Tunji - Still Rising

Back about 6 years ago Toby and Tunji created a group called Inverse. I remember when they first started up I was going to college down in Pomona and they were also at a university in the same town. When they were absolutely unheard of they hit up my on my now defunct myspace page. Their album "So Far The Collection" was something I felt deserved much praise. If I remember correctly Tunji had concert for one of the Claremont McKenna Colleges where he had both the Cunninlynguists and Cee Lo preform. I think it's actually because of his introduction that the ballad "Caved In" was created. At any rate he formed a friendship that has begun to blossom. This track is produced by Kno and even though it's a couple of years old it's a real gem. I've heard via the rumor mill that Tunji is soon to release an album on Qn5. Hopefully rumors become reality.

Lyrics: Still Rising - Tunji

We on our way to the top and still rising

We on our way to the top and still rising

Came all the way from the block

And don't know how to stop

We on our way to the top and still rising

Life is a mountain you've got to keep climbing

With every tick of the clock you keep striving

Watching the horizon got to keep surviving

To all my people who searching you will find it

So far to go - Rise Up

So much to know - Rise Up

But I'm in control - Rise Up

Cause this is my soul - Rise Up

So far to go - Rise Up

So much to know - Rise Up

But I'm in control - Rise Up

Cause this is my soul - Rise Up

I see my life like it's a motion picture

That I'm staring in and wrote the script for

So by the end I'll be unanimously the chosen victor

Been working on this potent mixture of this smoke and liquor

Got me zoning thinking about the things I hope and wish for

Trying to get the Spanish villa with the ocean vista

And 6 more for my folks and sisters

I'm quite focused keep working on my writing

It's funny when I feel the worst is when I write the dopest

As I step through life making chess moves

Bound to be a king because I study what the best do

My soul is balanced and flow is kind of fresh too

When you put in work you will be surprised at what it gets you

We on our way to the top and still rising

We on our way to the top and still rising

Came all the way from the block

And don't know how to stop

We on our way to the top and still rising

Life is a mountain you've got to keep climbing

With every tick of the clock you keep striving

Watching the horizon got to keep surviving

To all my people who searching you will find it

So far to go - Rise Up

So much to know - Rise Up

But I'm in control - Rise Up

Cause this is my soul - Rise Up

So far to go - Rise Up

So much to know - Rise Up

But I'm in control - Rise Up

Cause this is my soul - Rise Up

I use to wonder what the future holds

Then I decided to get musical

Now I'm moving at light speed and I refuse to slow

To view this music as musings of a toothless soul

Trying to get the funds like you the feelings mutual

Choose to go my own path and though it starts easy

It's getting harder so I wander where my heart leads me

Momma wanted a brain surgeon

She asked me to refrain from the cursing

But fuck it I'm still the same person

Stain the earth with my pen when the pain worsens

I updated the flow you all go the lame version

See this is hip-hop 2.0

So roll a couple blunts and let a few joints blow

While I spit my new joint and let me viewpoint show

Of my two pennies I can spare to let my few coins go

While I stack dollars and let the people in the back holler

Future draft dodger product of a whack father

Young pharaoh if you want to take it back farther

Fresh flow like a fade from a black barber

We act smarter cause I'm book smart

Took to heart the life lessons that I learned from the good parts

I stay focused on the light when it looks dark

Kept moving cause your journey ends where you foot starts

Feel like I'm in the constant pursuit of true brilliance

Malcolm taught me with my words I can move millions

So I always speak my mind

And each time I design a rhyme its gonna define

Who I am who I was and who I grew to be

Still rising living life like it's new to me

We on our way to the top and still rising

We on our way to the top and still rising

Came all the way from the block

And don't know how to stop

We on our way to the top and still rising

Life is a mountain you've got to keep climbing

With every tick of the clock you keep striving

Watching the horizon got to keep surviving

To all my people who searching you will find it

So far to go - Inverse

So much to know - Young

But I'm in control - My man Kno

Cause this is my soul

So far to go - Nautica Swag

So much to know - Feels good

But I'm in control - Still Rising Rise with Us

Cause this is my soul

Kno you are a fucking genius...man