Pep Love - The Onus (What You Are) video free download


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Uploaded: 2008/07/24

album: ascension

Tajai]

Now you can blame it on the blunts and beer

Or my utter lack of fear when I'm draggin in her ear

Like, ain't no commitments girl, we just kickin it right?

Laughin at the prophylactic I just slipped it inside (ahh)

Cause I ain't trippin I like runnin raw daddy

Not knowin nine months from that moment I'll be called daddy

All mad and indignant when I heard the news

Cursin, trippin but it was COOL when I was diggin it

But now it's bitch (BEEITCH!) this and it's ho that

And it's a lot of other words that I can't hold back

Man I don't want no kids, girl you KNOW that

But shit, you barely know my name let alone where my dome at

We got it on way before that

Didn't know, or hadn't even seen her sober

Only thought in my mind was getting over

Now the seat I saved her bout to drop (woo!)

And all I do is clutch my bottle and wallow in sorrow

With each swallow, livin for yesterday (man FUCK tomorrow!)

All my accusations and allegations, they ring hollow

Cause I ain't got nobody in the world to blame but me (I know, I know)

Chorus:

(Pep Love)

What you are is what you do

You better watch yourself cause they're watching you

Your own mistakes could be your biggest obstacles

But if you believe, you can achieve the impossible

(Pep Love) and [Tajai]

[Now if you full of regrets that's on you (on you)]

(And if you don't know what to do that's on you (on you))

[You can't get no respect? That's on you (on you)]

(And if you're without a clue that's on you (on you))

(Pep Love)

He always wanted to have shit

Cause this nigga never had shit

It, even influenced him to get into bad shit

Like, shoplifting and, party crashin

All for the cash and fashion, he smashin

But, he was smarter than the average shit starter

Had it all planned out, how he was going to Harvard

Hard as it seems, he was working toward his dreams

But still into things, never for the surrendering

So (so), when the wind blows, his ten toes, wiggle

And then he's out of his bedroom window

Livin in the moment doing whatever he wanted

When his homework is done, he's livin in another zone

With his crimies, breakin into cars and houses

Thinkin his getaway's clean, but how's about this?

One of his boys got caught and snitched

Sayin that he was the mastermind of all this shit

The same day, his letter of acceptance came

The boys came to get him as his mother stood breathless

He couldn't explain, hung his head in shame

Later found his college career was down the drain

Even though he beat the case, it was all over

The local newspaper, a complete disgrace

It read "Teen Prodigy Suspect In Robbery"

Young, black and intelligent, somewhat of an oddity (oddity)

When he went to visit the school, the dean of admissions was like

"Sorry, you're not Harvard material

Plus, you have an arrest record at best (at best)

Reflecting a decadent past, application rejected."

Chorus

(Pep Love) and [Tajai]

[Now if you get caught slippin that's on you (on you)]

(And if your pockets is flat, that's on you (on you))

[And if you're mad and trippin that's on you (on you)]

(If you dazed and confused, that's on you (on you))

(Pep Love) and [Tajai]

(Yo, what you are is what you do)

[You'd best to, watch yourself cause they're watching you]

(They're thinkin of washin you)

[That's why we humble and caution you]

(To keep a failsafe in your arsenal)

[Sometimes it's too late to start anew]

(So recognize) [and realize it's real lives you may jeapordize]

(One'll be your own) [if you blind to what's going on]

(You can get caught up in a bind) [and get your mind blown]

[Find a zone to refine your soul cause time is SO elusive]

(People are so intrusive) [judge not]

(But yet, you shall be judged) [every time your broke your word]

(Every time you held a grudge) [too proud to budge]

(A nigga too loud to hush)

(Tryin ta be a stud muffin when you really a pound of puff)

[Shit you swept to the side kept pilin up]

(I guess you didn't think the consequences was vile enough)

[You should've thought long range] long range

(Look into your own thang) [own thang]

([And don't complain, what you manifest returns from whence it came])

([Live and learn when you try to go against the grain, man])

Chorus

[Now if you can't keep a job that's on you (on you)]

(And if you don't know what to do that's on you (on you))

[And if you can't keep a broad that't on you (on you]

(And if you're without a clue, that's on you (on you))

Chorus

(Pep Love) and [Tajai]

[Now if you get caught slippin that's on you (on you)]

(And if your pockets is flat, that's on you (on you))

[And if you're mad and trippin that's on you (on you)]

(If you dazed and confused, that's on you (on you))

[Tajai talking]

Know what I'm sayin? Niggas always want to point the finger,

And they point the finger at the man in the mirror, psych out, yeah.

Comments

9 years ago

Alex Solomon

You know those albums you listen to where there are always songs that you may not like. This isn't one of them. Every track is dope.

10 years ago

forty chimp

Pep Love, Stic Man, Del, Big L look 'em up. I guess, y'all already know 'em

10 years ago

J. Mallet

This album is so classy and yet so unknown ! Make it even better, i feel like i'm priviledged to hear God's words along with like 9000 people.

11 years ago

monkeej23

This track is amazing and the beat has me riding on the message pep love the best

11 years ago

JayGriffinblaze

I feel you young brother. But while you're waiting to meet Pep, here's some stuff you can start with that might help you with those questions: The works of Cheikh Anta Diop, Ivan Van Sertima, Olaudah Equiano, Robin Walker. Inbox me if you want the book names etc. Peace.

12 years ago

yoquincyyo

PEPS BETTA THAN SOULJA BOY ENUFF SAID!

12 years ago

YoungBlackStud95

God I wish I could spend one day with these guys. I have so many questions for pep love. This is real music people my age listening to shitty ass music with not meaning simply under the spell of the anonymous.Black Pride.

12 years ago

ILL SMIFF

This album is pretty fuckin prolific with its messages

13 years ago

Liam Horner

@teh1337ness1 Not on this one, but ive noticed that on several other songs on youtube. hella annoying

14 years ago

lilprincess1512

sick video

14 years ago

heyzr

pep love is the man.. along with del... this album is just perfect , listening to this track makes me wanna pull out my cd case and find this album again.. it surely is a gotta have album

14 years ago

semnekar

where has the artist been all this time, his words are prophetic

15 years ago

LaBianconeri

do u mean the actual album, or this video? coz if u mean the video thats youtubes fault, happens with loads of music...dunno why

15 years ago

teh1337ness1

Anyone else have a problem with this recording gaining and losing volume?

15 years ago

mhc12k

Ascension - best album ever period.

15 years ago

LaBianconeri

From the album ascension, so think it was 2001

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