Robes [MadGibbs Cover]

[Intro]
Turn me up in the headphones?

[Chorus: Lenny White]
They often see what we can’t see
Wearing a smile
You never have the time to frown
Dreamer of peace!
Spread some joy

[Verse 1]
From a sprout to the grouch
Arguments with Moms got me kicked out my house
So now I'm out and about
I'm tryna cut through all this brush
With just my wit and my charm
But it's no use—my visibility’s fucked
There is no luck
Only get stronger when you fight through the pain
But blazing a 50 the only way to balance my brain
I pick up the pen and start to imagine what I'm really tryna say
The manifestation is on another plain
Every day I'm running through simulations
Of situations that I’ll probably never see
Woe is me, shadowed by death
But cursed to walk the earth
One of the only prophets that's left
I guess that's part of the curse
If you ask me, just another black youth
Who’s a slave to a rhyme scheme

[Chorus: Lenny White]
They often see what we can’t see
Wearing a smile
You never have the time to frown
Wearing a smile

[Verse 2]
I'm still posted on the same corner Julian got shot
Energy is 10/90—near my home
Niggas dropping like apples on Isaac Newton's dome
Raised to think this was normal
Come to find out that we was wrong
Mechanisms to cope—some smoke weed
While others decided on sniffing coke
As long as they see you ain’t weak
In my dreams, I'm seein pictures
Of vivid futures with glistening esteem
Whips is roofless
Niggas bumping my new shit, reciting lines
Coming up to me, all like, "Yo, you the truth kid!
Been flowing stupid since WorldStar Hip Hop was really ruthless!"
Bars 80 proof while these niggas throwing up they thot juices
It’s useless—try again
Son King of the scrap yard
But he think that the Iron Man—cap
It's cap bro...

[Chorus: Lenny White]
They often see what we can’t see
Wearing a smile
You never have the time to frown
Wearing a smile

[Verse 3]
It's like I'm chasing this feeling
That's neither peaceful or thrilling—it's all me
The ghost of my past life has only a pair of dice
Stuck at bottom of mad bottles of OE
Still having dreams of bad models across seas
Who said you could stop me?
Rhymes cocky, crazy, ill—mad rowdy
Flow so jazzy got your girl slow bopping
Keep a few tricks up my sleeve like most akis
Never get money with niggas that move sloppy
They likely to squeal promptly
Stay cautious, move silent—like the “H” in "honest"
Rest assured, vultures is watching
Fumes bubble while the cauldron a popping
And black boys still die by the dozen
I mean, stepping over dead fiends in every colorway of SB’s
Everything is not always as black and white as it seems
Hop on the J train and take that bitch straight back to queens
Keep my mind off things
Momentarily...
Momentarily...

[Outro]
Why can't you just fucking rap bro?
I swear to God...
What's up with this "momentarily" shit?
Nobody wants to hear that shit!
Just rap bro!
Why can't you just fucking rap bro?!
What the fuck?!
Catch me next month...