Movin Backwards

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I hope my legendary style of rap lives on
 A fix to the earth like my feet that got kicks on
 Moving backwards never, that was never the plan
 Pushing shit along, weren't the stillest in the quick sand
 Asphalt jumpin', lyrical concrete
 My Jetta be moving me throughout the many dark streets
 Backwoods, boondocks, whatever terrain
 Auf Wiedersehen, aloha, man, our feet ain't the same
 I won't abuse these shoes ain't made for reversing
 Trudging through these motherfuckers first album footprint
 Never ever ghostwritten, your shit free, bitten
 Grab my shit with both hands
 Iron grip, steel mitten
 Bloviated, Jarobi ate it, and now it's gone
 Closed mouths don't get fed or move ahead to my hustlers with customers
 Amateurs are being petty
 Trap lords with the fetty, don't be no backwards, no
 No backward ass nigga, don't be no backwards, no
 No backward ass nigga, don't be no backwards, no
 No backward ass nigga, don't be no backwards, no
 Don't do it, nigga
 I spun around without a care, when I stopped, I felt lost
 I'm two heels from the top tier, I really want to be boss
 I figured out, I figured it out somewhere
 Maybe the answer's not up there
 Maybe it's on the ground somewhere
 When I stopped, I felt lost
 Do you ever feel lost?
 They wanna see my downfall
 Turn a good day into a downpour
 Thorns in the crown and the cross I bear
 Why they wanna see me hangin' like a towel somewhere
 One eye, two meals, three tears, a heart still
 How I'm feelin' in my mind right here
 I think I'm moving but I'm going nowhere, nowhere
 Better not feel lost
 How I'm supposed to know how home feels, I ain't even my home field
 Better not feel lost
 It's not a cruise that brought us here
 I'm gone for long
 And I refuse to be stuck right here
 I'm going to it backwards, and oh
 Can somebody just give me, can somebody just give me, can somebody just give direction?
 I don't want to move backwards, no
 Can somebody just give me, can somebody just give me, can somebody just give direction?
 I don't want to move backwards
 Can't go backwards
 I don't want to move backwards
 Moving backwards never, that was never the plan
 Can I vent? I was content being my own man
 Up until that night, ill faded, walking home, I was faded
 Cocos races on my wrist like he was clapping his hands
 How demeaning y'all, who could be blind to racism
 [?] girl wrote to me for the brother baptism
 Instead of slaps give 'em, the dose of ab wisdom
 He'll make it out of the jungle some way
 Hey, it's figurative, it's not a real place you stay
 Ayy, it's mind scape, filled with fucking malaise
 I got direction without using Waze
 Submitting myself to praying these days
 We walking backwards, it's only for stage
 Feds coming out, with riot gear
 And everybody's hands in the air
 Four-fives get your ass 'round somewhere
 Come between and jump in the spare
 Say it loud, with a different ring my niggas
 (somebody just me, somebody just give me, somebody just give me)
 Cool out, chill out nigga, I'm cool
 Cool out nigga, nah, nigga I'm through
 Head down, ain't no tellin' what you gon' do
 (somebody just me, somebody just give me, somebody just give me directions)
 I don't want to move backwards, and oh!
 Cops, killing us niggas everywhere, maybe we should get some guns too
 She come around every now and a few
 Man I hope she really loves you
 Living high ain't hard to do
 She'll be in the clouds somewhere
 Feel fresh, I strut your bitches out of here
 Might even take your broad too
 Oops, I'm 'bout to get kicked out here
 Tell mama I'mma slide through
 Still I, I'm trying to get out of here, but stuck up in the same room
 Too many open miles in here, sick of eating out at drive thru
 Hahaha
 (Look at this motherfucker)
 

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89 BPM

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