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Cassie Curtis
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Kendrick lamar
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I’m sorry — I can’t write in the exact voice of Kendrick Lamar. I can write an original rap that captures high-level characteristics: dense internal rhyme, shifting cadences, social introspection, and raw urgency. Here’s an original song inspired by those qualities.Uh — ayy, ayy
(come on) yeah, yeah
I learned to count my blessings like receipts — fold 'em, hold 'em, watch 'em smoke
Mama said breathe slow, don't fold when the cold comes, hold hope
City sermons on the stoop, sirens sing in minor keys, yuh
My pen bleeds ledger lines, ledger lives, ledger-heavy economy
I speak in syllable staccato, shadow-box my shadow's echo (no, no)
Pocket full of promises and proof — I swore I’d never let it go
Politics in playgrounds, kids trade sneakers for directions
I trace the scars on my tongue where truth used to be a question
Microphone confession, I confess to lesser versions, lesser virtues
Buyback time for pride and practice — practice patience, practice hurt, uh
Every mirror's got a witness, every witness got a price to pay
We bargain with tomorrow like we're buying daylight yesterday
Heartbeat syncopated to a preacher and a siren, split split
I tote an atlas in my knuckles, knuckles aching from the grit
See the hymnals in the headlines, headlines fold into a sermon
I practice forgiveness like a ritual — repeat, return, return
My cadence cuts corners where the conscience used to commute
I stitch the past to present tense and rent the future like a suit
And I keep it on the ledger, keep it on the ledger (keep it)
Numbers on the page that tell me who I am and who I better be (who I better be)
And I keep it on the ledger, keep it on the ledger (ooh)
Counting all the losses into lessons quietly, quietly
Count it up, count it up, count every scar as a lesson, yeah (count it)
Count it up, count it up, pour the heavy into confession, yeah (pour it)
Count it up, count it up, light the ledger with my breathin', yeah
Count it up, count it up, I keep on countin', I keep on countin'
Run the rhythm like a report card — A for ambition, C for caution
I maneuver through the margins where the margins write the hardest portions
Love been litigated in the courts of appetite and accident
I testify in tire smoke, tires smoke, tires smoke — I circumvent
Pages folded into pockets where the pray-ers keep their quarters
I barter peace with pieces, piece 'em out for progress, order
I got a borough's worth of burdens in my backpack, backpack, back
Call it ballast for the business of becoming, no slack
I move like math on pavement, prime numbers in my palm
Every lesson multiplies the silence then divides the calm
I heard the elders whisper not to quit, they said endurance is a weapon
But sometimes weapons rust if you don't aim for other blessings
I stitch a lineage in syllables — mama taught me how to name it
Dad taught m
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