I Apologize Songtext
von Sev Statik

I′ll show up on your block, gripping a microphone with promises
Nostradamus couldn't foretell, well enough to make clear

Reasons for insanity I hold dear for keepsakes

So I can rake the world over kicks and snares

Prepare now for the outcome of pain at point-blank cold

No hidden words, no lies or disguises in my flow

Low budget ′cause that's all I know till I'm able to blow the spot

Not with empty songs and colorful videos, your integrity is worth

More than a 50,000 dollar advance and a caravan for a two-week tour

It all sounds like it′s cake till they start promoting

And believing you are with five more albums to make


It somehow makes sense, before you sign that dotted line
Thought you was getting over, now you under contractual bonds
Looking for a loophole ′cause the loop's got you in a hole
To them this music stole, now they all waiting for their dough
So woe to those MCs with big dreams, all they got are schemes
Up their sleeves with a grip of hidden fees they wanna squeeze
The creativity from you and me
I should′ve warned you before you signed
My apologies
I didn't know that you didn′t know

The ledge life, you should've known
I couldn′t be there for you, now I am sorry
I apologize
I didn't know that you didn't know
The ledge life, you should′ve known
I couldn′t be there for you, now I am sorry
I apologize

If I laugh or grin and just walk away, don't take it to your heart

It just might be that I′ve grown accustomed

To a high representation of the art

I wanna give my all-encompassing apologies to my

Brain, for having to process millions of silly


Words pasted together, mimicking intelligence
My ears, for unselfishly sponging in a lifetime of monotonous beats
Corrupting the hard drives of even the most expensive samplers
And my eyes, for consuming hours of fake images
Convincing and coaxing me to believe everything they see
We've got an army of so-sos being led by actors with high hopes
It′s embarrassing to see so many self-titled
Supermen standing on their own capes trying to fly
It's not like I′m Mr
Big Important either, I'm just another guy

And so to you I'd like to extend my most sincere I′m sorries
You can have your opinions and I can have mine
We don′t have to be enemies, just
Acquaintances that don't quite see eye to eye
Eye to eye

I didn′t know that you didn't know
The ledge life, you should′ve known
I couldn't be there for you, now I am sorry
I apologize
I didn′t know that you didn't know
The ledge life, you should've known
I couldn′t be there for you, now I am sorry
I apologize

I was raised on these streets of Arbor Hill, the live born

Upstate New York, and we exercised the art form of

Hip-hop in full force from the start of a culture

Blocks was hot due to the up rocks of needle pops

If any shootings took place, we was aiming at the breeze

Taking titles and names, not lives over break beats
And every MC out was dope, there was no underground
There was no mainstream, but a universal sound
Around all 360s, Adidas or Pumas was
Like uniform and mics was invisible
Freestyle was the norm, and when we said word is bond, it was real
If you was a fronting cat in a cardboard it was revealed
When lead patrol came through, you was guarding your patches
For any sleeping cats, snatched it
If you was wack in any way, your boys wouldn′t hold back

It was a movement of love, even white boys was pro-black
But nowadays big business seems to be the theme
Money is a great tool but our downfall is the fire of greed
We seem to have lost our way from principles
And honestly I guess all things change
My apologies

I didn't know that you didn′t know
The ledge life, you should've known
I couldn′t be there for you, now I am sorry
I apologize
I didn't know that you didn′t know
The ledge life, you should've known
I couldn't be there for you, now I am sorry
I apologize