Late 808

I’m living in that 21st Century, doing something mean to it

Do it better than anybody you ever seen do it

Screams from the haters, got a nice ring to it

I guess every superhero need his theme music

Biblical sky speckled with flame

Do you hold your mother’s eyes

From wetting the earth?

From weeping for those

Who reward fame to absolutes of war?

Or for heroic myths

Provided to children

Married into ferocity?

They instead witness themselves

All in your mind with fears that would come true

The back of my mind, the back of my mind was you

Wishing that I could blind myself from view

And only have eyes, and only have eyes for you

Cause every time I make a move they be sweating me

They want another black man in penitentiary

It’s even hard for that man standing next to me

Cause he could catch a bullet that was really meant for me

It’s like every step bring me close to destiny

And every breath I get closer to the death of me

I’m just tryna carry out my own legacy

But the place I call home ain’t letting me

‘Til you own your own you can’t be free

‘Til you’re on your own you can’t be me

How we still slaves in 2016?

Key to life, keep a bag comin’

Every night another bag comin’

I ain’t been asleep since ’96

I ain’t seen the back of my eyelids

Whole lotta styles, can’t even pronounce the name

You ain’t got no style, see you on my Instagram

I be rockin’ it like it’s fresh out the pan

Only when I’m takin’ pics, I’m the middleman

And then I’ll write you a song

You might hear it on the radio

Baby, you never know

But it’s gonna be just about you and me

How much I miss you

You’re the one that got away

You’re gonna hear your song someday

I see this life

Like a swinging vine

Swing my heart across the line

In my faces flashing signs

Seek it out and ye shall find

The old, but I’m not that old

Young, but I’m not that bold

And I don’t think the world is sold

I’m just doing what we’re told

I, feel something so right

Doing the wrong thing

I, feel something so wrong

But doing the right thing

I could lie, could lie, could lie

Everything that kills me makes me feel alive

My night runs into morning, all the time

And through my phone I’m scrolling, bang my line

Off that drank it’s hard to focus (focus)

Seems like I am always chosen by romantics that are hopeless

But you different than these women

Got me coming back

Can’t let anybody have you

Can’t have none of that

I’m learning to fly, but I ain’t got wings

Coming down is the hardest thing

I wish you would step back from that ledge, my friend

You could cut ties with all the lies that you’ve been living in

And if you do not want to see me again

I would understand, I would understand

They screamin’ Compton, must be two sides

R.I.P. to Shawty Lo, yeah B. Dot know I’m flexin’

VIP my barrio, 200 on the guest list

I don’t like to sugarcoat or politic with yes men

I like me a boujee h.. from Normandie and Western

2017 onto bigger things (bigger things)

I got a smaller team, got a bigger ring (bigger ring)

Everybody a Crip ’til they black and blue

Everybody a Blood ’til they hemorrhaging

You wanna sail away

Into a setting sun

Throw it all away

For your only one

I tried to pull away

You said I’m too far gone

I’m like “How long this hard-to-get role lasting?”

She said “I don’t know, it depends who’s asking”

I been drinkin’ lately I might act up

Over the mountain watching the watcher

Breaking the darkness

Waking the grapevine

One inch of love is one inch of shadow

Love is the shadow that ripens the wine

With my best friend

7-11 (yeah)

We go legend, we go legend (yeah, yeah)

We go legend, we go legend (alright)

We go legend, we go legend, yeah

With my best friend

7-11 (yeah)

We go legend (go), we go legend (go), yeah (yeah)

We go legend (go), we go legend (go legend)

We go legend, we go legend, yeah (straight)

We want to go inside the cold

It’s like a tomb, but it’s something to hold

And in the time before it ends

When the stillness bends

Big shot (hol’ up, wait) peanut butter insides (no)

Outside, cocaine white, body look like Gentiles (Gentiles)

Emotional, ‘motional, ‘motional, ‘motional

Why you emotional? Why you emotional?

Ah, bitch, you emotional, yeah

Hungry artists or starvin’ artists

In the kitchen, restaurant and cafeterias

Don’t make a difference if you taste the difference

Better pay the difference to the racketeers

Now your good luck lookin’ like you crackin’ mirrors

Now the artificial become sacrificial

That’s a body count, where the mathematician?

Black shades on my face so you can’t see my eyes

Everyone same side for lil bro, Ice Age all of my clothes

How I ball, you think I went pro, I’m in the hood, Brisco

You can get lost and found

Going overboard, going overboard, we can hit that store

Sweet dreams are made of this

Who am I to disagree?

I travel the world

And the seven seas,

Everybody’s looking for something

You’re leaving pavement, flying high

Those weathered eyes

And heavy sighs

Won’t sink

But If I can catch you, I’ll be grown

But If I can catch you, I’ll be grown

But If I can catch you, no less to

Know that it’ll be worth your weight in stone

Look, I ain’t really gotta rap about it, I just talk about it ’cause I live it now

So let me tell you ’bout this PYT, that I seen this week, I had to take a bow

5’2″ with a brown fur and her hair tied with them light eyes

And she would make me throw it all away for a fun time and the right prize

All our times have come

Here, but now they’re gone

Seasons don’t fear the reaper

Nor do the wind, the sun or the rain

I wish I could hold you forever

She’ll only come out at night, the lean and hungry type

Nothing is new, I’ve seen her here before

Watching and waiting

Ooh, she’s sitting with you, but her eyes are on the door

So many have paid to see what you think you’re getting for free

The woman is wild, a she-cat tamed by the purr of a Jaguar

Money’s the matter

If you’re in it for love, you ain’t gonna get too far

(Oh-oh, here she comes) Watch out, boy, she’ll chew you up

(Oh-oh, here she comes) She’s a maneater

(Oh-oh, here she comes) Watch out, boy, she’ll chew you up

(Oh-oh, here she comes) She’s a maneater

I am a patient boy

I wait, I wait, I wait, I wait

My time is like water down a drain

Everybody’s moving, everybody’s moving

Everybody’s moving, moving, moving, moving

Please don’t leave me to remain

What if there was no light?

Nothing wrong, nothing right?

What if there was no time?

And no reason or rhyme?

What if you should decide

That you don’t want me there by your side?

That you don’t want me there in your life?

Girls don’t like boys

Girls like cars and money

I can love you with my eyes closed

I don’t lose sight of your beauty

‘Cos your heart is fine gold baby

Imma take my time with your mind

Your ambition won’t leave me alone

Tell me ’bout your dreams, tell me everything

Don’t nobody care about your heart like I do

Girl I’m down for you just the way that you’re down for me

Body like a queen

But it ain’t about your body baby it’s about your being

I ain’t rolling up, but I’m on a high

When you really think about it, ain’t no wonder why