Talk About It - E.D.I Mean

The blues may be the life you’ve led

Or midnight hours in an empty bed

But persecuting blues I’ve known

Could stalk like tigers and break like bone

Pend like rope in a gallows tree

Make me curse my pedigree

Bitterness thick on a wrankling tongue

Psalms to love, left unsung

Rivers heading north, but ending south

Funeral music and the going-home mouth

All riddles are blues, and all blues are sand (Okay let’s talk about it then)

And I’m just talking bout some blues I’ve had

Started as a hobby me and Kash and Kadafi

Never knew where it would take me, man the journey tried to break me

But the truth is, it made me, I’m a made nigga baby

Despite the ups and downs, stayed down 'til it

Kush dreams and fiends led to rings on my finger

Gold round my neck, my hands on my balls

I ain’t tell 'em, I showed 'em that everywhere he goin' they know

Fake niggas tried to boom but he knowin'

Picture me growin', take a leap of faith and started flyin'

Had to do it, 'cause I got tired of tryin'

Lost love, 'cause I chose to love me

Instead of the nigga that they was wantin' me to be

Mental incarceration, yeah I had to trade places

Now I fly freely, on a frequent basis

Streets to the stage, page after page

Only thing I’m chasin' is greatness, and mo' paper, haters

It was all a dream (A change has come to our lives)

What a journey it’s been (I'm not sayin' it’s wrong)

I can’t complain at all

Hell nah (Reached the void where we have to decide)

It ain’t over though (If we should go on)

My nigga Nobe' been' solid, he never switched up

Stood strong and long, when niggas bitched up

Fatal wouldn’t even have a headstone

Y’all speakin' down on his name, you know you dead wrong

Slander and propaganda, can’t bait a nigga

I’m stuck on code, look that’s why they hate a nigga

I let 'em tell it how they want to, then keep on doin' what I want to

A grown man, who you talkin' to

Walkin' through life, unafraid, only a slave to the rhytm

And I keep on gettin' paid, with this game I was given'

Another year around the sun, thankful to be livin'

Yeah, I keep on gettin' it done, never runnin' from my flaws

Fuck the critics and applauds, I just do it for my dogs

And everybody who need it, I just do it for the love

They feel it, so they believe it, blessed by Black Jesus

Y’all don’t hear me though

O4L (A change has come to our lives)

One time for the real ones that stayed down with us (I'm not sayin' it’s wrong)

Couple decades in this shit (Reached the void where we have to decide)

Ain’t over (If we should go on)