Outside

By Daniel Laurent

I paid my tithes with sweat equity
No contracts, handshakes, gentlemen’s specialty
Eye to eye when we tiger bone shoot
Take it back to half times, Nasir chipped tooth
No ties to clicks, I move slick solo
Neckties and shit polo
Web bait lie clicks no no
Ambition refuses to die
Make a way no matter what, Cully’s son look into my eyes
I’m tryna school those who lost, no Betsy Devos, I’m accounted for at all costs
The story that’s told is too heavy, shoulders built Ford tough, 9/6 was born ready
Touching the people with this hip hop ready to battle my crew rock steady
Lead by example, create my own lane and opportunities no question you already

Why y’all scared to come outside?
Cause the killers got guns outside?
But everyone’s outside
Once you allowed to go outside
Sink or swim it might hurt your pride.

Back for the sh*#, loose stool mode
now it's nothing but peace, truce, be cool bro
Keep that same energy you spouting out
digital diarrhea eggs, living in your mommy's house
Drive by myself through the valley peaks
Full tank, 1% battery I’m hard to reach
80 miles down a city street
unapologetically Afrikan blasting Styles P
Success is the main motivation
Time waits for no man, timing and concentration
How many times must I repeat it
Circle dwindled down the middle, society is a Cekret
Teeter totter, I’m done playing it
Stand on the side of good or you’ll be in the way of it
Half a million on my flesh to break the cycle of go fund-mes’ for one’s death

Why y’all scared to come outside?
Cause the killers got guns outside?
But everyone’s outside
Once you allowed to go outside?
Sink or swim it might hurt your pride
Stand firm on my principles
Violate one of 3 and the wrath gon’ be biblical

From where conditions were unlivable
Book it program helped my mind elevate to mythical
who loves company, those miserable
45 ran and fulfilled a nation that’s divisible
One United, banking on principles, interests of my community truthfully its unconventional
Break the cycle, have some traditional, routines the kids see and pass down with the swimming pool
As a black man I feel invisible
takes Marvel wishes fictitious to make me feel invincible
Burning it down, non-medicinal
Art of war, all on the line street judicial
Keep the same energy or get ridiculed
Neighbors on channel 7 at 11 giving interviews

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Daniel Laurent

Daniel Laurent, also known as DL, has been a fixture in Boston Hip Hop for over a decade. He is a music artist and actor who lives in Boston with his family including his son, who is prominently featured in his latest visual "Outside"

"Outside" addresses violence and the numbness that comes from normalizing inner city trauma. The visual has won over 7 awards for Best Music Video and has been in spotlighted in over 10 film festivals across the country and even in the UK.

Check out his good works on DanielLaurent.com

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