t fall from the place that you fall asleep
Of course it’s harmful (no high)
Nigga ain’t dozed, I ain’t washed in a week
I ain’t changed clothes ’til the Black Album
Y’all rap about it, I’m wrestlin’ in these streets
‘Til I tapped out ’em, them niggas is WWE
Y’all can have that, I’m smack dab
In a hurricane of emotions
Can’t even raise my little daughter, my little Carter
We call her Blue cause it’s sad that
How can I be a dad that, I never had that
Shattered in a million pieces, where the glass at
I need a drink, shrink or something
I need an angelic voice to sing something
Bless my soul, extend your arms, I’m cold
Hold me for a half hour until I am whole, yeah
[Hook]
I am not poison, no I am not poison
Just a boy from the hood that
Got my hands in the air
In despair, don’t shoot
I just wanna good, ah
Alcohol in my room
Spiritual, yes it is spiritual
No I’m not poison, no I’m not poison
(Just don’t calculate us)
Spiritual, yes it is spiritual
No I’m not poison, no I’m not poison
(Just don’t calculate us)
Yeah, yeah, yeah
[Verse 2]
Sick of hiding in holes and behind hyperbole
This is the real me unfold
Gangster is love, I’m thuggin’, I’m huggin’
This is tougher than any gun that I raised
Any crack that I blazed, that was nothin’
Peeling back the layers, uncovering
Scars that never healed, I never kept it this real
I acted out, my life a stage, ten thousand people watchin’
Where’s the little boy I knew?
I must have forgot him
Stuntin’, of course we never grew
But we’re alone now and I’m singing this song for you
Stuntin’, of course we never grew
But we’re alone now and I’m singing this song…you
[Hook]
I am not poison, no I am not poison
Just a boy from the hood that
Got my hands in the air
In despair don’t shoot
I just wanna good, ah
I am not poison, no I am not poison
Just a boy from the hood that
Got my hands in the air
In despair don’t shoot
I just wanna do good, uh
Alcohol in my room
Spiritual, yes it is spiritual
No I’m not poison, no I’m not poison
(Just don’t calculate us)
Spiritual, yes it is spiritual
No I’m not poison, no I’m not poison
(Just don’t calculate us)
Spiritual, yes it is spiritual
No I’m not poison, no I’m not….
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