Running

New outlook, brand new perspective on it all

Who can check him? who gone ever tell him "naw"?

Ran around kitchens tryna find something suitable for suicides, oh Allah forgive me it’s just you and I

How I lose sight when I’m looking dead at it?

Like me and my dad had it

Far from pragmatic

Calls from Saturn Ct., cus my nana done had it up to here with her sons boys

The oldest got a young one on the way and he a young boy

Same footsteps that we followed that left you hollow

Same mistakes made, it made you a better father

So how could y’all not want us to go even harder

You looking at what’s the product

Of poverty stricken

I’m Muslim at heart but I did it a lil different so **** tell me I’m tripping

So let’s compare numbers you tell me who brought more fish in

Who put this shit on billboard, who put it in his writing to make sure the teachings feel more, man

I fill more pages when I’m meditated

Married to the process, add veils like I’m medicated

I gotta stop peeling away from pressure

These the type of years where I take a year in the desert

I’m exhausted of my efforts, I’m tenured but I’m tested

Wrestling with thoughts, cus these debts put a cripple in my walk, it’s still ego just a little less gaud,

Shoulders still puffed just a lil less broad

Is it a money thing? naw

It’s making sure the little things handled with more grace

We know you love God but don’t go and pull you a Mase and let your talents be a waste

This mosque here forever but it’s feathers that you got

That can weather any storm, whether they believe or not You got yo mission straight from pops, Farrakhan told you

As far as being vocal, it’s a lot I gotta grow through

I’m still too passive, he showed me in the scriptures man I seen me in the passage

So who am I to go and do the opposite

Ima keep growing whether y’all wanna acknowledge it or not

You gone acknowledge it a lot