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How To Make A Pyramid

from YXL by Yamin Semali

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Brick by brick by brick

They still wonder how you make a pyramid
This remains mysterious until you take the pilgrimage
Been here since the ancient periods
I ain't religious so I never pray to graven images
I praise the infinite
And what a crakkka claim is pagan influence
The ancestors did it in the days of Genesis
And who are they to mention it
I'm made from His imprint
So what's Caucasian privilege
To Yah's grace and eminence
Like doggone, is he Dogon
Take it Sirius
Signs of the seasons when the sky change appearances
The tides raise from the sine waves like playing instruments
We moon watch, to prove the ruach stays omnipotent
That's who I place my spirit with
Not a gang affiliate, to none I claim a membership
Just seed of David, Menelik
My Queen she ain't Elizabeth
This king of spades been digging since
Before a mason lifted bricks
To be a trained initiate
Learning snakes are venomous
Ends the age of innocence
You gotta taste the bitterness
It's still a great experience
But such a strange experiment, the rules to the game I'm living it
Not on parchment, in the heart so they remember it

This is how you make a pyramid
No ceiling where the spirit live
This is how you make a pyramid
Brick by brick by brick
This is how you make a pyramid
No ceiling where the spirit live
This is how you make a pyramid
Brick by brick by brick

Yo
This is how you make a pyramid
I still ain't my prime
Call me Ante meridian
The same but different
Became a vision of my inner sense
A metamorphosis, the butterfly that breaks the chrysalis
I ain't a saint like Nicholas
I came from wickedness
Where the savage raids the villages, takes and pillages
And Where you're raised can really give you ways that's villainous
But the wages of your sin still wait in the abyss, yeah
My mistakes are myriad
A heart with either hate or fear in it, can make the greatest mentalist sage an idiot
That's why I stay sincere with it
Some will try to imitate the brilliance
But what I make in days would take them millions,
So what does that say for all of this amazing penmanship
Invaders found an empty coffin in my chamber's hidden crypt
Looking for sacred writings but I got the living script
I engineer like Hiram did
The DNA indigenous

This is how you make a pyramid
No ceiling where the spirit live
This is how you make a pyramid
Brick by brick by brick
This is how you make a pyramid
No ceiling where the spirit live
This is how you make a pyramid
Brick by brick by brick

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from YXL, released February 2, 2024
written and produced by Yamin Semali
additional vocals by Wizdom Selah

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