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I caught the holy ghost, they be like holy smokes
I tend to go for broke becuz the crowd be comatose
Sleep at the other shows, all we brought was rugged flows
Stimulate your mind & shine while she touch her toes
It's all a contradiction, the flow is all depiction
Of what we really are and not so much all of the fiction
It's friction with the mission in our hearts that's sparked up
Learn from tradition, get your intuition smarts tucked
Look out for each other, if we don't then who else will
King of the mountain but it's more who got the best hill
Who take the best pills, who got the baddest bitches
Who got the most money, y'all don't think that that's a sickness
Comparison--the thief of joy, nah I think it's worse
It take your time, it take your moments and your universe
Ayo, I treat these verses somethin like they sacrament
And on stage with conceptions that's immaculate
It's just a aggregate of happenstance and hard work
This for all my rapper fans and everybody bars first
Art's a curse and gift, a sword with the double edge
Hard to celebrate til you penetrate what the trouble is
Damn, I mourn the death of my youth
But I'm thankful for the life I lead that led me to the booth

Yo, now lift me up like a spiritual
In life it really ain't always how it appear to you
Sittin over vents and breathin like a oracle
Askin all these questions that's so rhetorical

What's the nothin in the center worth
And when you pen a verse think of all them friends they ain't never heard
I ain't the only one that ain't a phony one
Ayo we recognize real when you show us one
Now feel the force, blast shield up like it's Obi Wan
I'm rockin favors til I'm famous then y'all owe me one
It's been a minute but they fightin to the finish
Our country ain't Finnish, it's just run by a bunch a bitches
Yo lets not diminish what these leaders all accomplish
Not a damn thing, they just stifle all the progress
All y'all do is fan hate, with all your hand shakes
Tryna divide us over fuckin simple mask mandates
Fuck the division, I been tryna find community
But now we isolatin just to stock immunity
And damn, I ain't even met my niece yet
But seein her lookin in my sister's eyes bring peace back
Sweet stacks of memories that I could sift through
But all the pain remain and then what's left to lift you
The light we see, it gon change thru the years slow
But these days, I'm stayin thankful for the tears tho
Yeah, I'm stayin thankful for the tears tho
But these days, I'm stayin thankful for the tears tho

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from Must Be The D​.​R​.​U​.​G​.​S., released May 13, 2022

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