A Good Name

I've got a good name

Yeah

I represent more than my rap

I've got a good name

My first name came from slave in Babylon

Back in the day rat in a cage

Raised in chains he trained like Rocky

But I mean his brain not boxing

So he got sly like Stallone

Got game like 50 cent posse

Up first to work on his coffee grind

In no time promoted to the king's right hand

But no hype man

Had to take the right stand

When the king made a statue of gold

He told the whole nation

That they had to bow down to it

That or get tossed in the furnace Shad

And his boys said boss you can burn us

We can't serve this statue it's worthless

The king was mad

But Shadrach wasn't nervous

It must have been some strange phenomenon

They walked straight through the fire

Chaka Khan

Saved by faith stronger than flames

If I'm half as brave

Then I honour my name

I've got a good name

I've got a good name

I've got a good name

And my last name

Come down some generations

Came down from the elevation

High in the hills of a great nation

With a bright future and a dark past

That won't overshadow

The hope cause the night's passed

Down from my grandfather

Who held down the village

Feel it when I touch down there

Now it's spilling in the same veins

As a good dad

With a good name

You see Shad's pop

Always played bad cop

He had no badge though

We didn't give him mad props

But now I respect it

Guess it's perspective

In hindsight seeing it's corrective

So when I get kids if they get arrested

They going to get licks like breath mints

Check it

He held a tough job down

Held my mothers hand

Handed down proud roots from my motherland

To my hometown people say

My name sounds dope no doubt

But that's not why I'm most proud

I've got a good name