The Solution

[Samples]

If you ain't go heart to play - then stay off the course

Rap - rappers disintegrate

I'ma - I'ma recommend this

[Verse 1: Abstract Rude]

I've been the problem yeah

Now I'm part of the solution yeah

My own personal retribution yeah

The new me is new around here

I got new found vision clear moving so fast u missed a year

I might just disappear it'll feel like I skipped a year

I ain't got shit to fear I can risk losing it, what are the benefits?

Or should I hold it tighter in my clutches instead of just letting it go

I done been wrong before, matter fact it wasn't that long ago

I even hit the bottom low but that was just part of my growth

A heart's always broken, I guess I'm starting over

And now my battered soul is going back through the motions

I'm just half of a whole who once had no control

I was breaking my oath it was happening over & over again

That wasn't gold so I had to take hold

Sad how it goes when you don't even know to begin

[Chorus: Abstract Rude]

It starts with me I must admit

(I been a problem) but still I can't quit

Used to spend my time complaining to no benefit but nah

(Now I'm) making a contribution so that makes me the solution

It starts with me I must admit

(I been a problem) but still I can't quit

Used to spend my time complaining to no benefit but nah

(Now I'm) making a contribution so that makes me the solution

[Bridge: Abstract Rude]

Follow me now if you're ready to do more than just talk

Walk with me be the solution

Offer critical thought for the youth be the solution

Everyone is at fault after all we're only human

I've been the problem you've been the problem

But now we're The Solution

[Verse 2: Slug]

I spread my arms like frosting

Like a phoenix wing around this offspring

Soda Pop sing songs of optimism

1972 caught the rhythm of a heartbeat

Lost the change in a car seat

Aiming at the mirror but still blames the party

As if everybody's listening wrong

It's the vision I've drawn of this impossible mission I'm on

I ain't like the rest of the scene

I'm not swimming in a stream of synthetic wet dreams nah

I work hard keep everything clean

Cause the needle still stings when the pendulum swings yes

I'm tryna do my best I'm not the best though

I'll do it to my death I never let go

A student of the Revolution

We put the salute in the solution

[Chorus: Abstract Rude]

It starts with me I must admit

(I been a problem) but still I can't quit

Used to spend my time complaining to no benefit but nah

(Now I'm) making a contribution so that makes me the solution

It starts with me I must admit

(I been a problem) but still I can't quit

Used to spend my time complaining to no benefit but nah

(Now I'm) making a contribution so that makes me the solution

[Verse 3: Brother Ali]

I was raised on the doctrine of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad

Do what you gotta do to be profitable ain't nobody stopping you

But ain't nobody tryna plant your seeds and water too

Yes your crew is starving who gotta harvest that garden, you

Meaning me, it became easy to see

I'm the one gotta put my life the way how it's supposed to be

And it might seem kind of cliche but hey truth be that way

Those that don't know need to hear so those that do know need to say

You can quote them slogans over and over 'til you overdose

And coasting through life until you slam into that wall then bam!

Then it click, that truth is an upper lip

Chilling right there under your nose until one day it come to grips

As long as the world been revolving if I'm still groveling

In the same problem wherever I walk its probably not none of yall

But obviously some flaw that I ignore but got to see

And who got to solve it? Me - Brother Ali

[Chorus: Abstract Rude]

It starts with me I must admit

(I been a problem) but still I can't quit

Used to spend my time complaining to no benefit but nah

(Now I'm) making a contribution so that makes me the solution

It starts with me I must admit

(I been a problem) but still I can't quit

Used to spend my time complaining to no benefit but nah

(Now I'm) making a contribution so that makes me the solution

[Bridge: Abstract Rude]

Follow me now if you're ready to do more than just talk

Walk with me be the solution

Offer critical thought for the youth be the solution

Everyone is at fault after all we're only human

I've been the problem you've been the problem

But now we're The Solution