Debonair - Funky DL

Yo', I’m gonna start this from the only place an artist

Can paint a picture with sharpness and say it from where the heart is

Regardless of all the darkness that surrounds mankind

The corruption and all that’s heartless that surrounds man’s mind

The greed that leads to deeds where people exceed they needs

At speeds, mislead without any sign of fatigue

I must proceed to plant the seeds and feed my creed

Believe in something that’s bigger than me

So I write for the mic, don’t write hype for the light

I don’t need no boujie car to back me like Michael Knight

I don’t need a chick in a swimsuit to convince you

My music ain’t tinsel, I cling to the things I’ve been through

So every bar is like a scar on my soul

Yo my destination is truth and that’s as far as I go

As far as I know, there’s nothing that can stop me, so carbon and copy

They never embody the type of Tsunami that’s behind me

A beat devastator, paint pictures with predicators

Rewriting the rules of rap like a lyrical legislator

Cos' when I put pen to paper, I never pretend to take ya' to a place

That’s even greater, every time you switch the fader

And twenty years later, I’m still here

I’m still clear, I’m still with a career, I still care

I regenerate like cells every seven years

And still swear to bring you a style that’s debonair

Listen to the beautiful compositions of these tracks

This is Black Jazz, settle back and relax, this is Black Jazz

Hope I got the sound right down to your taste

Listen to the beautiful compositions of these tracks

This is Black Jazz, settle back and relax, this is Black Jazz

Hope I got the sound right down to your taste

Many years later, but I’m still in the mix

I’m gonna end this from the only place a friend is

Supposed to send this and recommend that you take this incentive

To blend this into your playlist, love it or hate it

Educated or ignoramus, I bring that greatness

Never paralyzed in changing my paradigm

Cos' living ain’t pantomime, you’re trapped in a Babylon

If you ain’t gone analyze, fantasizing instead of living

With a vision that’s never vivid like a slain villain

I’m never watching anybody, all that’s gonna do is hold me back

And understand, see as a man that no one owes me jack

Stand on my own two, and yeah I’m prone to

And known to release the Hackney in me, yeah that’s zone two

Come from humble beginnings, so never let my feelings

Turn me to some egotistical being, that’s unappealing

I stay making music, Blackcurrent Jazz and the Blues

And Big Band, Latin and Smooth and Ragtime, Dixieland, Fusion

Contemporary, Avant-garde or Be-Bop

D drop, the beat knocks, crumble your Sheetrock yo'

I’m still spitting like saliva from beat-box

Avoiding any beef like I’m swerving a meat-truck

So twenty years later, I’m still here

I’m still clear, I’m still with a career, I still care

Consistent, so I don’t make you wait for twenty years

Before you get to hear me bring you something debonair

Listen to the beautiful compositions of these tracks

This is Black Jazz, settle back and relax, this is Black Jazz

Hope I got the sound right down to your taste

Listen to the beautiful compositions of these tracks

This is Black Jazz, settle back and relax, this is Black Jazz

Hope I got the sound right down to your taste

Many years later, but I’m still in the mix