A Good Name

Say what you like, just spell my name right (I've got a good name)

Say what you like, just spell my name right (yeah)

Say what you like, just spell my name right (I represent more than my rap)

Say what you like, just spell my name right

I've got a good name, my first name came from slave in Babylon, back in the day, rat in a cage

Raised in chains, he trained like Rocky, but I mean his brain not boxing

So he got sly like Stallone, got game like 50 cent posse, up first to work on his coffee grind

in no time got promoted to the king's right hand, but no height in there had to take the right stand

when the king made a statue of gold he told the whole nation that they had to bow down to it

that or get tossed in the furnace Shad and his boys said boss you can burn us

we can't serve this statue it's worthless

the king was mad but Shadrach wasn't nervous

it must have been some strange phenomenon

they walked straight through the fire

Chaka Khan

saved by faith stronger than flame,

if I'm half as great then I honour my name

I've got a good name

[refrão]

and my last name, come down some generations

came down from the elevation

high in the hills of a great nation

with a bright future and a dark past

the world can't overshadow the hope cause the night's passed

down from my grandfather who held down the village

feeling when I touch down there

now it's spilling in the same veins

that's a good dad, with a good name

you see Shad's pop, always played bad cop

he had no badge though, we didn't gave him mad props

but now I respect it

guess it's perspective

in hindsight seeing is corrected

so when I get kids if they get arrested

they going to get licks like breathmints

check it

he held a tough job down

held my mothers hand

handed down proud roots from my motherland

from my hometown people say my name sounds dope no doubt but that's not why I'm most proud

I've got a good name