“Wrapper’s Redemption” – Syrup Sermon

[HOOK – Aggressive, Passionate Soul Sample + Layered Vocals] 🎶 You can’t wrap up truuuth in no candyyy fooiil 🎶🎶 Soul sold faaast for a snaaack and some oiiiil 🎶🎶 Now you locked in a deaaal, beggin’ for creeeamm 🎶🎶 While I spit from the flaames with a martyr’s dreeeamm 🎶 [VERSE 1 – Syrup Sermon] Naaah — I ain't with the gimmicks, you soft and sweeeetSold your soouul for the fame, now you lost the heaaatI remember nights, just me and the currrbSpittin’ pain in the daark, now they mock the wooord You flash chaaains, I flash back to paaaainUsed to write my verse in the streeetlight raaainThey sold sugaar, I sold scaaarsThey want candy faaame — I want battle baaars This that warrr, I’m the frontliiine flaaaameYou the barcode boooy with the barcode naaaameI stayed ten toooes while they danced their roooouteYou the wrapper that foooold — I’m the sermon with clooouut [VERSE 2 – Syrup Sermon] I’m the ghost in the store — still fist raised hiiighWhile they smilin’ at the snakes tryna please the guyyyYou lost your voiiice in a brand clause taaagI found mine in the traauuma — no claaaps Your bars? Bubblegummm. Miiine? Lit fuuuseI lace rhymes like a bommmmb with the truuthhhRed vines don’t beeeend when the heat come deeeepBut these clowns melt quick — ain’t no heart beneath Told me tone it dooown — I said raise the blaadeLet 'em chooooke on the sugaaar they craved and paaaiidI’m still heeere, no mask, no glittterrry naaameJust this warpaaiint soul in a peppermiiint flaaame [HOOK – Repeat w/ More Aggression, Layered Harmonies] 🎶 You can’t wrap up truuuth in no candyyy fooiil 🎶🎶 Soul sold faaast for a snaaack and some oiiiil 🎶🎶 Now you locked in a deaaal, beggin’ for creeeamm 🎶🎶 While I spit from the flaames with a martyr’s dreeeamm 🎶 [OUTRO – Spoken Word, Death Row-Style Grit] “They wanted me sweeeet…But I came bitter with purpooose.Now I baptize these sellouts… in fiiiire.Candy coated?... I’m war moooolded.”