Head bloodied but unbowed

Mama guessing how long she gon’ see her son around but know there’s only one crown

That’s rhetorical, Arm & Hammer?, I became the oracle

The way my family bleeding thank God there ain’t no more of you

Let’s get to all the issues at hand quick as we can

To my uncle who allowed me to take a big enough chance

Know my hands will give applause up to you at any given

Wool over my daddy eyes, you became the vision

For the book of Saint, auntie read through it and never looked away

Told her take a page to wipe her tears and give that book a break

She did me one better and wrote a page of her own

And kept writing ’til her book was the same weight as my chrome

To Louisiana Louie who became a South Central beast

Never forget who helped you to get a seat

Ambition as big as me, shoulders broad enough to let the city sleep

But you can’t Jenny Craig responsibility

This shit gets heavier than the thought of Reed potentially not

Being who he say that he is when we cop, I’m in a spot where my spot

Is diamond coated with a red dot on it

And you fighting like if that red dot’s calling to take you head on

Well Louie you can have it

I’m gentleman enough to let you do what you imagined, I’m through with all this baggage

Back when this shit got active, the wizard called it “baśe”

And at the base of it you know what I gave

So I’m expecting purity

Just keep everything pure

No steps to it like what I measured for y’all

Just Gimmie purity

More than ever before

With no steps to it like what I measured for y’all

One day I met a brother named Dawit

On the corner of Crenshaw and Slauson with his kids

Teaching them black pride and about owning where we live

I overheard the talk and went and told him who I’m is, minus the coke of course

I said “I’m Franklin, I own some properties all over town

And yo I admire the way you giving your boys crowns”

He said “man I’m just doing my job, being encouraging

This is my son Sammy, and my little one is Ermias”

I reached out, giving them dap, hiding my nervousness

Hoping they don’t pick up the que of me or my services

One had a smile of gold, the other had hair like he was Jesus

I looked at them both like “the city needs them”

Pistol on my waist but my Lacoste was draped over it

Thank God, this ain’t what I want baby Jesus noticing

Fiends walking by that I knew from my grand opening

Feelings came over me I pray don’t never come over them

My reputation walks in front of me like it’s security

I hide behind more business cards, less jewelry

Dawit doted on his kids until the day was done

Sammy was maybe four, Ermias maybe one

With a soul full of guilt and a trunk with product stocked

I downplayed my car and told them “you can buy your block”

And as Dawit and his family made their way up the street

I saw that what I did to this corner’s bigger than me

So I’m expecting purity

Just keep everything pure

No steps to it like what I measured for y’all

Just give me purity

More than ever before

With no steps to it like what I measured for y’all

The spook who sat by the door while you in the driveway

The game come with money as loud as Irene Abe

Snowman knock on that door fresh off the highway

Duffle bags for me and mine, and you know how I play

Took advantage of it through all of its disadvantages

Saints over everything ‘til the prayers from the family get

Shown for what they were

Down on bended knees but what you spoke of was a blur, and all that I preferred

Was your loyalty, same way I treated you

Jumped in front of every bullet every time I needed to

Seems when you was tryna find a back door I tried to find distance

Unc’ should’ve left you home fighting side bitches

And I’d never look for love from a plug who kidnapped me

Where anytime that he should love felt trigger happy

The quickest on the draw to get me out, to get me more

To get me rooted deeper in like the trees we was hanging off

So to Louie and Jerome

To Peaches and that 5 mil’ he took when shit it look like he’s truthfully full blown

To Teddy who was tryna be more than he really was

And to Alton reappearing to cover me with his blood

To my mama with her heart on her sleeve, she did her best

But 73 mil’ will turn all this shit into death and I digress

My comeback is calling card

Be sure to tell everyone in this bitch Au Revoir, man I’m outta here man...