Thank You - SHAD

Yeah, after all the turmoil and test

The heat broiling the sweet toil and then sweat

I might hang up this b-boy and then step

To a chalk board and take a seat poised at a desk

Still talking to youth, still talking it through

Then sat when I Black Christopher walk in a booth

Dropping some truth and I picked off with this route

I’m travelling many times I’ve gotten lost in pursuit

Didn’t always get it right some decisions I’ve questioned

From behind the mic when I spit in the session

I’m talking life but not giving no lessons

Some show me light I just give a reflection

Of the best pieces of my hometown

Police in the whole crowd round the old streets we would hold down

No doubt that commitment’s giving me hope now

Good ground so mad seeds can grow out

I look up to ya’ll and when I look back

I’m looking forward to more pictures to look at

G the rooms we never thought we could pack

I knew I should try, I knew I could rap

But talking honest I never thought I’d be good at

Man it’s a jungle out here for a hood rat

Pray for a good cat see how I put that

Ahh I’m gassed

Skip

(Thank God for granting me this moment of clarity

This moment of honesty)

Mhmm, truthfully I wanna rhyme like Common sense

And make that good music like Consequence

They say my rhyming is a constant mix

Of blacking out on tracks then bringing consciousness

Shouts to my circle my circumference

For all the IOU’s no consonance

Yeah my whole crew they gave me confidence

My few confidants, out to all my friends

And now I’m proud of my van and my Vancouver apartment

A proud man is a man who went through hardships

Don’t say you can’t, you can do it regardless

To the fans that helped us get started

The fam I gotta

Yeah

And send peace to the nation of Rwanda

Where my momma and my father stay and pray for all my concerts

Not for props for honesty and honour in my conduct

See I was always taught to act my age and not my genre

And I’m just a product of the way that I was brought up

With Bradley Bravada and the aw-shucks persona

My T Dotters have got it hot as a sauna

Watching this rock college and Crawford down at the Mod Club

And T’s gotta send a shout out to 'Sauga

He wants to say thank you and tell Hazel to holla'

It’s all love from the talks to the pot lucks

Grandview, Cotton, I’m awestruck

I gotta