As lightning strikes and thunder pounds

Over the grey skies of East London town

Prophecy K returns from the underground

Signified by the peoples crying trumpet sounds

Yeah the system it tried to shut me down

But I been on my ting before

Onyx was flinging guns around

Blood sweat and tears for years

It feels like my careers been in the dumping ground

Yeah this is how hunger sounds

A k a the man behind the iron mask

For ten years straight I been raising the iron bar

Tryna' breathe the life back into this dying art

So why try and part when you'll

Meet the same fate as that lion Scar

Who will sell their soul and a** just to climb the charts

Yeah but me I put in too much time in the graft

Refining my craft for labels to

Sign me for a minor advance

Picture K'lash miming on Trance

Now picture Dr Dre beats 'lash rhyming with stars

It's all fate and I got mine in my grasp

Their all snakes let them die in the past

But who knows what the future holds

These N W O soldiers will probably shoot me cold

All because the truth was told

You should know I did it from the heart

I'm still here pushing after several years

I'm still here standing strong never in fear

I'll be still here after the dust settles and clears

I'll be still here after the blood sweat and the tears

I'm still here pushing after several years

I'm still here standing strong never in fear

I'll be still here after the dust settles and clears

I'll be still here after the blood sweat and the tears

I don't do this for the happy ravers or the aggie haters

I do this for the warriors and the gladiators

I do this for those whose lives you never cared about

Can't pronounce their names

Their origins or their whereabouts

Those brought up around tragedy and sadness

Who adjusted and found normality in the madness

Fight the power till I'm out of breathe like Malcolm X

You empower the powerful

I empower the powerless

They'll play you on the radio

If you rap about a Gucci belt

But rap about the government

You might aswell shoot yourself

Industry fairies say I rap about conspiracy theories

Just to hide the fact they lyrically fear me

Got the eye of a tiger the heart of a lion

The mind of a lifer my stance is defiant

I rise like a phoenix immediate from the ashes

My existence is inconvenient for the masses

Though we are equal I despise an imitation

I live for my people and die for liberation

I stand as a visionary; someone

Got plans of killing me

To literally vanish me physically

Like Aborigines

Hannibal with the mask and an animal with the bars

I'm grappling with my shackles;

I channel it through my art

Feel it in the ambience; Champion: Heavyweight

My life is nothing but my pride

Is something you could never take

Think I'm illusive or think I'm a nuisance

I swear these major labels must think that I'm stupid

Keep your 360's your convincing these dudes with

Like I'll give you the blueprint for pimping my music

I say that like K'Lash he's another lion

Every hardship from getting scarred to my brother dying

Spit all of it with or without a big audience

Through the Blood Sweat & Tears I stand victorious

I'm still here pushing after several years

I'm still here standing strong never in fear

I'll be still here after the dust settles and clears

I'll be still here after the blood sweat and the tears

I'm still here pushing after several years

I'm still here standing strong never in fear

I'll be still here after the dust settles and clears

I'll be still here after the blood sweat and the tears

I'm still here pushing after several years

I'm still here standing strong never in fear

I'll be still here after the dust settles and clears

I'll be still here after the blood sweat and the tears

I'm still here pushing after several years

I'm still here standing strong never in fear

I'll be still here after the dust settles and clears

I'll be still here after the blood sweat and the tears