Reachingnova - In These Times

How many times must I remind you that I'm the one?
As I monetize rap while everybody has fun
Same motherfucker been getting it since the slum
Macombs road Bx the borough that's where I'm from
Longwood, Kingsbridge ave that's where I hung
You at work but your girlfriends bed is where I'd come boy
I ain't proud of my old ways
Henny hit the ground we was crushing up cocaine
It is what it was we ain't judging on old days
I don't seek approval I'm in touch with my own lane
On to the next no reminiscing on old flames
I won't even hold you I'm in touch with some old thangs
Damn boy I do this shit for the fam boy It's still that
I instill life through real rap
It's a given you don't leave the game you will crap
Tryna get one up on your boy I will lap
I done seen rappers fade away like bad trends
Here now tomorrow we regard you in past tense
Ah man I remember us back then
Memories we've accumulated like back rent
All for what? cus after this where that shit go?
I hope to see you in an afterlife where we reconnect and we get low
They say the name of the game in this world's to get dough
Society will steer you away when you tryna get home
Media has people confused man I don't even know what to say
Got to think about it we ain't even make up the rules man
They just tryna control what you think
They all wanna score keep your soul in the paint
They gon tell you what it is got to feel what it ain't
Intuition gon show you who the real or faint
Got to learn to see the devil when they feed you a saint
Yeah It's way deeper than what it seems
The world will tell you think black or white when it's really green
Out the box shit I got the glow like it's Billy Jean
Keep it deep talk about life what it really means
CIA shit and if God is a real thing
Covid nineteen five g and vaccines
New world order one government one regime
Versus one people who don't play on the same team
Folks this is bigger than business shit
We really gotta start overcoming our differences
Welcome to the truth soul delivering lyricist
Influenced spirit I reveal the gimmick shit
I think we'd all agree about the times that we're living in
Shit is crazy more uncertain than maybe
Long gone the days house parties with Leybi
Raised through the nineties I was born in the eighties
And if I realized anything It's everything changes
Some try to fight it try to keep it all the same but don't make it
Some try to hide the pain they medicate or maybe get faded
And who the fuck am I to go a judge them I ain't come as the savior
Money ain't my god so I ain't trading souls for the paper
I try to keep it peace I gotta keep it grounded like anchors
You're either right or wrong holmes I ain't playing no favorites
I learned you ever wanna master gotta cover the basics
Cats saying once you make it like I wanna be famous
But I get it though see where I'm from fame's the top of the hill
Most labels hire youth got them hype on a deal
Meanwhile target youth influence how they feel
They push hate and teach love will be the reason you're killed
So you act hard cus really you don't know how to feel
Everything you learned they wanted you to learn and that's real
Understand me and you it ain't the same how we built
Had to redesign the mind the truth gave me the chills
Had to detach from everything I'm thinking was real
Where I'm from you take a shot because you didn't get killed
And most parents die broke there's no inheriting mill's

Lord I pray cus right now they give thanks then tomorrow's a grudge
If I give you what you want you gon tell me it's love
All your rules for friendship I'm good I've had me enough
I'd rather you and I depart so there isn't an us
Truth is I'm too lenient with trust
There's certain things with you I couldn't even discuss
You talk behind the back of all the people you suck
Like I'm really posed to believe you're out here biggin me up
Well guess again that was then
See everything is temporary it'll come to an end
Cus if we leave it up to habit prolly do it again
So guess again I am him
That's why I never take a day off when I'm benching the pen
Relate to so many niggas think I'm mentioning them
But guess again I get it in
It's always love to anybody I consider a friend or fam
Or whoever's on the other side of the fence
Don't second guess that's what it is
Yeah that's what it is swear

Written by:
Mark Nieves

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