"I Wanna Be Ready" lyrics
(feat. Mansa Musa Mensa)
Mansa musa mensa
I wanna be ready for bringing a beautiful child in this horrible world
I sat with my ear on her stomach and wondered if you were a boy or a girl
You never asked to be
I know my days are few
In this fight to make Cassius Clay, I thought about Ali in naming you
What I do in my work as a parent
Is to show you the worth you inherit
So you know who you are and know you a god
These devils at work on your spirit
You were born into a war zone
They're killing for Jordan sneaks
I'm setting your GPS only highways
You're gon' be avoiding the streets
So much pain on this side like torn obliques
Mothers with tears that pour on their cheeks
The streets is playing these boys for keeps
We live inside the story of Jonah
We must survive the belly of the beast
I devised a better younger me
To be everything I could never be
I just wanna be
I wanna be ready
I know that you're ready
'Cause God wouldn't give you a challenge that you couldn't handle
I come from the source of creation
I'm a manifestation, a channel, a reincarnation of ancestors from the plantation to the pyramids
We had to survive in America way before Gil Scott died of heroin
The reason my birth is imperative
Through me we reworking the narrative
Baby Jesus was really a vessel
And Mary was merely a surrogate
I deserve to experience joy
I deserve to experience pain
My destiny is to carry the torch
Like an Olympian bearing the flame
Hot flash feeling my mamma in terrible pain
Seeing the doctors, hearing the screams
Heavens are opening, tears of rain
We're in the flood
The story of Noah
Out of the mud
Humanity is saved
I can feel immortality and change
To continue the family in name
When I'm older, I'll be my world
I'm a star. So, I gotta shine
I will never let a child starve or bombs drop on Palestine
Time stops when the clock starts
It was 5 minutes past 9
I arrived. Now, it's my time
More specifically, it's God's time
God's time
I wanna be ready for bringing a beautiful child in this horrible world
I sat with my ear on her stomach and wondered if you were a boy or a girl
You never asked to be
I know my days are few
In this fight to make Cassius Clay, I thought about Ali in naming you
What I do in my work as a parent
Is to show you the worth you inherit
So you know who you are and know you a god
These devils at work on your spirit
You were born into a war zone
They're killing for Jordan sneaks
I'm setting your GPS only highways
You're gon' be avoiding the streets
So much pain on this side like torn obliques
Mothers with tears that pour on their cheeks
The streets is playing these boys for keeps
We live inside the story of Jonah
We must survive the belly of the beast
I devised a better younger me
To be everything I could never be
I just wanna be
I wanna be ready
I know that you're ready
'Cause God wouldn't give you a challenge that you couldn't handle
I come from the source of creation
I'm a manifestation, a channel, a reincarnation of ancestors from the plantation to the pyramids
We had to survive in America way before Gil Scott died of heroin
The reason my birth is imperative
Through me we reworking the narrative
Baby Jesus was really a vessel
And Mary was merely a surrogate
I deserve to experience joy
I deserve to experience pain
My destiny is to carry the torch
Like an Olympian bearing the flame
Hot flash feeling my mamma in terrible pain
Seeing the doctors, hearing the screams
Heavens are opening, tears of rain
We're in the flood
The story of Noah
Out of the mud
Humanity is saved
I can feel immortality and change
To continue the family in name
When I'm older, I'll be my world
I'm a star. So, I gotta shine
I will never let a child starve or bombs drop on Palestine
Time stops when the clock starts
It was 5 minutes past 9
I arrived. Now, it's my time
More specifically, it's God's time
God's time
