Uh

When the pride′s involved

And egos are bruisedRespect forgone

So cops are called

Cause worlds collide

Disagreement ensues

Defense mechanism

The Berettas are drawn

In The Pride

Collide with not many, I'm just simply not that dude

Never been macho, some were hostile cuz they got bruised

Some of these dudes got bullied all throughout high school

Grew up seeking vengeance, cause within the it′s a lit fuse

Issues that lack tissue, couch time, pistols

Packing, compassion free, innocent fools riddle

With bullets took it to a whole 'nother level

Caught an L like Todd smith now karma echoes

Shortened fuse

Storms ensued

Altered Moods

Futures bruised

We just trying to run it

Jump and overcome it

Blossom into something

Bottom bettered

Done it

We just trying to run it

Jump and overcome it

Blossom into something

Bottom bettered

Done it

When lives is lost

RIPs ensue

The vigils are held

And the families mourn

In the case where police murder

Our dearest, depleting our precious people

We wonder why forgiveness will follow

The why

A scent of wickedness lingers in the air

A finger triggered by a sense of apprehension

Your case you fit the description now you a victim

It seems senseless but it's always been their intentions

Asking can we live like our rights consensual

When all they do is rinse they hands with our tears

The why needs no forgiveness

When you considered a blemish

In a image they continue to replenish

Shortened fuse

Storms ensued

Altered Moods

Futures bruised

We just trying to run it

Jump and overcome it

Blossom into something

Bottom bettered

Done it

We just trying to run it

Jump and overcome it

Blossom into something

Bottom bettered

Done it

When lines get crossed

Violations occur

And a boundary is made

When you mention a loved one

Adversaries made

Instantaneous shifts made

When wives are mentioned

And the children insulted

The lines

This a grown man talking, I don′t do this very often

Drag my heart into our differences you could meet a coffin

Family be crossing lanes, gossip, say my child′s name

Jealous and embarrassed, they've inherited raw pain

Y′all gain nothing cuz you suffer like I once did

Everybody got that relative who say dumb shit

Generation curses working, no I wasn't never perfect

Ladies, babies off limits, I′m a clown, blaze first

Glances exchange

The eyes are locked in

Connections are made

Or the challenge is posed

May be dependent on culture, within which elders perceive

Disrespect or much respect in which the counterparts see strength

The might

Jaded philosophies, stained in our dichotomy

Cruising in my wallabies while spitting like I'm Socrates

Trying to cut the fallacies with pleasantries

But too many locked down and shackled mentally

I can′t believe they cutting branches off the olive tree

But claiming that they arborous, yo it's sad to see

Uh

Y'all don′t want to see me winning

I′ve been rooting for us ever since the beginning

I thought we could run the globe

But y'all punching the missile code

All that machismo′s old boy, it got to go

We need to unify it really so these seeds can grow

So it's solidified cause it′s time to break the mold

Like ceramics how we planned it

Keep it fresh like certified organic

We Keep it fresh like kids from Captain Planet

I digress while feeding through your bandwidth

Nonetheless, it's time to rise and advance kid

Goodness gracious

Goodness gracious

Goodness gracious

Goodness gracious

Goodness gracious

Goodness gracious

Goodness gracious

When the temperatures drop

And The winds rearrange

Season change And the tolerance for breeze rearrange

And increases in the hardship result in the grieving

For the warmth, and leaves us hopeful in these Holiday Seasons

The grind

A state of mind that could redefine

Get out of yours and tap into the network

Universal laws that have no flaws

Transfer realities and be your cause

What′s the applause if you ain't live the anguish

You and your vision up at three am

Two hours of sleep before you clocking in

Then you right back, cuz the grind truly never ends

Shortened fuse

Storms ensued

Altered Moods

Futures bruised

We just trying to run it

Jump and overcome it

Blossom into something

Bottom bettered

Done it

We just trying to run it

Jump and overcome it

Blossom into something

Bottom bettered

Done it

When success is displayed

And the jealousy brews

Every gesture one can make to show support takes a cruise

And securely straps itself within the backseat of hatred

This Withdrawal From supporting, to an active disengagement

The fright

It's the fright, tell these niggas goodnight

Uh huh

S-E to the

You know how that go, shit when it rains it pours

When it′s sunny outside u still talk to the Lord

Cause soon as night fall my dawg the pain is for sure

And it rush you at once but I was made for this

You see the game is my bitch with no pause

I done came in it raw, shortly after that′s when a lot of rappers came in the door

Well, is that feeling awkward of course

Niggas be 25 trying to hop off the porch

What

With no remorse turn y'all boys to a corpse

Hold on

On the days where I couldn′t be Mike would still Horace the chorus

That's power forward never watching my opponent

I got a lot of pride, but my claims don′t need to be proven dog

I ain't gotta show shit, nigga

I rather keep my mouth shut long as my mind open

And tell these niggas never mind what I′m smoking

S-E-P just a mix of high potency and potent tree

Big billies pop wheelies how it's posed to be

Got to keep my family close to me

The only niggas that's really joining a toast from me

Got to know my mother n father personally

And lil mama hooking up a pot roast for me

And she don′t but smoke but roll it up and take a tote with me

Goodness gracious

Goodness gracious

Goodness gracious

Goodness gracious

Goodness gracious

Goodness gracious

Goodness gracious

Shortened fuse

Storms ensued

Altered Moods

Futures bruised

We just trying to run it

Jump and overcome it

Blossom into something

Bottom bettered

Done it

We just trying to run it

Jump and overcome it

Blossom into something

Bottom bettered

Done it

Blacktivist

He just wanna know where that action is

Trying to save a life a calculated move can get him in

Heard they wanna see me finished

Niggas want me to see the ending

Still canoe down your block like water, you won′t catch me slipping

Cops still taping scenes, fuck 12 that's really me

Fake niggas industry, won′t let that shit get into me

Rapping bout that bullshit you ain't live, you a slave to me

Hustle so hard I can sell you niggas my dreams

Pull it out the side, got my straps for white supremacists

Knock out a peasant, you gone need some dentures after this

Wandering the curbs

Niggas really dodging dirt

Had attempts on my fucking life cuz I put in work

Make a name for yourself, they wanna put you on a shirt

Keep your mouth closed, in them streets, that′s more like time served

He just wanna bust his Glock and show them what he really mean

Man in my city can't be stopped, that′s by any means

I just want the bread like a grocery store section

I'm a run it up, came through with a mob of hecklers, yeah

We worked the price out, they was trying to charge me extra

I'm way too nice to be getting treated regular

I make the floor shake, a ground hog when I′m stepping

Hard body, teach these soft niggas all a lesson

Showed love, they try to kill you on that Lauryn Hill

Now I′m cold hearted, all I got for you is weed and chills

Long time stroke down on shorty after traps meals

Light recharged, now I'm trying to dive back in them bills

Rubbing on my pockets, ain′t know how I was gone get paid

Jobs ain't wanna hire a nigga, though I had a resume

Streets don′t love nobody, but it gave a better way

Keep the mask on so it's no face, no case

Riding through my block with it on me for a sheeted bitch

400 years, nigga you think we tired of this shit

Give ′em hell on a silver platter, fuck the chatter

Came through with the K, had it spraying like a bladder

Fuck all of that talking, got my black on with the bandana

Fully loaded with this hammer

Kool-Aid with this jammer

All my niggas got bandanas, windows down hanging out the door

Let the clip tamper, turn him to a tap dancer

Goodness gracious

Goodness gracious

Goodness gracious

Goodness gracious

Shortened fuse

Storms ensued

Altered Moods

Futures bruised

We just trying to run it

Jump and overcome it

Blossom into something

Bottom bettered

Done it

We just trying to run it

Jump and overcome it

Blossom into something

Bottom bettered

Done it

When the lies get told

And gossip is birthed

Opinions are formulated with nothing confirmed

All's a sudden folks with no associations directly direct contempt

An apparent enemy that I've never met

The vines

I′m cutting all ties

Better pray and pay your tithes

I see your pride in the skies, I can peep the signs

Even if I′m blind, there ain't no breaking my stride

I′m here to thrive with so much hate to see us divide, then multiply

We ain't from the same struggle, you not my kind

When the stars align, my life will be designed to live divine

From the Northside, where it′s genocide

It's nothing I can′t survive

We the ones that revolutionize, it's a sign of the times

Shortened fuse

Storms ensued

Altered Moods

Futures bruised

We just trying to run it

Jump and overcome it

Blossom into something

Bottom bettered

Done it

We just trying to run it

Jump and overcome it

Blossom into something

Bottom bettered

Done it

When opinion is shared

And respect is conveyed

Misinterpretations happen for how one may portray

The self in moments of what's meant for dialogue to occur

Instead the Cancellations shape the image, now they unheard

To the blind

I purge with the wolves, you sheep in the herd

I put my hood on the verge, once the wheels turn

From the land of guns and butter, we let it churn

I emerge from the streets to make canvases out of words

Been a gift and a curse since the day of birth

If you don′t know my vision, your vision is blurred

To whom it may concern

Fuck what you heard, I make executive decisions while standing firm

I just sit and observe ′till the gossip disperse

Then I'm back to my perks

Shortened fuse

Storms ensued

Altered Moods

Futures bruised

We just trying to run it

Jump and overcome it

Blossom into something

Bottom bettered

Done it

We just trying to run it

Jump and overcome it

Blossom into something

Bottom bettered

Done it

When the rawness prevails

As a product of honesty

And the feelings is bruised

Of one accustomed to yes people

The type who might surround and also blanket with praise

Now your honesty considers you an asshole

For simply for sharing game

To paraphrase

I think we hit a phase, like when you giving game

They feel ashamed, instead of taking heed, they hit you with disdain

Ok refrain, you do my nigga

If you can′t check me when I'm wrong, then we ain′t crew my nigga

Word up, like never lie, look him in his eye

Especially when he talking, split the pie

If that man put in some work for what you flossing

Hang with bosses

To be a boss, losers if you want be lost

I been on my pivot, ain't a digit that gone get me off

Don′t piss me off

I'm needed like dipping sauce

Depleted, it took me long

To see that I can't be gone, here′s my presence

I take critiques like the shit′s a blessing

The way I speak cause a misconception

I slap a beat like you get the message

You rappers kidding like a adolescents

And so it's only right I draw my weapon

The way we living like it′s Armageddon

Yo, cuz you can die from the smoke like it's 911

Goodness gracious

Goodness gracious

Goodness gracious

Goodness gracious

Goodness gracious

Goodness gracious

Look

Look

When circumstances are present and all the trauma has stood

Black men and women constantly feel misunderstood

Aforementioned in a shape or form a product of hatred, systemic racism

But all of us are driven to defeat it

The drive

A freight train on an eight lane

Y′all puppies to a great dane

Switch lanes to better train

Or steady aim

City mainstay

Through the heydays and the Maydays

Only listen to my senses and mi gentes

My incentive is to thrive to the pensive

I'ma swing for the fences

Can′t defy my intentions

What's a boss to a henchman

While there's something on credentials

I was working fundamentals

With a style so essential that I grew so exponential

Time plus potential times drive evidential

Owning mind so extensive

Growing only hoping that this style is impression

Obsession verse progression

Time tested lessons and deflections add a couple more reflections

I′ve embraced the imperfections

If I do it, I′m a do it till I'm ended

That′s the way that I intended

Every line as I presented and I'm driven to the finish

Every line like it′s a mission as I spit no apprehension

Got a style you can't diminish

Shortened fuse

Storms ensued

Altered Moods

Futures bruised

We just trying to run it

Jump and overcome it

Blossom into something

Bottom bettered

Done it

We just trying to run it

Jump and overcome it

Blossom into something

Bottom bettered

Done it