Even in darkness, still seeking to spark this/
and restart, feeling I need to breathe in a cartridge/
Driven by reason and heart/
see that I fought with old thoughts, I leave them in chalk/
Feet in my Clarks as I march on/
Living this art form/
and swimming harder with blood in water and sharks drawn/
Through my father instilling honor, it’s not long until I would follow the motto they hollered in Pac songs/
Locked on and learned more than what I hear in class/
my grandmama dropped jewels from an era past/
Studied on Killah Priest more than Kerouac/
and Mick Foley showed me how mankind can wear a mask/
Clear a path where there was none, up jumps the unsung/
Slung thunder under the humdrum and then some come alive/
And we call it a vibe/
so trust in what you feel and know it doesn’t lie

[Chorus]
City on a wave, feel it in the air/
Know it ain’t real if the feeling isn’t there/
It’s telling me, hey/
The vibe, the vibe, the vibe don’t lie/
the vibe, the vibe, the vibe don’t lie/
It’s all energy, is what it is/
and all that you get is what you give/
It’s telling me, hey/
The vibe, the vibe, the vibe don’t lie/
the vibe, the vibe, the vibe don’t lie

There’s a war going on inside, no one is safe from/
formed in the mind to make it harder to break from/
I faced some, dealing with death and depression/
Day and time we’re communicating with less of a connection/
Mirrored in the music and we reject the reflection/ looking at the present like it was just a regression/
But Mos Def said it/
Wherever culture is headed would pivot on how we’re living because we project the direction/
And that’s home, outside’s the same/
where the forces abroad will outline it plain/
And lock down borders, caught up in sour times of Portis/
deported and shot down by orders
Cornered in the deeper divide/
and each side is either leading the blind or they’re feeding the tide
But I see it as the scenery for people to rise/
and word to Tribe we’re just keeping the vibe

[Chorus]

[Tremayne]
I ain’t afraid of the way that they talk about me/
I walked out of the fire with fire inside my eyes
My desire is to be higher than I and I/
deny what they’re giving me, man you’ve got to be kidding me
They’ve got to be feeling the kid/
Worth a bit, niggas ain’t worth shit/
Hit 'em on purpose/
got them all nervous/
Swaggin’ all over the motherfucker of lyricists/
Undercover I rap, but don’t wrap it up when I’m under covers/
She said she likes the way it feels, nigga/
the vibe got her pussy wetter than a dildo/
Coming in like a nigga got a major deal, ho, come again/
Like I give a fuck about your feelings/
I got a feeling this one gon’ piss some niggas off/
If it ain’t your beef, don’t get involved/
I did a lot of shit to make it to the podium/
so drape me up in furs that’s Mongolian/
And let me milly rock like Magnolia/
I thought I told you/
Spit bullets, but ain’t a gun in the holster, nigga/
Vibes

[Chorus]