SHEDDING TEARS Lyrics

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

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R motherfuckin

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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

Fuck

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

Fuck 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

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