heart pt. 6

Load up the Pro Tools and press three

Studio filled with Jack In The Box and Pepsis

**** watchin' WorldStar videos, not the ESPYs

Laughin' at B. Pumper, stomach turnin', I get up and proceeded to write somethin'

Ab-Soul in the corner mumblin' raps, fumblin' packs of Black N' Milds

Crumblin' kush till he cracked a smile

His words legendary, wishin' I could rhyme like him

Studied his style to define my pen

That was back when the only goal was to get Jay Rock through the door

Warner Brother Records, hope Naim Ali would let us know

Was excited just to go to them label meetings

Wasn't my record deal, but still, I couldn't believe it

Me and Rock inside the booth hibernatin'

It was simple math, if he made it, that mean I made it

Everything I had was for the team, I remained patient

Grindin' with my brothers, it was us against them, no one above us, bless our hearts

Use your heart and not your eyes

Baby, just relax your mind

If you got time, then I got time (Yeah, yeah)

Free your thoughts and watch them fly

Use your heart and not your eyes

My **** Dave had a champagne Acura

A bunch of instrumentals I freestyled in the passenger

That **** wore several hats, a producer, a manager, director, and DJ

A hothead squabblin', Bloods, Pirus, and Keeways

For this little thing of ours we called TDE

I watched you take some penitentiary chances to say the least

Remember in the county building with MixedByAli

We tried to freak the system just to make a couple ends meet

That's my **** for shit sure

He brought Q over, but Q didn't rap, but he learned from our inspo

We split Louisiana chicken riverboat specials

Sleepin' next to 02R consoles to be our refuge

He was homeless and I left home

Q said, "Dot, you won't be slept on, you the **** to bet on" (Use your h—)

Top had given us dominion in the home he lived in

Hopin' that we'd see some millions, God bless our hearts

Use your heart and not your eyes

Baby, just relax your mind

If you got time, then I got time (Yeah, yeah)

Free your thoughts and watch them fly

Use your heart and not your eyes

Punch played Phil Jackson in my early practices

Strategies on how to be great amongst the averages

I picked his brain on what was ordained, highly collaborative

Ret pushed the label the same, amongst the savages

Moose kept my name in the function that he would run in

TEEZ kept the vultures away from me that was comin'

Sounwave let me borrow his clothes for shows as a hype man

To cook up in this room till the night ends

Time flies, I'm carryin' debates of a top five

Buryin' my opps and allies

But I'd done a half job communicatin' feelings of bein' stagnant

Life was gettin' bigger than just rappin'

The business, what I was lackin'

Top used to record me back when it was poor me

And now we at the round table for what assures me

I guess my motivation was the yearnin' for independence

Poured everything I had left in the family business

Now it's about Kendrick, I wanna evolve, place my skillset as a Black exec'

I jogged my memory, knowin' Black Hippy didn't work 'cause of me

Creatively, I moved on with new concepts in reach

Top, remember all them sessions we would strategize

To hit the streets, then come back, record three records? Ah

To tell the truth, it fucked me up when D-Man passed

The motive was the condolences, but the pride crashed

I had to bypass old mythologies I had

Put my heart on display like it was an iMac

To all my young ****, let me be the demonstration

How to conduct differences with a healthy conversation

If that's your family, then handle it as such

Don't let the socials gas you up or let emotions be your crutch

Pick up the phone and bust it up before the history is lost

Hand-to-handshake is good when you have a heart-to-heart

Use your heart and not your eyes

Baby, just relax your mind

If you got time, then I got time (Yeah, yeah)

Free your thoughts and watch them fly

Use your heart and not your eyes