Validation

Verse 1:

Here we go, there’s another post
For my sticky soul
Gimmie, smoke
Ego feed it, no
Gotta knock the lows
Pivot step, doubt is on my left
Praise is on my right
Running wreck lemme catch a breathe
Then I’m outta site
I just know, compliments ago
Nigga still was dope
Pusha past, verbiage shoot the hash
Tagging with the grammar
I be sad, algorithms trash
Socials in a stammer
Know it’s vain, pull me out the game
Matrix get the dagger, ugh
Putting in work to be timeless
I gotta, I gotta, I gotta
Give em the greatest no matter my climate
But it gets colder when you keep on rising in levels
And God is the pilot
So you keep searching the waters & fishing for compliments
Even if bias, then gets tideless, uh//
You can say it if you want
Cause I won’t ask you for it
My circle give me the critiques so I can stay in orbit (whoa !)
No, I can’t live off the hype
I gotta find it inside
Keep it in sight, hoping I like what find
Hoping I love what I find

Chorus *2:

Validation (validation)
I don’t need your validation (validation)
I don’t need your — whoa! (validation)
Compliments appreciated
But I don’t need your validation

Verse 2:

Been over insecure
Issa Rae but missing more
Cause I leave my gifted core
Disappear to reinsure, private place is in my head
Memories I had to store
When the doubt becomes allure
I remember what they said
If your motivation, applause dawg
It’s all off, take a moment think of your cause boss
The long haul
Speak on stressing over the call laws
That’s small talk, dodge the heart attacks
With your guard on, that spar chalk
And as I reflect
Your opinions decked
Need a Percocet, circumspect
Always need a check, marking your respect
Gimmie space, moving out your way
Dodging every day, my mistake
I just need my peace, never need the fray
I don’t chase, comments for the sake
Of approval, they tend to fade
Sometimes even sway, on the rainy days -- aye
I forget my purpose and I lose the vision
But then I focus on the value that my soul was given