Great Ones

I don’t socialize too much
Probably cause I talk in my mind too much
Maybe I’m too much
Maybe I don’t care maybe I do but
What do I know cuz?
Think I know a lot, think a lot of you does
Some of ya’ll bright
Some of ya’ll know me
None of ya’ll might

Most of my life I been trouble
Every time I look in your eyes I see double
Lay on the grass, get my ass up
Blade full of hash, weigh the stash up
In the cut, started off strings
Rock ‘n’ roll black boy caught it off wind
People criticized me ever since I was a child
Like you talk look dress weird you a weird guy
Never paid it much mind over time though
Memories collide, animosity climb up
Feel like imma lose it on somebody if he talk to me badly
Let shit slide too much now I’m angry
As a kid I had imaginary friends
Come to find out they still imaginary man
I will take a sword into my adversary’s head
I will make sure that my adversary...

Never was broke kid always had food
Always had a roof over my head to go to school from
Went to a couple in a couple different countries
You could say I’m super lucky you could say the truth is ugly
It could sound real nice from the outside
Looking in from the inside
And I’m not alright man
The world for what it is ain’t all that nice and

I have been a tourist to the poor
Been in houses where you wouldn’t open doors
I seen roads that ain’t never been paved
That old women walk barefoot everyday
Seen from the window of an SUV
All these scenes made a mess you see
Cause I was all good in my third world standing
Not from the hood or the hood where I landed
Fuck all that, your boy start wilding
Flipping off expats in they own houses
Diplomat brat was the stamp that was granted to me
So I ripped it off like don’t hand it to me
Tanzania to New York to Canada b
To Jerusalem, Haiti and lands in between
The world’s so fucked up the planet it screams
Every time I talk to it comes answering me

I been a great one since day one
Imma be the great one when my day come
Brave ones, stray ones, same ones, great ones
I been a great one since day one
Imma be the great one when my day come
Brave ones, stray ones, same ones, great ones

Fast forward 24 years
Got two passports is anyone here
Tell me why the airport feel like the crib
Cardboard boxes, my cardboard skin
Time holds hostage everything that it will
My own offspring aborted with a pill
That might cost him, like imma have to pay
I ain’t talking cash money son I’m talking fate

What you know about Gabe been an addict since thirteen
Sniffed K in the elevator with elevated beings
Ain’t nobody could separate me from who I’m trying to be
Nigga sharp as a razor that’s just the nature of a G
White women debating niggas on who we trynna free
Night vision accelerating on us at top speed
Anybody could get it debit or credit for the fee
If I said it I meant that means I gotta get a piece

I been a great one since day one
Imma be the great one when my day come
Brave ones, stray ones, same ones, great ones
I been a great one since day one
Imma be the great one when my day come
Brave ones, stray ones, same ones, great ones