Self Love
[Part I]
[Intro]
(Just because I love you) Yeah, yeah
(Just because I love you) Ayy
[Verse 1]
Peel in my second whip
Stealing, putting second hand kills in my residence
Healed all my brethren with a seal, we can't let you in
Medicine
I put the effort in to still burn that effigy
Odorous, I'm sober, just as lil' as they letting me
Mama, wipe your tears, I'm fighting titans, can't invite you here
Poetic license veering from the mic, my chest too tight to steer
Chess lessons, bloodletting, flood when the night is clear
I ain't give a fuck 'til my lungs had to fight for air
Glaring, staring numb, therapist had a light to spare
Snatched me by the eye, said I'ma fight whether I like or not
And she told me reasons why, but that's the private part
Burnt the midnight lighter
Killed the drive in me to tie the knot
My game stop, but if I name-dropped you, you still got my heart
Driving off
Squeezing off the E-brake
These days, I can't talk to God just for my knees' sake
Long conversations to be had
Wrong places, wrong times, and strong patience I must add
Soul weighted, don't mistake expatiations for some sadness
Strong face, a long race, I'm unafraid to come in last
Quarter tank and ounce of gas and I'm driving
And it's just because I (Love you)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah (Just because I love you)
[Verse 2]
Look, I'm back at it, Glad bags and flatbacks ,a packrat
A crass habit crash flashing, scratch that, I'm past rapping
I'ma show off in a scar competition
Flaunting close calls when you cook, you can't regress back to the store-bought
I hope you keepin' me in mind, I hope you shakin'
I hope you still analyzin' hard as I made you
As hard as I make it love that I'm armed with broad and it's brazen
Arguing with mom 'cause I'm always gone when I stay here
Yeah, she said, "It's just because I love you
That I see you out here poisoning yourself and want it for you
And I love you better than I love myself, my fruit is spoiled
And it's not a game, I put it in your name, I kinda told you"
And I nodded, I took it to the bank and I deposit
And I dropped it, I looked into the mirror said, "Omavi
You coarser and you closer to the rhythm that's inside
And I warped you in the interest of design
It's just because I love you"
[Interlude]
(Just because I love you)
(Just because I love you)
(Don't go breaking my heart)
(Just because I love you)
(Just because I love you)
(Don't go breaking my heart)
Ayy, ayy (That I will be true)
(That I will be true) Ayy
[Part II]
[Verse 3]
Clasp the windows to my soul
Smoke thicken, grab my mental by the throat
Mind sifting, tides shift, it's still cement around my toes
Saran wrap around my pack, I can't trust get hand to hand
Served with a hand behind my back
They prayed for us
Ain't heard the answer but my glance is in the stash
It's growing handsome by the stack, I self-aggrandized in the past
But now the sun talking
Not sure of where I'm going, but I'm blunt-walking in life
Or in this hood, so keep a look for 911 callers
I fund loss 'cause I'm from loss
If you gut me, then no love lost
You spun me into crumbles, fingers numbing from the blood loss
I've endured
The moral of my story is I'm impure
The horror in my story is I've been through it and I still do it
And my pencil is in earnest
The difference 'tween you hearing the new records from my service
The medicine I'm burning turned my breath into a furnace
Whole face hot
Shoulders hold weight 'til I break pace and can't stop
So, baby, I could change your life if you let me
Tryna eat, ain't really crave a bite since gained insight from Desi
So I stay inside away from light
Hoping that your prayers reach
Loathing that I can't breathe
Croaking when I can't speak
Was open with my grand scheme
You was either with me or in my way, plow through standees
We sprouting, now we plant seeds
You plant love, love will grow
You plant fear, fear will grow
If you planted me, then me would grow
But I was branded negro
I got slighted before, relegated to pre-show
I started with wine, then to the clear, then to the Nino
And then to Everclear and never steering without pre-rolls
And I just had the presets to preceptor me, bro
I bleed presence and preach lessons, all for free, too
And I offer free smoke to any nigga behind a #MeToo
'Cause to my niggas, we ain't free until she free, too
And tell my sisters, we ain't free until they free, too, yeah
[Outro]
Ayy, to my niggas, we ain't free until she free, too
And tell my sisters, we ain't free until they free, too
Ayy, to my niggas, we ain't free until she free, too
'Til they free, too
(That I will be true)
(That I will be true)
(That I will be—)