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Cruisin

from The Architect by Apollo Piero

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lyrics

Hook
Everybody just cruise with me
Success in the game is nothing new to me
When the music takes hold
We just cruisin’ along

Verse 1 (NovaKane)
Let me speak to you, let me vibe let me ride
Hit the track and I’ma ride, spoken word is my vehicle
Ha, I came to do what I planned to do
The transmission of this man’s mission will be manual
Man listen, see I’m clutch like a stick shift
But the flow is automatic when I’m spittin’
All the static that I’m hearing tuning out the interference
But my inner fear is they’re gon kill my Guinevere
This music is my queen, my partner in crime
She riding shotgun right beside me
Breaking road blocks when we’re flying
See the game is like the law, try to make you conform
Camera flashes look like lightning but you got to fight the storm
Fight the norm, and break through any obstacle they’re throwing
Corporations are the cops and they don’t wanna put us on
And they might come equipped with night sticks and spike sticks
But f*** the flashing lights man I got poetic license and I’m gone

Verse 2 (Apollo)
And I’m just cruisin’ through life on the boulevard
Pull up hard at the bar trying to pull a broad
I’m just looking for a track I could pull apart
And elevate somebody mind like a pull up bar
Pulling par is afar from my wishes
So I’ma spit vicious till my flow is viscous
Dismiss me, a misfit on an isthmus
My heart‘s in heaven, know that life is my mistress
And every litmus is fitness
God is my witness, never forget this
Cruise through courses in gorgeous
Melodic like Porsches, I’m painting portraits
Will they support this, are they prepared?
Used to put me in the trash now they put me on the air
Whoever thought this, I know my friends never did
But my father always told me keep writing, so I did

Hook

Verse 3 (D-LIV(E))
My crews like a boat on the sea
My buoys, they hope we drown but they know we’re in sync
Thinking on a higher level than most the emcees
Who flow weak, like a moat or a creek, see I speak
Deeper than the average rapper, splashing
In my puddles of thoughts, imagine
The rain and cash and fashion, fame and allure
You gotta keep ‘em at bay before I bring you ashore
Sure, if you’re on top you know people try to stop you
Watch you, even your close peers will try to dock you
Props to all the haters, this is why I cruise
On my wave of success cause getting by won’t do
For all of ya’ll who couldn’t hang and tried to tie my noose
For all you washed up rappers in the tide like shoes
I’m just a young dude who couldn’t hold his tongue
Whose sole purpose was to surf this one, hang ten

Verse 4 (Apollo)
I’m just cruising through life on the avenue
An afternoon with a tune and a pad or 2
Trying to prove to every pessimist attitude
That I could fly above the world like Aladdin do
A few scattered views that’ll fuse
With music in my ear, tell the pen to persevere
Whoever tend to hear, they never gon shift me
Cause I’m trying to get big like the shift key
So I’ma cruise through the cul-de-sac
Hoping that life and death never overlap
To ever teacher that I had who tried to hold me back
Strip me of my intuition, you were overmatched
So as I keep on rhyming
Put the world in my rearview I keep on riding
I’m flying so sometimes I skid
But my mother always told me stay focused, so I did

Hook

credits

from The Architect, released January 24, 2009
Produced by Proper-T
Written by A. Rooney, D. Livingston, K. Smego
Peformed by Apollo, NovaKane, D-LIV(E), Linzie Gray
Recorded at UNC Studios in Chapel Hill, NC

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Apollo Piero Wilmington, North Carolina

Apollo is a student of hip-hop driven by creating honest, introspective and socially conscious lyrics that explore the multiple dimensions of his life experiences.

A Tar-heel born and bred, Apollo is much more than a Hip Hop artist. He mentors inner city youth, teaches HS math, coaches Varsity Bball, and serves his church as a youth pastor. He has dreams to build a revolutionary school.
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