As a first-generation American growing up in a Desi household, the main thing I had to connect with my culture was my mom’s spice cabinet. Every Friday after the mosque, my mom would cook up biryani, daal and aloo machli (fried fish and potatoes with rice). These spices are more than just health tre...
Verse 1:
Sometimes being passionate might mean that you irrational/
Im feelin' half empty but I need another glass to fill/
Lame duck coaches still quackin' with a daffy bill/
Flamed up roaches, I was sifting through a ashy hill/
Culver City chillin', I be posted in the Valley still/
She ain’t on my gram but I be posted with a baddie still/
Know I’m loopin' records when you hear em' with the jazzy feel/
Now I’m workin' woke and focused, sober with no addy pill/
Ebbs and flows, navigating knees to shoulder, head and toes/
Catch me at the office with the salary and medical/
Rap game don’t wanna hear it, rather see me dead in Holes/
Like Stanley Yelnats, only friends with them zeros/
No interview with Ebro, still workin' on my ego/
I don’t do this for the fame G, I do this for my peoples/
I got the keys to life but I ain't got no fuckin' key hole/
Power moves with no Powerpoint go get the Keynote/
Chorus:
I see the fish gon' fry in the kitchen/
Mama workin' hard every Friday day/
You should know I’m lonely on my mission/
In my path, get the fuck up outa my way/
Hook (x2):
Run the bag, run the bag, we gon' run it up/
Hit the gas, hit the gas, leave a ton of dust/
Verse 2:
Write a verse, write verse, write another verse/
Hand me ups and downs, bro I used rock my brother shirts/
Know they want some new jams, hit em' with that butter first/
Turning left or right but I don’t know which way the rudder works/
Stay afloat, pray for hope, many folks afraid to cope/
Think they got it lock but they ain’t really know the safe was broke/
Industry be thieving sneakin' schemings on the paper tho/
Watchin out for twelve, like the oven and the baker's dough/
Cop it off the shelve, buying streams and it’s blatant though/
Millions on mines and, I ain’t never paid for Growth/
I just had my patience broke, I just keep the faith and go/
I invest the paper slow, take em back to days that’s old/
Varsity hooper, no popular dude/
Pull up at function it’s poppin' and cool/
Crazy they trippin' they poppin' the tool/
Next day we goin' and talkin' in school/
Now I be posted n dodging the feuds/
I ain’t 'bout makin' misogynist tunes/
I ain’t 'bout sippin' the bottle booze/
Drippin' I’m drippin' I’m droppin' the juice/
Chorus:
I see the fish gon' fry in the kitchen/
Mama workin' hard every Friday day/
You should know I’m lonely on my mission/
In my path, get the fuck up outa my way/
Hook (x2):
Run the bag, run the bag, we gon' run it up/
Hit the gas, hit the gas, leave a ton of dust/
Friday Fish was written by Haseeb Patail.
Friday Fish was produced by HASEEB.
HASEEB released Friday Fish on Fri Sep 20 2019.