Rapsody - 12 Problems (Extended Version)

Watch the official video for Rapsody's “12 Problems" featuring music from Ambré,
starring Niko Brim and Reuben Vincent.

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Profits from "12 Problems" will be donated to five organizations fighting to end police brutality, hate crimes, and other civil rights violations:

The Gathering For Justice (http://gatheringforjustice.org )

Until Freedom (http://untilfreedom.com)

Equal Justice Initiative (http://eji.org)

Grassroots Law Project (http://grassrootslaw.org)

NACDL Foundation for Criminal Justice (http://nacdl.org)


Rapsody "12 Problems" Lyrics:

Ambré

Riding along the pavement
NASA wouldn’t wanna race me now
When I take off lost in a lonely matrix
Hope my free spirit finds you well
Talking bout evolution, talking bout a revolution
Revolution
Feel a revolution, talking bout a revolution
Don't be afraid to let the situation escalate
We elevate and raise vibrations
Ooh ooh revolution ooh ooh

Rapsody

Y’all bogus
Real goofy
I ain’t never lost focus
Nah
Y’all bogus
The Dark flesh Bob Mar’
Speak mine, what you thought dem 99
Problems was?
War on drugs
Legality
They got us on fallacies
Resorted in casualties
I was suppose to resort in the Maldives
Now we in the rallies now
Boxin in IG
Boxin like Ali
In the memory Pourin Hennessy and Bumbu shot reachin for the ID
Get off my neck nigga ‘less you a Cuban link
I think like the Cubans think
You’ll never get Assata back
We got ya back T Mallory
Carry on like a Prada bag
My dogs wit like they quarter lab
In the back seat of a patrol car that luck they ain’t call the cornerer
Should be hall of fame, corridor

They way we run it back,
You’d think it’s 63
I’m thinkin 60 3’s
Hunnid 80 degrees
Get ya shit straight Mr. Police
Did the same the thing to Cochise
Did the same thing Rhaheem
Do the same thing in reality, y’all bogus
I got 99 problems
I got 99 problems
And 12 still the biggest
I got 99 problems
Button bullets triggers

I got 99 problems
And 12 still the biggest
I got 99 problems
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Death come in 3s
Every month March
Every month march
33 Nip
Gotta a heavy heart
His killer in jail
Y’all don’t get that part

Cops kill lawfully
No remorse
I don’t wanna hear arguments
No more
About black on black
When White on white
They kill they own too
And cops the only ones who ain’t accountable
Black men in jail for a ounce or two
For us it’s punishable (and they still ain’t free)
Look at the weed business (look at the weed business)
White man makin bookuu(Bookuu)
In Timbuktu
Hope dey praying at the mosque for us
When you create your own
You don’t care what they top floor is
Y’all 13th superstition
We get a 13th amendment
We get a shot back without a shot back take the shot back and vaccines
All we see is murder murder murder
And you wonder why we gotta disorder
Anxiety - ya die not passing sobriety
Atlanta, Georgia
That’s some shit

I got 99 problems
And 12 still the biggest
I got 99 problems
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I got 99 problems
And 12 still the biggest
I got 99 problems
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Rueben Vincent & Niko Brim

N : Eclipse the sons
Aint no brighter days
All my niggas kings we all one of ones
Wanna take my shine I-

R: feel like Deon,
when’s it on, my prime time,
trynna survive, while you watch from sidelines,
steaks is so high, but i’m on the hotline,
know it ain’t right
how can it change when i know this my life

N: They left kamal dead n cold in the night
Channel 12 I seen my nigga on it
I need 12 reasons why 12 pull up on my niggas just to pop shells
Needa numb the pain so we pop pills

R : and we clock steel, cause the cops kill
but we get booked, like the top shelf,
or we got cooked, like some oxtails,

N : Us against our world
We been on our own
I feel like im trout trynna make it home,

R : running from the meter, feel like derek jeter,
2 inside my back, one inside the dome,

N : They will not take it from me
take it from us
They will not take it from we
We trynna shoot for the stars
They shootin stars
got all my dogs on a leash

R : Feel like IM DMX, I’ve been slipping and falling, I need to rest,
Told my niggas We Gods,  Though I see we blessed,
All the times been so hard,  all i see is stress

N : Umi told us to shine we truly blinding
If it aint in your soul then what u finding,

R: it get cold, in the streets, but we ignited
and it’s fuck the police our people dying,
peace

Music video by Rapsody performing 12 Problems. © 2020 Jamla Records, under exclusive license to Roc Nation