Dash the Baptist - What's in a Name? lyrics

[ICONIC] Haven't heard of him... It goes I-C-O- to the N I see to the end My pen game is something that I can't explain My name is something that'll live beyond the time I'm dead It's embedded in rhymes, venom in my lines They'll be ringing in your head By 2055 singing my bars, solid as lead (huh!) Iconic - everything I ever said Bet your bottom dollar, follows like apostles And still getting stronger, like I rock beat You better stop and see Iconic more like Socrates Kicking more rhymes than soccer teams Damn… Now I'm flowing like a fountain, been rated and doubted I haven't even dropped an album, just building tracks to build hype without them What you know about it? I got a whole story When I reach the glory I'll keep my friends, f** the phonies I'm at the top of my game, I mean peak of my life You get to hear it every time that I speak on the mic! [CREFLOW] Yeah! Creflow! You Haven't Heard of Him! I just hop in the booth and let my big wisdom tooth Vent the truth, Ice Cube in his youth Here to tighten the noose, I Titan like Zues My timing's tighter than Suess, lines rich and recluse Treat my mic like my b**h, call it domestic abuse For the way I beat these bars, sh** I got no excuse I'm the beast in the barn, you're just a pooch Got a reach like Webb, mine is Manute Like comparing a giant to something minute Frozen concentrate, compared to real fruit A high ranking officer, boy where's your salute I'm out flanking your king, and crushing his troops [MAYHEM] Andre means manly strong and brave Derived from a French origin name Given by mother and father, my initials AMG is just like my father It's my mark, my legacy, it defines who I am It's masculine, prestigious – that's who I am A name defines the person that you are From your walk and your talk Your personality and speech The importance in a name is hard to explain Being a black man bearing a French name Am I a sellout to my culture? Should I have been a Malcolm X, a Shariff, or Mustafa? Names after a black king bearing j**els Am I considered a fool? My name to me is biblical, historical, and lyrical A flare for the dramatic, Andre Gordon Is a lifeline and timeline with roots back to slavery times… [AZBO] How can a name ever really define us A ta g that was just placed upon our heads when we were minors We're rhymers, it's Azbo over Aaron it's timeless This world is overrun by tags, labels, and designers, the social climbers There's so many meanings to Aaron if you can find them Like Ancient Egyptian origin meaning warrior lion Yeah I'm strong like Iron, there's no denying I'm trying to just fit this alliance of nameless souls You haven't heard of them, they reek of defiance But got the mind, body, and soul like biological science So we triumph like giants, we don't suffer in silence We bare our names with such pride and strive in search of more guidance Unlike my rap name, I don't represent violence Unlike my brother, I'm no basket case, I'm straight up reliant Middle name of The King so that is royalty you're buying Just like the man himself, Elvis, yeah it's the hits I be supplying! [EL WAXO] Whats in a name, you're asking? Mine's Waxy I already told you I got a bike, I don't taxi Spit a representation, throat's rasping Meaning slips away no matter how hard you grasp it A symbol, one arrow point out the action Life is a performance so really, everyone's acting Flows grow and stem like anthotaxy Single, maxi, taken, backstreets I couldn't give a f** any more even if Daffy Duck asked me Or Yosemite Sam, gad darn it, ginger beard I'm lanky, I'm banking on any old reject No sanctions, frankly I'm holding my penis Ice cold, penguin, call me a biscuit My life I fixed it and rewrote the misprint Titled it Schmi, Jeebles, Wax, Lomad man of mystery We called my dad large and in charge, know your history [UNORTHODOX] Deranged for a brainiac, insane like a maniac Strange cause I'm trained in the ways of these ancient raps Trapped by my habits, I'm contained in a savage pit Ravaged by my accidents, my lips mumble babble spit Dunkin' with a rapidness I've sunk all your Battleships f**ing with your happiness, till you're sad, slashing wrists Glad like a masochist, smashing through the pessimists Laughing at you thrashing as I toss you from the precipice Lost within the mist, the rocky bottom of the cliffs On the off chance you live, you'll be walking with a limp Or talking with a lisp, shocked at your loss of limbs Twisted like a piece of straw caught in a wicked wind I'm the seven deadly sins, thin, with a bloody grin Slight of hand like magicians, I can vanish in minutes Insisting with insistence, citizens, please listen This has simply been fiction, my descriptive rendition I'll strive with my wisdom to thrive in existence My life is of interest and my name is my business It's Unorthodox, spitting visions to rhythm Rhyming over instrumentals from You Haven't Heard of Him [DASH THE BAPTIST] They took slaves and they gave us religion Civilizing through Jehovah's Witness, colonial outpost, ancestor's living I'm named David, my Great-Greandfather, then Kofi Nana Ehwi Forjoe Kofi is the name of the kid born on Friday, then F to the O to R, J-O-E The origin of the name, crazy story: Black man in Colonial Time, he changed his name Easier pronunciation, it was like Nfordwua, now it's Forjoe Born poor through the hard times, from ashes he came Revolution independence they took aim Many generations so no choice but to do the same! [BLEACH] Yo, I carry my son, like my name (that's what my dad said) Sad, he's dead now he's in my head now Bow my head down he's holding his hands above my head now And said go ahead so I show them the greatest respect The apple doesn't fall far from the tree so I pay with respect Use my name in vein mayne and get slain on the track “What's a Name," is the name of the track B.L. teams up with the illest: Y double H-O-H Got tracks spinning like hubcaps since the old days Sniper rifle cypher, I lay low with the woofer system Got swag, so the cougars hissing Okay I slay, I got Krueger in me (night night) Simple keep my name out of your mouth or you'll be sleeping with the fishes That's what I'm talking about Pen game ill-matic, you ill backwards, pragmatic ba*tard signing off Like the Ruger blasting off I had enough of that bull got that Ill-noise true a**a**in You a star? Well maybe in a Jewish ga**ing… [1BOMB] My names Sam and if I've got to be honest I really hate that name, but that is the topic My names brought fame since the beginning of days From the Holy Bible to my Facebook page God says, “Listen to Sam,” so do what he says Jokes - I stopped praying at an early age About the same time I realized my own fate I was put on this earth to make my own name 1bees, 1bomb, remember it, safe Forget Sam, no one calls me by that anyway Mr. Jones stays riding on these sound waves 1bomb stays at it until he sounds great, cos he's trying to escape from minimum wage And take my talent from my bedroom to the States on a stage It's like they got me in a cage like some beast untamed So I'm about to unleash and break out and escape, in a crazed rage! [CONFLICT] Whats in a name? My name I hate it, conflicted since I made it Stuck with it for years, now it's too late I can't change it Google just mistakes it, Youtube can't relate it Add "hip hop" at the end cos Conflict is always taken L D N are my initials made sense to use that name Now I wish my beats name was my emcee name Only myself to blame, never thought I'd gain fame Even if fame, is my name, on Google's first page N-O double-D-I-N-G-S, that is my name Abbreviate to Noddy, that's what all the kids would say Chant it in the playground, then turn and run away And now my nickname is a take-the-piss name Now I'm older well I guess it's as unique as me Search my name…ain't another Lee that's done as much as me Work hard for my legacy, hope that I can put my name in lights Make my daddy proud… Carry the name, take it to dizzy heights [BADBELLY] So what's my name… WHAT IS IT!! Is it just another past you won't revisit? Just a label on a map as you change your course? Maybe that's why we're heading for another divorce… Sat-NAV broke and we're stuck in this city And I'm fully aware of this f**ing irony I never asked to be here but now they love me Or at least the one they shout out "BADBELLY!" Size 10s stomping on your home ground Footsteps causing reverberations in sound History wiped and now you got a new man Surname changed, you got rid of the Lang News flash! Guess what? I don't care! I got two kids, and they're still standing there I got the name and they will carry it on…just like their daddy did