Be Me

I don't really I don't really I don't really I don't really give a d
About any man, woman, child thinking they can tell me who I am
Individuality is in why can't everybody just understand
On what it means to be yourself nobody else you get the plan
Feeling like Yoda and Anakin and Ahsoka and Jar Jar we living in a world full of clones
And it really got a brother feeling so alone even when he chilling amongst his own
Coming home feeling like nothing's changed but you changed
So apparently that's strange
Like you was doing for nothing all this maturing and moving just to be one in the same
I just can't put in words how I feel just to say I'm happy
To be me all this gut all this lack of height all this nappy
Really tried to make me hate myself but I break through all that hating well
You the type to really hate on a n- practicing self-love then go to hell
But I ain't tryna condemn n- I'm just in it for the peace
For any brother that looked in the mirror couldn't see themselves in a good light
Think they better off deceased GEEZ
We ain't about that life
Show that little boy that inside there's a light
Shine so bright man the sun going blind
And the moon couldn't stay it's a bright midnight

You can never ever tell me, how to care of my own G
You can never ever tell me, how to care of my homies
You can never ever tell me, you just cannot understand
Never tell me how to be a man, han han
Even if I shed a tear, that doesn't make me no lesser
Even if you acting hard, that doesn't make you no better
You can never ever tell me, you just cannot understand
Never tell me how to be a man

I can't really, I can't really, I can't act like I give a f-
Bout anybody that's gon doubt me, how about we
See how you match up with Josh, can't take a loss
I'm good brushing dirt off, fell eight times
Applied a band-aid to my knee, stood up nine
Saw the sunshine
Negativity can't take me to where I don't need to be
I need to see, more originality
These clones destroying the essence, like
Burning magazines
I have to see
My name in big lights on the Garden, like I'm a starting athlete
Here's a message to anybody that's thinking could tell me how to be me:
Dawg you can't
I am stuck in my ways
Y'all waves is overplayed
I ain't never gon' drown, no water is too deep
Found gold in my soul, my worth has been known
I ain't ever getting sold, freedom ain't cheap
Boy I'm rich with self-belief
Old friends tell me that I changed, well I ain't staying the same
I'm making strides, you n- stuck in one lane
Tunnel vision on a mission to get bucks and chains
It ain't hard tell the difference 'tween soul and a gimmick
It ain't hard to distinguish all the pain from the wins
I failed time and again, I never caved in
I kept my pivot
If you ain't never gave my s- a listen, well
I ain't tripping
I promise you've been forgiven
I promise that imma get it
I promise that I won't cut a percentage unless you was there from the start
And you gon ride to the ending
I promise Imma feed my fam
I promise when it's all said and done, Imma be my own man
King

Ooooh Child, I know things seem hard right now
You gotta reach out for the clouds
Don't try to fit in f- the crowd-owddd
Oooooh child, Don't worry its okay to cry
If you need a hug I'm by ya side
And push the box they try to fit us inside, ideeeee

You can never ever tell me, how to care of my own G
You can never ever tell me, how to care of my homies
You can never ever tell me, you just cannot understand
Never tell me how to be a man, han han
Even if I shed a tear, that doesn't make me no lesser
Even if you acting hard, that doesn't make you no better
You can never ever tell me, you just cannot understand
Never tell me how to be a man

You can never ever tell me, how to care of my own G
You can never ever tell me, how to care of my homies
You can never ever tell me, you just cannot understand
Never tell me how to be a man, han han
Even if I shed a tear, that doesn't make me no lesser
Even if you acting hard, that doesn't make you no better
You can never ever tell me, you just cannot understand
Never tell me how to be a man

Sadiki Wah, gwan gwan boss mon
Long time mi nuh see yuh, yah know
Wah gwan mi general, everyting good
Ehh heh, mi dey pon di gulley yuh kno
Yuh know how fi di gulley side
Stay yuh kno
Dem ah talk dis dem ah talk dat
Dem ah talk ray ray ray ray, dis and ting
Talk bout mon
Mon nah fi cry, mon nah fi cry
Suh mi hear di otha day yuh know

Yuh know say di otha day
Mi did cry
Mi did work pon a project
Inna mi room, and everyting jus start swell up
And mi jus start ball
Kno say ah, Ocean mi create in mi room

And yuh kno say afta da fact brethren
It feel good man

Mhmmm
Yah mon
I mon haffi EXPRESS DEMSELF
Dem ah talk bout yuh
Haffi bokkle up yuh emotions
Yuh haffi bokkle up dis
Bottle up dat
MAN, yuh ah yuh ah
Bokkle up yuh botty
Yuh bokkle up yuh botty
Yuh haffi, yuh cramp up
And glass break yuh kno
Bokkle haffi break yuh kno
Dat no good fi no one
No mon, no dis, no womon
Or no, no person

A bag ah foolishness people ah talk bout
Say yuh haffi be, emotionless
Yuh haffi be strong physical
Yuh kno say mi nah gone ah no gym
One time mi gone ah di gym all my life
But mi still strong
Emotionally mi express myself all di time
Dat nuh make me weak
Dat make mi stronga

Dem don't know, dem don't know
What real strength is, yah bloodline strong yuh kno
Yah genes strong yuh kno
Momma and Poopah raise us to be strong yuh kno
Foundation too strong yuh kno
Strength come from inside
And if yuh nuh let it out
It nah go show
That's how real strength come

Exactly yuh nah haffi ah follow people
Ah fi be ah mon
My Fadda is a kind of mon
My Grandfadda is a kind of mon
But dey, the type of mon dey is
Is not di kind of mon I will be
Or I want to be
I carve out what it means to be a mon
In my own strength
In my own spirit
Yuh understand

See it dey
Yah Mon
Dey don't know
Dem don't know man
Talk bout I
I haffi follow anotha mon to be a mon
So what does that make me
That makes me a fool
For if I am a mon
Why am I goin to follow anotha mon
To be a mon
Then I am nothing
Man them talk bout
"Hey be a mon, be a mon"
Well guess what
I and I gwan fi be a MON
Mi nah follow no mon
Ya hear
Hey DJ
Leggo ah dis one
Next Track we haffi move on