SHEDDING TEARS

Yo, at this point in my career, man, these ain't even raps, man I'm speaking from the soul I don't know if I'm a Rap artists or a Soul artists, man Yeah R motherfuckin Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Dott There be times I don't know where I'm headed, I'm just goin No choices in the matter, not at all, I was chosen And I'ma live my life like these chains around my neck Jill Scott said it best, like it's golden What do you expect The shit we did for respect We was kids from the West, shedding tears of neglect But we wipe our faces once y'all put us in these spaces Prepare to catch strays, catch hate or catch cases Make it out alive, we pop Mo', we pop Ace's The stages of our lives is what prepared us for these stages I know you heard the saying that it's good in the hood But to make it out that motherfucker is amazing At times I be thinkin' if I woulda went harder in my career Then E and a few other homies would still be here Coulda did way more to be on Shedding tears, staring at these contacts in my phone Cause damn, I can't call'em I send a prayer up for em Ain't shit holy in this city, this is Charleston No superheroes around this bitch, this ain't Gotham Oxygen in his lungs, he got hit with that carbon F*ck He wasn't the intended target The other side don't recognize what they started Till niggas came back, blastin' out a cartridge Now the score's, 3 to 1, but we done both took losses Shedding tears for my kinfolk Won't show it on my face, but you can tell by how my pen wrote Shedding tears for my kinfolk Won't show it on my face, but you can tell by how my pen wrote Shedding tears for my kinfolk Won't show it on my face, but you can tell by how my pen wrote Shedding tears for my kinfolk Look, my ancestors' wildest dreams A Glock with a beam, dreadlocks swingin I resemble the Elohim You're still considered pristine if you make it out with a scar 'Cause to make it out too clean they don't recognize who you are While I scribble the songs that the Caged Bird sings Can you imagine not flying, but you got these wings That's how we feel trapped in a nation where we can't be kings So we attracted to material things, we need healing If nothing else puttin' a crack in a glass ceiling F*ck doin' it for me, at least do it for these children Showin' we got resilience I think I Hakeem with this weapon I'm concealin' Cause I was 13 when my friend got killed And no child should ever know how that feel The tears still won't fall for when I heard about it all And at my big age, I suppress that still It's best to be meek, but never weak The sidewalk that's close enough to the streets To understand the corner, but never in too deep When your side and niggas from the other side beef Until niggas that you knew since the sandboxes Walk in churches and you see them in them pine boxes Make you wanna grab that nine out your mom's closet And make whoever did it feel it, shit is mind-bogglin I'm shedding tears for my kinfolk, won't show it on my face But you can tell by how the pen wrote Shedding tears for my kinfolk Shedding tears for my kinfolk, won't show it on my face But you can tell by how my pen wrote Two