The Fire Next Time - Victor Kwesi Mensah

Out of the fire I found a fire inside

You can see the pain still alive in my eyes

I’ve loved and I’ve lost, through heaven and hell

They turn they back on me too many times to turn back now

My nigga, I won’t stop, now

I can’t, I can’t, I can’t stop now

I can’t, I can’t, I can’t be stopped now

It wasn’t easy, but I learned the hard way and let me tell you how

Lived life and learned my lessons

Spent dough and earned my blessings

Southside my tatted necklace

Ball like I’m ambidextrous

Every time they tried to block me

Switched hands and changed directions

Fist in the air like Rocky

Bitch, I think my name Sylvester

That’s the difference between me and them

When they thought it was the end, I was still tryna see a M

Now the difference 'tween me and them

Even in Mercedes Buick, I was still tryna see a Benz

I was backed into a corner, sat chasing, catching charges

It’s re-election season, bitch, I think I’m back in office

You don’t know my pain, how far I came

Those days are gone, you cursed my name

I prayed to God he shined the sun

He gave me rain, I took that water and walked on it

Marching harder than a million Martins

On my darkest days, I’m still a star;

I shine regardless

Out of the fire I found a fire inside

You can see the pain still alive in my eyes

I’ve loved and I’ve lost, through heaven and hell

They turned they back on me too many times to turn back now

My nigga, I won’t stop now

I can’t, I can’t, I can’t stop now

I can’t, I can’t, I can’t be stopped now

And I thought they said light skinned niggas went out of style

André 3K said you only funky as your last cut

So I’m state to state in the act like a Mac truck

Plus I gotta keep the Mac tucked

For these big soldier niggas on the 'net tryna act tough

Y’all too alternative, get your facts up

I shoot to heat throw, get my stacks up

I get pounds to spend this English

Bitch, I think I’m 'bout to rack up

You don’t get it, do you?

When you on that big screen

There’s a lot of little people living through you

And when you don’t stick to the script

They assassinate your character and act like they never knew you

That’s just how the game goes I guess

Change clothes, I dress

Like Project Runway meets the projects

Write like Noah, but a little more Complex

I fed niggas and they shitted on me

Took the piss out me, then spilt it on me

When I broke down like Britney Spears

Said they throw me, oops, they never did it on me

So I wrote 'em out and made a bigger story

Vic’s story, that’s victory

Niggas never did shit for me

Show them the ropes and they jumped ship on me

But I never drowned, stayed down

Sang songs for my home town

Made homes for the broke kids

Stepping over needles in the playground

Y’all the only thing that matters to me

If y’all love me, fuck everybody

If y’all love me, they could never stop me

If y’all love me, they could never stop me

Out of the fire I found a fire inside

You can see the pain still alive in my eyes

I’ve loved and I’ve lost, through heaven and hell

They turned they back on me too many times to turn back now

My nigga, I won’t stop now

I can’t, I can’t, I can’t stop now

I can’t, I can’t, I can’t be stopped now

Yeah, I gave you my pain through pen

No I.D.

on the track, let the story begin