K'naan - I Come Prepared

Share How it works Click the orange lyrics for explanations Highlight white lyrics and explain them to get Rap IQ™ (help) Set to high Now calling all revolutionary youth Dam Marley alongside K'naan Gunpowder philosopher what some boy feel like...Paper! I made the list this year I'm honor roll, you ain't know East African rock 'n roll You don't know what time it is like your clock is old You ain't know we all packin' like the block is sold How could it be from the deepest darkest of zero To become king of New York like De Niro And he ain't even from New York that's what's weird yo But where he's from they just ratatatat-ratatatat So come now don't you try to play the hero Around here we've got pirates with torpedoes Alongside all the warlords and beardos The only city nigga's blacker than tuxedos Baby girl let me get all up in your earlobe And if you shut me down you can kill my ego Which is my enemy makes you my amigo So either way you and I are button and needle And they say I might become big as a Beatle But I don't let it get to my head or feet yo And I got more street cred than legal But just in case we keep a big, des-eagle Yeah, I come prepared, I come prepared, I come prepared Yeah, I come prepared, I come prepared, I come prepared, always Yeah, I come prepared, I come prepared, I come prepared, yeah Zion youths Yeah, I come prepared, I come prepared, I come prepared What was I on before this flow or sequel? Somethin' about how I thought I was a Beatle I'm trippin' but it was something lethal It was fresh but possessed something Medieval I came solo I ain't even bring my army The type of niggas that are always ruining the party You know those socially inadequate Somalis Who walk in uninvited and you're VIP And Africans love them some B.I.G But 2Pac is official H.N.I.C And my job is to write just what I see So a visual stenographer is what I be Superman, superstar give me super-fat dough So I can be super-rich and super phat so But maybe not super fat but super stacked though So I can fix some money shit on super back low How many immigrants are in this here sedan And is anyone carryin' any contraband? Not really but I'm late for my concert man And here's a card for my lawyer Mr. Sam Goldman Yeah, I come prepared, I come prepared, I come prepared [4X] (Damian Marley) So mek a boy know the kalashnikov nuh play type-o If him feel him have the balance fi a walk tight rope And a gamble with him life like a casino And have somebody fi save him like them save Nemo Cause the Marleys and Somalis are some mad people We a travel with some long strap in a vehicle And a screech across the border like a Latino Moving through the LAX's and London Heathrow Wait, man a gangsta we no star freak show No gimmicks nor shenanigans a real street flow Fi mi women haffi flyer than a Flamingo Real bullet we a bust and a no Placebo K'Naan have so much gun him open gun depot And we take way boy gun just like we a gun repo So tell some tosse MC there's no more free throw Soon as we finish a clip another clip reload because Yeah, I come prepared, I come prepared, I come prepared [6X]