Strong Friend

So
What I get from you and your music
That you're not interested in playing the game of social media

Cause you're out there
If you was in here with me
You would understand why I'm so pissed off
About what the fuck I'm seeing
Then you could possibly help me maneuver around my feelings
You know what I'm saying
It's a different type of understanding
And I'm just now getting that
And it's sad but it's just
It is what it is
And I realize that I have made my life further complicated
By the friends and relationships that I pick
Because I'm thinking
I'm thinking that like
Whatever I'm going through is so ugh for me because it's not my plan
But I know there's gonna be a gold day later on
I just have to keep moving

Strong friend
Gotta check on your strong friends
Strong friends
Gotta check on your strong friends
Gotta check on ya
Gotta check on em

I never met MJ
Always said that I would
Never met DMX
He died before I could
Still wanna meet André
Don't even wanna talk about rap
He's an only child
I'd ask about that
Like how you keep composure
With the world weighing down on your shoulder
When all you want
Peace with your brother
Hold you mother closer
And how you do it all while staying sober
And if you never met Erykah
Do you think you'd be who you supposed to
These just the thoughts I keep inside when I drive
Was told don't share dreams prematurely or they'll never arrive
That being said I never had a team
They thought I did with all the styles I bring
Exception they couldn't fathom the thought of it
They called him different
Always dolo on a mission
Couldn't envision cig in his ear
Drunk off malt liquor
Death of a salesman born in West End Bridgeport
These the memoirs I live for
Auto bio no spin offs
I'ma call it the strong friend

Gotta check on your strong friends
Strong friends
Gotta check on your strong friends
Gotta check on ya
Gotta check on em

Great is a state of mind
Everything divine is subjective
It's what you settle for end up being all you end up with
Couldn't be Hughes
Obviously y'all confused
Never make power moves against the gut
Those ghosts haunt you
Probably why I feel more lucid poltergeist than human
What ruins influenced him
Crooked paths often congruent
With a stick up kid
Born from the ribs
Right hand to God
Left hand on his dick
Gripping life by the balls til something hit
Pause then rewind
Back to wanting to be signed
When trains to NY where I would recline and form my design
Where homies say slow down
Projecting fears all on my desires
Better to keep quiet
Protect your dreams or live in denial
People fear what they can't understand or manipulate
Trends they make only imitate
Passion only intimidates
Fear the love so they tend to hate
Sentiment only been to pace
No weapon formed penetrate
My solo dolo my spirit state
The strong friend

Gotta check on your strong friends
Strong friends
Gotta check on your strong friends
Gotta check on ya
Gotta check on em
Gotta check on them strong friends

They don't see the plan
They don't understand the plan
They just know that they struck gold
They know that we're gold
We may not be gold and shining right now
But they know that we're gold
But we see the dirt
They see everything that we are
Everything we're trying to be
But we don't see it like that
Because we're not where we wanna be