{"id":66388,"created_at":"2019-04-21 19:35:49","updated_at":"2021-04-19 15:30:41","deleted_at":null,"published_at":"2019-04-21 19:35:49","original_id":null,"artist_id":41024,"title":"Ten Toes","slug":"ten-toes","status":"published","description":null,"album_id":null,"streets":1,"source_type":"s3","source":"file","lyrics":"(Verse 1)\r\nFirst thing's first,\r\nTen toes 'pon concrete,\r\nSouth Side's here,\r\nPress play and let my soul speak,\r\nJust so we clear, \r\ndon't let them lie to you, get to telling you,\r\nthat they know me, 'cause if they knew me,\r\nthey'd be bromie or broer,\r\nShe look at me, she take a second look,\r\nthird look, hoping I would look,\r\nShe a love at first sight type of crook,\r\nYoung and up and coming,\r\nlow-key kind of starving,\r\ntype of artist writing books,\r\nRead with caution I'm recluse,\r\nThat means I'm never open unless I have to tell the truth,\r\nThat means it's only truth and wisdom when I'm in the booth,\r\nRiley rapping round the ring\r\nwith the ropa-dope\r\nthat make you bob your head\r\nback and forth like a rodeo\r\nI'm in the driver's seat so safety on,\r\nI'm the type to snare like this beat I'm on,\r\nA ticking time bomb,\r\nput your shades on,\r\nI might just blow a fuse and shine on,\r\nJust shine on, shine on.\r\n\r\n(Chorus)\r\nFirst thing's first,\r\nTen toes 'pon concrete,\r\nSouth Side's here,\r\nPress play and let my soul speak,\r\nFirst thing's first,\r\nTen toes 'pon concrete,\r\nSas'Town's (Sasolburg) here,\r\nPress play and let my soul speak.\r\n\r\n(Verse 2)\r\nTwenty one year's old,\r\nI'm like a stranger at home,\r\nNot by choice but 'cause everywhere I go it's like I question my soul,\r\nThen I retaliate,\r\n\"no snake shall ever swallow me whole\",\r\nThen I just meditate\r\n'cause all my life I've been on the road,\r\nI've turned to ash amongst cole,\r\nand like a phoenix I rose,\r\nI've turned to dust amongst bricks,\r\nand like a pyramid peaked,\r\nNow I just chill and blow O's\r\nfor all the times I lost Z's,\r\nIn competition with foes\r\nwho till this day cannot see,\r\nThat even when I chase gold,\r\nmy philosophy is peace,\r\nNow Riley been on the low,\r\nwhile everyone ruled the scene,\r\nBut who would check the window,\r\nwhile pain would keep them from sleep,\r\nI ran from Abraham and took upon the place of the sheep,\r\nNike from chest to my feet,\r\noh yeah I wore my SB's\r\nR-57 the road, I almost had me deceased,\r\nI sat and spat out my flow,\r\nfaith of a mustard seed,\r\nAnd 'fo (before) my soul burnt whole,\r\ni asked why God chose the road.\r\n\r\n(Chorus)\r\nFirst thing's first,\r\nTen toes 'pon concrete,\r\nSouth Side's here,\r\nPress play and let my soul speak,\r\nFirst thing's first,\r\nTen toes 'pon concrete,\r\nSas'Town's (Sasolburg) here,\r\nPress play and let my soul speak.","download_count":136,"play_count":13,"restrict_download":0,"generated_thumbnail":null,"flag_count":0,"download_count_24":1,"download_count_24_at":"2021-04-19","reupload_sent":0,"thumb_path":"https:\/\/s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com\/sol-assets\/uploads\/public\/5cb\/c9c\/186\/thumb_203233_300_300_0_0_crop.png","status_reason":null,"status_reason_alt":null,"tags":[]}