Aloe Blacc - Cali Dreaming

Wanna live my dreams


This is the last chance to make it, I gotta do something


With my life today


‘Cause I been doing this music thing for so long it seems that


Something’s gotta give


If I’ma stay on this long road to success


With the music I play


So I just gotta be strong and keep moving on with it





I’m not just a dreamer, I’m an intellectual coal mine


With refined rhymes like diamonds that shine


On the daily I grind, grit my teeth and push mountains full of words


With a pen to make you see clearly my troubles


All of my trifles the pressures that try to stifle


If life was holding a rifle to my head, my last thoughts would be


Simply to let my music reach to every country


Where scholars will translate it on scrolls and archive it


Where students in the classrooms of history relive it


Relive it, Because I write the words and I give it away


After it leaves my hand to the ink on the papyrus


And after I been on the stage and let the lyric fathom bust


It all belongs to y’all, that’s all end of story on it


Dropping like a bomb on the planet it’s the verbal atomic


Aloe Blacc remember me as enemy or friend


However you want, it doesn’t really matter in the end





They say it’s gonna stop


Got people telling me I’m wasting my time and that


Hip Hop’s going away


I don’t believe it though all my life I seen it grow so I


Don’t believe a word


That I be hearing from all the haters and perpetrators


So everything they say


Is just a bucket lies to get me out the way





This is my life’s work, my contribution as a public speaker


With knowledge to share and thoughts to digest


One of the freshest in the land of the west


While most niggaz measure success with the ice on they chest


I measure it with message and who spit it the best


Follow the quest like I’m the last man searching for a companion


Because when I’m dead and gone my books will still be standing


From my arial approach landing, seeing it all


Still waiting for the so-called stars to fall


Out of the polluted skies full of California dreams


People running at full speed and running out of the steam


A sparkling gleam in the eye of hopeful brothas wanting to eat


More than just the regular lunch meat, we trying to feast


On the fruits of the earth and give generous


But really men are just animals and like cannibals we been in lust


To see another man hit the dust (dust, dust)





Can’t nobody tell me what to do,


‘cause I am gonna do what I want to do


This is just my way of life and


I am gonna live it for me not you