Keep Your Eyes Open - Proverb

Keep your eyes open

Watch and learn

Listen to what I’ve spoken

If not you’ll burn

Stay in it coz you love it

Do not return into a money making puppet

Get what you’ve earned

Keep your eyes open

Watch and learn

Listen to what I’ve spoken

If not you’ll burn

Stay in it coz you love it

Do not return into a money making puppet

Get what you’ve earned

Like a baby’s 1st step I have to learn to stand on my own

A rough road ahead but no one else can handle it for him

Where I’m planning to go, is like an initiation school

You go as a boy you come back as a man and you’ve grown

I’m like an athlete on this song and I have a baton

Running along, and after this song, I’m passing it on

King of my destiny back on the throne

To move you like the booth is my cockpit and ya’ll are passengers on

A disaster is born in the form of this rap song

I plan to reign a lot longer than a hazardous storm

This is more than a career, it’s a calling, and I’ve answered the phone

It’s cast and stone

My poems are in a class of their own

And er you can tell when i speak that I have grown

This has become way more than beats and rap poems

To stand on my own I needed a back bone

On the real, son I’m just tryna reap what I have sown

Keep your eyes open

Watch and learn

Listen to what I’ve spoken

If not you’ll burn

Stay in it coz you love it

Do not return into a money making puppet

Get what you’ve earned

Keep your eyes open

Watch and learn

Listen to what I’ve spoken

If not you’ll burn

Stay in it coz you love it

Do not return into a money making puppet

Get what you’ve earned

Like sight to the blind I’m just taking what’s rightfully mine

I’m like a miner who keeping every diamond he finds

Why get the smallest piece when I’m the one whose writing the rhymes?

I might not get a piece at all but I’ve decided it’s fine

It beats being the chef and not getting to eat

It beats being the best and what you getting is cheap

See I’d rather be at a desk and not even emcee

At least I’d be receiving a check at the end of the week

I’m just tryna get a bigger piece of my own cake

Make my own decisions, release on my own date

You know, charge my own fees when I’m on stage

I’m just tryna live off royalties when I’m old age

Cause I believe I’ve paid dues

And now I’m tryna make moves

I’m like a puppet with a pair of scissors tryina break loose

I’m tryna make music

Not be a slave to it

I know my worth is more than 40 acres and a mule kid

Keep your eyes open

Watch and learn

Listen to what I’ve spoken

If not you’ll burn

Stay in it coz you love it

Do not return into a money making puppet

Get what you’ve earned

Keep your eyes open

Watch and learn

Listen to what I’ve spoken

If not you’ll burn

Stay in it coz you love it

Do not return into a money making puppet

Get what you’ve earned

I love what I do, I love this music business

But ever so often I have to remind myself that it’s exactly that… Business

And until I know the business part of it

Like a lot of musicians, I’m gonna die a pauper

'Cause on the real I’m concerned about all that

This industry is hot and you’ll burn till you’ve gone black

I’ve only figured out my worth and I’ve gone back

To try and renegotiate the terms of my contract

I love writing rhymes, recording

Love being at a live performance

Making the crowd recite the chorus

But also wanna be secure when I retire like Jordan

I love this music but I don’t wanna die a pauper

And that’s why I’m tryna get my business straight

My future’s determined by the decisions I make

And you’ll realize when you listen to this tape

That I’m only tryna learn from the mistakes previous musicians made

That it’s a business not just hooks, rhymes and vocals

Industry crooks are capitalizing on hopefuls

And I refuse not to know what’s mine that is so true

Not when there are so many

Books at my disposal

Keep your eyes open

Watch and learn

Listen to what I’ve spoken

If not you’ll burn

Stay in it coz you love it

Do not return into a money making puppet

Get what you’ve earned

Keep your eyes open

Watch and learn

Listen to what I’ve spoken

If not you’ll burn

Stay in it coz you love it

Do not return into a money making puppet

Get what you’ve earned