{intro: nipsey hussle}
The definition of being a man
That's a long one
But i think what it boils down to is just um…
Being thorough
And um…
You know i read in the bible
That women and children can be careless
You know what i mean
Men can't be careless
So i think being thorough and um
Whatever the opposite of carelessness is
Defines what being a man is
At the core
Streams
What you know about us? (uh)
{verse one: six the don}
Insane in my membrane
I’m off my rocker
Need to shock my chakras
My sister goes to hofstra
I wish i went to college
I could of been a doctor
The way i chop rocks up
What you know about us?!
On my sons momma
We flourished in the drama
Sinning from the start up
But ni**a god got us
Now i’m a father
You gotta think farther
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fu*k the gossip
I’ll tell you all about her
My last girl missed the target
ni**a i’m a marksman
fu*k all the nonsense
Peep all the progress
That i got in progress
fu*k you know about us?!
Too busy slinging o’s
To shoot a video
And have my face all in it
Nah, i never did it
Imagine hustling for whips
Just to limo tint them
So the boys can’t
See who’s sunk up in them
ni**a
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Ignorance is bliss
Thought i was living
Half my crew is dead
The other half the was in prison
I
Escaped the system
Shots skinned him
fu*k algorithms
I swear i could feel the world spinning
ni**a
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When in doubt
Kill the doubters
May the strongest one in the room
Be the loudest
Jewelry shouting
They gon’ whisper about us anyway
Might as well
Go and take their power
ni**a
fu*k you know about us?!
You let the news tell it
We in a noose fellas
Whats a cool sentence
Without a few felons?
That’s how they do fellas
That’s how these fools dead us
We got write the ending
fu*k you know about us?!
I say, let there be light
Means the darkness is...
Is the essence in
Which all is started
So
Let’s go start sh*t
Let’s tear apart sh*t
To gain knowledge
We must go retarded
fu*k it
What you know about us?!
Uh
What you know about us?
Uh
{verse two: atm}
Who i am is rather complicated
And why’s that?
What i do is a different conversation
Besides that
I’m a man in a timeless matrix
A big heart, a big chip
I speak soft
And carry a big stick
A brooklyn mind
With a queens heart
And bronx gat
I’m the pirate manifest
I’m captain hook in the flesh
Cause time took a chunk from me
But above that
Being aware is this luxury
And what it gave me back
Was the wisdom to proceed
Knowing i can fall flat
Sailing these concrete seas
But ain’t no looking back
My inner child
Has seen too much to smile
In fact
The chief i am
Had to heel him
And bring my conscious back
To this god like stature
The creator himself
The elohim for my children
I’m branding them well
Letting my inner light shine
Boys
Soak in that
And let your melanin glow
You know
Kings are black
At my essence i’m the father himself
As i strive to be more like him everyday
Which keep me hotter than hell
And it’s harder to fail
When you a father of males
You me bartering well
I freed my heart from its cell
And connected it with my intellect
As i’m networking it now
Through this internet
I’m in tune on these tunes
Feel these tidal waves
I sing my bqe blues
Through the night and day
The righteous way
By speaking truth to my bias face
At my essence i’m a judge
I got to light my way
Corona, queens on my face
Say, fu*k out my way
Queens king all day
What more can i say?
What you know about us?!