Traces/Forbidden Fruit

[Verse: Patrick Hughes]
Don lifestyle, kiss the rings like I'm the Godfather
Haters talk, I bury beef like it was Jimmy Hoffa
No politicking, nigga, who gon make the best offer?
I'm sitting on my bread proper like a cake topper
Don't make me ice ya girl out for the hell of it
I throw some Fenty in the closet by the skeletons
When I pull up, got these niggas on the high alert
You feel a way and won't address it, nigga, hold ya skirt (J-A-Y, check it)

[Verse: Jay Browne]
Mama, I'ma pop my shit until my dying days
Bang on anybody, going through my Kobe Bryant phase
Tired of the same ass, lame ass, I ain’t never won a fuck thang
Still tryna give you game ass
Say your time is coming but that shit ain’t never came ass
Stuck in one spot, looking for someone else to blame ass
When they gone let a real nigga get the spotlight?
Bitch my ambition is Biggie, Hova and Pac-like

[Verse: Patrick Hughes]
Coming for the crown, I ain't settling, I've been peddling
Dope V's just like morphine, I'm too a veteran
Earning every inheritance, white folk been putting trauma within the melanin
Been this way since the Genesis
And I'm just tryna beat the system like an only child
Making sure my dogs is eating more than puppy chow
I'm Tom Cruising throughout any mission
If it's crabs in the barrel, then I'm Jameis Winston
Yuh

[Verse: Jay]
I'm back and forth like a headless chicken
I'ma slave to reputation, repetition
What they saying 'bout me? Gotta check the mentions
Can’t tell 'em who I am, never snitching
I just took my check out in cash
Florida nigga check the spread, this paper-trail gone cover my past
I hope they know my name but don’t speak that shit on no beef and shit
'Cuz I jus shared a laugh with a nigga to get a decent pic'
One hand, I don’t give a fuck and I’ll forget the shit
But I’ll probably regret the shit if I don’t get accepted here

[Beat Switch]

That’s what they don’t understand I’m in here for the grind
But every negative connotation socially on my mind
Simultaneously, I will murder these niggas and these beats
One wrong move and power players won’t shakes hands with me
Fucking politics and the pressure, it always looms
Make an ass out of myself, that’s the elephant in the room
You heard my bravado my emotions are Mulatto
If somebody hear these hits then possibly I hit the lotto
So to keep myself from bailing out, I'll probably hit this bottle

///Forbidden Fruit///
[Verse]
It's your insecurity, yeah you tried to bury me
I put you in a daze like 7, nigga, like every week
Unmotivated cause you couldn't stay in class
Now you gotta see results while you walk by the glass
Sorry for the wait but you can't eat the pain away
Was on bullshit and had to watch Jordan fade away
Now you can't even look at you, nigga look at you
Only God can judge but he should have threw the book at you

What's up danger? Hello it's your anger
That shit that make you treat loved ones like strangers
You just want to drink so you can deal with the damages
Sweat from the angst, now you reekin' like a Spanish chick
Singing made a bitter man win, call John the Baptist as I drown in gin
God frowned at sin then smiled and fantasized 'bout murder, money, revenge, so powerful is my pride

Sup nigga? It's your fear, aka the shit you living in
Yo girl GTA code, man pledged Slytherin
The reason why you look over yo shoulder at the gas pump
Why little brown boys need big black guns
Red and blue lights gave you cardiac arrest
Brave niggas got the purple hearts pumping out they chest, uh
You've been a fraud, I'm knowing that you afraid tho
Split ya noodle for chicken, streets full of alfredo

What up gangsta, remember me, ya pride?
The reason why you and ______ still ain't reconciled?
Why you don't ever speak 'cause you just bottle shit inside?
You pouring out the shots from the poison that's inside
I can't let you see tears well up in my eyes
Gotta teach niggas a lesson when it comes to picking sides
Be killing you inside but somehow I never die
So it's fuck you for life, don't ever apologize

Hello Jay, it's ya pain
That shit that make you flinch when you hear certain names
Yeah, the very power that be that comes from powers that be
Put powder into the streets, shower us in defeat
What you feel when you bleed, without me you can't write a rhyme
Jay, I'm what you need
The main ingredient for the cycles that you feed
And as you proceed, you gon pass me to your seeds, nigga