Ryan Leslie - "The Black Flag" Official Music Video video free download

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A music motion picture by Ryan Leslie

Executive Producers: Ryan Leslie & Brandon Jennings

NY Shoot Team: Magnus Johnsson and Martin Landgreve for Gaucho Films

SF Shoot Team: Suj (Director), Will Green (Cinematographer), Petr Jankular (Producer)

[Intro]

Your red lights

Ain't never slowing me down, oh no no

[Verse 1: Ryan Leslie]

Uh yea

My passion -- the reason for my existence

My success - the product of my persistence

Self-made, I did it with no assistance

Luxury suite views through these Cartier lenses

Huh, and we started in the nose bleeds

Now my feet up on the wood in my own seats

Court-side MSG Bucks versus Knicks

Watch my homie B. Jennings drop 36

And that's a definition of, when pain meets love

Then it turns to gain, then you earn your name

Them girls come when you earn your fame

Get off me, I'm too hot, you can't burn a flame

And my teacher told me that my rap dreams were "niggerish"

I still pursued 'em even though it seemed ridiculous

The taste of success bittersweet like licorice

A flight with the wings of Icarus

And when I achieved, I returned with much satisfaction

To reply Michael Jackson was not Anglo-Saxon

So back to my "niggerish" dreams of riches

More money, more cars, more rings and b*tches

Yeah many believe in God but they ain't religious

I'm suspicious, I believe in them digits

I believe in them digits

[Hook]

So picture me above the sky

Shining brighter than sunlight

I'ma write our name in the stars

So everybody knows who we are

And I'ma be about, be about, be about, be about, be about, be about it

Before they even think about, think about, think about, think about, think about, think about it

Said I'ma be about, be about, be about, be about, be about, be about it

Before they even think about, think about, think about, think about, think about, think about it

[Verse 2: Ryan Leslie]

Yea, let the Black Flag fly uh

Yea, and it's a waste when this new money can't buy taste

Bought yourself some Versace, mispronounced it Vercese

It's my time, blow your mind like an ounce to the face

Yea I do believe in miracles, evidence so empirical

You could see the way I climbed up the ladder

Education -- Ivy League, I'm talkin' mind over matter

And so called innovators is always asking for favors

Then they take the credit to the fruits of your labor

But not me, I'm a beast, ask Jay Elec or Jeezy

Not many can say they play keys with Yeezy

Or they had a Cover Girl on her knees to please me

I can't leave the game, not yet, it still needs me

Uh, so let the Black Flag fly

My vision of ascending to heights that rap can't buy

Is fully realized when I open my eyes and stop dreaming

I'm stuntin' while you lames is scheming

Kiss the ring, I got the gifts of a king

[Hook]