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Don’t fool yourself by thinking we got equal chances
If we’re talking heads or tails then the blacks are the latter
Wanna be Lebron, but required to be

Figured things out on my own time
Looking at my life, you a lifeline
Guess I really wasn’t in my right mind
Guess it just really wasn’t the right

don't know

I need you right here by my side but I don't need you to save me
I'm having a hard time to choose maybe I should love me or hate me
The stress

can't get in court
Let's amend the constitution but ratify our morals first

Dear America
Dear America 
This an open letter to you hope you hear me out

love - baby

If there`s one thing that I know
it`s that good love`s so hard to hold
just here today and gone tomorow - ooh
for the first time in my life

dreams and did it all by choice
Definition of a mustard seed
How you living out your faith if everything comes easily
How you living out your bars if

Never not workin
But you knew that
Uh
Uh
I knew by the way that a nigga heart setup, Id get fucked over a lot
I'm aquaman on dry land, tryna stay

building castles in the sand, 
So when they wash away I can make sure again they stand.
I want to change the world but first I have to change myself. 
I have

me
And the happiness I've yet to find.
See it was fun when it started at first
Until my demons grew to be bigger than me and it hurts
Did I give up my

nobody gonna fuck you like I do
I like to spite you
Just to show that I'm the only nigga in the world that could ever do right by you
And tell your

Climbin’ out the basement
Shit, I’m just tryin’ not to be jaded
I guess I first felt truly broken round
The time that I’s in braces
Ain’t made it

rains it pours, that stormy shower flyin' down
I told my youngins, leave your phone, when you slidin' out
There's things I've seen, that can never ever

Oh yeah
Tell momma wipe them tear's from her eye's
Your son gone make It wish you seen the things that I sacrificed
If I leave tonight and don't come

with germs gets killed and murderer first
Then their open corpse gets stored and frozen in the morgue
Sit down and shut up
You snitch rat who picks scabs

the numbers, like a phone log
Did my thing in LA, but niggas don't call
Back, so they lack, or they doze off
Aye, yo tell me how we sound, yeah I know huh?
They

think twice or maybe 3 times like,
“Why in the first place did I start this shit?”
Even if it means repeating 4 times of the same thing
As long you got

my eye
Not a care in the world, no limits to the sky
Everything was gon be ight
When I was 16 I was thinking bout big things
With a model chick so I

before
And multiple times, got burned
But, honesty is what you deserve
The first time we met, it's 'cause she could sing
And she was gettin' introduced

And not a day goes by
When I don't think of our first kiss
It was almost winter break
You headed for the bus
But I pulled you close
Eyes all over us
Feelin

Roofioh’s my dog
And he’s fat like a hog
But it’s in his genetics so don’t judge him at all
I’m just trying to show gratitude for the things that I have
I’m

Niggas in my circle they don't hesitate to murder shit
Best believe I'm talking first degree on every word I spit
Catch a body count on all these

Some things I gotta deal with 
I was so addicted, so addicted, I just need to call the dealer
But I know that won't heal it, yeah 
People always pick

side grapes ohhh
They hate to see you use duze kwami
Far from the usual mami
By far the best thus far
She cooks, cleans and she do the laundry
I swear

Can’t trust your word gotta weigh it up
Hope that they try me
Do what she gotta
But first run it by me
Smoking on loud while we sittin’ in silence
Get