Flowers die but diamonds don't

I brought a bag big enough where you can slide me both

Greed on 100 from coming up with the marginals

Where sliding on them will make them promise they ain't gonn bargain you

Outside, playing brothers keeper with an arsenal

Teach you how to swim through your sins unless they're cardinal

As red as the skies in the delta that make them follow you

Or the delta throwing up the roc from outta Howard U

And how we do? Angry waters you gotta charter through

My teacher heard me rhyme and said "Skyler, man they gonn' martyr you, you get that"?

Yea I get that, I don't intend that

But it's not a choice that you can give back, you can't pick that

If all of the above been that, then where I been at

Is mobbing out for where my kin at

Like "let me twin that"

The way that we invested in that, we gotta spin that

That same water's still pissed off, we can't swim back

So now I'm taking heed to this sliding shit they was preaching

Where the Henny in their speech will bring the deacon out a demon

The motive couldn't have been more true for you to believe in

Padlocked like a crill, the theme echoes like The Legion

Now we geeking, the thought of a vision becoming scenic

Or walking into the flames, pink suit, street dreaming

Or keeping it in front of the P's like this the remix

And the harmony's in the key on some "mercy mercy me" shit

Driving where the mercy at, find it where the surface at

But most put on the blinders by the time they pull the curtains back

Blow by, turn the forgotten to wanting to circle back

Word to 1619, we can repurpose that

And rightfully, ain't no typo's for what your type is

I overheard how the price hit betting on where the dice hit

Bright mind ducking a light switch, I know my part well

Throw it to the ceiling and thank God like Hustle Cartel

Blessings on blessings, we all need an "amen"

My man said his is dressed as a shotty that's almost arms length

Prayers up, mine resemble's Kadir Nelson's work

All the gratitude comes later, figured I'd help you first

You being you and you and everyone that moves with you

Cause being cut different leads to cutting out the usuals

Attack of the bald head, I'm Boris Kudjoe features

Cause me getting like Fredro Starr brought the Moesha's

Do the knowledge, due to the dollars I'm due to demolish

Brooklyn boy with bloodlines from Gullah Geechee islands

Wrote to the key of sirens, blacking for my beloveds

Solid like Emory Jones, palette like Emory Douglas

I'm back for all my beloveds, still one in the same with y'all

Dodging kamikazes, my lobby was out the Reagan war

Same rules apply on this side in spite of the change in y'all

Remember that the spelling won't change once you get your name involved

Bet that, now treat this like you riding for the first time

Driver looking at you like "all of this shit will work fine"

Promise? Promise, word to keeping this honest

Hovering at 100, everything in abundance

Bet that, now treat this like you riding for the first time

Driver looking at you like "all of this shit will work fine"

Promise? Promise, word to keeping this honest

Hovering at 100, everything in abundance do believe it