[00:12.60]I apologize if I hurt you along the way (For real)
[00:15.29]Self love is powerful, heard it's the only way (Word)
[00:18.20]Self love is powerful, heard it's the only way (Word)
[00:21.38]Drownin' in my thoughts, what if I lost it all today? (Nah)
[00:24.59]Never slowin' down 'cause dudes gotta be paid (Right)
[00:27.41]Self love is powerful, heard it's the only way (Word)
[00:30.54]Self love is powerful, heard it's the only way
[00:33.62]That's the motivation I need to keep makin' plays
[00:36.86]All that energy got put in to keep us from education
[00:39.77]Now I identify with them brothers locked in them cages
[00:42.92]Yo, don't go back, that's a different way to enslave us
[00:46.05]Pickin' up the path that my ancestors paved us
[00:49.21]Nothin' to lose is the mindset we seem to move with
[00:52.11]The world improve when they fill us with more confusion
[00:55.27]We kill each other more than the KKK movement
[00:58.30]Knowledge is power when you in that courtroom clueless
[01:01.50]Crazy how I learned from all my brother mistakes
[01:04.31]Carried all the traits 'cause the neighborhoods wasn't safe
[01:07.58]I'll just move a little different and I'll be straight
[01:10.92]But I could never prepare for the problems that I face
[01:13.78]Eat better, drink water, think better
[01:16.83]Feed the mind information, it's a spiritual invasion
[01:19.66]No more moments with my confidence deflated
[01:22.97]Is what I tell myself and I'm not renegotiatin'
[01:26.09]I apologize if I hurt you along the way (For real)
[01:29.01]Self love is powerful, heard it's the only way (Word)
[01:32.14]Self love is powerful, heard it's the only way (Word)
[01:35.19]Drownin' in my thoughts, what if I lost it all today? (Nah)
[01:38.38]Never slowin' down 'cause dudes gotta be paid (Right)
[01:41.25]Self love is powerful, heard it's the only way (Word)
[01:44.40]Self love is powerful, heard it's the only way
[01:47.54]That's the motivation I need to keep makin' plays
[01:50.67]Practicin' Islam just hopin' it make us better
[01:53.51]Trapped inside these trenches,
[01:55.12]It's hopeless for us forever (Yeah)
[01:56.78]Dad was on my sweater, that Beretta necessary (Ayy)
[01:59.76]Too much for moms bear and he too young for us to bury
[02:02.88]Them caskets had to carry was mainy 'cause it was real life
[02:05.97]He was just here now he layin' in that field, like
[02:09.29]You seen 'em target blacks for that crack epidemic, real life
[02:12.23]Them prisons only built for us ******, this **** is still trife
[02:15.46]It's real life, learn to love yourself, *****, that's real love
[02:18.63]The hatred never penetrate either, ain't no steel love
[02:21.51]Old girl he fed his gang, already run through the and ones
[02:24.43]**** who talkin' down, it ain't slowin' down, we still love
[02:27.66]Drownin' in my thoughts, if I lost it,
[02:29.33]I'd probably kill somethin'
[02:30.71]Self-inflicted pain, quit tootin' and poppin' pills, youngin
[02:34.01]Self love is power if you ain't never learned nothin' from us
[02:36.98]Self love is power if you ain't never learned nothin' from us
[02:39.78]I apologize if I hurt you along the way (For real)
[02:42.78]Self love is powerful, heard it's the only way (Word)
[02:45.94]Self love is powerful, heard it's the only way (Word)
[02:48.96]Drownin' in my thoughts, what if I lost it all today? (Nah)
[02:52.14]Never slowin' down 'cause dudes gotta be paid (Right)
[02:55.02]Self love is powerful, heard it's the only way (Word)
[02:58.26]Self love is powerful, heard it's the only way
[03:01.68]That's the motivation I need to keep makin' plays
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