Locksmith - Survival

I’m taking pleasure in watching you niggas sit on the sidelines & bitch about me
Spit your disses in dissident & disavow
This allows me to disembowel, you assist the crowd
Leave you fast asleep in the deep canal with the fish & algae
This is how we survived Richmond in his surroundings
In his housing complex, Mothers wept from the pistols touting
It’s for grounding, kept me humble, away from trouble
Found a subtle way to accept struggle
Imma need some counseling
Imma need some ousting
I’m cleaning house
Getting rid of these nonproductive, destructive people that seem to cloud me
But as clear as my vision is now, imma revisit these trials & learn from the fake folks that I knew would doubt me
I’ve been through adversity, never diverting me
Nothing is shaking my confidence
I did it with certainty
Never inserted myself for the purpose of compliments
My mother was nursing me , never occurred to be I would be nothing but dominant
I take the lessons I learned as a child and found a way when I came into prominence
Everything that broke only made my edges sharper
Anyone provokes me knows my only weapon is Karma
Try to listen closely, witness as the stress can garner
Jewel after Jewel, my profession's the protective armor I battled my way through the ranks
And I'm thankful & grateful for what it did
I took on the pressure, repetitive hurdles, I hustled when others hid
I used to think money & stardom would follow me just because I wanted it
Had to work hard, and martyr my ego and harvest the hardship I had as a kid
I don't pay along get along, got a long resume, come test me
Niggas don't admit when they wrong, so they roam on the net unchecked see
The more that you babble, the more you unravel
You wanna shoot deep, but got called for a travel
You would just rather go home with your ball than learn from the fall and shake off the gravel
Look at the maneuvers I been doing, I'm renewing
I've been moving at a new speed
Contradicting everything that you're picking in your news feed
You don't take a liking unrequited, so you lose sleep
I don't get offended but defending what I do see
There is not an independent artist that can move me
Neither on a label that is able to disable what I'm giving to the public
You can snub it but I choose me
Even when it's raining you can feel the friction
Flowers come far & few between like Police convictions
If you're from Richmond, you've been grinding under these conditions
This is just the start til I seize position
Feel me?

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