| I was also gonna ask about your fear as an individual
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| You know, this is plenty of people, feel a sense of security around you and
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| kinda lean on you
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| You ever feel like a certain amount of pressure from that?
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| Do you ever get afraid?
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| Of course I do
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| I mean everybody gets afraid sometimes
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| What possibly could make you afraid?
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| What are you afraid of? |
| (afraid of, afraid of)
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| (I'm afraid, I’m afraid)
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| (Sometimes I’m even afraid to admit.)
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| I’m afraid, I’m afraid of the weight of my problems
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| Haters working overtime, 8 or 9 jobs worth
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| All these wanted ski masks niggas
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| Old basketball shorts under jean ass niggas needa know
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| I’m a product of a dead poet riding at it’s low
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| Equals Mia Angelo, my emphatic flow can rise the status quo
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| Lying on the panic floor
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| Addict at it’s best
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| Eradicated from the fabricated
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| Afraid at the thought of releasing music that’s indicative of where I’m at in
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| life
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| Will they like? |
| Will they hate?
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| The better question is if they hate it is you down to pay the price?
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| I’ll look you right in your eyes and say you mother fuckin' right
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| Don’t bother me with adversity, I conquered more ground than King Kong could
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| All I think about these days is Mom good
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| 'Cause she diabetic
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| My daddy just had a cancer scare
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| And do he still work at the post office? |
| The answer’s yeah
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| I’m introverted, knowing that it’s not about Oz
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| Bigger problems outside
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| There’s a war going on outside
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| That no man is safe from
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| You see you can smile but that won’t change the color of your skin
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| But I’m the sinner
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| Yet you kick me, punch me, say don’t trust me
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| Shoot me down like I’m up to something
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| Fuck with me and say I’ve deceived you
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| But how’s that legal? |
| Am I that evil?
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| Why do you hate me?
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| I’m afraid of you going to college and not acknowledging I’m your father 'cause
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| you not proud enough
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| But I fought hard to make sure you never see certain things I’m a product of
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| It’s easy to confuse being a father with being a provider
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| But all we got is us and I’m afraid to lose you
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| You the coolest kid I ever saw
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| She did a good job with you
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| Sometimes I hesitate to take credit for raising you too
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| 'Cause all I did was discipline
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| I never taught you to ride a bike but we still a lot alike
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| And you making music now? |
| I wonder what made you wanna give this a spin
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| You know what I’m about to say next, right?
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| I’m afraid of you drinkin'
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| Though I never taught you to swim, I’m afraid of you sinkin'
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| I know I taught you to fight, you ain’t in condition to win this
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| You wired different
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| You just ain’t the nigga you friends is, it’s scientific
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| Not my opinion so you know you genetically predisposed to more than just eating
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| soul food
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| So I’m afraid of you to try to risk it
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| You in a gene pool with a lot of sick fish
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| And I’m the sickest of them all
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| Alcoholics stop from the symptoms of withdrawal
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| Look out the window, tell me what you see
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| Police shootin' brothers the color of you and me
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| And they actin' like they hate us so you may just wanna love yourself enough to
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| compensate it
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| If I can say this, say this one thing, this one thing non-related
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| You were never, ever, ever, better than me in basketball
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| Yeah right, sure… |