从黑胶起家 - 葛仲珊

Written by：葛仲珊

Cookin' Soul

I make music for a livin'

Work with what I'm given

Never settin' limits

Representin' for da women

See they look at me and see

Some kind of oddity or freak

But what they really don't see

Is I'm just tryin' to be me

Without the judgments repugnance

Just doing what I love and

Not tryin' to be a slave

To the opinions of the public nah

My whole life I've struggled to be free

And now that I'm grown

I could finally be me ya know

So nod your head back if ya feel this

Real always recognize realness

A lot of people dwell on your appearance

But never know the struggles that you deal with

From the bottom rose to the top

Cooked some hip hop in along with the pot

Turned this raw stock into a meal

Started from scratch like Grandwizard Theo

Yea we started from scratch

Started from scratch

Started from scratch

Now look where we at

Yea we started from scratch

Started from scratch

Started from scratch

And we ain't never lookin' back

Yea we started from scratch

Started from scratch

Started from scratch

Now look where we at

Yea we started from scratch

Started from scratch

Started from scratch

And we ain't never lookin' back

Whether past or in the present

My style is independent

Of anything that's trending

Never-ending like a legend

Got the recipe my destiny's

To give the world the best of me

That's why these people

I don't even know all invest in me

In my own league can't define me

Rap sing and song-write in English and Chinese

It's the valedictorian right here

Always been first that's why

They call me a pioneer ya know

Started from the bottom didn't know much

Now I'm coppin' cribs like a grown up

See my face big on a tour bus

Hittin' every city that they show love

What Just doing what I do best

Nah and we ain't following no rubric

Pour my soul into the movement

So even when I'm gone still live thru the music

Yea we started from scratch

Started from scratch

Started from scratch

Now look where we at

Yea we started from scratch

Started from scratch

Started from scratch

And we ain't never lookin' back

Yea we started from scratch

Started from scratch

Started from scratch

Now look where we at

Yea we started from scratch

Started from scratch

Started from scratch

And we ain't never lookin' back

Tell the DJ hit the repeat when they see me

Neighborhood squad out bumpin' my CD

What a feelin' cuz none of it was easy

Parents barely had enough dough to even feed me

So I learned to grind hard from a young age

Told myself I'd be star one day

You could see me on the news front page

Cuz I refuse to live a life that's mundane

Born and raised NYC Queens

Where kings go to find a queen

And dreams can turn into a million things

But fame ain't nothing like it really seems

Foreal that's why I stay true and I don't do

Anything that don't feed my soul food

Follow in their shoes like a broke fool

And now I get to let the world know

What I know too

Yea we started from scratch

Started from scratch

Started from scratch

Now look where we at

Yea we started from scratch

Started from scratch

Started from scratch

And we ain't never lookin' back

Yea we started from scratch

Started from scratch

Started from scratch

Now look where we at

Yea we started from scratch

Started from scratch

Started from scratch

And we ain't never lookin' back