Promised

[00:12.39] Uh
[00:13.11] Judged by people that don't care about me either way
[00:15.73] Done with pleasing people who ain't aware, when I feel that way
[00:18.88] I just need to breathe for a second, need to pray
[00:22.15] Try and make sense of what I made
[00:24.02] Not the money, every sentence
[00:25.52] You can't touch 'em, but put a bunch together, make a record
[00:28.78] I'd say I stayed neglected in the game, but I stayed invested
[00:32.20] At least I maintained my message
[00:34.70] And when I changed and I realized the pain I caused, confessed it
[00:38.13] All my flaws is on my setlist
[00:40.06] Every bar, I was direct with
[00:41.56] All the travel days where I missed the city
[00:43.79] Sitting on my saddle on the Mississippi
[00:47.12] On my trustworthy steed
[00:49.28] Or out in Europe smoking some untrustworthy weed
[00:51.78] The only way to stay high, how I prefer to be
[00:54.66] On the bus, every day you wake, a new way to say hi
[00:58.33] A different currency
[00:59.73] It's too early for all the urgency
[01:01.64] My brain feels like been in and out of surgery
[01:04.57] Open up the curtains, see
[01:06.35] Everything the world conceived, left to me
[01:09.09] Not no unnecessaries, only necessities
[01:12.29] The bare ones, have you cherishing your sense of Qi
[01:15.43] Set you free, just don't take a turn down the wrong street
[01:18.57] But what's the loss cost me, nothing too costly
[01:21.50] As long as I end up back on Mott Street
[01:24.97] Know I got me a spicy chicken sandwich from my akhi, that's all I need
[01:29.28] But after all I've seen, I had to stop it
[01:32.41] After all the years of being toxic
[01:34.57] In every unity, I got it
[01:36.70] Every opportunity, he lost him
[01:38.55] But either way, community still got him
[01:41.24] Everything you did for profit
[01:42.85] I've hardly counted what I got yet
[01:44.77] This just was the only way I could be honest
[01:47.47] Uh, the only place I could keep my promise
[01:51.14] Woke this morning, had to pray that I could see beyond this
[01:54.27] Show me somewhere where it's safe, that's why I need a job
[01:57.17] A sheer product of my race, so it don't need a concept
[02:00.68] And you remind me of my ace 'cause I just be alive
[02:03.53] Sometimes I be obnoxious
[02:05.23] With the money making gang, how niggas think we locked in
[02:08.69] Why niggas think they slime?
[02:09.97] Why niggas jump to make a name and not to leave they options?
[02:13.12] Why niggas be behind?
[02:14.77] I peeped them triggers be the same when niggas reek of gossip
[02:17.72] Fast and eager type
[02:19.56] I keep it running in the rain, know when those streets is godless
[02:22.50] Last our leaders died
[02:24.17] I keep my mother in my prayers and I believe she watching
[02:27.33] Don't believe the hype
[02:28.97] I seen my brother's in that phase and how that creature got him
[02:32.36] See some brothers wishing, hey, I wish I'd leave they conscious
[02:35.51] Hope they see they prize
[02:37.00] Them assumptions just the game, I know we synchronized
[02:40.14] I'd rather be in front the flame than be the one besides it
[02:43.32] Some shit you leave to God
[02:44.97] Some shit I really had to say, but I ain't mean to promise
[02:48.12] It's hard to speak a lot
[02:52.63] Yeah
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