Soul Search - Cryptic Wisdom

Yeah

It’s been a really long time

I’ve grown up a lot and I’m tryna be different, I hope that you noticed it too

I’m not as angry as I used to be when I started to rap and was broken in two

Nothin' was sweeter to me than ideas of bein' more than someone nobody knew

Maybe cause nobody knew what I been through and it was too hard and I told them

the truth

If you knew what I was thinkin' about, it was harder to suppress all the anger

Yellin' at the microphone was the only way I was able to with these changes

I know you wanted to see me portrayed in a way that I barely could hang with

Tellin' me it’s hard to mess with me now that I’m doin' better and I’m

virtually painless

But when I was down in the gutter knew everybody that had ever come around me

had it like that

I cracked under the white light, define that

Time passed by and I finally got the mind back

Didn’t really wanna be the one to do it, but you knew I was doin' it who are

you to give a guy flak

All I know is I ain’t done with the flow any moment I’m goin' to show you what

I know and bring it right back

And some of you really believe that an artist just isn’t entitled to change

I think it’s just a deflection of your own rejection of copin' with life in

these ways

But freakier to me, if people to talk about you

I always pretend I don’t see it cause it’s even sharper to know there’s a knife

in your way

Why you gonna piss an elephant off

I don’t even kill 'em in real life, but push it and you will see somebody rise

And I know that there’s somebody in me I don’t wanna be and I keep it inside

But still I it, believe that everybody’s got a limit and?

It’s gonna get ugly in here!

Everything that I been bottling up is about to ignite

Better here me, yeah!

You will now know that if I’m goin' down then it’s down with a fight

For every tongue I ever bite, every lyric that I don’t recite

I’m tired of hidin' the way that I feel to make somebody feel as if they wanna

like me

I ain’t about that life!

Look in my eyes, I’ve had an epiphany

Memory playin' to me like a symphony

Tappin' into it, I remember vividly

What I was doin' it for

It is for me

It is therapeutic listening

I ain’t listening to anybody but me, when I write I’m gonna write my history,

come on!

I don’t believe in what anybody wanna tell me that they never been into me and

I really hate lies

Maybe I’m cynical, I get minimal intervals with another human being every day

of my life

I don’t wanna be nice, and I don’t wanna be a buddy-buddy at a price

All I wanna do is celebrate it when I rise and give anybody I love a really

good life

It’s funny I dropped out of school, wouldn’t you know it I thought I was cool

But if I’m bein honest, I blame it on my inability for me to follow the rules

Didn’t do it so I could be told what to do in my music and coddle you fools

I won’t pretend to be anyone other than me anymore, I don’t wanna be used

And that’s probably not what you wanted to hear

Don’t follow me, I’m no role model, that’s clear

I got them issues

I’m tryna accept that

I don’t wanna befriend you if aren’t able to get that

I’m on a mission to soul search

I am aware that the globe hurts

I don’t know where I’ma find me, but when I do I’ma prob’ly have no words

I don’t believe I have no purpose

Diggin' it up in the cold earth

I was I’m livin' in pain, and later my flow birth from go first