1. |
nakama_
01:48
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[ Oh, there it is... ]
Can't come home til my eyes ain't red
Til the bags underneath match the ends in the bank
Til the debt that I owe to my bed take a toll on my dome
Til I'm really doing me
Like a noose on the neck
Of a nigga that was fed up with the feds
Nat Turner on the beat
A machete in my hand
As oppressive as the tension
In the speech, bitch I'm really tryna eat
Put a muzzle on the dog
All the threats are a mirage
What you testing is the pressure on the teeth
Cause you grinding at the jaw
Paranoia in ya thoughts
Black hoodie with the Patagonia fleece
And ya bark is pretty tough
But you yap too fucking much
If you really bout that action take a seat
Manager could chop it up
Get percentages that cut into the overhead
And flip a profit please
Can't come home til my eyes ain't red
Til the bags underneath match the ends in the bank
Til the debt that I owe to my bed take a toll on my dome
Til I'm really doing me
Can't come home til my eyes ain't red
Til the bags underneath match the ends in the bank
Til the debt that I owe to my bed take a toll on my dome
Til I'm really doing me
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2. |
camelbak_
02:22
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Time spitting in my face like
There ain't enough hours in the day
To get my weight up lately
Through the eye of a needle
Wit a camelbak
Fam gotta stay hydrated on a mission
Time spitting in my face like
There ain't enough hours in the day
To get my weight up lately
Through the eye of a needle
Wit a camelbak
Fam gotta stay hydrated on a mission
I won't do you no favors G,
I don't fuck with new neighbors see
Eighty-six on ya'll serpent talkers
Ya'll talking paper, ya'll fake to me
Only drinking if the chaser cheap
Only smoking when the vapor sweet
Only using these vices when I need breaks
From feeling my faith deplete
Been out-rapping these status grabbers
Since graduation, that's word to Ye
Flashing lights on my apparatus
Keep money calling like Sallie Mae
Politic wit my Cali fam
We talk poly-sci then we pass the J
But ya'll funny acting
With the trade exchanges
So I cut the cypher like razor blades
New neuroses keep the pocket deep
I augment the flows while my squad adapt
That's mental flex manifested in physical space
Ya'll ain't got the guard for that
Fighting me is throwing hands witcha shadow
I'm fuel for the doubt in ya writtens' capacity
This shit a travesty
Ya'll still afraid of the dark
While I live in the pit of its gravity
Time spitting in my face like
There ain't enough bours in the day
To get my weight up lately
Zero G, doing sets
Wit the mass on double
And the mask on zip
Don't chase me
Through the eye of a needle
Wit a camelbak
Fam gotta stay hydrated on a mission
Tear a hole in the Earth
Get a taste
That's a terabytes' worth
Of the work that you getting
Time spitting in my face like
There ain't enough bours in the day
To get my weight up lately
Zero G, doing sets
Wit the mass on double
And the mask on zip
Don't chase me
Through the eye of a needle
Wit a camelbak
Fam gotta stay hydrated on a mission
Tear a hole in the Earth
Get a taste
That's a terabytes' worth
Of the work that you getting
Chop the heads of hydra
Drop the doors, on some suicides,
Snakes do not retain the privilege
To ride wit you and I
Neck to the asphalt
Gassing the next one
Taking the blood of the Ghidorah
Keep it a buck
Monsters exist in my cup
Taking the blood of the Ghidorah
Keep it a buck
Monsters exist in my cup
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3. |
treehouse_
04:10
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I never had a space that was safe
Couldn't hide my feelings I was blessed with inner rage
I was reading books and making music to escape
Now they think I'm grown but I'm still living through the pain
I wish I had a treehouse
Or a temple made of stone
That I could call my own
That I could call my home
That's my treehouse
Where I could smoke the loud
Appreciate the clouds
Cause I'm never coming down
Phone stay on airplane mode
Ya'll don't know where I
Post up in my woeful state
I suppose I'll try
Paradiddles over telecom
That's a single stroke, then a double tap
Imma like ya pic
Then I might depict
My own idle mind
To ya'll nihilists
"Ooh you so trendy,
You so edgy,
You alone...
You converse in current memes
And you always stay at home
You think happy is a concept
And your sadness is invoked
By the minor trivialities
Of being young and woke"
Damn
Long winded conversations
Over how my coping mechanisms
Keep me catatonic
Tend to make potential confidantes
Feel like
Maybe I don't really
Have it all together
Maybe that's the reason
Most of my decisions
Hold me more accountable
I'm tryna grow
Flourish past any indignation
Be a better man
And not clutch the past
I never had a space that was safe
I couldn't hide my feelings I was blessed with inner rage
I was reading books and making music to escape
Now they think I'm grown but I'm still living through the pain
I wish I had a treehouse
Or a temple made of stone
That I could call my own
That I could call my home
That's my treehouse
Where I could smoke the loud
Appreciate the clouds
Cause I'm never coming down
Eagles and astronauts
Can't fly as half as high as
What me and fam is on
Energy go tachyon
Tired of the apropos
Hit me hard, the tackle slow
Motion through the peace
And hit the pavement when I crash and blow
You don't know
I worked for this
Used to slur my words and shit
Fought the suicidal thoughts wit flurry fists,
God damn,
Fury wasn't pertinent see,
But my patience got me farther than the liquor
I imbibed when i resurfaced in, in what?
The coldest waters, quarter waters crush the sugar rush
I'm thinking super sonic qualms
Can't keep my sugar up
I hit the mighty lows
Nothing surprise me so
Whether I write or spit
The space between the silence grows
I practice both to keep the fuckery out of either or
My mama's grave ain't got no flowers
And my eyes is sore
So what you crying for?
The answer simple dog
Split the cost and bust the competition
Witcha nimble sword
Then you get paid for that
Give all the paper back
To double talking suits that put hydrangeas
Where her cradle at
Just fix the problems that ya wallet got
The rest can wait
You close to Tutankhamun's grave
No need to excavate
The king could sleep until the lapis
Drapes the terracotta
Skip the ratchet drama
Smash the earth, reverse invalid karma
Protect the sanctity of self
Preserve superlatives
Leave em looking goofy when the verses hit
Yeah
I never had a space that was safe
I couldn't hide my feelings I was blessed with inner rage
I was reading books and making music to escape
Now they think I'm grown but I'm still living through the pain
I wish I had a treehouse
Or a temple made of stone
That I could call my own
That I could call my home
That's my treehouse
Where I could smoke the loud
Appreciate the clouds
Cause I'm never coming down
Treehouse
Treehouse
Treehouse
Treehouse
[D I S C O R D]
Radio playing that same song
I was flash stepping on a see-saw
Tryna cut corners for the work flow
Still get busy when I leap off
Land a feel a new wave coming, man yeah
Better get a floatie and a beach ball
All day tripping on the same old shit,
Scheme get rich quick, it's a theme song
Radio playing that same song
I was flash stepping on a see-saw
Tryna cut corners for the work flow
Still get busy when I leap off
Land a feel a new wave coming, man yeah
Better get a floatie and a beach ball
All day tripping on the same old shit,
Scheme get rich quick, it's a theme song
Radio playing that same song
I was flash stepping on a see-saw
Tryna cut corners for the work flow
Still get busy when I leap off
Land a feel a new wave coming, man yeah
Better get a floatie and a beach ball
All day tripping on the same old shit,
Scheme get rich quick, it's a theme song
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4. |
cursed fruit_
02:11
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Couldn't yield seeds from the pit
Pulp in the fiction the heartiest bits
Hardly descript
Learned through the folly of Oliver Twist
Bowls for the road
Stocking the grits
Culture and mould
Build til he sick
Black in the lungs
Chained to the earth
Watching it spin
I could take a target a day
Arm to the face
Gun to my head
Fuck what you said
Imma be a god for the age
Imma break bread with the dead
Chips with the fish
Rats with the birds
Snakes with the sword
Raps with the pen
Imma be a part of the change
Imma take a target a day
Imma build stock in a foreign estate
Farm and escape to edge where the parliament ain't
Smart with the feint,
Hook finna sink in the lake
Stuck in the depths of your head
Swim witcha patron and saints
Bathe in a win
Aim to the wind where ya dreams ain't fake
I take chase,
Venmo, Paypal, Quikcash, bitcoin
PSD, MP3, dot-wav, bitmaps and jpegs,
Then I take a drag of the sess
Face to the floor
Chained to distress
Broke and abused
Imma get the bag in the end
Imma give praise to my friends
Food to my fam
Fear to my foes
Clothes to the cold
Warmth to the stressed
Imma be a beacon of hope
Imma build an ark for the waves
Then I bust holes in the faultiest claims
Charge and ascend to the hill
With a sovereign claim
Eyes to the world
Spear to the beasts that I flank
Gear to the squad that I'm on
Traps to the thieves in the midst
Tracing a path
Sketching a plot of the schemes that they take
Imma get a bite of the fruit
I could spare an apple or two
In could see the truth in ya heart
Cause the dark is a ruse
I could take a target a day
Arm to the face
Gun to my head
Fuck what you said
Imma be a god for the age
Imma break bread with the dead
Chips with the fish
Rats with the birds
Snakes with the sword
Raps with the pen
Imma be a part of the change
Imma take a target a --
[...]
Couldn't yield seeds from the pit
Pulp in the fiction the heartiest bits
Hardly descript
Learned through the folly of Oliver Twist
Bowls for the road
Stocking the grits
Culture and mould
Build til he sick
Black in the lungs
Chained to the earth
Watching it spin
Weep for the dead
Fight for the weak
Reaching for eons beyond
Believing the eons I be on could be gone
The threshold I be on is beyond
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5. |
what's ur problem_
00:58
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[ I thought that death would give me peace]
[[ I didn't think anyone would miss me ]]
[ If I walked forever on Earth, I'd earn rest in my next life ]
- well what if there is no next life? -
- who said you'd be remembered? -
-Like, you walk forever and never a choose a destination...
and you're...weak for it -
[ N-n-no...I thought, I thought doing the right thing...]
- right? RIGHT?! No, weak. Right and your incorrigible righteousness
is why the universe made you left handed -
[[ OOOOOHHH ]]
- so what, you're just gonna eternally wander in the name of some just cause of your design? -
[[ I'm trying to find t r u t h ]]
[ Uh, I was gonna change the world. ]
- nah, that's weak. it's unambitious, lacking...flavor -
[ I was tryna change..the way people see art ]
- how many ways can I tell you, it was all for nothing fam,
[ what do you mean nothing?! ]
- that high and mighty, holier than thou shit is a drag -
[[ BORING ]]
- you ain't got shit to show for it but some open toed Air-Force 1's so,
shut it...down -
[ can you chill please, i'm tryna, like... ]
- no, no no no, weak
[ can I just say something? ]
[[ I mean what are you really doing? are you even trying? like... ]]
-no...weak
[ yo shut the... ]
- dry...lacking...
[[ are you even attempting...? ]]
- flavor -
[ shut the fuck up ]
[ shut up ]
[ shut the fuck up ]
[ shut up...shut up ]
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6. |
kinda different_
03:50
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Dizzy I'm swerving, I'm out
Dizzy I'm swerving, I'm out
Dizzy I'm swerving, I'm out
Dizzy I'm swerving, I'm out
Dizzy I'm swerving, I'm --
Tap swag teachers for mad theses
The slap egregious, get clapped up wit the mad flee shit
A doctorate for swallowing opulence
Spitting genius
I'd advise that if it's not in ya style
You don't release it yet
[ yo don't drop that ]
The flex false and it's all for the Jesus pieces
while I'm seeking Chichén-Itzá and speaking a beasts secrets fam
Quetzalcoatl in bottles, I got a lotta that
The sordid pouring 'gac, blowing piff to see if the gods react
I, stay stainless in safe havens of great valence
Then exchange payments to shame sameness
We stay ageless
Ain't no sympathy,
Kill or be killed or be killer bee,
Venomous military, yellow and black embezzled in industry
It's, pernicious, the words at a first listen
When the verse hit em
Switch with the curves of a curt riddim, spit
Stirred cinnamon, sturgeon, and stiff lip
And if observing ain't the pertinent purpose
They ain't gon' hear this shit, it's
All fishy, it's all offered to soften
The charlatan soft palette
Of saccharine admissions if,
Ya'll sinners was quicker with concessions
The quipping would contest it
For wishes that's wild impotent
Yo keep waiting and talking in tongues
Jargon and calling it sweat, blood, and the tears in my jug
What you juugin?
You ain't hustle as hard as the kid
Harder than pardoning french
Curse you then call it a set
What you doing?
You ain't
Getting nothing
But a mothafuckin check
Making dirty money off of representing
Corporate ends yo,
That's my neck,
Crew be looking at you funny when you step
Don't deflect,
Introspect,
Or you might just catch my left
Ya'll got me tight, yo
Yo niggas is trife
For real,
I'm not with the hype
Ya'll got me tight, but
Everyone trife though
I can't even lie
Ya'll got me tight, aye
Yo niggas is trife
For real,
I'm not with the hype
Ya'll got me tight, but
Everyone trife though
I can't even lie
Damn
More disposed to stick a stegosaurus
Dermal plate in place of paper chasing fossil fuel
I'm siding with the science of the living
Not commodified
A molecule that's quantified
To power life in comforts inefficiencies and alibis
Fuck it, if you wanna take a second
Roll some shit up, pause the track and run it back
Like seven seconds then revisit
Maybe smoke amidst ya homies
Take some notes
And figure how we redistribute land and labor
To the people, that'd be sick, aye
Everybody gather up ya sticks
We could make a fire of the principal consultant for this shit
Image and aesthetics are a myth
Everything is beautiful cause
Everything is ugly where we sit
Burn the witch
Run the hills
Do ya thing, yeah
Genocide is normalized nowadays so
Write ya name
In my book
Note the time terms and conditions
Is decided by the,
Amount of violence that get incited
When trial and triumph
Turn into an early retirement plan
On Riker's Island, ya'll been wilding
Banging with niggas that don't care bout you
We been tryna put you onto the panthers and Malcolm
That was not a doubt duke
Please don't make this 'bout you
I am just addressing when the audience is doubtful
Hit em wit a mouthful
Existential counsel
Talking like I know
Because I'm questioning my ground rules
But
What?
We ain't even get to flex
And they already hating
Guess our vegetation kinda different
Herbs is meditating
What,
We ain't even get to flex
And they already hating
Guess our vegetation kinda different
Herbs is meditating
What,
We ain't even get to flex
And they already hating
Guess our vegetation kinda different
Herbs is meditating
What,
We ain't even get to flex
And they already hating
Guess our vegetation kinda different
Herbs is meditating
You ain't
Getting nothing
But a mothafuckin check
Making dirty money off of representing
Corporate ends,
That's my neck,
Crew be looking at you funny when you step
Don't deflect,
Introspect,
Or you might just catch my left
Ya'll got me tight, yo
Yo niggas is trife
For real,
I'm not with the hype
Ya'll got me tight, yo
Everyone trife like,
I can't even lie
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7. |
gospel of the greats_
03:50
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Please do not weep for me
I am not easily swayed by stigmas and hate
[ stigmas and hate ]
I cannot tell you how long I been trying to capture
The swag of the greats
[ swag of the greats ]
Wrath in these grapes be the sourest
Raisins deferred by the hour, it's deep
[ hour it's deep ]
Think catatonic and blowing this dour
The only way Imma count sheep
[ Imma count sheep ]
Imma count off on the aura that aural personas is patented by
[ patented by ]
Resting my laurels on signatures long predicated by masters of time
[ masters of time ]
Bending the will of the scale with melodic concoctions
I copped from the past
[ melodic concoctions I copped from the past ]
Top off the burner so I can communicate with all the phantoms of jazz
[ phantoms of jazz ]
And just when their heroin fade
Adjust at a perilous rate
Opiates pirouette into the Actavis state
Of an active estate where the activists stay in the back
Fade to black and follow suit if sallow hues is
How you make ya music jack,
Take the gas and gut ya backwoods
The tactile type vibe cure angst like Prozac
Fuck what you heard the allure is an animals appetite
After the savagest kill, savagest kill
High on endorphins and sweat of the stricken
This rap shit will strip you to pieces and still
People insist that the depth of the sickness
Associative cognitive dissonance but
What you expect to regale
When your total existence is hinging on bitches and drugs?
Fam, that was rhetorical...
Solipsistic, styled fiction, hypothesis
Hit the stick shift, fourth gear
Speeding idle warships
That could swarm blacks who smoke grass
But spit reason
Dap the deacon with sneak speaking of street gospel
While the vinyl freaks got techniques to appease apostles
Keep the hollow-tip talk top notch as you tick-tock
Wistfully withdrawn from realities of Hip-Hop
No calisthenics to stretch out the truth
That I'm part of the problem with parcel in tow
On a porcelain podium
Posing for anything visibly dope
Slippery slope keep you coated in oil
When loyalty foiled
And flame get to spitting unchecked
Yo ass gon' wish
You ain't never wrote lyrics
About counter-culture
And roads to sedition I bet
Bet
Please do not weep for me
I am not easily swayed by stigmas and hate
[ stigmas and hate ]
I cannot tell you how long I been trying to capture
The swag of the greats
[ swag of the greats ]
Wrath in these grapes be the sourest
Raisins deferred by the hour, it's deep
[ hour it's deep ]
Think catatonic and blowing this dour
The only way Imma count sheep
[ Imma count sheep ]
Please do not weep for me
I am not easily swayed by stigmas and hate
[ stigmas and hate ]
I cannot tell you how long I been trying to capture
The swag of the greats
[ capture the swag of the greats ]
Wrath in these grapes be the sourest
Raisins deferred by the hour, it's deep
[ by the hour it's deep ]
Think catatonic and blowing this dour
The only way Imma count sheep
[ The only way Imma count sheep ]
Don't worry bout it,
[ Stigmas and hate ]
Don't worry bout it,
We gon' figure it out
[ Capture the swag of the greats ]
We gon' figure it out
Don't worry bout it
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8. |
is it too much_
01:07
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🥺😢
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9. |
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I thought that you signed the lease but I guess we was window shopping
I'm a option, like, I ain't got time to fight
My mood swing a pendulum
Pushing the ends of my patience
To deading them problems you bringing up
[ Yeah... ]
All of my postulates tell me i'm onto
A pivotal path in my rituals
How I'm gon' waste time with miserable
Chicken-toed, shuck and jive
Not tryna dance round the issue though
[ No... ]
That was an integral point of my
Dipping on daily
I dabbled indulgeing addiction
And acting dismissive
And you started acting like
"That's the extent of it"
Fuck it I'm better off putting my efforts to self,
tryna stitch it together so I don't get lost in the winds
Pushing poison into me
This altitude cleansing my sinuses
I walk back into the room and you silent
It's hard to be mindful
When I get as high as this
Pride in my pilot seat
Huffing butane by the pilot light
Illuminated by piracy
Steering the ship to the shoreline
We got marooned on Canary Islands
Tryna evolve, stick my beak inside of yours
Sweetest nectar that I sought
Baby,
I feel it in my bones
I love it when you're on my mind
Got me going crazy
The labor I devote
Got my eyes swelling salty like some saline
Baby,
I feel it in my bones
I love it when you're on my mind
Got me going crazy
The labor I devote
Got my eyes swelling salty like some saline
Baby,
I feel it in my bones
I love it when you're on my mind
Got me going crazy
The labor I devote
Got my eyes swelling salty like some saline
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10. |
periscope_
02:26
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Been around the world in eighty seconds on my periscope
Underwater submarine whose swag is black and yellow
All these little birdies on my radar got me swerving now
Narrowly avoiding Hell and hello's
It's not easy being green
[ I know... ]
Oh shit, waddup
Just depression and anxiety
The usual you know
Marathoning Totoro
Miyazaki surrogate
Watching Spirited Away
Regressing back into my crib
Like a pig
Eating anything in my vicinity
Made a fort of 40 blankets
40 ounces and some tree
Welcome to this den of time thieves
Who might sneak a second glance
On iris high beams, no ID
This the clubhouse for the wanderers who need
Something soft on their corpus
Amorphous comforters and ginger tea on Sunday mornings
Mourning your innocence, well I feel you friend
[ Same... ]
Reply field full of contrived assumptions
Why you ain't outside at the function?
Why you stay inside if you love them?
Your heart explodes with prose
But you write nothing
En sus voces me escucha las palabras de corazon
The more you know
It's not easy being green,
It's not easy being sick
It's not easy being green, sippin tea
Throwing shade, getting lit
Waking up for ya morning jog and a cup of just desserts
That justice works funny
Just as you're ready to let it all go
You get a text, they get a text, you get distracted
God damn
It's not easy being green
I ain't no punk though
Motivation my currency
And I keep the stash on one hundo
Voyeurists who need affirmation
Don't come around me that's done fo'
Shed a couple like Roland Kirk
I be dual-wielding no gun smoke
Surely you did not expect me to wait
Cannot engage in homogenous games
I put a tax on the dollar exchange
For anyone trying to stretch in my lane
Out with the old as I enter the fray
Still keep the culture in mind when I slay
Linked up wit 99, PT, that's gang
Pilot the Ace but they all are my wings
Been around the world in eighty seconds on my periscope
Purview of my dominance impending as I bellow
"ALL OF YA'LL IS CORNY CLAIMING RADICAL IDENTITY
YOU NEED TO PAY YA DUES AND
PUT SOME BREAD INSIDE MY VENMO"
Been around the world in eighty seconds on my periscope
Underwater submarine whose swag is black and yellow
All these little birdies on my radar got me swerving now
Narrowly avoiding Hell and hello's
...
...
...
[ okay you had your moment, take a shower... ]
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11. |
fixie_
04:05
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[ It was too easy to see you too easy to sweep off ya feet,
on my breezy I dab,
Fam getting nervous when birds get to swarming the outpost
They crows in pursuit of the swag,
I'm in my bag with this ravenous grip,
Pulling the seed by the root of its body,
Planted a forest of fearful deceit,
So I forage the beans from the front of ya lobby,
Copped a Tim Horton's
Introduced you to my manic habits
Pouring scotch in a coffee cup
Whiskey the obvious choice
My maturity shadow stitched in
With the substances, yeah
Flicking the wrist with a gingerly twist
Cause I know that you sensitive
Still with the shits
I ain't been here in a minute
I'm really just feeling my feelings
Insipid and bliss ]
*dabs and swags in the key of late 2017*
Tell me what you're playing on
I hope that it's ya favorite song
Cause there's got to be a reason you evolve
Tell me what you're playing on
I hope that it's ya favorite song
Cause there's got to be a reason you evolve
Why the brokest people got the most Metro-Cards
Why you go so far just to get back nothing
You could blame it on something in retrograde
But the joke's on you cause you need that money
Ya hit the ATM too many times
Caught the overdraft fee cause ya branch ain't local
Ya got a four-speed cruiser with the spokes still dripping
And a pocket full of wishes that'll turn you to a no show
[ You know what you gotta do right? ]
You gotta ride swift like a fixie, yeah
Memories on these handlebars
Skid marks on my old block
Rose petals on my five panel
Granny told me not to play outside wit them boys
I know
But my fit changed since sixth grade
And this all black draw darkness to me
No stopping for the red light
Footworkin like it's Teklife
Tires rolling over these Crayola silhouettes
Outlines out-shadow four-square games in this hood
Boxed in, box-braid baby doll gotta duck when the streetlights on
It go, up up and away, ya'll see the way cats keep the wave coming
Black merm with the rose-tinteds
Local Superman keep the weight running
I'm in my bag, no Goyard
Used to be my momma's little man
Camouflage on my Jansport
Tryna make the honor roll again
I ride swift like a fixie, yeah
Memories on these handlebars
Skid marks on my old block
Rose petals on my five panel
Granny told me not to play outside wit them boys
I know
But my fit changed since sixth grade
And this all black draw darkness to me
Ride swift like a fixie, yeah
Memories on these handlebars
Skid marks on my old block
Rose petals on my five panel
Granny told me not to play outside wit them boys
I know
But my fit changed since sixth grade
And this all black draw darkness to me, yeah
My granny used to tell me not to worry
Some people don't know how to be direct
Just cause ya'll attached don't mean they love you
And just because you pray don't mean you're blessed
I don't think it's worth it to be troubled
i'll just put the lessons to the test
i used to think her words were made of magic
And now I know the truth is that it's facts
Don't flee
Don't flee
Don't fly
Don't fly
Your peace
Beneath
These blades of grass
I cried
I cried
I tried
I tried
I'll keep you in my thoughts for strength
Hard-headed as I may be
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12. |
no, u were dissociating_
01:07
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*stares at wall*
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13. |
switch_
04:00
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Yeah
Check,
Woke up to the sound of a walker
That's time modified by the body's decay
So I gotta feed grandpa
While I hold back tears
Put a smile on my face
I don't know how my g-ma did it
Offset by the physics
Of the burden she bore
She was certainly sore
But she still went to church
Gave food to the hungry and clothes to the poor
All day with the saint-like complex
Praise like psalms get stuck in ya head
Not stopping for shit
Get a moment to sit
And she pore over bibles for hymns to extend
Now I pull up slack from the back end
Tryna accent that I'm thankful for this
Crib by the lakeside
Wind in my face
Smoke a spliff in the am
While the kid meditate on
How to make the most of the moments
That ain't guaranteed
While you face enemies in the distance
Still entranced with the vanishing point
While enchantresses handle my physical needs
Disappear in the dusk
Leaving a husk
Shell of a human who trust
In collusion with rust
As my years get to touching this skin
Make sure my fears get the bludgeon
Sworn to the covenant
Family and nak taking precedent
Over superfluous other shit
Word to my utterance
Guttural sounds
Visceral notions that words can't pronounce
Follow intuitive hunches
I'm hunting for something that you cannot purchase with clout
Peace of mind that leave you speechless
We playing follow the leader
Pull up the mantle
And act like a man do
I carry the legacy wit me
I handle my shit
Though I had ample assist
Gratitude dapping my kin
Imma turn fate to my bitch
She not gon' know where I been
She not attuned to my wish
Oh you gon' switch?
Hope you don't miss
Judas get thrown to the wind
Walking the line as subjected to gas
And a match and I promise
The shame gonna burn you to crisp
If you leave it unchecked Imma check on you
Never forgot
You was my blood
You feel that deep in your stomach
Turning your back on ya brothers
Dagger in hand as you told them you're only a partial protector
With half of their genes and a bag full of snark
Cause their mother was really the worst
...
Man, fuck her
She not the spawn
just the harpy that brought em
Into this confusing estate
Imma love em for better or worse
Cause the cruelty is played
And they'll deal with enough of it out on these streets
Sheesh
Oh you gon' switch?
Hope you don't miss
Pray that my life is the beach I been promised
I promise you things ain't been peachy
I probably need some assistance adjusting
I hope I can trust you to hold me again
Slowly descend to the pit
Where I love what you've done
With the temple your heartache is in
Oh you gon' switch
Hope you don't miss
Need a chin-guard for the glass jaw
Fists swinging on the spectres
And the ghosts in ya head
Take the L
Team Rocket when you blast off
I wanna exorcise this weight,
Pour up on holy water and backstroke
To the non-believers
Me reaching for Peter while Peter reaching for Jesus
No bitters bit in my lower lip
Lo and behold
Tied toward the actual home of our providence
Hands off the steering wheel
Searching for certainty
Fortune serving me looks
And she draped in the
Star Spangled Macguffin that led the plot forth
They said separate but equally acknowledged
Not if dollars get dropped into collection boxes
We've abolished nothing of the old days
I remember granny cussing, drinking and spilling the tea of my cousins
Then holding court and their hands over thanksgiving dinner
To pray, why he let us be so set in our ways
And even that's up for debate
How we get little black kids to ideate
On the separation of church and state
My staycation in the promised land
Lets me breathe a sigh of relief
But I'm bathed in disbelief
At the things we do
With the name of the big dog
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