1. |
Back to the Basics
03:21
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Yea don't, don't mind the air mattress
Yea, yea, yea, yea
At this very moment we in New York city with it
But I wanna take you back to my home town
Charlotte North Carolina
That city showed me that I could go anywhere
It made me wanna explore
So we gone leave from there
And go wherever you wanna go
Getting back to the basics applying my magic in a few different places
Life was moving too fast had to stop all the racing
These those late nights when I'm all alone by myself in the basement
Walter White the bass hit so amazing
Took the pictures off the floor finally
But I don't think it's safe the way the walls bout to get to shaking
If your walls could talk to me they a say I make it a tropical location
My dick a vacation
My room like a hotel or bnb
Cum so many times, literally
You don't want me to pay no Uber fee's you ain't tryna leave
Breakfast in bed fuck, Uber eats (The world is yours)
Got you like, uh ay Dios mio, body like a kilo
You can call me papi, you can call me BC, or my government name
I'ma show you, pleasure ain't pain
I can show you let me paint uh, let me do my thang
Baby boo, you sun to the rain (Rain)
Rain on my umbrella ella ay, ay
Let's get back to the basics baby
Let's get back to the basics (Let's get back)
So many places we ain't been (So many)
We gone go them places (We gone go them places)
So many things we ain't did (Yea, yea)
We gone do that baby (Yea)
Let's get back to the basics baby
Let's get back to the basics
Let's get back to the basics baby (What you know are experiencing is, k-f-s in full effect
Let's get back to the basics (Keep fall safe, like a vest)
So many places we ain't been
(If I fall, let's get back to the basics, let's get back to the basics)
We gone go them places, what you now are witnessing is)
So many things we ain't did
We gone do that baby
Let's get back to the basics baby (Keep fall safe, like a vest)
Let's get back
Ight kick it, uh
Ice, ice baby
Ice, ahhhh uh-huh
Ice, ice baby
Ice, ahhhh uh-huh
Ice, ice baby
Ice, ahhhh uh-huh
Ice, ice baby
Ice, ah ah ah
Let's get back to the basics (Basics, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go)
Let's get back to the basics
(Basics, let's go, let's go baby let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go
Let's get back, to the basics
(Basics, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go
Let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go)
Let's get back, let's get back, let's get back to the basics (Let's go baby, oh baby)
Let's get back to the basics baby (Back)
Let's get back to the basics (Back)
So many places we ain't been (Back)
We gone go them places (Back)
So many things we ain't did (Back)
We gone do that baby (Back)
Let's get back to the basics baby (Back)
Let's get back (Back)
Back
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2. |
Black Star
02:24
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(Show stopper, you a show stopper)
Hey Brandon it's (a black star)
(Charlotte stand up) I was just checking in
To make sure you were OK
You're alive and breathing and stuff
I probably ain't have to say it was (queen, queen city stand up, a black star)
But, either way still checking in (it's a lot going on)
Um, I listened to your latest EP this morning and its really good (west side, west side)
I was like "Oh my god this man Brandon, he's like an adult doing big things" (been waiting on me)
I got to bitch names Dawn I be in her crack early
She got to sister name Twilight she stay putting me in my zone (now you know)
Let me for-warn this is not one of those songs about sex, fast cars and expensive clothes
Shall I go on? (now you know)
I'm in the city that never sleep it's always lights on so it's hard to see the stars (now you know)
I wonder when I make it will I be afraid to fall?
On the flip side I see that's why some don't make it at all (now I know)
I cannot fake it, with my dreams I feel I been a bit complacent
Flirting afraid to love but don't want to see her with a nigga that's basic
That's basically anybody that's not me
I'm number uno, dos and three
A closed mouth don't get fed but you should keep your mouth closed as you eat
And when you got the rock in your hand you not supposed to get the ball stole
Some niggas got it fucked up playing the game wrong (and now they know)
I turn the radio on an I'm hearing the same songs (what?)
Love rodeo, rock slowly yea (hearing the same songs)
Is a love rodeo, rock slowly
Love rodeo, don't act like you don't know me don't do that (baby, drop, drop, drop)
Black star, you are a (what? drop, drop, drop)
Love rodeo (what?)
Love rodeo (black star, I am a, what?)
Love rodeo (wow) don't act like you don't know me, don't do that (what? drop, drop, drop, wow baby)
You will always be mine all mine (the world, and we gone always shine)
Every story gone have two sides (we gone always shine)
I am not wasting your time (we gone always shine)
You are not wasting my time (like black star yea)
You will always be mine all mine (you gone always be mine, the world)
Every story gone have two sides (you will always, what? be mine)
I am not wasting your time (wow, you will always be my)
You are not wasting my time (black star yea yea)
Wow, wow
Love rodeo (what?)
Is a love rodeo (um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um)
Yea, yea, yea
Second time at this (can I live? never called to check on the kid)
An I know it's been a, it's been a minute (drop, drop, drop, can I live? baby)
And time go by fast (drop, drop, drop) when you let it (drop, drop, drop, let me live?)
I ain't rushing it or nothing an… (drop, drop, drop, can we live?)
Ain't no telling what the future hold you know what I mean? (can I live? drop, drop, drop)
But this how I feel right now (drop, drop, drop, can I live? baby)
Can I live?
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3. |
Can I Live
03:25
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Keep fall safe uh (Keep fall safe)
Keep fall aw aw
Keep fall safe uh (Keep fall safe)
Don't let me fall aw aw aw
Can I, can I, can I live?
I just wanna live in the world
Put a kid in the world
Kid in the world, yea (Who said that?)
I don't want no bids in the world
Lead in your world
Dead in the world (Who said that?)
I don't wanna fall from the world
Gotta call from the world
Just to ball in the world (I said, ah)
I just wanna ball in the world
But the ball in the world gotta fall in the world ah
Yea, the beat telling me to chill, I don't wanna
I'm in this bitch, like Arizona's in the corner store
We all know the corner store
We all made the corner store owner more dough than construction zones
Coping beers and lotto tickets, scratch offs a make panties fall if you hit, right?
You gone get foreign whips if I hit tonight
Foreign hair on a project chick rocking foreign shit
Got express shipped from FedEx, I used to work there
So now you gotta make it clap when you hear my slow jam, don't slow down
(Don't slow down)
Just make it spin round and round
I lay tracks and I pull tracks out
I be there most nights if the head game tight
Don't need the spot light, but I want the spot light, sike
Fee-fi-fo, you smell real got shawty but it's imperative that you got pretty toes
My OG said "fuck that son it ain't like you fuck her feet"
But I'ma freak might suck yo toes gone lick yo feet (I'ma do that)
The way I rap on these beats you know I was chose, it chose me
Sleep is the cousin of death I'm sleepy
Ain't no bed in my room just a air mattress
Make 'em say "wow" like the kid who was doing back flips in elementary school
But would you stick around? When I fall?
Can I live?
I just wanna live in the world
Put a kid in the world
Kid in the world, yea
I don't want no bids in the world
Lead in your world
Dead in the world, ah yea
I don't wanna fall from the world
Gotta call from the world
Just to ball in the world, ah, ah
I just wanna ball in the world
But the ball in the world gotta fall in the world ah, ah
The beat telling me to chill
I think I'm gonna, right outside Roc Nation until the sun up
See I went there with my lil demo tryna play something
Left with an email address felt played like a dummy
Whats funny, thats enough to make any other rapper start mumbling
But i'ma hustler walk around disguised as the customer, cause fuck a fad
The second day she saw me in the same fit she got bagged
Had to brag, told her I'm from the QC where it can get like Baghdad
Shorties jump off the porch with extra weight in they backpacks
Tot techs, no text books
Hit campus for free lunch, glossed lips with a side of thighs and hips, I get it
What I don't get is niggas grilling me cause my BX fitted, one question
Why you limit yourself to one borough in this big city?
I ain't even from here but I want my shit jumping out of every terrace window, so fuck With me
If you real, realize we can all get this shmoney
Last I heard it's plenty of it
Realize we can all get this shmoney
Last I heard it's plenty of it
I just wanna live in the world
Put a kid in the world
Kid in the world, yea
I don't want no bids in the world
Lead in your world
Dead in the world, ah yea
I don't wanna fall from the world
Gotta call from the world
Just to ball in the world, ah, ah
I just wanna ball in the world
But the ball in the world gotta fall in the world ah, ah
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4. |
Different Kind of King
01:50
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Pure enough
To keep it real with yourself when you in the mirror bruh
Or when you're all alone, girl are you sure enough
Keep it G is the key and that is the cure for us
You said you had enough
Are you
I'ma different kind of king
Wanna show you that side
I'ma different kind of king
If you, just give me the time
I'll be a different kind of king
I'm not perfect but for you I try
I'll be a different kind of king
Swallow my pride
Different kind of king
Tell you the truth, and never no lie
I'ma different kind of king (uh-huh uh-huh)
I'ma different kind of king (yea, yea, yea)
I'ma different kind of king
Know most make believe, speak fantasies
Don't see what I see
Won't treat you how I treat you
They, only want one thing
I been down that road
Came back here for love
Pray that time not gone
Pray that you still want
Pray that you still want
A different kind of king
Different kind of king
Pray that time not gone
Pray that you still want a-
A Different kind of king
Pure enough
To keep it real with yourself when you in the mirror bruh
Or when you're all alone girl are you sure enough
Keep it G is the key and that is the cure for us
You said you had enough
Are you?
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5. |
Gun Jam
03:26
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I pledge allegiance, not to the flag
Nor to the United States of America (America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America)
And to the um- for-
One nation, under God, in-
With liberty and justice for all?
Don't make no sense
Fuck it
Look, yea
First thing I say I
Keep fall safe that's before I leave the house on every day for any occasion
I'm falling slowly I know it
One day I'ma see my grave
Meet my maker
But lord I pray
That the gun jam in the hands of the slave master I mean racist policeman
You got to protect the Black Woman and Black Man a little more these days
You been slacking a little bit I ain't gone lie
All the angels we got I wonder why they ain't keeping us safe out here?
We need them on our side
Would dead enemies keep me safe? (Hmm)
And would i do the same thang after I'm put away? (Woah)
Momma always told us to fix our face
I just left home actually
My home girl brother just got out the hospital and he posting pics with his family (uh-Huh)
That made me smile (For Real)
Just got a gift from Chelsea
So divine
Cuzzo just hit my phone
Sorry I ain't make time
Took time off today
So I got time to write rhymes
Been growing my wings awhile
So now I'ma try and fly
If I fall it may look like a suicide I just wanted to fly that's my word besides my balls That's all I got
And shouts to my baby boo you
You held me down so when I make that ching I'ma up your account
That goes for my brother, sisters, mom and my dad as well
In the AM I take the red pill
You saying mourning still when it's a grand rising every time your eye lash bat man
I'm frugal and minimal she like "why you want to live like that man?"
First thing I say I
Keep fall safe that's before I leave the house on every day for any occasion
I'm falling slowly I know it
One day I'ma see my grave
Meet my maker
But lord I pray
That the gun jam in the hands of the slave master I mean racist police man
Pray the gun jam I'ma Black man why you want to gun me down?
I don't want to do the gun dance pray the gun jam, pray the- pray the gun jam (bow)
Hootie, hootie (click, click), hootie, hootie, hootie, hootie, hootie, hootie, hootie, hootie (Click, click, bow), hootie uh (I hope you hear me)
Hootie, hootie (click, click), hootie, hootie, hootie, hootie, hootie, hootie, hootie, hootie (Click, click, bow), hootie uh (Front to the back, can you hear me?)
First thing I say I
Keep fall safe (Left to the right side, can you hear me?) that's before I leave the house (Click, click, bow) on every day for any occasion
I'm (Click, click) falling slowly I know it (Right, left, front, back, hear me)
One day I'ma see my grave
Meet my maker
But lord I pray
That the gun jam in the hands of the slave master I mean racist policeman (can you, (Click, click) hear me?)
First thing (Click, click) I say I
Keep fall safe that's before I leave (Don't you ignore me) the house on every day for any Occasion
I'm falling (Click) slowly I know it
One day I'ma see my grave
Meet (Click) my maker
But lord I pray
That (Click) the gun jam in the hands of the slave master I mean racist (click) police (Click) man
Pray that the gun jam
In the hands (I pray that the gun jam)
Of the slave master (Too many people gone now)
Pray that the gun jam (Too many mothers crying oh)
In the hands
Of the policeman, oh
Pray that the gun jam (We won't die, we staying live, and we going live)
In their hands (Gun jam, gun jam, gun jam, lord oh)
Pray that the gun jam (Oh lord please let the gun jam)
I pray that the gun jam, in the hands, of the slave master (we won't die, head to the sky, Fist up with pride)
Nah we won't die
God by our side
Black God body look who want to play God
I pray for the gun jam
Oh I pray for the gun jam (Click, click, for the jam)
I pray for the gun jam (Click, click)
Oh I pray that the gun jam
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6. |
I Still Love Her
05:27
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Hoo
Ha-hoo
Hoo
Mira, mira ver este
Keep fall safe (yea)
Keep fall aw-aw (yea yea)
Keep fall safe (yea)
Don't let me fall aw-aw
Keep fall safe (yea)
Fall aw-aw (yea yea)
Keep it calm
Goodbye summer you will always be crazy amazing (uh)
Kids playing in hydrants chasing lights of the fireflies
I shade myself with a black hoodie every day and night
This is South Bronx one time for DJ Scott La Rock
I'm digging in the crates lately listening to the juke boxes in the Dominican spots
Yo necesito la caliente salsa
You got a man but I can't help to notice the way you bachata (I can't help myself)
I'm here to take over Manhattan, rapping
Yea I'm from the south most people hear it in my accent
But ain't no relaxing only mad maxing I'm a magnet when it comes to sticking to my passions that I'm perusing
My girl probably feel that I love this music shit more (she probably feel that)
Common told me once hip-hop is a whore (I kinda feel him)
Some say, drug, some say ah, yo I don't care what they say I been doing her raw
Fucking her face like I wanna break her jaw, word
And you still ain't heard of BC damn (damn, damn)
That just mean she don't kiss and tell
How can I be angry at that?
So I'ma just keep on lacing these tracks, yea
How can I be angry with that?
So i'ma just keep on lacing these tracks
I still love her, hip-hop, hip, hip-hop
Staring at you girl through my rearview (starring)
Now I know the answer to the question do dreams come true
Starring at you girl through my rearview (fall aw-aw)
Starring at you girl through my rearview
Go on baby scream to god pray he hear you
I can feel my heart beating fast its do or die
Getting high watching time fly
Still starring at you girl through my rearview (starring)
I say, now I know the answer to the question do dreams come true
Still starring at you girl through my rearview (fall aw-aw)
You got me starring at you girl through my rearview
Go on baby scream to god pray he hear you
I can feel my heart beating fast it's do or die
Getting high watching time fly (fall aw-aw)
Staring at you girl through my rearview (starring)
Now i know the answer to the question do dreams come true
Starring at you girl through my rearview (oh yea)
Got me starring at you girl through my rearview
Go on baby scream to god pray he hear you
I can feel my heart beating fast it's do or die (keep fall safe)
Getting high watching time fly (keep fall aw-aw)
If we do it out of love is it still sinning?
Found my way, before that, uh paid attention
It's like this, an like that, and like this an uh
One thing about me I'ma get it, ay
At all day, ay, at it all night, ah-uh
If we do it, out of love, is it sinning?
Best believe I'ma find my way, ay-ayyy
They say all good things, take a matter of time
So I push it to the limit beyond the sky
Pray I get out, what I put in it
Long nights broke spending money I didn't have
I'ma tenant, tired of renting
Refunds checks was my stimulus
I bought a mic tryna get in the ears of women who wasn't tryna hear me
Before I had a little spot light
Rocking every open mic that i could find
A little ganja made me noid it never, eased my mind
My dad told me to chase my dreams but don't forget about God
An I ain't even gone lie I been missing like, all my prayers lately
Dad moved to the DR an got remarried
Found out through WhatsApp from his new old lady
This nigga could have a whole nother family and we wouldn't even know it
Right now the incense burning crazy it's hard to ignore it
The tears be on the brim of my eyes but rarely do I show em
Last night I didn't sleep a lick
Was on the phone with my girl when I see her she getting licked
She know I'm bout to hit a lick, on this world
Diamonds and pearls mean everything until we leave from the flesh
Curl up and die sometimes life a make you wanna do that
Runaway and hide, in the drums
When I find a beat I like its like finding a fine ass nun who let me quake
And it happen more often than you thank
Y'all do not think
I'm tryna free us I give no fucks about flowers and the thanks
Whats a shark in a tank? and what's a hawk in a cage?
Before the ola's came the goodbyes now after the goodbyes its tears in they eyes (hoo-hoo-hoo)
Y'all do not think
Fuck yo thanks
They say all good things, take a matter of time
So I push it to the limit beyond the sky
Pray I get out, what I put in it
Long nights broke spending money I didn't have
I'ma tenant, tired of renting
Refunds checks was my stimulus
I bought a mic
Tryna get in the ears of women who wasn't tryna hear me before I had a little spot light
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7. |
Inshallah
02:49
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Everybody keep telling you everything gone be alright
I can see in ya eyes that you looking for love, baby am I right?
Everybody keep telling you everything gone be alright
Yea I got what you want, and you can leave it, but why fight?
The consultations align with our conversation
You don't believe in the stars that's against Allah
You like my scent? Mija that's Prada
Bad mon baba have you cum'n like the po-lice
I need my slice need my portion from the bread to the rice
Give you the cob no corn just maybe you can birth my first born
That's more life, you the storms eye, I'm off my last flight
Just touched down ready to stay grounded now
I'm the captain, there's only one I, so it's we now
Yes, yes y'all, inshallah
This that delete every cuero from the call log
Oh yes, yes y'all, chicks vexed off
When I pull up baby put the- (Woah, woah)
Yes, yes, y'all, inshallah
This that delete every cuero from the call log
Oh yes, yes y'all, chicks vexed off
When I get home baby take the- off
Everybody keep telling you everything gone be alright (it's gone be alright)
I can see in ya eyes that you looking for love, baby am I right? (tell me that I'm right)
Everybody keep telling you everything gone be alright
Yea I got what you want, and you can leave it, but why fight?
Crazy world we live in
When you brave, well brave enough you know, to look within and change you, you crazy enough to change this shit around us
It take the whole
All, cause all things do work together for the good
But it take the whole
What you gone do without each other, well we gone do without each other? Please Excuse me
The fuck are we gone do without each other?
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8. |
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BC talk about the legacy uh, that you're working to leave
Give us a little of that, would you please?
Yankee hat to the back, uh
Where do I fit in this new era of rap?
BC The Poor Poet give you that Bobby Womack
The flood destroyed (wow) all my vinyl's, check
Think you lonely now? I wrote this at six AM
On a Monday
Hope you play it when it's a traffic jam
Most times it's really not
It's all in our minds
I drive slow homie, well, most of the times
Will I make it alive? In the hands of God
Still copping with my daemons
New flows unfamiliar area codes most weekends
Baby tell me what you thinking
Hope you peeped the playlist I sent you
Dead Prez "Mind Sex"
The Roots "You Got Me"
Yea, stuff like that
Turned the radio on, then turned it right back off
But I might play some Puma, TJ and FredTheGxd
Plus anything Enoirmas records is where it's at
Look I'm usually alone, but I'm always with the set
And I'm not saying I'm gone change the world
But I will spark a brain to change the world
An after I leave the here and now
I'm still with em, still with in
The marathon continues on my Nipsey shhh
Kumbaya
On my Nipsey shhh
Kumbaya
After I leave the here and now
I'm still with you, look with in
The marathon continues on my Nipsey shhh
Kumbaya (yea)
On my Nipsey shhh
Kumbaya
I know, I know, I know
I know, I, I know
I know, I know, I know
I know an I overstand too
I know, I know, I know
I know I, I know
I know, I know, I know
I know an I overstand you
Can't you hear yo favorite rapper on this one? (can you hear me?)
If I'm not your favorite rapper, well I'm fixing to be (yea)
We mixing drinks, dark and light (dark and light)
They may really despise you but they gone follow, comment, like uh
I know, I know, I know it make (I know) no sense that it got so cold (I know)
Hoodies in the summer time federales on patrol (wow)
I could be next one gone (why?)
Would you then share my songs? Would you then dial my phone? uh
I know, I know yea (I know), I know how it go uh
BB's to the waves, yea, waves to the fro, uh
To and fro back and forth sixteens and it's dope
Antidote crack my window fresh air is the new coke (what?)
If I choke, on the mic, when it's my time to go
Does it mean, I won't achieve, everything I've been working towards?
Said "Velli" was my last spin, then I went back in
They said I wouldn't leave you, they predicted it
And I'm not saying I'm gone change the world
But I will spark a brain to change the world (can you hear me?)
An after I leave the here and now
I'm still with em, still with in
The marathon continues on my Nipsey shhh
Kumbaya
On my Nipsey shhh
Kumbaya
After I leave the here and now
I'm still with you, look with in
The marathon continues on my Nipsey shhh
Kumbaya (yea)
On my nipsey shhh
Kumbaya
I know, I know, I know
I know, I, I know
I know, I know, I know
I know an I overstand too
I know, I know, I know
I know I, I know
I know, I know, I know
I know an I overstand you
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9. |
Maktub (Feat. Leo)
05:27
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(Wow) Ryan told me let the beat breath
Wow
Spit that prayer hand emoji RIP Mac and Kobe
Becoming the highest version of myself I believe that's heaven
My debut is every song the yo is my second home
An ain't gone be no flip flopping we not fish in sand
My shortie got clear skin, but always act-needy
An I won't be the thanksgiving for the black Friday
Only like holidays uh, if I get to see my fam
Baby let's bring vegan food to my aunt crib we gone turn everybody a fan (Cool like That)
On the other hand, we should all respect each other's religion as long as it don't Contradict
Homie politick with fins fuck the laws of the land pour up a fifth
Is yo flag on the right or the left?
Whitie like, "Guess we gone sit back and let em destroy they self"
It gets deep uh, focus, focus hocus pocas
I want, more than the average joker silent function totter
I'm not tryna be the front row brokest closest uh
Shared clothes with my bro around the time hoes started back wearing chokers
Seven oh fo stand up, stand up
Niggas fly I mean try and ride (Let me hear the North side)
Like they from this side of town (Now let me hear the South side)
I apply pressure then put white diamonds all through her mouth (East side)
It was written clear as day I ain't take time to read it (Let me hear the West side, East Side)
Would have bit like a snake it was right there in my face I ain't take time to see it (North Side, South side stand up)
Now it's time, now it's time
It's our time tell them niggas we gon come and take it all
They can't do a fucking thing about it they ain't got the gaul
When my niggas get to bussing at you who you gonna call?
I remember cracking shorty in the stall at the mall
I make music you can vibe to (Vibe to)
Something you can put on in the car and you can ride to
Told her where I'm going and she asked me can she slide to
Don't worry about your man this tint is dark so it can hide you (Hide you)
Niggas know me really cause I do the most
I keep a heater just in case I need to burn some toast
I never let a pussy nigga ever get too close
This shit get ugly fuckin with me nah this shit get gross
I been looking for peace for eternity
Imagine my reaction when I found out the paternity
I can feel it all the heartbreak slowly started turning me
heartless nigga cause your problems really not concerning me (Concerning me)
And that concludes your PSA for the day
Now BC I'm sure you have friends but typically we, we find that you're alone and by Yourself
Speak on that, would you?
If you love yourself then you don't need anyone
If you love yourself then you don't need no one (Nobody)
If you love yourself then you don't need (I don't need no body)
If you love yourself
That is lie (Huh?)
A good friend mine use to tell me bout all the times she would try (You would try)
I would talk to her (we would talk) fast forward
I'm falling (Nah, I'm good, I'm good, what make you ask that? Falling, nah I'm good)
We divided (Tryna gain and maintain, stay sane, divided, no I can't complain about Nothing)
I'm falling (We good, we good, falling)
We divided (Why you say that? nah this just how I look, divided, I'm good, I'm good)
Falling
As the late 2Pac would put it
Is there a heaven for a G? BC how do you feel about- how do you answer that Question?
Ehh say, say you took my life and
They thought you were a G an my (Wow) homie took your life and, and you an I (Wow) Would be in the same place and probably turn it to hell because we (Wow) still Enemies,Right?
What about the here and (wow) now? Could we not, make that heaven? (How?)
Up before sun rise, hmmmm (Pray when I wake up)
Race with the sun set, hmmmm
I know life not fair for us, hmmmm (Hear me)
We did not chose this, hmmmm (Save us)
Pressure, hmmmn (If I die fore I wake up)
Make diamond, hmmmm
I can't change the word I can change myself (Take me, bless up)
I pray we ain't the worms for the early birds
Remember reading at night hearing shots then the ghetto birds
Two-eight-two-oh-eight not the suburbs
City in my heart I don't own no land but got a few scars shed, blood on the land
Still tryna figure out why I wanted to (Well) stack my hands and not the dollar like my father wisdom offered
Sometimes I preach and don't be walking
Don't let your environment (Well) become you, pray for the youth
Lost my cool and wanted to take it out on ol' dude
My brother told me to chill, told me to think
How (well) his mom let me stay at the crib, be the bigger man and keep it real
Homie pulled up to my momma crib with fear in his eyes but he was totting a Mac-10
Made me question what a man is, his mom was with em
Let me paint to you this picture
She ain't want her son to be no bitch
So and so in the whip we exchanged a few words then they dipped
But the whole situation could have went left
When you don't have anything, you want respect
When you give everything you have, you want the credit
Cake the root of all evil a lil Debbie
Niggas is after clout so they rap about anything these days
I spit crack, having 'em running back to free base
Wow, wow, yea there, there you have it folks
He, summed it up there, you answered my questions
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10. |
Neva Hurt Again
02:14
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Red light stop green light mean go
Walk into the spot is a fashion show
Fresh from yo hair to yo heels, white nails
Still gotta sex appeal when the cleavage don't spill
Fashion Nova
Flashy but chill
Would cause a genocide if looks could kill
Make a house boy, uh wanna get in the feel
It's more to you then looks know you been in yo books
Focusing on yo career, minding yo business little entrepreneur
Eyes don't show no fear although some nights there been many of tears
Looking in your mirror saying you'll neva hurt again (Hurt again)
Neva hurt again
Neva, neva, hurt again
Neva, neva, neva hurt again
Neva, neva, neva, neva hurt again
Neva, neva, neva hurt again
Neva, neva, neva, neva hurt again
Red light stop green light mean go
What you been through nobody don't know
Bad energy never get close
After work make a toast cause you touching all goals, making new ones in the process
You can rock the sneaks with the dress, and the pumps with jeans
Ain't even trying to stunt, got yo foot on they neck
Never pressed
Get a lil stressed, but know how to deal with that, uh
Wearing em out, when you stepping out
Fresh to death like the mint in yo mouth
Do yo thang baby girl, baby girl do yo thang
Looking in the mirror saying that you'll never hurt again
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Never get hurt again
Never again
Never again
Never again
Never
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Never get hurt again
Never again
Never again
Never again
Never again
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11. |
Salat
04:42
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Let's slow dance to yo favorite songs
The night is young old jams playing in my home
You a star no Patrick but shout out to my homes
Especially Swvnn, this beat fire, let's keep it going
Ma I remember when you was at my spot jotting in yo journal listening to yo top five (Top five)
Told me I was on yo list
Pretty sure it was Cole, Drake, Larry June, me and Spitta
By the time you hear this, it be, early Yesvember
Wrote this verse on October first twenty-twenty just like my vision
Tell all the black kids we must remember red lights didn't bring cheer to us, last December
Odd enough they still aiming to kill us see I try to live past that
This for the five boroughs took the tri-state tolls
Mind rich but my pockets was mad low at the time
So much was on my mind, Jasmine had Irv Gotti, bumping my last album
Hailey told me Matt from The Internet was feeling Love Rodeo
At peace with myself knowing, we ain't sell our soul
Much love to the kids, thats playing my songs, it touch my heart, to hear you sing along
Let's keep it going I pray to keep fall safe, be the light in the dark like Morris Jenkins in Crawl spaces
From the kids to brothers thats locked down doing them bids from pleading fifths Bleeding fist and buss'n heads
What they dread to see is us up an ahead
Call em locks not dreads cause we overstand, the powers lies in the real hue-man
My key is my pen shackles within get loosened up like years of love when I'm spitting Damn
Shift and dance can't stand still won't forever pretend
Yea, keep fall safe sisters an akhi
Selah speak on that daily, uh (Lets slow dance, lets slow dance)
Let's slow dance to yo favorite songs
The night is young old jams playing in my home
You a star no Patrick but shout out to my homes
Especially Swvnn, this beat fire, let's keep it going (Lets, slow, dance)
Let's slow dance to yo favorite songs (Lets slow dance, lets slow dance)
The night is young old jams playing in my home
You a star no Patrick but shout out to my homes
Especially Swvnn, this beat fire, let's keep it going (Lets, slow, dance)
Let's keep it going I'm back and forth did it without applauds plus no awards
A black boy momma wanted us playing cords of course we took another course
No remorse still moving forward with force seeing my face in the source
Maybe in Christian Dior, I ain't playing like world of war, craft you can't ignore
You like my cool but I ain't Jordan, baby keep fall safe, but still enjoy it, uhhh
So let's slow dance
Let's slow dance
Let's slow dance to yo, to yo favorite song
Let's slow dance
Let's slow dance, uh-uh
Let's slow dance
Let's slow dance
Let's slow dance
To yo, to yo favorite song
Let's slow dance
Let's keep it going, another chipped tooth
Life gave me lemons I made first aid just for you, all for you
And you know it's the truth uh
Made ears perk up, before the crowds showed up
First mic I got was from my dad never told 'em I wanted to rap
Somethings are just inevitable
Gotta break the soil for da flower to grow
We all reap what we sow
Last verse wanted to slow it down just a little bit
She tell me to smile it's just little crooked
Was looking down a little shy but never no pussy
This that, I'll never drink again but son last night was a movie
If the beat stopped I'll still be grooving
It plays in my head
Over and over and over again
Brought my favorite record plus ten that's eleven every song be a hit
And no I can't really dance so first let me grab myself a beer, baby girl (Lets slow dance, Lets slow dance)
Let's slow dance to yo favorite songs
The night is young old jams playing in my home
You a star no Patrick but shout out to my homes
Especially Swvnn, this beat fire, let's keep it going (Lets, slow, dance)
Let's slow dance to yo favorite songs (Lets slow dance, lets slow dance)
The night is young old jams playing in my home
You a star no Patrick but shout out to my homes
Especially Swvnn, this beat fire, let's keep it going (Lets, slow, dance)
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12. |
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Autumn, autumn, autumn time (um-hm)
Let the leaves fall, fall, fall down (um-hm)
Autumn, autumn, autumn time (um-hm)
This is for everyone with sticky notes on the mirror (everybody, need somebody)
Reading it every day before going somewhere (k-f-s, everybody)
That sound like you? (need somebody, um-hm, um-hm, keep fall safe, keep fall)
This is for you
This is the sticky note I keep on my mirror
Want you to use Windex so you can see yourself clearer
Know your thoughts sometimes running wild with fear, comparing yourself to them feelings of being inferior
The voice in your head don't match what's in the mirror
What I see is beauty, what I see is pure
Know it's a blessing for you to be here
After all you been put through over these past years
After all that you been through to get right here
This is the sticky note I keep on my mirror
I know you don't hear it enough but you are perfectly perfect
Don't know if you realize it but you do have a purpose
Everything you dream of know you truly deserve it
Go get it, yes you a goal getter
In the mirror putting makeup on
You do it for yourself
Know you beautiful without it
Bad bitch contest your name on the ballot
Bad bitch contest your name won that ballot
This is the sticky note I keep on my mirror
Going through adversity so you went and cut your hair, big chop
Probably want to chop someone up instead
Don't let it go there but its ok to feel that way
I apologize for whomever playing them games
Hate can be love and some people mistake love as hate
Do you boo boo, do you ok
Like "Cool Runnings" you slay
Bossing up is something you do everyday
This is the sticky note I keep on my mirror
Skin care alone time and you ain't think you could find so much peace in being alone
Hard for your friends to get you to leave your home
Hard for you to agree with your parents when they say you wrong because you grown
If someone come at you sideways you put down your foot walk in and set the tone
Walk in and take the throne
Been getting more spiritual
More tats more piercings too
Writing in your journal how you gone start your business soon (business soon)
This is the sticky note I keep on my mirror
Keep fall safe (uchi-uchi keep fall)
This is the sticky note I keep on my mirror
This is the sticky note that you keep on your mirror (keep fall safe, uchi-uchi keep fall aw-aw)
This is the sticky note I keep on my mirror (keep fall safe)
This is the sticky note that you keep on your mirror
This is the sticky note I keep on my mirror
And just as the fall has so many stages and phases (uh-huh, uh-huh)
It's warm at first (uh-huh, uh-huh)
An then the colors of the leaves change (uh-huh, uh-huh)
An, then the trees shed their leaves
An, then it gets cold (uh-huh.uh-huh)
An, I just want you to know that-
It's perfectly fine to go through those phases and those changes (uh-huh, uh-huh)
An, just embrace it (uh-huh, uh-huh)
An, remember that (uh-huh, uh-huh)
You beautiful (keep fall aw-aw)
Keep fall
In the, in the beginning we fall
In the, in the, in the ending we fall
An a, an again we fall aw-aw
We fall
In the, in beginning we fall
In the, in the ending we fall
An a, an again we fall aw-aw
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13. |
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Yea, ok
Hm, now I know
Swords, swords
Gotta know (Gotta know)
When you playing with fire
Yea, look
If I could carry you to the finish line would you sympathize and see that I'm tired?
Wonder if my parents had thoughts like that?
They the reason I got where I am
Every trail and tribulation read revelation, King James version
Skip out on churches these days, guess you can't say that I'm chicken
My girl a Guyarican version of Hale Barry
Don't wanna step out on you
Rather step with you
Ain't know my big sister was my step sister until I got to, school
Never believed Santa was true never got a present on Christmas
Stayed back on most class trips
Wore the same pair of kicks the whole year fourth grade, got alopecia had to get a shot In my head
Ain't gone lie was afraid and screamed like a, bitch
Girls be like "it's ok to cry" but off the internet they gone look at you like a lil bitch
Most shit just sound good, my shit got substance plus it sound good
Garbage get spins so don't believe the hype or the numbers kid
Baby girl why you acting so chill I know you wanna, ahhhh (Say ahh)
Every single time
Go ahead and let it out
Gone and let yo guard down ain't gone lie I been missing
Now you got my heart attention
Listen, can't you hear it?
Now I know (now I know)
That I'm dealing with fire
I'm the goat
You the green pasture
God I know
That I'm dealing with fire
I'ma goat
And you my green pasture
Umm I don't know
This is like uh, one of those times where it's like you know, when you hear an album and You're like "oh its good, I like it"
And then you revisit it later and you're like "you know what, I really like this song"
And that's like your go to song
And so like, that's the first song you always pick
So you usually always go to listen to that song
But then one day you're just like "ehh let me put some music on, let me just play this Shit, because I know I'm hear my song regardless, but let me just play this shit, Whatever"
But then you hear another song you're like "wait, hol' up, hol' up, hol' up, rewind let's Start it over, that is a good song, why have I never noticed it"?
And you never noticed it because you're too busy paying attention to that one song that You really fucking liked
Even though you liked the whole album
You start picking favorites and shit
I be picking favorites and shit ha ha ha ha
Break it down
God I know (Let 'em know)
This is fire
Ay yo
The beat got me in a zone, I'm here thinking bout the span of my life, and going through this shit mostly alone
Emotional intelligence I had to learn it on my own, The side affects left me Anger prone
Ego inflamed, steroids like prednisone,
The pride inside kept me from growing, when I should have been making strides
Do the shadow work and analyze, I write a rhyme, vandalize
This ill hand style of mine, always forever be
It's ill how b4 I write it down it be like telepathy
Tongue fire sword weaponry and all other sorts of devilry
Balance the dark with the light, shed all the weight of this world but still hold on to all of The insights
I'll be hell'a dense, light, but so small, I'm still able to travel the cosmos on, to the next Ion
Word is bond (Word is bond)
Gotta know
This is fire
Dealing with fire
Betta know
This is fire
Yea
You know how we do
We link up
Build and destroy, only to build better
Niggas bring yo sweaters it's about to get cold
Uh, uh, uh
Mi corazón, corazón (Fire)
Pues eso en mi carazón (So cold it's fire)
My heart, my heart, I put that on my heart (Set this thang on fire, ah, ah, ah, lado este)
Mi corazón, corazón
Pues eso en mi carazón (Sword of fire, lado oeste)
My heart, my heart, baby I put that on my heart (Set this thang on fire, ah, ah, ah)
Mi corazón, azón (Wow)
Pues eso en mi carazón (Ah, ah, ah, ah)
My heart, my heart, I put that on my heart (Ah, ah, ah, lado oeste)
Mi corazón, azón
Pues eso en mi carazón (Lado este, set this on fire)
My heart (On fire)
I put that on my heart
Mi corazón, azón
Pues eso en mi carazón
My heart, my heart baby I put that on my heart
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14. |
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Wow
At times I felt my lowest, when the highs came
Two girls with me right now I'm solo, that's a double date
She said "BC you different you actually hearing every word we say"
She say her father Italian and her mom from Asia
She got a job in the city I tell her to stack the paper
Don't worry about fake friends and people that love hating
In school praying on graduations dreaming on vacation to Greece
You heard they had one of the best beaches
i heard that mistakes are our best teachers
My mom told me "boy if you move you still gotta take yourself with you"
Man that hit (uh) deeper
I'ma rock my north face when its freezing
A pretty face only make you half decent
I know there's more behind those windows girl let me see it
Told her let's do it and she brought a friend
Ryan told me to take my time with the album so I went back in uh (Word)
Real friend (Wow)
Man I then lost some real friends (Yea, uh, yea, uh, yea, uh)
If I pull up drop top in my home town would you let me be there?
(If I pulled up, would you let me be there?)
If I condo downtown an I copped you a flat would I be your man?
(Yea, yea, you could be my man)
If I had it all (if I had it all, if I had it-) if I toured the world would you love me then?
(Yea, yea, I might love you then)
Say if I had it all if I (if I had it all, if I had it all)
Toured the world would you love me then? (be your friend, wow)
She tell me she just got out of a quote unquote relationship came through
And made it shake on loop (made it shake on loop)
Have em lap up in the coup that's what I like the do
Two question marks make a heart uh, baby that's true
In yo past I know you been through a lot I say, I say, I
(What goes around always comes around my igga)
I say, I say, I
I say, I say I got it, uh (you got it)
If I pull up drop top in my home town would you let me be there?
(If I pulled up, cause I got it, would you let me be there?)
If I condo downtown (if I, If I blew up) an I copped you a flat would I be your man
(If I blew up, you could be a man, cause I got it)
If I (if I had it all, if I had it) had it all if I toured the world would you love me then?
(Would you? would you? I might love you then, cause I got it)
Say if I had it all if I toured the world would you love me then?
Times I felt my lowest, when the highs came
Two girls with me right now I'm solo, that's a double date
Two question marks make a heart
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15. |
Uncle Sam
02:14
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Nephew, it's your uncle calling
Don't think we've met face to face before but we go way, way back
You starting to grow yo hair out again I remember when rocked one of those, one of Those, what you call those caps?
But never mind that, I, that's not why I'm calling
Know you tryna get into real-estate, you got assets in two places, you got the LLC too?
Making that racket y'all call music
Making a lil money yoooou ha ha ha
More bread then insta followers lord almighty good gracious congratulations
Look here son, I been in yo corner the whole time patiently wait, I mean cheering you On
Now that you kinda on
You can, you can help me out a little bit more
Can't hit the bank an withdrawals, hit the bank an withdrawal without being conscious to What's owed
You know it's not what yo country can do for you
It's what you can do for your country
Keep that in mind boy, keep that in mind
I don't know, I don't wanna have to, you know
But, but yea it's yo uncle man have a good Sunday
Tell yo momma I said hey
Twenty-four hours later
Hm, I know you thought that I was gone but look I made it back
Look here I am, was depressed but see I found my way
I'm here to say that through the dark is a brighter day, ay
Sick like s-y-Philis and beat goes on an on as I whisper motivational things in yo ear While in your whiskers
Put the whisky down but my woman I'll serve her with the tip, see (With the tip)
This that, opposite of toxic masculinity
BC energy got her yelling "BC enter me" but I don't buss I just leave then busta rhyme (Ha)
Dr-dread is my enemy, fa-fa-failure is the inner me, pr-pride is the end of me
Uncle Sam keep offending me, but he got nothing on my trinity (Ha ha)
Tryna black out my eyes but, BC be seeing still (20/10)
BC raps got sex appeal without sex and drugs and guns and thugs hm (you ain't a Thug?)
That's a sexy sell
An, if they try to Wesley Snipe you before forty-five (what you gone do son?) I'm
(Censor Beep, angry crowd shouting)
But yo, but look, look, but maybe that will teach someone out there a lesson
But who am I to say this and that and stress the fact when you only see me as someone Who sing and dance and dunk basketballs and stiff arm linebackers and you feel Attacked?
Another number in your system
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16. |
What Would You Do?
04:31
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Na, na, na, na, na don't change
Na, na, na, na, na don't change
How could I how can I change?
I remember they wanted to sell my image, physically (I remember that)
I was like "nah man that's not me" (facts)
When I look in the mirror I know I'm not yet who I want to be (facts)
But best believe everywhere I go I'ma bang BC (yea)
To the girl rapping along oh you want to bang BC?
I mean you said it, you was like "I'ma bang BC" (hmm ha ha)
Well shortie let me think
I got a girl back at home would you keep it between you and me? (nah)
First thought probably not, plus you think I'm somebody who I'm probably not
Probably just like your man at home just rap a little better and plotting on a little extra guacamole (just a little bit)
Matter fact, probably wouldn't even take you to get a little chipotle (not even a little bit)
Matter fact, probably don't got as much money as you was hoping
Is a fact, I don't got none of the rapper cars plus I don't be smoking, nah shortie I don't be smoking
Be thinking bout the children in the PJ's want them to know that they chosen (for real)
And can make it out to a better life even though it's not easy yea I know it, yea I know it
See little homie every door he would open for the ladies with the groceries (YG's)
But on the TV they label him thug and they say in the class he can't focus (that's crazy)
What you can't see is the fact that the teacher don't believe (that's crazy)
In fact on career day they told little homie that ain't what he could be (damn)
And the big homie in need (big homie)
Cause he hot in the streets (hot in the streets)
Little homie won't catch heat, he indiscreet with it plus he gone make em some G's
Little homie mom in need working two jobs sometimes three just to barely get by you know rent in NYC
Since the teachers quit on him he left school for the streets (from school to the streets)
And if you quick the blame let me see you make it out of Rockaway Queens or from West trade street or any place on the map
And whole time I'm speaking on that shortie just looking at me like "what?"
She don't want to hear none of that (none of that)
And she just want to fuck, and probably raw, damn
And whole time I'm knowing the cost (I know what's up)
So she can hate on my chick, and say that niggas ain't shit (yea)
But still text me at eleven-eleven like the dick was her wish
Old me would have come through (o-t-w)
Ain't gone lie new me be thinking about it too
A whole queen at home
Plus I be trying to speak to the queens out there
Girl you're more than a body (you are)
Girl you more than a side piece
She bumping that SZA probably
Seem like the weekend hardly
Too many goodbyes and sorry's from niggas with lies and not enough time or love to know love
She say "niggas ain't shit, when I'm in the club that's the only time that, niggas show up"
And every time you step out you show out but got to think twice (uh)
Cause niggas can't control their hands and say disrespectful shit from they mouth, damn (keep fall safe, don't let us fall)
I hope this wasn't Gods plan (gods plan, I pray)
But if we all think as Gods we can, change this around (keep fall safe, let's do that, don't let us fall)
We can, change it now
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