Namesake - Tunde Olaniran

See him flossing in that metal

The game’s in a higher level

Dimensions;

we into several

You see we get them together

DIY fringe be swangin'

Bangers-bangers he slanging

Show on point, he slaying

He wasn’t always this way in fact

Brown boy slanted eyes

Bleach-stained sweat suit

Throwin' water on me

In the middle school restroom

Only brown head in my 9th grade play

13 walking in the streets of UK

Now maybe there’s a lesson I’ve been given

Or some wisdom from the stories that I need to tell

And everybody’s hoping and scraping and wishing

They could be something outside themselves

If I can be me, then you can be yourself

Might not be easy, it’s like we’re never satisfied

Right?

It’s like we’re never satisfied

Right?

Got it locked

With that namesake

Won’t stay the same

Change like every day

Got it locked

With that namesake

Won’t stay the same

Change like every day

Smiling through the vicious

A puzzle piece never fittin'

A new thread that he was given

To weave a singular vision

Could never be avaricious

Instead a quiet ambitious

No reason left to resist it

A hater just sound fictitious

So I’m not, quittin, they stay, squintin'

Try to dictate a life they not, living

T.O.

been about that truth, spilling

Don’t buck like a deer when shots hit him

Don’t Formula One this path that you’re on

We all gotta make our own living

Cry out loud, don’t stay, hidden

Fear to fail, say good riddance

Nathaniel said: «you can’t see me»

In February, he freed me

Cleared my head of debris

We shattered my boundaries

And the lowered degree was healing

Winter was sorely needed

Like Pakistan, I seceded

My leaving won’t be repeated

Never read for them tight roles

My eyes looked where the sky goes

So rare like albinos

Poachers, we zoom right by those

Few in number like rhinos

Reaching up for them high notes

Study me like yo bibles

Cats fall in line like I’m Lion-o

Now maybe there’s a lesson I’ve been given

Or some wisdom from the stories that I need to tell

And everybody’s hoping and scraping and wishing

They could be something outside themselves

If I can be me, then you can be yourself

Might not be easy, it’s like we’re never satisfied