Lyrics: Back in the day when I was young and all phones were dumb / when electric cars were slow or non existent it was different Used to use numbers as letters on beepers / used a pay phone to hit up my people / nowadays kids got cellies / or the ones that don’t get jelly / back then internet was new / took a long time to get online / heard weird sounds before you got through / wondering if the web is really worldwide Before Netflix there was Blockbuster / when it meant more to be a customer / isolation did damage to the culture / now we just text and chat with each other ~not tryna be a wise guy / but back before days of wi fi / used to meet and link up, chop it up / chill till we saw them street lights Nowadays it’s different / some of it’s good, some of it isn’t and / nowadays it’s different / POV of a Korean American LA Riots with the hoopla / my peeps had rifles on the rooftop / tension was real thick I’m sayin / I mean deadly like Squid Game Telling minorities stay silent / they wish that we would keep quiet / Now they’re calling us crazy rich Asians / is it invasion or celebration Back in the day it was Jackie Chan / Bruce Lee and Jet Li / Lucy Liu I’m telling you man / no other Asians on the tv / they would assume that we do kung fu / if our eyes were slightly slanted / nowadays we’re making big moves / across the Atlantic, all over the planet nowadays foreigners doing K Pop dances / visiting the motherland / rocking hanbok and they love it man / but I used to get mocked for bumping them jams Nowadays it’s different / some of it’s good, some of it isn’t and / nowadays it’s different / POV of a Korean American polarized times like lockdown / tense and intense, how we got clowned / some of our peeps got beat down / violated by these sick clowns I won’t exclusively speak negatively / gotta give props to Gen Z / using these apps to learn lessons / RU-vid, TikTok all kinds of methods / AI and chat gpt / sharp with smart technology / living through terror wars and pandemics / surviving and thriving, let’s get it
Lyrics: Rebels with a cause, that’s what we be / telling me I’m small, you can’t see me / like X wing I keep it fly / like Millennium Falcon hovering in sky / young Padawan look me in the eye / do or do not there is no try / the force I utilize and rush / light Sabre swinging mighty in my clutch / help from Mandalorian I do not need / over every beat I flow heat / make great jams, yes I can / lyrical Jedi master I am / wiser I am, the older I grow / learn you must, knowledge to know / school you I must, for your sake again / switching sides you must not like Anakin Straight outta Dagoba, this is the take over / man it’s game over cuz you know master Yoda / don’t play, stretch you out like yoga / keep the tracks popping like soda / galactic beef, what they fighting for? / word to Nas, it’s like Star Wars / I see too many clones in these areas / we kick it into hyperdrive leave you straight delirious Shout out to Doc, he returned to the Source / Obi Wan Kenobi, now he’s one with the force
Lyrics: A-D Always Battling Cognitive Dissonance / Anticipating Better Connections Despite Differences Alphabetic Acrobatics I’m an addict/ Amusing alliterations, audio antics / A beast on beats blasting Blackilicious / Breaking boundaries and building bridges / across the country and cross continent / concocting collabs with conglomerates of collectives / convicted to create cool Christ centered content / cautiously checking my core and my conscience / dodging dangerous daggers of doom / disasters dare to drag us down to the tomb / Arbitrary actions aren’t all amazing / allocating ambitions, anxiety allaying / they’re building barriers to break our bonds / I’m blessing them with benevolence, while they’re blasting bombs / I cope with the chaos by clinging to Christ / casting my cares down at the cross light Congregating, conflagrating collections of creations / crowds clamor as ceilings commence caving / dealing delectable deeds like delicious dishes / diminishing and demolishing disses / destroying division and doing what’s divine / always attempting to abide in the vine / before you brutally bash the base of this basin / give me space to create my case with cadence They’re distracting and dispersing the diaspora / damaging dreams with decoys that destroy ya / deeming us devious derelicts / with delusional dialogues dumbing down the dialect You know what this is Alphabetic Acrobatics / add it up it’s mathematics E-H Executing entertaining educational elements / Entrance exams evaluate intelligence / enormous effects of excellence / evoking eloquent expressions of elegance fire up my faculty of finding freedom finally / free from faulty fantasies full of fallacies / ferociously flinging fire that’s fantastic / flashy finales that praise the Most Fabulous / fastening and fixing on to what’s factual / a firm foundation and a narrow road / faith forged in flames / it’s not a game / gregarious greetings are great, but all the same / we need to grow instead of just groveling on gravel / we were meant to glow let’s go let’s travel Gift of gab to give to God gigantic glory / gratifying His wrath got gory / the gospel was given causing goons in sin / lost like Gilligan to be born again So God grant me grace to be good please / grab me and get me out of my good grief / graduating from grungy and grimy / to greatness and Godly grinding Hollering Hallelujah to the Holy One / his holy Honor, the Father, the Son / God the Spirit, highest homages / to the God who keeps promises / He heals and holds all of us in his holy hands / hires us to heed to His higher plans hope for the homies that were haunted / Hexes get hacked and halted / no longer held hostage to heinous hindsight, nor hauling all this / baggage and garbage I-L Indigenous immigrants imagining inclusion / ignorant idiots ignite more illusions / inviting illogical thoughts to be imported / incredulous imbeciles ignore what’s important / Jonzoo juxtaposing jams for you to bump / they’re jealous of my juice, justifying junk / no justice, it’s just us, the rest jelly / just stand firm despite jitters baby / I represent for my Korean kin and my King / hoping to help the kids grow and keep keen / Knowledge’s knuckles keep knocking to be known / but knowledge by itself is simply just knowing / lacking action will limit your learning / latch on to love like a locomotive burning / from lonely latchkey lurking in the lull / to lunging forward toward leviathan goals / from lamenting and lethargic, lingering in lust / to leveling up, levitating with love I laugh when I lose cuz I got a large spirit / lacing beats with limericks and lyrics / learn to say less and to listen / no lackadaisical living, learning life lessons / Love life and live love / let go of the baggage the luggage that you lug / breathing in these lessons in my lungs / letting go and letting God do what He does It’s Jonzoo that Korean American / Launching fiery lines over beats again M-P Manhandling the mic, it’s in my hand like a magnet / magical music, meticulous mathematics / a monster mashing, multiplying masterpieces / master of ceremonies with the master thesis / negating the nonsense I nullify naysayers / say your nightly prayers, I’m your worst nightmare / Negative Nancies be notorious yo / narcs be nosy, I’m never nervous though / they’re nagging with that nasty noise that be nefarious / I’m numbing my nerves with nostalgic notes / it’s nothing nice, and yo it’s none other / than the ninja negotiating numerous numbers / omens occupy my origins / an OG orchestrating ostentatious ornaments / I’m an optimist, but speaking of ominous / we’re getting obliterated, obvious we’re oblivious / the population plagued by pestilence / pandemics be pestering these premises / I’m persistently pushing and pressing past the precipice / using prosperity to punish these pessimists / my prerogative is to produce priceless pieces / promoting peace by means of these precious pages / pumping out proper vibes that be positive / I’ll pass on the propaganda and all the politics / pummeling my way through piles of problems / passionately pounding out projectile that be popping / the protagonist that got the power that’s polished / like a phone or a wallet my flow is in the pocket Q-T I was on a quest pursuing my queen / quelling my fears I questioned my dream / wishing to quench my thirst I pleaded / quieting the chaos within I proceeded not a renaissance man I’m a renaissance, man / no time for rest, I really must jam / reared in a time of rallies and riots / reaching for reason through all the ruckus / the road to recovery revealed revelations / we’ll reach revolution with resilience and patience / revivals require prayers and bibles / so scrap the missiles, the rockets and rifles / rhythm and reason and rhyme I’m combining / rose to rattle the cage that’s confining / my mind and my soul, seizing the season / wishing to be a free spirit that’s seeing / scoping the scene with proper vision / a sight for sore eyes got me shifting / my paradigm so I must sacrifice / subtle lies, suffer and strive for a better life / stumbled and struggled, strained my stamina / strategizing ways to keep standing up / used to stutter and stammer uncontrollably / shouting to my Savior for strength and energy / gotta be more to this life than stats and salaries / I be screaming out “Lord, please set me free” / from traps that thwarted me and made me topple / throwing off my vices, going full throttle / trusting in the one who taught me to shine / tactically leveling up till I thrive / not a thermometer, more of a thermostat / telling you what temperature to keep it at U-Z The underground underdog utilizing lyrics / to undermine the undulating ways of what’s ubiquitous / standing under the God of love up above / understanding we can’t undo these uppercuts Very vivacious, vivid with the visions / the plot thickens like the viscosity of Vexo’s rhythms / gaining velocity in vain ain’t everything / used to vex vixens, now I vet the scene / wagering the Way Maker hears my words / whittling out what’s weakening my worth / wisening up, wading in the water / walking in the will of my wonderful Father / I was waiting on my wages on the wait list / but the wages of sin were weighed on the greatest / scapegoat who was stretched on the x / He saw through me like an x ray and yet / decided to bless me with bars like xylophones / sick widdit, scaring all the xenophobes / not spinning yarns just to yell bruh / yellow man with real stories to tell ya / I don’t yearn for my younger days / cuz yesterday’s youth yielded who I am today / yoked in the spirit with zeal for real / ain’t nothing zesty, I’m just ill / they told me to chill, keep it zen dude / I’m wild with the pen, breaking out the zoo! / used to mess with zippos and zig zags / Jonzoo zooming to the zenith when I spit raps / my God created everything, A to Z / I killed the alphabet and killed the beat / with my recipe, yea rest in peace / now I’m thinking that it’s time for me to catch my Z’s
Lyrics: The underground underdog utilizing lyrics / to undermine the undulating ways of what’s ubiquitous / standing under the God of love up above / understanding we can’t undo these uppercuts Very vivacious, vivid with the visions / the plot thickens like the viscosity of Vexo’s rhythms / gaining velocity in vain ain’t everything / used to vex vixens, now I vet the scene / wagering the Way Maker hears my words / whittling out what’s weakening my worth / wisening up, wading in the water / walking in the will of my wonderful Father / I was waiting on my wages on the wait list / but the wages of sin were weighed on the greatest / scapegoat who was stretched on the x / He saw through me like an x ray and yet / decided to bless me with bars like xylophones / sick widdit, scaring all the xenophobes / not spinning yarns just to yell bruh / yellow man with real stories to tell ya / I don’t yearn to relive my younger days / cuz yesterday’s youth yielded who I am today / yoked in the spirit with zeal for real / ain’t nothing zesty, I’m just ill / they told me to chill, keep it zen dude / I’m wild with the pen, breaking out the zoo! / used to mess with zippos and zig zags / Jonzoo zooming to the zenith when I spit raps / my God created everything, A to Z / I killed the alphabet and killed the beat / with my recipe, yea rest in peace / now I’m thinking that it’s time for me to catch my Z’s
Lyrics: Through the darkness I've been led By His love I've been truly blessed In the toughest times My soul at rest Cause I know I'm humbled by grace Verse 2 The stormy nights may try to break But my faith It will never shake In every loss A lesson takes place Cause I know I'm humbled by grace Humbled by grace Oh the way it feels Through every battle I know it's real Counting my blessings I won't conceal I'm humbled by grace Oh what a thrill I’m pummeling my way through these troubles I face / stepping through the puddles and I got nothing to say / in the moments when I’m the only one in my way / sometimes it be feeling like I’m just running in place / rocked by the waves and mocked for my faith / but I stand against the grain and I’m not gonna cave / to temptation nor the trends of the masses / I reflect on Saul’s journey on the road to Damascus / reminded that the Lord can transform haters / it’s not in vain when I say these prayers / the storms of life make my path all muddy / the Spirit gives me strength when my knees feel like putty / I look into the word and I pray for His grace / no GPS needed, my God knows the way Experiencing turbulence I’m rocked by the gusts / but I’m knuckling up and shaking off rust / brushing the dust off, I know that I must not / lose heart, through it all I trust God / I got a living hope that won’t fail me / even in the moments when I feel I’m going crazy / the waves and the wind had me shook for a minute / God’s grace is big, it’s infinite innit
Lyrics: The plane lands we get hit by the heat waves / next we’re weaving through peeps on the street pave / bus stops and subway navigating / praying we avoid rush hour situations / sardines crammed when that happens / most peeps zoning on the phone or they’re napping / Ain’t talking about Beamers when I’m telling you / the way that we be getting around is BMW / bus, metro or walking, it’s true / using caution mapping out all my routes (roots) / subway stations and cars get overcrowded / we’re no minorities but still avoid the loudness / 30 years since I was in the motherland with my mother man / it’s looking different from my remembrance / passing strangers that bear a strange resemblance / it be stretching my mind like a rubber band so come through and mingle / yea homie, we can be 친구 (friends) / showing love to my people / Republic of Korea, 대한민국 / So what’s the big idea / I’m showing love to Korea / We got Seoul my people flow like 한강 (Han River) / raw like 회 (raw fish) more flavor than 간장 (soy sauce) An American citizen is what you’re seeing / a 교포 (Korean living in a foreign land) proud to be Korean / the locals may detect an accent in my dialect / either way they still bow and show respect Korean by way of the bloodline of 전주 / the torch I pass to my daughter and son too / so come through and let’s mingle / yea homie we can be 친구 (friends) We used to be isolated like 왕따 (loner) / 하지만 이젠 한국 인끼가 많다 (but Korea is popular now) I’m showing love to my people / Republic of Korea, 대한민국 Foreigners and tourists all up in the mixture / peeps be sipping on that soju elixir / Florescent cities that never sleep / Street vendors slanging all kinds of treats / street performers spitting over beats / not a lot of cops patrolling streets but there’s peace / the crime rate low, despite lack of police at all hours / maybe it’s because of all the cameras / staying well connected like 6G widdit / that’s powerful like 이순신 (Admiral Yi) innit / my peeps flex, put up a strong front / the work ethic tough, get them jobs done / whether it’s a crouching bunny or a pouncing tiger / our value going up high like Nam San tower / Load up your T Money hit up Myungdong or Hongdae / Koreans on the move like Hyundai residences converted into businesses / when your old block becomes a dope spot popping with / lots of out of towners visiting and pulling up / to the southern tip of this peninsula / I know gentrification is generally frowned upon / but peeps be watching our shows, bumping all our songs / what’s going on, it’s like we’re number one currently / value rising up much higher than won currency / visitors be getting down with the curriculum / learning the culture and the language, sure enough / yo it’s awesome watching the culture blossom / it’s like we’re going mainstream the way it be popping 교표 (Korean living in a foreign land) from 미국 (America) showing love to my people 내 민족을 사랑해요, 대한민국 (Showing love to my people in Korea)
this is a milestone. this trip held so much meaning. reconcilation, redemption, new healthy memories, generational healing, proud moments, etc. this is just me looking from my POV but you know best how GOD orchestrated everything thats been going on.
my gosh their airport is so much more amazing than the US. this is a very long journey and a reconciliation that was orchestrated by God and a redeeming story indeed
Lyrics: I'll always be yours to keep Dad vibes Supporting you in everything you do Watching you chase your dreams My children It's true We read a book, what to expect when expecting / happiest baby on the block, and yea I’m guessing / that you weren’t too comfortable when I first held you in my arms / didn’t know what I was doing, I was praying I wouldn’t harm you / we were the first in our circle to be married with kids / your head was tilted crooked I had to fix my grip / I held your little hand when you took your first steps / now you’re taller and faster than your old man, that’s a trip / I wish I was taller, I wish I was a baller / cuz then you might’ve got some better help from your father / I’m better off helping you with music and art / but best believe that I’m proud that my son’s the point guard / Aiden Lee yea that’s my pride and joy / I’m cheering on the sidelines, cuz that’s my boy / you got a sharp business minded head on your shoulders / can’t believe that your days as a little kid are over Dad vibes love running deep Through ups and downs I’m yours to keep Dad vibes I’m swelling with pride praising Most High For these kids of mine Dad vibes The love runs deep Dad vibes I’m yours to keep Dad vibes I’m swelling with pride Dad vibes I love these kids of mine Faith is believing in our Heavenly Father / Faith is trusting in the promises He offers / Faith drives us to strive for a life of honor / Faith is the name of my beautiful daughter / MVP that’s my little libero / diving for the ball returning serves like a hero / acing your tests the way that you ace serves / a studious student that be putting in work / winning multiple awards at school like your brother / your mom’s mini me, spitting image of your mother / I’m not a big fan of modern day k pop / but for you I’m bumping Stray Kids when dropping you off / at piano and volleyball practices / extra extracurriculars, you’re ambitious / I remember praying for you when you were in the womb / now we be peppering that volleyball around in your room
Lyrics: We're forever young Dancing in the rain Our love It never fades No it never wanes From puppy love to a family of our own We're forever young Love has only grown (Verse 1) Fifteen years, through highs and lows, Our love has weathered storms and rose. In the rough seas, God's grace did guide, With you by my side, we've found our stride. (Chorus) Thank you, my love, for every year, For your faith, your love, so sincere. Through thick and thin, we've stood strong, Blessed by God, where we belong. (Rap) Been through so many difficult seasons / Got 2 teens at home testing our patience / and real talk they’re a blessing / but there was tension and times we had questions / my intentions were good, things ain’t always great though / but we made it through the storms and I’m grateful / you got a heart of gold, championed my struggles / you were with me in the trenches through all of life’s troubles / my queen is a trooper and a beautiful person / I’m hollering hallelujah and laying all my burdens / down as I lift my hands up to the sky / thanking God for my lovely wife / she’s brutally honest and savage at times / but no cap she helped me level up, no denying / supported me, I graduated / from a broken boy to an open man I elevated
