You can call it hell…
But I say it’s below the heavens.

- Blu, “The World Is…(Below the Heavens),” from Blu & Exile’s Below the Heavens, 2007

Fuck jewels: I think my soul glows bright enough.
And fuck whips: I learn more when I ride the bus.
And fuck, it’s bad enough that we fight for bucks.
And fuck hoes: cause in the end I need a wife to love.

- Blu, “Show Me the Good Life,” Below the Heavens, 2007

As the wind made love to the seas,
The sand danced to the rhythm of the breeze.

- Blu, “My Sunshine,” NoYork!, 2011

You gotta try hard to be yourself…
Cause you can’t go to heaven being anybody else.

- Blu, “Below The Heavens, Pt I,” Below The Heavens, 2007

This is sunny California
Where the phonies run up on ya
Cause they want you to be just like them.

- Blu, “Vanity,” Her Favorite Colo(U)R, 2010

Every day is like a blank canvas,
Carving my initials in the planet like I brand it.
Hand-picked to live this life we take for granted,
Like a child with an upright bass, we can’t stand it.

- Blu, “The Day,” from The Roots’ How I Got Over, 2010

I had to travel light speed to dodge that black cloud
Rainin’ on my parade.
Sun shinin’ but there ain’t enough shade.

- Blu, “Seasons,” Video, 2010