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Quentino delivers another taste of the upcoming "Scorpio" mixtape sequel while speaking on the realness of today, dropping increasingly earnest rhymes over this familiar Rihanna song.

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[Intro - Quentino]
Tick, tock. Tick, tock. Tick, tock.
Tick, tock. Tick, tock. Tick, tock.
Yeah! Look...!

[Verse - Quentino]
Agression, progression...
Nowadays it ends up growin' like it's an erection
But instead you be hearin' 'bout my life, and knowin' that it's supposed to be sweet
And y'know what? Sometimes, yeah, it could be a little sweet
But there's other times where it ends up feelin' like it's so hard
In this life, and knowin' that people keep on goin' so far
So what am I supposed to do? Knowin' that these people keep on tug-and-warrin'
Like it's nothin' but! And I'm hearin' 'bout the terrorities that people have been claimin'
Nowadays I end up hearin' about the life that I've been "living":
It's such a heavenly place... Nah, I'm just kiddin'.
This place that I'm livin' at ain't even heavenly at all, not even close to it!
Knowin' that these people end up bringin' their guns, bringin' their words
Nowadays they end up bringin' the war to themselves
And y'know what? I ain't even tryin' to bring war to myself
But I gotta be able to make a difference when it came to wealth
Yes indeed! I often am wonderin', What I am? Who I am?
Nothin' more but a Scorpio guy
Tryna be able to live his life
Out to the fullest, but instead
Know that these people keep on bringin' up institutions
Like they is part of the government
And a part of the resolution
But yet they don't know what a resolution is
Until they look deep inside of themselves
Be able to hear your (own) wealth
But instead, you'll end up wonderin', Where the hell it at?
And I'm just wonderin', What am I supposed to do with that?
Not a bit. Because that'll end up puttin' me deep in struggles
I done struggled so many times when it came to my life
Already 19, supposed to turn 20
But you'll end up thinkin' that you could even make 50
But I'm not even able to guarantee another day
Until the day I end up finally seein' if I'll be able to make it
But instead these people keep on bringin' me down
Well, y'know what? I hit the ground
Almost like I'm Ground Zero
But instead they think I'm underground hero
(I ain't gay!) How can I even be a hero?
Not even Superman can't even fly into the sky
Because these people keep on bringin' him down
Like they part of gravity, keep on grabbin' me if you wish
But you won't be able to knock me down no more!
Not anymore! I'm sick and tired of the same things these people keep talkin' 'bout
They talk about the money, the cars, the jewelry
Everything that's so material,
And I can't take it!
Finally, end up seein' aggression growin' deep inside of me
Because of all the things they be speakin' while we in poverty
They say that I'm livin' in poverty, but no sir, I'm not
So you better get it right when you speak about my life
In the same old place, same old time
Yes indeed,
A-R-D,
Ardmore, get it right
Because this life we all leadin' ain't right
I know that ain't right, because we too busy claimin' this and that
And end up thinkin' that we are part of this and that
And end up doin' things we know we shouldn't be doin'
Yeah, we livin' in sin,
And that's a darn shame, because y'know what?
It all started with Adam and Eve
Why do we have to be
The one pull the gun out on our "enemy"?
I don't understand why
Why it gotta be somebody in the family
Who lost it, with their family members?
Or end up gettin' into it, a loss of diffusion
And all of a sudden, man, the fuses is lit
And end up makin' explosions,
Like it ain't nothin' but dynamite.
I've already exploded, now I wanna be that one supernova
And end up engulfin' the place,
Like I'm 'bout to put another blaze in ya
But even worse, because you'll just turn into ashes
And all because people be lashin'
Out nowadays like they thinkin' of whiplash
Black clash!!!

[Outro - Quentino]
Tick, tock. Tick, tock. Tick, tock.
Tick, tock. Tick, tock. Tick, tock.
Gun. Shot!

credits

from Scorpio, Vol. 2: Signs of the Times, released June 27, 2013
Vocals: Quentino (@quentin_roberts)
Mixing and Mastering: Quentino, Black Smith
Production: Shaffer Smith & Charles Harmon
Single Artwork: Aduro Art (@AduroArt)

Q. Roberts, S. Smith, C. Harmon, R. Fenty

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