Sentences

from Whiff by S.O.A.P.

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lyrics

Notepad front to back
Failed to rewrite the past

They say they won’t pay attention ‘less my shit could get me sentenced
I won’t lie to you cause it don’t feel great
But I’ve been serving these sentences since I dun got detention
Nigga I been spitting real since Grade Eight

Started summer on a Scarborough block
Brown skin boys by the deep green box
My Momma only bought checks when Winners was on deck
So the Stephen Maubery’s got copped- cop-ied
The URL to the search bar baby
YouTube beats had the bars go brazy
Never did hooks Puff sampling 80’s
Ain’t no if’s or maybes just had God to save me
And then Momma moved the family out west
East Side raised now resident in Rex
Spitting sixteens or a sermon at request we could battle
If you want save for Jean-Luc I’m the best
Fifteen years whipping verses like a chef
Sessions smell gorgeous come and take a whiff
Lately the courts treat records like a snitch
Why they want me selling work when every bar’s a brick, come sniff

They say they won’t pay attention ‘less my shit could get me sentenced
I won’t lie to you cause it don’t feel great
But I’ve been serving these sentences since I dun got detention
Nigga I been spitting real since Grade Eight

Notepad front to back
Failed to rewrite the past

They say they won’t pay attention ‘less my shit could get me sentenced
I won’t lie to you cause it don’t feel great
But I’ve been serving these sentences since I dun got detention
Nigga I been spitting real since Grade Eight

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from Whiff, released September 1, 2023

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Scribe Toronto, Ontario

A lifetime immersed in the performing arts has made Joshua “Scribe” Watkis entirely devoted to the gift of storytelling. Through Spoken Word Poetry and Hip-Hop, he has taken thousands into his world to experience it as he does. The Toronto born poet has performed on stages across Canada, appeared on CBC and has opened for the legendary Hip-Hop band ‘The Roots’ with ‘The Uncharted’ collective. ... more