Til death do us parchment,
we partridge to paper
Impartial to darkness,
I’m parting with passive
and stretching my patience
My pencil is heavy,
my pensive is proper
My pennies is petty,
my pockets napoleon
Picking my poison,
I’m poised and I'm steady
Pardon my guardedness,
Garvey told me to sail east
Like go home to the unknown,
where it’s all Black, like New Z
It was 9th grade on Monroe,
then 9th grade on colony
It was applications then graduation
and a flight to Philly,
I was running free
Then graduation and no money,
no job, barely on my feet
It was no music, then some music,
but not enough and no urgency
It was indigold then solo,
so low I could barely see
The silver lining or the silver surfer,
no heroes, not a single beam
Then I got focused, got closer,
hocus pocus, yeah the magic’s here
It was no toking,
it was no choking,
putting beats in the casket clearly
Nearly lost my mind, lost it all,
and lost the vision
If I’m losing, know I’ll never lose
myself or my persistence
I got everything to lose,
got everything to lose
I got everything to lose,
got everything to lose
I got everything to lose,
got everything to lose
Ain’t got shit to prove,
just got things to do
I got shit to lose and
that make me nervous
Now it's time to prove
who was really working
who was really working
Got a couple things
I’m taking to the grave (to the grave)
Got a couple things
I'm yelling to sky (to the sky)
Historic women
often misbehave (misbehave)
So Imma act a fool
until I die (til I die)
I ain’t even hit my tempo,
I just the set the pace
and make the play
All these rappers wishing
that I knew my place
and played it safe
Pray for rain, sole be metro
blooming in the valley
Of the shadows, screaming
hallowed be the heaven
in this brokenness
What's holier than happy
in this hopelessness
What’s Blacker than joking
to cover open wound
I’m swollen thinking
bout the things I had to let go
But it woulda weighed me down,
so I had to lose to let grow
I got everything to lose,
got everything to lose
I got everything to lose,
got everything to lose
I got everything to lose,
got everything to lose
Ain’t got shit to prove,
just got things to do
I got shit to lose and
that make me nervous
Now it's time to prove
who was really working
who was really working