Ascension

I mean, she was the one who was warm and you know, like, friendly to me The one that I felt some kind of emotional ties to And my father was, you know, just the opposite He's like a cold motherfucker, he never spoke You know he never really like showed any signs of emotion A vet of unpleasant and misery Jah bless, didn't digest what they fed us in history Not too nice, see the true stripes of letters officially Don't waste ink, I'm succinct, it's measured efficiency Felt I had a curse first when I was bad at cursive Baby sister named me and since was six, I had a purpose Writings I drug cite in my court, I bought a surface It comes from these meant to accompany, though they callin' 'em verses Every mention is for hood ascension May not be a good man but got good intention Got good intention May not be a good man but got good intention I talk to you like a old uncle, that's my nuance Got killed, couldn't build with my uncles, just my two aunts Life grim, learn to fight and swim, Hopkinson and Dumont When I moved from runaways, the last day I had true calm As more I understand my posture, 'til I'm posthumous 'Til little me's thinking critically, I got no accomplishments Descend to dark continents, center spark confidence Correct the sea, speak of split second deeds, long consequence If you a deep person, keep searching, amass facts I believe they call him father, 'cause you supposed to get past that If never won, run every one like it's the last lap Handing ends to family and friends, never expecting that cash back When you dorm with roaches, every day long as the solstice I said parents ain't have no bread, I was born in ketosis Always precocious, never quarreled with randoms, was drawing with focus Since kids, they tried the colors 'cause only source is corpus Heed to what they tried to feed they deceiving in doses Bottom line, not the time for bikinis, Bellinis, mimosas Never want war, but I'm for sure cleaning my toasters 'Cause when crabs don't go for roe, all I seem is ferocious Every mention is for hood ascension May not be a good man but got good intention Got good intention May not be a good man but got good intention Every mention, hood ascension Got good intention (So, for as far as I was concerned, that was a man That was how a man was supposed to be) May not be a good man but got good intention (So in order for me to be a man, I had to-)