Kriptik - Gloves Up Knives Down (Official Video)

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Produced by ‪@JJ-oz9xx‬
Visuals by ‪@jsmithmediaproduction‬

Lyrics:
I don't feel these pricks they brag about shooter skills
In YouTube vids that come like jokes and blooper reels
These youths will think it's fine will think it's cool until
Someone they know gets poked, someone they love gets cruelly killed
Don't rate that, and I don't play that music still
Focus on making a change, if I don't who then will
Trash gets put in the subconscious of the youths it's drilled
Life is what you make that's how the future's built

If you weren't there then you won't know
Not from here then you can't say
Never saw them when I was doing my stuff
Now for the youths I pave the way
They don't care they just lie
Addicted to clout and hype
Never saw them when I was doing my ting
On the roads in the ring on the mic

I don't rate these youths that brag about holding knives
Without them they shake in fright, like their possessed by a poltergeist
Cowards can't fight fair so they roll in tribes
Get locked then realise there protections stopped like condoms bursting twice
I can't lie I used to work with tools like a job on site
I understand what it takes to change mindsets through broken eyes
That's why I work hard to give back their hope and find
It's not what you say it's what you do that will open minds

If you weren't there then you won't know
Not from here then you can't say
Never saw them when I was doing my stuff
Now for the youths I pave the way
They don't care they just lie
Addicted to clout and hype
Never saw them when I was doing my ting
On the roads in the ring on the mic

Win win never on a losing tip, never see me hanging with the loosest lips
Got tough rhymes and I leave bruises quick, got punchlines and I punch duffeses
Don't care bout who it is, and I don't fear coz I ain't about foolishness
Wanna show youths that you can grow through, anything you go through and still have usefulness
Transform like Goku, don't imitate like Tofu
Train hard to the sweat shows through Praying Mantis newest drip
Came from bussin sales to touching scales
Used to weigh up bags now I weigh up crabs in a barrel of lunatics

If you weren't there then you won't know
Not from here then you can't say
Never saw them when I was doing my stuff
Now for the youths I pave the way
They don't care they just lie
Addicted to clout and hype
Never saw them when I was doing my ting
On the roads in the ring on the mic

#GlovesUpKnivesDown