[00:02.205] Yeah, yeah-yeah[00:09.406] Yeah[00:10.116][00:10.214] Praying they still make love in my size[00:12.425] Sober up and wipe the crust out my eyes[00:14.269] My last integrity and trust a trail of crumbs for my bride[00:16.982] Is it a return or a failure to succumb to the tide[00:19.810] When Charlotte people seen folks cherish me was such a surprise[00:22.746] They seeing something we not[00:24.077] Since doctors sliced open my stomach at five[00:26.197] More often than not at sustenance a nah before a nod[00:29.049] It's stock in the Glock[00:30.079] I'm crashing if it's eye for an eye[00:31.790] Poppa taught me a lot[00:32.731][00:33.233] Love and disrespect is all we abide[00:35.469] I had to get a check I wanted a commune[00:37.502] Either a big BM or a Benz for my mom[00:39.730] Soon popping benzos turned her grin into monsoon[00:41.882] A long June the summer after[00:43.809] We made the turn on the long route for the plunder[00:46.358] Casted in small rooms knitting heart loom spinning something tragic[00:49.385] But, love from fragments automatic just that Sumter magic[00:52.247] Bumped my cap and crack[00:53.371] For that puff a raw or pump a baddie[00:55.027] Always keep a driver by the caddie, why we lugging baggage?[00:57.759] Niggas want my status so attack me, they just hustling backwards[01:00.609] Models and bottles coming matching we prefer the black ones[01:03.623] Don't need no flashiness, the stats and graphs reveal the stature[01:06.347] Older heads sad 'bout how it happened, take 'em out to pasture[01:09.109] Niggas won't gassing me or asking my opinion last year[01:12.152] We was our only love[01:13.295] Struggle a teach you some[01:14.836] Twelfth grade I rode east with Ahmir to go and meet the plug[01:17.569] We learned we built this off belief we ain't e'en need the drugs[01:20.507] I told mom I'll trek D.C. if it'll please her[01:23.045] But degree don't seem to speak no more[01:24.572] The pain hit deeper when your people ain't in reach no more[01:27.613] 'Cause greed would feed them more[01:28.750][01:29.154] Praying they still make love in my size[01:31.101] Sober up and wipe the crust out my eyes[01:33.245] My last integrity n trust a trail of crumbs for my bride[01:35.987] Is it a return or a failure succumb to the tide[01:38.835] Money got bigger but my problems never shrunk down to size[01:41.647] They was just feeling it but then the sun had shrunk out the sky[01:44.568][01:44.671] You need my echo just to hear from me[01:49.842] But I'ma echo in your memory, yeah, yeah[01:52.859] Alright