Snow On Tha Bluff

[00:24.39] Niggas be thinkin' I'm deep, intelligent, fooled by my college degree

[00:27.64] My IQ is average, there's a young lady out there, she way smarter than me

[00:30.88] I scrolled through her timeline in these wild times, and I started to read

[00:33.88] She mad at these crackers, she mad at these capitalists, mad at these murder police

[00:37.13] She mad at my niggas, she mad at our ignorance, she wear her heart on her sleeve

[00:40.14] She mad at the celebrities, lowkey I be thinkin' she talkin' 'bout me

[00:43.36] Now I ain't no dummy to think I'm above criticism

[00:45.67] So when I see something that's valid, I listen

[00:46.90] But shit, it's something about the queen tone that's botherin' me

[00:49.62] She strike me as somebody blessed enough to grow up in conscious environment

[00:52.61] With parents that know 'bout the struggle for liberation and in turn they provide her with

[00:55.87] A perspective and awareness of the system and unfairness that afflicts 'em

[00:58.91] And the clearest understandin' of what we gotta do to get free

[01:02.14] And the frustration that fills her words seems to come from the fact that most people don't see

[01:05.39] Just 'cause you woke and I'm not, that shit ain't no reason to talk like you better than me

[01:08.62] How you gon' lead?

[01:09.62] When you attackin' the very same niggas that really do need the shit that you sayin'?

[01:12.13] Instead of conveying you holier, come help get us up to speed

[01:14.87] Shit, it's a reason it took like two hundred years for our ancestors just to get freed

[01:17.87] These shackles be lockin' the mental way more than the physical

[01:20.13] I look at freedom like trees, can't grow a forest like overnight

[01:22.63] Hit the ghetto and slowly start plantin' your seeds

[01:24.38] Fuck is the point of you preaching your message to those that already believe what you believe?

[01:27.63] I'm on some "Fuck a retweet, " most people is sheep

[01:29.63] You got all the answers but how you gon' reach?

[01:31.41] If I could make one more suggestion respectfully

[01:32.88] I would say it's more effective to treat people like children

[01:35.13] Understandin' the time and love and patience that's needed to grow

[01:37.62] This change is inevitable but ain't none of us seen this before

[01:40.15] Therefore we just gotta learn everything as we go

[01:42.15] I struggle with thoughts on the daily

[01:43.63] Feel like a slave that somehow done saved enough coins to buy his way up outta slavery

[01:46.61] Thinkin' just maybe, in my pursuit to make life so much better for me and my babies

[01:49.90] I done betrayed the very same people that look at me like I'm some kind of a hero

[01:52.86] Because of the zeros that's next to the commas

[01:54.63] But look here, I promise I'm not who you think

[01:56.13] Ran into this nigga outside of the store yesterday

[01:58.39] He said something that had me like, "Wait"

[01:59.38] He was like "Cole, 'preciate what you been doin', my nigga, that's real"

[02:02.11] But damn, why I feel faker than Snow on Tha Bluff?

[02:04.13] Well maybe 'cause deep down I know I ain't doing enough

[02:19.12] The sun is shinin' today

[02:30.90] The sun is shinin' today

[02:43.65] The sun is shinin' today

[02:56.88] Can you walk with me?

[02:58.38] I hope we'll find the reason why we often sob, go on cry

[03:03.38] Painful memories fuck up the vibe

[03:05.66] Though I be tryna let the time heal my mind

[03:09.13] I was once a child, I've gotten older

[03:12.12] Still, I know I'm just a boy in God's eyes

[03:15.63] Fill me up with wisdom and some courage

[03:18.41] Plus endurance to survive, help mine thrive